Podcast appearances and mentions of Lili Taylor

Randy from the Straight Chilling Podcast joins Caitlin to cover the newest installment in Netflix's Fear Street saga: Prom Queen! In many ways, Fear Street: Prom Queen is a very Plug It Up movie, as it features coming of age horror AND monstrous motherhood. We enjoyed being taken to a gory 80s prom - tropes and all. Tangents include: horror news, prom (of course), VH1's I Love the [Decade]s show, nicknames, camp, superlatives, and yearbooks.

Winning just might be the death of you.Fear Street: Prom Queen is a 2025 American slasher film directed by Matt Palmer from a screenplay he co-wrote with Donald McLeary, based on the novel The Prom Queen (1992) from the Fear Street book series. Produced by Chernin Entertainment, it is the fourth installment in the Fear Street film series.The film stars India Fowler, Suzanna Son, Fina Strazza, David Iacono, Ella Rubin, Chris Klein, Ariana Greenblatt, Lili Taylor and Katherine Waterston. Set in 1988 between the events of Fear Street: Part 2 and Part 3, the plot focuses on a masked killer who targets the prom queen candidates of Shadyside High on the night of their senior dance.00:00 Intro 13:04 Horror News 27:51 What We've Been Watching49:11 Film Review1:58:46 Name Game 2:05:50 Film Rating2:08:36 Outrowww.horrorhangout.co.ukPodcast - https://fanlink.tv/horrorhangoutPatreon - http://www.patreon.com/horrorhangoutFacebook - http://www.facebook.com/horrorhangoutpodcastX - http:/x.com/horror_hangout_TikTok - http://www.tiktok.com/@horrorhangoutpodcastInstagram - http://www.instagram.com/horrorhangoutpodcastBen - https://x.com/ben_errington​​​Andy - https://www.instagram.com/andyctwrites/Audio credit - Taj Eastonhttp://tajeaston.comSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thehorrorhangout. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Josh and Jade review the 2025 American slasher film Fear Street: Prom Queen. The film is directed by Matt Palmer and based on the novel The Prom Queen from the Fear Street book series by R.L. Stine. This is the fourth installment in the Fear Street film series which include Fear Street 1994, 1978, and 1666. The film stars India Fowler, Suzanna Son, Fina Strazza, David Iacono, Ella Rubin, Chris Klein, Ariana Greenblatt, Lili Taylor and Katherine Waterston. Find out what if this horror film is trash or a hidden Netflix treasure inside this episode.

And now for something completely...terrifying... It's time for a brand new franchise here and Sequel Rights, and we're continuing on with horror! As we count down the days to The Conjuring: Last Rites in September, we are going to be walking you through the entirety of The Conjuring Universe!! It all starts with the 2013 original film The Conjuring, and we have a special guest interview with Zach Pappas who stars as Rick in the film. Don't miss it and join us on this horrifying ride!! Star ratings help us build our audience! Please rate/review/subscribe to us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen, and share us with your favorite hand clappin' entity! Email us at sequelrights@gmail.com with feedback or suggestions on future franchises! Special Guest: Zach Pappas.

It's New Movie Monday and we are going back to high school prom -- allll the way back to 1988 when horror tropes like these weren't so played out. Listen to find out how we are coping with this lull in Netflix's Fear Street franchise. Starring: India Fowler, Fina Strazza, Lili Taylor, Chris Klein, Katherine Waterston, Ella Rubin Directed by: Matt Palmer Help us make our first feature length Messed Up Movie: https://www.misfitparade.com/mrcreamjeans Support the show on the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/messedupmoviespod Watch our newest short film Sugar Tits Now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz7leFqqo4g  

In this special episode we check out Netflix's Original film from 2025, the 2025 slasher film ‘Fear Street: Prom Queen' directed by Matt Palmer starring India Fowler, Suzanna Son, Fina Strazza, Chris Klein, David Iacono, Ella Rubin, Ariana Greenblatt, Lili Taylor and Katherine Waterston.   Please follow us at Flix Forum on Facebook or @flixforum on Twitter and Instagram and answer our question for the episode, 'How can you open a door without hands?'   You can listen to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Podbean so please subscribe and drop us a review or 5 star rating.    If you're interested in what else we are watching, head on over to our Letterboxd profiles; Jesse    We also have our own Flix Forum Letterboxd page! Links to all our past episodes and episode ratings can be found there by clicking here.    Flix Forum acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Wurundjeri and Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present, emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. 

Ganar podría ser tu muerte. La elección de reina del baile de graduación de 1988 de Shadyside High tendrá un costo mortal para Lori cuando las candidatas son atacadas por un misterioso asesino enmarcado. La Calle de Terror: La Reina del Baile es una película slasher dirigida por Matt Palmer a partir de un guion que coescribió con Donald McLeary, basada en la novela La reina del baile (1988) de la saga de libros Fear Street. Protagonizada por India Fowler, Suzanna Son, Fina Strazza, Katherine Waterston y Lili Taylor. Episodio disponible en tu plataforma de podcast favorita. PLANETA TERROR es un podcast semanal en español dedicado al cine de horror/slasher/gore.Reseñas, noticias, rankings y discusión general desde el punto de vista de alguien cuyo “goal” en la vida es mudarse a Woodsboro, vivir en Elm Street y asistir al Campamento Crystal Lake.Apple Podcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/planeta-terror-podcast/id1539867451Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/planetaterrorpod/Xhttps://x.com/planetaterrorpd?s=21&t=jiQBxnyCEsmbvNpY8pNnmgTikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@planetaterrorpodcast?_t=8mVo66trbrJ&_r=1

Award-winning actor and debut author Lili Taylor chats with Zibby about TURNING TO BIRDS, a collection of beautifully crafted, inquisitive, eye-opening essays about the search for peace in a cacophony of birds and discovering a world of meaning in small moments. The two dive into Lili's deep love of birding—how it began well before the pandemic and became a way of seeing and being in the world. They explore the emotional and neurological power of paying attention, the art of listening, and the beauty of connecting with nature to feel more at home in ourselves and the world. Lili shares stories of rooftop bird rescues, birding in unexpected places, and her quiet but profound journey into authorship.Purchase on Bookshop: https://bit.ly/4kxqmWDShare, rate, & review the podcast, and follow Zibby on Instagram @zibbyowens! Now there's more! Subscribe to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books on Acast+ and get ad-free episodes. https://plus.acast.com/s/moms-dont-have-time-to-read-books. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button.   This week we have Sam Miller, manager at Carmichael's Bookstore in Louisville, with us to chat about books readers might want to consider for their summer reading. It is always fun to hear what is new and notable from Sam.    This is our last episode of the season.  We will be back in July after our summer hiatus with all new episodes. Happy Reading!   Books Mentioned in this Episode:   1- The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebowitz   2- Northern Spy by Flynn Berry   3- Big Girl Small Town by Michelle Gallen   4- Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen   5- Cat's People by Tanya Guerrero   6- The View from Lake Como by Adriana Trigiani   7- Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani   8- Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid   9- Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter   10- So Far Gone by Jess Walter   11- A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle   12- A Lesser Light by Peter Geye   13- Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippmann   14- El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott   15- Big Bad Wool by Leonie Swann   16- Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann   17- First Gentleman by Bill Clinton and James Patterson   18- King of Ashes by SA Cosby   19- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab   20- Katabasis by RF Kuang   21- Country Under Heaven by Frederic Durbin   22- A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna   23- Isabella Nag and the Pot of Basil by Oliver Darkshire   24- The Magician of Tiger Castle by Louis Sachar   25- Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs   26- Plato and the Tyrant by James Romm   27- Turning to Birds by Lili Taylor   28- Is A River Alive? by Robert McFarlane   29- Mark Twain by Ron Chernow   30- Charlottesville by Deborah Baker   31- Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser   32- Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser   33- Fulfillment by Lee Cole   34- If You Love It, Let it Kill You by Hannah Pittard   35- The Fire Concerto by Sarah Landenwich   36- Black Cohosh by Eagle Valiant Brosi   37- Big Swiss by Jen Beagin   38- I Am the Arrow: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath in Six Poems by Sarah Ruden   39- Red Comet by Heather Clark   40- Bad Badger : A Love Story by Maryrose Wood   Media mentioned--   1- Derry Girls (Netflix, 2018-2022)   2- Christoph Waltz on Jimmy Fallon --https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0jr-HQeT74   3- Floyd Collins Broadway show--https://floydcollinsbroadway.com  

Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.On June 13th, 2025, I'll do a special, one-night-only live show at the Tribeca Audio Festival in New York City, joined by two of the audiobook's readers: Carrie Coon and Lili Taylor! www.thememorypalace.us/events.The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that's a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you'd like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com. Music Pale by Akira Koresuma The Things Left Unsaid by Caleb Burhans VIII. Juliet by Matthew Bourne Dream House III: After Dust from Mary Ellen Child's beautiful album, Ethel. Here I Am, Two Warships, by Spirituals Notes You can listen to the whole, original recording here, and an enhanced, speed corrected version, here.  One of the best places to learn about Herb's life is this documentary.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

On the latest episode of the Talkhouse Podcast's spin-off series, host Nick Dawson sits down with iconic actress Lili Taylor, who just published her first book, Turning to Birds, a series of thoughtful, beautifully written and deeply human essays about her consuming passion for birdwatching. In an engrossing conversation, the two discuss how recovery and birding intersect, her love of naps, how nature has shifted her relationship to death, Nick getting barked at by a coyote in the Bronx, braving the acting version of the bends after finishing a role, her amazing way of releasing resentment, facing the unknown, how she's finding resilience and playing the long game as this country plunges into crisis, and much more. For more filmmakers talking film and TV, visit Talkhouse at talkhouse.com/film. Subscribe now to stay in the loop on future episodes of the Talkhouse Podcast.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit smokeempodcast.substack.comPoet and author Nick Flynn joins Nancy and Sarah to talk about poems that blew his mind, the destabilizing experience of watching your life re-enacted in a movie (his memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City became Being Flynn with Robert DeNiro, Julianne Moore, and Paul Dano), why DeNiro demanded Nick be on set, riding in a limo to said set with the young Dano, and why white male writers are alive and well, at least in the classes he teaches.“The poets I've met are assholes,” Sarah confesses to Nick, although upon further reflection, it's more like the assholes really stand out. Nick isn't friends with assholes, but he does know many amazing poets, including Marie Howe, who just won the Pulitzer. Also discussed:* Sarah hates poetry, then proceeds to recite poetry* Nick defends Robert Frost* Pantyhose vending machines at Hooters* The surprising diversity, art/dining scene of Houston* Nick reads “Bag of Mice,” blows our minds* “Aristotle did not promise writing would be cathartic”* The greatness of Lili Taylor, better known to Nick as his wife* Who will play Nancy in the movie?* What's Amy Adams doing in, oh-say, two or three years?* Houston museums! Iranian films! Barn dance! * Sinners is a must-see, but…* … not a lot of love for Black Panther on this podcastPlus, Nick yells at a marriage therapist, why making stuff is dangerous, a rare sighting of Nancy's daughter in the wild, and much more!Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not become a paid subscriber — oh no, wait you can:

Lili Taylor steps Behind the Rope. Lili is here to mention it all and chat about the full anthology of her career which now includes the moniker Author thanks to the just released “Turning To Birds”. Lili chats about her breakout performance with Julia Roberts in Mystic Pizza, her well deserved crown of 90s "indie darling” and TV highs such as Outer Range, Six Feet Under and American Crime.  Speaking of “indie darling”, Lili discusses her brilliant performance as Valerie Solanas in I Shot Andy Warhol. Of course, we dish on “other indies darling” Parker Posey, White Lotus and starring in Four Rooms alongside Madonna, whom she happened to meet for the first time when she was twelve! @lilittaylor @behindvelvetrope @davidyontef BONUS & AD FREE EPISODES Available at - ⁠www.patreon.com/behindthevelvetrope⁠  BROUGHT TO YOU BY: STRAWBERRY - ⁠Strawberry.me/VELVET ⁠(Claim Your $50 Credit Today Because Your Career Success Shouldn't Wait) MEANINGFUL BEAUTY - ⁠meaningfulbeauty.com/velvet⁠ (Get 25% Off Cindy Crawford's Beauty Line & The Targeted Treatment Duo GIFT SET for FREE) CARAWAY HOME - ⁠Carawayhome.com/VELVET⁠ (10% Off Non-Toxic Cookware Made Modern) RO - ⁠ro.co/velvet⁠ (For Your Free Insurance Coverage Check On Prescription Compounded GLP-1s) MY LIFE IN A BOOK - ⁠mylifeinabook.com ⁠(Use Code Velvet For 15% Off To Create a Unique Gift For Mother's Day)  DELETEME - (Get 20% Off By Texting VELVET to 64000 - To Take Control Of Your Data & Keep Your Private Life Private) RAKUTEN - ⁠rakuten.com⁠ (Get the Rakuten App NOW and Join the 17 Million Members Who Are Already Saving! Your Cash Back really adds up!) INDEED - ⁠indeed.com/velvet⁠ (Seventy Five Dollar $75 Sponsored Job Credit To Get Your Jobs More Visibility)  WASHINGTON RED RASPBERRIES - ⁠Redrazz.org⁠ (Find New Ways To Use American Frozen Red Raspberries & Get More Details On Where You Can Grab a Bag) WARBY PARKER - ⁠www.warbyparker.com/velvet⁠ (Try On Any Pair of Glasses Virtually or Visit One of Their Over 270 Locations) ADVERTISING INQUIRIES - Please contact ⁠David@advertising-execs.com⁠ MERCH Available at - ⁠https://www.teepublic.com/stores/behind-the-velvet-rope?ref_id=13198 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fifteen years ago, actor Lili Taylor took a sabbatical and spent time at her house in upstate New York. There, in the quiet, she started to listen. As she writes, "I started to hear birds. It was as if I'd switched my studio input from one dimension to Dolby stereo." It changed her perception of the world. In her new book of essays Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing, she writes about her encounters with the natural world, what she has gained by paying attention to her surroundings, and how her connection with nature helps her find peace and calm.

Wedding April closes out with a film that's about a wedding…but also about so much more! One of our earliest mass exposures to Julia Roberts, Mystic Pizza also has room for Annabeth Gish, Lili Taylor, Conchata Ferrell, and trio of stone-cold hotties. Erika and Paul are here to talk you through pool games, hitchhiking and boner killers as they dive into Mystic Pizza!You can follow That Aged Well on Bluesky (@ThatAgedWell.bsky.social), Instagram (@ThatAgedWell), and Threads (@ThatAgedWell)!SUPPORT US ON PATREON FOR BONUS CONTENT!THAT AGED WELL MERCH!Wanna rate and review? HERE YOU GO!Hosts: Paul Caiola & Erika VillalbaProducer & Editor: Paul Caiola

