Late-style masterpiece? Lore-encumbered dud? Or something in between? Snot Priest (Cole) and Piss Smelter (Bryan) shift into gear to discuss Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, and whether the great George Miller still has it in him to make it epic.
4 Jun 2024
Episode 13: No Blade of Grass
Took a while, but we finally covered a movie about a guy with an eyepatch. Bear with us as we rank the best live births in film, severely misinterpret a Rolls Royce joke, and manage to only make ONE covid-19 comparison. All this and more(?), in Cornel Wilde's No Blade of Grass!
2 May 2024
Episode 12: Pulse
Welcome back to WTEOTW, now without all the red tape. This month, we plug into Pulse, the great Kiyoshi Kurosawa's prescient, terrifying examination of love and loneliness in the digital age.
1 Apr 2024
Episode 11: In the Mouth of Madness
Peer behind the veil into a world not unlike our own, where fiction subsumes reality, fandom precipitates violence, and John Carpenter directs a monster movie within an inch of its life. It's In the Mouth of Madness, adapted from Sutter Cane's novel of the same name, starring John Trent, Linda Styles, and Jackson Harglow.
1 Mar 2024
Episode 10: The Running Man, with Patrick H. Willems
Your favorite show is back - and so is this podcast! In what we're noncommittally declaring our "season 2 premiere", we pick the brain of YouTube wunderkind and longtime pal Patrick Willems (@patrickhwillems) on all things 80s, up to and including Paul Michael Glaser's The Running Man. Don't change the channel!
23 Jun 2023
Episode 9: Delicatessen
Carve out some time, because this one's meaty; let's hope we didn't butcher it. It's time to dig into Delicatessen (1991), un film français de Jean-Pierre Jeunet et Marc Caro.
12 May 2023
Episode 8: Southland Tales
Hold on for dear life as we go all in on Richard Kelly's densely-layered political panorama Southland Tales, one of the boldest, messiest, most polarizing passion projects of the aughts. This is, as always, the way the world ends.
24 Mar 2023
Episode 7: Rollerball (1975) with Stephen
With friends like these, who needs penalties? This week, with the aid of Batting Around cohost/accredited beefcake expert Stephen (@TangoGolfKilo), we cast an analytical eye at Norman Jewison's 1975 dystopian sports drama Rollerball. Yes, we figure out what Rollerball Twitter would be like; no, it is not good.
10 Mar 2023
Episode 6: Miracle Mile
After an unplanned and probably undeserved break, we're back to discuss in great detail the ecological particularities of Los Angeles "roof rats," prominently featured (alongside impending nuclear holocaust) in Steve De Jarnatt's real-time romp Miracle Mile (1988).
3 Feb 2023
Episode 5: Angel's Egg
All roads lead to anime. Bryan listens patiently as Cole foams at the mouth for two straight hours about Angel's Egg, Mamoru Oshii and Yoshitaka Amano's dreamlike, desolate interpretation of a world abandoned by God.
20 Jan 2023
Episode 4: Silent Running
Silent Running doesn't shy away from the big questions. Is Joan Baez cool? Can effective environmentalist agitprop be produced under the aegis of Dow Chemical? What if a guy you basically agreed with was still really annoying? Run wild in the sun with us as we pick apart visual effects wiz Douglas Trumbull's directorial debut, a flower-power space opera as technically impressive as it is tonally confounding.
6 Jan 2023
Episode 3: Zardoz
Welcome to the Vortex, year 2293. This week, it's all about Zardoz, visionary filmmaker John Boorman's oft-underrated treatise on life, death, sex, aging, violence, love, eugenics, sex again, family, religion, artificial intelligence, class warfare, human spirit, British hubris, and sex.
23 Dec 2022
Episode 2: Soylent Green
Soylent Green... is podcast. Join us for a raucous discussion about ham and cheese hot pockets, Charlton Heston's fetid little neckerchief, and, with luck, the 1973 cult eco-terror hit Soylent Green. DISCLAIMER: Opinions expressed herein are our own and do not reflect those of our employer (the Soylent Corporation).
9 Dec 2022
Episode 1: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Bryan and Cole introduce themselves, establish some ground rules that they'll probably break, and kick off the podcast (or "pod," if you will) with a discussion of Philip Kaufman's 1978 thriller Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
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