What It Feels Like for a Girl (2021) | Short Ends Ep 2
Release Date: 07/06/2022
Death of a Gunfighter (1969) | Ep 110
Films at First Sight
We have a brand new theme for the month and are kicking things off with a bang! Our dive into the filmography of the ever-notorious Alan Smithee starts at the very beginning with the Richard Widmark led western, Death of a Gunfighter. Will this tense and dusty standoff mark the beginning of a new era or will it serve as a warning to all who see the name Smithee etched across the screen?
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Sorry to Bother You (2018) | Ep 109
Films at First Sight
We are wrapping up our month of power and control with Boots Riley's feature debut, Sorry to Bother You, a wildly imaginative comedy about telemarketing, labor rights, and finding one's place in the world. Will the maximalist satire woo us with its wicked sense of humor or will it all just fall on deaf horses' ears?
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Bad Timing (1982) | Short Ends Ep 19
Films at First Sight
In this episode of Short Ends, we chat about Nancy Savoca's student film, "Bad Timing", a story of two adolescents with dreams of bigger and better lives, that learn some tough lessons while trying to make it on their own. Tune in to find out if Graham and Joe buy into their Hollywood aspirations or if it was all a bust from the start!
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They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969) | Ep 108
Films at First Sight
The sounds of power and control are still being broadcast to the masses as we dive into the world of exploitative dance marathons with Sydney Pollack's They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?. Will Joe & Graham have enough stamina to make it to the final round or will they collapse under the weight of stiff competition that has nothing to lose?
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Dogs Don't Wear Pants (2019) | Ep 107
Films at First Sight
Join Joe and Anya in the real back room where they talk about the grief & kink symposium that is J-P Valkeapää's Dogs Don't Wear Pants. Will the Finnish black comedy stand up on its own two feet in the corridors of power & control or will it all just be a kinky facade?
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Black Zombie (2026) | Ep 106
Films at First Sight
This week we are joined by director, David Dylan Thomas to discuss Maya Annik Bedward's new documentary Black Zombie, a formative look at how Haitian Vodou as well as the Haitian Revolution helped create one of the most iconic monsters in cinema history, the zombie. So, tune in as we discuss the documentary at large, the importance of understanding and recontextualizing the past, and we check in on David's work-in-progress feature film, White Meat.
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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) | Ep 105
Films at First Sight
Joe is joined by Steve and new guest to the show, Sarah Beck from the West Chester Film Festival, to kick off a series of four films intertwined in various themes of power & control. First up is Elio Petri's masterful blend of suspense and black comedy, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. Will the gang fall under the spell of Gian Maria Volonté's self-assured police inspector, or will the rampant corruption just hit too close to home?
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La Jetée (1962) | Short Ends Ep 18
Films at First Sight
Joe is joined by Steve to go on one last journey in our trek through post-apocalyptic cinema with La Jetée, a French experimental short film that tells the tale of a man sent back through time to help find a solution to the end of mankind as we know it, all through a singularly narrated series of still-frame images. Will the fellas survive the experimental exploration of time?
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Lady Champagne (2026) | Ep 104
Films at First Sight
Joe is joined by Rachel and Tillie from the Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast Network to discuss the explicit joy that is the slapstick comedy of the year, Lady Champagne. It’s a night of big hair and bigger euphemisms with the latest adventures of Champagne Horowitz Jones Dickerson White (It's none of your f***ing business!). Will the silly onslaught be too much for the gang or will they live on see what other disasters await San Francisco’s most fabulous exotic dancer?
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The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959) | Ep 103
Films at First Sight
It may not be the end of the world as we know it, but it is the end of our monthlong look at post-apocalyptic cinema. Wit from Another '80s Podcast joins us to chat about Ranald MacDougall's The World, the Flesh and the Devil. Will this late '50s sci-fi flick hit all the right notes or will the crew wish it were still trapped in a small mine in Pennsylvania?
info_outlineMando joins us to gives us his review of Megan Duffy's What It Feels Like for a Girl, a short that screened at Chattanooga Film Festival.