Trash & Treasures
133 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 33 ratingsStudying weird garbage and hidden gems through a queer lens with Dorothy (she/her), Vrai (they/them) and sometimes Shawn (he/him). All trainwrecks need apply.
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Drunk Book Club: Aprilynne Pike's Wings
September 27, 2021 16:53 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBSpecial thanks to Jester for commissioning this episode! You can find out more about commissions on our Patreon. Hmm, a 2000s-era supernatural love triangle YA novel by a Utah-raised author with a lot of extremely unfortunate implications baked into the lore....this all sounds familiar, but we can't put our finger on it. Maybe it's just Pike specifically name-dropping Stephanie Meyer all over the place. If only this protagonist had as much going on internally as Bella Swan. CONTENT WARNIN...
PRIDE MONTH: Itty Bitty Titty Committee - Jamie Babbit and Bush-Era Activism
August 23, 2021 20:30 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBOur summer celebration of Pride comes to a close (with many apologies for the delay) on a return to a familiar face: Jamie Babbit, best known for the landmark lesbian film BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER. Today we look at her 2007 follow-up, its deliberate attempts to introduce young viewers to the world of queer activism, and how well it achieves those goals. Also, the fact that you've probably never heard of it. CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of misogyny, body-shaming, fatphobia, homophobia and gaybas...
PRIDE MONTH: Nowhere - Gregg Araki and New Queer Cinema
July 07, 2021 19:44 - 50 minutes - 46 MBListen, this is a queer podcast 365 days a year. Pride Month won't be stopped by a little thing like June being over. It's time for the 90s, and the film its director describes as "an episode of Beverly Hills 90210 on acid." On the board for this episode: the difference between "queer representation" and "queer cinema," the queer reclaiming of mainstream genre work, and the pros and cons of making intensely of-the-moment art. CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of suicide, racism, child sexual abus...
PRIDE MONTH: Female Trouble - John Waters and the Art of Filth
June 21, 2021 14:57 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBIt's time at last to spotlight the patron saint of this podcast, the pope of filth himself: John Waters. While he's better known for Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble is the most potent and maybe the best of his 1970s work, a razor-sharp satire of heteronormative culture that can only flourish because it comes from such a tight team of collaborating artists and weirdos. But it's also worth asking: what happens when an outsider artist becomes a public figure? What does that new element of privi...
PRIDE MONTH: Bride Of Frankenstein - James Whale, Openly Gay Director
June 07, 2021 18:58 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBHappy Pride Month, listeners! It's time for our annual four-episode journey through the history of queer film, and this year we'll be looking in particular at camp and outsider cinema. While Bride might be quite famous, it's also a perfect starting place for our discussion: director James Whale's camp masterpiece, which those who knew him spent years after his tragic death denying as a queer work (possibly, we suspect, because they feared it would be pigeonholed as "gay art" rather than cin...
Magic Mike - Use Abs to Market Toxic Masculinity Movie, ???, Profit
May 31, 2021 16:58 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBThe sequel's still better. We revisit the weird double image of Magic Mike, a "quiet lives of desperation" dance movie that was marketed almost solely based on its five or six minutes of male strip revues. Which both sells the subtler moments of the script short and disguises the unmasked contempt that the film overall has for women. It's...well, listen. There's a reason we're covering it here. CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of toxic masculinity, misogyny, sexual assault, racism, whorephobia...
Go Crows! The Internet's Only Smallville Podcast - Season 2, Episodes 1-4
April 21, 2021 22:11 - 50 minutes - 46 MBWe're back, and not a moment too soon; there's a twister in Kansas! As season two kicks off Clark gets boner powers and Pete finally gets a role in the plot, while Dr. Hamilton continues to mosey through his episodes being both inscrutable and delightful. Oh, and Lionel is blind now. It's handled as tactfully as you'd imagine. CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sexual assault, rape culture, misogyny, ableism, toxic masculinity, racism, and nationalism. 2:00 Bite-Sized Summaries 6:30 Monsters o...
