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GLORY & PROPAGANDA is July’s theme. That means wartime movies all month long and we got some 60s dadcool cinema to discuss today. Two fisted but not too “heel clickey” Robert Aldrich’s 1967 film “THE DIRTY DOZEN” holds solid ground in the history of good war movies. Lee Marvin plays Major Reisman, a not very well liked officer, who is assigned a dozen military prisoners who are set to either hang or serve hard time for acts of thievery, murder and rape. The goal is to parachute into France and kill a shit-ton of nazi officers the night before D-Day. Shooting nazis sounds fun but this is pretty much a suicide mission. Death by gallows or one last chance to die by glory. Reisman has to figure out how to unify these misfits even if one or two of them might actually be pretty terrible people. Every dad saw this 50 years ago but when a cast is stacked with the likes of Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Charles Bronson, Donald Sutherland, George Kennedy, Telly Savalas and plenty more, you can bet THE DIRTY DOZEN is a good time at any time. Check it out and hear us tell it. Also, you gotta check out the poster for this movie. It’s cool as hell. An all timer. 

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All July is movies at war, a theme we’re calling “GLORY & PROPAGANDA”. War films are movie genre that draws another specific sub-class of film that can also cross over with westerns. We’re talking about what we like to call “DAD BONER MOVIES”. I guess you could say “Dad Flicks” if you don’t want to be crude but what’s the fun in that? Think about your dad for a moment. Think about the movies he likes. The books and shows he like. Now picture your dad with a boner. It’s a lot easier than you think, isn’t it? Peter Weir’s adaptation of Patrick O’Brian’s Napoleonic War era nautical stories seemed to come and go rather quietly. With Russell Crowe at the lead it made a few bucks but didn’t inspire any sequels. “MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD” nevertheless found critical acclaim and a particular appreciation for the movie developing in hindsight from all the dads and their boners. They love this shit. Perhaps one of the all timer, underrated, more modern Dad Boner films and also kinda gay with Crowe and Paul Bettany looking absolutely wifed. That’s just that high seas shit. Peace and love to all the gay dad boners out there. Oh, shit! We found a link to the movie but I bet it gets taken down quick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5syct99MvVw

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This is a very patriotic month here in the United States so why not discuss war movies? GLORY & PROPAGANDA is July’s theme. Angela maybe isn’t going to have fun this month. It might be rough for Bob too but he actually likes sad dad-boner type movies. When you come up with Vietnam War movies in your mind, this might pop up fourth or fifth off the top of your head. This flick features Michael J. Fox in one of his most dramatic leads in his career. Many Vietnam War movies since “Apocalypse Now” proved to be quite successful but this 1989 film, “CASUALTIES OF WAR” by Brian De Palma did not napalm the box office and probably asserted Fox back into his more lighthearted fare that made him successful in the first place. Also starring Sean Penn, John C. Reilly, John Leguizamo and more. This film is based upon an actual incident of a regiments abduction, sexual assault and murder of a Vietnamese girl. The “Incident on Hill 192” was reported in the New Yorker but much of the names have been changed, including the title of the incident itself for whatever reason. Fox’s Private Eriksson strives to do what’s right despite not stopping what did occur. Will the military respond with charges against these men? When it’s all said and done, will it even matter? Vietnam movies can be brutal and this one is no exception.

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New month! New theme! July gets pretty explosive so why not talk about war movies all month? It’s a theme we’re calling “GLORY & PROPAGANDA”. We start it off with some proper classic American movie heroism and jingoism but be prepared for things to not tow such a patriotic line as we dive deeper into the horrors of war on film all month. Today, we can revel in some patriotism in a biopic about a classic American hero who happens to be Tennesseean just like the hosts of this show! Alvin York was a deeply religious man who didn’t even want to go fighting in Europe when the government came calling for the meat show. Fortunately, a bible verse about turning your holes out for Caesar talked him into killing A LOT of Germans and capturing several more. It earned York the Medal of Honor and this movie about him earned Gary Cooper, who played Alvin York, a best actor Oscar. It’s our third Howard Hawks flick, the 1941 hit “SERGEANT YORK” played by the aforementioned Gary Cooper who is, unfortunately, not gay. It’s too bad, really. He would have been a great secret Hollywood gay. Here’s the movie in color but we watched it in the original black and white: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5fXLdkrTdI

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Today we say goodbye to our annual MOVIES ARE GAY theme for June and it’s one of our favorite months. So eye opening. Sometimes hole opening. We’re coasting out strong with our last selection and it just so happens to be (I think) our first official musical and it’s one that took us by surprise waaaaay back in 2001 when we happened to lay eyes on it in our movie theaters and dorm rooms. It was intensely  appreciated in its time by a small audience but John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask’s undeniably entertaining rock musical has proven influential and enduring. Of course we’re discussing the 2001 queer cult classic “HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH” directed by John Cameron Mitchell and starring himself, Miriam Shor, Andrea Martin and Michael Pitt with music by Stephen Trask. A young boy growing up in East Berlin finds her way to America following a botched gender reassignment surgery. Hansel, now carrying her mother’s name, is alone in an isolating new world. She reinvents herself through music and falls in love. Of course it doesn’t work out so we come into the story of Hedwig through bitterness, salad bars and solid rock and roll jams. Will Hedwig find the fame that was stolen from her? Will she become what she was always meant to be? One way or another we all do. Shit, dawg, that’s deep ((hits blunt)). We got that Criterion up at the house but here’s a version we found online in Spanish: https://archive.org/details/Hedwig.And.The.Angry.InchAngeeParaZoowoman.website_201804 Don’t gat mad at us if it’s a dead link. You took too long. Go buy it. Stay gay.

