The Swampflix Podcast

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of movies about home-renovation woes, starting with the Tom Hanks comedy vehicle The Money Pit (1986) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 02:30 17 Again (2009) 05:41 Bully (2001) 09:40 The Leather Boys (1965) 13:01 Son of Godzilla (1967) 17:47 Cora Bora (2024) 21:11 The Money Pit (1986) 40:08 Of Unknown Origin (1983) 52:45 MouseHunt (1997) 1:0...

Boomer & Brandon discuss two superhero movies currently in wide theatrical release: M3GAN 2.0 (2025) & Superman (2025) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 04:17 I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) 15:10 The Age of Innocence (1993) 21:57 Misericordia (2025) 28:50 Looney Tunes - The Day the Earth Blew Up (2025) 34:24 Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) 38:24 Megan 2.0 (2025) vs. Superman (2025)

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of new releases from the first half of 2025, starting with Ryan Coogler's Southern-fried vampire musical Sinners https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 01:37 Mike Flanagan 03:04 Disclosure (1994) 04:50 Brokeback Mountain (2005) 09:53 Smiley Face (2007) 13:15 A Room with a View (1985) 17:01 High Heels (1991) 21:07 Querelle (1982) 25:12 Sinners (20...

Boomer & Brandon discuss Paul Bartel's entertainment-industry satire Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 01:40 Spies (1928) 07:00 Buffalo '66 (1998) 13:33 A Woman's Torment (1977) 18:52 The Dinner Game (1988) 23:13 Maigret Sets a Trap (1958) 29:47 The Lodger (1927) 34:35 28 Weeks Later (2007) 40:00 28 Years Later (2025) 52:36 Materialists (20...

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of biopics about famous visual artists, starting with 1988's Camille Claudel, in which Isabelle Adjani plays the titular sculptor https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 03:07 Linda (2025) 05:09 The Black Sea (2025) 08:58 Sinners (2025) 14:08 Popeye the Slayer Man (2025) 18:45 Dreamchild (1985) 22:27 The Story of Adele H (1975) 25:32 Camille Claud...

Boomer & Brandon discuss Luis Buñuel's surrealist satire The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), in which a small party of upper-class snobs are repeatedly deprived of their dinner https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 01:27 Batman Ninja vs Yakuza League (2025) 06:25 Vulcanizadora (2025) 09:52 Pavements (2025) 19:52 Ernest Cole - Lost and Found (2025) 25:51 Mountainhead (2025) 33:23 Ballerina...

Brandon, James, and Hanna discuss the few films that have been adapted from William S. Burroughs's prose, starting with David Cronenberg's 1991 adaptation of Naked Lunch. https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 01:20 Friendship (2025) 03:10 Bring Her Back (2025) 09:34 Premonition (2007) 13:37 Mulan (1998) 16:53 Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) 20:02 Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) 23:08 Na...

Boomer & Brandon discuss Alejandro Amenábar's snuff-film murder mystery Tesis (1996) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 01:24 Goodbye Horses - The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (2025) 09:20 The Haunted Palace (1963) 14:56 Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 20:57 Leila and the Wolves (1984) 25:12 The Prophecy (1995) 27:31 The Raven (1963) 28:57 The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) 34:07 The Ug...

Brandon & Boomer discuss a grab bag of horror films set in assisted living facilities, starting with the straight-to-Shudder thriller The Rule of Jenny Pen (2025) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 01:31 The Surfer (2025) 06:39 Clown in a Cornfield (2025) 16:29 The Kid Detective (2020) 18:00 Belle de Jour (1967) 28:07 Decision to Leave (2022) 35:00 The Spiral Staircase (1946) 40:16 The Rule of J...

Boomer & Brandon discuss Roger Corman's psychedelic sci-fi crime thriller X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Sinners (2025) 08:48 Secret Mall Apartment (2025) 13:50 The Ugly Stepsister (2025) 19:15 Beau Travail (1999) 25:28 Strawberry Mansion (2022) 33:01 The Haunted Palace (1963) 37:20 X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of dramas about wartime traitors, treasonists, quislings, and collaborators, starting with the Czech New Wave classic The Cremator (1969) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 04:40 The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man (2025) 07:56 Children of a Lesser God (1986) 11:51 The Passionate Friends (1949) 13:05 Hobson's Choice (1954) 17:08 Date Movie (2006) 23:15 B...

Boomer & Brandon discuss the Canuxploitation meta-horror Deadline (1980) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 01:40 Tales of Terror (1962) 06:10 The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) 11:07 The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020) 16:20 Wolfen (1981) 22:46 True Romance (1993) 27:58 My Cousin Vinny (1992) 31:36 Fame Whore (1997) 38:30 Quadrophenia (1979) 43:48 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) 47:43 The Doll (1919) 54:55...

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of vintage genre films about Vietnam War vets suffering from PTSD, starting with the violent exploitation thriller Combat Shock (1986) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 The Pope of Trash 08:50 Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) 13:00 Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) 17:12 Under the Sand (2000) 24:15 Warfare (2025) 33:00 Combat Shock (19...

