Twin Picks

From the woozy height of romance in 1960s Hong Kong, to the depths of demonic depravity in one of Sutter Kane's pulp horror stories, this episode will have you In The Mood For uhhhh movies!! We succumb to madness with special guest Hersh Nevgi who's been meaning to watch Wong Kar Wai's celebrated 'In The Mood For Love' for ages, and then revisit the wildly entertaining but anti-climactic 'In The Mouth of Madness', from Noah's boyfriend John Carpenter.

In the end, isn't all love some form of crazy, Lovecraftian obsession?? PLUS! Wear headphones while listening to this episode for a special finger-clickin' good demonstration of polyrhythms from Anthony!!

TRIPLET IN THE ATTIC LINKS:
Eliza's other 'M'-centric movie, M: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_(1931_film)
Hersh's 'In The' album, Neutral Milk Hotel's 'In The Aeroplane Over The Sea': https://open.spotify.com/album/2jyvuEp4HePt3KTlXSYvMV
Meg's ol faithful 'In The Air Tonight' by Phil Collins: https://open.spotify.com/album/1cM3r0WQZWNkCpEbmFjLln?highlight=spotify:track:18AXbzPzBS8Y3AkgSxzJPb
Noah's Lovecraftian card game Arkham Horror: https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/arkham-horror-the-card-game/

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NEXT WEEK: 'Pumping Iron' + 'Pain and Gain'

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COCK A DOODLE DOOOO it's breakfast time! Get dressed and sit down at the kitchen table for your choice of Meal A; 'Breakfast At Tiffany's', an airy retro confection powered by Audrey Hepburn's innate charisma, or Meal B; the passionate yet flawed 'The Breakfast Club', John Hughes' teen ensemble drama about a bunch of mismatched kids either learning to love each other and themselves, or learning how to fake that empathy even more.

The first is like a delicate Parisian omelette that kinda melts apart the more u fiddle with it; the second is more of a full breakfast buffet with some components of your plate more thought out than others. Like the tomato is really well roasted but the avo is kinda brown???? Whatever, eat up and let us know which beloved, angst-driven dorm room poster classic deserves the crown.

TRIPLET IN THE ATTIC LINKS:
Meg's moon-eyed 'Moon River' cover by Frank Ocean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXiFHDfvn4A
Noah's sad look into breakfast cereal reviews, 'Breakfast With Eric': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v92MtHhw2Jo
Eliza's painful but delicious Milo cereal: https://www.amazon.com/Nestle-Milo-Breakfast-Cereals-330g/dp/B0093MVGWW

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NEXT WEEK: 'In the Mood For Love' + 'In The Mouth of Madness'

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It's Valentine's Day this week, and we're noticing tens tens tens across the board in both of our romantic-comedy classic picks. First, Noah challenges Heath Ledger's dreamy/clumsy performance in nineties teen Shakespeare remix '10 Things I Hate About You', then our special guest Emily SURNAME REDACTED walks us through more than ten things she loves about 'How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days', potentially her favourite movie of all time.

Listen to this episode before making some pesky Valentine's Day bet that you can woo that difficult/shrewish love interest you've been eyeing off - hopefully we can change your mind before you're forced to publicly sing Carly Simon or Franki Valli at them!! xoxo

TRIPLET IN THE ATTIC LINKS:
Noah's Valentines' Day playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3rzEMiUdcLsG4tBtpZf1Jd
Eliza's other journalists-bet-on-romance pastiche Down With Love: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309530/
Meg's gender politics romcom/porn drama Don Jon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2229499/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Em's smart classic literature adaptation Clueless: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112697/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

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NEXT WEEK: 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' + 'The Breakfast Club'

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The family hits the runway with their very first special guest, musical theatre star Marty Alix (https://www.instagram.com/martyalixx/), and he’s brought two haute couture films with him! First we cast a withering, Streep-esque look at the feather-light but quotable chick flick ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ before delving into the kinky relationship between Alma and Reynolds in Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Phantom Thread’.

Each film stars a three-time Oscar winner as a perfectionist fashion mogul, but one is cerulean and the other's just blue. Listen in to find out more, ya fashion victim.

TRIPLET IN THE ATTIC LINKS:
Eliza's Iris Van Herpen Spring 2019 collection: https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/spring-2019-couture/iris-van-herpen
Noah's tale of fashion and identity obsession Vertigo: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/
Marty's Chanel seamstress documentary: https://www.chanel.com/us/fashion/news/2018/12/7-days-out-netflix-documentary.html
Meg's 'first fashion movie' Funny Face: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funny_Face

'And She Would Stand Like This' reading : https://antipodestheatre.com/and-she-would-stand-like-this

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NEXT WEEK: '10 Things I Hate About You' + 'How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days'

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US/USSR relations are getting strange, love, and the Janssens are here to probe behind the red curtain in their analysis of Stanley Kubrick's 'Dr Strangelove' and Sidney Lumet's 'Fail Safe', a pair of twin films from 1964 both based on a terrifying cold war 'what if'. The only problem is, one is a revered satire of power and impotence, and the other plays its plot of mutually assured destruction totally straight.

