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Episode 254 - M. Butterfly

April 18, 2024 17:46 - 1 hour - 60.1 MB

This week on the pod, we talk the sexiest ways to do treason, new fully-clothed ways to be horny, and we're all very nice to David Cronenberg in 1993's M. BUTTERFLY! swimfanspod.com

Episode 253 - Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

April 11, 2024 21:22 - 1 hour - 74.2 MB

This week on the pod, the podcast princesses discuss Twink Heaven, government-sanctioned valor theft, and the infinitely weird, contradictory, and horny figure of Mishima in 1985's MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS! swimfanspod.com

Episode 252 - Fair Play

April 04, 2024 19:29 - 1 hour - 61.9 MB

This week on the pod, we talk about (very) contemporary erotic thrillers, business money factories, and if we've finally got a Good For Her Movie in 2023's FAIR PLAY! swimfanspod.com

Episode J5 - One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island

March 28, 2024 12:31 - 1 hour - 71.6 MB

🎶 His name's Josh, and he's a gay guy and a T-H-E-Y Alex not shy. Craig is doin a Cheeto thing, @DudeExclamation is guestin' and we're all discussin' 🎶 2005's ONE PIECE: BARON OMATSURI AND THE SECRET ISLAND for our nakama's birthday episode!

Episode 251 - Dream Lover

March 21, 2024 12:18 - 1 hour - 58.3 MB

This week, we talk making your own Twin Peaks, sanitoriums for third graders, and massive misunderstandings of the legal system (once again) in 1993's DREAM LOVER!

Episode 250 - 8MM

March 14, 2024 18:51 - 1 hour - 168 MB

This week on the pod, we dive deep into halter top Joaquin Phoenix, glossy black walls, and what happens when the plot of a film grinds to a screeching halt in 1999's 8MM!

OSCARMANIA 2024 - PART TWO

March 07, 2024 05:01 - 1 hour - 85 MB

We're back on the red carpet in our glitz and glam talking about the other half of the 2024 Best Picture nominees: Maestro, Oppenheimer, Past Lives, Poor Things, and The Zone of Interest! swimfanspod.com

OSCARMANIA 2024 - PART ONE

February 29, 2024 04:36 - 1 hour - 67.8 MB

It's awards season once more, folks! Join us as we talk about half of the 2024 Best Picture nominees: American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie, The Holdovers, and Killers of the Flower Moon! swimfanspod.com

Episode 249 - The Comfort of Strangers (with Carina Taylor)

February 22, 2024 17:15 - 1 hour - 70.4 MB

This week, we welcome back Scholastic and Silver Sprocket book designer Carina Taylor to discuss the stratifications of maleness, strange tales of depravity, and bold new frontiers in ghouling in 1990's COMFORT OF STRANGERS! BUY THE CHROMACTIC FANTASY swimfanspod.com

Episode 248 - Species

February 15, 2024 05:01 - 1 hour - 65.3 MB

This week, we talk about the hot alien with the sex directive, the agonies and ecstacies of a dumb guy movie, the platonic ideal of a 90s haircut, and wax nostalgic about the late Carl Weathers in 1995's SPECIES!

Episode 247 - Double Indemnity

February 08, 2024 20:14 - 1 hour - 65.7 MB

It's the new Swimfans, baby. This week, we get back to our genre's roots and talk about not getting away with murder, hard-boiled insurance salesmen and the little men inside of us in 1944's DOUBLE INDEMNITY! swimfanspod.com

Episode 246 - China Moon

February 01, 2024 19:33 - 1 hour - 64.6 MB

This week on the pod, we discuss bold new ways to cinematically depict Florida, Ed Harris, and Craig learns about the Prisoner's Dilemma in 1994's CHINA MOON! swimfanspod.com

Episode 245 - Malice

January 25, 2024 05:01 - 1 hour - 55.4 MB

This week, we talk exceptionally divorced movies, Level 5 Golf Watchers, and the second-best confidence man in all of South Boston in 1993’s MALICE! swimfanspod.com

Episode 244 - The Canyons

January 19, 2024 02:51 - 1 hour - 65.2 MB

This week, we talk about very naive views of old Hollywood, rotating 3D monsters, and when collaborations between famous and skilled people go sour in 2013’s THE CANYONS! swimfanspod.com

