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This week, we talk about being weird to hot women, castration anxieties and Final Destination for gay people in 1983's THE FOURTH MAN!

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 patreon.com/swimfans

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 communit...

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

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!

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

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      

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!

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!

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!

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!   https://patreon.com/swimfans https://linktr.ee/swimfans    

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!

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

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!

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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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!   Check us out on Patreon! swimfanspod.com

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

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 ambit...