The Swimfans engage in their most psychotic endeavor yet: watching every single best picture nominee for the 2022 Oscars. In Part 2, we cover McKay's DON'T LOOK UP, Del Toro's NIGHTMARE ALLEY, and Green's KING RICHARD.
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02 Nov 2023 | Episode C5 - Sorcerer | 01:10:03 | |
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! | |||
11 Jan 2019 | Episode 9 - Fear | 01:04:00 | |
Reese Witherspoon plays a vicious T. Hawk, Alex killed a crackhead, Craig stole the keys from a corpse and Josh untied his bound and gagged mother. We all loved James Foley’s 1996 teen thriller FEAR, Josh! swimfanspod.com | |||
08 Jul 2021 | Episode 129 - Blood Simple | 01:08:51 | |
14 Oct 2022 | Episode 188 - Hellbound: Hellraiser II (with Vou Pinette) | 01:20:16 | |
This week, we’re joined again by ooze correspondent Vou Pinette to talk hooks, the world of Clive Barker, and everything you ever wanted to know about the CD Cenobite in 1988’s HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II! swimfanspod.com @swimfanspod | |||
23 Mar 2023 | Episode 207 - Terrifying Girls High School: Lynch Law Classroom | 01:00:46 | |
This week, we're once again thinkin' pink. We talk gutsy low-budget filmmaking, perverts (derogatory), and sukeban girls battling riot cops in 1973's TERRIFYING GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL: LYNCH LAW CLASSROOM! swimfanspod.com | |||
14 Dec 2018 | Episode 5 - Wild Things | 01:10:20 | |
Matt Dillon gets sun madness, Josh gets sticky, Alex is sorry, and Craig saw Kevin Bacon’s dick and did not care. This week, we’re taking a look and John McNaughton’s 1998 caper Wild Things! swimfanspod.com | |||
30 Dec 2022 | Episode 197 - The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover | 01:07:03 | |
For the last week of 2022, the doves take a big ol’ bite out of cooked dudes, very red rooms and being kind of a vampire in 1989’s THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER! swimfanspod.com @swimfanspod | |||
16 May 2024 | Episode 258 - Whispers In The Dark | 01:05:51 | |
This week on the pod, we get really excited about supporting actors, hurl our fishing poles around impotently, and again discuss the conundrum of ending a movie in 1992’s WHISPERS IN THE DARK! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SWIMFANS swimfanspod.com | |||
06 May 2022 | Episode 166 - Sliver | 01:00:14 | |
The doves all move into one big bed in a really nice apartment to discuss haphazard script changes, really evil chairs and our queen Sharon Stone in 1993's SLIVER! swimfanspod.com | |||
30 Jun 2023 | Episode 219 - After Hours (w/ Shannon Strucci) | 01:04:32 | |
This week, we welcome back Shannon Strucci and discuss speedrunning making enemies, the virtue of a constantly wet protagonist, and the high strangeness of modern society in 1985’s AFTER HOURS! | |||
26 May 2022 | Episode 169 - The Devils | 01:14:54 | |
This week on the pod, the doves tempt you with sensuous delights and discuss female Riddlers, groovy priests and Ken Russell’s visual styling in 1971’s THE DEVILS!
