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Glory & Propaganda is done and now we must head into the future and then back to the present to prevent the future. New month, new theme but war still lingers and this future is as bleak as they come. It’s all about tomorrow all August in a them we’re calling “SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW”. Much of what we discuss this month  will occur in the aftermath of nuclear fire. It’s all Oppenheimer sequels...

We’re doubling down this week on selections for our overarching year’s theme called “A DREARY YEAR OF LARS VON TRIER”. By the end of what is already a complete shithole year, we will have discussed a dozen movies by the dreary Danish auteur Lars von Trier. We’re now over halfway there. Today’s film discussion is one of his most notorious and amongst the smallest casts we’ve ever discussed for a mo...

We took some time off to deep dive into some topics but now we’ve returned to this year’s overarching theme in which we discuss a dozen Lars von Trier movies before it’s all said and done. Could this year get any shittier? Well maybe we can help make it feel more terrible in this DREARY YEAR OF VON TRIER. We’re going back to back this week and today we wrap up von Trier’s “Golden Hearts Trilogy” w...

And so we say goodbye to war movies this month. GLORY & PROPAGANDA comes to an end and Angela won’t miss it but jokes on her because next month’s topic is dystopian futures. The aftermath of GLORY & PROPAGANDA. We’re going deeper into film history for the theme’s farewell in a discussion that is also our only movie this month about the U.S. Civil War. It was almost “Shenandoah” but we figu...

No shortage of atrocities in this month’s theme we’re calling GLORY & PROPAGANDA and so we dive into another brutal event in a movie that presents itself in an animated hybrid documentary style. Israeli media, and US media for that matter, doesn’t often show its military actions in such a straightforward, yet resentful, manner but the Sabra and Shatila Massacre committed by the Philangist forc...

For GLORY & PROPAGANDA this month we already discussed a Vietnam war movie but why not discuss a Korean War movie that is pretty much about the Vietnam War? Today’s discussion is amongst our most comical this month and it’s a film that got passed on by a lot of directors until one particular man took the reigns and established, from this point on, a very prolific and influential style. Robert...

We’re approaching the end of July’s theme of GLORY & PROPAGANDA. How appropriate that this month has men carrying guns in every discussion. When you’re a French solider in “The Great War” you gotta keep your head on a swivel, even in them trenches. Then you got these shithead commanding officers who seem to want to throw you on the meat pile quickly. Displays of common sense might seem like co...

GLORY & PROPAGANDA means war movies all month long and there isn’t very many war flicks about the first gulf war. “Three Kings” is one you might think of immediately. On the other hand it’s an interesting thing to capture the mundanity of a particular conflict and during that first gulf war in 1990, a lot of soldiers charged up without seeing quite as much action as they prepared for. I mean,...

For the war movies we’re discussing in this month’s theme that we’re calling “GLORY & PROPAGANDA” one person’s inspiring tale of right and might can be, to another person, a study in the horrors of power and supremacy. We’re studying all types this month in war film but the undertones of this cult hit from 1997 seems to skirt by some to this very day. Allegedly the novel’s tone is different bu...

CORRECTION: This film is based on the writings of Saddi Yacef NOT Franco Solinas the screenwriter. It’s GLORY & PROPAGANDA all month for our theme and let me ask you a question…are you ready for a revolution? Our covid stricken hosts discuss one of the most realistic war films ever made and the reverberations of the conflict it depicts resonates soundly on screen because the movie about the co...

War movies are happening all month in a theme we call GLORY & PROPAGANDA and we wrap up WW2 week with a tearjerker anime. You can call what the U.S. did in Japan brutal, we won’t deny that, but boy did all that bombing inspire some great film art. Bob’s grandfather was escorting oil tankers coming from South America on a Navy ship during this time so you can’t blame him for what happened to th...

WARNING: A LOT OF TALK ABOUT SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND GENERAL INHUMANITY. Shit can get rough during wartime. Cruelty can rear its ugly head and we get a lot of that during our war-movie themed month we’re calling GLORY & PROPAGANDA. This week is WW2 week. The Second Sino-Japanese War probably would have happened anyway, regardless of the rest of the world’s troubles, but it was on the footsteps and...

