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November 29, 2021 121 - Fight Club
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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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2 hr 5 min
November 22, 2021 120 - Nothing But Trouble with Matt Christman
Matt Christman makes a triumphant return to the show to hold forth on the finest American film ever made, Nothing But Trouble!

Want that feature-packed blu-ray? Get it at Shout Factory.

You can also hear our earlier take on Nothing But Trouble with guest Bitter Karella aka @ bitterkarella on Twitter!
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1 hr 9 min
November 16, 2021 119 - Siesta
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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1 hr 29 min
November 01, 2021 118 - Martin
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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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1 hr 23 min
October 25, 2021 117 - The Town That Dreaded Sundown
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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1 hr 18 min
October 18, 2021 116 - Faces of Death
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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1 hr 18 min
September 26, 2021 115 - Vampire's Kiss
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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1 hr 18 min
September 16, 2021 114 - TEASER - Loose Change
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Tim and Jen struggle to make sense of one of the most persistent cultural artifacts of 9/11, Loose Change, as well as the lasting damage done by the Bush administration.

View every edit of Loose Change (except the 2015 edition) at archive.org.
https://archive.org/details/loose-change-1st-cut

Watch Screw Loose Change, an exhaustive response to the second edition of Loose Change, at YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_QPNvKVBEk

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15 min
September 11, 2021 114 - Loose Change
Tim and Jen struggle to make sense of one of the most persistent cultural artifacts of 9/11, Loose Change, as well as the lasting damage done by the Bush administration.

View every edit of Loose Change (except the 2015 edition) at archive.org.

Watch Screw Loose Change, an exhaustive response to the second edition of Loose Change, at YouTube.
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1 hr 34 min
August 30, 2021 113 - The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
Jen and Tim revisit the greatest unfairly-cancelled single-season sci-fi western TV series of all time: The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.! If you thought we were going to say “Firefly” you have obviously never listened to our show before. Also Jen is finally able to air her feelings about Dixie for a mass audience. Spicy!

Check DVDTalk for information on the complete series on home media.
https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/22466/adventures-of-brisco-county-jr-the-complete-series-the/

Whether you lived through it or not, you can peruse the 1993-94 prime-time television lineup for yourself.
http://www.inthe90s.com/prim9394.shtml
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1 hr 55 min