Loose Canon

For our President's Day episode, Julia & Amanda of the Spirits podcast join me to celebrate / bemoan our independenCY!

Jane Dempsey returns to talk Tangerine, a Christmas movie for those of us who always have to work on Christmas.

Josh Hollis and I get our Santa hats on and talk about Christmas, film noir, the death of childhood, and gay detectives. Holiday theme: "If You Want It" by TV Girl (https://tvgirl.bandcamp.com/track/if-you-want-it-2) https://joshhollis.com/

Stage actor Larry Owens (Gigantic, A Strange Loop, Boys Who Tricked Me, Spamilton) joins me to discuss his favorite comfort movie, The Family Stone (2005). Featuring: "comfort movies," the mainstreaming of queerness & disability in the early aughts, and SJP's very un-Carrie awfulness. http://larryowenslive.com/

Gena Radcliffe of the Kill By Kill podcast joins me to discuss 1982's Cat People. http://apple.co/2dYM84b https://tuneintonight.wordpress.com/

Liz Watson (@watsontots) of the Women of the Hour podcast helps me establish another entry in the Kirsten Dunst canon, 1999's Drop Dead Gorgeous. buzzfeed.com/womenofthehour

Megan Sunday of Trapped in the Attic (https://trappedintheattic.wordpress.com/) joins me to pick over the gooey remains of Clive Barker's Hellraiser. Listen to Megan on the Lifemark podcast! http://eartrumpetaudio.com/?p=241

Julia and Amanda of the Spirits podcast join me to discuss gender bending, emotional men, Chekhov's tampons, and Channing Tatum, my adorable dancing son. https://www.patreon.com/spiritspodcast

Amy Pascale (TV Taught Me podcast) joins me to talk The Legend of Billie Jean, the feminist road warrior movie you always wanted. http://theamypascale.com/

Alexandra West (@ScareAlex) of The Faculty of Horror podcast joins me to talk about Cherry Falls (2000), a satirical, sexually-charged teen slasher film starring Brittany Murphy that almost never saw the light of day. http://www.facultyofhorror.com/

Clint Worthington of Alcohollywood and Consequence of Sound joins me to defrag 2001's would-be game-changer Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

Dan McCoy (The Flop House podcast, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah) joins me to discuss The Monster Squad. Voices by us, clattering noises by his cat Archie.

"The problem of leisure / What to do for pleasure..." Shannon Campe of the Stage of Fools podcast joins me to talk Sofia Coppola's unfairly maligned 2006 biopic Marie Antoinette. http://www.shannon-campe.com/ http://quaintmagazine.com/cinema-of-the-teen-girl-marie-antoinette

"I'm alive!" John McCoy of Sophomore Lit joins me to talk fairy tales, death, time, and 70s soft rock bands. https://www.theincomparable.com/sophomorelit/

Jamelle Bouie, Slate Chief Political Correspondent & CBS News Political Analyst, joins me to talk action movie masculinism, Guillermo Del Toro's female gaze, and giant robots. Follow Jamelle on Twitter (https://twitter.com/jbouie) or visit his website (http://jamellebouie.net/). Follow the show on our site (loosecanonpod.com), on Twitter (https://twitter.com/loosecanonpod)or Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/loosecanonpod/), and subscribe to our newsletter (tinyletter.com/loosecanonpod).

"Thirty, flirty, and thriving..." Christy Admiraal of The Toast returns as we close out this month with another romantic comedy, 2004's Jennifer Garner vehicle 13 Going on 30. We talk teenage wish fulfillment, Peak Ruffalo, and the magic of synchronized group dance sequences. Read Christy's work (http://the-toast.net/author/christy-admiraal) and follow her on Twitter (https://twitter.com/AdmiralChristy).

"Cake? Cake is my world!" In the first of our good-bad April Fools' episodes, Alison Abrams (https://twitter.com/sarcasticvoice) helps me try & make sense of the desperately strange 2001 romantic comedy Down to You.