But maybe the 'boring' movie deserves some attention, too - can 'Fail Safe' be rescued from its reputation as an unfunny version of 'Dr Strangelove'? Some truth bombs are gonna be dropped. TUNE IN COMRADES

TRIPLET IN THE ATTIC LINKS:
Meg's funereal Johnny Cash cover of 'We'll Meet Again': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KodNFsP6r88
Eliza's tearful Janelle Monae bop 'Cold War': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqmORiHNtN4
Noah's OTHER movie podcast about 'Dr Strangelove' pfft traitor: https://www.earwolf.com/episode/dr-strangelove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb/

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NEXT WEEK: 'The Devil Wears Prada' + 'Phantom Thread'

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Put your paws up for the CATFIGHT of the century: Tom Hooper's musical failure 'Cats', and Jacques Tourneur's horrifying tale of repressed desire 'Cat People'. Let's be real Jellicles, only one of these movies has a chance at winning the siblings' vote this episode, BUT! The value of 'Cats' deserves to be seriously investigated, and Meg, Noah, and Eliza are brave enough to do it.

Both of these films feature cats as highly sexual and death-obsessed beings, but we can only choose one, so don't pussy out - make the Jellicle choice with us! M E O W

TRIPLET IN THE ATTIC LINKS:
Noah's article on a bad 'Cats'-centric shrooms experience: https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2020/01/03/a-conversation-with-the-guy-who-took-mushrooms-and-saw-cats
Meg's favourite cat performers Les Twins in concert with Beyonce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVnru1A9WFA
Eliza's pet cat Pearl. that is all.

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NEXT WEEK: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' + 'Fail Safe'

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We got 2020 vision, and this year's lookin so bright we gotta wear shades. To wrap up the last year in film and life, though, we first need to count down our top 5 films of 2019, as well as singling out the year's worst and most forgotten movies and best performances.

There's some very special guest picks and Meg saying 'I'm back on my shit' approximately 400 times - don't head into the next terrifying decade of life on this bitch of an earth without listening.

The full list of our 2019 picks will be available on Twin Picks Instagram + Facebook.

2019 TRIPLET IN THE ATTIC
Meg's potential tattoo inspo 'Be The Cowboy' by Mitski = https://open.spotify.com/album/653wRjqO0GOZPQPcXpeAXD
Eliza's most listened album of the year 'Norman Fucking Rockwell' by Lana Del Rey = https://open.spotify.com/album/5XpEKORZ4y6OrCZSKsi46A?highlight=spotify:track:3RIgHHpnFKj5Rni1shokDj
Noah's hilarious decade retrospective from Cole Escola = https://twitter.com/ColeEscola/status/1195759764845867013

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NEXT WEEK: 'Cats' + 'Cat People'

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To ring in the new year, we made an EXHAUSTIVE list of the best, worst, and most notable movies of 2019 - and we're taking an indulgent two-or-so hours to get through it all!

In this first of two installments, the team counts down from their top ten to their top sixth film of the year, while also covering categories such as most overrated, most underrated, favourite scene of the year, and favourite 'Shit But Good' film. Plus, a special guest appearance from our dad Erik Janssen! Noah's autotuned. Meg is feeling very attacked about her movie choices right now. Eliza sounds like she recently had a tracheotomy. HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS!

The full list of our 2019 picks will be available on Twin Picks Instagram + Facebook.

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NEXT WEEK: Picking Apart 2019 Part 2

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We got two Robert De Niro, time-traversing, auteuristic, upwards-of-three-hours-long gangster sagas here for ya, boss. Which one of them deserves to be crowned 'best sadboi mob epic', and which one is gonna be sleepin' with the fishes by the end of this episode?

The gang's all here in this mildly xenophobic episode, where Meg, Noah, and Eliza analyse this year's Scorsese flick 'The Irishman' and Sergio Leone's labour of love 'Once Upon A Time In America'. Take the podcast; leave the cannoli.

TW: sexual assault, violence, murder

TRIPLET IN THE ATTIC LINKS:
Noah's Nick Kroll skit and Corleone's Empire board game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVgMvJVTjFI + https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/195539/godfather-corleones-empire
Eliza's 'The Irishman' themed dinner: bread dipped in wine + beer-steamed hot dogs + ice-cream sundaes + boozy watermelon cocktails
Meg's obvious AF 'Goodfellas': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodfellas

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NEXT WEEK: Picking Apart 2019 Part 1

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This year, Santa brought us TWO monochromatically-titled movies about the holidays, and it's up to three lil Janssen elves to decide which one jingled our bells more successfully!! We check out the timeless and surprisingly progressive 'White Christmas', a 1954 Bing Crosby musical, before taking things a bit darker with the 1974 quasi-feminist proto-slasher 'Black Christmas'.

Drop down our chimney this non-denominational holiday season and enjoy Meg being forced to sing way too many Christmas carols!!! She's audibly not having a good time!!! HO HO HO!!

TRIPLET IN THE ATTIC LINKS:
Eliza's 139-video long Xmas playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpkI7GW2V34&list=PLxCZu_T6u7IZQnHtvCiOw6oqGH4fYv4-J
Meg's miserable Black Mirror Christmas special: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3973198/
Noah's car park holiday horror 'P2': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2_(film)

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NEXT WEEK: 'The Irishman' + 'Once Upon A Time In America'

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