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22 Dec 2022 | Swimfans X5 - Batman Returns | 01:08:54 | |
Merry Christmas to all the doves who celebrate! This week, we talk Burton, Batman and for the umpteeth time, gush about Michelle Pfeiffer in 1992’s BATMAN RETURNS! | |||
26 Oct 2023 | Episode 234 - Slither (w/ Vou Pinette) | 01:11:12 | |
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! | |||
05 May 2023 | Episode 211 - Swimming Pool | 01:11:52 | |
This week on the podcast, we talk girl twinks, real and false Julies, and Detective Frinklepop Wears A Kilt in 2003’s SWIMMING POOL! swimfanspod.com | |||
05 Jan 2024 | Episode 242 - The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | 01:05:30 | |
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 | |||
08 Sep 2022 | Episode 183 - Chloe | 01:01:00 | |
Lord forgive we, it’s time to go back to the Ghoul We. On this week’s episode, we discuss glass houses, inverted Ghoul Tropes and as usual, gush about actresses in 2009’s CHLOE! | |||
05 Sep 2024 | Episode 273 - Light Sleeper | 01:12:57 | |
This week in a return to erotic thrillers, we talk the horror of middle-aged disaffectation, theological cokeheads, and fawn over our favorite photographer of the male form in 1992’s LIGHT SLEEPER! | |||
18 Jul 2024 | Episode A5 - The Insider | 01:15:00 | |
Everybody rise as one accord: Happy birthday, Alex! This week, we’re talking nostalgia for a time when systems worked, the iceberg of Michael Mann, and dramatizing the news in 1999’s THE INSIDER! | |||
21 Mar 2022 | Swimfans Oscarmania 2022 - Part 2 | 00:45:19 | |
11 Apr 2024 | Episode 253 - Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | 01:20:44 | |
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 | |||
19 May 2022 | Episode 168 - Body Heat | 01:03:55 | |
This week, the princesses go classic and talk Kathleen Turner, the visual texture of heat, and a cool new sex thing in 1981’s BODY HEAT! swimfanspod.com @swimfanspod | |||
08 Apr 2022 | Episode 162 - Dressed to Kill | 00:58:00 | |
This week on the pod, we talk Hitchcock homages, Josh failing to grasp basic camera terminology, and how rivers are just hallways for fish in 1980’s DRESSED TO KILL! swimfanspod.com | |||
24 Mar 2022 | Episode 161 - Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion | 01:11:25 | |
The doves are again joined by Matthew Tucciarone from the Heroes Three podcast to discuss the inventive and expressive filmmaking on display in 1972's FEMALE PRISONER #701: SCORPION! swimfanspod.com | |||
18 Apr 2024 | Episode 254 - M. Butterfly | 01:04:14 | |
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!
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04 Feb 2022 | Episode 155 - Fifty Shades of Grey | 01:08:12 | |
This week on the pod, Craig gets his lists in order, Alex gazes out of windows, and Josh has a whole room for his Xbox as we discuss the kinky eroticism of 2015’s FIFTY SHADES OF GREY!
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05 Aug 2021 | Episode 132 - The Seventh Victim | 01:02:17 | |
Your favorite online radio ghouls form a cult in their tastefully-appointed parlor to discuss portrayal of old-timey gay people, mental illness, and movies that are Just Moods in 1943's THE SEVENTH VICTIM! swimfanspod.com | |||
14 Mar 2024 | Episode 250 - 8MM | 01:13:10 | |
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! | |||
02 May 2024 | Episode 256 - Snake Eyes | 01:05:08 | |
This week on the pod, we get excited about long takes, yet again we dig into Movies About Looking and Seeing and Josh has to admit that Cage is pretty good in 1998’s SNAKE EYES!
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30 Jun 2022 | Episode 174 - Battles Without Honor and Humanity (with Niamh Schönherr) | 01:11:48 | |
This week, we welcome back Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells cohost Niamh Schönherr to discuss Yakuza film, making vows to your pals and, as always, being gay in 1973’s BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY! swimfanspod.com @swimfanspod | |||
14 Jul 2022 | Episode 176 - Revanche (with Carina Taylor) | 01:06:31 | |
This week on the pod, we welcome back senior designer at Graphix and designer with Silver Sprocket Carina Taylor to discuss carrying around photos of women, the virtues of a movie looking pastoral, and choosing life over destructive revenge in 2008's REVANCHE! | |||
28 Mar 2024 | Episode J5 - One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island | 01:17:53 | |
🎶 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! | |||
02 Sep 2021 | Episode 136 - Lady Bird | 00:52:46 | |
This week, the Swimfans escape Sacramento and meet the worst type of guy at college. It's Greta Gerwig's hit directorial debut LADY BIRD. www.swimfanspod.com | |||
28 Dec 2023 | Episode 241 - Bitter Moon | 01:02:01 | |
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! | |||
01 Nov 2022 | Mini - Animation is Film 2022 | 00:22:50 | |
Josh reports about the five films (and no spoilers!) he saw at the 2022 Animation Is Film festival! Some brief impressions about movies you should totally see, and Josh trying to explain One Piece to Alex. | |||
24 Nov 2022 | Episode 193 - Careful What You Wish For | 00:54:53 | |
This week, we’re thankful for our beautiful doves who come back every ep! To show our appreciation, we talk movies without vision, a pitch for an erotic thriller musical, and the desperate need for treats in 2015’s CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR! swimfanspod.com | |||
08 Jun 2023 | Episode 216 - Deep Cover | 01:04:59 | |
This week, we talk Alex’s new career as a film archivist, debate the popular filmmaking techniques of the 1990s and discuss 1992’s DEEP COVER’s well-deserved place in the pantheon of neo-noir masterpieces!
