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Episode 319 - The Warriors 09/04/2025

Episode 319 - The Warriors This week on Full Clip, we talk sheer filmic efficiency, the wisdom of keeping a gay guy in the crew, and how shooting in New York is the best special effect of all in 1979’s THE WARRIORS! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/38088195

Episode 318 - Violent Panic: The Big Crash (w/ Joey Weiser) 08/28/2025

Episode 318 - Violent Panic: The Big Crash (w/ Joey Weiser) This week, we’re joined by comic artist Joey Weiser to talk the evolution of Toei movies, the political valences of Fukasaku, and the unusual skill of directors who come from a low-budget film background in 1976’s VIOLENT PANIC: THE BIG CRASH! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/38006450

Episode 317 - Face/Off (w/ Matthew Tucciarone) 08/21/2025

Episode 317 - Face/Off (w/ Matthew Tucciarone) This week on the pod, we welcome back Heroes 3 legend Matthew Tucciarone to talk Travolta and Cage, Woo’s Hollywood era, and Venice Beach Catholics in 1997’s FACE/OFF! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/37915660

Episode 316 - Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (w/ Niamh Schönherr) 08/14/2025

Episode 316 - Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (w/ Niamh Schönherr) This week on the show, we welcome back podcast queen Niamh Schönherr to talk the structures and standards of Yakuza film, the precise chemistry of drugs into hair care products, and the Crime Cenobite in 1981's SAILOR SUIT AND MACHINE GUN! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/37807135

Episode 315 - Crank (w/ Kyle Daileda) 08/07/2025

Episode 315 - Crank (w/ Kyle Daileda) This week on Swimfans: Full Clip, we’re joined by publishing pro Kyle Daileda to talk Josh’s taste in men, the novelty of a movie walking and talking like a video game, and explaining stuntwork to gay people in 2006’s CRANK! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/37723955

Episode 314 - True Lies (w/ Carina Taylor) 07/31/2025

Episode 314 - True Lies (w/ Carina Taylor) This week on the pod, we're once again joined by art director Carina Taylor to discuss the artful rending of garments, the rich, textured flavor of divorce, and how to reconcile a movie that's kind of two movies in 1994's TRUE LIES! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/37626500

Episode JEN7 - Grizzly Man 07/24/2025

Episode JEN7 - Grizzly Man Everybody say happy birthday, Jennifer!! This week we take a break from Full Clip to celebrate our beloved’s birthday and talk the prismatic view of man, the melancholy of Werner Herzog, and staring unblinkingly into The Void in 2005’s GRIZZLY MAN! Theme by Padlock: /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/37539910

Episode 313 - Death to Smoochy (w/ Addy) 07/17/2025

Episode 313 - Death to Smoochy (w/ Addy) Josh has become so proficient at “mime stuck in a box” that he’s trapped. Instead, Craig and Jennifer are joined by Addy to talk corruption in children’s television, the horrors of ice rinks, and Industrial Society and its Future. It’s Danny Devito’s 2002 black comedy DEATH TO SMOOCHY. /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/37443605

Episode 312 - Cowboy Bebop: The Movie 07/10/2025

Episode 312 - Cowboy Bebop: The Movie This week on the pod, the girls get lost on Morocco Street and talk beauty in animated choreography, the fine art of people-watching, and every conspiracy theory known to man. It's Shinichirō Watanabe's 2001 joint, COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE. /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/37363620

Episode 311 - Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning 07/03/2025

Episode 311 - Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning This week on the pod, we're talking video game-style filmmaking, stylization of action and brutality in movies, and each of our thresholds for the term 'Lynchian' in 2012's UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING! swimfanspod.com patreon.com/swimfans /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/37272720

Episode 310 - Three Kings (w/ Joel Hocking) 06/26/2025

Episode 310 - Three Kings (w/ Joel Hocking) This week, we’re joined by big brother Joel Hocking to discuss the modern war picture, the finer points of C-4, and if the great anti-war movie of the modern era yet exists in 1999’s THREE KINGS! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/37165625

Episode 309 - The French Connection (w/ Leo Garcia) 06/19/2025

Episode 309 - The French Connection (w/ Leo Garcia) This week on SWIMFANS: FULL CLIP, we’re joined by storyboard artist Leo Garcia to discuss being so bad at tailing the French, the joy of car dismantling, and our desire to move to The Zone in 1971’s THE FRENCH CONNECTION! patreon.com/swimfans /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/37079630

Episode 308 - Terminator 2: Judgment Day (w/ Carlos Leon-Roman) 06/12/2025

Episode 308 - Terminator 2: Judgment Day (w/ Carlos Leon-Roman) This week on SWIMFANS: FULL CLIP, we’re joined by Heroes Three cohost Carlos Leon-Roman to talk James Cameron, the art of the sequel, and the glee of practical effects in 1991’s TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/36966310

Episode 307 - The Last Boy Scout 06/05/2025

Episode 307 - The Last Boy Scout Lock and load, doves: this is SWIMFANS: FULL CLIP! In the first installment of Action Movie Summer, we’re talking buddy pairs, evil gay guys and powerful divorced energy in 1991’s THE LAST BOY SCOUT! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/36858735

Episode 306 - Climax 05/29/2025

Episode 306 - Climax This week on the show, we get married to the groove and talk the ecstacy of dance, comparing and contrasting Noé’s filmography, and opine on Hell Here in 2018’s CLIMAX! patreon.com/swimfans https://linktr.ee/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/ /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/36778490

