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Podcast # 227: Madame X (1966) & Self-Reinvented Women

Welcome to Episode #227 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Hanna, James, Britnee and Brandon discuss a grab bag of movies about women who reinvent themselves with made-up identities, starting with the 1966 Lana Turner drama Madame X. 00:00 Welcome 01:31 Hot Frosty (2024)05:25 Mother’s Instinct (2024)07:33 Endless Love (1981)11:22 My Old Ass (2024)18:30 Out of the Blue (1980)24:16 The…

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Lagniappe Podcast: Drive (1997)

For this lagniappe episode of The Swampflix Podcast, Boomer, Brandon, Britnee, James, and Hanna discuss the 1997 DTV actioner Drive, recommended by a listener for its “transcendently unhinged Brittany Murphy performance.” 00:00 Welcome03:38 Drive (1997) You can stay up to date with our podcast through SoundCloud, Spotify, iTunes, TuneIn, or by following the links on this page. – The Lagniappe…

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Halloween Streaming Recommendations 2024

Halloween is rapidly approaching, which means many cinephiles & genre nerds out there are currently planning to cram in as many scary movies as we can over the next month. In that spirit, here’s a horror movie recommendation for every day in October from the Swampflix crew. Each title was positively reviewed on the blog or podcast in the past year and is currently available on a substantial…

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Podcast #222: Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986) & Metalhead Documentaries

Welcome to Episode #221 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Hanna, James, Britnee and Brandon discuss a grab bag of documentaries about metalheads, starting with the anthropological Judas Priest fan doc Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986). 00:00 Welcome02:45 Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)06:00 Baby Cat (2023)11:41 Hearts of Darkness – A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991)17:22 Tokyo Pop…

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Podcast #221: Notes on a Scandal (2006) & Poison Pens

Welcome to Episode #221 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon & Britnee discuss a grab bag of movies about neurotic British biddies who work out their obsessions with younger woman through the written word, starting with the 2006 melodrama Notes on a Scandal. 00:00 GoFundMe for Britnee’s breast cancer recovery03:53 GoFundMe for Nash the Slash documentary 07:55 Notes on a Scandal…

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Swamp & Sand: The Swampflix Top 100

At the end of this year, Swampflix will be celebrating its 10th anniversary as a movie review website.  To celebrate, we’ve attempted to create something the world has never seen before: a definitive list of the 100 greatest movies of all time.  Kidding, of course.  This is well-trodden territory for any film criticism publication, most notably including the BFI’s Sight & Sound list dating back…

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Podcast #219: Phase IV (1974) & Creepy Crawlies

Welcome to Episode #219 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Hanna, James, Britnee and Brandon discuss a grab bag of horror movies about bugs & slugs, starting with Saul Bass’s psychedelic killer-ants freakout Phase IV (1974). 00:00 Welcome 01:29 When the Wind Blows (1986)07:09 Set It Off (1996)13:16 True Crime (1995)16:17 Television20:50 Blonde Ambition (1981) 27:47 Bugs36:19 Phase IV…

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Podcast #218: Nightcap (2000) & Chabrol x Huppert

Welcome to Episode #218 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Hanna, James, Britnee and Brandon discuss the longtime creative partnership between French New Wave director Claude Chabrol and powerhouse actress Isabelle Huppert, starting with their chocolate-flavored psychological thriller Nightcap (2000). 00:00 Welcome 02:45 Trap (2024)08:05 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)14:44 Three…

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Podcast #217: Monkey Man (2024) & New Releases

Welcome to Episode #217 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Hanna, James, Britnee and Brandon discuss a grab bag of new releases from the first half of 2024, starting with Dev Patel’s caste-system fight club revenger Monkey Man. 00:00 The best of 2024 (so far) 02:52 MaXXXine (2024)05:03 Pretty Poison (1968)07:29 Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (1963)11:03 The Coffee Table (2024)15:57 Kill…

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Movie of the Month: Baby Cakes (1989)

Every month one of us makes the rest of the crew watch a movie they’ve never seen before, and we discuss it afterwards. This month Britnee made Brandon & Boomer watch Baby Cakes (1989). Britnee: Have you ever believed that you imagined a movie? For years, I had faded images in my mind of a young Ricki Lake eating a bag of Sugar Babies. I had separate memories of a grocery store wedding that felt…

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Movie of the Month: Notorious (1946)

Every month one of us makes the rest of the crew watch a movie they’ve never seen before, and we discuss it afterwards. This month Boomer made Brandon & Britnee watch Notorious (1946). Boomer: For many years, I’ve been calling Notorious my favorite film of the Hitchcock oeuvre. I’ve recently been filling in some blind spots—most notably The Birds and Dial “M” for Murder, which are pretty big…

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Podcast #214: Jackie Brown (1997) vs. Pam Grier Classics

Welcome to Episode #214 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Hanna, James, Britnee and Brandon compare Quentin Tarantino’s love letter to Pam Grier, Jackie Brown (1997), against her early run of 1970s blaxploitation classics. 00:00 Welcome 03:36 The Nutty Professor (1996)08:07 I Capture the Castle (2003)11:44 What a Way to Go! (1964)16:48 The Feeling that the Time for Doing Something Has…

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Podcast #213: Grey Gardens (1975) vs. Grey Gardens (2009)

Welcome to Episode #213 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Britnee and Brandon compare the iconic documentary Grey Gardens (1975) against its made-for-TV dramatization Grey Gardens (2009). 00:00 Welcome02:17 Mother of the Bride (2024)06:23 Buddies (1985)11:55 Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1970) 17:44 Grey Gardens (1975)35:02 The Beales of Grey Gardens (2006)42:06 That Summer (2017)53:00…

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Movie of the Month: Torch Song Trilogy (1988)

Every month one of us makes the rest of the crew watch a movie they’ve never seen before, and we discuss it afterwards. This month Brandon made Boomer and Britnee watch Torch Song Trilogy (1988). Brandon: On a recent vacation to San Francisco, I found myself in the Haight-Ashbury location of Amoeba Music, digging through the LGBTQ section of the record store’s used Blu-rays & DVDs.  There were…

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Podcast #211: Funny Girl (1968) & Babsapalooza

Welcome to Episode #211 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Britnee, James, Britnee, and Brandon discuss a wide range of Barbra Streisand films, from her Oscar-winning breakout role in Funny Girl (1968) to her Oscar-nominated directorial effort The Prince of Tides (1991). 00:00 Welcome 02:53 The People’s Joker (2024)07:47 Civil War (2024)19:23 American Psycho (2000)25:09 Keeping the…