Showgirls - Satire Requires Clarity of Purpose
April 02, 2021 21:20 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBSpecial thanks to Chelsea for commissioning this episode! You can find out more about commissions on our Patreon. Today we were set a daunting challenge: find something that hasn't yet been said about infamous cinematic trainwreck Showgirls. As the modern conversation swings from "reclaimed camp" to "was it in fact Good Actually all along" following the release of the documentary YOU DON'T NOMI, it felt like time to wade into those claims. What the hell was Showigirls trying to do, anyway? ...
Return To Oz - Tracing a Beloved Terror from Book to Film
March 16, 2021 14:33 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBFor our 100th mainline episode, we decided to look in on one of Dorothy's childhood favorites, a cult hit that inspires a mix of terror and deeply held affection in all who remember it. And since Dorothy is also a megafan of Baum's books, it also provided a chance to talk about how the Oz series has been adapted over the years. Thanks for 100 episodes, listeners, and here's to 100 more. Content Warning: Discussion of ableism, medical horror, body horror, the House of Mouse's Bullshit 1:00 ...
Drunk Book Club: Dennis Cooper's FRISK
March 01, 2021 18:51 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBSpecial thanks to Anile for commissioning this episode! You can find out more about commissions on our Patreon. This month we stretch our muscles by getting into some ~literary fiction~! More precisely, the work of Dennis Cooper, a big name in queer outsider art who influenced previous DBC alumni Billy Martin (aka Poppy Z Brite) and Chuck Palahniuk and whose published alongside inevitable future subject Brett Easton Ellis. FRISK, the story of a dude who has a lot of sex and even more fantas...
Boku no Sexual Harassment - 90s Corn Yaoi
February 15, 2021 22:19 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBYes, the actual name of this anime is either "My Sexual Harassment" or "Boku no Sekuhara," but we wanted our title to briefly capture the extremely mangled naming convention from the height of this title's memetic fame. Because anime fandom is, has always been, and will always be an embarrassment. We're looking at you, "Boku no Hero" people. For this year's horny Valentine special, we dove into the infamous yaoi OVA and how its creation in the 90s and popular English-language distribution in...
Go Crows! The Internet's Only Smallville Podcast - Season 1, Episodes 18-21
January 20, 2021 20:46 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBWe made it to the end of season one! And then they left us with a cliffhanger! Rude! There continue to be Vibes we did not request. But on the bright side, John Glover came back to chew some more scenery, and that's always a fun time. CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of police brutality, sexual assault, racism, incest 1:30 Bite-Sized Summary 4:00 Monsters of the Week 30:00 Wisdom from Pa Kent 34:45 Heart of the Show 40:30 And That's Terrible 54:00 The Jukebox Say hi to the team on Twitter: @wr...
Jack Frost (1997) / Jack Frost (1998) - Zombie Snowman Double Feature
December 26, 2020 04:03 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBOur holiday gift to you, our dearest listeners, is a second bite at the meme, the myth, the legend: that terrifying dead-eyed snowman puppet animated by the trapped soul of Michael Keaton. And also a microbudget slasher. We figured we'd watch one basically watchable movie and one deeply uncomfortable one, and that's sure what we got! Also feat. cameos by all of the Zappa children, for some reason. CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sexual assault, existentialism/morbidity, graphic depiction of ...
Drunk Book Club: Carry On
December 08, 2020 05:43 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBSpecial thanks to Ceslatoil for commissioning this episode! You can find out more about commissions on our Patreon. An academic specializing in fan studies and a trans media critic walk into a Harry Potter fanfic. Chaos ensues. In which we unpack the different structural needs of fanfics versus standalone works, the problem of only thinking through the implications of your bad guy twist halfway, and why all the most interesting characters are dead. CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racism, ...
