Podcast #180: Gentlemen Prefer Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) to Blonde (2022)

Welcome to Episode #180 of The Swampflix Podcast.  For this episode, Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss the classic films and lasting legacy of Marilyn Monroe, from her beloved comedies like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) to her post-modern post mortem Blonde (2022).

00:00 Welcome

2:00 Krewe Divine
3:30 Divine Trash (1998)
4:36 Attachment (2023)
8:35 SexWorld (1978)
12:15 Bijou (1972)
15:58 The Red Shoes (1948)
18:10 A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
20:35 Chan is Missing (1982)
21:51 Caravaggio (1986)

26:04 Blonde (2022)
44:30 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
58:56 Some Like It Hot (1959)
1:16:23 Niagara (1953)
12:25:25 Don’t Bother to Knock (1952)

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Lagniappe Podcast: Antiviral (2012)

For this lagniappe episode of the podcast, Boomer, Brandon, and Alli discuss Brandon Cronenberg’s debut sci-fi horror grossout Antiviral (2012), a dystopian satire about the commodity of celebrity illness.

00:00 Welcome

06:30 Web of Death
08:50 The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
12:15 Magic Mike’s Last Dance (2023)
21:29 Infinity Pool (2023)
28:24 Knock at the Cabin (2023)
36:43 Missing (2023)
42:55 Lost Junction (2003)

44:57 Antiviral (2012)

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Podcast #179: A Detour into 1940s Noir

Welcome to Episode #179 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of 1940s noir classics, starting with Edgar G. Ulmer’s Poverty Row cheapie Detour (1945).

00:00 Welcome

01:04 Infinity Pool (2023)
06:12 Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995)
08:53 The Big Chill (1983)
13:51 Deep End (1970)
19:10 The 4th Man (1983)

26:23 Detour (1945)
46:44 The Letter (1940)
1:07:45 Laura (1944)
1:17:25 The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

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Lagniappe Podcast: Salesman (1969)

For this lagniappe episode of the podcast, Boomer, Brandon, and Alli discuss the Maysles Brothers’ door-to-door Bible salesmen documentary Salesman (1969)

00:00 Welcome

05:09 Triangle of Sadness (2022)
12:00 Heavenly Creatures (1994)
14:00 Skinamarink (2023)
20:22 Glass Onion (2022)
22:32 Luminous Procuress (1971)

29:42 Salesman (1969)

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Podcast #178: On the Count of Three & 2022’s Honorable Mentions

Welcome to Episode #178 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna continue our discussion of the Top Films of 2022 with some honorable mentions, starting with the Jerrod Carmichael suicide comedy On the Count of Three.

00:00 Welcome

02:00 M3GAN (2023)
03:20 Shin Ultraman (2023)
05:25 Sick (2023)
07:25 Skinamarink (2023)

16:05 On the Count of Three (2022)
35:53 Aline (2022)
55:40 Lux Æterna (2022)
1:10:13 We Met in Virtual Reality (2022)

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Lagniappe Podcast: The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)

For this lagniappe episode of the podcast, Boomer, Brandon, and Alli discuss the neorealist Italian poverty drama The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978).

0:00 Welcome

03:58 Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022)
08:22 Queen of Versailles Reigns Again
15:52 Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (2012)
19:10 Rosaline (2022)
22:40 Blue Hawaii (1961)
26:40 M3GAN (2023)
33:50 The Woman in Black (2012)
37:59 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)

41:47 The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)

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Lagniappe Podcast: Neptune Frost (2022)

For this lagniappe episode of the podcast, Boomer, Brandon, and Alli welcome in the New Year by discussing one of 2022’s underseen gems: Neptune Frost, an Afrofuturist musical about the poetry of hacking.

00:00 Welcome

07:57 Babylon (2022)
14:08 The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
15:33 Psycho Beach Party (2000)
18:00 The Coen Brothers
32:00 Funny Girl (1968)
34:03 Moonstruck (1987)
38:08 Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
45:22 Glass Onion (2022)
49:49 Crimes of the Future (2022)
56:14 Mad God (2022)

58:11 Neptune Frost (2022)

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Podcast #176: Un Chien Andalou (1929) and 2022’s Sight & Sound Exiles

Welcome to Episode #176 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss four films that recently fell off the Sight & Sound Top 100 list, starting with Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí’s landmark surrealist short Un Chien Andalou (1929).

00:00 Welcome

02:44 Resurrection (2022)
05:40 The Innocents (2022)
07:17 After Blue: Dirty Paradise (2022)
10:00 Please Baby Please (2022)
13:33 Dimension 20
15:45 The Menu (2022)

22:33 The Sight & Sound Top 100

27:40 Un Chien Andalou (1929)
44:02 The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
1:04:18 Wild Strawberries (1957)
1:26:26 Rio Bravo (1959)

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Lagniappe Podcast: Everything Everywhere All at Once & The 2022 SEFCA Winners

For this lagniappe episode of the podcast, Brandon is joined by Moviegoing with Bill‘s Bill Arceneaux to discuss the Southeastern Film Critic Association’s 2022 awarded films, starting with the top-prize winner Everything Everywhere All at Once.

00:00 Moviegoing with Bill
06:20 SEFCA
24:44 EEAAO
59:56 Other winners

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Podcast #175: A Summer Place (1959) & Holiday Melodrama

Welcome to Episode #175 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of movies that stir up memorable moments of holiday melodrama.

00:00 Welcome

08:34 The Illusionist (2010)
12:30 And God Created Woman (1988)
18:24 Blow-Up (1966)
21:23 EO (2022)

24:15 A Summer Place (1959)
50:05 Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
1:03:50 Autumn in New York (2000)
1:20:33 Pieces of April (2003)

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