After The Movies

This week on After the Movies, Aaron and Jimmy take a stylized, comedic journey into a world of fictionalized serial killers. Join us as we attend the world's most dangerous support group in Cody Calahan's VICIOUS FUN. As so many have said before, this is one that lives up to its name.

The boys went into this one blind, and honestly, you should too. It's the surprise of the season as Lo & Mo experience both realism and dream (or nightmare) logic at a Balkan music camp. It's probably considered mumblecore, it's definitely experimental, and it's one of the most interesting films of the season. Join us for a folk horror retreat with Josephine Decker's incomparable BUTTER ON THE LATCH.

On a surprise episode of After the Movies, Aaron and Jimmy venture back to the movie theater to see the highly anticipated new feature from polarizing filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan. The experience was...unforgettable, for better or for worse. Pack a beach towel and a whole lot of Corona (you're gonna need it) as the podcast that makes you happy sees the movie that makes you confused about the beach that makes you OLD. It's a hoot!

This week, Lo & Mo return to one of their favorite independent filmmaking teams for a Lovecraftian horror-comedy that tackles its "source material" with more care than most studio films would. Join us as we journey into the night and search for the chosen bride of the old gods with Chris LaMartina's exceptionally charming CALL GIRL OF CTHULU.  

It's almost inevitable this film would fare better than 2016's Suicide Squad, but for two non-comic book fanatics, how does it stack up? Did James Gunn succeed at making a James Gunn film? Is John Cena distracting? Will Jimmy finally enjoy a DC movie? All this and more as your hosts suit up for James Gunn's reboot/pseudo-sequel, THE SUICIDE SQUAD.

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On a very special episode, Lo & Mo discuss one of -- if not the -- quintessential indie films of all time. We discuss what it took to get the film made, the way independent filmmaking has changed over the past 25 years, and how this one hits differently as an adult. Bask in the glory of the mid-90s with us as we tackle slacker film to end all slacker films, Kevin Smith's CLERKS.

On a meditative After the Movies, Aaron and Jimmy talk Netflix's subversive Italian throwback, A CLASSIC HORROR STORY, discuss whether horror needs to have a deeper underlying message, and what we as filmmakers can learn from "dumb" horror movies.

Making movies is hard. Making independent films is even harder. That's why Lo & Mo are choosing to say that this week's film is...challenging. It's the age-old story of the stoner genius and the promiscuous gen ed student drunkenly hooking up and missing the evacuation of Earth. It's also a Terminator parody, kind of. Tune in to learn everything you need to know about Jonathan T. Baker and Bo D.'s 2019 experiment, MANIFEST DESTINY DOWN: SPACETIME.

What happens when the world's silliest movie premise begins to mirror real-life events after the film was written? In this bizarre case of art imitating life imitating art, Aaron and Jimmy discuss the widely maligned Purge franchise and why it's okay to not always be so deep. We've got a full tank of gas and we're headed for the border as we discuss Everardo Gout's THE FOREVER PURGE.

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Minotaurs and moon landings? This week, Lo & Mo go down the fascinating and occasionally frustrating rabbit hole of conspiracy theories surrounding Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. Hope you packed an overnight bag, because today, we'll be staying in Rodney Ascher's ROOM 237.

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