Star Trek (2009) - JJ Abrams Makes a Star War
November 23, 2020 22:06 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBSpecial thanks to Roisin for commissioning this episode! You can find out more about commissions on our Patreon. In which two Star Trek fans -- one casual, one Deep -- reckon with a Star Trek movie made for people who hate Star Trek and pay homage to all the good fanwork this movie spawned before digging into the messy postmortem of the project itself. CONTENT WARNING for discussion of genocide, homophobia, and misogyny. Star Trek by Apple (the Dyson hand dryer shot): https://vraik.tumbl...
Go Crows! The Internet's Only Smallville Podcast - Season 1, Episodes 14-17
November 05, 2020 02:01 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBIn which an extra-large basket of episodes brings us dead little brothers, sex pollen, and the show somehow pulling out another shockingly decent plot about toxic masculinity. CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of euthanasia, sexual assault, suicide, sexualization of minors, incest, grooming, child abuse, and misogyny. 2:00 Bite-Sized Summary 5:00 Monsters of the Week 29:00 Heart of the Show 37:30 And That’s Terrible 44:00 Wisdom From Pa Kent 50:00 Knock-Off Brand 51:00 The Jukebox 55:00 Best/Wor...
The Devils - Banned for Nun Orgies (feat. a Bibliography)
October 21, 2020 21:56 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBFor our final October outing into horny horror (and if this movie isn't horror, we don't know what is), we looked at beloved cult classic and infamous banned film The Devils, which has been unavailable in its complete, uncensored form more or less since its filming in 1971. Buckets of criticism, including multiple books, have been written on the film, so we tried to tackle a subject we hadn't seen discussed much: how the women of The Devils are treated, both the actors and the historical fig...
Cat People (1982) - What if Fruits Basket But Sleazier
October 07, 2020 01:07 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBBack in 1943, a queer screenwriter penned a film about a woman struggling with her fear that she had unnatural urges waiting to reveal her as a monstrous beast. Forty years later, Paul "The Canyons" Schrader decided the best way to tackle reinterpreting that hidden gem would be to add incest and a lot of full frontal. It is, to say the least, A Lot. CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault, child abuse/child sexual abuse, animal cruelty, incest, racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and bod...
From Beyond - 4 Years is the Horny Cosmic Horror-versary
September 29, 2020 22:41 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBWe celebrate four years of podcasting with the reunion of our favorite horror dream team--Stuart Gordon, Jeffrey Combs, and Barbara Crampton--for their even more cult Lovecraft adaptation. It's weird, it's horny, Crampton gets to play the mad scientist this time, there's bi lighting everywhere...it's wonderful. CONTENT WARNING for discussion of body horror, grooming, unethical kink, sexual assault, sexualized violence, medical abuse, ableism, racism, misogyny, homophobia 1:00 Gordon and Cr...
Host (2020) - Horror Over Zoom
September 09, 2020 19:37 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBThis week's episode was chosen by listener poll, and y'all did us a solid by choosing the post-quarantine horror film HOST. Everything about it is so deceptively simple that we predict a lot of imitators, but who knows if they'll be able to capture this hour-long film's charms. CONTENT WARNING for discussion of suicide, pandemic stuff, parental sexual abuse, ableism "Dawn of the Deaf" short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cziqkD7iO-g 1:00 Background 4:00 Dawn of the Deaf 6:30 Zoom H...
Drunk Book Club - The Crow: The Lazarus Heart
August 26, 2020 23:49 - 1 hour - 70.7 MBWe return to the works of Billy Martin AKA Poppy Z Brite for a Crow tie-in novel that wants to say a lot about systemic oppression in the queer community but kind of trips over its own feet and then breaks every bone in its body. Which is certainly interesting to watch, if nothing else. This episode was commissioned by Anile! You can find out more about how to commission an episode by visiting patreon.com/trashandtreasures. CONTENT WARNING for discussion of racism, queerphobia, transphobia...
Go Crows! The Internet's Only Smallville Podcast - Season 1, Episodes 11-13
August 10, 2020 23:35 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBIn which we wish Whitney was actually a character who hadn't mostly existed offscreen up to now, so that we could actually sympathize with him, and even Michael Rosenbaum can't save this batch of scripts. Dorothy seemed ominously thrilled about the next batch, though... CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of brainwashing, sexual assault, suicide, rape culture, parental abuse, domestic abuse, queerphobia, and ableism 1:30 Micro-Summaries 3:30 Monsters of the Week 23:00 Heart of the Show 30:00 And Th...
