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94 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingswe probably havent thought this through, but we aren’t going to listen to the cop in our heads…we have takes and we are goin to give them, with or without anyone else input. Lack of oxygen meets investigative reporting meets the guests you know and love, meets fun recommendations meets hard driven attitudes, you don’t wanna miss
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Britney
June 11, 2024 16:47 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBIt’s britney time, with our favorite drag queen, Ramona Slick Crossroads + Morvern Callar - June 18 at Music Box
Certified Loverboy
May 10, 2024 23:46 - 1 hour - 84.1 MBWe talk Clint once again. We get into the romantic entanglements circling his life around the time he made Bridges of Madison County. After we say some words about Cassavetes’ Gloria (which we are showing with Bridges this Monday) it’s all talk about Clint’s romantic soft boy side Tickets
Trolling Stone pt. 2
April 27, 2024 22:28 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBWe talk about that rolling stone article more
Jess Franco’s Dark Universe
March 26, 2024 00:04 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBwe take a special moment to highlight Severin’s newly restored masterpiece DRACULA PRISONER OF FRANKENSTEIN, how Franco got to this place in his filmography, how Universal’s horror dept changed in a decade, as well as highlighting some unmade Universal monster movies that sound like they could’ve been Jess Franco movies we will be presenting the North American premiere of this hypnotic Gothic horror excursion Thursday, March 28th at the Davis Theatre in Chicago, as well the Hollywood Theatr...
The Franco Files: Will Sloan
March 15, 2024 11:44 - 1 hour - 64 MBWe crack the files just a bit today as we get back into the zone, this time with Franco mega fan Will Sloan, who walks us through some personal favorites
The Oscars Blowout Special
March 06, 2024 21:05 - 2 hours - 112 MBwe have returned to attend the 2024 Oscars in beautiful sunny California
H & L: Freddy Got Fingered + The Idiots
December 09, 2023 15:57 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBWe dig into Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered + Lars Von Trier's The Idiots. Both screening this Tuesday, Dec. 12th at 7pm at the Music Box Theatre Tickets here
The Franco Files: Hot Tropic
December 06, 2023 09:44 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBWe return with more Franco movies, this time featuring Revenge in the House of Usher and his unfortunate misadventures in the jungle
The Franco Files: Return to Innocence
November 26, 2023 18:33 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBThe files are opened once again as we discuss The Sinister Dr. Orloff through to The Shadow Judoka vs Dr. Wong
The Movie Review Corner #4
November 18, 2023 20:09 - 1 hour - 80.9 MBWe review Friedkin’s final film, along with Fincher’s The Killer and Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon
The Franco Files: Gold Bugs
November 12, 2023 15:15 - 1 hour - 78 MBThe files are opened again proper. We sift through 8 of Jess’ early 80s period, featuring Macumba Sexual and Oasis of the Zombies
The Franco Files: Catching Breath
November 04, 2023 23:41 - 1 hour - 80.2 MBWe take a moment to reflect on where we’ve come and where we are going. We list off 5 films each that have made this journey so far memorable
UNLOCKED: Burning
October 20, 2023 20:44 - 1 hour - 75.4 MBWhat a world we live in. We are fired up and burnt out on this one, simultaneously. Expect some real treats soon
Goth P0rn
October 15, 2023 15:16 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBOlivia Willke returns to the show to journey through the world of spooky adult cinema, feat such films as Roberta Findlay’s A Woman’s Torment, Peter de Rome’s The Destroying Angel, & Roger Watkins’ Corruption
The Franco Files: Perverse Delirium
October 10, 2023 20:58 - 1 hour - 79.4 MBWe tackle 8 Franco titles including Sadomania and Bloody Moon
The Franco Files: Nasty Women
October 01, 2023 20:15 - 1 hour - 105 MBWe continue down the Jess Franco filmography today, parsing through the sleaze and searching for the beauty in titles like Sexy Sisters, Je Brûle de partout, The Sadist of Notre Dame, Sinfonia Erotica, and many others