*The video version of this episode is delayed due to technical difficulties*Welcome to Multiverse News, Your source for Information about all your favorite fictional universesCinemaCon, the world's largest gathering for the motion picture industry, where studios and exhibitors showcase their upcoming film and theatrical offerings, reigns supreme this week, as the event was held in Las Vegas, March 31 through April 3. Several of the major studios we talk about on a near-weekly basis had plenty to dazzle us with, so let's break it down by studio and/or IP:Sony leaned heavily into its Cash Cow, meaning it was all things Spider-Man. In addition to placing Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, the final film of the animated Spider-Verse trilogy, back on the calendar for a June 4, 2027 release, Tom Holland took the stage to reveal the official title for his upcoming fourth Spider-Man film: Brand New Day, along with a new July 31, 2026 release date.Over at Warner Bros and DC, James Gunn ran the show, as he's been known to do. While the filmmaker shared an extensive sneak peek at his upcoming Superman, which was released online the next day; he also revealed that, circa 2018, he was approached to direct a Henry Cavill-led Superman film for the DCEU but opted to direct Suicide Squad instead. On the subject of James Gunn's Superman, Nathan Fillion, who portrays Green Lantern Guy Gardner in the film, was announced to be reprising the part in HBO's upcoming Lanterns series.Marvel Studios shared a new trailer for Fantastic Four: First Steps with CinemaCon attendees, which reportedly ‘electrified' and confirmed a fairly significant plot point regarding Vanessa Kirby's Sue Storm, as well as giving a first look at Julia Garner's Shala Bal Silver Surfer. Marvel's other, fast approaching, summer tentpole, Thunderbolts*, also had time to shine as Florence Pugh shared 5 minutes of footage with the audience, which teased the various miscreants' initial allegiances.Independent of CinemaCon, but still timely, Lucasfilm released the trailer for Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld, an animated anthology series that follows in the footsteps of previous ‘Tales' series, this time with a focus on bounty hunters Asajj Ventress and Cad Bane.Disney's offerings also included CinemaCon exclusive trailers for Avatar: Fire & Ash, Tron: Ares and Zootopia 2. Lionsgate announced an animated John Wick prequel directed by Shannon Tindle and with Keanu Reeves expected to voice the titular character. Chad Stahelski is developing John Wick 5 with Reeves returning, and Donnie Yen will direct and star in a spinoff.Sam Mendes revealed that all four Beatles biopic films will be released in April of 2028. Set to star in the films are Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr. Each of the four movies will focus on one of the members.Danny Boyle unveiled the 28 Years Later trailer and confirmed Nia DaCosta directed its sequel, The Bone Temple. He also noted financing for the third film is still pending, urging fans to support the first two.Universal showed off a trailer for Jurassic World: Rebirth that has not been made available to the public, but stars Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and director Gareth Edwards, took the stage to voice their love and enthusiasm for the franchise.Lightning RoundSony's live-action version of The Legend of Zelda hits theaters March 26, 2027, as announced by Nintendo on Friday. Directed by Wes Ball (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes), the film has yet to reveal its plot or cast.Lili Taylor has joined Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 in a recurring role as a political rival to Wilson Fisk, per Deadline.Ketchup Entertainment has officially closed a deal with Warner Brothers for around $50 million dollars to bring the shelved film Coyote vs. Acme to audiences. The film is now expected to get a theatrical release in 2026.

Jan de Bont's adaptation of Shirley Jackson's novel bears little resemblance to the source material, much less the 1963 Robert Wise film, but with all the talent that worked on the movie it should have still been a success. Stephen King and Steven Spielberg both pitched in, but for whatever reason they couldn't save the movie from critical disappointment. Stars Catherine Zeta Jones, Owen Wilson, Liam Neeson, and Lili Taylor are all there, too, but can they elevate the movie above cheap thrills? Enjoy this former Patreon-exclusive episode! Episode Links Support the show on Patreon for bonus content, merch, and the ability to vote on upcoming projects! https://www.patreon.com/inktofilm Get any of the source novels at the Ink to Film Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/inktofilm Ink to Film's Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky (@inktofilm) Home Base: inktofilm.com Luke Elliott Recent publications: “Your Black Apron Meal Kit Has Arrived” in the Even Cozier Cosmic anthology https://bookshop.org/a/23566/9781630230975 “Beyond Heaven” in the Beyond the Vanishing Point anthology: https://a.co/d/cTwnwz7 Website: www.lukeelliottauthor.com Social Media Accounts: www.lukeelliottauthor.com/social James Bailey Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jamebail.bsky.social IG: https://www.instagram.com/jamebail/

I had the pleasure and honor to sit down with the awesome and talented Sam Coleman who you all know as Wyllis from Game of Thrones, but we didn't speak about that at all during this interview. Sorry.I wanted to get to know him and his character ‘Bud'from the movie Leatherface, his aspect from the movie and knowing what it was like to film such a great movie. As I mentioned, I love origin stories. Especially origin stories about horror icons; how did it all start and who is the killer.Sam was able to tell us all of that and he mentioned that he had a lot of fun playing his part alongside Stephen Dorff and Lili Taylor. He described how cold it was filing in Bulgaria and how they had to make it look like a hot summer in Texas. Hollywood magic is what I would describe… But you cannot have that magic without the cast and crew.Am I a little disappointed that Bud didn't turn out to be Leatherface? Of course I am – but it was the director's intention to trick the audience into believing that. I tip my hat to you, Sir. Well done…Overall, Sam is a phenomenal and talented actor. I am 100% positive that no matter what career he chooses to pursue, there will be no doubt that he will excel. Great guest and I recommend him to be a guest on anypodcast.

Give us your all time, top five, most memorable podcast episodes as we drop the needle on 2000s High Fidelity. Is there even a scale large enough to measure how much of a toxic man child John Cusack's Rob Gordon is? Do we really need to condense a person's entire personality onto a post-it note. And can we please stop under utilizing Joan Cucask? WE DEMAND MORE JOAN! 

The 1996 Sundance hit indie "Girls Town" has gotten the 4K restoration treatment thanks to Indie Collect (a company run by former Filmwax guest Sandra Schulberg). The film is the directing debut of guest Jim McKay, and stars Lili Taylor, Bruklin Harris, Aunjanue Ellis and other guest Anna Grace. The plot follows a group of girl friends and their coming-of-age during their senior year of high school in urban America. The screenplay for the film was mostly developed through improvisations among the four lead actresses. GIRLS TOWN is currently enjoying a theatrical release at the IFC Center in NYC and is expected to have a nationwide expansion in the coming months. It will be available in its newly restored version later this year or early 2026. Jim and Anna are my guests.

[9x8] It's mid-1990s arthouse cinema time with Abel Ferrara's vampire drugs allegory The Addiction, starring Lili Taylor as a NYU student who is bitten by a vampire one evening and finds herself addicted to drinking human blood... And making her belated return in the podcasket is vampire expert and horror scholar Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn Editor: Dan Owen "To face what we are in the end, we stand before the light and our true nature is revealed. Self-revelation is annihilation of self.”—Kathleen Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zero and Wiz DO NOT RECOMMEND The Conjuring If The Conjuring has made me think of one thing after watching, it's the use of the term "Based on a true story" when it comes to describing a film. For this to really work with that, you would need to have definitive proof that the events in this film actually happened. That means everything from the demon that possesses the mother to the visions to the ghosts that were throwing the kids across the house. And if you are skeptical about the whole ghosts and demons thing (like Wiz is), having that could actually make the film much more scary and unsettling. But even when Andrea Perron, one of the daughters from the family that was supposedly "haunted", even says that the events in the film didn't necessarily happen, you are left with a feeling of being hoodwinked by the film makers. But honestly, if you have seen enough movies, seeing the words "Based on a true story" doesn't mean that everything in the film happened in the way it says: filmmakers take dramatic and artistic creativity in creating it's story. But even keeping that in mind, The Conjuring is painfully boring. Both the heroes of the film, Ed and Lorraine Warren played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, are both bland and wooden. The family, led by Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor, aren't really that captivating either with their personalities sanded down to a nice descriptor of "loving family". Even if you consider the scares, which are little more than cheesy jump scare sequences using camera movement and sound, they are more annoying than they are scary. Only two things about this film kept me interested: the sound design is actually pretty well done with how they implement the directional sound and the focus on wind and creaking wood. The other is the use of ghost photography and "evidence collecting". Basing an entire film on this aspect might actually be interesting to watch, but I don't think even having this would save this film from what it really is. And what is The Conjuring? A cheap, shallow bore of a film that relies on two things from the viewers to enjoy: unquestionable belief that what has happened is real and enjoying jump scares above all else.

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Welcome to The Nerdy Podcast ran by Northern Nerds!! Get ready to rewind to the good old days of vinyl records and mixtapes as we dive into a review of the 2000 romantic comedy-drama film, High Fidelity. Starring John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Jack Black, Todd Louiso, Lisa Bonet, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lili Taylor, Joan Cusack, and Tim Robbins, this movie is a must-watch for music lovers and anyone who's ever been in a relationship. In this episode, we'll be discussing the film's witty dialogue, relatable characters, and of course, its iconic soundtrack featuring hits from The Velvet Underground, The Kinks, and more. So, grab your favorite record and join us as we explore the highs and lows of love, relationships, and music obsession.#HighFidelity #JohnCusack #RomCom #MusicLovers #VinylRecords #Mixtapes #RelationshipGoals #LoveAndObsession #jackblack #podcast #nerds #reviews #top5

In the latest edition of our Criterion series, Ashley & Matt discuss a hidden gem. Most of Dogfight takes place over one night in 1963, where a guy and girl spend time getting to know one another, in ways both frustrating and charming. 

