Category: Podcast

Episode 214: Black Bag / Wick Is Pain / Murderbot

Episode 214Hello again, dear listeners! We’ve finally edited the last of our episode backlog, which means a) you get to hear it now, and b) it is almost time for the onslaught of Fantastic Fest episodes! Please join us today for a whole slew of movies and TV shows we’ve enjoyed this year, including Murderbot, Black Bag, and the documentary Wick Is Pain.

Movies and TV discussed:
Black Bag
Andor
Murderbot
Mickey 17
Sinners
Wick Is Pain
The Watermelon Woman
Project Runway
Stranger by the Lake

Other things discussed:
The Mason-Dixon Line
The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One Hundred Years
The term Nacirema
Hump amateur porn film festival

Episode 213: Sinners / Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Episode 213This week, dear listeners, we catch up with Ryan Coogler’s new film Sinners, recent film Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, and, for some reason, clothing-related things!

Movies mentioned:
Sinners
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
The Phantom Thread
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife

Other things mentioned:
Making Lwaxana Troi’s clothing
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Le Poisson Steve https://www.tiktok.com/@vigzvigz/video/7488800734520036630

And just because, here is a photo of Claudette Colbert shoving onions in her mouth:

Claudette Colbert shoving onions in her mouth

Claudette Colbert in Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938)

Episode 212: Cleaner / A Face in the Crowd / Mickey 17

Episode 212Dearest listeners — WE HAVE CAUGHT UP! Today we bring you our most recent joys, cinematic and otherwise, from distressingly hot young Walter Matthau to novel uses for Australian cookies!

Movies mentioned:
Cleaner
A Face in the Crowd
Mickey 17

Other things mentioned:
Hamilton (yes, again)
The Wheel of Time (TV)
Tim Tams
Nominative determinism

Episode 211: Flow / Hundreds of Beavers (recorded February 2025)

Dearest listeners, our episodes are almost caught up to the current day! In this episode, we have so much joy to share, from low-budget beavers to blacklight cryptid mini golf to the Chernobyl disaster!

Movies mentioned:
Sweethearts
Flow
Hundreds of Beavers
Heart Eyes

Other things mentioned:
Hallmark holiday movie parties
Cryptid Mountain Miniature Golf (Morgantown, WV)
Lady Astronaut books by Mary Robinette Kowal
Slow Horses (TV)
Chernobyl (TV)
Murder on Location by George Kennedy

Episode 210: The Shining / Doctor Sleep (recorded November 2024)

Episode 210Dearest listeners, we bring you yet another of our already-recorded-never-posted episode! This one was recorded in November 2024. We have even more spooky season content for you, plus a Ginger Rogers movie because sure, why not!

Movies mentioned:
The Shining
Doctor Sleep
The Ring
The Bat
Hush
Vivacious Lady
Heretic
Tumbbad

Other things mentioned:
Chocolate ice cream
All the Devils Are Here (theater, Patrick Page one man show)
Printing random bullshit with a 3D printer