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Welcome, devotees of the Slab. This week, we do a round-robin style discussion of some Roger Corman-produced DTV erotic thrillers and discuss photocopied Madonna, delirious neo-noir cop quests, and people whom crave the Slab. All glory to the Slab!!!

For the last episode of Cruel Summer 2023, we discuss Denzel, subverting expectations of the loose cannon cop character, and a post-mortem on the summer movie block in 2001's TRAINING DAY!

Due to scheduling conflicts, our final installment of Cruel Summer is being delayed a week, but fret not: Anime Club is back in session! We briefly discuss being edgy and nostalgic in 2002's GALERIANS: RION!

This week, we are rejoined by comics professional and Silver Sprocket publicist Kyle Daileda to talk reconciling three movies sewn together, surprise Lyne behavior, and cool-ass frog masks in 2019's I SEE YOU! 

This week, we talk about when in media res isn't better, our complicated feelings about 00s film aesthetics, and some reflections on credit sequences in 2006's RUNNING SCARED! swimfanspod.com

Just one more thing… Did it rain? This week, we're rejoined by story artist Leo Garcia to discuss 300IQ logic demons, movies shot almost entirely in close, and the infinite gap between the movie one thinks they're making and movie that's made in 2005's HARD CANDY! swimfanspod.com

This week on the pod, we talk about the pathologization of queerness, how America loves a babygirl, and the visual texture of a slow catastrophe in 1975's DOG DAY AFTERNOON! swimfanspod.com

This week, we're joined by podcast big brother Joel Hocking to discuss anti-younger brother propaganda, failing breakfast QTEs and stealing cars named after women in 2000's GONE IN 60 SECONDS!

Get the hooks! This week, we talk about jailbreaking with your teenage ward, the hypnotic quality of chipping at wood, and the impossibility of objectivity in 1956's A MAN ESCAPED! July 27, 2023 NEW

You don't offer to purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka. You don't even think to call me "The Artist (Formerly Known as Prince)." You come into my house on the day of Alex's birthday and ask me to get crazy - for money. It's 1984's Purple Rain, baby. swimfanspod.com

This week, we discuss being really good at the erotics of violence but not so much the erotics of sex, exciting ideas in editing, and Max Waxman in 1985's TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.! swimfanspod.com

This week on Cruel Summer, we're joined by One Piece Podcast crewmate Joey Weiser to talk chivalry movies, guys who hate their beautiful wives and a sorrowful lack of gambling in 1968's BIG TIME GAMBLING BOSS! swimfanspod.com

This week, we welcome back Shannon Strucci and discuss speedrunning making enemies, the virtue of a constantly wet protagonist, and the high strangeness of modern society in 1985's AFTER HOURS!

The Cruel Summering continues and the squad discusses the fatalism of the universe, the cyclical nature of time repeating, and truly risk-addicted vibes in 1964's PALE FLOWER! swimfanspod.com

This week on the pod, Craig, Alex and Josh talk the power of being really really good at the basics of filmmaking and each blame each other for a murder during 1950's RASHOMON! swimfanspod.com

This week, we talk Alex's new career as a film archivist, debate the popular filmmaking techniques of the 1990s and discuss 1992's DEEP COVER's well-deserved place in the pantheon of neo-noir masterpieces!   swimfanspod.com

Howdy funky dealers, it's Cruel Summer time!! First up, we talk being beautiful and doomed, coercive business practices and reigning forever in Vibehalla in 1995's FALLEN ANGELS! swimfanspod.com

This week, the princesses discuss Isabelle Huppert (again), American poet-themed bars, and movies that are simply born strange in 1987's BEDROOM WINDOW! swimfanspod.com

This week on the pod, we talk complicated characters, Isabelle Huppert, and empathy in Paul Verhoeven's 2016 film ELLE!

Last week, we complained about not enough ghouls, and this week, we complain about too many. The Goldilocks hosts talk de Palma, the feeling of too many cooks in a kitchen, and Regina George in 2012's PASSION! swimfanspod.com

This week on the podcast, we talk girl twinks, real and false Julies, and Detective Frinklepop Wears A Kilt in 2003's SWIMMING POOL! swimfanspod.com

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This week, we get our flips switched with Heroes Three icon Matthew Tucciarone and talk computer magic, touching grass and trying to remember 90s computer viruses from memory in 1995's THE NET! swimfanspod.com

This week on the show, we discuss old-school catfishing, unsatisfying conspiracy plots and surprisingly decent diegetic paintings in 1994's FLESHTONE!   swimfanspod.com

We go into deep into our murder dreams to cure our brain demons with Dadaism. It's Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound! swimfanspod.com