John Cusack held up a boombox and the rest was history. Yes, the Cameron Crowe romcom holds a place in the hearts of many a Gen Xer. Lloyd Dobbler and Diane Court faced peer pressure, a keg party, and (oh, yeah) an IRS investigation into Diane's father, played by John Mahoney.  Audiences in 1989 were left swooning as the two flew off into an English sunset. But, decades later, was the movie a trip worth taking? Was the casting of a relatively unknown Ione Skye brilliant or baffling? What will Lloyd do if the kickboxing career doesn't work out? And is the boombox stuff stalker-ish by today's standards? The Old Roommates have written 63 comments about this movie, and they're going to share every single one of them tonight – all through a middle-aged lens. Listen to this.Old Roommates can be reached via email at oldroommatespod@gmail.com. Follow Old Roommates on Instagram and YouTube @OldRoommates for bonus content and please give us a rating or review!#CameronCrowe #JohnCusask #IoneSkye #LiliTaylor

Bonnie Jo Campbell discusses her novel, "The Waters," its fictional setting in Southwest Michigan, and the focus on the intricate dynamics within a family of women living in a swamp:  Hermine, the herbalist grandmother; her restless daughter, Rose Thorn; and Rosie's mathematically gifted daughter, Dorothy.  Campbell discusses how the landscape shapes the characters' identities and lives, reflecting the struggles and changes in rural American communities. The women are outsiders in their own town, facing suspicion and blame from the men who feel displaced and troubled by the changing times.Campbell also explores the novel's use of fairytale tropes to deepen the storytelling, the importance of place in Campbell's writing,  and the role of animals like donkeys and rattlesnakes. Campbell shares insights into her writing process, emphasizing the authenticity and depth she strives to achieve, and the challenges she has in portraying female characters because of their layers of complexities. This episode offers a look into Campbell's creative journey and the themes that make "The Waters" a compelling read. My thanks to Recorded Books for allowing us to use an excerpt from the audiobook The Waters, narrated by Lili Taylor.

Bonnie Jo Campbell discusses her novel, "The Waters," its fictional setting in Southwest Michigan, and the focus on the intricate dynamics within a family of women living in a swamp:  Hermine, the herbalist grandmother; her restless daughter, Rose Thorn; and Rosie's mathematically gifted daughter, Dorothy.  Campbell discusses how the landscape shapes the characters' identities and lives, reflecting the struggles and changes in rural American communities. The women are outsiders in their own town, facing suspicion and blame from the men who feel displaced and troubled by the changing times.Campbell also explores the novel's use of fairytale tropes to deepen the storytelling, the importance of place in Campbell's writing,  and the role of animals like donkeys and rattlesnakes. Campbell shares insights into her writing process, emphasizing the authenticity and depth she strives to achieve, and the challenges she has in portraying female characters because of their layers of complexities. This episode offers a look into Campbell's creative journey and the themes that make "The Waters" a compelling read. My thanks to Recorded Books for allowing us to use an excerpt from the audiobook The Waters, narrated by Lili Taylor.

Into The MysticEpisode 08: Mystic Pizza (1988) - Behind The Scenes - Vol. 02Jason Connell and Sal Rodriguez revisit the classic movie again and talk about Matt Damon's first movie role, must-see filming locations, and the probability of Mystic Pizza 2: The Second Slice. Synopsis: Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in the Connecticut town of Mystic.Director: Donald PetrieWriter: Amy Holden Jones (story & screenplay), Perry Howze (screenplay), Randy Howze (screenplay), Alfred Uhry (screenplay)Cinematographer: Tim SuhrstedtCast: Julia Roberts, Annabeth Gish, Lili Taylor, Vincent D'Onofrio, William R. Moses, Adam Storke, Conchata Ferrell, Joanna Merlin, Louis Turenne, John Cunningham, Matt DamonRecorded: 06-10-24Studio: Just Curious MediaPartner: Mystic Film FestivalSponsors:Olde Mistick VillageMystic AquariumListen:BuzzsproutApple PodcastsSpotifyGoogle PodcastsAmazon MusiciHeartRadioTuneInWatch:YouTubeHost:Jason ConnellGuest:Sal Rodriguez#justcuriousmedia #mysticfilmfestvial #intothemystic #talesfromhollywoodeast #mrjasonconnell #cinema #classicmovies #movies #moviereviews #film #filmreviews #filmfestival #studios #producers #directors #writers #actors #mysticpizzaSend us a Text Message.Support the Show.

In this episode of the "Giant Mess" podcast, time travel enthusiast Neal Lynch recaps, reviews, and reacts to Outer Range Season 2. If you've ever been interested in seeing a person glitch in real life or witness a human's brain breaking, you're in luck. Also, NEAL ATTEMPTS MATH IN REAL-TIME! All 7 episodes of the second season premiered on May 16, 2024 Royal Abbott is a Wyoming rancher who is fighting for his land and family.  He discovers a mysterious black void in the pasture after the arrival of a female drifter, Autumn, who has a connection to Abbott's ranch.  While the Abbott family copes with the disappearance of their daughter-in-law Rebecca, they are pushed further to the brink when a rival family, the Tillersons, try to take over their land. CAST Josh Brolin as Royal Abbott  owner of Abbott ranch and husband and father of Rhett and Perry Imogen Poots as Autumn a strange young woman who arrives at the Abbott ranch and camps out on the land Lili Taylor as Cecilia Abbott, mother of Rhett and Perry Tom Pelphrey as Perry Abbott,  Royal's elder son and the father of Amy Tamara Podemski as Deputy Sheriff Joy Hawk,  the acting sheriff of the county where the town of Wabang is situated. Lewis Pullman as Rhett Abbott,  Royal's younger son Isabel Arraiza as Maria Olivares,  a bank teller that Rhett is interested in Noah Reid as Billy Tillerson,  the younger son of the Tillerson family Shaun Sipos as Luke Tillerson, the elder son of the Tillerson family Will Patton as Wayne Tillerson the father of Billy and Luke and head of the family ABOUT NEAL LYNCH: I'm an Irish-Italian-American who graduated from 1) a Catholic high school (even though I'm not Catholic), and 2) a college known for producing doctors and lacrosse players, then became neither. I was a former 4th string college quarterback and middle relief pitcher who thought an overpriced film and media studies degree was a smart choice. Now, I'm a single dad who likes to blog, vlog, podcast, write, edit, optimize, strategize, and over-analyze.   ABOUT "GIANT MESS": "Giant Mess" is a sloppy sports and entertainment talk show hosted by a giant mess, the Real Cinch Neal Lynch. Neal's a single dad who loves to talk New York Giants football, Mets baseball, movies, TV shows, and comedy. The podcast has movie reviews, tv show recaps and reactions, post-game analysis, predictions, and funny stories about parenting. My writing samples: NFL Spin Zone http://nflspinzone.com/author/neallynch/  BroBible http://brobible.com/author/neallynch/  GmenHQ http://gmenhq.com/author/neallynch/  TV Fanatic - https://www.tvfanatic.com/authors/neal-lynch/  Subscribe to Giant Mess on YouTube: https://bit.ly/GiantMessYT   Follow me on: Link Tree - https://linktr.ee/neallynch  My Official Blog - http://bit.ly/neallynchBLOG  Giant Mess Facebook Page - http://bit.ly/GiantMessFB   Twitter - http://bit.ly/NealLynchTW     Personal Instagram - http://bit.ly/NealLynchIG   Giant Mess Instagram - https://bit.ly/GiantMessInstagram Subscribe to Giant Mess on Apple Podcasts - http://bit.ly/GiantMessApple   Subscribe to Giant Mess on Spotify - http://bit.ly/GiantMessSpotify --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/neal-lynch/message

Lili Taylor talks to Mase & Sue about her role in OUTER RANGE  - the American neo-Western supernatural mystery thriller streaming on Amazon Prime. They discuss the challenges of shooting out of sequence, reaction to seeing the finished product for the first time, time travel and strange unexplainable events, the concept of predetermination, Noah Reid's sweet performance, and acting opposite co-star/executive producer Josh Brolin. Also, the classic film MYSTIC PIZZA, her relationship with the cast, Robert Altman's SHORT CUTS, the pros and cons of working with a director who encouraged improv, her experience working on HOUSEHOLD SAINTS, I SHOT ANDY WARHOL, THE CONJURING, and decompressing from certain roles. Plus, the premiere of HULU's new FX miniseries CLIPPED, best-selling musical acts of all time and show business nepo babies.

