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Podcast #179: A Detour into 1940s Noir

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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)

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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

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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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Podcast #177: The Top 27 Films of 2022

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Welcome to Episode #177 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss their favorite films of 2022.

00:00 Welcome

05:35 Resurrection
11:00 Strawberry Mansion
15:14 Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
21:00 Fresh
25:15 Pearl
31:35 Men
35:38 Deadstream
38:48 The Eternal Daughter
43:58 Funny Pages
50:07 Parallel Mothers
52:05 Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
1:00:52 Triangle of Sadness
1:06:16 The Northman
1:10:33 Hatching
1:14:30 Inu-Oh
1:16:53 Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

1:22:25 Please Baby Please
1:29:06 Jackass Forever
1:34:30 Vortex
1:44:47 Aftersun
1:54:23 After Blue (Dirty Paradise)
2:00:38 Everything Everywhere All at Once
2:08:05 RRR

2:13:25 Neptune Frost
2:19:10 Barbarian
2:27:22 The Banshees of Inisherin
2:36:15 Mad God

James’s Top 20 Films of 2022

  1. Mad God
  2. The Banshees of Inisherin
  3. RRR
  4. Everything Everywhere All at Once
  5. Vortex
  6. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
  7. Aftersun
  8. Pearl
  9. Men
  10. Jackass Forever
  11. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  12. Funny Pages
  13. Triangle of Sadness
  14. The Northman
  15. Crimes of the Future
  16. On the Count of Three
  17. Hatching
  18. Fire of Love
  19. Bodies Bodies Bodies
  20. Emily the Criminal

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Lagniappe Podcast: Neptune Frost (2022)

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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

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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

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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

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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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Lagniappe Podcast: The Company of Wolves (1984)

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For this lagniappe episode of the podcast, Boomer, Brandon, and Alli continue their celebration of Angela Lansbury by discussing the coming-of-age werewolf anthology horror The Company of Wolves (1984).

00:00 Welcome

00:55 Knife+Heart (2018)
03:52 The Menu (2022)
05:00 Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022)
08:20 Andor
09:58 Weird (2022)
13:50 Fire of Love (2022)
16:10 Barbarian (2022)
17:25 Fifty Shades
20:07 Do Revenge (2022)
22:14 Don’t Worry Darling (2022)
25:25 Bones and All (2022)
29:10 The Eternal Daughter (2022)

32:48 The Company of Wolves (1984)

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Podcast #174: Girl Asleep (2015) & Classic Twee

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Welcome to Episode #174 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss the merits & miseries of twee, comparing the 2015 twee-revival comedy Girl Asleep against a grab bag of aughts-era twee classics.

00:00 Welcome

02:26 Imitation of Life (1959)
05:00 Don’t Worry Darling (2022)
08:13 Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
13:00 Triangle of Sadness (2022)
17:05 Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
21:17 Solomon King (1978)

25:18 Girl Asleep (2015)
39:02 The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
55:22 Amélie (2001)
1:12:02 Garden State (2004)

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