Moody Movie Club – Details, episodes & analysis

Moody Movie: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

Welcome back to Mini Mood: a bite-sized episode that focuses on a movie at the top of the zeitgeist. For this episode, Kylie and Elliott step back into a world that means a heck of a lot to them, respect a balance of homage and new territory, and categorize Tim Burton's spooky level in two distinct ways.

Listen to our ode to Tim Burton films with The Rad Wrap: Tim Burton

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Moody Movies: My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Back To The Future (1985), The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), Point Break (1991) and Kung Fu Hustle (2004).

Welcome back to Moody Movie Club! In this episode, Kylie and Elliott consider the percolation of many things happening in a particular time and place, experience true movie magic, try to reconcile a sweet and hurtful movie, bypass their brains with a Keanu Reeves classic, and consider the line between silliness and meanness.

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Moody Movies: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), On The Silver Globe (1988), Tuesday (2023), Twisters (2024), Cemetery of Splendor (2015), and Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978).

Welcome back to Moody Movie Club! Along the way, Kylie and Elliott share their fondness for men being sweetie cuties to one another, struggle over some challenging movies, fall in love with IMAX tornadoes, and spend an entire birthday at the cinema.

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It's the one year anniversary of Bad Dad Rad Dad, the week after the Oscars, and the end of The Last of Us season 1. There is a lot to discuss and a lot to celebrate.

In episode schfifty-five, Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watched over the past week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they see a mystery movie at their favourite cinema, welcome more messy and complex depictions of motherhood, discover a burgeoning love for Japanese New Wave, and promise they'll watch Scream movies forever and always.

This week’s movies are: Near Dark (1987), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The Lost Daughter (2021), Scream VI (2023), The Seventh Seal (1957), Funeral Parade of Roses (1969).

Watch the beautiful music video (directed by Jane Schoenbrun and featuring Scream V and VI's Jasmin Savoy Brown) for Lucy Dacus's beautiful song "Night Shift."

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Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watched over the past week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they think about masculinity through slow cinema, encounter the brilliance of Spike Lee, delve deeper into Cronenberg, and take their niece to her first-ever movie theatre.

This week’s movies are: Beau Travail (1999), Do The Right Thing (1989), Videodrome (1983), The Father (2020), Spontaneous (2020), Paddington (2014).

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Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watched over the past week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they discuss how everybody's horny for Anthony Perkins; the fortune of having local cinema curation and good audience members; and how sometimes it's important to delay the house lights.

This week’s movies are: The Trial (1962), Bound (1996), La La Land (2016), Welcome To The Dollhouse (1996), The Watermelon Woman (1996), Close (2022).

Watch Cheryl Dunye for Criterion: https://youtu.be/GW-sQbnCj6k

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Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watched over Valentine's Day week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they discuss balancing queer joy with the reality of trauma, the problem of punch-down comedy, and the importance of a film's final scene. Also, more holiday slashers, please! And stop saying "meat and potatoes," Elliott!

This week’s movies are: Rafiki (2018), Tommy Boy (1995), My Bloody Valentine (1981), The Hunt (2012), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).

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Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watched over the past week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they discuss being open to letting art open up to you, the complicated nature of "truth" in non-fiction films, and why they love M. Night Shyamalan (and aren't sorry about it).

This week’s movies are: Mirror (1975), Fruitvale Station (2013), Dirty Dancing (1987), Knock At The Cabin (2023), The Outwaters (2022).

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Welcome back to Daddy Deep Dive: a spoiler-filled unpacking of the most special films. This time, Kylie and Elliott are joined by their new friend–Juno-nominated musician, movie lover, and fellow member of the dead dad club–Rich Aucoin to dive into Mike Mills' 2010 film Beginners. In this conversation, they explore the things, both big and little, we pass down to the people we love; the struggle of grief; and the courage it takes to seek connection when we've been shown how much it can hurt and how wrong it can go.

Find Rich Aucoin at:

• Spotify
• Website
• Instagram
• Twitter

And watch Rich's ode to cinema–and absolute jam of a song–in the video for "It".

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Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watched over the past week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they discuss how Michelle Yeoh coulda shoulda been the lead in Sunshine (and should be the lead in everything), confront the inherent misogyny directed at women filmmakers, put their brains in a brain blender, and marvel at Mia Goth. ))< >((

This week’s movies are: Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016), Sunshine (2007), Raw (2016), Me And You And Everyone We Know (2005), Comet (2014), Infinity Pool (2023).

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