Romeo Must Die - Shakespeare + Kung Fu + Aaliyah = Gold
July 28, 2020 23:07 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBThis movie is certified fresh in our HEARTS. The American starring debut of both Jet Li and Aaliyah gives its all and we get all we could hope for, from hilarious Mortal Combat x-ray vision to a script smarter than most gave it credit for. CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racism, gang violence, fatphobia, police brutality, celebrity deaths Behind the Scenes Mini-Doc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WhgDcv7imM The Legend of the White-and-Yellow Black Man: Global Containment and Triangulate...
Bad Ronald (w/ The Fifth Dollanganger) - Always Check for Boys in Your Walls
July 13, 2020 19:42 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBIn which our Very Special Guest Lynette brings us an ABC TV movie of the week from the halcyon year 1974. If you've seen lauded modern masterpiece The Boy, you may also be familiar with this movie's plot. We're pretty sure Palahniuk watched it, because it would explain many things about Fight Club. CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sexual assault, misogyny, police VC Andrews Blog-o-rama: http://vcablogorama.blogspot.com/ 5th Dollanganger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/5thdollanganger 1:00 ...
PRIDE MONTH: Bit - Trans Vampire Meets The Craft
June 29, 2020 18:10 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBWe really had a great time watching this movie. It also, as you might expect from a film inspired by The Craft and written/directed by a cishet dude, has a lot to unpack. Let's dig into those good intentions, great moments, and bits of unintentional thematic whoops. CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sexual assault, abusive relationships, racism, misogyny, and transphobia. The Okra Project: www.theokraproject.com/ LGBTQ Freedom Fund: www.lgbtqfund.org/donate-1 1:00 Limits of a Cis Writer 8:0...
PRIDE MONTH: Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same - Experimental 90s Theatre
June 22, 2020 22:01 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBThis week brings us the film debut of Madeline Olnek, who longtime listeners might've heard us praising before for WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY. While this is definitely a 90s time capsule even if it was filmed in 2011, it's also adorable to the nth degree. Not to mention how lovely it is to see a fat woman cast as the romantic lead. CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of queerphobia, transphobia, misogyny The Okra Project: www.theokraproject.com/ LGBTQ Freedom Fund: www.lgbtqfund.org/donate-1 That BS...
PRIDE MONTH: Friends & Family - The Big Secret (That They're Hitmen)
June 15, 2020 17:49 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBWe all know the set-up: a gay couple goes through an elaborate comedy of errors to hide their Big Secret from their parents, who've come to visit out of the blue. But in this case, the secret isn't that Stephen and Danny are in love...it's that they're hitmen for the mob, and they've been telling Stephen's parents they were caterers. Tough to google and impossible to stream (but fortunately pretty cheap on DVD), this one is a true gem of queer cinema that has been almost completely forgotten...
PRIDE MONTH: The Talented Mr. Ripley - Homoerotic Murder Ensues
June 08, 2020 13:56 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBThis year's Pride theme was decided by vote, and y'all called for queer genre films--we're happy to provide. But tradition demands that we start with the oldest and stodgiest conventions to know our roots, and so we bring you a classic tale of a Repressed Murder Gay, written by highly regarded thriller writer (and lesbian) Patricia Highsmith. You're probably more familiar with the other movies based on her work (CAROL and STRANGERS ON A TRAIN), but Ripley is a pretty damn important figure in ...
Drunk Book Club: Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted
May 25, 2020 20:02 - 1 hour - 75.6 MBWe swear we decided to read the book about a bunch of asshole writers trapped in a building while the world outside possibly dies of a pandemic all the way back in January. Still, if that subject -- as well as the laundry list of content warnings we've had to do up for Chuck "the Fight Club guy" Palahniuk-- isn't something you're up for right now, that's 110% understandable. We'll catch you on the next one. For everyone who wants a bit of a horrified scream-laugh though...we've got you covere...
