Dec 26, 2021
We're ending 2021 and our second season with a big one: Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho. It's dazzling, twisty and maybe a little thematically muddled, but talking about what works and what doesn't is a fun ride.
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We kick off this month's pairing with a classic of the psychological horror genre: Repulsion, directed by Roman Polanski in 1965. Isolation, untreated trauma, the downsides of moving through the world as a woman and also why people should maybe just leave women alone already.
Nov 28, 2021
We continue our Candyman discussion with the sequel/reimagining from 2021, directed by Nia DaCosta. Spoiler alert: we're a little mixed on this one, with one half of the podcast warmer on it than the other. We cover the threads picked up from the original film, what has happened to Cabrini-Green and Chicago in the...
Nov 21, 2021
In which we forget to determine ahead of time if the "say Candyman five times" rule still applies if you say it over the course of a podcast episode. If so, we're doomed. But, before our doom, we discuss 1992's Candyman. Topics include the history of Chicago's structural racism, this story as gothic horror and the...
Oct 31, 2021
We continue our month-long cult discussion with Karyn Kusama's 2015 The Invitation. We talk about the patterns of imprisonment, overwhelming grief and how this film's cult deals with grief differently than the one in our earlier mini episode. Also which cult we would prefer to join, just in case we ever have to make...