Episodes

Wouldst thou like to live deliciously? We talk folk horror, Black Philip, girlhood and The Witch with Melanie Zanetti!

Has it ever occurred to you that part of being a parent is tryin' to kill your kids? In which we attempt to understand car culture and Stephen King's / John Carpenter's Christine with Adrian Daub.

There are certain RULES that one must abide by in order to successfully survive a horror movie! In which we go back to slasher school and revisit Scream with the incandescent Chelsey Weber-Smith.

"Any religion without love and compassion is false! It's a lie!" In which we shuck some Children of the Corn with Miranda Zickler.

"If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like." Y'all remember Garden State? Let's talk about Garden State with Niko Stratis and Chelsey Weber-Smith!

"The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world." In which we unpack The Hand that Rocks the Cradle with our fabulous friend Megan Burbank.

"Here lies Walter Fielding. He bought a house, and it killed him." In which we see what's behind these walls, and unpack The Money Pit, with our friend Sarah Archer.

All drains lead to the ocean! In which we unpack the fact, fiction and feelings floating around in Finding Nemo with Brianna Bowman!

It's finger-lickin' good! In which Sarah and Alex unpack Near Dark and the phenomenon that is the vampire Western.

Hush little baby, don't you cry. When Peter gets home, we're gonna punch him in the eye. We love Three Men and a Baby so flippin' much, and we unpack all that and more with the great River Butcher! We ALSO have a Three Men and a Little Lady episode featuring River on Patreon and Apple podcasts!

We're right on top of that, Rose! We giddily go back to 1991 and talk all things Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead with our great friend Candace Opper!

We learn to laugh and we learn to cry in The Secret Garden with our great pal Melanie Zanetti.

We're not stupid, we know everyone thinks we are, we just don't like answering stupid questions. We excavate some meaning from HOLES, and talk about what it's like to be an artist In These Times, with guest host Miranda Zickler and the glorious Carolyn Kendrick!

F**k you, f**k your f****n' pizza, and f**k Frank Sinatra. We got hot on the block and unpack Do the Right Thing with the magnificent Ify Nwadiwe.

Jesus is coming and he is pissed! We talk about machine-led apocalypse, the terror of car accidents and Maximum Overdrive. As is our tradition when we discuss Stephen King stories, we cover this one from page to screen!

In which we are joined by the wonderful Dakota Hommes to discuss coming of age, gender, cannibalism and Raw.

Aren't you gonna frisk us? We talk Warren Beatty, Madonna, memory and Dick Tracy with Jason Marsden!

We're your huckleberry. In which we have a feelings shootout and try to figure out which square-jawed white man is which in Tombstone.

The day we died was the day we started to live! We continue our Summer stroll through Gotham City and claw our way through Catwoman with our lovely friend J.V. Hampton-VanSant.

Let's kick some ice! Batman & Robin is surprisingly rich in themes! Let's... defrost them, shall we?

"Thank you, officer f**k-meat!" In which we head up to Maine (?) and wade around in Lake Placid.

"Running's what you do once a plan fails!" In which we talk Tremors with our fabulous friend Harmony Colangelo.

We love you more than Kodak! We head to Baltimore, snap some photos, roll around in heaps of trash, and talk Pecker with our wonderful pal Elizabeth Teets!

You remind us of the babe! In which we venture into the labyrinth of desire, parent baggage, fantasy and Labyrinth with the wonderful Megan Cruz.