Into The MysticEpisode 07: Mystic Pizza (1988) - Behind The Scenes - Vol. 01Jason Connell and Sal Rodriguez revisit the classic movie and talk about Julia Roberts' rise to stardom, the real-life Mystic Pizza parlor, and what's in the secret sauce.Synopsis: Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in the Connecticut town of Mystic.Director: Donald PetrieWriter: Amy Holden Jones (story & screenplay), Perry Howze (screenplay), Randy Howze (screenplay), Alfred Uhry (screenplay)Cinematographer: Tim SuhrstedtCast: Julia Roberts, Annabeth Gish, Lili Taylor, Vincent D'Onofrio, William R. Moses, Adam Storke, Conchata Ferrell, Joanna Merlin, Louis Turenne, John Cunningham, Matt DamonRecorded: 06-10-24Studio: Just Curious MediaPartner: Mystic Film FestivalSponsors:Olde Mistick VillageMystic AquariumListen:BuzzsproutApple PodcastsSpotifyGoogle PodcastsAmazon MusiciHeartRadioTuneInWatch:YouTubeHost:Jason ConnellGuest:Sal Rodriguez#justcuriousmedia #mysticfilmfestvial #intothemystic #talesfromhollywoodeast #mrjasonconnell #cinema #classicmovies #movies #moviereviews #film #filmreviews #filmfestival #studios #producers #directors #writers #actors #mysticpizzaSend us a Text Message.Support the Show.

In this week's episode of Bingeworthy, our TV and streaming podcast, host Mike DeAngelo dives headfirst into “Outer Range.” The mysterious and compelling Prime Video series follows a rancher who discovers a mysterious hole in his pasture, leading to land wars, family drama, and time-jumping mysteries. The show stars Josh Brolin, Imogen Poots, Lili Taylor, Lewis Pullman, Tom Pelphrey, Will Patton, and more (read our review here). READ MORE: ‘Outer Range' Review: Time Is A River For Josh Brolin In Still Weird, Existentially Compelling Season 2 Joining Bingeworthy to discuss the second season of the metaphysical Western sci-fi drama are two stars of the series, Josh Brolin (“No Country for Old Men,” “Avengers: Endgame”) and Imogen Poots (“Green Room,” “Vivarium”), as well as new showrunner Charles Murray (“Luke Cage,” “Sons of Anarchy”). During the interviews, much was discussed about the showrunner change from creator Brian Watkins to Charles Murray. Some, including Imogen Poots, are close friends with Watkins, which could have potentially created an awkward situation, but it seems like Murray pulled the transition off with a great amount of class.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theplaylist/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theplaylist/support

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we speak to Nancy Savoca, the great filmmaker whose sophomore feature Dogfight is now available via Criterion. The digitally-restored, director-approved Blu-Ray includes new commentary from Savoca and producer Richard Guay, a new interview with Savoca and actor Lili Taylor conducted by filmmaker Mary Harron, and a great essay by film critic Christina Newland, among other features. We speak with Savoca about Missing Movies, her mentors John Sayles and Maggie Renzi, her first film True Love, directing singular performers like River Phoenix and Lili Taylor, and the HBO creativity boom of the mid-to-late ‘90s (including Carl Franklin's Laurel Avenue and Cher and Savoca's If These Walls Could Talk), and lesser-seen gems of Savoca's that she hopes viewers will be able to see soon (including Dirt from the early 2000s an the recently restored and released Household Saints from 1993). Be sure to give us a follow on Twitter and Facebook at @TFSBSide. Also enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor.

This week's physical media show has a little of everything and a lot of heartbreak. Nancy Savoca provides the latter as the “Savocaissance” continues on Blu-ray this year but there is also early James L. Brooks with Burt Reynolds missing out in a stacked year of Oscar nominees. We have an Anthony Mann western and a Roman Polanski thriller; a double-up of Mean Girls and a remake of a Peckinpah film.  Plus a breakdown of Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's films now all available on 4K.   0:00 - Intro 1:41 – Criterion (Dogfight) 8:45 - Kino (True Love, Bluebeard, Starting Over) 22:57 - Music Box (Signature Move) 25:38 – Arrow (The Tin Star, Basket Case) 37:48 – Shout Factory (Death and the Maiden, The Getaway) 47:09 – Warner Bros. (Oceans Trilogy 4K) 56:25 - Paramount (Mean Girls 2004 4K, Mean Girls 2024) 1:05:05 – New TV & Theatrical Titles on Blu-ray 1:12:05 – New Blu-ray Announcements 1:15:05 - Outro

