Rainbow Popcorn

It's not a "Christmas Movie" per se, but we'll never forget that Santa's Helper's dance routine! And it's a highly quotable camp classic, so we had to get it in somewhere. What's your favourite line? Join the chat in our Facebook Group. Facebook Group Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok @rainbowpopcornpod Live events are back for 2026. Join us at Eclipse Cinema in Collingwood as we screen...

Our theme for the holiday month is "Movies with iconic Christmas scenes that aren't actually Christmas movies". What's your favourite? Join the chat in our Facebook Group. Facebook Group Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok @rainbowpopcornpod Live events are back for 2026. Join us at Eclipse Cinema in Collingwood as we screen some of our queer and camp favourites with live commentary. Get y...

Queer creative duo Broschetta joined us this week to chat all things film and queer creation. Check out more of them on Insta or YouTube and stay tuned for the launch of their new single in 2026! Join the chat in our Facebook Group. Facebook Group Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok @rainbowpopcornpod Live events are back for 2026. Join us at Eclipse Cinema in Collingwood as we screen some...

Lee says: "Thank Goodness for No Good Deed." Brett says: "Eh. Ariana Grande carries the movie." Here's our review of Wicked: For Good with many more than 6 words each. Join the chat in our Facebook Group. Facebook Group Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok @rainbowpopcornpod Check us out on YouTube . Mentioned in this episode: Two Drink Cinema Need more of our random rambling reviews? Check...

An OK musical, within a slightly above OK movie. Lee thinks it's the role J-Lo was born to play? This page to stage to screen to stage to screen Jennifer Lopez vehicle set against the backdrop of Argentina's "Dirty War", 2025's Kiss Of The Spider Woman is our queer review for this month. Join the chat in our Facebook Group. Facebook Group Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok @rainbowpopcorn...

We discuss stories in multiple formats, books, plays, musicals, movies and all sorts of combinations of the above. Got one we missed? Let us know in the Facebook group. Join the chat in our Facebook Group. Facebook Group Check us out on YouTube . Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok @rainbowpopcornpod Live events are back for 2026. Join us at Eclipse Cinema in Collingwood as we screen some...

It's the 50th anniversary of the first summer blockbuster! We took a look back at one of the best horror movies of all time and the film that put Spielberg on the road to the top. Join the chat in our Facebook Group. Facebook Group Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok @rainbowpopcornpod Check us out on YouTube . Mentioned in this episode: Rocky Horror Picture Show - Trivia and Screening As...

We talked with Jake about many different aspects of film and filmmaking, it's only because Lee writes the titles for our episodes that his BTTF fan status gets such an explicit mention. Find him here on Insta to follow his filmmaking journey. Join the chat in our Facebook Group. Facebook Group Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok @rainbowpopcornpod Live events are back for 2026. Join us at...

A queer conversion camp slasher from Blumhouse is the logical next step hor Halloween month after Friday The 13th. Join the chat in our Facebook Group. Facebook Group Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok @rainbowpopcornpod Live events are back for 2026. Join us at Eclipse Cinema in Collingwood as we screen some of our queer and camp favourites with live commentary. Get your tickets here . C...

Watching a slasher film through a rainbow lens usually comes with a little bit of campness. Not the case for Friday the 13th. It's the least gay of all of the slashers we've watched so far that's for sure. Join the chat in our Facebook Group. Facebook Group Live events are back for 2026. Join us at Eclipse Cinema in Collingwood as we screen some of our queer and camp favourites with live commentar...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the release of Jaws, we're looking at horror movies where the deaths happen on or near the water. What movies do you think fit the topic? Join the chat in our Facebook Group. Facebook Group Live events are back for 2026. Join us at Eclipse Cinema in Collingwood as we screen some of our queer and camp favourites with live commentary. Get your tickets here . Foll...

After viewing his short film Sacrifice at Pride Short Film Festival it was a pleasure to chat with Leigh Smith about all things film. Follow the film @sacrificefilm and follow Leigh @leighsmithcreative You can watch Sacrifice here . Join the chat in our Facebook Group. Facebook Group Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok @rainbowpopcornpod Check us out on YouTube . Mentioned in this episode:...

Based on Pride and Prejudice, Fire Island is Joel Kim Booster's modern, gay adaptation of the Jane Austen classic set on the gay's favourite party island. Join the chat in our Facebook Group. Facebook Group Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok @rainbowpopcornpod Check us out on YouTube . Mentioned in this episode: Rocky Horror Picture Show - Trivia and Screening As part of Midsumma Westwide...

