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Hello beautiful plants and people! Please join us for a deep dive discussion of the 1978 incarnation of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Relevant? Yes. To YOUR life? Yes. This film holds its own oh so many decades later, even when compared to the frightfully lovely original 1956 film adaptation of the book. It is about losing your power, agency, and identity in a world gone mad. Sure there is an al...

Drones reported in Bayonne, New Jersey! No —actually it’s our episode celebrating Stephen Spielberg’s epic Sci-Fi thriller based on H. G. Wells novel. This classic earned notoriety from the now famous production of the radio play by Orsen Welles Mercury Theater, which was so convincing that some listeners really believed Martians had landed in Grover’s Mill, NJ. In 1953, Paramount would release a...

Hello and welcome to our holiday episode of Celluloid Pudding. Wherever you are on the globe and however you celebrate this time of year, we wish you love, our heartfelt thanks, and good wishes. This time we--your co-hosts Beth and Sam--decided to discuss a beautiful Korean film called Moonlit Winter. The setting is chilly and wintry, but the heart and soul of the film is warm, complex, generation...

The frantic holiday season is upon us, but we are breaking from our seasonality trend for this special episode to celebrate our favorite soon-to-be college graduate. Broadcast News has long been a favorite film of ours, and it’s a great feeling when a film can be handed down to the next generation and they love it as much as we do. Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Joan Cusack present a b...

Well it’s that time of year again, no we aren’t talking about post general election hangover, we are referring to that annual culinary and quintessentially American Bacchanalia where we stuff ourselves to the gills with too many carbs, too much gravy, and bad football (the American variety). Yes kids, it’s Thanksgiving. This little tale written by Chris Radant, and brought to the screen by Jodie F...

Hello all our Goblins, Ghouls, and lovely minions of the dark. We hope you will enjoy our cap off of the most wonderful time of the year. Sam and I gave it a lot of thought, and perhaps in keeping with what seems to be a trend for us in 2024, we opted for a film from South Korea. “The Wailing” is definitely “the full horror film experience” Written and directed by Na Hong-jin, this tale delivers a...

What better way to celebrate the most wonderful time of year than this chaotic, but fun episode with guest (g)hosts Lynda and Michael Hardy. Ari Aster re-invigorated the sub-genre of Folk Horror as writer and director of this film, that has no cheap scares. Break out your Ouija boards and dog-eared copies of “The Key of Solomon” (or whatever favorite Grimoire you have laying around) light a candle...

Hello, darlings. Please join us for a ripping good discussion filled with colorful explosions of dialogue and incredulity as we explore Yorgos Lanthimos's oeuvre extraordinaire, Poor Things (2023). We have much heat and spectacular insights about this unique film. We welcome you to listen in, join the fray, to write strongly worded letters to us (or post cards), and to just enjoy the conversation!...

Hello and welcome to a special episode of The Celluloid Pudding Podcast. We're thrilled to be doing the cult classic film from the 80's, HEATHERS this week with our super guest Thomas. Thomas is a dream guest (You may remember his wit and insights from our episode of The Wedding Banquet), and he spins many a fine tale about rubbing shoulders with Hollywood stars. And I do believe we all bring hila...

Please join us as we discuss our last film of the summer, Fried Green Tomatoes. This incredible film from 1991 is just as fresh today as it was when it debuted. The cast is stellar, solid, and deeply committed to Fanny Flagg's eponymous novel, which was considered for the Pulitzer Prize when it came out. There are layers and layers here, and we hope we were able to pull a few of those layers back...

Our pod welcomes back one of our favorite guests as film enthusiast and aspiring filmmaker Vivica Dunlap shares another little gem of South Korean cinema. Our listeners know how much Beth and Sam enjoy picking films that match the season, and we think Little Forest is a lovely film to indulge in for the late summer. Kim Tae-ri leads a warm and appealing supporting cast in what we think is a quinte...

