For our President's Day episode, Julia & Amanda of the Spirits podcast join me to celebrate / bemoan our independenCY!

Jane Dempsey returns to talk Tangerine, a Christmas movie for those of us who always have to work on Christmas.

Josh Hollis and I get our Santa hats on and talk about Christmas, film noir, the death of childhood, and gay detectives. Holiday theme: "If You Want It" by TV Girl (https://tvgirl.bandcamp.com/track/if-you-want-it-2) https://joshhollis.com/

Stage actor Larry Owens (Gigantic, A Strange Loop, Boys Who Tricked Me, Spamilton) joins me to discuss his favorite comfort movie, The Family Stone (2005). Featuring: "comfort movies," the mainstreaming of queerness & disability in the early aughts, and SJP's very un-Carrie awfulness. http://larryowenslive.com/

Gena Radcliffe of the Kill By Kill podcast joins me to discuss 1982's Cat People. http://apple.co/2dYM84b https://tuneintonight.wordpress.com/

Liz Watson (@watsontots) of the Women of the Hour podcast helps me establish another entry in the Kirsten Dunst canon, 1999's Drop Dead Gorgeous. buzzfeed.com/womenofthehour

Megan Sunday of Trapped in the Attic (https://trappedintheattic.wordpress.com/) joins me to pick over the gooey remains of Clive Barker's Hellraiser. Listen to Megan on the Lifemark podcast! http://eartrumpetaudio.com/?p=241

Julia and Amanda of the Spirits podcast join me to discuss gender bending, emotional men, Chekhov's tampons, and Channing Tatum, my adorable dancing son. https://www.patreon.com/spiritspodcast

Amy Pascale (TV Taught Me podcast) joins me to talk The Legend of Billie Jean, the feminist road warrior movie you always wanted. http://theamypascale.com/

Alexandra West (@ScareAlex) of The Faculty of Horror podcast joins me to talk about Cherry Falls (2000), a satirical, sexually-charged teen slasher film starring Brittany Murphy that almost never saw the light of day. http://www.facultyofhorror.com/