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23 Jul 2021 | Episode A3 - First Blood | 01:18:41 | |
On darling Alex’s third birthday ever, the princesses talk mixed political messaging, expert genre-shifting, the genius of Sly, and inevitably, Metal Gear Solid in landmark 1982 film FIRST BLOOD!
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08 Aug 2024 | Episode 269 - Peep "TV" Show (w/ Niamh Schönherr) | 01:15:23 | |
This week on the pod, we welcome back number one podcaster in da world Niamh Schönherr to talk Neo-Sontag, the emotional distancing of the camera and all that entails, and the inherent subjectivity of filming reality in 2003’s PEEP “TV” SHOW! | |||
04 Aug 2023 | Episode 223 - Gone in 60 Seconds (with Joel Hocking) | 01:19:22 | |
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! | |||
29 Jul 2021 | Episode 131 - My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? | 00:54:41 | |
In this episode about the Lynch-produced and Herzog-directed 2009 film MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE?, the princesses talk filmic texture, the virtue (and perhaps vice) of being such an idiosyncratic product, and the Medium Is the Message Horseshoe Theory. swimfanspod.com @swimfanspod | |||
22 Dec 2023 | Episode X6 - A Christmas Melody | 01:32:01 | |
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! | |||
18 Nov 2021 | Episode 146 - Ghost World | 01:14:14 | |
The gang talks about the pain of fitting in, growing up, growing apart, and skincare in this episode on the 2001 film GHOST WORLD! www.swimfanspod.com | |||
11 Jul 2024 | Episode 266 - The Fifth Element (w/ Joey Weiser) | 01:10:49 | |
This week, we welcome back comic artist Joey Weiser to talk the wonderful physicality of Milla Jovovich, exactly how many rockets a well-made bartop can truly take, and how good it feels to drop a beat overtop of an opera number in 1997's THE FIFTH ELEMENT! | |||
30 Dec 2021 | Episode 4X - Tokyo Godfathers | 01:14:19 | |
Happy holidays to all our li’l elves! This week on the pod, we talk synechdoche, our personal thoughts on found family and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (kind of) in 2003’s TOKYO GODFATHERS! swimfanspod.com | |||
24 Dec 2021 | Episode 79 - Dangerous Minds | 01:06:31 | |
We had a bit of an upload Oopsie this week, so here’s one from the vaults: a discussion of 1995’s DANGEROUS MINDS we didn’t end up releasing in the past (including a bonus trip to a Neeson Paradise!). swimfanspod.com | |||
08 Dec 2022 | Episode 195 - Cat People (1982) | 00:55:19 | |
You know the cat ladies work it in their shoes and their coats. I saw one take down a big zebra just by bitin’ his throat. Alright. This is 1982’s CAT PEOPLE. | |||
31 Aug 2023 | Episode 227 - I See You (with Kyle Daileda) | 01:05:04 | |
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! | |||
25 Jan 2024 | Episode 245 - Malice | 01:00:08 | |
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 | |||
25 Nov 2021 | Episode 147 - Fish Tank | 01:09:57 | |
This week on the pod the doves talk about dancing, freeing horses, and stubborn perseverance. It's the 2009 Andrea Arnold film FISH TANK. | |||
14 Mar 2022 | Swimfans Oscarmania 2022 - Part 1 | 00:43:29 | |
The Swimfans engage in their most psychotic endeavor yet: watching every single best picture nominee for the 2022 Oscars. In Part 1, we cover Hamaguchi's DRIVE MY CAR, Campion's THE POWER OF THE DOG, and Branagh's BELFAST. | |||
13 Jan 2022 | Episode 152 - Crimes of Passion | 01:11:46 | |
This week on the pod, we return to our erotic thriller roots and discuss the dark side of the romantic lead, colored gels, and China Blue in 1984's CRIMES OF PASSION! swimfanspod.com | |||
07 Oct 2021 | Episode 141 - Dawn of the Dead (with Vou Pinette) | 01:20:31 | |
On our third annual Bloodbath we're joined by friend & illustrator Vou Pinette (@hemorrhedge) to talk Dario Argento, subconscious undead drives, and why NOT to fill your refrigerator with zombies. It's the seminal George A. Romero picture DAWN OF THE DEAD | |||
26 Mar 2022 | Swimfans Oscarmania 2022 - Part 3 | 01:03:21 | |
The Swimfans engage in their most psychotic endeavor yet: watching every single best picture nominee for the 2022 Oscars. In Part 3, we cover Anderson's LICORICE PIZZA, Spielberg's WEST SIDE STORY, Villeneuve's DUNE, and Heder's CODA. swimfanspod.com | |||
21 Mar 2024 | Episode 251 - Dream Lover | 01:03:19 | |
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! | |||
08 Feb 2024 | Episode 247 - Double Indemnity | 01:11:20 | |
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!
