Everybody say happy birthday Josh!! This week, we celebrate aging by talking about the metaphors of water, the homies under the summer sun, and when gay people just can't leave each other alone in 1997's HAPPY TOGETHER!

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This week, we're joined by artist and designer Kevin Jay Stanton to discuss the steaminess of love unconsummated, the intimacy of the camera, and the allure of a soup thermos in 2000's IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE!

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This week on the podcast, we yap about horse-sized containers of morphine, egregious de-ghouling, and which controlled substances are safe to feed to ducks in 1998's HUSH!

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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 show, we talk hunting spouses for sport, retaining the power of your strongest scenes, and choosing more than one cliff to do insurance fraud from in 2018's WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE!

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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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This week, wrap yourself in barbed wire with us and talk confusing reference with allegory, American fairy tales, and barns for gooning in 1995's THE PASSION OF DARKLY NOON!

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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 2026 doves!! This week, we discuss troubled film productions, aesthetics filling the gap between interest, and Craig's tales of balling in 1995's WILD SIDE!

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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

it's the start of blood season, and josh is on vacation as i type this, so no one is here to write copy. craig, can you write something better than this for social media? uhh horror movie! spain! chainsaw! Get your balaclavas ready, it's PIECES!! 

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This week on the pod, we discuss trisomy in cats, the successes and failures of twins as metaphor, and when ambiguity goes wrong in 2017's DOUBLE LOVER!

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!!!

For the last episode of Cruel Summer 2023, we discuss Denzel, subverting expectations of the loose cannon cop character, and a post-mortem on the summer movie block in 2001's TRAINING DAY!

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!

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! 

Merry Christmas folks! On the last episode of 2025, we talk perpetual golden hours, friendships between women, and music to walk to in 2015's TANGERINE!

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This week, we talk about when in media res isn't better, our complicated feelings about 00s film aesthetics, and some reflections on credit sequences in 2006's RUNNING SCARED!

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Just one more thing… Did it rain? This week, we're rejoined by story artist Leo Garcia to discuss 300IQ logic demons, movies shot almost entirely in close, and the infinite gap between the movie one thinks they're making and movie that's made in 2005's HARD CANDY!

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This week on the pod, we talk about the pathologization of queerness, how America loves a babygirl, and the visual texture of a slow catastrophe in 1975's DOG DAY AFTERNOON!

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