Well, this could be awkward: when we last featured a story on the podcast a year ago, it also focused on parasocial relationships and included masturbation! This time around, we are again in deft hands. Marie Manilla's short story “Watchers”, set in 1968 Pittsburgh with both the steel mills and Andy Warhol as vital elements, is replete with narrative and thematic echoes that satisfy and leave us wanting more at the same time. Tune in for this lively discussion which touches on budding creative and identity-based aspirations, celebrity, performance art, pain in public and private, and much more. Give it a listen -- you know you want to! (Remember you can read or listen to the full story first, as there are spoilers! Just scroll down the page for the episode on our website.)   (We also welcome editor Lisa Zerkle to the table for her first show!) At the table: Kathleen Volk Miller, Marion Wrenn, Lisa Zerkle, Jason Schneiderman, Dagne Forrest   Listen to the story Watchers in its entirety (separate from podcast reading)   Parasocial relationships https://mashable.com/article/parasocial-relationships-definition-meaning   Andy Warhol's childhood home in Pittsburgh (the setting of this story) http://www.warhola.com/warholahouse.html   “History” article about Andy Warhol's shooting by Valerie Solanas https://www.history.com/news/andy-warhol-shot-valerie-solanas-the-factory    I Shot Andy Warhol, 1996 film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Shot_Andy_Warhol      ** Fun Fact 1: the original poster for the 1996 film hangs in Jason's apartment.   ** Fun Fact 2: the actor who portrayed Valerie Solanas in “I Shot Andy Warhol”, Lili Taylor, is married to three-time PBQ-published author Nick Flynn.   Nick Flynn's author page on PBQ http://pbqmag.org/tag/nick-flynn/   Dangerous Art: The Weapons of Performance Artist Chris Burden https://www.theartstory.org/blog/dangerous-art-the-weapons-of-performance-artist-chris-burden/ In her fiction and essays, West Virginia writer Marie Manilla delights in presenting fuller, perhaps unexpected, portraits of Appalachians, especially those who live in urban areas. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Marie's books include The Patron Saint of Ugly, Shrapnel, and Still Life with Plums: Short Stories. She lives in Huntington, her hometown, with her Pittsburgh-born husband, Don.   Instagram and Facebook: @MarieManilla, Author website    Watchers        Zany lies amid clutter on the floor beneath the dining room windows hugging her bandaged arm. She huffs loudly enough to reach the front porch where Mom and Aunt Vi imbibe scotch. Vi still isn't used to afternoon drinking. They can't hear Zany over the Krebbs' crying baby on the other side of the duplex wall. Stupid baby. Plus Zany's little sister overhead dancing to the transistor radio, rattling the light fixture dangling from the ceiling.        The fingertips on Zany's bandaged arm are cold and maybe even blue. This is slightly alarming. She considers running to Mom but knows better. Take the damn thing off then, Mom will say.        There's nothing wrong with Zany's arm, but that isn't the point. At breakfast, without preamble, she wound an Ace bandage from her palm to her armpit. The family no longer asks what she's up to. Last week during Ed Sullivan she sat at her TV tray dripping candle wax over her fist. Aunt Vi blinked with every splat, but Mom only said: “If you get that on my rug I'll take you across my knee. I don't care how old you are.” Zany is thirteen.        Week before, Zany taped a string of two-inch penny nails around her throat at the kitchen table where Dad rewired one of Mom's salvaged lamps. “Why don't you do that in your room?”  Dad didn't like sharing his workspace. Zany shrugged and the nail tips jabbed her collarbones.  She could have done it in her room, but doing the thing wasn't the point. It was having someone watch that mattered. If no one watched, who would believe she could endure that much discomfort?        Nobody is watching now, so Zany grips a dining table leg and pulls it toward her, or tries to. It's hard to budge through Mom's junk piles, plus the weight of the extra leaf Dad inserted when Aunt Vi and Cousin Lester moved in after their apartment collapsed. Aunt Vi brought cans of flowery air freshener to hide the hoard smell—rotten food and cat piss. They don't own a cat.  Lester, sixteen, bought a box of rubble-rescued books.        “You better be setting the table!” Mom calls through the screen.        Zany hates Mom's manly haircut and has said so. “It's Gig's turn!”        Overhead, Gig stomps the floor in the bedroom they now share. Aunt Vi got Zany's attic where Mom's hoard had been disallowed, but it's begun trickling up. “No, it's not!” Gig's transistor blares louder.        “Zany!” Mom calls. “I swear to God! And close those drapes!”        Mom can't stand looking at the neighbor's wall she could reach across and touch, but Zany craves fresh air, as fresh as Pittsburgh air can be. Plus, she likes counting the yellow bricks Andy Warhol surely counted when this was his childhood home, the dining room his make-shift sickroom when he suffered St. Vitus Dance. Zany is certain his bed would have been right here by the window where he could see a hint of sky if he cricked his neck just right. She lies in his echo and imagines the day she'll appear at his Factory door in New York City and say: “I used to live in your house.” Andy will enfold her in his translucent arms before ushering her inside, not to act in his films or screen print his designs, but to be his equal. Partner, even. Zany just has to determine her own art form. It sure won't be cutting fruit cans into flowers like Warhol's mother did for chump change.        Zany's legs start the herky-jerky Vitus dance as if she's running toward that Factory dream. Her pelvis and hips quake. The one free arm. The back of her head jitters against the floor. It's a familiar thrum even Aunt Vi and Lester are accustomed to now. Mom yells: “Stop that racket!” She mutters to Vi: “We never should have bought this place.”       A kitchen timer dings and Aunt Vi comes in to disarm it. Her cooking is better than Mom's, and Vi wears an apron and dime store lipstick while she does it. Fresh peas instead of canned. Real mashed potatoes instead of instant. Vi is a better housekeeper, too, organizing Mom's trash into four-foot piles that line the walls. Every day Mom trolls back alleys and neighbors' garbage in dingy clothes that make her look like a hobo. That's what the kids say:  Your mom looks like a hobo. She pulls a rickety cart and loads it with moldy linens, rolled-up rugs, dented wastebaskets. Zany wonders if Dad regrets marrying the wrong sister. She knows he regrets not having a son, a boy who could have been Lester if Dad had a different heart. Instead, Dad got Lester on at the blast furnace, because “No one sleeps under my roof for free.” Who needs a high school diploma?        In the kitchen, Aunt Vi lets out one of her sobs. She only does that in private after Mom's third scolding: “He's dead, Vi. Crying won't bring him back.”        Zany misses Uncle Mo, too. His pocketful of peppermints. The trick coin he always plucked from Zany's ear. The last time Zany's family visited, she walked through their decrepit Franklin Arms apartment with its spongy floors and clanking pipes, but no maze of debris to negotiate. No cat piss smell or sister blaring the radio. She found Lester in his room at a child's desk he'd outgrown, doughy boy that he then was, doing homework without being nagged.  Astounding. His room was spartan, plenty of space for a second bed if Zany asked Aunt Vi sweetly enough. But no. Zany couldn't abandon Andy in his Dawson Street sickbed. Lester's only wall decoration was a world map strung with red yarn radiating from Pittsburgh to France, China, the South Pole. She wanted to ask why those destinations, but didn't, entranced as she was by all that fresh-aired openness, plus his feverishly scribbling hand.       Now, Aunt Vi leans in the dining room dabbing her face with a dishtowel. She's aged a decade since moving here and it isn't all due to grief. She targets Zany on the floor. “Everything all right in here?”        Zany has stopped breathing. Her eyes are glazed and her tongue lolls from her mouth.  She's getting better at playing dead.        “All right then.” Aunt Vi is getting better at not reacting. The screen door slams behind her.        Zany pulls in her tongue and inhales. She starts counting bricks again until Aunt Vi calls: “There they are!” as she does every workday.        Zany pictures Dad and Lester padding up Dawson. Wet hair slicked back because they shower off the stench before coming home. Zany appreciates that. Their boots scrape the steps to the porch where Aunt Vi will take their lunchpails. And there she is coming through the door and dashing to rinse their thermoses at the kitchen sink. Mom will stay put and pour Dad a finger of scotch.        Lester bangs inside and pauses in the dining room entryway. He's leaner now on account of the physical labor. Taller too. He eyes Zany's bandaged arm, not with Aunt Vi's alarm, but with the kind of baffled wonder Zany has always been after. Their eyes meet and it's the same look he gave her the day she walked backward all the way to the Eliza Number Two—not  because Dad and Lester worked there, but because it was lunchtime, and a gaggle of men would  be eating beneath that pin oak by the furnace entrance. And there they were, her father among them, not easy to see having to crane her neck as Zany picked her way over the railroad tracks.        “What the hell is she doing?” said Tom Folsom. Zany recognized her neighbor's voice.  “She's off her nut,” said another worker.       Zany twisted fully around to see if her father would defend her, but he was already hustling back to the furnace.        “Something's not right with that girl,” said Folsom.        “Nothing wrong with her,” said Lester from beneath a different tree where he ate his cheese sandwich alone.        Folsom spit in the grass. “Shut up, fairy boy.”        Lester wasn't a fairy boy, Zany knew.        Today, leaning in the dining room, Lester looks as if he can see inside Zany's skull to the conjured Factory room she and Andy will one day share: walls scrubbed clean and painted white.  Her drawings or paintings lining the walls in tidy rows. Maybe sculptures aligned on shelves. Or mobiles overhead spinning in the breeze. Lester nods at her fantasy as if it's a good one. He has his own escapism. Zany knows that too, and she looks away first so her eyes won't let him know that she knows.        Lester heads to the cellar where he spends most of his time. Mom partitioned off the back corner for him with clothesline and a bed sheet. Installed an army cot and gooseneck lamp on a crate. Andy Warhol holed up in the cellar when he was a kid developing film in a jerry-rigged darkroom. Zany constructed one from an oversized cardboard box she wedged into that shadowy space beneath the stairs. She cut a closable door in the box and regularly folds herself inside to catalogue her achievements in a notebook. Stood barefoot on a hot tar patch on Frazier Street for seventy-two seconds. Mr. Braddock called me a dolt, but I said: You're the dolt!        From below, the sound of Lester falling onto his cot followed by a sigh so deep Zany's lungs exhale, too. Whatever dreams he had got buried under apartment rubble along with Uncle Mo.       Outside, Dad has taken Aunt Vi's creaky rocker. “He's a strange one,” he says about Lester. “What's he up to down there?”        Mom says, “Who the hell knows?”        Zany clamps her unbandaged hand over her mouth to keep that knowledge from spilling.  She saw what he was up to the day she was tucked in her box and forgot time until footsteps pounded the stairs above her. She peeked through the peephole she'd punched into her cardboard door as Lester peeled off his shirt, his pants. He left on his boxers and socks. Didn't bother to draw his sheet curtain, just plopped on the cot and lit a cigarette. His smoking still surprised her. The boy he once was was also buried under rubble. Zany regretted not making her presence known, but then it was too late with Lester in his underwear, and all. Plus, she was captivated by his fingers pulling the cigarette to his lips. The little smoke rings he sent up to the floor joists. She wondered if he was dreaming of China or the South Pole, or just sitting quietly at his too-small desk back in his apartment inhaling all that fresh air. Finally, he snubbed out the cigarette in an empty tuna can. Zany hoped he would roll over for sleep, but he slid a much-abused magazine from beneath his pillow and turned pages. Even in the scant light Zany made out the naked lady on the cover. Zany's heart thudded, even more so when Lester's hand slipped beneath his waistband and started moving up and down, up and down. She told her eyes to close but they wouldn't, both entranced and nauseated by what she shouldn't be seeing. She knew what he was up to, having done her own exploring when she had her own room. She'd conjure Andy Warhol's face and mouth and delicate hands—because those rumors weren't true. They just weren't. Harder to explore in the bed she now shared with Gig. Stupid Aunt Vi, and stupid collapsed Franklin Arms.       What Lester was up to looked angry. Violent, even. A jittery burn galloped beneath Zany's skin and she bit her lip, drawing blood. But she couldn't look away from Lester's furious hand, his eyes ogling that magazine until they squeezed shut and his mouth pressed into a grimace that did not look like joy. The magazine collapsed onto his chest and his belly shuddered. Only then did Zany close her eyes as the burn leaked through her skin. When Lester's snores came, she tiptoed upstairs to collapse on Andy's echo. She caught Lester seven more times, if caught is the right word, lying in wait as she was, hoping to see, hoping not to.  “You better be setting the table!” Mom yells now from the porch.        Zany grunts and makes her way to the kitchen where Aunt Vi pulls a roast from the oven.  Zany heaves a stack of plates to the dining room and deals them out like playing cards.  “Don't break my dishes!” Mom calls. I hate your hair, Zany wants to say.  There is a crash, but it's not dishes. It comes from overhead where Gig screams.  Thumping on the stairs as she thunders down, transistor in hand. “Zany!”  Gig rushes into the dining room, ponytail swaying, eyes landing on her sister. “He's been shot!”        Zany's mind hurtles back two months to when Martin Luther King was killed. Riots erupted in Pittsburgh's Black neighborhoods: The Hill District and Homewood and Manchester.  “Who?” Zany says, conjuring possibilities: LBJ, Sidney Portier. But to Zany, it's much worse.        “Andy Warhol!”        Zany counts this as the meanest lie Gig's ever told. “He was not.”        “Yes, he was!” Gig turns up the radio and the announcer confirms it: a crazed woman shot Warhol in his Factory.       Aunt Vi comes at Zany with her arms wide, because she understands loss. “Oh, honey.”  Zany bats her hands away. “It's not true.”        Vi backs into Mom's hoard. “Is he dead?”        Gig says: “They don't know.”        Zany can't stomach the smug look on Gig's face, as if she holds Andy's life or death between her teeth. Zany wants to slap that look off, so she does.        Gig screams.        “What the hell's going on in there?” Mom calls.        “Zany hit me!” Gig says at the very moment Aunt Vi says: “Andy Warhol's been shot!”  “No he wasn't!” Zany says again, wanting to slap them both.        Mom and Dad hustle inside where Gig cups her reddening cheek and bawls louder.  “It's nothing,” Mom says at the sight of her sniveling daughter, but Dad enfolds Gig in his arms. “There, there.”        “Don't coddle that child,” says Mom, and for once Zany agrees.        “Now, Mae.” Dad cups the back of Gig's head and there's a different look on her face.  Triumph, maybe.        Pounding on the shared duplex wall, Evie Krebbs, who never could shush that wailing baby. “Andy Warhol's been shot!” she calls to them. “Did you all hear?”        “We heard,” Mom answers as the baby cries louder, and so does Gig, who won't be upstaged. Mom says: “That's the price of fame I guess.”        “Being shot?” says Aunt Vi.        “Put yourself in the public eye and anything's liable to happen. Lotta kooks in this world.”       The neighbor kids' chant sounds in Zany's head: Your mother's a hobo.        “I'd rather be shot than a hobo,” says Zany.        Mom's head snaps back. “What the hell's that supposed to mean?”        Zany doesn't fully know what she means, or maybe she does.        Dad says, “Turn up the radio and see if he's dead.”        Zany doesn't want to know the answer, and to keep him alive she runs to the basement where Andy will always be a sickly boy developing film. Never mind Lester in his bed sending smoke rings up to the floor joists. Never mind her family still jabbering overhead.       Zany dashes to her cardboard box and closes the door, her body shaking, but not from any disease. Andy can't be dead. He just can't, because if he is Zany will never make it to New York. Will never pound on his Factory door. She will never be famous enough for someone to shoot.        She doesn't know she's sobbing until Lester's voice drifts over. “Zany?”        It's hard to speak with that hand gripping her throat and her father overhead still babbling: “Turn it up, Gig.” All Zany eeks out is a sob.        Lester's skinny voice slips through that slit in her door. “Zany?”        The grip loosens and Zany puts her eye to the peephole.        There he is, Lester, on his narrow cot in the windowless cellar where he now lives. He slides his hand into his waistband and he tilts his head toward her. “Are you watching?”  Zany's breathing settles, and the overhead voices disappear taking with them the possibility of Andy's death. Her eyes widens so she can take it all in, the violent strokes, his contorting face, because she won't look away from Lester's pain, or hers.  Finally, she answers him: “Yes.” 

