Repertory Screenings
136 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsWe eat our cinematic vegetables as we go deep into the past to dig out all the cool old movies that languish in our to-be-watched pile and talk about them one a fortnight!
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Repertory Screenings 9: Torque
September 02, 2019 22:43 - 41.8 MBToday we take a ride off the highway of classic cinema for a cult classic that finally divides the hosts as we discuss everyone’s favorite Fast & Furious tagalong, Torque! Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or movies in general to [email protected]! Also, we're a patreon supported show, please go to patreon.com/abnormalmapping to see our many shows and support us. Next Time on Repertory Screenings: The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The M...
Repertory Screenings 8: Wanda
August 19, 2019 22:06 - 54.3 MBSomewhere it seems it is always the 70s and it is always all about Gender as we explore Barbara Loden’s harrowing story of being set adrift in a hellscape of class and culture and the violent and inconstant shores one might find oneself on the way. Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or movies in general to [email protected]! Also, we're a patreon supported show, please go to patreon.com/abnormalmapping to see our many shows and support us. Next Tim...
Repertory Screenings 7: Election
August 05, 2019 19:22 - 73.9 MBTwo thirds of the podcast takes psychic damage today as we explore Alexander Payne’s satire of politics and gender by watching Election. Is the Midwest really like this? Is life really this petty? What does it mean for a teacher and a student to know each other? All this and more as we all vote Tammy and grump about shitty men. Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or movies in general to [email protected]! Also, we're a patreon supported show, please ...
Repertory Screenings 6: Mikey and Nicky
July 23, 2019 00:00 - 60.6 MBWe spend a long night with some hard men as we ride shotgun with Elaine May’s incredibly dysfunctional duo of mobsters Mikey and Nicky! Unsurprisingly, May brings us a lot of comedy and a lot of insight into the brutality of gender roles in this one, a movie that genuinely knocked us all for a loop with how good it is! Please, check this one out! Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or movies in general to [email protected]! Also, we're a patreon supp...
Repertory Screenings 5: Throne of Blood
July 08, 2019 23:21 - 51.8 MBWhat happens when you transport Shakespeare into the heady days of samurai and forest spirits? We find out in this episode where we throw open the doors of Castle Kurosawa and discover the delights of Macbeth and the titular Throne of Blood! Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or movies in general to [email protected]! Also, we're a patreon supported show, please go to patreon.com/abnormalmapping to see our many shows and support us. Next Time on Re...
Repertory Screenings 4: Daughters of the Dust
June 30, 2019 19:03 - 47.4 MBWe take a journey through time along a single fixed place as history washes over us in Julie Dash’s indie classic, Daughters of the Dust. Come for incredible cinematography and fantastic performances, stay for Em and Jackson doing their best not to say something incriminatingly white. Most of all, settle in for a reminder that the families we have and create are our survival with this truly great film. Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or movies in general t...
Repertory Screenings 3: All the President's Men
June 11, 2019 00:00 - 56.6 MBThe Seventies. McDonald’s is grimy, everyone smokes, and men are actually attractive. Also, sometimes, they do the goddamn news. Join us as we remember a thing called a newspaper and discuss the strange ways American myth-making builds up and tears down in turns. Also, because it’s us, a lot of talk about gender roles and the ways they are performed and signaled along political lines. Also we’re interrupted by a special guest. Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cov...
Repertory Screenings 2: Morvern Callar
May 27, 2019 18:28 - 52.3 MBWe return from one tragic snowbound death to another as we sit for a while with the quiet and drifting Morvern Callar. We talk about what counts as praxis when it comes to body disposal, the reality of getting away from your problems, the foibles of book deals, and the Americans on the cast wonder just what is a Scottish accent, really? All this and more during this, our second episode, on the film Movern Callar. Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or movies i...
Repertory Screenings 1: Citizen Kane
May 14, 2019 00:00 - 70.8 MBRepertory Screenings’ new relaunch kicks off with the most obvious and delightful choice of them all, Citizen Kane! We discuss the ups and downs of the life of Charles Kane, the gaps in anyone’s story, and the preponderance of special effects for a story about a guy who does the god damn news. Citizen Kane gets two thumbs up! Thank you so much for listening, please tell all your friends about us! Send us any email questions and comments about the movies we cover or movies in general to podc...
