Repertory Screenings

What does it mean to be a man? What does it mean to live dangerously? Thankfully Johnny Utah is here to tell us, even if we aren’t ready to hear it! Today we discuss classic action film Point Break, where lawnmowers work poorly and everybody surfs. Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or movies in general to podcast@abnormalmapping.com! Also, we're a patreon supported...

In this episode we tackle the strange and hilarious adventures of Orlando, the man who was until he wasn’t, and the strange gender explorations of the last 400 years of English rule. Also, a ton of great questions. leading to one of our beefier episodes! The VoIP Life about movie watching and criticism that we made free for everyone! https://www.patreon.com/posts/33203905 Listener Shoumik sent in...

We drift across the beautiful landscapes on 80s Japan in this ode to the open road and the open heart of new love. Also we mysteriously have managed to cover films with bike jousting in them for 8% of our podcast history, which is more than any other podcast can boast. Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or movies in general to podcast@abnormalmapping.com! Also, we'r...

We wander the wastes of the Zone, teasing out our feelings on aspirations, desires, love and religion in this extra long episode on the extra long film Stalker! Note: for now, you can find an archive of harder to find Obayashi films here ! Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or movies in general to podcast@abnormalmapping.com! Also, we're a patreon supported show, pl...

What is a Western? We get very distracted with wikipedia’s baffling genre distinctions on our road to the far north to enjoy this boarder hopping quiet movie about grief and drug dealing in a collapsing American economy. I promise it’s not all doom and gloom! In fact, the part where this movie is often very warm is why I’m happy to settle in and deliver this cozy episode about family, choices, and...

We delve into the heady days of 1975 and the incredible capacity for costume change that is the man of words and action, Dolemite! Tarantino invented nothing, the power of independent cinema, and did the 70s really have any clue what sex was? All this and more! Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or movies in general to podcast@abnormalmapping.com! Also, we're a patr...

Surprised by one of the most fun and warm movies we’ve watched since the podcast started, we settle in to talk about the self-examination and aspirational creativity of The Watermelon Woman. Also, sex scenes and 90s fashion and how extremely weird one famous academic is at the drop of a hat. At the front, we briefly talk Parasite, Birds of Prey, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire! Send us any email qu...

In our longest episode to date, we sit down with Spike Lee’s most recent film and find ourselves awash with feelings about race, America, and the place of film in history and culture. It’s amazing how broad an opinion one can have about liking a thing. Also Em and Destiny talk at length about Spike Lee’s filmography in general, and recommend some further homework if you want to really brush up! Se...

A short episode after last week’s epic as we enjoy the 74 minute thriller Outrage , a movie directed by Ida Lupino that attempts to talk about sexual assault and recovery from within the structure of 1950s Hollywood and the studio code. How well does it do navigating that minefield? Surprisingly well, all things considered! Join us as we find ourselves contemplating history, men, and speeches that...

What happens when you get some communists in a room and have them talk about a loving look at America’s victory in the space race? Find out this week as we take a look at the three hour epic that is The Right Stuff. Honestly, even after an hour spent breaking this one down I’m still not sure which parts are on purpose or not. That’s truly LBJ hours, gotta keep ‘em guessin’. Yeehaw. Send us any ema...

We’re back in the new year as we take in some modern cinema from the heady future year of Two Thousand Anno Domini and watch Love and Basketball. Only one of us likes basketball, and they’re from a country that doesn’t have it, so come for us to wonder over Dick Vitale, talk about the Clippers, and otherwise break down this decade-long romantic epic with all the grace and consideration you would e...

**NOTE: there might be some audio trouble in this episode, sometimes things just go a little sideways. thanks for understanding!** We take on a double feature to close out the year as we watch two of the most famous movies of Japan’s infamous B movie director Seijun Suzuki! What does it mean to earnestly make a movie, how much can you cut a budget and still make the picture work, and why don’t mor...

