Join us this week for two somewhat incoherent musicals about the 1960s anti-war movement! Ten years ago when it came out someone pitched Julie Taymor's Across the Universe to me as "Like the anti-Hair" so obviously now that I have a podcast about watching two movies, we decided to put that reading to the test.

In which Hair manages to be both more and less coherent than its source material; Across The Universe's Jude may be our worst Bad Dude Lead yet; we discuss the relative depoliticization of both films; this whole podcast is Grease's fault; and we imagine the world in which Steve and Prudence are the heroes of their respective films.

Menu:

- Fancy canapes (ironically)

- Strawberries (unironically)

Interstitial music:

- The title songs from both films. I feel like I don't need to explain that.

- Draft Dodger Rag, Phil Ochs

Join us this week as we explore the vicious underbelly of Cool Teen culture with 2005's Mean Girls and 1989's Heathers. We look at how the two films do and don't represent our own high school experiences; why Mean Girls still resonates with Teens a decade later; how the melodrama of Heathers feels emotionally real; how teen movies changed between 1989 and 2005 (and how they didn't); and list a lot of favourite outfits.

Menu:

- Mock cosmos

- Hot dogs

- Protein bars

- Spaghetti with oregano

- A flight of shots, co-ordinated with your clique's outfits

Interstitial Music:

- David Bowie, Drive In Saturdays

- Kesha, Backstabber

- My Chemical Romance, Teenagers

- Rough Trade, High School Confidential

Join us this week as we pay tribute to legendary horror comics artist Bernie Wrightson with a look at 1957's Curse of Frankenstein and 1982's Swamp Thing. 

I did a lot of 'sending Dorian pictures to look at' this episode which is spectacularly bad radio, but here are the pictures so you can follow along--

Lab scene from Wrightson's Frankenstein

Clearly Universal Frankenstein-inspired Wrightson creation The Patchwork Man

Vlad Dracul's impressive moustache

Menu:

Colourful bubbly cocktails

Gimicky halloween party food

Cajun chicken salad

Psychotropic yams

Interstitial Music:

David Bowie, Drive In Saturday

New York Dolls, Frankenstein

Charlie Daniels Band, The Legend of Wooley Swamp

Oingo Boingo, Weird Science

This week, we decided to tackle Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Thelma and Louise, two very different films with the same ending. Join us as we overuse academic-type phrases like 'accepted response model' and 'construction of heteromasculinity'; go on a tangent about the price of wine; bring up Sondheim twice; contemplate what Thelma and Louise would look like with H. R. Giger influences; reveal which film scores figure skaters love; and watch characters written by William Goldman confront the inevitability of death.

Menu:

- Wild rice

- Papas rellenas, which we don't know how to pronounce but would like to eat right the fuck now

- All-day breakfast from a grungy diner

- Wild Turkey

- Margaritas

This week we explored the world of board game to film adaptations, with personal favourite and cult classic Clue (starring Madeline Kahn and Tim Curry) and the only other board game movie that came to mind, Battleship (starring Rihanna).

Mostly this episode is about how much we love Clue. Because we love Clue. 

Menu: 

- Brandy, preferably un-poisoned

- Soup

- Monkey's brains

- Whatever was trendy dinner party food in the 1950s

- editor's note: while editing I realised the obvious joke we had missed-- Herring

- Chicken burrito

- Hawaiian/Japanese-Hawaiian food

This week we watched two films made a year apart, with the exact same title. And the exact same premise: A man named Jack Frost gets killed in a car crash on Christmas and comes back to life as a snowman. Despite what Saoirse's childhood memories will tell you, only one of these is a horror movie. (The other, despite its bad critical reputation, is a perfectly adequate family movie starring a slightly-post-Batman Michael Keaton.) 

Menu:

- Coconut-oatmeal cookies, probably shaped into snowmen

- Snow peas

- Maple snow

- Not antifreeze

We were both deeply saddened by the loss of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds at the end of last year, so we decided to pay tribute in true Drive In Saturdays fashion: By revisiting their classic breakout roles and in the process admitting to the world what iconic and important films each of us had never seen. (Guess which one is which!)

This is a long one, and we get very emotional in the final section, so if you're just here for fun movie talk, we've got an hour and a half of that as usual and you are welcome to skip the last part.

Menu:

- Raspberry cream cake

- Astronaut ice cream

- Cinnamon rolls

...vs the first half hour of Howard the Duck.

If you've been having issues with our Christmas episode, the technical difficulty has now been resolved. So sure, we're late, but we're bringing you two new episodes!

Join us this week for our first-ever Drive In Saturdays failure, a film so bad we couldn't sit through all of it; the broader existential implications of Roger Rabbit; all the specific points of Wreck It Ralph that made Saoirse cry; ruminations on the mystery genre in general; and a brief but horrifying glimpse into a world made of flesh.

Menu: 

- Banana cream pie

- Bourbon

- Cherry pie a la mode

- Gingerbread cars

**** LINK FIXED ***

Director Bob Clark (and some of his colleagues) made two films with 'Christmas' in the title, about a decade apart.

They're uh.

Very different films.

Menu:

- Sherry

- Probably something cooked in sherry?

- Another trifle

- Turkey dinner

- Peking duck

For Dorian's birthday, we watched two of his favourite films, both released in 1950!

This week we mostly talk about actresses, including but not limited to:

- Fictional actresses portrayed in the films (Norma Desmond, Margo Channing, and Eve Harrington)

- Real actresses in the films (Bette Davis, Gloria Swanson, Anne Baxter, Celeste Holm, Nancy Olson, Marilyn Monroe)

- Real actresses who were almost in the films (Tallullah Bankhead, Mae West, Mary Pickford, Gertrude Lawrence, and a very surprising one I don't want to give away here)

- Actresses who have nothing to do with this film, we just like them (Patti LuPone, Elaine Stritch)

Menu:

- Champagne and caviar

- Cake

- Martinis

- Honestly, most of what people put in their mouths in these two films is booze and cigarettes