It's been 30 years since the iconic Clueless was released so in line with our theme of "Classic Literature Inspired Movies" here's our review of the 90s classic inspired by Jane Austen's Emma. Join the chat in our Facebook Group. Facebook Group Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok @rainbowpopcornpod Check us out on YouTube . Live events are back for 2026. Join us at Eclipse Cinema in Collin...

Now this is a list we definitely left some out of, so please jump in the Facebook Group and let us know what we should've added. We left Shakespeare out on purpose; that's a whole different thing. Join the chat in our Facebook Group. Facebook Group Live events are back for 2026. Join us at Eclipse Cinema in Collingwood as we screen some of our queer and camp favourites with live commentary. Get yo...

It was such a pleasure having Saara Lamberg on the pod this month. She's a great local filmmaker; writer, producer, director, actor. She does it all! Head to saaralamberg.com for more about her. Her upcoming screening of The Lies We Tell Ourselves can be found here . Live events are back for 2026. Join us at Eclipse Cinema in Collingwood as we screen some of our queer and camp favourites with live...

Lee and Brett are co-hosting the Pride Short Film Festival at Pride Of Our Footscray . We're here to preview all of the films that we're screening, and there's a lot of them. They're all great, they're all local and they're all queer. We look forward to screening them and if you'd like to join us use the link below. Live events are back for 2026. Join us at Eclipse Cinema in Collingwood as we scre...

Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis star in the 1986 remake of 1950s classic The Fly. Mad scientist Seth Brundle accidentally splices his own DNA with that of a housefly, with grotesque consequences in this David Cronenberg classic. We discuss the body horror, the gross effects (and some gross dialogue) and how it looks through a rainbow lens. Live events are back for 2026. Join us at Eclipse Cinema in...

It's been 50 years since this queer cult classic hit our screens and the love for it continues. Warning: this episode features a LOT of singing. Hopefully, it's good enough that you stay tuned, but not so good that we get sued by the big D. Join the chat in our Facebook Group. Facebook Group Live events are back for 2026. Join us at Eclipse Cinema in Collingwood as we screen some of our queer and...

To prepare for the 50th anniversary of Rocky Horror Picture Show, and our subsequent review, we take a deep dive into the Mad Scientist genre. If there's any we missed, let us know in the Facebook group. Join the chat in our Facebook Group. Facebook Group Live events are back for 2026. Join us at Eclipse Cinema in Collingwood as we screen some of our queer and camp favourites with live commentary....

Having Courtex as our first guest was a no-brainer. We connected months as the movie folks at Pride Of Our Footscray Nightclub and Bar. They're the host of Pride Movie Night and we'll be cohosting Queer and Brief, a short film festival at Pride Of Our Footscray. Live events are back for 2026. Join us at Eclipse Cinema in Collingwood as we screen some of our queer and camp favourites with live comm...

We finally got to see A Nice Indian Boy in a cinema! It was great to get to Cinema Nova for the special screening featuring a Q&A with the director and star. It's a great film that tells an authentic queer story, an authentic cultural story and does it all in a hilarious rom-com. Join the chat in our Facebook Group. Facebook Group Live events are back for 2026. Join us at Eclipse Cinema in Col...

How does this 1968 classic stand up these days? We reviewed this 'meeting the parents' movie and discussed the issues of the time and their relevance today, particularly acceptance from a queer perspective. Live events are back for 2026. Join us at Eclipse Cinema in Collingwood as we screen some of our queer and camp favourites with live commentary. Get your tickets here . Follow us on Facebook, I...

This month's theme is "Meeting the parents". We chat about the classic movies in that genre and the tropes that fit them. We throw a couple of tangents in there too. Our July viewing on this category includes A Nice Indian Boy and Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. Did we miss any in our discussions? Join the chat in the Facebook Group. Join the chat in our Facebook Group. Facebook Group Follow us on F...

Lee and Brett both did some travelling recently, so our chat to round out June is all about what you'd watch on a plane. Are you a pre-flight downloader? Are you a background snoozer? Do you think they should be more deliberate about their offerings? Chat about it with us in the Facebook Group . Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok @rainbowpopcornpod Check us out on YouTube . Mentioned in t...