Jul 31, 2023
It’s time to hit the rails and Meridith and Michael from the Going Over Our Freds Podcast (@goofpodcast) are hear to take us on a ride to discover the real America. We’re watching Preston Sturges’ high-minded and thoughtful ode to dumb slapstick. With a little bit of sex.
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Jul 24, 2023
Two girls rampage their way through an allegory-laden modern city steeped in its own hypocrisy and decadence, indulging in everything “bad” in a feature-length gesture of seeming nihilistic hedonism. But director Věra Chytilová has more than cheap laughs in mind as she tweaks the manners of polite society. Looks...
Jul 17, 2023
Kevin Allison of the podcast Risk!, The State, and so much more returns to the podcast with his selection of Laurie Anderson's atmospheric exploration of death, mourning, acceptance, dogs, mothers, the banal anxieties of a post-9/11 world. Set to her own animation, music, home movies, and news footage, Anderson...
Jul 10, 2023
Dracula needs… you guessed it. But specifically he needs the blood of a virgin. But where to find a virgin in the modern world? If you found this joke/premise both funny and erotic, have we got a film for you. Director Paul Morrissey and star Udo Kier either push the limits of or nearly approach the genre of...
Jul 3, 2023
Acclaimed martial arts director King Hu’s tale of court intrigue, assassination, loyalty and betrayal is long-lauded as the seminal wuxia film. As the English-speaking internet is oddly silent about this film other than by offering just such unsubstantiated platitudes, we decide to evaluate it on (gasp!) its internal...