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We're back for 2025! Please excuse this delayed new year's episode (and the subpar sound quality... entirely Hanaa's fault). A lot of... things are happening so we hope this episode can bring at least a bit of levity to our friends'/listeners' lives.

remus is back and we recapped the three weirdest movies we each watched in 2024:

Dream Scenario (2023)
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
Piece by Piece (2024)
Dahomey (2024)
Megalopolis (2024)

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Hello again and welcome to Season 2 of the pod (Hanaa decided we're doing seasons now)! This belated Halloween episode was co-hosted by Hanaa's younger brother Taha! We watched the essential Nicolas Cage film Vampire's Kiss (1989) and talked preserving Over the Garden Wall, Hanaa's obsession with the earlier Nic Cage feature Moonstruck (1987), Sam Barlow's Immortality and the planned American Psycho remake.

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Happy Pride month from the podcast! For this very special episode Hanaa and remus watched the once legally fraught, playfully thoughtful and equally hilarious film The People's Joker (2022). remus eats, sleeps, dreams Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw The TV Glow (2024). Hanaa officially joins the Web Gang (THWIP THWIP) and remarks on how sand is having a big cinematic moment this year.

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We. Are. Back. remus and Hanaa watched Phil Tippett's grotesque labor of love Mad God (2022). Sometimes your child is an experimental stop-motion movie that took 30 years to make. Hanaa saw The Zone of Interest (2023) and thankfully no one was loudly eating chips in the theater. remus shares that they watched the indie darling Madame Web (2024) enough times for the both of them!

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Welcome back to It's Been Real Weird podcast! For the first episode of 2024 we watched Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008). remus and Hanaa reminisce on the early 2000s; a time defined by emo, Evanescence and John Kramer/Jigsaw's Home Depot patronage. Hanaa looks forward to the Sundance Film Festival and remus talks Pedro Almodóvar's All About My Mother (1999).

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Happy Holidays from It's Been Real Weird! For the last episode of the year we covered Divine Intervention (2002). It's a beautifully surreal and satirical film that evokes what it could mean to have the right to grow old in Palestine, despite the physical and existential threats posed by settler colonialism.

Spoilers!

remus indulged Hanaa and we spent way too long discussing May December (2023), which naturally led to Hanaa asking remus all about Riverdale.

Netflix: Palestinian Stories collection
Jewish Voice for Peace: FAQ
BDS Movement: Know what to boycott

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References:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41552396
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41689603
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/fq.2010.64.1.38

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Welcome back to It's Been Real Weird podcast! We couldn't watch Big Shark so we made an episode about Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) instead. Hanaa and remus remark on accidentally choosing another movie that features incest, and remus talks about this film's lovably deranged Catholic director Paul Morrissey. Hanaa talks about HBO's The Young Pope and remus shares about Nathan Fielder's latest show, The Curse.

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Happy Halloween and welcome to the first episode of It's Been Real Weird! Hanaa and remus introduce themselves, the podcast, and recap and discuss the body horror movie Society (1989).

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