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SwimfansEpisode 267 - Challengers (w/ Kyle Daileda)
This week, Josh is trapped in purgatory so we're taking a short Ono-Sendai break! Comics and publishing professional Kyle Daileda subs in to chat the power of…
SwimfansEpisode A5 - The Insider
Everybody rise as one accord: Happy birthday, Alex! This week, we're talking nostalgia for a time when systems worked, the iceberg of Michael Mann, and…
SwimfansEpisode 266 - The Fifth Element (w/ Joey Weiser)
This week, we welcome back comic artist Joey Weiser to talk the wonderful physicality of Milla Jovovich, exactly how many rockets a well-made bartop can truly…
SwimfansEpisode 265 - A Scanner Darkly (w/ Leo Garcia)
This week on the pod, we're joined by storyboard artist Leo Garcia to talk the magical quality of listlessness, the careful balancing act between character and…
SwimfansEpisode 264 - Cypher (w/ Joel Hocking)
This week on the pod, radio big brother Joel Hocking is back to talk the litany of false wives, the virtue of the medium-serious movie and the fine art of…
SwimfansEpisode 263 - Dark City (with Matthew Tucciarone)
Your favorite Movie Cenobites are back to talk with beloved guest and Heroes Three co-host Matthew Tucciarone to discuss everything-but-the-kitchen-sink…
SwimfansEpisode 262 - Neptune Frost
This week, we celebrate the effectiveness of surrealism, the power of the archetype, cyberpunk in its truest form, and once again manage to mention Susan…
SwimfansEpisode 261 - Virtuosity
WELCOME TO ONO-SENDAI 2! From the Director of the Lawnmower Man, it's Virtuosity!!! i actually rewatched the lawnmower man the other day. i found a copy of the…
SwimfansEpisode 260 - Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend
This week, by popular demand, we talk late-night TV specials that change the trajectory of your life, absurdly high-budget hentai, and Josh's new favorite…
SwimfansEpisode 259 - Malicious
This week on the pod, all-star Carina Taylor rejoins us to talk sex libraries, Dougs (derogatory), and Evil Molly Ringwald in 1995's MALICIOUS! Buy When I…
SwimfansEpisode 258 - Whispers In The Dark
This week on the pod, we get really excited about supporting actors, hurl our fishing poles around impotently, and again discuss the conundrum of ending a…
SwimfansEpisode 257 - Remember My Name
This week on the pod, we discuss an inverted Ghoul Picture, the first instance of anyone ever putting a knife down in an erotic thriller, and the various kinds…
SwimfansEpisode 256 - Snake Eyes
This week on the pod, we get excited about long takes, yet again we dig into Movies About Looking and Seeing and Josh has to admit that Cage is pretty good in…
SwimfansEpisode 255 - In Secret
This week on the pod, we talk elite motherboys, the worst pipe in all of France, and movies not quite going far enough visually in 2013's IN SECRET!…
SwimfansSwimfans Mini - Shame Songs
The dove-of-honor and Heroes Three cohost Matthew Tucciarone joins us to dig up some songs that we wouldn't want to tell our friends that we kinda like - this…
SwimfansEpisode 254 - M. Butterfly
This week on the pod, we talk the sexiest ways to do treason, new fully-clothed ways to be horny, and we're all very nice to David Cronenberg in 1993's M…
SwimfansEpisode 253 - Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
This week on the pod, the podcast princesses discuss Twink Heaven, government-sanctioned valor theft, and the infinitely weird, contradictory, and horny figure…
SwimfansEpisode 252 - Fair Play
This week on the pod, we talk about (very) contemporary erotic thrillers, business money factories, and if we've finally got a Good For Her Movie in 2023's…
SwimfansEpisode J5 - One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island
🎶 His name's Josh, and he's a gay guy and a T-H-E-Y Alex not shy. Craig is doin a Cheeto thing, @DudeExclamation is guestin' and we're all discussin' 🎶 2005's…
SwimfansEpisode 251 - Dream Lover
This week, we talk making your own Twin Peaks, sanitoriums for third graders, and massive misunderstandings of the legal system (once again) in 1993's DREAM…
SwimfansEpisode 250 - 8MM
This week on the pod, we dive deep into halter top Joaquin Phoenix, glossy black walls, and what happens when the plot of a film grinds to a screeching halt in…
