The Swampflix Podcast

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss their favorite films of 2025

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0:00 Welcome

04:00 Honorable mentions

29:30 KPop Demon Hunters

39:00 Rats!

46:00 Weapons

53:00 Misericordia

1:02:08 The Ugly Stepsister

1:10:00 The Plague

1:22:00 Eephus

1:28:40 Marty Supreme

1:44:55 When Fall Is Coming

1:52:22 No Other Choice

2:04:22 The Phoenician Scheme

2:13:25 One Battle After Another

2:38:08 Box office

Boomer & Brandon discuss the Southeastern Film Critic Association’s awarded films of 2025, starting with Kleber Mendonça Filho's period-piece political thriller The Secret Agent

https://www.sefca.net/winners#/2025

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00:00 SEFCA's Top 10 Films of 2025

15:30 The Secret Agent (2025)

43:35 Best Actor

57:33 Best Actress

1:10:13 Best Supporting Actor

1:16:52 Best Supporting Actress

1:25:06 Best Ensemble

1:29:41 Best Director

1:35:54 Best Original Screenplay

1:42:27 Best Adapted Screenplay

1:50:26 Best Animated Film

1:56:53 Best Documentary

2:13:46 Best Foreign-Language Film

2:23:00 Best Cinematography

2:34:45 Best Score

2:39:52 Best Editing

2:45:07 Best Costuming

2:49:34 Best Young Performer

Brandon is joined by Pete Moran of the We Love to Watch to investigate the paranormal British tradition of broadcasting ghost stories on Christmas, courtesy of the BBC

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00:00 Merry Spooky Christmas

23:49 Ghost Stories for Christmas (1971-1978)

1:04:54 Other BBC ghost stories (2005-2025)

Boomer & Brandon discuss Powell & Pressburger's Technicolor opera The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

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00:00 Welcome

01:15 The Suspect (1944)

06:18 The King of Comedy (1982)

15:38 Marty Supreme (2025)

22:31 For Your Consideration (2006)

29:00 Abigail (2024)

37:12 Rabbit Trap (2025)

44:00 The Headless Woman (2008)

48:36 The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

52:24 America - Everything You've Ever Dreamed Of (1973)

56:51 Black Narcissus (1947)

59:50 The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

Brandon & Boomer catch up with older movies from some of this year's best directors, starting with Park Chan-wook's infamous gross-out revenge thriller Oldboy (2003)

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00:00 The year in review

39:18 The Colors Within (2025)

50:14 Resurrection (2025)

55:38 Hamnet (2025)

1:03:05 Oldboy (2003)

1:31:00 The Twentieth Century (2019)

1:49:00 Straight Up (2019)

2:13:33 Liz and the Blue Bird (2018)

Boomer & Brandon discuss the deadpan arranged-marriage horror comedy Sister Midnight (2025)

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00:00 New Orleans Bookfair

02:40 Star Trek

06:06 Went the Day Well? (1942)

09:00 Black Angel (1946)

11:04 Angel's Egg (1985)

15:00 Universal Language (2025)

23:00 Wicked - For Good (2025)

29:45 Friendship (2025)

34:11 The Running Man (2025)

40:30 Boys Go to Jupiter (2025)

46:06 Die My Love (2025)

50:35 Wake Up Dead Man (2025)

58:17 No Other Choice (2025)

1:08:22 Downton Abbey - The Grand Finale (2025)

1:10:51 Keeper (2025)

1:15:27 Sentimental Value (2025)

1:19:10 Alpha (2025)

1:24:46 Dracula (2025)

1:28:20 Arco (2025)

1:32:07 Lurker (2025)

1:38:48 If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025)

1:44:22 Sister Midnight (2025)

Brandon, James, and Britnee test the murky waters of made-for-Tubi movies, starting with the star-packed cult horror Hellblazers (2022)

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0:00 Welcome

02:27 Basket Case (1982)

04:36 Materialists (2025)

06:47 28 Years Later (2025)

08:18 Boys Go to Jupiter (2025)

10:14 Demon Pond (1979)

16:18 Hellblazers (2022)

38:16 Love and Penguins (2022)

53:02 Unborn (2022)

1:01:07 Match (2025)

Boomer & Brandon discuss two different films that share the same title and director: Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) and its loose remake The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

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00:00 The Soup

02:50 KPop Demon Hunters (2025)

8:02 The Blue Gardenia (1953)

13:25 Erica's First Holy Sh!t (2022)

20:06 Cloud (2025)

26:40 The Mastermind (2025)

30:54 Eephus (2025)

37:00 Frankenstein (2025)

44:47 Predator - Badlands (2025)

52:32 Keeper (2025)

1:04:36 Materialists (2025)

1:10:15 Die My Love (2025)

1:14:12 Reflections in a Dead Diamond (2025)

1:17:48 Mr. Melvin (2025)

1:22:12 Sirāt (2025)

1:26:37 Twinless (2025)

1:33:00 The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934, 1956)

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna prepare for Thanksgiving by discussing movies about eccentric relatives, starting with Bill Forsyth's quirky-aunt period drama Housekeeping (1987)

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0:00 Welcome

02:54 Dead of Winter (2025)

06:23 Halloween hangover

12:44 Sorry, Baby (2025)

20:09 Masters of Horror (2005-2007)

24:04 Orgy of the Dead (1965)

28:07 Arabella - Black Angel (1989)

33:05 Housekeeping (1987)

1:00:30 Krisha (2015)

1:22:12 The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)

1:47:37 The Baby (1973)

Boomer & Brandon discuss the erotic alien-invasion horror Species (1995), starring Natasha Henstridge

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00:00 Welcome

04:20 Bugonia (2025)

17:08 Battle Royale (2000)

22:55 Death Metal Zombies (1995)

27:11 Interview with the Vampire (1994)

30:27 Corpse Bride (2005)

33:55 Frankenstein (2025)

36:00 The Plague (2025)

39:56 Frank Henenlotter

42:41 Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)

44:21 Return to Oz (1985)

48:41 Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

49:48 The Watcher in the Woods (1980)

52:17 After the Hunt (2025)

54:22 If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You (2025)

57:25 The Seventh Victim (1943)

59:02 Friday the 13th Part VIII - Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

1:09:00 Species (1995)

1:38:06 Species II - IV (1998 - 2007)