Oscarbate

we have returned to attend the 2024 Oscars in beautiful sunny California

We dig into Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered + Lars Von Trier's The Idiots. Both screening this Tuesday, Dec. 12th at 7pm at the Music Box Theatre Tickets here

We return with more Franco movies, this time featuring Revenge in the House of Usher and his unfortunate misadventures in the jungle

The files are opened once again as we discuss The Sinister Dr. Orloff through to The Shadow Judoka vs Dr. Wong

We review Friedkin’s final film, along with Fincher’s The Killer and Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon

The files are opened again proper. We sift through 8 of Jess’ early 80s period, featuring Macumba Sexual and Oasis of the Zombies

We take a moment to reflect on where we’ve come and where we are going. We list off 5 films each that have made this journey so far memorable

What a world we live in. We are fired up and burnt out on this one, simultaneously. Expect some real treats soon

Olivia Willke returns to the show to journey through the world of spooky adult cinema, feat such films as Roberta Findlay’s A Woman’s Torment, Peter de Rome’s The Destroying Angel, & Roger Watkins’ Corruption

We tackle 8 Franco titles including Sadomania and Bloody Moon

We continue down the Jess Franco filmography today, parsing through the sleaze and searching for the beauty in titles like Sexy Sisters, Je Brûle de partout, The Sadist of Notre Dame, Sinfonia Erotica, and many others

We reveal more upcoming shows and dig into Ringo Lam’s Prison on Fire + John McTiernan’s Rollerball. Both screening on 35mm this Wednesday, Sept 27th at 7pm at the Music Box Theatre Get tickets here

Jess Franco and his crew are faced with personal on-set troubles as they navigate marital infidelity, mounting debt, and potential gangsters…all while delivering movies like Barbed Wire Dolls and Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun

More Jess Franco, with the sleaze factor turned up

Our pal Olivia joins us to speak on Paul Schrader’s much-maligned The Canyons, Lindsay Lohan, and Internet porn Olivia Wiilke Substack

we shoot through 12 more Franco films including Countess Perverse, The Other Side of the Mirror, and Female Vampire

we bid a tearful farewell to the legendary Soledad Miranda, while saying hello to Jess’ new beginning - starting with a foray into his own particular brand of classic gothic horror

we tried to record a normal episode until we saw the news, so we called an audible and decided to pay tribute to the one + only late William Friedkin. This is us being crushed in real time, unable to move on to making fun of the Snow White redux or whatever dumb stuff we had planned Please subscribe to our patreon for the episode we were going to do, this Sunday!

we discuss some true bangers from Jess Franco, six films from 1969-1970

we continue on in our exploration of filmmaker Jess Franco, and the period of his career where he worked with problematic producer Harry Alan Towers, beginning with their foray into the even more problematic world of Fu Manchu, alongside their first De Sade adaptations + Venus in Furs

we continue down Jess’ earliest path, ending this segment on his last two spy films before he would go on to meet infamous producer Harry Alan Towers

we report live from our hq to get into SAG joining the strike, plus how the studios major recent profit losses + selling of stocks, embracing of AI, and competition with China play into the tragic production shutdown of Juror #2

we crack open the files and discuss Jess’ very first films, from We Are 18 to The Sadistic Baron von Klaus

we return to the Music Box on July 11th for the next installment in our heavily lauded and hotly praised Mubi-sponsored film series, Highs and Lows. This month, we examine the similarities between 1997’s CANT HARDLY WAIT and 1994’s US GO HOME Subscribe to our patreon for additional episodes plus things we cannot say on our regular eps Tickets Patreon

David Gregory joins us for a second time to discuss the life and work of Jess Franco