SwimfansOSCARMANIA 2024 - PART TWO
We're back on the red carpet in our glitz and glam talking about the other half of the 2024 Best Picture nominees: Maestro, Oppenheimer, Past Lives, Poor…
SwimfansOSCARMANIA 2024 - PART ONE
It's awards season once more, folks! Join us as we talk about half of the 2024 Best Picture nominees: American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie, The…
SwimfansEpisode 249 - The Comfort of Strangers (with Carina Taylor)
This week, we welcome back Scholastic and Silver Sprocket book designer Carina Taylor to discuss the stratifications of maleness, strange tales of depravity…
SwimfansEpisode 248 - Species
This week, we talk about the hot alien with the sex directive, the agonies and ecstacies of a dumb guy movie, the platonic ideal of a 90s haircut, and wax…
SwimfansEpisode 247 - Double Indemnity
It's the new Swimfans, baby. This week, we get back to our genre's roots and talk about not getting away with murder, hard-boiled insurance salesmen and the…
SwimfansEpisode 246 - China Moon
This week on the pod, we discuss bold new ways to cinematically depict Florida, Ed Harris, and Craig learns about the Prisoner's Dilemma in 1994's CHINA MOON!…
SwimfansEpisode 245 - Malice
This week, we talk exceptionally divorced movies, Level 5 Golf Watchers, and the second-best confidence man in all of South Boston in 1993's MALICE!…
SwimfansEpisode 244 - The Canyons
This week, we talk about very naive views of old Hollywood, rotating 3D monsters, and when collaborations between famous and skilled people go sour in 2013's…
SwimfansEpisode 243 - The Boy Next Door
This week on the pod, we discuss movies that don't seem to function on any level, engine blocks being suspended from the ceiling, and wake up, babe: brand-new…
SwimfansEpisode 242 - The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Happy 2024!! This week on the pod, we talk unusually evil ghouling, explosions of yuppie violence and Patrick Nagel-style architecture in 1992's THE HAND THAT…
SwimfansEpisode 241 - Bitter Moon
This week, we celebrate the end of 2023 discussing revenge gowns, perverts (derogatory), and barnyard sounds in 1992's BITTER MOON! Happy new year, and we'll…
SwimfansEpisode X6 - A Christmas Melody
Happy holidays to all our favorite doves! For our holiday episode this year, we got a jam-packed one: beginning with a big Mariah Report, ending with Craig…
SwimfansEpisode 240 - Shame
This week on Swimfans: we come up with new ways to be Catholic, we discuss the varied and nuanced manifestations of childhood trauma into adulthood, and Josh…
SwimfansEpisode 239 - Robotrix (w/ Carlos Leon-Roman)
This week, we welcome back Heroes Three legend Carlos Leon-Roman to talk Category 3 film, the agonies and ecstacies of low-budget action, and several fun facts…
SwimfansEpisode 238 - Stoker
On this episode, the princesses discuss myriad ideas that don't connect, forbidden dads, and colossal stone orbs in 2013's STOKER! swimfanspod.com
SwimfansEpisode 237 - Color of Night
This year, we're thankful for all our doves!! To show our appreciation, we talk all killer no filler weird choices, Brad Dourif, and inheriting a dead friend's…
SwimfansSwimfans Mini - Animation is Film 2023
Your annual Animation is Film Festival coverage for 2023 is here! Josh is joined by all-star dove and storyboard artist for animation Leo Garcia to talk about…
SwimfansEpisode 236 - Fatale
This week, we discuss when the root of ghouling ruins the menace, a humble pitch for a Swimfans movie, and Craig finally tells us what happens in a certain…
SwimfansEpisode 235 - The Doom Generation
This week on the pod, we dirty little movie babies discuss the value of artifice in filmmaking, Amy Blue's lipstick, and how much we love set design in 1995's…
SwimfansEpisode C5 - Sorcerer
Happy Craigsmas to you and yours! This week, we're talking what kinds of guys there are, harrowing tension, the howling void at the heart of empire, and which…
SwimfansEpisode 234 - Slither (w/ Vou Pinette)
Rounding off Bloodbath 2023, we welcome back slime correspondent and Art the Clown Defender Vou Pinette to discuss gleeful wormery, musings on horror-comedy as…
SwimfansEpisode 233 - Cure
This week on the pod, we discuss the fragility of human nature, the idea of the detective, and Josh drones on about the occult in 1997's CURE!
