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Adam Meeks' Union County is a staggering portrait of recovery in the American Heartland. It's the story of Drug Court, a hybrid film utilizing real drug court cases, and real actors, to tell a recovery story about hope, change, and the possibility of rehabilitation. Director Adam Meeks joins the show to discuss his process -- in a riveting and charged conversation about the process of recovery,…
Friend of the show Chase Hutchinson, of The Seattle Times, Roger Ebert, and freelance critic at large, joins the show to reminisce about his on-the-ground experience at Sundance. We discuss the festival's final tour of Park City, the shift to Colorado, highlight five of the best films Chase saw at the show, along with a collection of further highlights. Watch Homemade Gatorade online
Welcome to Halloween H2OKComputer, in our annual gathering where we celebrate A. The Great Halloween Franchise and B. Radiohead's discography. In this spirited autumnal delight, Calvin & Jesse uncover the 20-year-anniversary film, Halloween H20, analyzing the shifting cultural design of horror in the post-Scream late-'90s, as we dig deep into our trick-or-treat bag of watched horror films for the…
Friend of the show Wyeth Leslie put the call out: Who wants to talk about the 28 Days Later trilogy? Us. Absolutely. In this episode, we compare & contrast 28 Days, Weeks, and Years Later, and try to define the era-specific nature of what each film's zombie story is trying to tell us socially, while also critically addressing why this enduring franchise has created such a sizable footprint, as our…
The podcast you like is going to come back in style. Friend of the show Warren Cantrell — of Scene-Stealers & The Playlist — joins The Twin Geeks for an in-person recording on This Is Spinal Tap & Friendship . A landmark classic for mockumentary and satire filmmaking, This Is Spinal Tap is being reissued this July and receiving a sequel within the year. Friendship , the new cringe-comedy from A24,…
The veil has thinned. The leaves have fallen. The pumpkin guts line the garbage bins streetside, where swarms of masked adolescents march in unison in pursuit of sweet confections. The Twin Geeks, now aged 7, continues our annual tradition of Halloween specials with Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) — an inflection point where the now long-running series must either find a new…
Felicia Maroni ( Seeing Faces in Movies ) joins the show to discuss the first half of John Cassavetes' filmography: Shadows (1958); Too Late Blues (1961); A Child is Waiting (1963); Faces (1968); Husbands (1970); and Minnie & Moskowicz (1971). When we talk about John Cassavetes, we're talking about the history of American independent movies, from what preceded and influenced the movement, to how…
Paul Thomas Anderson's exquisite Phantom Thread (2017) is our New Year's movie of choice, as our friend Renee (follow on LB: Pixie_Bomber ) sits in for a discussion that weaves discussions of terrific costume design with subjects who are driven to become experts in their field. Phantom Thread is one of the reasons this site came to exist and we'll always have time for PTA's tightly-wound…
Your Christmas friends Calvin & Perla (follow on LB: pxcaballero ) discuss cinema's weightiest Christmas film, Todd Haynes' exceptional Carol (2015). How do we perceive each other, Carol asks, at a perfect remove, characters stand back and observe one another. They take each other in. There is a boldness to let the movie happen, to always place the camera in the right place, having all the…
It's a Thanksgiving special with... The Vvitch, perhaps our best American pilgrim cinema, as we're joined by our friend Warren Cantrell ( Scene Stealers & The Playlist ). This week, the whole feast is on the table, from comforting to deeply discomforting holiday movies, centering on Robert Eggers' modern classic. All this and reviews of some new films, like Rustin & The Holdovers, with a…
