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Clare and BDM talk Metropolitan, Whit Stillman's 1990 comedy of manners, with special guest John Ganz of Unpopular Front and Unclear and Present Danger. Discussed: Upper East Side childhoods, Whit S…
This should have been up much earlier, but it was not! Clare, BDM, and producer Austin talk Patrick McHale's Over the Garden Wall. How is it perfect? Why is it perfect? These and other issues are inv…
Stet returns! Clare and BDM talk Scream, a movie one likes and the other hates. Discussed topics: Why Death is your boyfriend, how Rose McGowan wuz robbed, how men in Woodsboro can't make normal faci…
BDM and Clare watch Incident at Loch Ness, a Zak Penn/Werner Herzog documentary about the making of a documentary that collided with another documentary. "Tell me, who is real and who is not?" Herzog…
Special guest Dawn Foster comes on to talk John Patrick Shanley's mystifying 2020 movie, Wild Mountain Thyme. Is it a good movie? No. Is it the best movie where Emily Blunt pretends to be Irish? Mayb…
BDM and Clare talk about Yoshifumi Kondō's Whisper of the Heart (1995). Is this a movie about a boy who is also a magical cat? No, but one of us thinks it is. For full show notes, check out https://w…
Clare and BDM talk about Bernard Rose's 1989 film Paperhouse (along with its source material, Catherine Storr's 1964 Marianne Dreams). Is it a horror movie? Is it a children's movie? Do the police ne…
Clare and BDM take a trip to New Penzance to discuss Wes Anderson's 2012 romantic drama, Moonrise Kingdom. Then they scrutinize a recent piece in Slate making the case for pandemic shaming. Along the…
Stet returns with two hosts—B.D. McClay and Clare Coffey. We discuss the concept for the relaunched pod and welcome you to a new journey.
Becca Rothfeld and B.D. McClay talk cleaning, garbage, and book culture—but we repeat ourselves.
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