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11 Nov 2021 | Episode 145 - Rebels of the Neon God | 01:04:24 | |
The crew gets together to talk salad dressing, modern social alienation, lived-in city spaces and gay mindset in 1992 Tsai Ming-liang film REBELS OF THE NEON GOD! www.swimfanspod.com | |||
13 Jun 2024 | Episode 262 - Neptune Frost | 01:12:25 | |
This week, we celebrate the effectiveness of surrealism, the power of the archetype, cyberpunk in its truest form, and once again manage to mention Susan Sontag in 2021's NEPTUNE FROST! swimfanspod.com patreon.com/swimfans | |||
27 Oct 2022 | Episode 190 - Possession | 01:06:29 | |
Finishing off Bloodbath, we talk doppelgangers, cocooned guys growing in corners, and the horrors of being trapped in a life one wants to escape in 1981’s POSSESSION! | |||
04 Jan 2019 | Episode 8 - The Crying Game | 01:06:46 | |
Forest Whitaker gets covered in vaseline, Alex gets run over by a tank, Josh teaches us proper kidnapping etiquette, and Craig unloads a full clip into Jean-Pierre Jeunet. We dive into Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game. swimfanspod.com | |||
04 Apr 2023 | Alex Talking: Sheng-Ting Shen | 00:47:52 | |
i am joined today by sheng-ting shen. she's a filmmaker/producer based in nyc originally from taiwan. i fully interegate her about her life, work and processes. finally, someone not from michigan! support miss mermaid on kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/miss-mermaid/miss-mermaid-a-feature-film sandy's website: https://www.sheng-tingshen.com/ | |||
12 Aug 2021 | Episode 133 - The Third Man (with Shannon Strucci) | 01:10:21 | |
The lads are once again joined by co-host and player on Critical Bits, Struggle Session film correspondent, and critic and video essayist Shannon Strucci to discuss queer Draculas, film noir and the hapless charm of Holly Martins in 1949’s THE THIRD MAN! swimfanspod.com | |||
04 Nov 2021 | Episode C3 - Annihilation | 00:38:50 | |
23 Jun 2022 | Episode 173 - A Perfect World | 01:06:11 | |
On this episode of Swimfans: Cruel Summer, we get a little pouty and talk about surprising nuance, Laura Dern (yet again), and the difficulty with a movie that’s critically lopsided in 1993’s A PERFECT WORLD! swimfanspod.com | |||
15 Dec 2022 | Episode 196 - Original Sin | 00:59:46 | |
This week, the doves discuss Fabric Movies, the appeal of melodrama and everybody names their favorite chess piece in 2001’s ORIGINAL SIN! | |||
04 Apr 2024 | Episode 252 - Fair Play | 01:07:17 | |
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!
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15 Jun 2023 | Episode 217 - Rashomon | 01:02:17 | |
This week on the pod, Craig, Alex and Josh talk the power of being really really good at the basics of filmmaking and each blame each other for a murder during 1950’s RASHOMON! swimfanspod.com | |||
29 Apr 2022 | Episode 165 - Stranger by the Lake | 01:07:06 | |
The crew takes a quick trip to the sex beach to discuss gayness in movies, extreme Frenchness and lake ghosts in 2013’s STRANGER BY THE LAKE!