After a bit of a break we head back into the mines of classic cinema to cover Cleo from 5 to 7, a movie that by reputation two of our hosts were actively fearful of. We drift along our thoughts of the French New Wave, gender, existentialism, and more in this real time adventure through the Paris of Podcasts, Repertory Screenings. Please enjoy! Send us any email questions and comments about the mov...

Our October adventure comes to an end as we go back to the nostalgia for the 50s and enjoy the parade of goofy effects and cartoon comeuppance that is Creepshow ! Zombies might be scary, but they can’t compare to bugs. What if Stephen King wrote and AU Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? fanfic? And truly, what’s more evil than a rich man who decorates in Buddha statues and wall scrolls. This and more...

It’s October which means it’s time to watch some scary movies. Or it would be, but one of the hosts isn’t a huge horror fan, so instead we’re doing two episodes about horror-adjacent movies that even the horror adverse can enjoy! Please sit back as this week we bring you a tale of dusty roads, denim everything, and the question of whether a vet is really who you want to go to when you have a blood...

We’re a week late but hopefully you don’t mind waiting as much as Rupert Pupkin doesn’t mind waiting, because we’re finally here to wade through the psychological trauma of fame and desire that is The King of Comedy. Join us as we counter program against the clown movie to remember that once upon a time DeNiro could act and Scorsese could make a good movie that wasn’t four hours long. Send us any...

This week we settle in for a duo of documentaries as we watch the 80s ruin everything with The Decline of Western Civilization parts 1 and 2, though mostly part 2! Enjoy us talking about metal, a genre we all dislike! Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or movies in general to podcast@abnormalmapping.com! Also, we're a patreon supported show, please go to patreon.com...

Today we take a ride off the highway of classic cinema for a cult classic that finally divides the hosts as we discuss everyone’s favorite Fast & Furious tagalong, Torque! Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or movies in general to podcast@abnormalmapping.com! Also, we're a patreon supported show, please go to patreon.com/abnormalmapping to see our many shows and...

Somewhere it seems it is always the 70s and it is always all about Gender as we explore Barbara Loden’s harrowing story of being set adrift in a hellscape of class and culture and the violent and inconstant shores one might find oneself on the way. Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or movies in general to podcast@abnormalmapping.com! Also, we're a patreon supported...

Two thirds of the podcast takes psychic damage today as we explore Alexander Payne’s satire of politics and gender by watching Election. Is the Midwest really like this? Is life really this petty? What does it mean for a teacher and a student to know each other? All this and more as we all vote Tammy and grump about shitty men. Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or...

We spend a long night with some hard men as we ride shotgun with Elaine May’s incredibly dysfunctional duo of mobsters Mikey and Nicky! Unsurprisingly, May brings us a lot of comedy and a lot of insight into the brutality of gender roles in this one, a movie that genuinely knocked us all for a loop with how good it is! Please, check this one out! Send us any email questions and comments about the...

What happens when you transport Shakespeare into the heady days of samurai and forest spirits? We find out in this episode where we throw open the doors of Castle Kurosawa and discover the delights of Macbeth and the titular Throne of Blood! Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or movies in general to podcast@abnormalmapping.com! Also, we're a patreon supported show,...

We take a journey through time along a single fixed place as history washes over us in Julie Dash’s indie classic, Daughters of the Dust. Come for incredible cinematography and fantastic performances, stay for Em and Jackson doing their best not to say something incriminatingly white. Most of all, settle in for a reminder that the families we have and create are our survival with this truly great...

The Seventies. McDonald’s is grimy, everyone smokes, and men are actually attractive. Also, sometimes, they do the goddamn news. Join us as we remember a thing called a newspaper and discuss the strange ways American myth-making builds up and tears down in turns. Also, because it’s us, a lot of talk about gender roles and the ways they are performed and signaled along political lines. Also we’re i...

We return from one tragic snowbound death to another as we sit for a while with the quiet and drifting Morvern Callar. We talk about what counts as praxis when it comes to body disposal, the reality of getting away from your problems, the foibles of book deals, and the Americans on the cast wonder just what is a Scottish accent, really? All this and more during this, our second episode, on the fil...