Episode 243 - The Boy Next Door

January 11, 2024 13:52 - 1 hour - 65 MB

This week on the pod, we discuss movies that don't seem to function on any level, engine blocks being suspended from the ceiling, and wake up, babe: brand-new phobia of epipens dropped in 2015's THE BOY NEXT DOOR! swimfanspod.com

Episode 242 - The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

January 05, 2024 02:58 - 1 hour - 60.3 MB

Happy 2024!! This week on the pod, we talk unusually evil ghouling, explosions of yuppie violence and Patrick Nagel-style architecture in 1992's THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE! swimfanspod.com

Episode 241 - Bitter Moon

December 28, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 57 MB

This week, we celebrate the end of 2023 discussing revenge gowns, perverts (derogatory), and barnyard sounds in 1992's BITTER MOON! Happy new year, and we'll see you in 2024!

Episode X6 - A Christmas Melody

December 22, 2023 02:16 - 1 hour - 84.4 MB

Happy holidays to all our favorite doves! For our holiday episode this year, we got a jam-packed one: beginning with a big Mariah Report, ending with Craig, Alex and Josh's 10 Ten Lists of the Year, and in the middle, we sip hot cocoa and discuss 2015's A CHRISTMAS MELODY!

Episode 240 - Shame

December 14, 2023 13:19 - 1 hour - 70.4 MB

This week on Swimfans: we come up with new ways to be Catholic, we discuss the varied and nuanced manifestations of childhood trauma into adulthood, and Josh learns what a 'bezel' is in 2011's SHAME! swimfanspod.com

Episode 239 - Robotrix (w/ Carlos Leon-Roman)

December 07, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MB

This week, we welcome back Heroes Three legend Carlos Leon-Roman to talk Category 3 film, the agonies and ecstacies of low-budget action, and several fun facts about boba in 1991's ROBOTRIX!

Episode 238 - Stoker

December 01, 2023 04:52 - 1 hour - 58.2 MB

On this episode, the princesses discuss myriad ideas that don't connect, forbidden dads, and colossal stone orbs in 2013's STOKER! swimfanspod.com

Episode 237 - Color of Night

November 23, 2023 23:30 - 1 hour - 62.7 MB

This year, we’re thankful for all our doves!! To show our appreciation, we talk all killer no filler weird choices, Brad Dourif, and inheriting a dead friend’s house in 1994’s COLOR OF NIGHT! swimfanspod.com

Swimfans Mini - Animation is Film 2023

November 20, 2023 23:13 - 37 minutes - 51 MB

Your annual Animation is Film Festival coverage for 2023 is here! Josh is joined by all-star dove and storyboard artist for animation Leo Garcia to talk about the films we saw at the festival, and to wax romantic about the medium of animation at large.

Episode 236 - Fatale

November 17, 2023 01:24 - 1 hour - 59.3 MB

This week, we discuss when the root of ghouling ruins the menace, a humble pitch for a Swimfans movie, and Craig finally tells us what happens in a certain television show in 2020’s FATALE! swimfanspod.com

Episode 235 - The Doom Generation

November 10, 2023 03:51 - 1 hour - 57.5 MB

This week on the pod, we dirty little movie babies discuss the value of artifice in filmmaking, Amy Blue's lipstick, and how much we love set design in 1995's New Queer Cinema landmark film THE DOOM GENERATION! swimfanspod.com

Episode C5 - Sorcerer

November 02, 2023 20:57 - 1 hour - 64.7 MB

Happy Craigsmas to you and yours! This week, we're talking what kinds of guys there are, harrowing tension, the howling void at the heart of empire, and which truck is the metagame in 1977's SORCERER!

Episode 234 - Slither (w/ Vou Pinette)

October 26, 2023 21:26 - 1 hour - 65.7 MB

Rounding off Bloodbath 2023, we welcome back slime correspondent and Art the Clown Defender Vou Pinette to discuss gleeful wormery, musings on horror-comedy as a genre, and celebrating the mid-budget grossout picture in 2006's SLITHER!

Episode 233 - Cure

October 19, 2023 21:52 - 1 hour - 62.5 MB

This week on the pod, we discuss the fragility of human nature, the idea of the detective, and Josh drones on about the occult in 1997’s CURE!

