8/7 - She Killed In Ecstasy

8/10 - Jess Franco Mystery Marathon

the three of us drill in on a space known as Twitter and it’s movie loving denizens

We dig into Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered + Lars Von Trier's The Idiots. Both screening this Tuesday, Dec. 12th at 7pm at the Music Box Theatre

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We return with more Franco movies, this time featuring Revenge in the House of Usher and his unfortunate misadventures in the jungle

The files are opened once again as we discuss The Sinister Dr. Orloff through to The Shadow Judoka vs Dr. Wong

We review Friedkin’s final film, along with Fincher’s The Killer and Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon

The files are opened again proper. We sift through 8 of Jess’ early 80s period, featuring Macumba Sexual and Oasis of the Zombies

We take a moment to reflect on where we’ve come and where we are going. We list off 5 films each that have made this journey so far memorable

What a world we live in. We are fired up and burnt out on this one, simultaneously. Expect some real treats soon

We tackle 8 Franco titles including Sadomania and Bloody Moon

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We reveal more upcoming shows and dig into Ringo Lam’s Prison on Fire + John McTiernan’s Rollerball. Both screening on 35mm this Wednesday, Sept 27th at 7pm at the Music Box Theatre

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Our pal Olivia joins us to speak on Paul Schrader’s much-maligned The Canyons, Lindsay Lohan, and Internet porn

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we discuss some true bangers from Jess Franco, six films from 1969-1970

we continue on in our exploration of filmmaker Jess Franco, and the period of his career where he worked with problematic producer Harry Alan Towers, beginning with their foray into the even more problematic world of Fu Manchu, alongside their first De Sade adaptations + Venus in Furs

It’s britney time, with our favorite drag queen, Ramona Slick

Crossroads + Morvern Callar - June 18 at Music Box

• we return to the Music Box on July 11th for the next installment in our heavily lauded and hotly praised Mubi-sponsored film series, Highs and Lows. This month, we examine the similarities between 1997’s CANT HARDLY WAIT and 1994’s US GO HOME
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we start with a few RIPS before getting into our latest Highs & Lows double feature of Chuck Russell’s THE MASK (1994) and Hiroshi Teshigahara’s THE FACE OF ANOTHER (1966), playing tonight at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago

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We are joined by filmmaker Louise Weard (Computer Hearts) to breakdown what makes and doesn't make a filmmaker one of those rare, low IQ beasts of the cinematic wild: the unchecked and elusive idiot auteur

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We talk Clint once again. We get into the romantic entanglements circling his life around the time he made Bridges of Madison County. After we say some words about Cassavetes’ Gloria (which we are showing with Bridges this Monday) it’s all talk about Clint’s romantic soft boy side

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we break down our double feature playing May 2nd at the Music Box Theatre

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The beep button gets a lot of use on this one

as we ramp up to our Robert Zemeckis retrospective, we have a nice chat with Filmmaker, Author, & Actress, Leslie Zemeckis & remind you all why you should already have your Marwen tix

We get into Babylon, Pacifiction, and Everything everyone all together at once

we come back to you all full of love in our hearts, our little hats clasped in our sweet dainty hands, with a few words of sincerity. But not for long, because we are re-charged and ready to get down and dirty with Netflix, AMC, the Daniels, China, and the possibility that the Oscars, as well as movies, may be done forever

We have returned full of that good good, addressing some recent brush ups we had, along with bringing you all the news you wanted to hear us go off on. We take to task Joyce Carol Oates, M3GAN, straight musicals, Kevin spacey and the rest of Italy, and our good wine boy, Francis Coppola.

(Also we know we confused Deadly Blessing and Deadly Friend. It was a glaring error we know. We are not perfect. We are listening and learning)

As another year ends so another begins, and so with this, we begin anew. We stroll down the snowy meadows of time, and reflect pensively on the year and some of its cinematic offerings.

We talk about that rolling stone article more

We get into the nitty gritty over the sight and sound controversy. Cameron and Rebecca from the Chicago Film Society join us in Hell

it’s over, we did it. Now back to other things for now. We round this puppy out with two stone cold stunners, Allied and Welcome to Marwen

breaking this up so we can do other things than pod for a few weeks…but in this one we hit on Flight and The Walk

curious about our Polar Express tease at the last H+L? What could it all Mean?

for now, we dig into the world of motion capture for Zemeckis, which includes The Witches and yes, the wooden Italian boy known as…Pinocchio