Episode 305 - Masquerade 05/22/2025

Episode 305 - Masquerade This week, we move to the Hamptons to discuss convoluted murder plots, mysteries of estate law, and how much information in a thriller is too much in 1988’s MASQUERADE! patreon.com/swimfans https://linktr.ee/swimfans Theme by Padlock: http://padlock.bandcamp.com/ /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/36680740

Episode 304 - Portrait of a Lady on Fire (w/ Delaney Jordan) 05/15/2025

Episode 304 - Portrait of a Lady on Fire (w/ Delaney Jordan) This week on the pod, we welcome video editor and essayist Delaney Jordan to talk who is and who isn’t good at yearning, art inside of art, and Orpheus and Eurydice in 2019’s PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/36572750

Episode 303 - Embrace of the Vampire 05/08/2025

Episode 303 - Embrace of the Vampire This week on the pod, we talk about extremely poorly thought-out vampire plans, flirting by way of ancient Egyptology, and how every movie could stand to be a bit more like a Ken Russell joint in 1995's EMBRACE OF THE VAMPIRE! patreon.com/swimfans swimfanspod.com theme by padlock: https://padlock.bandcamp.com/ /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/36493055

Episode 302 - Looking For Mr. Goodbar 05/01/2025

Episode 302 - Looking For Mr. Goodbar This week on the pod, we talk heterosexual jockstraps, criteria for morality plays, the delightful sleaze of the 70s, and how we're the oldest people currently online in 1977's LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR! NEW THEME SONG BY PADLOCK! GIVE THEM MONEY AT Referenced in the episode: Delaney Jordan/Infinite Snow Productions, '"Man Bad" Horror: A Feminist Autopsy' /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/36396770

Episode 301 - Love Lies Bleeding 04/24/2025

Episode 301 - Love Lies Bleeding This week on the pod, we celebrate the True Lusters and talk American grime, the Greek tragedy of the evil father, and good ol’ sex and violence in 2024’s LOVE LIES BLEEDING! patreon.com/swimfans swimfanspod.com /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/36292915

Episode 300 - Swimfan v2 04/17/2025

Episode 300 - Swimfan v2 300 EPISODES OF SWIMFANS, BABY!!! To celebrate, this week we revisit our namesake to discuss ambitious filmmaking, teenage Draculas, swim pageants, and general opining on the genre 300 episodes later. This is 2002's SWIMFAN (revisited)! patreon.com/swimfans swimfanspod.com /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/36211735

Episode 299 - Virtual Girl (w/ Matthew Tucciarone) 04/10/2025

Episode 299 - Virtual Girl (w/ Matthew Tucciarone) This week on the show, we welcome back Heroes Three doll Matthew Tucciarone to discuss electricity demons, if it's cheating to hook up with a computer program, and who and who isn't a Friend of Craig in 1998's VIRTUAL GIRL! patreon.com/swimfans swimfanspod.com /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/36085465

Episode 298 - The Adjuster 04/04/2025

Episode 298 - The Adjuster This week on the podcast, we talk real vs. simulacrum, the photographer’s hunt for ownership, and the Bluth family model home in 1991’s THE ADJUSTER! swimfanspod.com patreon.com/swimfans /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/35999385

Episode 29X - Object of Obsession 04/01/2025

Episode 29X - Object of Obsession The regular Swimfans get into their familiar brain demons with Gregory Dark’s 1994 film, Object of Obsession. heroesthree.com /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/35951195

Episode J7 - Sword of the Stranger 03/27/2025

Episode J7 - Sword of the Stranger Babe, wake up! It's time for your government-mandated hot anime swordsman hour!!! This week, come choose your favorite hot guy and talk landmark action animation, blood sacrifices and war perverts in 2007's SWORD OF THE STRANGER! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/35889530

Episode 297 - A Bride For Rip Van Winkle 03/20/2025

Episode 297 - A Bride For Rip Van Winkle This week, we grab our loungewear wedding gowns to discuss being so sleepy, girls just being pals, and the jellyfish as metaphor in 2016's A BRIDE FOR RIP VAN WINKLE! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/35794315

Episode 296 - Unlawful Entry 03/13/2025

Episode 296 - Unlawful Entry This week on the pod, we put on our pink nighties and grab our orange cats to talk male insecurities, the horrors of the cops, and which movie has the greatest number of unlawful entries in 1992's UNLAWFUL ENTRY! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/35664885

Episode 295 - Night Eyes 03/07/2025

Episode 295 - Night Eyes This week on the pod, we put on our night eyes to talk voyeurs (complimentary and derogatory), cinematic displays of kink, and exactly how many masked men scaling the walls to break into your mansion is too many masked men in 1990's NIGHT EYES! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/35568980

OSCARMANIA 2025 - PART TWO 02/27/2025

OSCARMANIA 2025 - PART TWO This week, we finish out the 2025 Best Picture nominees. Grab your full-body balaclava and join us discussing the back half of the Best Picture 2025 nominees: EMILIA PEREZ, I’M STILL HERE, NICKEL BOYS, THE SUBSTANCE, and WICKED! patreon.com/swimfans swimfanspod.com /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/35453580

UNLOCKED: The Substance 02/25/2025

UNLOCKED: The Substance Our Patreon mini on THE SUBSTANCE has been unlocked to give you the fullest possible oscar coverage. Is this the movie that tears the swimfans apart?? (no) More episodes like this one are available on patreon.com/swimfans for $1 a month! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/35423330

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