Go Crows! The Internet's Only Smallville Podcast - Season 1, Episodes 8-10
May 11, 2020 18:26 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBAs is becoming tradition for this show, one actually pretty good episode is balanced out by a load of crap, and an accomplished horror star is doing The Most. Thanks for your service, Mr. Candyman, sir. Smallville would like to remind you that ACAB, until the next time that such a sentiment no longer directly affects Clark and is therefore inconvenient. CONTENT WARNING for discussion of racism, sexual assault, stalking, police corruption/brutality, and misogyny 3:00 Bite-Sized 8:00 Monster...
Scooby Doo - With Great Affection (Except for You, Scrappy)
April 27, 2020 19:57 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBAn anomaly that only felt possible because every kid in America was watching Hanna Barbara reruns and mostly affectionate, this movie holds up way better than it has any right to. But it's still our job to dig into the context before and after, and the weird state of both the franchise and Barbara characters as a whole. 2002 was a TIME, y'all. CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual harassment, racism, animal cruelty. The Shaggy Meme: https://www.polygon.com/2019/1/28/18201001/powerful-sh...
Holmes & Watson - With Apologies Even to Nigel Bruce
April 13, 2020 18:15 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBWe thought we were special. We thought a Holmes nerd could glean something worth talking about from a movie that didn't just get trashed but buried under a mountain of sludge. We were extremely wrong. CONTENT WARNING for discussion of misogyny and fatphobia. 1:00 Mistakes Were Made 3:00 Sherlockian Lineage 14:00 What Is Plot 32:30 Why is This Dead Lady Here 40:00 Should You Watch This Say hi to the team on twitter: @dorothynotgale, @writervrai, @wannabefood Our icon was designed by All...
Starsky And Hutch (2004)- Two Great Things That Taste Bad Together
March 30, 2020 16:30 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBWhat happens when you combine most of the cast of Zoolander with a charmingly goofy 70s detective show? Something real bad, it turns out, because Todd Phillips is also there siphoning all that pesky "joy" out of the situation. Or: in which Dorothy knows a lot about a historical slash fandom and this shit ain't it. CONTENT WARNING for discussion of racism, antisemitism, homophobia, drug use, cops Watch the Original for Free: https://www.crackle.com/watch/348/2459778 1:00 Regrettable Remakes...
Drunk Book Club: Exit To Eden
March 16, 2020 23:09 - 1 hour - 79.2 MBAfter lo these many months, we've finally returned to the well of Anne Rice novels--sorry, "Anne Rampling." Exit to Eden is part of Rice's weird walkabout with literary and erotic novels before her return to vampires, and it wins the coveted "probably less actively dangerous as a damagingly inaccurate text about BDSM than 50 Shades of Grey" award almost solely because it's much harder to emulate. It is definitely a novel about how kinksters just need that healing monogamy, though. CONTENT W...
Go Crows! The Internet's Only Smallville Podcast - Season 1, Episodes 5-7
March 02, 2020 15:00 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBThe internet's only Smallville-cast returns with a decided downgrade in the episode offerings, although Lex having a destiny so hardcore and dastardly that even a vision of it KILLS A WOMAN almost makes up for it. This time we have Shawn in tow to see if, maybe, we can suss out what tentative connections the series occasionally decides to have to the comics. Also introducing our new, very educational segment: wisdom from Pa Kent. The fucker. CONTENT WARNING for discussion of fatphobia, eat...
Mystery Of The Necronomicon - The Overfiend Guy Made Another Movie?
February 18, 2020 01:00 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBHappy Valentine's Day, listeners! This year's title is a supposedly Lovecraftian hentai title by the director of Urotsukidoji, featuring immortal fetuses, DAN GREEN, and a supposed cameo by our dear Dr. West. It was not as fun as Overfiend. And for us, that's saying something. So STRAP IN for all the content warnings and a locked room mystery that is not actually a mystery at all, no matter how many time stamps they flash onscreen in typewriter font. CONTENT WARNING for discussion of se...
