Z and Keith Watched A Movie

This week we bring you a charming story of two old school friends reconnecting later in life after one of them has transitioned. Along the way there are run-ins with law enforcement, problematic family dynamics and duplicitous coworkers.
Ready yourself for explicit descriptions of medical/surgical transition.
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Outro: Joe Jackson performing It's Different for Girls

The "priest" they called him. and they were correct. He was a priest.
And spoiler: He's gay.
Because it is the month in which we acknowledge the existence of things outside of the heteronormative.
Here we have Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Cathy Tyson and many other terrific supporting actors from the UK that I haven't heard of before.
This movie swings for the fences. Does it send it out of the park?
Baseball.
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Outro: Diamanda Galas performing Confessions

Another light hearted ep in which we discuss the horrors of poverty, the foster care system, and surprisingly, racism. For once.
Plus we review Z's Crazy May picks for the month.
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Outro: Allen Ginsberg performing Tyger

We stumble our way through this one trying to grapple with all the skillful misdirections.
Better than it sounds...

La Jetée
Media Literacy, Spice, and A Failure to Communicate | Princess Weekes
Abduction as Romance | Pop Culture Detective

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Outro: Tortured Poet performing Chicken Little

oops, we talk about racism.
Sean Young's 8mm BTS footage
Making of featurette
Dune 1984 Alternative Edition Redux edited by Spicediver
Why Sci-fi & Fantasy Can't Fix Its White Savior Problem | Princess Weekes
Media Literacy, Spice, and A Failure to Communicate
Mark Fisher: Capitalist Realism | Simon Øbirek

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Outro: Jasper McVain performing Revv Me Up

Here we are, ramming head first into Z's birthmonth selections with The Cell (2000).
Bucking our recent trend, we go on at length about this one because we liked it.
Be warned though; we've given it a "L" rating for 'lady violence'.
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Outro: The Master Musicians of Joujouka feat Bachir Attar performing The Real Long Night Is Joujouka

At long last, dear listeners, we bring you a film made famous by Paul Rudd.
A movie bank-rolled by Golden State Foods and Coke-a-Cola and yet looks worse than many a indie project.
Special guest Randall joins us on the anniversary of his last appearance (Ep 4.17 - The First Power) to tackle this MACsterpiece.
MAC Attack by Professor Ping
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Outro: The Psychedelic Furs performing Mack the Knife

CW for the is ep
We talk about Jeffery Jones' child pornography charges, Quiet on Set (2024), and Jared from Subway: Catching a Monster (2023).
And also cuz we're talking about Howard the Duck - the famous flop that cost George Lucas Pixar.
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Outro: The Wild Ones performing Lord Love a Duck

What happens when Ralph Bakshi mixes live action with animation in a post Roger Rabbit universe?
We examine the result: Cool World (1992). Too much toon, too little cohesion, and a nice soundtrack.
Plus: circus peanuts, Freakazoid, Signal's former porny gif problem and Z still hates Al Pacino.
Thanks for listening!
Folding Ideas | An Exhaustive History of Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings
Terry Talks Movies | Old, Obscure But Interesting Science Fiction TV Series
RIP Deidre Mengedoht

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Outro: Mondo Rock performing Cool World

Starting off a month of movies that we wonder why they got made or think they probably shouldn't have, we bring you Blame in on Rio (1984).

Based on a French film from 1977, but... porque why?

We just hope Nicky is doing okay.

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Outro: Lisa Roberts & Oren Waters performing Blame it on Rio