The Swampflix Podcast

The entire podcast crew assembles to discuss their favorite films of 2019. https://swampflix.com/

Brandon and Aaron Armstrong of the We Love to Watch podcast discuss the stoney-baloney world of psychedelic musicals, with a particular focus on The Monkees' irreverent war protest freak-out Head (1968). Enjoy! https://www.wltwpodcast.com/ https://swampflix.com/

James & Brandon discuss one of 2019's great crowd-pleasers and one of its most divisive oddities: Parasite & Us. And because both films deal in vertical class warfare, they then descend below ground to wrangle with C.H.U.D. (1984). Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/

Brandon, Britnee, and James fight through some technical difficulties to discuss the revisionist artistry of the hip-hop biopic, with a particular focus on Gully Boy (2019), a Bollywood descendant of 8-Mile (2002). Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/

Brandon and CC review the full list of low-budget, high-ambition films they caught at the 30th annual New Orleans Film Festival: shorts, documentaries, and narrative features. Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/

James, Brandon, and Hanna brave the murky depths of self-financed amateur filmmaking by examining the scariest director working today: Neil Breen, starting with his genocidal political screed Pass Thru (2016). Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/

Britnee & Brandon travel back in time to wage war with the vampires of the nu-metal era, with a particular focus on Queen of the Damned (2002), Underworld (2003), and Dracula 2000 (2000). Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/

Britnee & Brandon are joined by special celebrity guest star Mark "Boomer" Redmond to discuss feature-length movie sequels to television shows, with a particular focus on Downton Abbey (2019), Da Kath and Kim Code (2005), and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/

James & Brandon attempt to answer the age-old question "Just who, exactly, is Jason Statham?" To solve this complex puzzle, they look back to the supposed action star's early-aughts rise to fame[?] in films like The Transporter (2002), Crank (2006), and The Bank Job (2008). Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/

Britnee & Brandon return to the schoolyard to compete in some childhood games . . . to the death! They follow up a discussion of the 2019 horror comedy Ready or Not with a look back at last year's Truth or Dare and 2005's Hide and Seek. Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/

James guides Brandon through the early career of the late, great schlockteur Larry Cohen, with a particular focus on Bone (1972), God Told Me To (1976), and Q: The Winged Serpent (1982). Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/

Brandon & Britnee fight off killer alligators & crocodiles in a nonstop, swampy fight to the death, starting with a discussion of the 2019 creature feature Crawl. Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/

We discuss provocative cinema set in the seedy underworld of the porno industry. Brandon makes James watch the queer giallo throwback Knife+Heart (2019) for the first time, then they discuss two more fictional films about the production of pornography: Hardcore (1979) & The Misandrists (2018). Enjoy, ya buncha pervs! https://swampflix.com/

Britnee, Brandon, and James discuss the most noteworthy movies from last year they‘ve seen in the six months since they made their respective Top Films of 2018 lists, with a particular focus on Border, Burning, and The Road Movie. Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/

James drags Brandon back into the sordid realm of Adrian Lyne's erotic-thriller melodramas of the 80s & 90s, including Indecent Proposal (1993), Fatal Attraction (1987), and ​9 1⁄2 Weeks(1986). Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/

Brandon & Britnee compare the latest entry into the psychobiddy canon, Ma (2019), to a couple towering classics in the genre: Strait-Jacket (1964) & The Nanny (1965). Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/

Brandon and CC discuss all the films they caught at the 2019 Overlook Film Fest, an international horror festival staged in downtown New Orleans, "The Most Haunted City in America." https://swampflix.com/

We ask the age-old question "Is there such a thing as good torture porn?" Brandon makes James watch the crowdfunded 2019 horror Pledge for the first time, then they discuss two artsy European films that offer an interesting take on the genre: Goodnight Mommy (2015) & Inside (2007). Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/

Brandon and CC discuss the last two movies they caught in theaters: the live-action pokénoir Detective Pikachu (2019) & the unusually political romcom Long Shot (2019). Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/

Brandon & Britnee revisit the quips & quibbles of cult-classic gay stage plays. They discuss the Del Shores comedy Sordid Lives (2000), its crowd-funded sequel A Very Sordid Wedding (2017) and, for balance, the William Friedkin-directed downer The Boys in the Band (1970). Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/

Brandon and CC discuss three recent music-related features to commemorate festival season: Beyoncé's Homecoming (2019), Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace (2019), and Childish Gambino's Guava Island (2019). Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/

The podcast is born again with a new & improved format. James & Brandon are joined by Hanna Räsänen to discuss the Christian fantasy film The Shack (2017) and recommend two pairings to help illuminate what makes it unique as Evangelical cinema: God's Not Dead (2014) & Saved! (2004). Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/

Brandon and CC experiment with a new podcast feature: a weekly report on what they've been seeing in theaters. This week they discuss three disparate dispatches from French cinema: High Life (2019), Jour de Fête (1949), and Cruel Intentions (1999). Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/

Brandon & Britnee review the holy trinity of Matt Farley's backyard movies under the Motern Media brand: Local Legends (2013), Don't Let the Riverbeast Get You! (2012), and Monsters, Marriage, and Murder in Manchvegas (2009). Also, Britnee makes Brandon watch Traci Lords's mainstream debut, the 1988 Jim Wynorski remake of Roger Corman's Not of this Earth. Enjoy! http://swampflix.com/2019/04/03/mov...

James & Brandon take care of some film festival-related Spring cleaning with a diverse line-up of foreign-language cinema. They discuss selections from this year’s New Orleans French Film Fest and PATOIS: The New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival. Also, James makes Brandon watch the absurdist French drama La Moustache (2005) for the first time. Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/2019/03/2...