May 30, 2022
Things get decidedly erotically unrestrained in Nagisa Oshimi’s tale of a maid and her employer’s headlong dive into sex and obsession in 1930s Tokyo. And who better to have an open and mindful discussion about kinks and boundaries that with Kevin Allison of Risk! the podcast and comedy group The State.
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May 23, 2022
We’re joined this week by Richard and AJ of the Cult Popture podcast to try to wrap our heads around all things Wes Anderson: symmetrical framing, meticulous production design, quirky soundtracks, the inevitable backlash, and the even more inevitable enduring love (some of us have) of his films. And what better way...
May 16, 2022
Things aren’t quite what they seem in the old childhood home of recently married ace reporter Mortimer Brewster’s (Cary Grant) old house over in Brooklyn. It turns out that his sweet spinster aunts have been poisoning lonely old men and burying them in the basement. Frank Capra’s cherished adaptation of the hit...
May 9, 2022
A Marlon Brando western? Directed by… [checks notes]… Marlon Brando?!! Get ready for a wild ride of betrayal, passion, quick-draw dive-jumps, a fair amount of mumbling dialogue, and a whole lot of handsome. But enough about us, let’s talk about the movie…
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May 2, 2022
How many times do you think that Mike will bring up Serge Gainsbourg in an episode about a movie that has nothing to do with him? The answer is one more than the amount of times that Charlie all-too-casually mentions second-wave feminism. This must mean that we are watching Brigitte Bardot's breakthrough starring...