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Tim introduces Jen to Lexx: the other, cheaper, hornier Farscape. Hear the whole episode at our Patreon and get access to more than 50 bonus episodes!
Want to time-travel to a simpler time online? Check out this perfectly preserved Lexx fansite!
For a more dismal brand of horny sci-fi, try our episode on The Doomsday Machine!
For a SUPERSIZED one hundredth episode, Tim agrees with everything Lars von Trier has said and done because they’re both misogynists. Hear the whole episode at our Patreon and get access to more than 50 bonus episodes!
For the (swinging) lowdown on Willem Dafoe’s gifts, read this article about von Trier’s obsession with the actor’s wiener.
Thank you to all the listeners for supporting us for one hundred episodes and here’s to ONE THOUSAND MORE. If you want to see where it all began, you can check out our very first episode, about Elaine May’s little-loved Ishtar!
Jen and Tim welcome back Darren Herczeg to discuss one of the most controversial movies of the 90s— David Cronenberg’s arresting 1996 film, Crash.
Hear the whole episode at our Patreon and get access to more than 50 bonus episodes!
For the record, J.G. Ballard wholeheartedly endorsed the film:
A journalist from Finland spoke up and attacked us in a novel way. Rather than excoriating us for making a film “beyond the bounds of depravity” (per Alexander Walker of the Evening Standard, who actually shook a schoolmaster’s disapproving finger at Jeremy from the back of the packed hall), he said that the movie completely betrayed the book, was a pathetic and weak skimming of a powerful work. Jim answered him: “The movie is actually better than the book. It goes further than the book, and is much more powerful and dynamic. It’s terrific.” An astonishing thing for an author to say. Abashed, the Finnish journalist sat down.
David Cronenberg
If you’re a Darren stan, be sure to listen to our episode on the musical white elephant Lost Horizon!
Jen and Tim discuss Donald Cammell’s posthumous thriller, Wild Side from 1995.
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Wild Side went straight to video. Sadly, director Cammell committed suicide in 1996. However, while some have connected his death to the failure of his last project, we found that the story wasn’t quite so pat.
We were indebted to the only definitive biography on the man and his work. Get a copy of Donald Cammell: A Life on the Wild Side by Rebecca Umland on Alibris.
For another frank flick from the 90s, try our episode on David Cronenberg’s Crash!
Jen and Tim rewrite Glenn Danzig’s stupefying horror anthology, Verotika! Only Glenn could give us dialogue like “Your titties are looking at me!”
Verotika may be viewed on the Shudder streaming service.
For more head-scratching horror, listen to our episode about Canadian micro-budgeter Things!
Sean Morris (@saneiscrazy) rejoins Jen and Tim for a postmortem of the Paul Schrader/Bret Easton Ellis mishap, The Canyons. This movie stars James Deen so uhhh trigger warning for discussion of rape I guess
Read the New Yorker article that spilled the tea on the ill-starred production.