Fog up your window and watch out for hallway ghosts because we're discussing Ciarán Foy's 2019 shocker Eli! Join us as we dive into this horror story of a boy and his plastic bubble while, of course, applying a queer reading to it. Plus: mosquito hawks vs. dragonflies, questionable medical procedures, jump scares aplenty, a chilling performance from Lili Taylor and one absolute gem of a twist. Reference: > Puchko, Kristy. The Hidden Queer Horror Subtext Of Netflix's 'Eli'. Pajiba. Questions? Comments? Snark? Connect with the boys on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Letterboxd, Facebook, or join the Facebook Group to get in touch with other listeners > Trace: @tracedthurman > Joe: @bstolemyremote Be sure to support the boys on Patreon!  Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The boys go back into the Oliver Stone-verse with a Vietnam War film focusing mostly on the "pre" and "post" eras of America's controversial battle - Born on the Fourth of July. They discuss Tom Cruise's dynamo performance, consistent Vietnam War songs, the film containing three separate tones, the rally scene and much more.   Next week: the most movie that ever movied. Questions? Comments? Suggestions? You can always shoot us an e-mail at forscreenandcountry@gmail.com   Full List: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/war-movies/the-100-greatest-war-movies-of-all-time Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forscreenandcountry Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/fsacpod Our logo was designed by the wonderful Mariah Lirette (https://instagram.com/its.mariah.xo) Born on the Fourth of July stars Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Kyra Sedgwick, Caroline Kava, Frank Whaley, Michael Wincott, Stephen Baldwin, Bob Gunton, Lili Taylor, David Herman, John C. McGinley, Vivica A. Fox, Wayne Knight and Willem Dafoe; directed by Oliver Stone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before leaving for Vietnam on the eve of President Kennedy's assassination, four marines organize an ugliest date competition which results in an unlikely romance. Directed by Nancy Savoca and written by Bob Comfort. Starring River Phoenix and Lili Taylor.  Listener request courtesy of Chris K. Thank you so much for listening! E-mail address: greatestpod@gmail.com Please follow the show on Twitter: @GreatestPod Subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Podbean This week's recommendations: One False Move (Streaming Rental) Under the Silver Lake (Max, Streaming Rental) Laura (Streaming Rental)

Writer and Senior Vice President at The Black List Kate Hagen joins to discuss Nancy Savoca's 'Household Saints', a generational tale of Italian women in New York and the shifting influences of faith, divinity, and family in their day to day lives. Long unavailable and thought lost to time, an original print of the film was discovered by the filmmakers and has received a new 4k restoration courtesy of Milestone Films. The restoration is screening theatrically all across the country and a proper blu ray release of the film is headed to Kino Lorber in April.We discuss the work of Nancy Savoca, her recent string of restorations, and the position she occupies in the broader conversation about independent film of the 1990s. Then, we examine the film's brilliantly nuanced take on Catholicism and faith - how it manifests in the lives of its central characters, and how the film maintains a compelling balance of fascination and skepticism for the notion of divinity. Finally, we discuss the movie as a triumphant story of what can happen when film preservation wins out, and why there is even more work to be done on the front of preservation now and in the future. Follow Kate Hagen on Twitter.Read up on the how-to's of film preservation at Missing Movies.Watch Roger Ebert on Household Saints. Get access to all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month.....Our theme song is "Mirror" by Chris Fish. 

