Twin Picks

The gang is BACK with the love and support of That's Not Canon Productions , making this podcast a truly sexy til-death-do-us-part romantic affair. Just like the ride-or-die romance in this week's films, the 1967 counterculture classic 'Bonnie and Clyde' and the recent remix of the Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker myth, 'Queen and Slim'. How does the meaning of these sensual getaway stories change o...

part 1 was fun wasn’t it! we talked about Sonic the Hedgehog, and Zack Snyder being a silly goof, and so many other funny things hehe! well LISTEN UP PUNK. this is Part 2 and we ain’t playing around anymore. In the hefty conclusion to our discussion of 2020's big movie controversies, Noah and Eliza break down some of the more impactful stories from this year that speak to the current climate of no...

are u up to date on 2020's wildest movie scandals or have you been living under a ROCK??!! Because that's really ok, everyone's been super isolated actually and we thought it would be nice to cover some of that fun n nasty n fascinating news for ur listening pleasure. In a rambling angsty discussion of each of 2020's big movie controversies, one by one, we land on a DEFINITIVË list of the top twel...

This week the Janssen siblings and Anthony take the BORED out of BOARD game, by looking at not only the witty ensemble comedy 'Clue' but also 'Knives Out', last year's whodunnit hit that acts as a loving homage of 'Clue' and other retro murder mysteries. Both movies feature a murderer's row (literally!!! lmao!!!) of acting talent, and are set in big ol shambling aristocratic family homes, but is t...

It's our second Marty Scorsese episode and our first ever look into the filmography of Paul Schrader, both New Yorky New Hollywood movie bros who collaborated on 'Taxi Driver' and have here made their own attempts at telling stories of religious agony and ecstasy in historical Japan. The only problem? Both 2016's 'Silence' and 1985's 'Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters' are reeeeeally good n engagin...

Film n culture genius Ivana Brehas brought us this pair of tenuously connected films, so we're all here together to break down their surprising similarities! Both the goofy family superhero 'Sky High' and 'The Stanford Prison Experiment' star Michael Angarano and Nicholas Braun, a real pair of 2000s-era 'oh yeah I know that guy' character actors. But the twindom doesn't end there! Both films also...

In one of the most prominent recent examples of a bizarre 'twin films' situation, 2011 saw the release of not one but TWO films about one half of the Mila Kunis/Ashton Kutcher power couple enjoying hot, sexy, meaningless sex - ooh yeah baby Shagadelic! But things get even weirder from there, since both 'Friends With Benefits' and 'No Strings Attached' also feature the stars of Darren Aronofsky's '...

Look closely and u shall see that Pixar's 'A Bugs Life' and Akira Kurosawa's sweepingly influential 'Seven Samurai' kinda have the same plot; a band of skilled outsiders prepare to defend a village from being pillaged by sadistic attackers. We could've watched 'Seven Samurai' and 'The Magnificent Seven' OR we could've done 'A Bugs Life' and 'Antz'...but NO, we wanted to get into the tragic chivalr...

we're back back back back back again!!! And we're so excited to discuss the two most influential erotic thrillers of the late eighties/early nineties with lovely American guest Max Kronick ( https://twitter.com/MaxerOfDisguise ), returning for another round of blockbuster comparisons. Noah has some long-gestating thoughts about how 'Fatal Attraction' loses all its respect n tension in Glenn Close'...

In Memoriam of Meg's thwarted travel plans to Italy, we watched the celebrated 'Lizzie McGuire Movie' and a weird old timey ripoff off it starring Audrey Hepburn??? 'Roman Holiday' and 'The Lizzie McGuire Movie' both make audiences swoon with their stories of a young girl finding love and escapism in Italy's capital city, including flirty Vespa riding and mistaken identity shenanigans. But will No...

Stop worrying about that pesky coronavirus and watch some fictional pandemics instead!!!! Noah, Meg and Anthony are joined by Eliza and writer/film buff Max Kronick over in da USA to discuss a pair of films which depict mass sickness and hysteria; the goofy, overblown 'Outbreak' starring the 'Avengers of sexual harassment', versus Steven Soderbergh's terrifyingly clinical 'Contagion'. Come on yall...

Stay self-isolated with two of the MOST feely, introspective, romantic movies of the past few decades, both of which spend a lot of time in bedrooms - just like you rn !!!! The mega-talented Darcey Eagle gives us her own insight into appearing in a Japanese Suntory commercial just like Bill Murray did in Sofia Coppola's 'Lost In Translation', and then everyone almost cries while talking about 'Her...

