Episode 50: Robin Redbreast
Films at First Sight
Sometimes you just need a fresh start. Something new to springboard you into the next chapter of life. Well join us as we return for our first coverage involving a Made-For-TV film and we have a brand new guest on the show, Levi from the Well-Adjusted Horror Podcast. This episode we are talking about the 1970's Play for Today broadcast on the BBC, Robin Redbreast, a film that has been heralded as a folk horror response to Rosemary's Baby. Tangents include terrible dates, even worse neighbors, and the big red warning signs of Nazi related obsessions.
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Episode 49: Seconds (1966)
Films at First Sight
Life isn't full of too many second chances but what happens when you are given a new lease on life? Now that's a big question for a small podcast. Luckily for us, friend of the show, Steve is here to enlighten us to all of the mysteries and wonders that accompany such a profound inquiry with John Frankenheimer's science-fiction masterpiece, Seconds. So join us as Joe & Graham experience what is arguably Rock Hudson's greatest film & performance.
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Episode 48: Challengers
Films at First Sight
We've got a new guest to the show and he's bringing what may be one of the most divisive movies we've covered thus far, Luca Guadagnino's Challengers. Gabe Coffey joins Joe & Graham to talk throuples, competition, sweat, and a nonstop throbbing soundtrack. Check it out!
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Chattanooga Film Festival 2024 Part 3 w/ Jody Webster
Films at First Sight
Joe and Jody from Dads from the Crypt sit down and talk this year's Chattanooga Film Festival while they unpack their thoughts on juggalos, the need for gay southern gothic tales, and the implicit dangers of joining a cult.
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Short Ends: Berta (Fantasia Fest 2024)
Films at First Sight
Joe and Graham are joined by friend of the show, Whitney, to discuss Lucía Forner Segarra's latest short film, Berta, which World Premiered at Fantasia Fest on July 28th, 2024. The gang gets into their taste for revenge films, the importance of women's voice in the subgenre, and the use of art as a means to dissect and understand trauma. Join us for a bloody good time!
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Chattanooga Film Festival 2024 Part 2: Transmissions, Shorts, and Ghosts
Films at First Sight
We had so much to say about this year's Chattanooga Film Festival that we couldn't help but hit the record button again! Joe and Graham keep it rolling with a slew of shorts such as Roger is a Serial Killer, The Cost of Flesh, Giallo, Like Me, Apotemnofilia, and the BANANAS The Rainbow Bridge. And things get meta as we talk podcast representation in films during our features discussion which include Graham Skipper's The Lonely Man with the Ghost Machine, Video Visions, Falling Stars and Carnage for Christmas.
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Chattanooga Film Festival 2024 w/ Allison of Who's There?
Films at First Sight
The smell of freshly popped popcorn, the clicking and spinning of projector wheels, oh it can only the summer camp for cinefiles, the Chattanooga Film Festival. This year we are joined by Allison of the Who's There? podcast to discuss some of our favorite things we saw such as Canvas, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Adult, The Vourdalak and Red Rooms. And we certainly didn't forget about the wonderful slew of short films. Check it out!!
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Episode 47: Vanishing Point
Films at First Sight
We're LIVE again at the Colonial Theatre where we are joined by filmmaker Ryan Hammaker to discuss 1971's Vanishing Point, a film championed as one of the greatest car movies ever made. Does it live up to its legendary status or does it crash and burn in a fiery smoldering wreck?
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Episode 46: Daisies
Films at First Sight
This episode we are joined by Rachel and Ariel from The More Deadly Podcast to chat about Věra Chytilová's Daisies, a movie near and dear to Joe's chaotic heart. For maximum chaos, subjects include food fights, blacklists, feminsim in film, taking mushrooms and talking to the police, and surprise appearance from Ariel's cat! Check it out!!
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The 7th Annual Jim Thorpe Independent Film Festival (2024)
Films at First Sight
Join us in the cozy little mountain town of Jim Torpe for The Seventh Annual Jim Thorpe Independent Film Festival as we regale the sights and sounds of one of Pennsylvania's BEST Film Festivals. We talk creepy Irish tales, locally shot tearjerkers, and finally find something tense enough that it forced Graham to flee the theater. JTIFF really does have something for everyone!
info_outlineWe're back with another episode of Short Ends! This time Joe & Graham discuss Sam Fox's gross out short film Fck'n Nuts which takes the terrifying concept of meeting the parents and brings it to wonderfully silly levels.