More than thirty years ago, director Nancy Savoca premiered what the New York Times described as a “miracle” of a film. Household Saints was adapted from a novel by Francine Prose about three generations of an Italian-American family navigating faith and modernity in post–World War II New York City. The movie brought together an incredible ensemble cast, including Tracey Ullman, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lili Taylor, and Michael Imperioli, and told a strange and charming tale of fanatically headstrong women who were unlike any other characters to grace the movie screens of the 1990s. It all begins when Joseph, a handsome butcher (D'Onofrio), wins the stubborn Catherine (Ullman) as his wife in a game of pinochle. The first half of the film follows their relationship, which is plagued by the superstitions of Joseph's bitter mother, while the second half follows their daughter, Teresa (Taylor), who becomes consumed by a saintly devotion to a Catholic God. Last year, after a long and arduous effort to recover and restore the movie's materials, a new restoration premiered at the New York Film Festival, and introduced contemporary audiences to what still feels like a cinematic novelty. With a restored Household Saints in theaters now, Film Comment Editor Devika Girish interviewed Savoca and her star, Vincent D'Onofrio, to talk about making the film, how they infused it with their own Italian-American upbringing, and the daring mix of sex and religion that the movie explores.

Bark bark! Sadly for Lianna there were not many actual dogs in this film. Tune in for many things we've never seen in a film before: a woman playing guitar, men sporting bees, and sexism (but on purpose). The person most confused by the film this week was: Rose's wardrobe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you love really good pizza, strong female friendships, and not monkeying with tradition? Then Mystic Pizza (1988) is the movie for you! Check out this delightfully authentic and autumnally 80's coming of age classic starring a then unknown Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor, Annabeth Gish, Vincent D'Onofrio, Conchata Ferrell, and a blink-and-you'll-miss-it turn from teen-age Matt Damon in his first speaking role on film. It's a slice of heaven! Host, Sara Greenfield, and her guests, Susan-Kate Heaney and Laurel Rankin, chat about all this and more on this week's episode of Talk Classic To Me. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sara-greenfield/support

This week on Dopey! DopeyCon IV!!!! A cavalcade of Dopes! A treasure Trove ofand  Dopey Stories! It's all here! Bobby Dukes burning a dude's dick with a crack pipe in a glory hole to Jessa Reed's Opus Owl Story! Plus great recovery with Hank Azaria, Joe Schrank, Ask Erin Khar! Music by Ray Brown and so very much more on this weeks brand new spanking episode of that good old Dopey Show! DopeyCon IV!!!!! More About Dopey: Dopey Podcast is the world's greatest podcast on drugs, addiction and dumb shit. Chris and I were two IV heroin addicts who loved to talk about all the coke we smoked, snorted and shot, all the pills we ate, smoked, all the weed we smoked and ate, all the booze we consumed and all the consequences we suffered. After making the show for 2 and a half years, Chris tragically relapsed and died from a fentanyl overdose. Dopey continued on, at first to mourn the horrible loss of Chris, but then to continue our mission - which was at its core, to keep addicts and alcoholics company. Whether to laugh at our time in rehab, or cry at the worst missteps we made, Dopey tells the truth about drugs, addiction and recovery. We continually mine the universe for stories rife with debauchery and highlight serious drug taking and alcoholism. We also examine different paths toward addiction recovery. We shine a light on harm reduction and medication assisted treatment. We talk with celebrities and nobodies and stockpile stories to be the greatest one stop shop podcast on all things drugs, addiction, recovery and comedy pathfinding the route to the heart of the opioid epidemic.

Well well well, fancy seeing you fellas here. And what a way to return. It's October, and Liam Neeson, Owen Wilson, Catherine Zeta Jones, and Lili Taylor were all king enough to join us on this fine Halloween month-day. In this episode we talk our confusion between "House on Haunted Hill" & "The Haunting of Hill House", the word "wow" and all it entails... and of course, our recent abscense. It's good to be back fellas. https://www.youtube.com/c/HorrorSoup patreon.com/horrorsoup horrorsoup@yahoo.com Instagram @horrorsoup TikTok @ilikethrillers Letterboxd @horrorsoupcaleb & @niteshiftvideo --- Thanks Section: @rossyhorrorshow @themutantmembersonlyclub @vstrxx @morbidpodcast @screampodcast @the_rewatcher

Our 8th Annual Scary Movie Month has arrived and we kick it off with a film that has several legit frights and some "I'm creeped out in my own basement" staying power. Our 539th episode talks about demonic possession, child endangerment and other weird things. Director James Wan knows how to use jump scares in The Conjuring, but he also knows how to build tension and he really knows how to shoot a horror movie. This Malaysian mogul based his freak-fest on a real story and he cast solid actors like Vera Farmiga and Ron Livingston, but then he had to go and (as he often does) work with...yeah, Patrick Wilson. Lili Taylor and the 5 young actresses who play her daughters are fantastic though. In any case, The Conjuring delivers and it not only became a blockbuster, it inspired an entire horror universe. So whether you crouch menacingly on top of an armoire or playfully clap in the darkness, be prepared to hear us talk about screams and skin-crawls in this 10-year-old ghost story. Well, Actually: A Stir Of Echoes is the name of the Kevin Bacon movie we couldn't remember (the one where he discovers a terrible tragedy in his basement). Podcasts need their sponsors and we have a great one: Sparkplug Coffee. Use our "HYES" promo code and get 20% off your next order. Go to sparkplug.coffee/hyes. Getting in touch with us is no evil trick. You just have to send us some tweet-x's (@moviefiend51 and @bevellisellis) or fire off an email (haveyoueverseenpodcast@gmail.com). And since we post all our talks on YouTube, you can find us @hyesellis (or type "Have You Ever Seen" into your browser).

RMR 0225: Special Guest, Katie Geilenkirchen of the Retromade Podcast joins your hosts Chad Robinson and Lizzy Haynes for the Retro Movie Roundtable as they revisit Mystic Pizza (1988) [R] Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama, Teen Starring: Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor, Vincent D'Onofrio, William R. Moses, Adam Storke, Conchata Ferrell, Joanna Merlin, Porscha Radcliffe, Bucky Walsh, John Fiore, Gene Amoroso, Sheila Ferrini,  Janet Zarish, Louis Turenne, Lauren O'Brien, John Cunningham, Ann Flood, Suzanne Shepherd, Matt Damon, Jack Ringstad, Jody Raymond, Jim O'Connor, Geraldine Leer, Robin Joss, Ray Zuppa, Paul Timothy, Nikki Bruno, Bill Devany Director: Donald Petrie Recorded on 2023-07-20

A Classic RISK! episode from our early years! In the eighth episode of our third season, Lili Taylor, Sara Benincasa and Curtis Gwinn share about their nearest, dearest and weirdest. Support RISK! on Patreon at Patreon.com/RISKMake a one-time donation to RISK! at PayPal.me/RISKshowGet tickets to RISK! live shows at RISK-show.com/tourGet the RISK! book at TheRISKBook.comTake our storytelling classes at TheStoryStudio.orgHire Kevin Allison to make a personalized video at Cameo.com/TheKevinAllisonHire Kevin Allison as a coach at KevinAllison.com