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It's Britney, binch. This week, the Swimlads take a road trip with the unfairly maligned 2002 Britney Spears film Crossroads. swimfanspod.com

The lads are joined by graphic designer Carina Taylor to rave about Laura Dern and discuss the quietly realistic horrors of Joyce Chopra's 1985 film SMOOTH TALK!  www.swimfanspod.com

The reviews are in: 2002 Charles Stone III film DRUMLINE absolutely owns.   www.swimfanpod.com

This week, the Swimfans talk dark comedies, the Scream franchise, and even a little bit about bank robbery in 2001's cheerleader-gone-bad flick SUGAR & SPICE!   www.swimfanspod.com

This week, the Swimfans escape Sacramento and meet the worst type of guy at college. It's Greta Gerwig's hit directorial debut LADY BIRD. www.swimfanspod.com

This week, the princesses are joined again by Matthew Tucciarone of our sister-father podcast Heroes Three to teach the concept of futility to computers in 1983's WARGAMES! swimfanspod.com

Welcome to the Blue Ether Zone. The Swimfans talk posting, the horror of growing up, and their firm stance against red ether in 2001 film ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU.  swimfanspod.com

The lads are once again joined by co-host and player on Critical Bits, Struggle Session film correspondent, and critic and video essayist Shannon Strucci to discuss queer Draculas, film noir and the hapless charm of Holly Martins in 1949's THE THIRD MAN!  swimfanspod.com

Your favorite online radio ghouls form a cult in their tastefully-appointed parlor to discuss portrayal of old-timey gay people, mental illness, and movies that are Just Moods in 1943's THE SEVENTH VICTIM! swimfanspod.com

In this episode about the Lynch-produced and Herzog-directed 2009 film MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE?, the princesses talk filmic texture, the virtue (and perhaps vice) of being such an idiosyncratic product, and the Medium Is the Message Horseshoe Theory.  swimfanspod.com @swimfanspod

In this mini-episode Alex & Craig are once again joined by podcast big brother Joel to discuss the increasing egomania of Sylvester Stallone and the four insane Rambo: First Blood sequels. swimfanspod.com

On darling Alex's third birthday ever, the princesses talk mixed political messaging, expert genre-shifting, the genius of Sly, and inevitably, Metal Gear Solid in landmark 1982 film FIRST BLOOD!   swimfanspod.com

This week the lads are joined by returning guest Joel Hocking to discuss arthouse sensibility in a dad movie package and cool vs. uncool gunfights in the straightest action movie ever made: Michael Mann's 1995 film HEAT!

This week on CRUEL SUMMER, three beautiful queens discuss the philosophy of money being the root of evil and how we're all pawns of fate in the 1984 neo-noir Coen brothers film, BLOOD SIMPLE!  

 This week, the lads chase down Akira Kurosawa's 1949 film STRAY DOG while discussing buddy cop films, the erotics of baseball, and the value of finding moments of quiet in movies.  swimfanspod.com

A trio of true Humpheads get together to talk about a portrait of a toxic relationship in Nicholas Ray's 1950 film IN A LONELY PLACE!  swimfanspod.com  

 On this episode of Cruel Summer, the Swimlads are joined by Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells cohost Niamh Schönherr to get absolutely schooled in Yakuza film with 1993 Takeshi Kitano film SONATINE! 

The princesses do a little digital sortilege to divine order, meaning, and Josh Brolin appreciation out of the dreamlike chaos of PT Anderson's underrated 2014 masterpiece INHERENT VICE!

The lads talk homoeroticism in complicated male relationships while remaining the biggest Naomi Watts fans on the block in the first episode of CRUEL SUMMER: 2007 David Cronenberg's EASTERN PROMISES!  swimfanspod.com  @swimfanspod  

Three rude snowmen with crude 'tudes sit down to discuss the functions of slasher films, the virtues of workmen filmmakers, and knife movies in 1984's FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE FINAL CHAPTER!

 It is impossible to engage with this film without talking about American politics, so if that's not of interest, skip this one! The lads talk character framing and villainous protags in 1999's ELECTION!

 As you fit your headphones into your ears, you mumble to yourself "Sphinx of Black Quartz, Judge My Vow". The lads talk emotional and symbolic emptiness in 2005's THE CHUMSCRUBBER.  swimfanspod.com  @swimfanspod 

The lads return to their erotic thriller roots to sift through a series of baffling, sleazy choices in 1992's POISON IVY!  swimfanspod.com  @swimfanspod 

This week, your favorite misery chicks come together to talk goths, the social folly of ambitious school projects and the metaphor between lycanthropy and coming of age in 2000's horror-dark comedy GINGER SNAPS!  swimfanspod.com  @swimfanspod

 If you bring me Craig's hands, I have one Craig Token to dispense. The lads discuss the boundaries and limitations of family ties and a kind of hopeful bleakness in 2010's WINTER'S BONE!     swimfanspod.com