Snails & Oysters

CONTENT WARNING

This episode contains extended conversations about sexual assault.

Unfortunately, due to professional and personal commitments, we've decided to conclude Snails & Oysters – for now at least. It's a series finale* because we both love this project and hope to bring it back one day. Until then, we've chosen a barnstormer of a movie to go out on: 1991's crime dramedy Thelma & Louise, starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis as the titular best friends, accomplices, and doomed lovers.

Eyebrow Cinema, "Indiana Jones – the Face of Jewish Vengeance:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVZg5j8vg70

Find Snails & Oysters bonus content and Nat's continuing film diary at gnatroberts.substack.com

Follow us online:

Alli Rogers: letterboxd.com/allirodgers

Nat Roberts: letterboxd.com/GnatRoberts

Our theme song is Gumballs by Billy Libby: instagram.com/fortgorgeous

And our cover art was designed by Abby Austin: instagram.com/abigailbaustin

SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY...

In their last episode of 2022, Nat & Alli take it easy with a nice light Wes Anderson movie about... a broken family of egomaniacal has-beens, neurotic eccentrics, and semi-incestuous geniuses. Just in time for Christmas! The Royal Tenenbaums may have launched Anderson's mainstream success, but how does it hold up 21 years later? How does it handle Margot's bisexuality? And most importantly, why is Alli suddenly obsessed with AI?

Support Snails & Oysters on Patreon: patreon.com/snailsoysters

Follow us online:

Snails & Oysters is no longer on Twitter, please bear with us while we figure out alternative social media arrangements

Alli Rogers: letterboxd.com/allirodgers

Nat Roberts: letterboxd.com/GnatRoberts

Our theme song is Gumballs by Billy Libby: instagram.com/fortgorgeous

And our cover art was designed by Abby Austin: instagram.com/abigailbaustin

Post-credits Nat here again: Thank you all for making 2022 such a wonderful year! We're off the rest of the month but will be back to our regular release schedule on January 12th. I'd love to tease what movie it will be, but to be honest we haven't picked one yet. Happy holidays!

Bust out your normcore, Nat & Alli are taking it back to 2010 with modern high school classic Easy A. Directed by Will Gluck and written by Bert V Royal, Easy A pays loving tribute to John Hughes and his contemporaries, rips shamelessly from John Hughes and his contemporaries, and talks a lot about John Hughes and his contemporaries. But is this a frankenstein of pop culture references or a member of a proud legacy? A progressive critique of patriarchal sex-shaming or simply a palatable parable on gossip?

Support Snails & Oysters on Patreon: patreon.com/snailsoysters

Follow us online:

Snails & Oysters is no longer on Twitter, please bear with us while we figure out alternative social media arrangements

Alli Rogers: letterboxd.com/allirodgers

Nat Roberts: letterboxd.com/GnatRoberts

Our theme song is Gumballs by Billy Libby: instagram.com/fortgorgeous

And our cover art was designed by Abby Austin: instagram.com/abigailbaustin

Post-credits Nat again: Man, I was so embarrassed when I posted Chasing Amy a week early, did y'all see that? Holy shit, I have not made a mistake like that before and I was FLUSHED. I was just in such a rush to get the episode edited on time! Overcompensated.

It's finally here. The movie you've been waiting for us to tackle and we have been avoiding like the plague. The bisexual's blight: Chasing Amy (1997). Of course, that's not what writer-director Kevin Smith set out to do, but BOY HOWDY it is what he did. Get the popcorn, this is one of those "Nat and Alli get mad" episodes.

Autostraddle, "My Rage at 'Chasing Amy' Helped Me Find My Bisexuality:" autostraddle.com/my-rage-at-chasing-amy-helped-me-find-my-bisexuality/

Support Snails & Oysters on Patreon: patreon.com/snailsoysters

Follow us online:

Snails & Oysters is no longer on Twitter, please bear with us while we figure out alternative social media arrangements

Alli Rogers: twitter.com/allinotallie

Nat Roberts: letterboxd.com/GnatRoberts

Our theme song is Gumballs by Billy Libby: instagram.com/fortgorgeous

And our cover art was designed by Abby Austin: instagram.com/abigailbaustin

Post credits Nat here. I'm moving into a new apartment next week and I'm very excited!!

Who thought an Election Day special was a good idea in year of our Lord 2022? Only Nathaniel Grant Roberts, aka Booboo the fool. Join Booboo and Alli as they discuss Otto Preminger's capable adaptation of author Allen Drury's "conservative, paranoid fever dream" novel of the same name, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, and a million indistinguishable white men. This is one of those "you don't have to watch, just enjoy our frustration" episodes.

Support Snails & Oysters on Patreon: patreon.com/snailsoysters

Follow us online:

Snails & Oysters is no longer on Twitter. Until Alli and Nat find a social media platform that isn't run by a White South African fail-son/neo-Nazi, please share the show with your friends! That's always been better than any marketing anyway.

Alli Rogers: twitter.com/allinotallie

Nat Roberts: letterboxd.com/GnatRoberts

Our theme song is Gumballs by Billy Libby: instagram.com/fortgorgeous

And our cover art was designed by Abby Austin: instagram.com/abigailbaustin

Hey y'all, Nat's post-script again. I know I usually do a joke here, but I'm actually quite genuinely concerned that our show is going to suffer a lot without using Twitter to promote our episodes. There's nothing you need to do about that, really, I just had to tell someone. Whatever the cost, it was worth it to have a clean conscience and I have no regrets.

CONTENT WARNING

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This week, Nat and Alli are taking a cozy little jaunt up to Sweden. We'll look at the fjords, ride the metro, and definitely overlook the country's seething undercurrents of fascism, racism, and misogyny...