SwimfansEpisode 232 - The Thing (w/ Kyle Daileda)
The gang once again welcomes comics professional and normal dog Kyle Daileda into their Antarctic compound. They talk distrust among uncles, head spiders, and…
SwimfansEpisode 231 - Pieces
it's the start of blood season, and josh is on vacation as i type this, so no one is here to write copy. craig, can you write something better than this for…
SwimfansEpisode 230 - Double Lover
This week on the pod, we discuss trisomy in cats, the successes and failures of twins as metaphor, and when ambiguity goes wrong in 2017's DOUBLE LOVER!
SwimfansEpisode 229 - Roger Corman Triple Feature
Welcome, devotees of the Slab. This week, we do a round-robin style discussion of some Roger Corman-produced DTV erotic thrillers and discuss photocopied…
SwimfansEpisode 228 - Training Day
For the last episode of Cruel Summer 2023, we discuss Denzel, subverting expectations of the loose cannon cop character, and a post-mortem on the summer movie…
SwimfansSwimfans Mini - Galerians: Rion
Due to scheduling conflicts, our final installment of Cruel Summer is being delayed a week, but fret not: Anime Club is back in session! We briefly discuss…
SwimfansEpisode 227 - I See You (with Kyle Daileda)
This week, we are rejoined by comics professional and Silver Sprocket publicist Kyle Daileda to talk reconciling three movies sewn together, surprise Lyne…
SwimfansEpisode 226 - Running Scared
This week, we talk about when in media res isn't better, our complicated feelings about 00s film aesthetics, and some reflections on credit sequences in 2006's…
SwimfansEpisode 225 - Hard Candy (with Leo Garcia)
Just one more thing… Did it rain? This week, we're rejoined by story artist Leo Garcia to discuss 300IQ logic demons, movies shot almost entirely in close, and…
SwimfansEpisode 224 - Dog Day Afternoon
This week on the pod, we talk about the pathologization of queerness, how America loves a babygirl, and the visual texture of a slow catastrophe in 1975's DOG…
SwimfansEpisode 223 - Gone in 60 Seconds (with Joel Hocking)
This week, we're joined by podcast big brother Joel Hocking to discuss anti-younger brother propaganda, failing breakfast QTEs and stealing cars named after…
SwimfansEpisode 222 - A Man Escaped
Get the hooks! This week, we talk about jailbreaking with your teenage ward, the hypnotic quality of chipping at wood, and the impossibility of objectivity in…
SwimfansEpisode A5 - Purple Rain
You don't offer to purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka. You don't even think to call me "The Artist (Formerly Known as Prince)." You come into my…
SwimfansEpisode 221 - To Live and Die in L.A.
This week, we discuss being really good at the erotics of violence but not so much the erotics of sex, exciting ideas in editing, and Max Waxman in 1985's TO…
SwimfansEpisode 220 - Big Time Gambling Boss (w/ Joey Weiser)
This week on Cruel Summer, we're joined by One Piece Podcast crewmate Joey Weiser to talk chivalry movies, guys who hate their beautiful wives and a sorrowful…
SwimfansEpisode 219 - After Hours (w/ Shannon Strucci)
This week, we welcome back Shannon Strucci and discuss speedrunning making enemies, the virtue of a constantly wet protagonist, and the high strangeness of…
SwimfansEpisode 218 - Pale Flower
The Cruel Summering continues and the squad discusses the fatalism of the universe, the cyclical nature of time repeating, and truly risk-addicted vibes in…