Twin Picks

Whether you're a thief in post-war Rome or a bratty bandit in 1990s Sydney, there's only one way to travel in style - get on your bikes and ride in this whimsical, bi-pedal episode! Vittoria De Sica and Brian Trenchard-Smith have both directed movies about the innate freedom and power of the bicycle, but only one can be awarded by the Twin Picks team. Hopefully Noah's traumatic childhood experience whilst trying to be an IRL BMX Bandit doesn't influence his vote...

TRIPLET IN THE ATTIC LINKS:
Meg's bike jam by Bombay Bicycle Club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFb86yrodxE
Eliza's bike jam by Mark Ronson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVELTxKRoHA
Noah's expanded Brian Trenchard-Smith cinematic universe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Trenchard-Smith

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NEXT WEEK: 'White Christmas' + 'Black Christmas'

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This episode tests the limits of how many times we can use the words 'volatile', 'vulgar', and 'Vaseline' in one hour. Noah, Meg, and Eliza disagree on whether Paul Verhoeven's 'Showgirls' is actually a genius satire of Hollywood ambition, or just a gross movie with too much sexual waterboarding. Then, we discuss and defend Demi Moore's widely loathed performance in 'Striptease'.

You can look but you can't touch our most EXPLICIT episode yet, which features celebrity name-dropping and mention of a cockroach in yoghurt (not a euphemism). THRUST IT!!! THRUST IT!!!!! THRUST IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TRIPLET IN THE ATTIC LINKS:
Meg's sex-positive Pacino movie 'Carlito's Way': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlito%27s_Way
Noah's 'elegant' article by Paul Verhoeven: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/showgirls-paul-verhoeven-on-the-greatest-stripper-movie-ever-made-54740/
Eliza's undercover feminist investigation 'A Bunny's Tale': http://sites.dlib.nyu.edu/undercover/sites/dlib.nyu.edu.undercover/files/documents/uploads/editors/Show-A%20Bunny%27s%20Tale-Part%20One-May%201963.pdf

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NEXT WEEK: 'Bicycle Thieves' + 'BMX Bandits'

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Jambo! Noah, Meg, and Eliza compare the 'nasty, ubiquitous' Mean Girls to the more recent 'Superbad'-but-younger/'Booksmart'-but-boys flick Good Boys. Both movies are raunchy comedies for adults, set within the world of high school and elementary school, but one is an iconic movie that Meg saw when she was way too young, and the other kind of flew under the radar.

Listen in for Meg saying 'Mr Magorium's Magic Aquarium', Noah making a logical fallacy, and Eliza saying that a seven year old is hot! Or don't. Like, why are you obsessed with us?

TRIPLET IN THE ATTIC LINKS:
Meg's gritty NYC teen movie Kids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_(film)
Eliza's crushingly uncomfortable Eighth Grade: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7014006/
Noah's other 2019 woke comedy Long Shot: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2139881/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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It was Meg, in the Conservatory, with the Lead Pipe!!! This week, the team watched the Fincher-esque 2018 comedy 'Game Night', and 'Ready or Not', an eat-the-rich slasher currently in cinemas. Both movies follow loveable characters through a twisted maze of obstacles when a murder mystery night and a post-wedding game of Hide and Seek respectively go horribly awry, and it forces Noah, Meg, and Eliza to reassess the similiarities between comedy and horror.

Listen in, for some discussion of exploding heads, and light stanning of Samara Weaving and Rachel McAdams - the game is afoot!

TRIPLET IN THE ATTIC LINKS:
Meg's board game family bop Jumanji: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumanji
Eliza's ensemble murder mystery Clue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clue_(film)
Noah's romantic comedy board game Fog Of Love: https://www.fogoflove.com/

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The United States of this podcast are pretty divided this week, with Noah and Eliza forced to watch Antoine Fuqua's 'Olympus Has Fallen' and Roland Emmerich's 'White House Down'. The highly similar 'Die Hard but in the White House' films both came out in 2013, and both are super jingoistic and corny af; but Eliza liked one more, and Noah liked the other!!!

Without a third sibling to break the tie, how can the American spirit of freedom and individual enterprise (like, say, the right to make two IDENTICAL shitty action movies in the same year) prevail?