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15 Apr 2022 | Episode 163 - Fifty Shades Darker | 01:12:59 | |
The doves return to again delight in the wonders of the flesh, ignore multiple red flag after red flag, and critique a fictional person's photography in 2017's FIFTY SHADES DARKER!
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21 Oct 2021 | Episode 143 - What Lies Beneath | 01:05:59 | |
On the third episode of Bloodbath, the doves discuss the Thriller Triangle, movies about processing trauma and reaffirm their status as the premiere Michelle Pfeiffer Stan Accounts with regards to 2000’s WHAT LIES BENEATH! | |||
28 Oct 2021 | Episode 144 - Alien | 01:16:45 | |
Cher is a type of molecular acid, sci-fi/horror is a difficult balance to strike, and the vision of the working class in the far future are among what the gang discusses in this Bloodbath finale: the 1979 Ridley Scott film ALIEN! www.swimfanspod.com | |||
17 Oct 2022 | Mini - Hellraiser (2022) (with Vou Pinette) | 00:34:54 | |
You have chosen... the Listener Configuration for another Swimfans mini. We're rejoined by ooze correspondent Vou Pinette for a brief but very enthusiastic chat about HELLRAISER (2022)! swimfanspod.com | |||
16 Jul 2021 | Episode 130 - Heat | 01:11:31 | |
This week the lads are joined by returning guest Joel Hocking to discuss arthouse sensibility in a dad movie package and cool vs. uncool gunfights in the straightest action movie ever made: Michael Mann’s 1995 film HEAT! | |||
04 Jul 2024 | Episode 265 - A Scanner Darkly (w/ Leo Garcia) | 01:01:59 | |
This week on the pod, we're joined by storyboard artist Leo Garcia to talk the magical quality of listlessness, the careful balancing act between character and plot, and Josh shares his favorite biblical references in 2006's A SCANNER DARKLY! | |||
03 Jun 2022 | Episode 170 - Belly | 01:18:40 | |
Welcome to CRUEL SUMMER 2!! This week, we talk inventive solutions to visual problems, success in spite of production difficulties and the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1998’s BELLY!
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13 Apr 2023 | Episode 209 - Fleshtone | 01:08:04 | |
This week on the show, we discuss old-school catfishing, unsatisfying conspiracy plots and surprisingly decent diegetic paintings in 1994’s FLESHTONE!
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11 Feb 2022 | Episode 156 - Crash | 01:09:25 | |
This week, we return to Cronenberg and talk car crashes, being a freak with your friends, and about Fast and the Furious's evil cousin in 1996's CRASH! swimfanspod.com | |||
13 Oct 2023 | Episode 232 - The Thing (w/ Kyle Daileda) | 01:08:10 | |
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17 Nov 2022 | Episode 192 - A Snake of June | 01:01:43 | |
This week, we return to Shinya Tsukamoto to discuss camera as metaphor, robot pelvises as metaphor and cosmetics commercials as metaphor in 2002’s A SNAKE OF JUNE!
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21 Jan 2022 | Episode 153 - The Postman Always Rings Twice (1983) | 01:08:22 | |
This week, the doves always pod twice as we discuss the purpose of glamour in erotic thrillers, joylessly painting stones and old-fashioned clothing in 1981’s THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE! www.swimfanspod.com | |||
16 Mar 2023 | Episode 206 - Muscle (with Leo Garcia) | 01:21:20 | |
This week on the pod, we’re joined by fellow video sicko Leo Garcia to talk being gay in a weird way, pink film, and if butter is a condiment or not in 1989’s MUSCLE! swimfanspod.com | |||
10 Feb 2023 | Episode 203 - Body Double | 01:00:13 | |
This week, we talk about the act of looking, reiterate the joy of artiface and discuss how sinister beds that spin are in 1984’s BODY DOUBLE!
