#78: Mona Lisa (1986)
This week we travel to gritty 80’s London via Neil Jordan’s MONA LISA. Our hero is the elegant and inscrutable Simone (Cathy Tyson), a high end call g...
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Join us as we uncover each other's media and pop culture blindspots. We're a couple getting to know each other better by sharing the must-see movies from our past.
#77: Mildred Pierce (1945)
Is it noir? Is it a woman’s picture? Why not both? On this week's episode we talk MILDRED PIERCE. Joan Crawford is the hardest working woman in the gr...
#76: The Conformist (1970)
In the words of noted 90s philosopher, Jack Handey, “If you ever discover that what you're seeing is a play within a play, just slow down, take a deep...
#75: Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
Perhaps HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY is an odd choice considering our general weariness with sequels and franchises and Dave’s aversion to superhero fi...
#74: Ruthless People (1986)
This week’s pick is about some ruthless people and some not so ruthless people acting in some very ruthless ways, but also some not very ruthless ways...
#73: Tank Girl (1995)
Film and other art forms are in near constant dialogue, influencing each other. This is particularly true in genre films, where quotations of influent...
#72: Stolen Kisses (1968)
This week we have a little truffle of a Truffaut film, romantic comedy-drama STOLEN KISSES. Third in Truffaut’s series of films about Antoine Doinel, ...
#71: SXSW 2021 - Inbetween Girl / Islands / The Fallout
It’s Springtime in Austin, which means bluebonnets, beautiful weather and South by Southwest Music, Film, everything Festival. SXSW 2021, like many fe...
#70: Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)
Why don’t we have a word for a breakup comedy? Anti-romantic comedy doesn’t quite get the idea across in the right way. Maybe it's because breakups ar...
#69: A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)
What do you get when you mix horror, comedy, and romance with martial arts, stop motion, and a ghost story. Something that feels a little like Evil De...