Tim and Jen shred a selection of programs from awful neolib also-ran streaming service, Apple TV+!

Have you seen…Tim’s website? 

Jen alludes at one point to the “Unicorn Killer,” Ira Einhorn. He claimed to have helped found Earth Day, but his account has been disputed. Conservatives still love to evoke him as emblematic of leftist depravity. He died in prison in 2020. 

Jen also touched on the much-muddied concept of "emotional labor," as originally described by sociologist Arlie Hochschild. Read Sharmin Tunguz's article on how the term has been misappropriated.

When emotional labor has left the professional sphere and has entered the domestic realm; when it is used to describe a household list of domestic chores, whether or not those chores are done happily or grumpily, it has become diluted to the point of being in danger of losing its meaning. Yes, women do tend to shoulder more emotional labor in the workplace, and more attention on its health and professional repercussions means more attempts to alleviate it. But when contexts morph, and meanings change, are we still talking about the same thing?
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Jen welcomes Julie once again to talk about the historical background of a phantasmagoric Ken Russell favorite, Gothic!

The movie Jen fails to identify is, of course, Catherine Breillat’s 2004 Anatomy of Hell, starring Amira Casar and Rocco Siffredi.

Thomas Dolby enlisted vocalist Timothy Spall (!) for a song inspired by the film Gothic, “The Devil is an Englishman”

Hear Steve Hackett’s cover of “The Devil is an Englishman” from his 2003 album, To Watch the Storms.

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Matt Christman makes a triumphant return to the show to hold forth on the finest American film ever made, Nothing But Trouble!

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You can also hear our earlier take on Nothing But Trouble with guest Mike Rosen aka @ bitterkarella on Twitter! 

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Jen and Tim talk about a movie that people still like to misinterpret wildly even twenty years later: Fight Club!

Read Alexander Walker’s excoriating review from the Evening Standard.

'The movie gradually makes its analogy with Nazi Germany even more overt. Pitt and Norton raid liposuction waste dumpsters at night, retrieving “the richest cream fat in the world”, that’s been siphoned out of the obese, and rendering it into red soap tablets they then flog to exclusive boutiques. It’s unbelievable any film would dare use, even as such a sick gag, a sequence reminiscent of that chapter of the Holocaust in which Nazi thoroughness rendered the Jews down into similar, no doubt less pricy soap bars. But Fight Club has no reticence, no memory, no shame.'

The performance artist Tim mentioned is Emma Varker.

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Matt Christman makes a triumphant return to the show to hold forth on the finest American film ever made, Nothing But Trouble!

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Jen welcomes Julie (@ chimericalgirl1 on Twitter) to celebrate an almost entirely forgotten erotic thriller with art house ambitions, Siesta, from 1987. This one’s quite overlooked in spite of a stacked cast that includes Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Jodie Foster, Julian Sands, Grace Jones, and Alexei Sayle.

We admit, this one’s hard to track down unless you’re willing to hunt for PAL and/or bootleg DVDs, but you can hear some of the sultry Miles Davis/Marcus Miller soundtrack! 

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Tim and Jen welcome show mascot Bitter Karella to talk about George Romero’s melancholy 1976 vampire masterpiece, Martin.

Some exciting news that broke the day we recorded this episode— the 3-hour black-and-white director’s cut of Martin has been found!

Check out Karella's satirical horror microfiction account Midnight Pals on Twitter, as well!

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Jen and Tim discover two Arkansas originals: The Town That Dreaded Sundown from 1976, and indie film pioneer Charles B. Pierce!

Amanda Squitiero, daughter of Charles B. Pierce, corrects some misconceptions about him in this fine article from Filmmaker magazine.

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Tim and Jen confront the most infamous mondo film of all time, Faces of Death!

Faces of Death may be viewed in its entirety on Tubi.

Echoing Jen’s experience in high school auto safety, two students were traumatized after their math teacher showed the film in class in 1985:

“The people at the table,” says Forget today, “beat this monkey over the head with a hammer until it died. Then they cut the top of its head off and ate its brains.” As an animal-lover, she found the film deeply disturbing and asked to leave. Mr Schwartz said no and when Feese also tried to go, he forced her to sit down, grabbing her chair and spinning it aggressively towards the screen.

Schwarz was disciplined, but with only a 15-day suspension without pay.

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Jen and Tim catch up on a definitive Nicolas Cage performance in the cult film and meme template Vampire’s Kiss!

Read the evidence that Vampire’s Kiss writer Joseph Minion plagiarized much of After Hours at Andrew Hearst’s blog.

https://andrewhearst.com/blog/2008/05/the-scandalous-origins-of-martin-scorseses-after-hours

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