Episode 232 - The Thing (w/ Kyle Daileda)

October 13, 2023 00:07 - 1 hour - 62.9 MB

The gang once again welcomes comics professional and normal dog Kyle Daileda into their Antarctic compound. They talk distrust among uncles, head spiders, and humanity passing a bottle around until the world ends. It’s 1982’s THE THING

Episode 231 - Pieces

October 05, 2023 12:49 - 1 hour - 60.2 MB

it's the start of blood season, and josh is on vacation as i type this, so no one is here to write copy. craig, can you write something better than this for social media? uhh horror movie! spain! chainsaw! Get your balaclavas ready, it's PIECES!! swim fans pod dot com!!

Episode 230 - Double Lover

September 28, 2023 22:04 - 57 minutes - 53.3 MB

This week on the pod, we discuss trisomy in cats, the successes and failures of twins as metaphor, and when ambiguity goes wrong in 2017’s DOUBLE LOVER!

Episode 229 - Roger Corman Triple Feature

September 21, 2023 22:13 - 1 hour - 66.2 MB

Welcome, devotees of the Slab. This week, we do a round-robin style discussion of some Roger Corman-produced DTV erotic thrillers and discuss photocopied Madonna, delirious neo-noir cop quests, and people whom crave the Slab. All glory to the Slab!!!

Episode 228 - Training Day

September 15, 2023 00:19 - 1 hour - 58.1 MB

For the last episode of Cruel Summer 2023, we discuss Denzel, subverting expectations of the loose cannon cop character, and a post-mortem on the summer movie block in 2001’s TRAINING DAY!

Swimfans Mini - Galerians: Rion

September 08, 2023 02:06 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MB

Due to scheduling conflicts, our final installment of Cruel Summer is being delayed a week, but fret not: Anime Club is back in session! We briefly discuss being edgy and nostalgic in 2002’s GALERIANS: RION!

Episode 227 - I See You (with Kyle Daileda)

August 31, 2023 23:05 - 1 hour - 60 MB

This week, we are rejoined by comics professional and Silver Sprocket publicist Kyle Daileda to talk reconciling three movies sewn together, surprise Lyne behavior, and cool-ass frog masks in 2019’s I SEE YOU!

Episode 226 - Running Scared

August 24, 2023 04:50 - 1 hour - 58.9 MB

This week, we talk about when in media res isn’t better, our complicated feelings about 00s film aesthetics, and some reflections on credit sequences in 2006’s RUNNING SCARED! swimfanspod.com

Episode 225 - Hard Candy (with Leo Garcia)

August 18, 2023 02:20 - 1 hour - 69.7 MB

Just one more thing… Did it rain? This week, we’re rejoined by story artist Leo Garcia to discuss 300IQ logic demons, movies shot almost entirely in close, and the infinite gap between the movie one thinks they’re making and movie that’s made in 2005’s HARD CANDY! swimfanspod.com

Episode 224 - Dog Day Afternoon

August 10, 2023 23:55 - 1 hour - 60.7 MB

This week on the pod, we talk about the pathologization of queerness, how America loves a babygirl, and the visual texture of a slow catastrophe in 1975’s DOG DAY AFTERNOON! swimfanspod.com

Episode 223 - Gone in 60 Seconds (with Joel Hocking)

August 04, 2023 02:10 - 1 hour - 73.3 MB

This week, we’re joined by podcast big brother Joel Hocking to discuss anti-younger brother propaganda, failing breakfast QTEs and stealing cars named after women in 2000’s GONE IN 60 SECONDS!

Episode 222 - A Man Escaped

July 27, 2023 12:58 - 1 hour - 57.7 MB

Get the hooks! This week, we talk about jailbreaking with your teenage ward, the hypnotic quality of chipping at wood, and the impossibility of objectivity in 1956’s A MAN ESCAPED! July 27, 2023 NEW

Episode A5 - Purple Rain

July 21, 2023 03:52 - 1 hour - 63.7 MB

You don't offer to purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka. You don't even think to call me "The Artist (Formerly Known as Prince)." You come into my house on the day of Alex’s birthday and ask me to get crazy - for money. It’s 1984’s Purple Rain, baby. swimfanspod.com

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