July is GLORY & PROPAGANDA!!! That means war movies all month long and we’re in the middle of WW2 week with our very first Quentin Tarantino film discussion that was very likely inspired by our Monday selection “The Dirty Dozen”, episode out now! There’s some genuine horror this month but Tarantino finds ways to use violence in a weirdly cathartic way. Comeuppance is a universal theme in Taran...

This month is GLORY & PROPAGANDA for our theme. It’s WW 2 week and we’re all over the globe. Western exceptionalism may downplay Soviet contributions to art but they made some pretty fantastic movies once they made it out of very drawn out review processes. One such movie was held for seven years and, somehow, no changes were made except to the title of the film. “KILL HITLER” would have been...

GLORY & PROPAGANDA is July’s theme. That means wartime movies all month long and we got some 60s dadcool cinema to discuss today. Two fisted but not too “heel clickey” Robert Aldrich’s 1967 film “THE DIRTY DOZEN” holds solid ground in the history of good war movies. Lee Marvin plays Major Reisman, a not very well liked officer, who is assigned a dozen military prisoners who are set to either h...

All July is movies at war, a theme we’re calling “GLORY & PROPAGANDA”. War films are movie genre that draws another specific sub-class of film that can also cross over with westerns. We’re talking about what we like to call “DAD BONER MOVIES”. I guess you could say “Dad Flicks” if you don’t want to be crude but what’s the fun in that? Think about your dad for a moment. Think about the movies h...

This is a very patriotic month here in the United States so why not discuss war movies? GLORY & PROPAGANDA is July’s theme. Angela maybe isn’t going to have fun this month. It might be rough for Bob too but he actually likes sad dad-boner type movies. When you come up with Vietnam War movies in your mind, this might pop up fourth or fifth off the top of your head. This flick features Michael J...

New month! New theme! July gets pretty explosive so why not talk about war movies all month? It’s a theme we’re calling “GLORY & PROPAGANDA”. We start it off with some proper classic American movie heroism and jingoism but be prepared for things to not tow such a patriotic line as we dive deeper into the horrors of war on film all month. Today, we can revel in some patriotism in a biopic about...

Today we say goodbye to our annual MOVIES ARE GAY theme for June and it’s one of our favorite months. So eye opening. Sometimes hole opening. We’re coasting out strong with our last selection and it just so happens to be (I think) our first official musical and it’s one that took us by surprise waaaaay back in 2001 when we happened to lay eyes on it in our movie theaters and dorm rooms. It was int...

This month, movies have been gay to a variety of extremities with no shortage of themes of “suppression”. Well we’re throwing suppression out the window as well as anything having anything to do with polite society because we’re finally getting to a John Water’s film. John Waters and his eccentric Baltimore circle of friends and freaks had been making movies for a handful of years already, but whe...

We’re in our final stretch for June’s theme of MOVIES ARE GAY and we discuss one last classic film of subtext and suppression before we rip the mask off and step from the closet and into the light. It took us a long time to get to Elizabeth Taylor, who is the iconic starlet gay ally, and Marlon Brando who we would guess is probably “aggressively pansexual”. It seems like you could literally pictur...

The lesbianism is in full effect for our second annual MOVIES ARE GAY themed month and there’s very few dogs around considering how many lesbians we’re seeing. We booked William Friedkin’s “Boys in the Band” but since Bob double booked Friedkin (see/hear our discussion on CRUISING available now) we decided to postpone the boys and hit up only our third 2024 released film this year so far. We love...

For our MOVIES ARE GAY theme this month we’re hitting up some extra Fassbinder just like Fassbinder himself hit up those extra party favors. We’re actually discussing Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film before he left us too soon at the age of 37. His 1982 film “QUERELLE” is adapted from the Jean Genet novel “Querelle in Brest” starring Brad Davis, Franco Nero and many more. A bisexual sailor in...

For this month’s theme of MOVIES ARE GAY shit can get sad. Today we’re discussing the best picture Oscar winner from 2016. This seems like one of the few best picture winners in the last decade that make sense. The nature of suppression comes up often in LGBTQ stories, especially when things get historical, but what balances Barry Jenkins film “MOONLIGHT” a little better than most is the convincin...

For our MOVIES ARE GAY theme we like to hit up, at least, one romcom and today’s discussion had an unprecedented major studio presence for a gay film with a majority LGBTQ cast but it seemed to come and go fairly quietly. The Judd Apatow produced film directed by Nicholas Stoller, written by Billy Eichner and starring Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane may have had an uphill battle within an era wh...