Just kidding, we're talking about David Fincher and Steven Zaillian's unflinching adaptation of Stieg Larsson's brutal mystery/social commentary, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). Starring Rooney Mara in the titular role as hacker Lisbeth Salander opposite Daniel Craig as journalist Mikael Blomkvist, Dragon Tattoo is a excoriating examination of Sweden's dark side – both its history of Nazi collaboration and its present mistreatment of women, immigrants, and the neuro-atypical. It's also a crackling thriller about two unusual investigators uncovering one family's extensive and often horrifying secrets as they unlock a 40-year-old mystery.

Videos we reference:

Lessons from the Screenplay, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — Breaking Convention:" youtu.be/yYMhaILOs-I

kaptainkristian, "David Fincher - Invisible Details:" youtu.be/QChWIFi8fOY

Patrick (H) Willems, "Why Is It So Hard To End A Trilogy:" youtu.be/MRoorGEwM9k

Support Snails & Oysters on Patreon: patreon.com/snailsoysters

Follow us online:

Snails & Oysters: twitter.com/SnailsOysters

Alli Rogers: twitter.com/allinotallie

Nat Roberts: letterboxd.com/GnatRoberts

Our theme song is Gumballs by Billy Libby: instagram.com/fortgorgeous

And our cover art was designed by Abby Austin: instagram.com/abigailbaustin

Hello my little darlings, thank you for joining me once again at the end of the episode description. God, my wifi is the worst, this is my third time writing this description because it just. Kept. Cutting. Out. before I could save. I have no request or anything this week, I just wanted to share my pain with you. - Nat

Nat and Alli kick off the countdown to Halloween right, by discussing Joel Schumacher's blood-soaked teen Vampire classic: The Lost Boys (1987). Although it's not explicitly bisexual, the film contains more queer eroticism than you can shake a stick at, particularly from Kiefer Sutherland as iconic bad boy David Powers. Along the way, we discuss 1980s paranoia around children, Schumacher's rollercoaster of a filmography, and what vampire stories can tell us about the culture that creates them.

The Atlantic, "The Lost Boys’ Subtly Radical Vision of Family" by Brandon Tensley: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/08/the-lost-boys-subtly-radical-vision-of-family/535266/

Support Snails & Oysters on Patreon: patreon.com/snailsoysters

Follow us online:

Snails & Oysters: twitter.com/SnailsOysters

Alli Rogers: twitter.com/allinotallie

Nat Roberts: letterboxd.com/GnatRoberts

Our theme song is Gumballs by Billy Libby: instagram.com/fortgorgeous

And our cover art was designed by Abby Austin: instagram.com/abigailbaustin

CONTENT WARNING: Suicide. If you or a loved one are struggling, call the new National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, 988.

Nat and Alli are delighted to be joined by video editor Annette Rainey to discuss 1961's The Children's Hour, starring Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine as small town schoolteachers who are ostracized after a student spreads the rumor that the pair are lovers. The film is adapted from the 1934 play of the same name by Lillian Hellman, an ill-tempered Stalinist blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Support Snails & Oysters on Patreon: patreon.com/snailsoysters

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Annette Rainey: instagram.com/annette.c.rainey

Snails & Oysters: twitter.com/SnailsOysters

Alli Rogers: twitter.com/allinotallie

Nat Roberts: letterboxd.com/GnatRoberts

Bisexual cups: instagram.com/bisexual_drinks/

Our theme song is Gumballs by Billy Libby: instagram.com/fortgorgeous

And our cover art was designed by Abby Austin: instagram.com/abigailbaustin

If you read this note, post a review that's the full first paragraph of your favorite fanfic.

It's not just a city in Florida anymore! Nat and Alli sit down to discuss Sally Potter's 1992 adaptation of Virginia Woolf's 1928 fantasy novel, Orlando. Tilda Swinton stars as both male and female versions of the titular immortal as they explore life, love, and poetry throughout European history. Orlando celebrates its 30th Anniversary this year, coinciding with this year's Venice Film Festival where Orlando Debuted!

Support Snails & Oysters on Patreon: patreon.com/snailsoysters

Follow us online:

Snails & Oysters: twitter.com/SnailsOysters

Alli Rogers: twitter.com/allinotallie

Nat Roberts: letterboxd.com/GnatRoberts

Our theme song is Gumballs by Billy Libby: instagram.com/fortgorgeous

And our cover art was designed by Abby Austin: instagram.com/abigailbaustin

Continuing my experiment to see if anyone reads the full episode description. If you read this, leave a review of this show that's just describing Billy Zane's lips, preferably a five star review (for the show, not the lips).

Nat & Alli are joined in the Snoysters studio by NYC playwright Victoria Provost to discuss Cloud Atlas. The Wachowski Sisters' and Tom Tykwer's 2012 adaptation of David Mitchell's 2004 novel of the same name, Cloud Atlas is a science fiction epic that blends six storylines separated by continents and centuries into the journey of a single soul/identity/consciousness. With an all-star cast all playing multiple parts, Cloud Atlas broke down the barriers between age, gender, and race, making it an audacious and justifiably controversial creative achievement.

Support Snails & Oysters on Patreon: patreon.com/snailsoysters

Follow us online:

Victoria Provost: twitter.com/shprinkles

Snails & Oysters: twitter.com/SnailsOysters

Alli Rogers: twitter.com/allinotallie

Nat Roberts: letterboxd.com/GnatRoberts

Our theme song is Gumballs by Billy Libby: instagram.com/fortgorgeous

And our cover art was designed by Abby Austin: instagram.com/abigailbaustin

I have a theory that no one reads past the links in the episode description. Like, you his hitting "...see more" and scrolling to the bottom. If you're reading this, prove me wrong by leaving us a review that's just 🥗 because I was high out of my mind when I wrote this description.