Aug 29, 2022
Director Mira Nair plots a winding trajectory from Idi Amin’s forced removal of Asians from Uganda in 1973 to the struggles of a small-time owner-operator carpet cleaner in 90s Mississippi. All this serves as a foundation for a culture clash romance struggling to blossom amidst the demands and expectations of southern...
Aug 22, 2022
Aug 15, 2022
Thank God that Peaches Christ and Michael Varrati of the Midnight Mass podcast joined us for our third jump into the works of John Waters. Otherwise our conversation would lack a noticeable measure of knowledge, context, insight, wit, and depth. Which is what this film deserves.
If you’d like to watch ahead for next...
Aug 8, 2022
This week’s guest Robert Saucedo, film-buyer of The Alamo Drafthouse, welcomes us to mid-80s, small-town Texas as commented upon by Talking Heads lyrics and the deadpan, obliquely humorous observations of David Byrne. John Goodman heads a cast of highly...
Aug 1, 2022
Oops! We uploaded the wrong audio file this morning! To those of you who thought we recorded “an avant-garde art piece”: we apologize. We’ve since fixed it and this new version should make a little more sense. Anyway…
Guillermo del Toro’s devastating mash-up of children caught in the brutality of a Spanish...