Beating a Dead Horse

What better way to kick off a month of movies that DON'T inspire existential dread than with Bill and Ted? But do they hold up as more than just relics of the time, or are they just neat little curios of the late 80s?

After two long weeks, we're back. And we're leaping back into it with a bang. We talk Parasyte, human babies, humanity, life, death, Wayne Gretzky and more. Notes: The Bodily Horror of Relationships by Sean Mekinda

Dumb Parasyte Meme

First and foremost: content warning. There's a lot of talk around sexual assault in this one, but its all fairly surface-level stuff. Be aware.

Second, we're back with another Lynch film! This time, we're exploring Blue Velvet, a movie that is surprisingly grounded. I mean, it's still a David Lynch, so it's obviously wild, but there's no alien baby so that's something.

Yeah, we said it. Kill Bill is bad. But it also is intentionally bad, and so it's actually good? At being bad? Look, its a loving send-up of all those old B-Movies and we really like it, alright?

Hey, Fincher's ZODIAC is pretty great, huh? And also way ahead of the curve with this (two-year-old) true-crime craze?

I mean probably not. But you wouldn't listen to something about Tokyo Story without some clickbait, would you? I mean, hell, we didn't even know what it was until a few weeks ago.

Now we do know, though. And we know its DAMN good.

This week we return to some sort of normalcy, in that we watched a dumb, schlocky movie that we both loved. But we also talk about the history of blockbusters and where they may have shifted.

We're wrapping Hitchcock month up with the one everyone knows, and neither of us enjoys. So listen in as we compare The Birds to Birdemic, debate the "themes" within, and wonder where it all went wrong.

We finally arrive at VERTIGO. Some call it the GOAT. Others call it overrated and too meta. Both are in this podcast.

Please don't yell at Sean too much for his bad opinions.

What can you possibly say about Psycho that hasn't already be said? Not sure, but we're gonna try anyway. Sean hasn't seen it before, so that may be interesting?