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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!

This week on the pod, we ask the biggest question of all: how do you like your sex? We talk government mandated nudity, the Italian-Nerd alliance, and Paris Hilton scholarship in our annual Choose Your Own Adventure episode: National Lampoon direct-to-DVD films!

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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!

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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!

This week on the pod, pro animator Em Kundrot @magical_grill joins us to talk sourdough starter characters, movies that take on too large a scope for it to handle, and how much we love Niobi in 2003’s THE MATRIX RELOADED!

This week, Josh is trapped in purgatory so we're taking a short Ono-Sendai break! Comics and publishing professional Kyle Daileda subs in to chat the power of yearning, how horny tennis is, and Zendaya fujoing out in 2024 film CHALLENGERS!

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!

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!

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!

This week on the pod, radio big brother Joel Hocking is back to talk the litany of false wives, the virtue of the medium-serious movie and the fine art of drivel (complimentary) in 2002’s CYPHER!

Your favorite Movie Cenobites are back to talk with beloved guest and Heroes Three co-host Matthew Tucciarone to discuss everything-but-the-kitchen-sink narratives, runaway train pacing, and being full of bugs in an eternal night in 1998's DARK CITY!

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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!

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From the Director of the Lawnmower Man, it's Virtuosity!!!

i actually rewatched the lawnmower man the other day. i found a copy of the director's cut which is (somehow) about 30 minutes longer. it much more clearly shows the directors ambitions to make something like a universal monster movie but for the 90s. it has a morally questionable scientist and a monster. the ambitions are quickly abandoned in favor of cg NONSENSE, but i'm happy there's a director's cut out there!

you should youtube search "lawnmower man brain mowing"

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This week, by popular demand, we talk late-night TV specials that change the trajectory of your life, absurdly high-budget hentai, and Josh's new favorite boytoy Amano Jyaku in 1989's UROTSUKIDOJI: LEGEND OF THE OVERFIEND!

* please pay special attention to the content warnings on this one!

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This week on the pod, all-star Carina Taylor rejoins us to talk sex libraries, Dougs (derogatory), and Evil Molly Ringwald in 1995's MALICIOUS!

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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!

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This week on the pod, we discuss an inverted Ghoul Picture, the first instance of anyone ever putting a knife down in an erotic thriller, and the various kinds of prisons we all put ourselves into in 1978's REMEMBER MY NAME!

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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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This week on the pod, we talk elite motherboys, the worst pipe in all of France, and movies not quite going far enough visually in 2013’s IN SECRET!

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The dove-of-honor and Heroes Three cohost Matthew Tucciarone joins us to dig up some songs that we wouldn't want to tell our friends that we kinda like - this is Shame Songs!

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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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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!

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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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🎶 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!

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!

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!

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!

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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!

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This week, we welcome back Scholastic and Silver Sprocket book designer Carina Taylor to discuss the stratifications of maleness, strange tales of depravity, and bold new frontiers in ghouling in 1990's COMFORT OF STRANGERS!

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This week, we talk about the hot alien with the sex directive, the agonies and ecstacies of a dumb guy movie, the platonic ideal of a 90s haircut, and wax nostalgic about the late Carl Weathers in 1995's SPECIES!

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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This week on the pod, we discuss bold new ways to cinematically depict Florida, Ed Harris, and Craig learns about the Prisoner's Dilemma in 1994's CHINA MOON!

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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! 

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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!

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This week on the pod, we discuss movies that don't seem to function on any level, engine blocks being suspended from the ceiling, and wake up, babe: brand-new phobia of epipens dropped in 2015's THE BOY NEXT DOOR!

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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!

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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!

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!

This week on Swimfans: we come up with new ways to be Catholic, we discuss the varied and nuanced manifestations of childhood trauma into adulthood, and Josh learns what a 'bezel' is in 2011's SHAME!

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This week, we welcome back Heroes Three legend Carlos Leon-Roman to talk Category 3 film, the agonies and ecstacies of low-budget action, and several fun facts about boba in 1991's ROBOTRIX!

On this episode, the princesses discuss myriad ideas that don't connect, forbidden dads, and colossal stone orbs in 2013's STOKER!

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This year, we’re thankful for all our doves!! To show our appreciation, we talk all killer no filler weird choices, Brad Dourif, and inheriting a dead friend’s house in 1994’s COLOR OF NIGHT!

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Your annual Animation is Film Festival coverage for 2023 is here! Josh is joined by all-star dove and storyboard artist for animation Leo Garcia to talk about the films we saw at the festival, and to wax romantic about the medium of animation at large.

This week, we discuss when the root of ghouling ruins the menace, a humble pitch for a Swimfans movie, and Craig finally tells us what happens in a certain television show in 2020’s FATALE!

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This week on the pod, we dirty little movie babies discuss the value of artifice in filmmaking, Amy Blue's lipstick, and how much we love set design in 1995's New Queer Cinema landmark film THE DOOM GENERATION!

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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!

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!

This week on the pod, we discuss the fragility of human nature, the idea of the detective, and Josh drones on about the occult in 1997’s CURE!

The gang once again welcomes comics professional and normal dog Kyle Daileda into their Antarctic compound. They talk distrust among uncles, head spiders, and humanity passing a bottle around until the world ends. It’s 1982’s THE THING