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We're back on the red carpet in our glitz and glam talking about the other half of the 2024 Best Picture nominees: Maestro, Oppenheimer, Past Lives, Poor Things, and The Zone of Interest! swimfanspod.com

It's awards season once more, folks! Join us as we talk about half of the 2024 Best Picture nominees: American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie, The Holdovers, and Killers of the Flower Moon! swimfanspod.com

This week, we welcome back Scholastic and Silver Sprocket book designer Carina Taylor to discuss the stratifications of maleness, strange tales of depravity, and bold new frontiers in ghouling in 1990's COMFORT OF STRANGERS! BUY THE CHROMACTIC FANTASY swimfanspod.com

This week, we talk about the hot alien with the sex directive, the agonies and ecstacies of a dumb guy movie, the platonic ideal of a 90s haircut, and wax nostalgic about the late Carl Weathers in 1995's SPECIES!

It's the new Swimfans, baby. This week, we get back to our genre's roots and talk about not getting away with murder, hard-boiled insurance salesmen and the little men inside of us in 1944's DOUBLE INDEMNITY!   swimfanspod.com

This week on the pod, we discuss bold new ways to cinematically depict Florida, Ed Harris, and Craig learns about the Prisoner's Dilemma in 1994's CHINA MOON!   swimfanspod.com

This week, we talk exceptionally divorced movies, Level 5 Golf Watchers, and the second-best confidence man in all of South Boston in 1993's MALICE!  swimfanspod.com

This week, we talk about very naive views of old Hollywood, rotating 3D monsters, and when collaborations between famous and skilled people go sour in 2013's THE CANYONS! swimfanspod.com

This week on the pod, we discuss movies that don't seem to function on any level, engine blocks being suspended from the ceiling, and wake up, babe: brand-new phobia of epipens dropped in 2015's THE BOY NEXT DOOR! swimfanspod.com

Happy 2024!! This week on the pod, we talk unusually evil ghouling, explosions of yuppie violence and Patrick Nagel-style architecture in 1992's THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE! swimfanspod.com

This week, we celebrate the end of 2023 discussing revenge gowns, perverts (derogatory), and barnyard sounds in 1992's BITTER MOON! Happy new year, and we'll see you in 2024!

Happy holidays to all our favorite doves! For our holiday episode this year, we got a jam-packed one: beginning with a big Mariah Report, ending with Craig, Alex and Josh's 10 Ten Lists of the Year, and in the middle, we sip hot cocoa and discuss 2015's A CHRISTMAS MELODY!

This week on Swimfans: we come up with new ways to be Catholic, we discuss the varied and nuanced manifestations of childhood trauma into adulthood, and Josh learns what a 'bezel' is in 2011's SHAME! swimfanspod.com

This week, we welcome back Heroes Three legend Carlos Leon-Roman to talk Category 3 film, the agonies and ecstacies of low-budget action, and several fun facts about boba in 1991's ROBOTRIX!

On this episode, the princesses discuss myriad ideas that don't connect, forbidden dads, and colossal stone orbs in 2013's STOKER! swimfanspod.com

This year, we're thankful for all our doves!! To show our appreciation, we talk all killer no filler weird choices, Brad Dourif, and inheriting a dead friend's house in 1994's COLOR OF NIGHT! swimfanspod.com

Your annual Animation is Film Festival coverage for 2023 is here! Josh is joined by all-star dove and storyboard artist for animation Leo Garcia to talk about the films we saw at the festival, and to wax romantic about the medium of animation at large.

This week, we discuss when the root of ghouling ruins the menace, a humble pitch for a Swimfans movie, and Craig finally tells us what happens in a certain television show in 2020's FATALE! swimfanspod.com

This week on the pod, we dirty little movie babies discuss the value of artifice in filmmaking, Amy Blue's lipstick, and how much we love set design in 1995's New Queer Cinema landmark film THE DOOM GENERATION! swimfanspod.com

Happy Craigsmas to you and yours! This week, we're talking what kinds of guys there are, harrowing tension, the howling void at the heart of empire, and which truck is the metagame in 1977's SORCERER!

Rounding off Bloodbath 2023, we welcome back slime correspondent and Art the Clown Defender Vou Pinette to discuss gleeful wormery, musings on horror-comedy as a genre, and celebrating the mid-budget grossout picture in 2006's SLITHER!

This week on the pod, we discuss the fragility of human nature, the idea of the detective, and Josh drones on about the occult in 1997's CURE!

The gang once again welcomes comics professional and normal dog Kyle Daileda into their Antarctic compound. They talk distrust among uncles, head spiders, and humanity passing a bottle around until the world ends. It's 1982's THE THING

it's the start of blood season, and josh is on vacation as i type this, so no one is here to write copy. craig, can you write something better than this for social media? uhh horror movie! spain! chainsaw! Get your balaclavas ready, it's PIECES!!    swim fans pod dot com!!

This week on the pod, we discuss trisomy in cats, the successes and failures of twins as metaphor, and when ambiguity goes wrong in 2017's DOUBLE LOVER!