Yu-Gi-Oh: The Dark Side Of Dimensions (w/ Alexis Sara) - 15 Years In and We Still Can't Explain It
February 03, 2020 15:00 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBDo you like YuGiOh? We hope so, because this reunion movie was pretty much exclusively made for people who already had Big Feels about the franchise. Even as three nerds who were all part of the phenomenon in the 2000s, we're still not entirely sure we got all of it. But Alexis was kind enough to power through the To Wong Foo episode with us last Pride Month and dammit, we owed her. Was it BAD? Listen, Yu-Gi-Oh transcends mere human concepts of goodness and badness. There are only card game...
Ghost: In Your Arms Again - The Japanese Version Kicks Swayze Version's Ass
January 20, 2020 15:00 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBAfter three false starts, we finally got hold of the Japanese remake of 1990's Ghost. And honestly, we can't think of a better movie to start the decade with. Now we get to audibly despair for an hour about the production oddities that make this beautiful little gem so incredibly hard to find. CONTENT WARNING for discussion of fatshaming, racism, police brutality 0:30 THE GRAIL APPEARS 8:00 Swayze Ghost 14:00 Their Love Story 22:00 Cancer Child and Anne Rice Psychic 28:00 Oh Yeah, Extor...
Drunk Book Club: The Silver Kiss
January 06, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBWe found it: the missing link between Interview with the Vampire and Twilight. On the one hand, we have a child vampire villain and musings about the power of human nature; on the other, a Not Like Other Girls heroine who's into the new bad boy in town (but not like, TOO bad). It's a fascinating historical document. As a novel....well, the ending's unexpected. CONTENT WARNING for discussion of (beatified) suicide, terminal illness, animal death, child sexual abuse, sexual assault, eating di...
Spirit Of Christmas/Last Christmas - Manic Pixie Dream Boys
December 25, 2019 04:08 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBHappy holidays, listeners! For this year's double feature we looked at two overtly Christmas-themed movies about that rarest of beings: the manic pixie dream BOY. The Spirit of Christmas is a Lifetime movie--you can tell because characters have heard of sex. But we're not here to take easy potshots at made-for-TV Christmas movies. We're here because Shawn has somehow never seen one. It's for SCIENCE. We actually went out to a theater to see Last Christmas, a podcast rarity! It went and th...
Go Crows! The Internet's Only Smallville Podcast - Season 1, Episodes 2-4
December 09, 2019 16:00 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBNot to be contained by the first of April, Go Crows returns! We're making a proper go of it, but the title stuck. Apologies to all the other theoretical podcasts about Smallville that might have come before us. Our three-episode spread this time leads us on a merry chase through The Fly, an episode that's just about Good, Actually; and an evil lesbian to serve as immediate punishment for enjoying ourselves. As always, Lex is our special boy. Because somehow this show fucked up so hard that ...
Bathtubs Over Broadway - Live Your Truth, Love Weird Shit
November 25, 2019 18:05 - 48 minutes - 45.7 MBThis documentary was delivered right to our doorstep with a stamp that said "your brand": the tale of a late-night comedy writer and how he stumbled into the enormous and yet nearly lost world of the industrial musical, multi-million dollar shows put on for corporations and never meant to be seen by society at large. Which is a crime, because "My Bathroom" is a work of aural genius. "Design for Dreaming" MST3K short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v91GELINmKo 1:00 Documentary Dive 7:00 Th...
Drunk Book Club: The Phantom Of Manhattan (AKA Love Never Dies)
November 12, 2019 15:07 - 1 hour - 72.1 MBIn which a longtime Phantom fan and someone who doesn't even go here read a published fanfic that hits all the notes of being BAD fanfic, including: a sequel that the original didn't need, killing off characters for no reason, magically adding babies that make no sense, and turning the canon love interest into an asshole because they're in the way of your preferred ship. And then there are the GENERAL bad book problems, like bad pacing and a complete disdain for women. Anyway, then it got mad...
