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Episode JEN8 - Enter the Void 07/16/2026

Episode JEN8 - Enter the Void This week on Swimfans, we celebrate Jennifer’s birthday and look back on formative film experiences, the power of a drifting crane shot, and we think about death and get sad and stuff in 2009’s ENTER THE VOID! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/42118595

Episode 358 - Pillion 07/09/2026

Episode 358 - Pillion This week on Unknown Pleasures, we submit to the power of cinematic distance, we beg at the altar of character perspective, and we worship the idea of just okay gay movies in 2025’s PILLION! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/42025970

Episode 357 - The Lighthouse 07/02/2026

Episode 357 - The Lighthouse This week on Swimfans, we opine broadly about masculinity and its foibles, the raw material of human sexuality, and the proper disposal of seabirds in 2019’s THE LIGHTHOUSE! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/41926375

Episode 356 - Poison 06/25/2026

Episode 356 - Poison This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk the struggle of inhabiting a body around other bodies, various gay anxieties, and Josh missing the point entirely in 1991’s POISON! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/41808065

Episode 355 - High Life 06/18/2026

Episode 355 - High Life This week on Unknown Pleasures, we get really into witchy jerkoff chambers, ponder the meaning of the dog cannibalism box, and consider movies that don’t commit to anything in 2018’s HIGH LIFE! swimfanspod.com @swimfanspod /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/41692400

Episode 354 - The End of Evangelion 06/11/2026

Episode 354 - The End of Evangelion It all returns to nothing. It all comes tumbling down. This week on Swimfans, we talk the profane and the divine, the power of sigils and esoterica, and the horrors of being a discrete person in the world in 1997's THE END OF EVANGELION! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/41611000

Episode 353 - The Boys in the Band 06/04/2026

Episode 353 - The Boys in the Band This week on Swimfans, we kick off Pride Month by talking the worst party vibes imaginable, the beauty of seeing ourselves in visions from the past, and the necessity of art depicting queer people flaws and all in 1970’s THE BOYS IN THE BAND! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/41529980

Episode 352 - The Double Life of Véronique 05/28/2026

Episode 352 - The Double Life of Véronique On this week’s Unknown Pleasures, we sacrifice ourselves at the altar of takes to discuss having a doppelganger, puppeteers, and how far a film’s beauty can take it in 1991’s THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/41448755

Episode 351 - Skinamarink 05/21/2026

Episode 351 - Skinamarink This week on Swimfans, we discuss film grain and attention to detail, the cradle of horror being the domestic, and scary phone in 2022’s SKINAMARINK! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/41385420

Episode 350 - Death Race 2000 05/14/2026

Episode 350 - Death Race 2000 This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk surprisingly horny race car drivers, the joys of movies whose seams and craft you can see, and more about Hanna-Barbera cartoons than one would expect in 1975’s DEATH RACE 2000! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/41299945

Episode 349 - Repo Man 05/07/2026

Episode 349 - Repo Man This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk the tightrope of making a movie feel truly punk, a delicate tonal balance not since replicated, and the joys of underwear in 1984's REPO MAN! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/41207020

Episode 348 - Baby Assassins 04/30/2026

Episode 348 - Baby Assassins This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk movies that are really, really good at just one thing, compulsory cohabitation with your coworker, and the literal woke mob in 2021's BABY ASSASSINS! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/41070575

Episode 347 - Persona 04/24/2026

Episode 347 - Persona This week on Unknown Pleasures, we keep it real classic and talk the reflections of filmmakers on themselves, the multitude of roles we play in our own lives, and what happens when the mirror stares back in 1966’s PERSONA! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/40998955

Episode 346 - Fresh Kill 04/16/2026

Episode 346 - Fresh Kill This week on the show, we travel to Staten Island to talk lo-fi cyberpunk, chilling predictions of the future, and the joys of dining in an undefined space in 1994’s FRESH KILL! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/40899600

Episode 345 - Vulcanizadora 04/09/2026

Episode 345 - Vulcanizadora This week on the pod, we get real Michigan Mindset to talk character as director surrogate, European sensibilites and American aesthetics, and the sublime joy of a really good stick in 2024’s VULCANIZADORA! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/40781770

Episode J8 - Happy Together 04/02/2026

Episode J8 - Happy Together Everybody say happy birthday Josh!! This week, we celebrate aging by talking about the metaphors of water, the homies under the summer sun, and when gay people just can’t leave each other alone in 1997’s HAPPY TOGETHER! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/40717760