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26 Jan 2023 | Episode 201 - Sleeping With The Enemy | 01:03:27 | |
This week, the lambs discuss how a few moments of style does not a film style make, shot choices informing mood and Julia Roberts’ hair in 1991’s SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY! swimfanspod.com | |||
29 Feb 2024 | OSCARMANIA 2024 - PART ONE | 01:13:25 | |
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 | |||
19 May 2023 | Episode 213 - Elle | 01:02:55 | |
This week on the pod, we talk complicated characters, Isabelle Huppert, and empathy in Paul Verhoeven's 2016 film ELLE! | |||
25 Jan 2019 | Episode 11 - Jawbreaker | 01:10:56 | |
Craig forgets to plug his leg in, Alex can’t get the sink clean and Josh has a poor understanding of worm genitals. We hit the limits of what could seriously be called an “erotic thriller” with I Know Who Killed Me. swimfanspod.com | |||
03 Mar 2023 | Swimfans Oscarmania 2023 - Part 1 | 01:26:13 | |
It’s awards season, baby!! The doves sashay down the red carpet and discuss the first five Best Picture 2023 noms: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, AVATAR, BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, ELVIS and EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE! swimfanspod.com | |||
20 Apr 2023 | Episode 210 - The Net (w/ Matthew Tucciarone) | 01:07:15 | |
This week, we get our flips switched with Heroes Three icon Matthew Tucciarone and talk computer magic, touching grass and trying to remember 90s computer viruses from memory in 1995’s THE NET! swimfanspod.com | |||
25 Dec 2018 | Episode X1 - Eyes Wide Shut & Best of 2018 | 01:22:05 | |
Tom Cruise can’t get it in, Alex got the test results back, Craig was ready to give up everything, and you are ready to redeem Josh? It’s a merry muthaphuckin' christmas and Kubrick is sliding down the chimney in a pool of cum with EYES WIDE SHUT! And later, we quickly recap our favorite movies of 2018! swimfanspod.com | |||
22 Aug 2024 | Episode 271 - Tetsuo the Iron Man (w/ Shannon Strucci) | 01:07:57 | |
Rounding out Ono-Sendai, we’re joined by video editor and critic Shannon Strucci as we talk tibia rebar, being a gay metal slab with an evil twink, and strange observations about Atlanta in 1989’s TETSUO THE IRON MAN! | |||
08 Sep 2023 | Swimfans Mini - Galerians: Rion | 00:38:32 | |
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! | |||
09 Mar 2023 | Swimfans Oscarmania 2023 - Part 2 | 01:22:55 | |
You like us, you really, really like us! We wrap up the Best Picture 2023 noms and discuss THE FABELMANS, TÁR, TOP GUN MAVERICK, TRIANGLE OF SADNESS and WOMEN TALKING! swimfanspod.com | |||
30 Nov 2018 | Episode 3 - Single White Female | 01:05:51 | |
Bridget Fonda adopts a ghoul, Josh falls into the incinerator, Alex is stuck in a cage, and Craig thought you’d like his new haircut! This week we’re talking Barbet Schroeder’s 1992 film, Single White Female! | |||
19 Jan 2024 | Episode 244 - The Canyons | 01:10:48 | |
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 | |||
04 Aug 2022 | Episode 178 - Kiss Me Deadly | 01:05:13 | |
This week, the dames get a little noir and talk fear in the Atomic Age, hot boxes, and impeccably made .gifs in 1955’s KISS ME DEADLY! swimfanspod.com @swimfanspod | |||
30 Mar 2023 | Episode J4 - Millennium Actress | 00:59:55 | |
[intercom voice] Zoro One Piece is now illegal. It’s Josh’s birthday this week, so we talk Satoshi Kon (again), the human desire to chase, and what it means to love something in 2001’s MILLENNIUM ACTRESS! | |||
27 Feb 2023 | Alex Talking: "Craig Neeson" | 01:07:50 | |
Alex stays well in the interviewers comfort zone with this converstation with fellow swimfans co-host Craig Neeson. They talk about what it means to grow up in a haunted blood forest. | |||
30 Sep 2022 | Episode 186 - Plush | 01:03:30 | |
This week on the pod, we get a little Alt to talk ghoul films, garden hoses and movies that may be made several years too late in 2013’s PLUSH! | |||
21 Sep 2023 | Episode 229 - Roger Corman Triple Feature | 01:11:45 | |
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!!! | |||
07 Mar 2024 | OSCARMANIA 2024 - PART TWO | 01:32:12 | |
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 | |||
01 Dec 2023 | Episode 238 - Stoker | 01:03:12 | |
On this episode, the princesses discuss myriad ideas that don't connect, forbidden dads, and colossal stone orbs in 2013's STOKER! swimfanspod.com |