Whether you're a hard-boiled detective or just some Dude, Los Angeles is the perfect setting for iconic film noir mysteries, and we had a great time watching two of the very best! Howard Hawks' 'The Big Sleep' is disarmingly kinky and ambiguous, while the Coen's goofy noir hybrid 'The Big Lebowski' has the same Raymond Chandler story beats in a sillier package. If it seems like our discussion of t...

Claymation versus true history of the Holocaust - it should seem like 'The Great Escape' is the obvious victor, right? Luckily we have Anthony Carr, our podcast's Sound Daddy and resident 'Chicken Run' expert on mic as a very special guest this episode! Together, the siblings and their sound engineer toss up between the innate coolness of Steve McQueen and the sheer loveableness of Bunty the thicc...

This week's episode is like normal Twin Picks on steroids....literally!!!!! We looked at the 1977 documentary that brought the then-niche world of bodybuilding to the mainstream, 'Pumping Iron', and a 2013 action-comedy about three knucklehead bodybuilders trying to pull off a murderous get-rich-quick scheme in Michael Bay's 'Pain and Gain'. Both films are totally JACKED and NATTY explorations of...

From the woozy height of romance in 1960s Hong Kong, to the depths of demonic depravity in one of Sutter Kane's pulp horror stories, this episode will have you In The Mood For uhhhh movies!! We succumb to madness with special guest Hersh Nevgi who's been meaning to watch Wong Kar Wai's celebrated 'In The Mood For Love' for ages, and then revisit the wildly entertaining but anti-climactic 'In The M...

COCK A DOODLE DOOOO it's breakfast time! Get dressed and sit down at the kitchen table for your choice of Meal A; 'Breakfast At Tiffany's', an airy retro confection powered by Audrey Hepburn's innate charisma, or Meal B; the passionate yet flawed 'The Breakfast Club', John Hughes' teen ensemble drama about a bunch of mismatched kids either learning to love each other and themselves, or learning ho...

It's Valentine's Day this week, and we're noticing tens tens tens across the board in both of our romantic-comedy classic picks. First, Noah challenges Heath Ledger's dreamy/clumsy performance in nineties teen Shakespeare remix '10 Things I Hate About You', then our special guest Emily SURNAME REDACTED walks us through more than ten things she loves about 'How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days', potentiall...

The family hits the runway with their very first special guest, musical theatre star Marty Alix ( https://www.instagram.com/martyalixx/ ), and he’s brought two haute couture films with him! First we cast a withering, Streep-esque look at the feather-light but quotable chick flick ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ before delving into the kinky relationship between Alma and Reynolds in Paul Thomas Anderson’s...

US/USSR relations are getting strange, love, and the Janssens are here to probe behind the red curtain in their analysis of Stanley Kubrick's 'Dr Strangelove' and Sidney Lumet's 'Fail Safe', a pair of twin films from 1964 both based on a terrifying cold war 'what if'. The only problem is, one is a revered satire of power and impotence, and the other plays its plot of mutually assured destruction t...

Put your paws up for the CATFIGHT of the century: Tom Hooper's musical failure 'Cats', and Jacques Tourneur's horrifying tale of repressed desire 'Cat People'. Let's be real Jellicles, only one of these movies has a chance at winning the siblings' vote this episode, BUT! The value of 'Cats' deserves to be seriously investigated, and Meg, Noah, and Eliza are brave enough to do it. Both of these fil...

We got 2020 vision, and this year's lookin so bright we gotta wear shades. To wrap up the last year in film and life, though, we first need to count down our top 5 films of 2019, as well as singling out the year's worst and most forgotten movies and best performances. There's some very special guest picks and Meg saying 'I'm back on my shit' approximately 400 times - don't head into the next terri...

To ring in the new year, we made an EXHAUSTIVE list of the best, worst, and most notable movies of 2019 - and we're taking an indulgent two-or-so hours to get through it all! In this first of two installments, the team counts down from their top ten to their top sixth film of the year, while also covering categories such as most overrated, most underrated, favourite scene of the year, and favourit...

We got two Robert De Niro, time-traversing, auteuristic, upwards-of-three-hours-long gangster sagas here for ya, boss. Which one of them deserves to be crowned 'best sadboi mob epic', and which one is gonna be sleepin' with the fishes by the end of this episode? The gang's all here in this mildly xenophobic episode, where Meg, Noah, and Eliza analyse this year's Scorsese flick 'The Irishman' and S...

This year, Santa brought us TWO monochromatically-titled movies about the holidays, and it's up to three lil Janssen elves to decide which one jingled our bells more successfully!! We check out the timeless and surprisingly progressive 'White Christmas', a 1954 Bing Crosby musical, before taking things a bit darker with the 1974 quasi-feminist proto-slasher 'Black Christmas'. Drop down our chimney...