"I used to hate history, didn't you? It's all just a load of stuff that's already happened." I sat down with my friend Chris Tracy (twitter.com/oldchris) of Clean Girls(http://cleangirls.bandcamp.com/) to talk McDonagh, violence, inherited morals, and the Irish worldview. It's a little more academic than we usually get, but there may have been whiskey involved.

Chicago-based librarian & self-professed "fansie" Sarah Kantor helps me carry the banner through Newsies, the 1992 cult Disney musical from which Christian Bale is still recovering.

Christy Admiraal of The Toast joins me to discuss Billy Wilder's 1960 romantic comedy The Apartment. See Christy's writing here: http://the-toast.net/author/christy-admiraal

Improviser Jane Dempsey of Pizza Baby Pizza joins me to revisit 2001's box office bomb Josie and the Pussycats. GATORADE IS THE NEW SNAPPLE.

Malcolm Nygard of APOC RADIO joins me to discuss the underseen 2006 western Seraphim Falls, starring Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson. We pick apart the appeal of the western genre, its place in contemporary cinema, and just how you might sew yourself into a horse. Produced & edited by Caroline Fulford Music by Lazy Salon

DAVID BOWIE (1947-2016) Movies: Labyrinth, The Prestige, The Hunger, The Man Who Fell to Earth Music: Seu Jorge, The Blood Brothers, The Langley Schools Music Project Produced & edited by Caroline Fulford

NSTV's Alison Abrams joins me to discuss Ginger Snaps (2000), the cult Canadian teen horror starring Katherine Isabelle and Emily Perkins. It gets pretty menstrual.

This Chrismukkah, I'm your Seth Cohen, and you're my Summer Roberts. MOVIES/TV: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens Brazil The Kate Bush Christmas Special The General Fargo The Twilight Zone The Snowman The Wizard of Oz The Sound of Music Raising Arizona Anchorman Elf Chinatown Miller's Crossing Inside Llewyn Davis MUSIC: "Just Like Christmas" - Low "Alone on Christmas Day" - Phoenix "Walking in the Air" - Peter Auty "Fare Thee Well (Dink's Song)" - Marcus Mumford & Oscar Isaac "The First Song" - Band of Horses

I talk to collage artist & NGO communications officer Liz Riegel about Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, the 1991 action-adventure starring Kevin Costner's haircut. We conclude that Alan Rickman's incredible performance lives on in the form of James Adomian.

Sammi Campbell of A Talking 'Cast?! and The Cast Next Door helps me remember my Pope Alexander. Our discussion of Michel Gondry's 2004 Oscar-winner strays into the travails of monogamy and online dating. I want letters from listeners! Subscribe to my newsletter (tinyletter.com/loosecanonpod) or email me at caroline@loosecanonpod.com

Illustrator, bassist, and goth fairy Stephanie Monohan joins me to pick over Wes Craven's 1996 hit Scream. cleangirls.bandcamp.com inkonyourgrave.tumblr.com shdwbxng on IG, tumblr & Twitter Produced & edited by Caroline Fulford Music by Lazy Salon

Shannon Campe & Natalie Walker get crucial about Heathers. It's gonna be very. Produced & edited by Caroline Fulford Music by Lazy Salon

Tara Chatterjee, excellent human, helps me piece together Jackie Chan's 1995 international hit, Rumble in the Bronx. Music: Lazy Salon Edited by: T.D. Crowley

Natalie Walker, star of stage and screen, joins me for a very sober discussion of Penny Marshall's 1992 film A League of Their Own. Music: Lazy Salon Edited by: Alison Abrams

Shannon Campe of the upcoming Stage of Fools podcast joins me to scream & cry & giggle about Gillian Armstrong's 1994 adaptation of Little Women, starring the inimitable Winona Ryder. Music: Lazy Salon Edited by: T.D. Crowley

Maura Lammers of Fjords Review joins me to discuss Peter Weir's 1989 film Dead Poets Society starring Robin Williams. We discuss writing, teaching, and the finer points of the barbaric yawp. Music: Lazy Salon Edited by: T.D. Crowley

Produced & edited by: Caroline Fulford Art: Josh Hollis Music: Lazy Salon