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This week on Swimfans: we come up with new ways to be Catholic, we discuss the varied and nuanced manifestations of childhood trauma into adulthood, and Josh learns what a 'bezel' is in 2011's SHAME! swimfanspod.com

This week, we welcome back Heroes Three legend Carlos Leon-Roman to talk Category 3 film, the agonies and ecstacies of low-budget action, and several fun facts about boba in 1991's ROBOTRIX!

On this episode, the princesses discuss myriad ideas that don't connect, forbidden dads, and colossal stone orbs in 2013's STOKER! swimfanspod.com

This year, we're thankful for all our doves!! To show our appreciation, we talk all killer no filler weird choices, Brad Dourif, and inheriting a dead friend's house in 1994's COLOR OF NIGHT! swimfanspod.com

Your annual Animation is Film Festival coverage for 2023 is here! Josh is joined by all-star dove and storyboard artist for animation Leo Garcia to talk about the films we saw at the festival, and to wax romantic about the medium of animation at large.

This week, we discuss when the root of ghouling ruins the menace, a humble pitch for a Swimfans movie, and Craig finally tells us what happens in a certain television show in 2020's FATALE! swimfanspod.com

This week on the pod, we dirty little movie babies discuss the value of artifice in filmmaking, Amy Blue's lipstick, and how much we love set design in 1995's New Queer Cinema landmark film THE DOOM GENERATION! swimfanspod.com

Happy Craigsmas to you and yours! This week, we're talking what kinds of guys there are, harrowing tension, the howling void at the heart of empire, and which truck is the metagame in 1977's SORCERER!

Rounding off Bloodbath 2023, we welcome back slime correspondent and Art the Clown Defender Vou Pinette to discuss gleeful wormery, musings on horror-comedy as a genre, and celebrating the mid-budget grossout picture in 2006's SLITHER!

This week on the pod, we discuss the fragility of human nature, the idea of the detective, and Josh drones on about the occult in 1997's CURE!

The gang once again welcomes comics professional and normal dog Kyle Daileda into their Antarctic compound. They talk distrust among uncles, head spiders, and humanity passing a bottle around until the world ends. It's 1982's THE THING

it's the start of blood season, and josh is on vacation as i type this, so no one is here to write copy. craig, can you write something better than this for social media? uhh horror movie! spain! chainsaw! Get your balaclavas ready, it's PIECES!!    swim fans pod dot com!!

This week on the pod, we discuss trisomy in cats, the successes and failures of twins as metaphor, and when ambiguity goes wrong in 2017's DOUBLE LOVER!

Welcome, devotees of the Slab. This week, we do a round-robin style discussion of some Roger Corman-produced DTV erotic thrillers and discuss photocopied Madonna, delirious neo-noir cop quests, and people whom crave the Slab. All glory to the Slab!!!

For the last episode of Cruel Summer 2023, we discuss Denzel, subverting expectations of the loose cannon cop character, and a post-mortem on the summer movie block in 2001's TRAINING DAY!

Due to scheduling conflicts, our final installment of Cruel Summer is being delayed a week, but fret not: Anime Club is back in session! We briefly discuss being edgy and nostalgic in 2002's GALERIANS: RION!

This week, we are rejoined by comics professional and Silver Sprocket publicist Kyle Daileda to talk reconciling three movies sewn together, surprise Lyne behavior, and cool-ass frog masks in 2019's I SEE YOU! 

This week, we talk about when in media res isn't better, our complicated feelings about 00s film aesthetics, and some reflections on credit sequences in 2006's RUNNING SCARED! swimfanspod.com

Just one more thing… Did it rain? This week, we're rejoined by story artist Leo Garcia to discuss 300IQ logic demons, movies shot almost entirely in close, and the infinite gap between the movie one thinks they're making and movie that's made in 2005's HARD CANDY! swimfanspod.com

This week on the pod, we talk about the pathologization of queerness, how America loves a babygirl, and the visual texture of a slow catastrophe in 1975's DOG DAY AFTERNOON! swimfanspod.com

This week, we're joined by podcast big brother Joel Hocking to discuss anti-younger brother propaganda, failing breakfast QTEs and stealing cars named after women in 2000's GONE IN 60 SECONDS!

Get the hooks! This week, we talk about jailbreaking with your teenage ward, the hypnotic quality of chipping at wood, and the impossibility of objectivity in 1956's A MAN ESCAPED! July 27, 2023 NEW

You don't offer to purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka. You don't even think to call me "The Artist (Formerly Known as Prince)." You come into my house on the day of Alex's birthday and ask me to get crazy - for money. It's 1984's Purple Rain, baby. swimfanspod.com

This week, we discuss being really good at the erotics of violence but not so much the erotics of sex, exciting ideas in editing, and Max Waxman in 1985's TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.! swimfanspod.com

This week on Cruel Summer, we're joined by One Piece Podcast crewmate Joey Weiser to talk chivalry movies, guys who hate their beautiful wives and a sorrowful lack of gambling in 1968's BIG TIME GAMBLING BOSS! swimfanspod.com