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It's been a hell of a long time since we've released one of these. We still record them, just like always, life has just been a bit of everything lately. So please excuse our lateness.
Robert Crumb may just be the world's most interesting man
It's been a while, I know. But we're back, maybe
Cronenberg meets Lynch in this 67-minute fest of chaos, sexuality, and industrial suffocation.
Race. Class. And a whole lotta british. What more could you want?
In celebration of the life of Lynch, we explore the series that never was, and the beauty that came from it
Horror has long been a genre Andrew loved and I hated. Childhood trauma aside, this was the film, or rather the American remake of this film, that broke me. For well over a decade, I didn't watch a single film of horror. Today, we attempt to face those fears.
Like walking through Hell, without that warm feeling you get inside. A miserable experience, in a good way
Get everything we do, and so much more, before anyone else.We're making a movie!
With everything to say. Bonus content, sneak peeks, and everything before anything else. Our next film, More Beautiful Than Death, is deep in post-production. Don't miss a single moment of it!
Everything we talked about Our next film, More Beautiful Than Death, just wrapped picture photography. Stalk us here. Austin's letterboxd. Andrew's letterboxd. Help support local arthouse cinemas.
Get everything we do before anyone else. Weeks. Months. Maybe even years. We're making a movie!
Help support the podcast and get a bunch of perks too. We're making a movie! Add More Beautiful Than Death to your watchlist ANDREW'S TOP 5 5) The year 2023 4) Last Year At Marienbed 3) Werner Hezog 2) Sam Pekinpah 1) A Woman Inder The Influence AUSTIN'S TOP 5 5) Clue 4) A Matter Of Life And Death 3) The Iron Claw 2) Night Of The Hunter 1) A Woman Under The Influence
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Support our show and get it before anyone else, if that's your thing. Or we can just continue to grovel in the underbelly of poverty and hope that maybe someday we won't be broke. The choice is yours. We also have a YouTube channel where you can watch all of our content, if 45 minutes isn't your thing, maybe 5 minutes it. We're also making a movie! More Beautiful Than Death just wrapped principal photography and will premiere sometime late next year.
About 25 minutes in we get into something that matters a whole lot more than just about anything else we've ever done. I'm not all that sentimental, and this show is mostly just for fun, but this is something I actually care a whole heck of a lot about.
"Labor history was pornography of a sort in those days, and even more so in these days." - Kurt Vonugget There is perhaps no better display of the cruelty and devastation of capitalism than this film right here, which, ironically, or perhaps not so ironically, bombed at the box office. Love what we do? Get early access, exclusive content, and so much more when you join our Patreon. Want more of us all the time? Check out our YouTube channel for daily "content"
Deep Cover, Fresh Kill, Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Blu Rays, BBC, Clue, Killers of the Flower Moon
Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.
Lost City of Z, The Night Of The Hunter, Daytrippers, Miracle in Milan, Burden of Dreams
Never has there been a more accurate and devastating portrayal of psychosis. This film hit us so hard that we had to take a serious break from serious movies.
The most underrated film of 2024, the unbeatable PSH, the greatest episode of Star Trek, and Shyamalan's great expectations
Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight from Frank Capra, about a spoiled runaway socialite (Claudette Colbert) and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter (Clark Gable) who is determined to get the scoop on her scandalous disappearance. The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the early sound era, packed with clever situations and gags that have entered the Hollywood comedy pantheon and featuring two actors at the top of their game, sparking with a chemistry that has never been bettered.
Collecting Blu-Rays, The Straight Story, The Current State Of Cinema, Alien Romulus, Fly Me To The Moon, A Quiet Place Day One, One Hour Photo, Bob Dylan, and Avengers Doomsday
Story above everything else. No fancy camera work. No high falutin actors. Just great vibes.
Roger Corman, It Should Happen To You, Peckinpah, The New Bob Dylan, and of course, Deadpool and Wolverine
More poem than film, here is a piece of art that cannot be watched, but rather experienced. It requires a complete abandonment of any conventional notion of what a film is and can be, and rather asks the viewer to just exist in the moment.
Kinds of Kindness, Working On set, And Les Blank
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956, Invasion of the Body Snathcers 1978, and The Body Snatchers 1994
You People, Green Border, The Out-Laws, and Housekeeping
In a post-modern existence, there are no heroes, no good guys, no one worth rooting for. Everyone, at their core, is both pure good and pure evil. It is all, merely, perspective.
Letterboxd Pro, Return To Reason, Brats, St. Elmo's Fire, Hit Man, American Fiction, Ghost In The Shell 2, and State and Main
A film made in lab specifically for the consumption of With Nothing To Say. This is truly a match made in heaven.
Loudermilk, Renfair, The Roald Dahl Cinematic University, And How Netflix Is Destroying the world
Furiosa, Modern Family, Veep, Blaze, Sickly Sets, Double Features, Wildcat, While the Tv Glows
The communists are coming, and they want your brains!
Tarintino's obsession with the 70s, why Blackberry may be the greatest watch of 2024, The Planet of the Apes Franchise, and The Beast.
Steve Martin, Seinfeld, No Hard Feelings, Croon Dune, Happy Gilmore, The End Of Hollywood As We Know It, and the Tik Tok ban
When offered a high fare for driving to several locations, Max, a Los Angeles taxi driver, agrees but soon finds himself taken hostage by Vincent who turns out to be a hitman on a contract killing spree.
10,000 subs, trouble every day, gun crazy, Ripley, Bad Luck Banging, and so much more
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.
Talking Walking, Better Off Dead, Freddy Got Fingered, Spermworld, and The Last Temptation Of Christ
Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man who shows a low self esteem, shares her family life with her asleep vocation as a poetess. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and the development of a serious illness: a breast cancer, which leads her to lose her breasts. In the last stage of her life she meets a young journalist arrived from Tokyo, an admirer of her work, who want to write a story on her life. Both live a secret love history.
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