Gruncle's Movie Month

!!TW!!: On this episode we discuss the Reiner Werner Fassbinder film 'In a year with 13 Moons' which contains extremely graphic footage of a slaughterhouse and outdated notions of transhood in its use as a filmic device to explore personal tragedy. We discuss the film from 26 minutes in to 46.5 min in. Elliot (Nephew) hits the nail on the head in much of their analysis. There are many ways you can...

On this week's episode, Nephew hijacks the podcast and shifts the focus to Australian Survivor, much to the Gruncle's disgruntlement. Luckily for you, the two also get around to discussing your weekly prescription of masterfully handpicked cinema. For this episode, they watched Ingmar Bergman's bleak psychological-drama The Passion of Anna (1969), Hitoshi Matsumoto's absurdist kaiju mockumentary B...

Wowee, would you look at that? Somehow Ol' senile Grunc and his heathen nephew have made it all the way to episode 4. In this godless episode, your favorite intellectuals dive deep into Claire Denis' masterpiece Beau Travail (1999), Bob Fosse's take on a real life tragedy in Star 80 (1983), Mel Brooks' Hitchcock parody (1977), and the domestic epic of Bill Gunn's Personal Problems (1980). Please s...

Episode 3 of your new favorite podcast sees a nephew and their Gruncle get into their first major disagreement as the two discuss Harmony Korine's 2012 film Spring Breakers. After the dust settles, listen to the two film geniuses discuss the slow-cinema staple, Sleep Has Her House (2017), the Scorsese classic, King of Comedy (1982), and the ever-charming, Loves of a Blonde (1965). Maybe you'll eve...

In their second week of unhinged film podcasting, Gruncle and Nephew tackle yet another four cinematic delights. This time around they discuss the political comedy In the Loop (2009), the romantic comedy Brief Encounter (1945), the noir-infused crime drama The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1978 version) , and the meta-docufiction of Jafar Panahi's Taxi (2015). Can Gruncle keep it together and maint...

In the first ever installment of the Gruncle's Movie Month Podcast, Gruncle Mustache and his Nephew Elliot take on their first four films. This week they watched the psychological thriller, Klute (1971), the wartime melodrama, The Cranes are Flying (1957), the espionage drama, Army of Shadows (1969) and the meta-biopic, Jacquot (1991). With this episode having been recorded in January, we did not...