H & L: Prison on Fire + Rollerball
September 23, 2023 15:11 - 1 hour - 83 MBWe reveal more upcoming shows and dig into Ringo Lam’s Prison on Fire + John McTiernan’s Rollerball. Both screening on 35mm this Wednesday, Sept 27th at 7pm at the Music Box Theatre Get tickets here
The Franco Files: Into the Night
September 18, 2023 13:12 - 1 hour - 104 MBJess Franco and his crew are faced with personal on-set troubles as they navigate marital infidelity, mounting debt, and potential gangsters…all while delivering movies like Barbed Wire Dolls and Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
The Franco Files: Eurocine Blues
September 09, 2023 15:39 - 1 hour - 101 MBMore Jess Franco, with the sleaze factor turned up
The Canyons (w/ Olivia Willke)
September 01, 2023 12:46 - 1 hour - 68.7 MBOur pal Olivia joins us to speak on Paul Schrader’s much-maligned The Canyons, Lindsay Lohan, and Internet porn Olivia Wiilke Substack
The Franco Files: Jess Meets Lina
August 24, 2023 21:21 - 1 hour - 86.2 MBwe shoot through 12 more Franco films including Countess Perverse, The Other Side of the Mirror, and Female Vampire
The Franco Files: Hello Darkness My Old Friend
August 16, 2023 11:12 - 1 hour - 83 MBwe bid a tearful farewell to the legendary Soledad Miranda, while saying hello to Jess’ new beginning - starting with a foray into his own particular brand of classic gothic horror
Ode to Billy
August 07, 2023 21:32 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBwe tried to record a normal episode until we saw the news, so we called an audible and decided to pay tribute to the one + only late William Friedkin. This is us being crushed in real time, unable to move on to making fun of the Snow White redux or whatever dumb stuff we had planned Please subscribe to our patreon for the episode we were going to do, this Sunday!
THE FRANCO FILES: SOLEDAD AMONGST THE PERVERTS
August 02, 2023 19:52 - 1 hour - 83.7 MBwe discuss some true bangers from Jess Franco, six films from 1969-1970
The Franco Files: The Trouble With Harry, Pt.1
July 27, 2023 04:12 - 1 hour - 74.3 MBwe continue on in our exploration of filmmaker Jess Franco, and the period of his career where he worked with problematic producer Harry Alan Towers, beginning with their foray into the even more problematic world of Fu Manchu, alongside their first De Sade adaptations + Venus in Furs
The Franco Files: The Beginning, Pt. II
July 19, 2023 13:13 - 1 hour - 81.3 MBwe continue down Jess’ earliest path, ending this segment on his last two spy films before he would go on to meet infamous producer Harry Alan Towers
Cruel Intentions
July 15, 2023 16:12 - 1 hour - 70.7 MBwe report live from our hq to get into SAG joining the strike, plus how the studios major recent profit losses + selling of stocks, embracing of AI, and competition with China play into the tragic production shutdown of Juror #2
THE FRANCO FILES: THE BEGINNING
July 12, 2023 12:29 - 1 hour - 80.5 MBwe crack open the files and discuss Jess’ very first films, from We Are 18 to The Sadistic Baron von Klaus
HIGHS & LOWS: CAN’T HARDLY WAIT + US GO HOME
July 05, 2023 12:40 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBwe return to the Music Box on July 11th for the next installment in our heavily lauded and hotly praised Mubi-sponsored film series, Highs and Lows. This month, we examine the similarities between 1997’s CANT HARDLY WAIT and 1994’s US GO HOME Subscribe to our patreon for additional episodes plus things we cannot say on our regular eps Tickets Patreon
The Franco Files
June 28, 2023 11:02 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBDavid Gregory joins us for a second time to discuss the life and work of Jess Franco
Stealing Valor (w/ Molly Lambert)
June 21, 2023 12:28 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBwe are joined by Molly Lambert (HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story) to dig into Clint Eastwood’s divisive beast of a movie, American Sniper. We also use this as an excuse to further delve into the topic of Gay Clint
The Movie Review Corner #3
June 15, 2023 17:26 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBour fan favorite segment is back with 3 sizzling hot takes on 3 (or 2) sizzling hot movies: In Water, Padre Pio, and How to Blow up a Pipeline
HIGHS & LOWS: THE MASK + THE FACE OF ANOTHER
