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Episode 283 - The Fourth Man 11/21/2024

Episode 283 - The Fourth Man This week, we talk about being weird to hot women, castration anxieties and Final Destination for gay people in 1983’s THE FOURTH MAN! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/34073761

Episode 282 - Lisa 11/14/2024

Episode 282 - Lisa This week on the pod, we talk about the extended Arrested Development universe, sauceless serial killers, and the pitfalls of loosely sketching characters in 1990's LISA! swimfanspod.com /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/33927967

Episode C5 - The Devil's Backbone 11/07/2024

Episode C5 - The Devil's Backbone Happy birthday to Craig!! This week, we talk the power of lacking subtlety, the threat of fascism from within, and Josh stumbles through trying to talk about animation-style staging in 2001’s THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE! A word from the show, as well: especially to our American listeners, we here as a very queer and very leftist podcast are feeling rough as well. Take care of yourself and your community. Solidarity forever. www.patreon.com/swimfans /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/33839382

Episode 281 - Hatching (w/ Vou Pinette) 10/31/2024

Episode 281 - Hatching (w/ Vou Pinette) Happy Halloween, our little ghouls and goblins!!! Wrapping up Bloodbath, we welcome our Ooze Correspondent Vou Pinette back on the pod to discuss quote-unquote "Finland", the horror of influencer moms, and the metaphorical rendering of trauma and the self in 2022's HATCHING! patreon.com/swimfans /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/33649742

Episode 280 - You Should Have Left (w/ Megan Tan) 10/24/2024

Episode 280 - You Should Have Left (w/ Megan Tan) This week on the pod, we’re joined by visual artist Megan Tan to discuss houses being weird, disturbing events at the greengrocer and the seminal Anti-Wife Guy in 2020’s YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/33578167

Episode 279 - I Saw the TV Glow (w/ Kyle Daileda) 10/16/2024

Episode 279 - I Saw the TV Glow (w/ Kyle Daileda) This week on the pod, we’re joined by comics and publishing professional Kyle Daileda to discuss the fantasy of media being intimate, the horror of never self-actualizing, and if doing Videodrome was good, actually in 2024’s I SAW THE TV GLOW! swimfanspod.com patreon.com/swimfans /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/33477767

Episode 278 - Return of the Living Dead 10/08/2024

Episode 278 - Return of the Living Dead The radio crackles: “Send more doves!”. This week, we talk a brief history of zombie movies, anti-boss propaganda, and an inexplicably west coast vision of Louisville in 1985’s RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD! swimfanspod.com /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/33369812

Episode 277 - The Night House 10/03/2024

Episode 277 - The Night House Bloodbath season is upon us once again! This week in our horror block, we talk when Nothing is too much of something, how much we all love mazes, and coworkers trying to win an inappropriate-off in 2020’s THE NIGHT HOUSE! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/33308592

Episode 276 - The Cell (w/ Corryn Moe) 09/26/2024

Episode 276 - The Cell (w/ Corryn Moe) This week on the show, we’re joined by brain-jumping correspondent Corryn Moe to talk converting to D’onofrioism, dog accomplices, and the strong division of thought on spooky dolls in 2000’s THE CELL! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/33214137

Episode 275 - Dad Crush 09/19/2024

Episode 275 - Dad Crush This week, we have an ode to the sauceless and discuss Rusty Joiner, a sorrowful lack of a ghoul box, and a movie’s unwillingness to engage with its own perversions in 2018’s DAD CRUSH! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/33117762

Episode 274 - Lust, Caution 09/13/2024

Episode 274 - Lust, Caution This week on the podcast, we talk elite fabric movies, Tony Leung and Tony Leung accessories, and Craig and Josh's descent into being mahjong aunties in 2007's LUST, CAUTION! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/33016007

Episode 273 - Light Sleeper 09/05/2024

Episode 273 - Light Sleeper This week in a return to erotic thrillers, we talk the horror of middle-aged disaffectation, theological cokeheads, and fawn over our favorite photographer of the male form in 1992’s LIGHT SLEEPER! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/32903802

Episode 272 - National Lampoon's Straight-to-DVD Hell 08/29/2024

Episode 272 - National Lampoon's Straight-to-DVD Hell This week on the pod, we ask the biggest question of all: how do you like your sex? We talk government mandated nudity, the Italian-Nerd alliance, and Paris Hilton scholarship in our annual Choose Your Own Adventure episode: National Lampoon direct-to-DVD films! swimfanspod.com /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/32794452

Episode 271 - Tetsuo the Iron Man (w/ Shannon Strucci) 08/22/2024

Episode 271 - Tetsuo the Iron Man (w/ Shannon Strucci) Rounding out Ono-Sendai, we’re joined by video editor and critic Shannon Strucci as we talk tibia rebar, being a gay metal slab with an evil twink, and strange observations about Atlanta in 1989’s TETSUO THE IRON MAN! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/32692432

Episode 270 - New Rose Hotel 08/15/2024

Episode 270 - New Rose Hotel GIBSON'S BACK!!!!!!!! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/32587062

Episode 269 - Peep "TV" Show (w/ Niamh Schönherr) 08/08/2024

Episode 269 - Peep "TV" Show (w/ Niamh Schönherr) This week on the pod, we welcome back number one podcaster in da world Niamh Schönherr to talk Neo-Sontag, the emotional distancing of the camera and all that entails, and the inherent subjectivity of filming reality in 2003’s PEEP “TV” SHOW! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/32499982

