Juvenalia

Juvenalia

By Tall TalesArts
Download on the App Store

Juvenalia episodes

  • 8: Scream with Louise Bruton

    Journalist and Legless In Dublin creator Louise Bruton joins Alan & Ellen to talk about Wes Craven's Scream.

    We're also joined by Louise's dog Harry who can be heard voicing his appreciation for the combination of vulnerability and humour that Neve Campbell brings to the role of Sidney. We also talk about Kevin Williamson's vast pop culture empire, the Scream quadrilogy in general, the death of teen movies, why is modern horror so grim, fake blood, meta jokes, the 90s, the career of Matthew Lillard, Courtney Cox's brilliance as Gail Weathers, and loads more. Louise also has lots of Scream fun facts to drop on us. It's a fun one. Enjoy. 

    Follow Juvenalia on Twitter 

    Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

    This episode was produced by Alan Bennett and Alan Maguire
    This episode was sponsored by Bunsen.

    54 min
  • 7: Dirty Dancing with Louise McSharry

    2FM DJ and writer Louise McSharry joins Alan Maguire and Sarah Maria Griffin to talk about 80s CLASSIC Dirty Dancing.

    We brought a wide range of Dirty Dancing experience to the episode. Louise has seen Dirty Dancing many, many times. Alan saw it once when he was like eight or nine. Sarah watched it for the first time that morning. Did she like it? Have a listen and find out.
    What else did we talk about? Good question. We talked: a lot about how dreamy Patrick Swayze is. A lot. A whole lot. About being too young to watch Dirty Dancing, about our respective weddings and the kinds of dancing we got up to, about plastic surgery, about fictional summer camps, about music, about The Fountainhead, and many other things. 

    Hey, if you’ve read this far then maybe consider subscribing and leaving a rating or review on iTunes? That’d be nice of you. Follow Juvenalia on Twitter  

    Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

    This episode was produced by Alan Bennett

    56 min
  • 6: Jurassic Park with Emer McLysaght

    Oh My God What A Complete Aisling co-author Emer McLysaght joined Alan Maguire and Ellen Tannam to talk about Jurassic Park – the movie and the book, palaeontology, transition year work experience, the importance of posters, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, Lex, early 90s knock off merchandise, phone covers, entering competitions in women’s magazines, Gilmore Girls, and loads more. It’s a fun hour. The fantastic twitter account we were talking about near the end is @TheTimMurphy. Ok, see you next time! Bye!

    Follow Juvenalia on Twitter 

    Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

    This episode was produced by Alan Bennett

    56 min
  • 5: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with Sinéad Burke

    Academic and writer Sinéad Burke of Minnie Mélange joins Alan and Sarah Maria Griffin to talk about the many ways in which Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has been a part of her life. We talk about pantos, romantic gestures, Sinéad’s amazing parents and family, the Poll Tax, Alternative Miss Ireland, Willow, Representations of little people in the media, making some of the seven dwarfs female, female friendship in Disney films, The George, Pantibliss, Peter Dinklage, Warwick Davis, Pierce Brosnan, Pixels, Snow White and the Huntsman, Maureen Grant, The Olympia, how casting people of average height as little people is stupid and offensive, and loads and loads about Sinéad Burke and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. ENJOY

    Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

    59 min
  • 4: Ghostbusters with Giles Brody

    Giles Brody of The Mess Around and The Sunday Sermon Podcast talks to Alan and Ellen Tannam about Ghostbusters. At least that was the plan. It turned into more of a Ghostbusters-themed chat. We enjoyed it though, hopefully you will too. We talked about a lot of things including bingo playing taxi drivers, Eddie Murphy, Nas, John Belushi, Animal House, Michael Cera, Be Here Now, Crystal Skull Vodka, The House of Blues, Giles’s New University, Horses, Rick Moranis is sound, Ellen Hates Garry Shandling, celebrity atheism, Bill Murray several times in various ways, Groundhog Day, Harold Ramis, A Tom Cruise Film That I Refuse To Check The Name Of, creative partnerships, A phonecall from Sarah Silverman, meeting your heroes, Thom Yorke, funny people with guns, Micallef, Donegal People, the real reason Michael Collins was killed, De Valera, Cathal Brugha is hardcore, army friends, short men, Home Alone, visa issues, Problem Child 2, the new Ghostbusters movie, and loads of other bits. 

    If you’ve read this far then why not subscribe to Juvenalia on iTunes or Stitcher, maybe even leave a review? Or not, it’s fine, I don’t want to be a burden.

    Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

    1 hr 15 min
  • 3: Beauty and the Beast with Jeanne Sutton

    Writer Jeanne Sutton joins Alan Maguire and Sarah Maria Griffin to talk about Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. We have a good long chat about things like, but not limited to, Disney On Ice, big books, romance novels, problematic favs, Lena Dunham, angry wardrobes, if you were Belle would you stay in the castle, Twitter beefs, DVD commentaries, Les Miserables, The 10th Kingdom, The Wolf Among Us, Jupiter Ascending, which version of the Beast is the sexy beast? is Sarah Maria Griffin a furry? Shrek, Angela Carter, Bluebeard, Tom Hiddleston, Disney cruises, Stockholm Syndrome, the Good Nazi narrative, Inspirational Romance Novels, Bollywood, and giving Zach Snyder’s money to women. A busy episode I’m sure you’ll agree. 

    Thanks for listening btw! It means a lot. If you subscribed and rated or even reviewed us on iTunes it would be amazing. Ok thanks, bye. 

    Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

    1 hr 13 min
  • Minisode | A Dramatic Reading of R.L. Stine’s Beach Party | Chapter One

    Welcome to the first of the Juvenalia minisodes. In this minisode, Alan Maguire and Ellen Tannam do a dramatic reading of chapter one of R.L. Stine’s Point Horror classic, Beach Party. More chapters will follow in future minisodes. Alan and Ellen have never read Beach Party and are excited to see where this all leads. Not much more to say about this one really. Enjoy. 

    Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

    13 min
  • 2: Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue with Damon Blake

    Alan and Ellen talk to comedian Damon Blake of Fox and Blake about the mind-bending 1990 anti-drugs cartoon Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue in which The Smurfs, Alvin & The Chipmunks, Alf, Garfield, Winnie The Pooh, Slimer, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Muppet Babies, and Bugs Bunny team up to convince a drug-taking teen to change his ways. It’s powerful stuff. 

    We cover a lot of ground in this episode including drugs, Michelangelo’s appeal to at-risk kids, Australian prime ministers, single-sex Catholic schooling, The Pioneers, The Fáinne, Tallaght Leisureplex, the debauched secrets of the voices behind your favourite cartoon characters, Disney Cruises, the catchiest anti-drugs song ever, the tragedy of Lorenzo Music, and the effectiveness of the war on drugs. Enjoy and remember that only losers and cool people do drugs. 

    Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

    Mixed and edited by Alan Bennett

    45 min
  • 1: The Fifth Element with Sarah Maria Griffin

    Alan Maguire and Ellen Tannam talk to writer Sarah Maria Griffin about a film that was important to her as a teenager, The Fifth Element. 

    Questions asked and answered in this episode include: Is The Fifth Element a noir? Who would we cast in a gender-swapped The Fifth Element? Is Ruby Rhod a queer icon? Is Bruce Willis a hot dad? Could The Fifth Element be made today? Is it weird and cool that Ellen and Sarah had never met before this episode but have something very important in common? How did Sarah turn some of the issues with being a Woman Who Likes Sci-Fi on their head while writing her first novel Spare And Found Parts? Is there really any need to watch Breaking Bad or True Detective? How strong are Alan’s keratin levels? Also, Jean Paul Gaultier, Bruce Willis’s Disney Sex Thriller, Zelda, Twin Peaks, home cinemas built by dads, CAPITALISM, and loads more. We had a Very Good Chat as they call it in formal chat circles. That’s the official term for it. I checked. 

    This is the first episode of Juvenalia. If you enjoyed it then why not subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher or similar? We’ve got some very cool, interesting people coming in to talk about pop culture that was important to them when they were young in upcoming episodes including Damon Blake, Jeanne Sutton, Sinéad Burke, Giles Brody, Emer McLysaght, Louise Bruton, and lots of other people that Alan follows on Twitter and wanted an excuse to hang out with briefly in real life. Ok, thanks for listening. bye for now, see you soon. 

    Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell

    Mixed and edited by Alan Bennett

    46 min

About Juvenalia

From the publisher's feed

Juvenalia is a pop culture nostalgia show where Alan Maguire, Sarah Maria Griffin, and Ellen Tannam invite interesting people to tell them about something they were obsessed with when they were young; how they felt about it then and how they feel about it now. We've talked about books, films, tv shows, musicians, computer games; we're interested in it all! It's nice, you'll like it.