25YL: The Obsessions Podcast

This month we travel back 25 years to take a look at pop culture in February 1995. Heavyweights and Billy Madison released in theaters, Brady Bunch Movie tops the box office, TLC's Creep reaches #1 on the billboard charts, Seinfield's 100th episode airs, Just Cause and Laurence's Fishburne's career, Jewel and Blink 182 release their debut albums, and plenty more on this episode taking a look back at February 1995.

Shallow Grave: The Masterfully Suspenseful Debut of Danny Boyle - Written by Joyce Picker

Music 25YL: Jewel, Tricky & The Fall - Written by Rachel Stewart, Laura Stewart, and Chris Flackett

Music:

The Underground World by Terrible Spaceship

OC Remix #3323 Mega Man 8 'Aerobotics' by Just Coffee

Hidden gem picks:

Dave - Quick and the Dead

Gus - Shallow Grave

Conor - Tricky Maxinquaye

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Host Tim Rosenberger is joined by film fan and FThisMovie.net writer Rosalie Lewis (whose Twitter can be found at @rosalielewis) to discuss four Criterion Collection and Criterion Channel films directed and/or written by women about women: Not Wanted (1949), Vagabond (1985), Sweetie (1989), and Tomboy (2011).

Genuinely good werewolf horror movies are few and far between. American Werewolf and The Howling pretty much make up the whole list. But Corey Callahan argues that we all may be overlooking a third contender: Stephen King's Silver Bullet. 

What if, for the world of Twin Peaks, time moves in a way similar to the Earth's own surface? John Bernardy reads his 25YL Article exploring Twin Peak's strange chronology and real-world parallels.

Cat Smith loves all things Sweeney Todd. Well... almost all things. Come listen as she reads her 25YL Article dissecting the bodily horror Tim Burton bestowed upon a great musical.

Laura Stewart delivers a somber, reverent reading of her 25YL article, exploring Midsommar and its themes of death, grief, drugs, and relationships as well as the healing properties of psychedelic experiences

J.C.'s love for Twin Peaks' Special Agent Dale Cooper runs very deep and in this audio version of her 25YL article she presents a most shocking theory. Is Agent Dale Cooper dead? Could Twin Peaks: The Return have been his journey through the Bardos? 

The first 15 Godzilla films, made from 1954 to 1975 during the Showa Era, were recently restored and released on Blu-ray and DVD by the Criterion Collection. For the premiere episode of 25YearsLater's first podcast, host and 25YL writer Tim Rosenberger will discuss some of the movies with fellow 25YL writers and Godzilla fans Katie Bienvenue and Gus Wood.

This podcast is part of a three part package. Katie, Tim, Gus and 25YL writer Hawk Ripjaw also wrote and produced a video discussing the top 10 reasons to watch Godzilla's Showa Era. Finally, there's an article quickly covering all 15 films.