June 06, 2023 02:05 - 1 hour - 67.4 MBwe start with a few RIPS before getting into our latest Highs & Lows double feature of Chuck Russell’s THE MASK (1994) and Hiroshi Teshigahara’s THE FACE OF ANOTHER (1966), playing tonight at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago <br> https://musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-events/the-mask-the-face-of-another <br> patreon.com/Oscarbate
Idiot Auteurs
May 24, 2023 15:48 - 1 hour - 92.5 MBWe are joined by filmmaker Louise Weard (Computer Hearts) to breakdown what makes and doesn't make a filmmaker one of those rare, low IQ beasts of the cinematic wild: the unchecked and elusive idiot auteur <br> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weardjupiter/untitled-louise-weard-castration-movie
UNLOCKED: Compelling Markets
May 17, 2023 18:27 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBwe take a dive into the future of cinema through the special eyes of Joe Russo
STRIKE ‘23
May 12, 2023 16:14 - 1 hour - 60 MBsorry for the delay on this, computer tech continues to plague us but here we go: diving into the writers strike and what they are up against (and how you can stop these assholes)
Fun City Shop Talk
May 04, 2023 12:01 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBwe sit down with our buddy Jonathan Hertzberg of the blu ray label Fun City Editions for another round of talking shop
H+L: CLUELESS & GOLDEN EIGHTIES
May 02, 2023 04:14 - 1 hour - 70.3 MBwe break down our double feature playing May 2nd at the Music Box Theatre
Cannes You Smell What We Are Cooking?
April 26, 2023 23:11 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBooowee it’s rundown the Cannes lineup time, and if you haven’t seen we have a patreon yet then sign up below please and get what we couldn’t say herepatreon.com/Oscarbate
No Squibs (w/ Matt Christman)
March 27, 2023 14:27 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBMatt from Chapo Trap House joins us to discuss the downfall of the movie world as it relates to theme parks, the Oscars, and effects work + a few thoughts on Gump and American sniper
Crackerjack Compass: Leslie Zemeckis
March 08, 2023 21:36 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBas we ramp up to our Robert Zemeckis retrospective, we have a nice chat with Filmmaker, Author, & Actress, Leslie Zemeckis & remind you all why you should already have your Marwen tix
The Movie Review Corner #2
March 01, 2023 21:15 - 1 hour - 72.8 MBWe get into Babylon, Pacifiction, and Everything everyone all together at once
When the Rain Starts to Fall
February 10, 2023 21:03 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBwe come back to you all full of love in our hearts, our little hats clasped in our sweet dainty hands, with a few words of sincerity. But not for long, because we are re-charged and ready to get down and dirty with Netflix, AMC, the Daniels, China, and the possibility that the Oscars, as well as movies, may be done forever
The Chill Zone
January 22, 2023 16:47 - 1 hour - 82.2 MBWe have returned full of that good good, addressing some recent brush ups we had, along with bringing you all the news you wanted to hear us go off on. We take to task Joyce Carol Oates, M3GAN, straight musicals, Kevin spacey and the rest of Italy, and our good wine boy, Francis Coppola. (Also we know we confused Deadly Blessing and Deadly Friend. It was a glaring error we know. We are not perfect. We are listening and learning)
Chestnuts Roasting
December 21, 2022 22:34 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBAs another year ends so another begins, and so with this, we begin anew. We stroll down the snowy meadows of time, and reflect pensively on the year and some of its cinematic offerings.
What’s the Diel-Man?
December 07, 2022 22:12 - 1 hour - 91.1 MBWe get into the nitty gritty over the sight and sound controversy. Cameron and Rebecca from the Chicago Film Society join us in Hell
ZEMECK THIS: THE FINALE Pt. 2
December 01, 2022 09:27 - 53 minutes - 60.8 MBit’s over, we did it. Now back to other things for now. We round this puppy out with two stone cold stunners, Allied and Welcome to Marwen
ZEMECK THIS: THE FINALE Pt. 1
November 28, 2022 07:17 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBbreaking this up so we can do other things than pod for a few weeks…but in this one we hit on Flight and The Walk