In our first episode of 2025, we discuss the Godfather of Filth John Waters and his rollicking 1988 film about integration in Baltimore: Hairspray. Discussion also includes:

• Other recent watches: NOSFERATU (Robert Eggers), THE LAST SHOWGIRL (Gia Coppola), FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (Russ Meyer), and ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ (Don Siegel);
• Farm labor in Florida;
• Craig's New Year's Resolution Watchlist;
• Lots of Coppola talk: Francis, Gia, Sofia, and Nic!

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SOURCES & LINKS:

• https://www.tampabay.com/investigations/2024/12/27/migrant-farmworkers-came-florida-stability-they-found-danger/?utm_campaign=feed&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=later-linkinbio
  
• https://www.wusf.org/politics-issues/2024-07-12/florida-heat-law-biden-administration-outdoor-worker-heat-protections
  
• https://www.ocala.com/story/news/local/2024/06/18/farmworkers-need-more-protection-advocates-say/74123319007/
  
• https://www.newsweek.com/florida-teen-posted-speeding-tiktok-videos-killing-six-jailed-2011604
• https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/142

It's the end of the year, so it's our end of the year wrap-up special! Hal and Craig discuss their favorite new movies of 2024, as well as some of their favorite first time watches! Discussion also includes:

• A new entry in Hal's favorite sub-genre: NUN movies!
• Kendrick Lamar's new album "GNX";
• Shotime's excellent series Yellowjackets;
• Quentin Tarantino's book Cinema Speculation (and his unfotunate blaccent)

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We did one of Craig's favorite kind of episodes: making Hal watch a terrible conservative movie! This time, we watched Sean McNamara's 2024 film, and shameless hagiography, REAGAN. Discussion also includes:

• Recent watches: CONCLAVE (2024), HERETIC (2024), ANORA (2024), KAMIKAZE HEARTS (1986), ALTERED STATES (1980), and THE NIGHT PORTER (1975)
• Matt Gaetz nomination for (and subsequent withdrawal) Attorney General
• Alex Jones losing Infowars to the Onion
• Is notorious Republican monster Dana Rohrbacher actually a cool surfer guy? (no)

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SOURCES & LINKS:

• Debord’s the Society of the Spectacle on Marxists.org: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm

Spooky season concludes with Nia DaCosta's 2021 sequel Candyman. We discuss America's legacy of violence against black bodies and the undue burden put on black artists to represent black pain "the right way". Discussions also include:

• Our two-year pod-iversary.
• Hal's book club reading of D.H. Lawrence's WOMEN IN LOVE;
• Craig saw Damien Leone's Christmastime masterpiece: TERRIFIER 3;
• How Candyman builds on the original film, while staking its own place in horror history.

NOTE: We recorded this episode on November 5th, just three days before the news of Tony Todd's untimely passing. Rest in peace to horror icon Tony Todd.

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SOURCES & LINKS:

• Amendment 4 financial impact statement: https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/florida-supreme-court-allows-financial-impact-statement-next-to-abortion-amendment/
• Stop Cop City ballot measure: https://theintercept.com/2024/11/04/atlanta-cop-city-voter-turnout-democrats/
• Kara Walker: https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s2/kara-walker-in-stories-segment/
• Kara Walker: https://mcachicago.org/collection/items/kara-walker/2695-presenting-negro-scenes-drawn-upon-my-passage-through-the-south-and-reconfigured-for-the-benefit-of-enlightened-audiences-wherever-such-may-be-found-by-myself-missus-k-e-b-walker-colored

We had a delay recording our next episode. So in lieu of a new episode (coming soon, but after the election...), here's Hal encouraging you to VOTE YES ON 4 for REPRODUCTIVE JUSTIVE in Florida.

