In this episode, we review summer stalker film MaXXXine and opine about our favorite blondes, Joni Mitchell, and the undersung genius of B-list actor Bobby Cannavale—as well as share some riveting ideas for a millennial remake of Stephen King's literary horror, The Shining.

In this week's episode, we discuss our favorite events from the Paris Summer Olympics, including unexpected love stories, biological mishaps, hazardous waste, and epic fails.

In Episode 15, we review the new dada thriller Longlegs and discuss apocalyptic movie theaters, Nicolas Cage, washed-up clowns, an obsession with faces, the perfect dinner party, and the haunting of the parasocial.

We discuss a book that's wet all the way through—Jessica Au's Cold Enough for Snow—and cover the agony of human eros and mountain eros, the weirdness of parents, family, the impossibility of knowing anyone fully, and, finally, Leah's conspiracy theory about the latest news.

In this episode of The Ritter, we share some recent, revealing dreams, cover Mormon and German news, do a deep-dive on our tattoo preferences, and play a little game called "What if I Did This." We also discuss Kristen Stewart's dream-come-true and her directorial debut, Come Swim. 

In Episode 12, we bring you an important PSA on food safety and discuss the foxy boxers that populate Rita Bullwinkel's new novel HEADSHOT, plus nuns, enemies, girl mythology, the homosociality of female lineages, and why water is the strongest force. Happy Cancer Season!

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"It is so much to ask of someone, to sit with your fiction, and so I am hyperaware of the need for brevity and momentum." - Rita Bullwinkel via The Paris Review

"I think it allowed for me to depict a different kind of intimacy, which is the unique physical intimacy of sport....they’re engaging in a form of agreed physical intimacy that’s actually much more complex than acting out some type of sexual desire." - Rita Bullwinkel via Electric Lit

We kick off Season 2 with our take on the sweatiest sports movie we've ever seen—Challengers—and discuss the rise of the Rodent Man, sexiness, relational clichés, Serena Williams' sick tennis burns, and what makes the perfect three.

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"I made a point that I had to be really dealing a lot with the fragility, the tactility and the sensuality of bodies. But I think it’s a mistake for a filmmaker to see a body as solely sensual: there is also movement, interaction, physicality and the clash of bodies." - Luca Guadagnino via Little White Lies

In our season finale, we discuss the media trend of aesthetic lesbians gone wild, the soon-to-be cult classic Love Lies Bleeding, and Kristen Stewart, Katy O'Brian, and the dismantling of the lesser Franco....as well as box gyms, 80s workout gear, repetition and failure, The Ritter's hot hot summer plans, and extreme hair cutting as a sport.

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"In my head, I see this as a cosmic love story and that these two little sort of aliens can find each other." - Rose Glass, director of LLB, via RogerEbert.com

"There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange." - Elias Canetti