Episode 268 - The Matrix Reloaded (w/ Em Kundrot) 08/01/2024

Episode 268 - The Matrix Reloaded (w/ Em Kundrot) This week on the pod, pro animator Em Kundrot @magical_grill joins us to talk sourdough starter characters, movies that take on too large a scope for it to handle, and how much we love Niobi in 2003’s THE MATRIX RELOADED! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/32382507

Episode 267 - Challengers (w/ Kyle Daileda) 07/25/2024

Episode 267 - Challengers (w/ Kyle Daileda) This week, Josh is trapped in purgatory so we're taking a short Ono-Sendai break! Comics and publishing professional Kyle Daileda subs in to chat the power of yearning, how horny tennis is, and Zendaya fujoing out in 2024 film CHALLENGERS! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/32286452

Episode A5 - The Insider 07/18/2024

Episode A5 - The Insider Everybody rise as one accord: Happy birthday, Alex! This week, we’re talking nostalgia for a time when systems worked, the iceberg of Michael Mann, and dramatizing the news in 1999’s THE INSIDER! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/32193072

Episode 266 - The Fifth Element (w/ Joey Weiser) 07/11/2024

Episode 266 - The Fifth Element (w/ Joey Weiser) This week, we welcome back comic artist Joey Weiser to talk the wonderful physicality of Milla Jovovich, exactly how many rockets a well-made bartop can truly take, and how good it feels to drop a beat overtop of an opera number in 1997's THE FIFTH ELEMENT! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/32092197

Episode 265 - A Scanner Darkly (w/ Leo Garcia) 07/04/2024

Episode 265 - A Scanner Darkly (w/ Leo Garcia) This week on the pod, we're joined by storyboard artist Leo Garcia to talk the magical quality of listlessness, the careful balancing act between character and plot, and Josh shares his favorite biblical references in 2006's A SCANNER DARKLY! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/32009577

Episode 264 - Cypher (w/ Joel Hocking) 06/27/2024

Episode 264 - Cypher (w/ Joel Hocking) This week on the pod, radio big brother Joel Hocking is back to talk the litany of false wives, the virtue of the medium-serious movie and the fine art of drivel (complimentary) in 2002’s CYPHER! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/31908687

Episode 263 - Dark City (with Matthew Tucciarone) 06/20/2024

Episode 263 - Dark City (with Matthew Tucciarone) Your favorite Movie Cenobites are back to talk with beloved guest and Heroes Three co-host Matthew Tucciarone to discuss everything-but-the-kitchen-sink narratives, runaway train pacing, and being full of bugs in an eternal night in 1998's DARK CITY! swimfanspod.com /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/31823317

Episode 262 - Neptune Frost 06/13/2024

Episode 262 - Neptune Frost This week, we celebrate the effectiveness of surrealism, the power of the archetype, cyberpunk in its truest form, and once again manage to mention Susan Sontag in 2021's NEPTUNE FROST! swimfanspod.com patreon.com/swimfans /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/31733747

Episode 261 - Virtuosity 06/07/2024

Episode 261 - Virtuosity WELCOME TO ONO-SENDAI 2! From the Director of the Lawnmower Man, it's Virtuosity!!! i actually rewatched the lawnmower man the other day. i found a copy of the director's cut which is (somehow) about 30 minutes longer. it much more clearly shows the directors ambitions to make something like a universal monster movie but for the 90s. it has a morally questionable scientist and a monster. the ambitions are quickly abandoned in favor of cg NONSENSE, but i'm happy there's a director's cut out there! you should youtube search "lawnmower man brain mowing" swimfanspod.com patreon.com/swimfans /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/31641587

Episode 260 - Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend 05/30/2024

Episode 260 - Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend This week, by popular demand, we talk late-night TV specials that change the trajectory of your life, absurdly high-budget hentai, and Josh's new favorite boytoy Amano Jyaku in 1989's UROTSUKIDOJI: LEGEND OF THE OVERFIEND! * please pay special attention to the content warnings on this one! swimfanspod.com patreon.com/swimfanspod /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/31523962

Episode 259 - Malicious 05/23/2024

Episode 259 - Malicious This week on the pod, all-star Carina Taylor rejoins us to talk sex libraries, Dougs (derogatory), and Evil Molly Ringwald in 1995's MALICIOUS! /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/31429727

Episode 258 - Whispers In The Dark 05/16/2024

Episode 258 - Whispers In The Dark This week on the pod, we get really excited about supporting actors, hurl our fishing poles around impotently, and again discuss the conundrum of ending a movie in 1992’s WHISPERS IN THE DARK! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SWIMFANS swimfanspod.com /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/31341162

Episode 257 - Remember My Name 05/09/2024

Episode 257 - Remember My Name This week on the pod, we discuss an inverted Ghoul Picture, the first instance of anyone ever putting a knife down in an erotic thriller, and the various kinds of prisons we all put ourselves into in 1978's REMEMBER MY NAME! swimfanspod.com /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/31217957

Episode 256 - Snake Eyes 05/02/2024

Episode 256 - Snake Eyes This week on the pod, we get excited about long takes, yet again we dig into Movies About Looking and Seeing and Josh has to admit that Cage is pretty good in 1998’s SNAKE EYES! swimfanspod.com /episode/index/show/swimfans/id/31091508

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