Boomer & Brandon discuss Takahide Hori's stop-motion-animated nightmare comedy Junk Head (2017) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 03:55 Vampire Hunter D (1985) 07:07 Casino (1995) 15:31 Deadwood - The Movie (2019) 22:30 The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) 38:17 The Conformist (1970) 42:32 Times Square (1980) 48:56 Devil Fetus (1982) 55:38 Grave of the Fireflies (1988) 1:01:21 Junk Head (2017)

Brandon, James, and Hanna discuss a selection of genre films that screened at this year’s Overlook Film Festival, starting with Good Boy (2025), a haunted house movie seen from a dog's POV https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 04:36 Good Boy 17:00 The Ugly Stepsister 30:00 It Ends 36:26 Predators 49:43 Zodiac Killer Project 1:00:53 Dead Lover 1:05:00 The Shrouds 1:16:05 Lifehack 1:20:20 Cloud 1:38:...

Boomer & Brandon discuss the Shaw Brothers' laser-wizards martial arts actioner Buddha's Palm (1982) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 01:37 Eephus (2025) 04:45 Looney Tunes - The Day The Earth Blew Up (2025) 09:03 Black Bag (2025) 15:40 Misericordia (2025) 21:16 The Shrouds (2025) 27:47 Ash (2025) 34:32 The Premature Burial (1962) 39:38 The Masque of the Red Death (1964) 48:20 Dark Intruder (1...

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of low-budget horror films about ballerinas in crisis, starting with the 1989 Supsiria knockoff Étoile, starring Jennifer Connelly https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Concerts 07:21 Two English Girls (1971) 10:32 Adolescence (2025) 15:37 Down with Love (2003) 19:20 Chocolate Babies (1996) 25:03 Étoile (1989) 47:53 Dance Macabre (1992) 1:04:16 The Line...

Boomer & Brandon discuss Gregg Araki's Los Angeles teen brain-rot comedy Nowhere (1997) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 03:30 Urban Legend (1998) 15:00 Juliet of the Spirits (1965) 19:23 Contempt (1963) 22:45 The Black Cat (1989) 27:35 Video Violence (1987) 30:51 Fade to Black (1980) 34:34 Possible Films - Short Works by Hal Hartley (1994-2004) 42:13 Mickey 17 (2025) 50:04 Goodfellas (1990) 5...

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss the portrait of America stretched across Robert Altman's filmography, starting with his 1975 country-music industry drama Nashville https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Pearl Jam 01:23 Striptease (1996) 05:06 Incendies (2010) 08:01 La Moustache (2005) 10:30 American Sniper (2014) 17:13 Rambo I - V (1982 - 2019) 25:20 Nashville (1975) 54:50 McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1...

Boomer & Brandon discuss the classic Howard Hawks noir The Big Sleep (1946), starring Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 01:52 The Murder of Mr. Devil (1970) 06:58 Teeth (2007) 13:48 Citizen Ruth (1996) 20:48 Wander to Wonder (2025) 23:44 No Other Land (2025) 27:33 The Monkey (2025) 35:19 Heart Eyes (2025) 41:03 Armand (2025) 45:08 Grand Theft Hamlet (2025) 50:44...

Brandon & Alli discuss a grab bag of movies about swords & swordplay, starting with the fencing academy drama By the Sword (1991). Swords! https://swampflix.com/ https://plotisoptional.com/ 00:00 Plot is Optional & Spooky Tuesday 02:55 I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) 09:18 The Lord of the Rings - The War of the Rohirrim (2024) 16:42 By the Sword (1991) 37:55 Captain Blood (1939) 48:14 Conan...

Boomer & Brandon discuss Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 surveillance paranoia thriller The Conversation, which recently screened at Prytania's Classic Movie Series https://swampflix.com/ https://www.theprytania.com/uptown/classic-movie-series 00:00 Welcome 05:08 George Dureau: New Orleans Artist (2023) 19:10 The Roommate (2011) 32:35 Crimes of Passion (1984) 45:08 The Conversation (1974)

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss the earlier works of this year’s Best Director Oscar nominees, starting with Sean Baker's porn-industry buddy comedy Starlet (2012) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Apology/Goo 05:03 Kinda Pregnant (2025) 10:19 The Vietnam War (2017) 14:17 The Sweet Smell of Success (1957) 18:35 Rats! (2025) 23:39 Starlet (2012) 41:48 The Childhood of a Leader (2015) 58:30 A...

Boomer, Brandon, and Alli discuss the 2017 road-trip dramedy Please Stand By, starring Dakota Fanning as an autistic Star Trek obsessive on the run https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 01:09 Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 04:13 Nosferatu (2024) 06:17 Cunk on Life (2025) 10:53 Dark Match (2025) 17:29 Companion (2025) 23:46 Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2025) 27:40 Son in Law (1...

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of 90s movies about well-meaning teachers confronted with the violent chaos of inner-city schools, starting with the 1997 Sam Jackson vehicle 187 https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 01:55 Presence (2025) 02:56 The Brutalist (2024) 06:14 The Cranes are Flying (1957) 08:17 The Lives of Others (2006) 14:39 It's Complicated (2009) 18:13 Two Days i...