We're kicking off a month of scifi with Sam Raimi's 1990 homage to 1930's serials and Universal monsters. With solid performances all around, impressive FX and action, it does not disappoint.
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Outro: Disturbed performing The Sound of Silence
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Jane Campion, hot off the critical success of The Piano (1993), helms this adaptation of Henry James' 1881 novel. Two and a half hours of ultra-rich people problems. Neither the cast -full of some of our favorites- nor Campion's willingness to experiment with unconventional techniques could save this one for us.

Keywords: Pube stache, Vag pics, status

Plus we give our ratings for the month

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Outro: Seatrain performing Portrait of the Lady as a Young Artist
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Finally a movie this month that we liked this month!
Spoilers for The Nun 2 (2023) and why walking backwards is the way to ruin a movie.
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Outro: Juliette Lewis performing Rid of Me
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Why is it called that?!
We winge about Chris Nolan, Jake Busey's teeth and Huarache's vegetarian options.
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Outro: Willie Bobo performing Fried Neck Bone and Some Home Fries
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In which we talk Sarah Palin, Morgan Spurlock and Dick Warlock.
Pop Culture Detective | Patriarchy According to The Barbie Movie

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Outro: Kenonyx performing Urban Commando
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We bite into this month of films featuring Shelley Duval with Robert Altman's meandering musical movie adaptation of the spinach-powered cartoon sailor man. With Robin Williams in the titular role, Duvall as Olive Oyl; we weren't sure what to expect. And that's exactly what we got.
Naturally we end up discussing film as propaganda, occupied Palestine and the coming fall of imperialism. The yoozh.
#FreePalestine
#Landback

Warographics | The Six Day War (this video is the one quoted in the episode but mostly for brevity. the Al Jazeera video is more comprehensive)
Al Jazeera English | Six Days That Changed the Middle East

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Outro: Anika performing He Needs Me
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We wrap July with Barton Fink (1991); a film that was perhaps second only to Trust (1990) in it's influence on a teen Keithy.
Turturro, Goodman, Buscemi, Mahoney, Shaloub -- there's lots to enjoy about this movie.
Plus we talk: Holocaust/Nazi/WWII fetishism in the US, the Hollywood trap, and Cradle Will Rock (1999). Plus our reflection on this month's selections.
Referenced materials:
The Story Department | Screenwriting for Sound
JessFlix | Why Barton Fink Terrifies Me
Every Frame A Painting | Shot/Reverse Shot
Coens & Turturro on Dick Cavett, 1991

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Outro: Marc Blitzstein & Shirley Booth performing I've Got the Tune

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Don't be fooled by the the title or the marketing for this film, it's not about green terlet goblins really. But is about some vague "black magic" and sick ass shades.
So, as you might expect, we end up discussing reusing cooking oils and other food traumas.

Scaredy Cats

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Winston Roomfort performing The Gremlins Rag
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Move #2 of Keith's bday selection is one that has haunted him since he was one of the extremely few people to view it in a cinema at the time: The End of Violence (1997).
Starring Bill Pullman, Gabriel Byrne, Andie MacDowell, Traci Lind, Loren Dean, with notable support roles by Rosalind Chao, John Diehl, Pruitt Taylor Vince, K. Todd Freeman, Nicole Ari Parker, Marshall Bell, Marisol Padilla Sanchez, Henry Silva, to name but a few.

A treatise on the rise and fall of the popularity of violence?
The function of media in a surveillance state?
A meta-commentary on Hollywood?
So many things it comes close to being...

Plus we discuss the pros & cons of:  rippled chips, shampooing techniques, and sad Irish dog faces.

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Outro: Lorn performing Everything is Violence
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We open Keith's birth month-o-movies with Brian de Palma's rock n roll Faust with a soupçon of Leroux/Lubin and a heaping scoop of Paul Williams.
An excess of excess, an explosion of exploitation, a spectacle of split screens -- plus a special appearance by T.O.N.T.O.! We think it makes a perfect follow up to Velvet Goldmine.

Relating to the Cass Review: 

What the Cass Review Means for Trans Kids in Britain -- and Beyond | Natasha Hakimi Zapata

Cass Review 'obscures key findings' and 'misrepresents data', finds Yale Law School | Ross Hunter

Trans Youth Suicides Covered Up By NHS, Cass After Restrictions, Say Whistleblowers | Mira Lazine

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Outro: Bauhaus performing Party of the First Part