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This month, movies have been gay to a variety of extremities with no shortage of themes of “suppression”. Well we’re throwing suppression out the window as well as anything having anything to do with polite society because we’re finally getting to a John Water’s film. John Waters and his eccentric Baltimore circle of friends and freaks had been making movies for a handful of years already, but when he finally released his 1972 film “PINK FLAMINGOS” upon the public, it represented a distinct point in his career. It’s a showcase of notorious Baltimore personalities that, quite frankly, seemed way more fun and accessible than those folks up in Andy Warhol’s Factory. This movie stars Divine, Edith Massey, Mink Stole, David Lochary and Mary Vivian Pearce. John Water’s philosophy of filth, as represented in Pink Flamingos, may be very unsettling at some points but you’ll be laughing twice as much a you’ll be wretching. It’s a war of filth and the god of filth is Babs aka Divine. Can try hard haters, The Marbles, even hope to out-filth the Queen? If you’re not a very political person and you’re looking from some ideology then look no further than this movie. Here’s a link we found: https://archive.org/details/pinkflamingos1972_202211

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We’re in our final stretch for June’s theme of MOVIES ARE GAY and we discuss one last classic film of subtext and suppression before we rip the mask off and step from the closet and into the light. It took us a long time to get to Elizabeth Taylor, who is the iconic starlet gay ally, and Marlon Brando who we would guess is probably “aggressively pansexual”. It seems like you could literally picture Brando doing any fluid or freaky thing, truly. This divisive, amber tinted, 1967 John Huston adaptation of Carson McCullers’ ‘REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE” probably deserves more attention just for the parody potential alone. Taylor and Brando are no strangers to playing pent up sweaty southerners, it seemed like Taylor’s thing for a while, but they’re all suppressed here on this military academy fort. Brando’s Major Penderton is so closeted that he can get off to looking at pictures of the statue of David. His wife could not have picked a worse husband but she gets hers from Brian Keith’s Colonel Langdon. Then you have Robert Forster playing a peeping tom. Julie Harris playing a mentally ill woman with a gay filipino companion who is easily the most unapologetically themself person in this whole movie. Montgomery Clift was supposed to play opposite Taylor but he passed away. RIP Montgomery Clift, you classic queen. We found this link to the movie with Spanish subtitles: https://archive.org/details/reflejos-en-un-ojo-dorado-1967-usa-john-huston-vose

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The lesbianism is in full effect for our second annual MOVIES ARE GAY themed month and there’s very few dogs around considering how many lesbians we’re seeing. We booked William Friedkin’s “Boys in the Band” but since Bob double booked Friedkin (see/hear our discussion on CRUISING available now) we decided to postpone the boys and hit up only our third 2024 released film this year so far. We love some neo-noir scuzz and Rose Glass’s second feature film delivers some real desert grit. Jackie, a body building drifter, rolls into town and very quickly makes a connection with Lou, a troubled lesbian who runs the local gym. Lou’s dad is a dirtbag, her sister gets beat up by her dirtbag husband, she has a stalker on meth hounding her daily and now she’s in love with this bodybuilding babe. Can their romance overcome their troubled past? What are they willing to do for each other? Can they eventually shake their troubles and ride off into the sunset scott free? Of course it’s not easy but sometimes love is bigger than life. We’re talking “LOVE LIES BLEEDING” starring Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brien, Ed Harris, Dave Franco and Jena Malone. It just became available on rental and physical media should be available soon so get stretched and hear us tell of it.

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For our MOVIES ARE GAY theme this month we’re hitting up some extra Fassbinder just like Fassbinder himself hit up those extra party favors. We’re actually discussing Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film before he left us too soon at the age of 37. His 1982 film “QUERELLE” is adapted from the Jean Genet novel “Querelle in Brest” starring Brad Davis, Franco Nero and many more. A bisexual sailor in Brest, Querelle, kills a man over an opium deal. Querelle also gets railed by the man married to the woman his brother is fucking. He will also later fuck that woman. Everyone is pretty much gay in this movie except for, maybe, Lysiane who runs the bar. There’s a gay ship Lieutenant who records his poetic lusts for Querelle and the other sailors. Even the buildings are gay. Querelle shares murderous kinship with a fellow who stabbed his bully and this guy really looks a lot like Querelle’s brother. Seems like Querelle can pass some blame onto a poor sad gay sucker. Love won’t stop Querelle from being a dirtbag. Querelle’s gonna Querelle. My grandma used to say that when she would watch gay porn in the living room. We found this link to the movie with Spanish subtitles: https://archive.org/details/QuerelleRainerWernerFassbinder

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For this month’s theme of MOVIES ARE GAY shit can get sad. Today we’re discussing the best picture Oscar winner from 2016. This seems like one of the few best picture winners in the last decade that make sense. The nature of suppression comes up often in LGBTQ stories, especially when things get historical, but what balances Barry Jenkins film “MOONLIGHT” a little better than most is the convincing quiet tenderness. Like its main character, Little/Chiron/Black, this movie keeps a lot to itself. It’s got to be the quietest gay movie of all time. It stars Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Janelle Monae and the lead crosses generations with portrayals by Alex Hilbert, Ashton Sanders & Trevante Rhodes. Growing up gay in Liberty City, Miami in the middle of the crack epidemic isn’t easy but tenderness finds its way. Mahershala is great but the third act is definitely the best part.

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