Sam and Beth discuss a personal favorite from back in the home video days of one night rentals and compounding rental fees. Repo Man is a Gen X cult classic that we think in many ways accurately reflects Gen X sensibilities. If you want to understand Gen X, watch this movie. Lead actor Emilio Estevez set himself apart from the rest of the Brat Pack by choosing interesting projects, which would pre...

Sam and Beth roll it back to discuss this quintessential 80s classic directed by Jonathan Demme. It could be argued that this film was responsible for launching the careers of Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels, and Ray Liotta —who would all go on to long success as perennial A-Listers (RIP Ray ❤️). It also solidified the status of artists like David Byrne, and Laurie Anderson in popular culture as pi...

Please join us for our final film of Pride month! This time we chose the delightful dark humor dramedy, The Handmaiden, directed by Korea's super-director, Park Chan-wook. This is quite a ride of hairpin twists and turns, but we promised to end Pride on a high note, and we delivered! Come. Grab a nice little serving of Soju, close the curtains, and join us! 🏳️‍🌈

Please join us for our second film of Pride Month! This time we take on the oh-so-sublime, thoughtful, compelling, sexy, cerebral, and alas, still timely film, The World to Come. Why is it still timely? Because even though this lyrical piece is set in 1856, women are STILL fighting for a level playing field. Beth and Sam discuss the film, the amazing quartet of actors in the film, and the myriad w...

New episode will be dropping soon. Sam and Beth also suggest some of our previous episodes that we think our listeners might enjoy as this month of Pride comes to a close. Reminder: We will be dropping one more pride-centric episode after The World to Come.

Reunited and it feels so good! Just in time for Pride, Sam and Beth return with our first episode in June. We decided to mix things up and cover two films that Sam and Beth have wanted to cover since we started our podcast. “Infamous” and “Capote” offer different treatments of two of the most celebrated writers of the 20th Century. Truman Capote and Harper Lee were childhood friends who would grow...

HAPPY PRIDE EVERYONE! We are overjoyed to celebrate with you. The podcast wives are REUNITED (and it feels so good)

Inspired by the recent release KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, Beth and Rick felt compelled to do a deep dive into this wildly successful franchise that permeated the pop culture of the early 70s. It also set the bar extremely high for practical makeup effects, earning a special honorary Oscar for artist John Chambers, and would influence and inspire generations of makeup artists that followed....

As some of you may have noticed we haven’t been posting episodes as frequently, the simple explanation is we are just inundated with life. That’s how it goes sometimes, but rest assured Sam and I will be back putting up episodes together as much as we can. Still so thankful for our friends and back room co-hosts for keeping the seats warm and the discussions interesting. For now, enjoy our little...

Join us for indulging in some lush 70s SciFi. Good friend and resident SciFi connoisseur Rick Tetrault joins Beth for an in depth discussion about a film that many younger film goers have probably never heard of, and that some veteran film buffs haven’t thought about in quite some time. Logan’s Run was situated in a unique point in the history of the film industry. It might be easily dismissed bec...

Please join us for a very special episode of Celluloid Pudding. We were delighted to bring back our sparkling and winsome guest host Vivica Dunlap. Celine Song’s stunning debut film is thought provoking discourse on the cultural concept of In-yun — “providence or fate” —the Korean notion that some people may be tied together over the course of thousands of years and lives. Are some relationships a...

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Join Sam and Beth for this first offering for the month of February. Director Luca Guadagnino presents Andre’ Caiman’s novel set in 1983 amidst the backdrop of the lovely cities and landscapes of Lombardy, Italy. It is a film about infatuation, self-acceptance, self-truth, and risking one’s heart. Accompanied by music tracks from Sufjan Stevens, this film is a memorable and moving experience. Chec...

Hey Guys we’re back! The New Year didn’t roll out the way we planned, Covid is still a thing yo! One of us was faceplanted on an inflate-a-bed and stuffed in a closet until the meds kicked in. No biggie. We’re coping, and hope our listeners are doing well. This episode Sam and Beth review our favorite episodes and guests, and plug some of our favorites that we think deserve more love. We also plug...