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Episode 369 - The Beyond

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Swimfans: Bloodbath begins in the most Italian way possible as we explore tarantula puppets, inadvisable hoteliers, and what mig

Episode 368 - Doug Campbell Triple Feature

It's the annual Choose Your Own Adventure episode! This week, Jennifer has selected for us three Doug Campbell (Deadly Mile High Club, Stalked By My Doctor) films for us

Episode 367 - Thesis

This week on the show, we roll down our balaclavas to talk buffets of hot people, the fine line with depravity of showing some but not too much, and your college's live d

Episode 366 - The Killer of Sheep

This week on Unknown Pleasures, Josh and Craig talk the power of spaces, the burdens of adulthood and the world, and the searing light of the California sun in 1977's KIL

Episode 365 - The Twilight Saga: New Moon

This week on the pod, we talk teenage contrivance, the importance of vampire-specific powers and abilities, and Josh and Craig petition to become wolf wives in 2009's THE

Episode 364 - The Parallax View

This week on the show, we talk political paranoia in the 70s, unexpected editing and cinematographic choices, and incredibly drownable sheriffs in 1974's THE PARALLAX VIE

Episode 363 - The Hole

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk about the metaphorical concrete walls between people, contracting bug disease, and vomiting into your neighbor's hole in 1998's TH

Episode 362 - My Neighbor Totoro (w/ Kyle Daileda)

This week on the show, we talk the fantasy of abundance and community, befriending crows, and the beauty and grace of flesh buses in 1988's MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO! linktr.e

Episode 361 - Disclosure Day

This week on Unknown Pleasures, Jennifer and Craig prepare to drop flash drives of conversation about Spielberg, generational divides of attitudes about systems, and gett

Episode 360 - The Living End

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk about gay sex, clown-based liquor stores, and the switch from external sources of oblivion to internal ones in 1992's THE LIVING E

Episode 359 - In the Earth (w/ Delaney Jordan)

This week on the show, we welcome back video essayist and editor Delaney Jordan to discuss making appeals to the fungus god, things made in the immediate wake of a pandem

Episode JEN8 - Enter the Void

This week on Swimfans, we celebrate Jennifer's birthday and look back on formative film experiences, the power of a drifting crane shot, and we think about death and get

Episode 358 - Pillion

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we submit to the power of cinematic distance, we beg at the altar of character perspective, and we worship the idea of just okay gay movie

Episode 357 - The Lighthouse

This week on Swimfans, we opine broadly about masculinity and its foibles, the raw material of human sexuality, and the proper disposal of seabirds in 2019's THE LIGHTHOU

Episode 356 - Poison

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk the struggle of inhabiting a body around other bodies, various gay anxieties, and Josh missing the point entirely in 1991's POISON

Episode 355 - High Life

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we get really into witchy jerkoff chambers, ponder the meaning of the dog cannibalism box, and consider movies that don't commit to anythi

Episode 354 - The End of Evangelion

It all returns to nothing. It all comes tumbling down. This week on Swimfans, we talk the profane and the divine, the power of sigils and esoterica, and the horrors of be

Episode 353 - The Boys in the Band

This week on Swimfans, we kick off Pride Month by talking the worst party vibes imaginable, the beauty of seeing ourselves in visions from the past, and the necessity of

Episode 352 - The Double Life of Véronique

On this week's Unknown Pleasures, we sacrifice ourselves at the altar of takes to discuss having a doppelganger, puppeteers, and how far a film's beauty can take it in 19

Episode 351 - Skinamarink

This week on Swimfans, we discuss film grain and attention to detail, the cradle of horror being the domestic, and scary phone in 2022's SKINAMARINK! linktr.ee/swimfans