TRIPLET IN THE ATTIC LINKS:
Noah's national anthem fail compilations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XffxvV1PAEI
Eliza's Trump + minion trick o treater calamity: https://news.sky.com/video/halloween-candy-giving-president-donald-trump-meets-a-minion-at-white-house-11848249

Kristen Lopez's article on 'The Greatest Showman': https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-greatest-showman-fails-disabled-audiences-by-masking-pt-barnums-monstrous-past

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Kinda late but very great, it's Twin Picks’ first ever Halloween episode!!! Of course we watched Noah’s favourite movie of all time (John Carpenter’s 1978 proto-slasher 'Halloween'), but then we sweetened the deal with Mark Waters’ Disney body-swap teen classic 'Freaky Friday', an all-time classic in the Janssen household.

What gave us more chills n thrills this spooky season - Michael Myers’ reasonless evil?? or Jamie Lee shredding the guitar solo in ‘Take Me Away’? Listen, and TREMBLE with fear!!

TRIPLET IN THE ATTIC LINKS:
Eliza's meme + FBi radio's interview with Jamie Lee: https://fbiradio.com/video-jamie-lee-curtis-chats-to-jack-and-andre-in-stack-formation/
Meg's bold choice for fave horror of all time, 'Midsommar': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vnghdsjmd0
Noah's 'empowering' 'Halloween' 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek1ePFp-nBI

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In the words of Destiny's Child, this week is all about 'Bills Bills Bills' - 'Billy Madison' and 'Billy Elliot', that is !!! We rewatched the Adam Sandler vehicle and the British dance drama to figure out which Billy goes through a more compelling transformation from boy to man, through the power of stupid physical comedy and ballet respectively.

There's even a special celebrity guest appearance from an ACTUAL irl Billy - so listen in, cos we made it extra sloppy for ya!

TRIPLET IN THE ATTIC LINKS:
Meg's Northern Irish coming-of-age show Derry Girls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry_Girls, available on Netflix
Noah's 'terrific' Billy Elliot: The Musical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoAOc6YsNDQ&list=PLmYV71dBeHlZLFuywkGqbRYcXOB4PhVvf
Eliza's potentially cancelled Puffing Billy: https://puffingbilly.com.au/

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NEXT WEEK: Freaky Friday + Halloween 

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This week in A Podcast Named Twin Picks, we ride into New Orleans to talk about Elia Kazan's adaptation of 'A Streetcar Named Desire', before being plunged into a twisty discussion on hnnnggggg Woody Allen, since his 'Blue Jasmine' is a soft remake of the Tennessee Williams text too!

Is the team even equipped to talk about the whole 'important art. vs monstrous artist' debate? And who can do the best drawly Southern accent?

Dylan Farrow's open letter: https://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/an-open-letter-from-dylan-farrow/?searchResultPosition=2

TRIPLET IN THE ATTIC LINKS:
Eliza's 'Streetcar Named Marge' Simpsons episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Streetcar_Named_Marge
Noah's lost score for '2001: A Space Odyssey': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoAOc6YsNDQ&list=PLmYV71dBeHlZLFuywkGqbRYcXOB4PhVvf
Meg's favourite Tennessee Williams play 'Cat On A Hot Tin Roof': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_on_a_Hot_Tin_Roof

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NEXT WEEK: Billy Madison + Billy Elliott

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THIS IS THE GREATEST {PODCAST}! Noah, Meg, and Eliza sing and shudder through a discussion comparing Tod Browning's incendiary, complicated 'Freaks', and the 'made for Channel Seven ads' megamusical 'The Greatest Showman'; both movies take place at a circus sideshow and have uhhhhh mixed depictions of their 'freaky' characters.

FEAST YOUR EARS on a twisty discussion of disability and exploitation throughout the history of Hollywood film! SQUEAL at the whole family mispronouncing 'Zendaya'!! GASP at Meg defending 'Hey Soul Sister'!!!!!

TRIPLET IN THE ATTIC LINKS:
Meg's 'Zendaya is Meechee' Twitter meme: https://twitter.com/gabegundacker/status/1043666739274252288
Eliza's emo kid novel 'Geek Love': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Love
Noah's underrated musical 'A Christmas Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S03YbjWzos

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NEXT WEEK: A Streetcar Named Desire + Blue Jasmine

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This week the team drift into the depths of the human condition with the two Tokyo based/titled films ‘Tokyo Story’ and ‘The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift’. Which magnum opus better examines the importance of family? And is our sound engineer Anthony secretly an ex-member of The Teriyaki Boyz?
TRIPLET IN THE ATTIC LINKSMeg's Okonmiyaki recipe:
https://www.justonecookbook.com/okonomiyaki/Noah's ‘The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift’ drinking game:
- Drink when a woman in a short skirt bends over an engine
- Drink whenever somebody says “dump valve”
- Drink when a car is wrecked
- Finish your drink when someone talks about the transformative power of racingEliza's movie recommendation:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo!
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