Episode 344 - In the Mood for Love (w/ Kevin Jay Stanton) 03/26/2026

Episode 344 - In the Mood for Love (w/ Kevin Jay Stanton) This week, we’re joined by artist and designer Kevin Jay Stanton to discuss the steaminess of love unconsummated, the intimacy of the camera, and the allure of a soup thermos in 2000’s IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/40633530

Episode 343 - Cloud 03/19/2026

Episode 343 - Cloud Welcome to SWIMFANS: UNKNOWN PLEASURES! This week on the pod, we get mad about rent prices, value the inexplicable homies, and ponder about the sturdiness of cover walls in 2024’s CLOUD! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/40544910

OSCARMANIA 2026 - PART TWO 03/12/2026

OSCARMANIA 2026 - PART TWO Still coming to you live from the red carpet, we dive back into the rest of the Best Picture nominees: 2025’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, SECRET AGENT, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, SINNERS, and TRAIN DREAMS! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/40414705

OSCARMANIA 2026 - PART ONE 03/05/2026

OSCARMANIA 2026 - PART ONE Put on your sparkliest dress, dear listener: it’s time once again for OSCARMANIA! This week, we dip into some of the Best Picture nominees: BUGONIA, F1, FRANKENSTEIN, HAMNET and MARTY SUPREME! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/40320815

Episode 342 - Femme Fatale (2002) 02/26/2026

Episode 342 - Femme Fatale (2002) This week on the show, we return to de Palma and discuss cross-genre and split-screen jaunts, shifting your karmic debt to some random guy via magic, and even find the time to discuss interesting choices in skirts and shoes in 2002's FEMME FATALE! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/40243160

Episode 341 - Special Effects 02/19/2026

Episode 341 - Special Effects This week on the podcast, we take a dip in the algae-green waters of our living room swimming pool and talk extended cinematic subtweets, strange new ways to do nude modeling, and manipulation of reality being the greatest effect of all in 1984's SPECIAL EFFECTS! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/40168775

Episode 340 - Stalked by My Doctor (w/ Shannon Strucci) 02/12/2026

Episode 340 - Stalked by My Doctor (w/ Shannon Strucci) This week on the pod, we welcome back video editor Shannon Strucci to talk Acme-style ghouling, the many crashouts of Dr. Beck, and once more relitigate the ghosts-cheating argument in 2015’s STALKED BY MY DOCTOR! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/40076380

Episode 339 - After Dark, My Sweet 02/05/2026

Episode 339 - After Dark, My Sweet This week on Swimfans, we talk movies without an internal logic, getting laid post-asylum stay, and when a noir is kinda more of a gris in 1990’s AFTER DARK, MY SWEET! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/40011220

Episode 338 - Exotica 01/29/2026

Episode 338 - Exotica This week on the pod, we dive into a world of purely transactional situationships, reading our bad poetry at the strip club, and getting our eggs kidnapped by the hookup in 1994’s EXOTICA! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/39914700

Episode 337 - Hush (1998) 01/22/2026

Episode 337 - Hush (1998) This week on the podcast, we yap about horse-sized containers of morphine, egregious de-ghouling, and which controlled substances are safe to feed to ducks in 1998’s HUSH! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/39815195

Episode 336 - What Keeps You Alive 01/15/2026

Episode 336 - What Keeps You Alive This week on the show, we talk hunting spouses for sport, retaining the power of your strongest scenes, and choosing more than one cliff to do insurance fraud from in 2018’s WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/39748135

Episode 335 - The Passion of Darkly Noon 01/08/2026

Episode 335 - The Passion of Darkly Noon This week, wrap yourself in barbed wire with us and talk confusing reference with allegory, American fairy tales, and barns for gooning in 1995’s THE PASSION OF DARKLY NOON! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/39661395

Episode 334 - Wild Side 01/01/2026

Episode 334 - Wild Side Happy 2026 doves!! This week, we discuss troubled film productions, aesthetics filling the gap between interest, and Craig’s tales of balling in 1995’s WILD SIDE! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/39579415

Episode X8 - Tangerine 12/25/2025

Episode X8 - Tangerine Merry Christmas folks! On the last episode of 2025, we talk perpetual golden hours, friendships between women, and music to walk to in 2015’s TANGERINE! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/39532590

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