In our final episode of “Season 2” we enlist Yakov Grinberg to help peel back some of the many layers within Tarkovsky’s 1979 masterpiece Stalker; a hard to describe — and equally hard to forget — meditation on the human condition, and the broader challenge of expressing the inexpressible.Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Luke Christensen from Portland’s Hollywood Theatre joins us to talk about 2009’s “Moon” — Sam Rockwell and Kevin Spacey’s performances, Clint Mansell’s score, and the unique plot construction of this the artful, ponderous character study and mutual favorite of the hosts.Podcast: Play in new window | Download
We welcome the amazing Jenny Benevento to help us wrap our brains around one of the towering cinematic wonders of our age: the anti-erotic madhouse Showgirls, in all of its contradictory, critically loathed, unforgettable glory.Podcast: Play in new window | Download
One of the lesser-remembered entries in Wes Craven’s oeuvre, The Serpent and the Rainbow is a bit less than the sum of its parts, sending Bill Pullman stumbling and snarking through Haiti in search of a substance that can turn men into zombies.Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Eran and Jesse talk about Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2, Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell’s landmark horror films that set such a high bar for the nascent Splatstick genre that they’ve yet to be dethroned thirty-plus years later. Groovy.Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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Eran, Whitney and Jesse sit down for a chat about both the Stanley Kubrick and Adrian Lyne adaptations of Nabokov’s Lolita, and their respective approaches to the challenging source material.Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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With Eran back in the saddle with Jesse, and first-time co-host Jacob Henderson joining us as well, we talk about Paul Verhoeven’s visually amazing adaptation/sendup of Robert Heinlein’s military sci-fi classic, and along the way we just might find out what Eran thinks was the saddest piece of pornography he’s ever seen.Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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Contains the shocking conclusion to Part 1’s cliffhanger ending. You’ll also hear Nunk calling from a fishing boat in Alaska to discuss the embarrassments of personal taste, and Jon talking with Jesse about the podcast and the nature of criticism itself. Thank you for listening.
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Part 1 of our two-part Season Finale. Jesse fails to convince Laura to record an intro, chats with Josh about Hellraiser and mission creep in horror movies, and Eran calls from his mom’s house to explain why he hates Batman.
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Jon again joins Eran and Jesse for our least insightful episode ever. We can hardly think of any useful points of analysis for “Robocop 3” so we mostly just yell about it.
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