This week, El Rob Hubbard joins Greg on the pod to discuss new releases. First up, the Duke Johnson-directed, Charlie Kaufman-produced amnesia feature "The Actor" starts a limited run in theaters, Luis Buñuel's Mexican melodrama "El" gets a re-release from Janus, and "Rats!" invade your VOD screens. In physical media, Mondo Macabro brings us Indonesia's "Hungry Snake Woman," Arrow reissues its "Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe Set," and we look at 6 titles from Deaf Crocodile: new-to-Blu offerings of the Czech fairy tale "The Golden Fern" and the Irish folk horror "The Outcasts," along with a nifty slate of reissues in "Prague Nights," "Kin-Dza-Dza," "The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians," and "Zerograd."

Giles and Greg return to discuss the weird movie releases for the first week of March: A24's Zambian "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl"; Bruno Dumont's space spoof "The Empire" (with Van der Weyden and Carpentier); the notorious Bruce LaBruce creates another provocation with his sexually explicit "Teorema" variation, "The Visitor"; anime classic "Akira" in a special 4K steelbook edition; and the Blu-ray debut of Miyazaki-adjacent anime "Ghost Cat Anzu."

Giles and Greg are back to give you the skinny on a big week in weird physical media releases! Our excitement builds for Berlin Film Festival honoree "The Ice Tower", and gonzo comedy "Rats!" hits the big screen. Physical media sees the Criterion Collection get their hands on "Performance" (1970); the "Street Trash" 2024 remake shows up on North American Blu-ray; Deaf Crocodile uncovers another rarity in the French post-apocalyptic animation "Gwen and the Book of Sand"; and György "Taxidermia" Pálfi's underseen debut film "Hukkle" gets a re-release, as does Alex de la Iglesia's violent clown allegory "The Last Circus." Finally, we mention three real obscurities: the microbudget slime-eating artsploitation feature "Disembodied", 1984's absurdist kung fu comedy "Furious", and the zero-budget carjacker-from-Hell double feature "Jacker" and Jacker 2."

On Pod 366 this week: news about a new animation studio fronted by Masaaki Yuasa; Lucile Hadzihalilovic's "The Ice Tower" debuts in Berlin; a Slamdance preview focusing on "In the Mouth" and "Universe 25"; experimental sci-fi romance "Love Me" hits VOD; and a special edition Blu-ray release of vampiric anime "Kizumonogatari - Koyomi Vamp."

Our special Valentine's Day episode, with no sappy Valentine content to muck things up! Instead, Giles and Greg discuss weird movie news: a distribution deal for the surreal video game story "OBEX"; a crowdfunding campaign for the dark musical "The Slaughter Brothers' Dime Circus"; the theatrical release of Matthew Rankin's anticipated Winnipeg/Persian "Universal Language"; chimp musician biopic "Better Man" on VOD; four new-to-us 1980s Nobuhiko "Hausu" Obayashi movies releasing later this year; Godard's "King Lear" (1987) comes to the Criterion Collection; animated cat murder mystery "Felidae" out from Deaf Crocodile; cyperpunk feature "Pinocchio 694" hand the Roger Corman's 1981 production "Galaxy of Terror" hit 4K UHD.

In which Giles and Greg officially announce the nominees for the 2024-25 Weirdcademy Awards (public voting begins on Sunday, February 9th, at 366weirdmovies.com). Before the big reveal, we discuss five Sundance debuts we'll be looking for in the coming year ("By Design," "Dead Lover," "OBEX," "Rabbit Trap," and "The Thing with Feathers"), and the week's three significant physical media releases ("Twin Peaks: From Z to A," Andrei Tarkovsky's "The Sacrifice," and "Punch-Drunk Love").Errata:Greg gets Amanda Kramer's name correct the first time, but later calls her "Andrea Kramer"The name of the "Twin Peaks" Blu-ray box set Greg was trying to remember is "Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery," and it does not contain Season 3 of the series.

Join us for our sexiest episode ever, as we engage in a PG-rated discussion of a handful of X-rated movies. But first, Greg and Giles go through the week's child-friendly releases, with items like the post-apocalyptic A.I romance "Love Me"; the underground animation compilation "Death Laughs Among Us"; the "Hundreds of Beavers" Blu-ray; "Ghost Cat Anzu" on VOD; black, black comedy "Hippo" on Blu-ray; Michael Mann's infamous horror flop "The Keep" and Flying Lotus' surreal "Kuso" finally debuting on Blu-ray; and a new special edition of "Cannibal: The Musical." Then, dim the lights, pour yourself a snifter of Coke Zero, and shepherd the children out the window as Terri "Goregirl" McSorley joins Greg for Pod 366 After Dark, where we discuss three new Russ Meyer releases ("Vixen," Supervixens," and "Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens") and two sexy Mondo Macabro releases ("Girl Slaves of Morgana le Fay" and "Cafe Flesh"). Weirdness doesn't come more arousing than this.

Greg, El Rob and Penguin Pete discuss the career of David Lynch and what he's meant to us, for about an hour. Key takeaway: Lynch is better than peyote. Also, we breeze through this week's new home video releases: new 4K UHD's of "The Cell," "Kill Bill" Vol.s 1 & 2, and "The Substance"; Blu-rays of "Feed," "Love and Crime," and Guy Maddin's "Rumours"; Jamin Winan's "The Myth of Man" goes into relatively wide release; Sundance begins (with nothing currently on our watchlist); and the amateur oddity "Ed and Rooster's Great Adventure" comes out on VOD (Google Play is the only outlet we discovered).

Giles Edwards, "El" Rob Hubbard, and Greg Smalley reveal their picks for weirdest movies of the year and best weird movie of the year (there is a difference), then mash them up into a consensus top 10 Weird Movies of 2024 list. Which of the following shortlisted contenders made 2024's final weird cut?

Our first episode ever with two guests, as Vera Drew became available shortly before this episode was set to record. We include her interview as a bonus. Evan Marlowe talks to us extensively about the challenges of making his puppet horror film "Abruptio," followed by Vera Drew chatting about overcoming obstacles both legal and practical to make the trans-friendly superhero parody "The People's Joker." Before we get to the featured interviews, Greg and Giles discuss what's new in weirdness this week, including an announcement of the possibly surreal "Heads or Tails?" starring John C. Reilly as Buffalo Bill Cody; "Nyaight of the Living Cat," a Takashi Miike-led feline anime premiering in 2025; and Blu-rays of the Lego-animated Pharrell Williams musical biopic "Piece by Piece," the dubious "Joker 2: Folie a Deux," and a re-release of Ralph Bakshi's gritty underground animated classic "Heavy Traffic." Then the meat of the show: 40 minutes on "Abruptio" and 20 minutes on "The People's Joker," with restaurant recommendations for Anaheim, CA and Mokena, IL.