Blood & Chocolate - A Different Kind of Wish Fulfillment
October 28, 2019 16:29 - 54 minutes - 52.1 MB"Wait, wasn't this week supposed to be Good Manners?" Weeeeeeell, we ran into a little trouble. Mostly in that Good Manners isn't about LADY werewolves. Instead, we decided to take a look at Blood & Chocolate, a movie based on a popular proto-YA novel in that it shares some character names. It might not be a GOOD movie, but it managed to surprise us with its rejection of toxic masculinity in a genre known for dickweed alpha males. CONTENT WARNING for discussion of stalking, sexual assault...
Ginger Snaps - One for All the Teenage "Weird Girls"
October 14, 2019 16:52 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBEntry two in our exploration of the werewolf genre is a big ol' puberty metaphor and a fantastic celebration of being weird, goth, and just a little bit pretentious as a teenager. Not to mention the great acting. CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault, queerphobia, animal death, and mass shootings 1:00 Production Info 7:00 The Role of Women in Horror 10:00 Here's to Weird Girls 18:30 Werewolf Puberty 20:30 Columbine's Effects 24:00 The Horror of Bodies 30:00 Men as Predators and ...
The Howling (w/ Jourdain Searles) -- Where Are All the Other Female Werewolf Movies?
September 30, 2019 15:26 - 54 minutes - 54 MBIt's that time of year again, where we put our spookiest foot forward and our horror history hats on. And since we're a podcast full of vampire fans, we thought we'd step out of our comfort zone and try out some of those werewolves we've heard so much about. This week we're joined by media critic Jourdain Searles to shine a light on the horror classic that was unfortunately overshadowed by An American Werewolf in London when it came out and makes stellar use of the werewolf as a metaphor fo...
Manhunter - The Many Faces of Hannibal Lecter
September 16, 2019 13:39 - 1 hour - 77.7 MBIt's our third anniversary! We decided to celebrate by talking about Hannibal Lecter's (excuse us, "Lecktor") first appearance on film. And if that gives us lots of opportunities to also talk about a certain Bryan Fuller...well, that's just a lucky coincidence, isn't it? But seriously, Manhunter is pretty great, and responsible for the aesthetic of forensic dramas as we know them today. CONTENT WARNING for discussion of misogyny, sexualized violence/stalking, homophobia, and animal death Cl...
Drunk Book Club: Michael Crichton's Sphere
September 02, 2019 18:49 - 58 minutes - 57.3 MBEvery bad book club eventually succumbs to the allure of Crichton, so we picked ourselves a doozy: a seafaring adventure about how everything would be better if all those minorities would just calm down and let a rational straight white man make all the decisions. Anyway, Dorothy insists this is the least eye-melting title she could've chosen. But we did remember to recommend some nicer, better things at the end this time. CONTENT WARNING for discussion of racism, misogyny, victim-blaming...
Ready to Rumble - When Making a Movie Does NOT Save the Failing Company
August 19, 2019 23:58 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBThis week stumbled into yet another production oddity--the 2000 film that was meant to promote World Championship Wrestling (WCW) but ended up effectively bankrupting it instead, leaving the WWE as the only big-name player in town. Now, we think wrestling is pretty neat but our knowledge of it is...uh. Limited, shall we say. So we had to call in a ringer to tell us all the cool wrestling history facts and references in this Arthurian quest narrative. Or: wow, this held up so much better than...
Stardust - The "Old Gaiman Nerds" Power Hour
August 05, 2019 04:29 - 1 hour - 71 MBThe post-LOTR fantasy boom was a strange time. It inspired Hollywood to pick up dozens of fantasy novels and cram them into three-act Hollywood adaptations whether or not much remained of the original work by the end. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it...really, really didn't. Wow, this movie hates women more than we remembered, huh? CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault, slavery and misogyny That Good Omens Meta Dorothy Threatened: https://goth-mabel.tumblr.com/post/186064839073...