Podcast #229: The Top 12 Films of 2024

Welcome to Episode #229 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss their favorite films of 2024.

00:00 Welcome

02:30 Wicked Little Letters
05:41 Monkey Man
08:56 Mars Express
12:38 Longlegs
20:48 How to Have Sex
27:21 A Different Man
33:19 Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
44:30 The Taste of Things
51:45 Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
1:01:22 She is Conann
1:11:19 The Substance
1:23:56 I Saw the TV Glow

James’s Top 20 Films of 2024

  1. I Saw the TV Glow
  2. A Different Man
  3. How to Have Sex
  4. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
  5. The Taste of Things
  6. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
  7. The Substance
  8. Sometimes I Think About Dying
  9. Trap
  10. Last Summer
  11. Smile 2
  12. The Beast
  13. Civil War
  14. Kinds of Kindness
  15. Love Lies Bleeding
  16. Conclave
  17. Cuckoo
  18. Anora
  19. Hundreds of Beavers
  20. It’s What’s Inside

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Lagniappe Podcast: Conclave & SEFCA Awards 2024

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 awarded films of 2024, starting with Edward Berger’s papal voting-process thriller Conclave.

00:00 Moviegoing with Bill
22:15 Conclave (2024)
54:40 SEFCA’s Top 10 Films of 2024
1:29:19 Other SEFCA winners

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Podcast #228: Frankie Freako (2024) & Gremlinsploitation

Welcome to Episode #228 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon is joined by Pete Moran of the We Love to Watch podcast to discuss the retro horror comedy Frankie Freako (2024) and the late-80s wave of Gremlins knockoffs that inspired it.

00:00 Welcome

06:50 Frankie Freako

26:06 Ghoulies
48:25 Critters
56:45 Trolls
1:09:18 Munchies
1:23:14 Beasties
1:28:22 Hobgoblins

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Lagniappe Podcast: Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds (2024)

For this lagniappe episode of The Swampflix Podcast, Boomer, Brandon, and Alli discuss the Belgian-French animated fantasy adventure Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds (2024).

00:00 SEFCA’s Top 10 Films of 2024

07:49 Strangers on a Train (1951)
13:13 Laufey’s A Night at the Symphony (2024)
19:46 The Not-So-New 52
24:05 My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
30:09 Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (2024)
35:43 Nosferatu (2024)
40:14 Holding Back the Tide (2024)
43:45 Nickel Boys (2024)
48:50 Daaaaaalí! (2024)
52:04 Yannick (2024)
57:17 Wicked Part 1 (2024)
59:46 Flow (2024)

1:00:42 Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds (2024)

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Podcast # 227: Madame X (1966) & Self-Reinvented Women

Welcome to Episode #227 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Hanna, James, Britnee and Brandon discuss a grab bag of movies about women who reinvent themselves with made-up identities, starting with the 1966 Lana Turner drama Madame X.

00:00 Welcome

01:31 Hot Frosty (2024)
05:25 Mother’s Instinct (2024)
07:33 Endless Love (1981)
11:22 My Old Ass (2024)
18:30 Out of the Blue (1980)
24:16 The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)

31:00 Madame X (1966)
55:00 A Woman’s Face (1938)
1:12:22 Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
1:30:07 The Last Seduction (1994)

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Lagniappe Podcast: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2024)

For this lagniappe episode of The Swampflix Podcast, Boomer, Brandon, and Alli discuss the Romanian gig-economy comedy Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2024).

00:00 New Orleans Bookfair 2024

02:46 Heretic (2024)
08:08 Wicked – Part 1 (2024)
20:07 Noirvember
22:08 High Sierra (1941)
26:17 Human Desire (1954)
30:52 Coma (2024)
34:48 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
38:25 Am I OK? (2024)
42:31 The Apprentice (2024)
45:12 The Last Showgirl (2024)
47:21 The End (2024)
52:01 A Different Man (2024)
56:04 Carol Doda Topless at the Condor (2024)
58:32 Queen of the Deuce (2024)
1:00:31 A Real Pain (2024)
1:02:59 Nightbitch (2024)
1:05:07 Hard Truths (2024)

1:07:52 Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2024)

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Podcast #226: I Love You, AllWays & NOFF 2024

Welcome to Episode #226 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon is joined by Moviegoing with Bill‘s Bill Arceneaux to review the films they caught at the 35th annual New Orleans Film Festival, starting with the local drag scene documentary I Love You, AllWays.

00:00 Welcome
07:46 I Love You, AllWays
33:06 On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
40:07 Memoir of a Snail
46:26 Ghetto Children
54:21 Taste the Revolution
1:16:52 Mysterious Behaviors
1:22:51 Any Other Way – The Jackie Shane Story
1:28:00 Eponymous
1:33:46 2024 Catch-up

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Lagniappe Podcast: Drive (1997)

For this lagniappe episode of The Swampflix Podcast, Boomer, Brandon, Britnee, James, and Hanna discuss the 1997 DTV actioner Drive, recommended by a listener for its “transcendently unhinged Brittany Murphy performance.”

00:00 Welcome
03:38 Drive (1997)

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Podcast #225: The Gleaners and I (2000) & Varda Docs

Welcome to Episode #225 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Hanna, James, and Brandon discuss a grab bag of self-reflective documentaries directed by Agnès Varda, starting with her dumpster-diving doc The Gleaners and I (2000).

00:00 Welcome

01:20 The Company of Strangers (1990)
05:21 Adua and Her Friends (1960)
10:39 Corrina, Corrina (1994)

14:44 The Gleaners and I (2000)
32:25 Jane B for Agnès V (1988)
44:52 The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
54:26 Faces Places (2017)

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Lagniappe Podcast: Uzumaki (2000)

For this lagniappe episode of The Swampflix Podcast, Boomer, Brandon, and Alli discuss the live-action adaptation of Junji Ito’s cosmic horror manga Uzumaki (Spiral, 2000).

00:00 Welcome

01:03 Ju-On – The Grudge (2002)
06:56 The Substance (2024)
10:30 Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
16:25 DC Showcase Original Shorts Collection (2010)
19:51 Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
21:17 Ghostwatch (1992)
25:25 The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011)
29:49 Gothic (1986)
36:26 Rumours (2024)
43:23 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
48:21 Audition (1999)
54:00 Smile 2 (2024)
1:00:46 Memoir of a Snail (2024)

1:06:16 Uzumaki (2000)

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