• https://www.teenvogue.com/story/desantis-administration-florida-amendment-4-abortion
• https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article294142144.html
• https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/florida-desantis-abortion-ad-amendment-4-john-wilson-rcna176580
• https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/florida-surgeon-general-restraining-order-abortion-ad-tv-stations-rcna176124
• John Wilson affidavit: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flnd.527759/gov.uscourts.flnd.527759.29.1.pdf

Spooky season continues and Hal and Craig watched Wes Craven's 1991 horror-comedy The People Under the Stairs. We discuss how the economic policies of Ronald Reagan (and his putrid Wormtongue Milton Friedman) led to our current housing crisis. Discussion also includes:

• Our favorite Wes Craven films;
• The bombing of the Al-Aqsa hospital in Gaza and Palestinian martyr Shaban Al-Dalou;
• Some books we're reading: "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein and "When the Clock Broke" by John Ganz;
• Other recent viewings including "The Apprentice", "The Substance", and "Wolfs"; and
• Ving Rhames' all-time great lines.

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Sources & Links

• https://www.sfweekly.com/archives/the-great-eliminator-how-ronald-reagan-made-homelessness-permanent/article_92c9b2ac-e881-502a-ae9d-5266cac03404.html
• https://archives.hud.gov/hud50/hud50.hud.gov/hud_history_timeline/index.html
• https://www.thezebra.com/resources/home/housing-trends-visualized/
• https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/remarks-annual-meeting-national-alliance-business
• https://nlihc.org/explore-issues/why-we-care/problem
• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/15/shaban-al-dalou-the-palestinian-teen-burned-to-death-in-israeli-bombing

We start spooky season by discussing Brian Yuzna's 1989 body-horror satire SOCIETY. We use this film (where a man's face emerges from his own butthole) to have a serious discussion about Reaganomics and how America subsidizes the rich at the expense of the poor. Discussion also includes:

• Our other recent watches: The Substance, Rebel Ridge, Blink Twice, and Oddity;
• Feeling collective despair over the recent climate disasters in Florida;
• Hal's trip to the High Museum in Atlanta;
• The Batman and Robin of hating poor people: Ronald Reagan and Milton Friedman; and
• Some of our other favorite body horror films and gags.

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Sources & Links

• Hal's Art Discussion Links:
  • Titus Kaphar A Puzzled Revolution 2021: https://gagosian.com/artists/titus-kaphar
  • Nina Chanel Abney: Catfish 2017: https://ninachanel.com/exhibitions/
  • Nabil Kanso's America series: https://www.instagram.com/nabilkanso/p/C1MlYHjuFjN/?img_index=1
• https://jacobin.com/2023/04/trickle-down-economics-arthur-laffer-wealth-inequality-ronald-reagan-margaret-thatcher
• https://www.reaganfoundation.org/ronald-reagan/the-presidency/economic-policy/?srsltid=AfmBOopneyw43jqnuR4WiB5ZU1-QcSIqecxLP1_NFYuxvsIB2v7yjzjW
• https://www.levernews.com/rise-of-the-insurance-apocalypse/

For the final episode in our series on Fascism and Italian Filmmakers, we watched Pier Paolo Pasolini's controversial 1975 film SALO, OR 120 DAYS OF SODOM, and discuss the depravity of 1940s fascist Italy. (TW: this film, and our discussion of it, features graphic depictions of sexual assault and human degradation). Discussion also includes:

• How does Paosolini define fascism;
• Fascism and Nietzche;
• Salò as both atrocious and sublime;
• Art that is antithetical to capitalism.

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Sources & Links

• Gideon Bachmann. 1975. “Pasolini and the Marquis de Sade” originally published in Sight & Sound; included as part of the Criterion DVD
  
• Roland Barthes. 1971. “The Life of Sade.” https://supervert.com/elibrary/marquis-de-sade/roland-barthes-life-of-sade
  
• H. James Burgwyn. 2018. Mussolini and the Salo Republic, 1943-1945: The Failure of Puppet Regime. Springer.
  
• Naomi Green. “Breaking the Rules” included as part of the Criterion DVD
  
• https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche-moral-political/
  
• Mario Sznajder. 2002. “Nietzsche, Mussolini, and Italian Fascism” in Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism? On the Uses and Abuses of a Philosophy. Princeton University Press.
• https://archives.evergreen.edu/webpages/curricular/2005-2006/sacredmonsters/readings/sade.pdf
• Fabio Vighi. 2007. “Liberation Hurts: Violence, Masochism and AntiCapitalism According to Pasolini” Italian Studies, 62:1, 61-77