Repertory Screenings: Reboot Annoucement
April 29, 2019 19:58 - 7.75 MBAbnormal Mapping is doing a movie podcast again! After running one for a couple years in the distant, distant past, and a recent attempt waylaid by scheduling woes, a slot has opened up in the Abnormal Mapping schedule by Star Trek being bad enough that we don’t want to talk about it anymore. So Em and Jackson decided it was time to talk about movies instead, and they’re joined by Destiny Sturdivant. Not in this preview though, because her microphone was broken. Here’s the plan. The podcast...
Repertory Screenings 2: Enough Said & Querelle
July 27, 2018 00:00 - 62.2 MBRepertory Screenings settles in for a messy pair of relationships as we explore the ragged edges of the middle age romcom Enough Said and then struggle against the feverish fatalism of Querelle! It's a whole thing. Next Month's Movies The Wages of Fear O Fantasma We're a patreon supported show, please go to patreon.com/abnormalmapping to see our many shows and support us.
Repertory Screenings 1: Cabaret and Spectre
June 08, 2018 05:58 - 75.9 MBThe first episode is here! Em and Kyle talk about the future of Bond and the past of performance with a double feature of fading hopes and improbable romance. Next Month's Movies Querrelle Enough Said We're a patreon supported show, please go to patreon.com/abnormalmapping to see our many shows and support us.
Repertory Screenings 0 - An Intro and A Bonus Movie
May 15, 2018 22:52 - 20.9 MBWelcome to this first episode of Repertory Screenings, the new movie podcast on the Abnormal Mapping network. In our first episode, Em and Kyle lay down the idea of what the show will be, talk about their history as Kyle introduces himself, and then we get into the weeds on the 2017 film Lady Bird right at the very end. We're so happy to be back talking about movies. Please, join us! Send us emails at [email protected]! Next Month's Movies! Cabaret (1972) The Christmas List (199...
Trashpect Ratio 23: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
June 15, 2016 16:01 - 1 hour - 26.1 MBHey everyone, Jackson here! It’s been an incredibly difficult month for me, with emergencies of both health and housing springing up, so it’s taken me a little longer than usual to edit this episode. But it’s here, and it’s worth the wait! We talk Zootopia’s politics, the comedic genius of Tyler Perry and get into our movie club: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.
Trashpect Ratio 22: Possession
May 15, 2016 15:57 - 57 minutes - 22.1 MBMay rolls around and so too does another fine episode of Trashpect Ratio! We mention superheroes for all of three seconds before moving into chat about Beyonce’s Lemonade and Zulawski’s Possession. Click that play button or subscribe on the podcast app of your choice for monthly, interesting movie discussion between good friends! Enjoy!
Trashpect Ratio 21: Gone Girl
April 15, 2016 15:56 - 1 hour - 25.3 MBIn this month’s Trashpect Ratio we are joined by a very special guest, Shannon Strucci, to talk about Gone Girl! It’s a chat that’s been a long time coming, and it’s well worth the wait, some give us a download and take a listen to the podcast! It’s good! Big thanks to Shannon for showing up on our lil show, she’s a certified Cool Person that you should follow, and can be found on twitter, tumblr and youtube!
Trashpect Ratio 20: Ghost in the Shell
March 15, 2016 15:54 - 1 hour - 13.9 MBThis is the twentieth month of Trashpect Ratio! Hooray! And, as always, we bring another episode of great movie discussion. We talk through the identity of the Mission Impossible series, the nuances of Zootopia and our movie club is the seminal 1995 cyberpunk anime, Ghost In The Shell.
Trashpect Ratio 19: Tropical Malady
February 15, 2016 16:53 - 1 hour - 29.1 MBOn the ides of February, the 19th episode of Trashpect Ratio does come crawling through the cracks and onto the shores of the internet. There’s a talk about Grease and its possible transgressive nature, there’s a follow up chat on the career of Quentin Tarantino, and a short walk through the tastes of the hosts in Romantic Movies. All this as well as an interesting movie club movie, Tropical Malady! This is a quality episode, so come on down to ratio roadshow and stick it on your listen...