Josh Hollis and I get our Santa hats on and talk about Christmas, film noir, the death of childhood, and gay detectives. Holiday theme: "If You Want It" by TV Girl (https://tvgirl.bandcamp.com/track/if-you-want-it-2) https://joshhollis.com/

Episode 28: The Family Stone

Nov 26th, 2016 38m 56s

Stage actor Larry Owens (Gigantic, A Strange Loop, Boys Who Tricked Me, Spamilton) joins me to discuss his favorite comfort movie, The Family Stone (2005). Featuring: "comfort movies," the mainstreaming of queerness & disability in the early au

Episode 27: Cat People (1982)

Oct 29th, 2016 40m 47s

Gena Radcliffe of the Kill By Kill podcast joins me to discuss 1982's Cat People. http://apple.co/2dYM84b https://tuneintonight.wordpress.com/

Episode 26: Drop Dead Gorgeous

Oct 21st, 2016 47m 51s

Liz Watson (@watsontots) of the Women of the Hour podcast helps me establish another entry in the Kirsten Dunst canon, 1999's Drop Dead Gorgeous. buzzfeed.com/womenofthehour

Episode 25: Hellraiser

Oct 14th, 2016 44m 27s

Megan Sunday of Trapped in the Attic (https://trappedintheattic.wordpress.com/) joins me to pick over the gooey remains of Clive Barker's Hellraiser. Listen to Megan on the Lifemark podcast! http://eartrumpetaudio.com/?p=241

Episode 24: She's the Man w/ Spirits Podcast

Sep 25th, 2016 38m 35s

Julia and Amanda of the Spirits podcast join me to discuss gender bending, emotional men, Chekhov's tampons, and Channing Tatum, my adorable dancing son. https://www.patreon.com/spiritspodcast

Episode 23: The Legend of Billie Jean

Sep 11th, 2016 1h 1m

Amy Pascale (TV Taught Me podcast) joins me to talk The Legend of Billie Jean, the feminist road warrior movie you always wanted. http://theamypascale.com/

Episode 22: Cherry Falls

Aug 18th, 2016 43m 57s

Alexandra West (@ScareAlex) of The Faculty of Horror podcast joins me to talk about Cherry Falls (2000), a satirical, sexually-charged teen slasher film starring Brittany Murphy that almost never saw the light of day. http://www.facultyofhorror

Episode 21: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Jul 10th, 2016 42m 13s

Clint Worthington of Alcohollywood and Consequence of Sound joins me to defrag 2001's would-be game-changer Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

Episode 20: The Monster Squad

Jun 19th, 2016 29m 35s

Dan McCoy (The Flop House podcast, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah) joins me to discuss The Monster Squad. Voices by us, clattering noises by his cat Archie.

Episode 19: Marie Antoinette

Jun 5th, 2016 36m 54s

"The problem of leisure / What to do for pleasure..." Shannon Campe of the Stage of Fools podcast joins me to talk Sofia Coppola's unfairly maligned 2006 biopic Marie Antoinette. http://www.shannon-campe.com/ http://quaintmagazine.com/cinema-of

Episode 18: The Last Unicorn

May 20th, 2016 33m 36s

"I'm alive!" John McCoy of Sophomore Lit joins me to talk fairy tales, death, time, and 70s soft rock bands. https://www.theincomparable.com/sophomorelit/

Episode 17: Pacific Rim

May 5th, 2016 32m 22s

Jamelle Bouie, Slate Chief Political Correspondent & CBS News Political Analyst, joins me to talk action movie masculinism, Guillermo Del Toro's female gaze, and giant robots. Follow Jamelle on Twitter (https://twitter.com/jbouie) or visit his

Episode 16: 13 Going on 30

Apr 21st, 2016 32m 53s

"Thirty, flirty, and thriving..." Christy Admiraal of The Toast returns as we close out this month with another romantic comedy, 2004's Jennifer Garner vehicle 13 Going on 30. We talk teenage wish fulfillment, Peak Ruffalo, and the magic of syn

Episode 15: Down to You

Apr 15th, 2016 44m 31s

"Cake? Cake is my world!" In the first of our good-bad April Fools' episodes, Alison Abrams (https://twitter.com/sarcasticvoice) helps me try & make sense of the desperately strange 2001 romantic comedy Down to You.

Episode 14: In Bruges

Mar 25th, 2016 49m 12s

"I used to hate history, didn't you? It's all just a load of stuff that's already happened." I sat down with my friend Chris Tracy (twitter.com/oldchris) of Clean Girls(http://cleangirls.bandcamp.com/) to talk McDonagh, violence, inherited mora

Episode 13: Newsies

Mar 10th, 2016 34m 1s

Chicago-based librarian & self-professed "fansie" Sarah Kantor helps me carry the banner through Newsies, the 1992 cult Disney musical from which Christian Bale is still recovering.

Episode 12: The Apartment

Feb 27th, 2016 33m 40s

Christy Admiraal of The Toast joins me to discuss Billy Wilder's 1960 romantic comedy The Apartment. See Christy's writing here: http://the-toast.net/author/christy-admiraal

Episode 11: Josie and the Pussycats

Feb 11th, 2016 35m 54s

Improviser Jane Dempsey of Pizza Baby Pizza joins me to revisit 2001's box office bomb Josie and the Pussycats. GATORADE IS THE NEW SNAPPLE.

Episode 10: Seraphim Falls

Jan 31st, 2016 36m 3s

Malcolm Nygard of APOC RADIO joins me to discuss the underseen 2006 western Seraphim Falls, starring Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson. We pick apart the appeal of the western genre, its place in contemporary cinema, and just how you might sew you

The LC Mixtape: STARMAN

Jan 22nd, 2016 11m 44s

DAVID BOWIE (1947-2016) Movies: Labyrinth, The Prestige, The Hunger, The Man Who Fell to Earth Music: Seu Jorge, The Blood Brothers, The Langley Schools Music Project Produced & edited by Caroline Fulford

Episode 9: Ginger Snaps

Jan 8th, 2016 38m 18s

NSTV's Alison Abrams joins me to discuss Ginger Snaps (2000), the cult Canadian teen horror starring Katherine Isabelle and Emily Perkins. It gets pretty menstrual.

The LC Chrismukkah Mixtape

Dec 23rd, 2015 9m 25s

This Chrismukkah, I'm your Seth Cohen, and you're my Summer Roberts. MOVIES/TV: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens Brazil The Kate Bush Christmas Special The General Fargo The Twilight Zone The Snowman The Wizard of Oz The Sound of Music