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Tiff Romania 2025: Bold Visions and Beautiful Nightmares

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November 16, 2025
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Consider this your dark tourist guide to TIFF Romania 2025: from butcher-shop tragedies to bad neighbors and taboo-loaded love stories. This year’s Transilvania International …continue reading Tiff Romania 2025: Bold Visions and Beautiful Nightmares

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TIFF Romania 2025: The Danish Woman

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July 8, 2025
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Trine Dyrholm is spectacularly sociopathic as a retired secret service agent with too much free time in the series “The Danish Woman”. At TIFF …continue reading TIFF Romania 2025: The Danish Woman

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TIFF Romania 2025: About a Hero

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July 7, 2025
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AI tries to mimic Werner Herzog in “About a Hero”, churning out a droning drama minus the real Herzog’s soul, wit, or existential weight. …continue reading TIFF Romania 2025: About a Hero

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Religious Horror: Heretic (2024)

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May 6, 2025
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Hugh Grant is fearsome and fun in “Heretic”—a devilishly twisted test of faith and a clever exploration of the nature of belief. There is …continue reading Religious Horror: Heretic (2024)

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Digging Deep: The Baby (2022)

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April 30, 2025
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The persistence of patriarchal violence is explored to chilling effect in the woman-created British horror comedy series “The Baby”. “Childless women get it,” was …continue reading Digging Deep: The Baby (2022)

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Digging Deep: M3GAN (2022)

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April 2, 2025
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We go beyond the surface thrills of “M3GAN” to explore the titular character as a mechanical materialization of menacing female intelligence. As we anxiously …continue reading Digging Deep: M3GAN (2022)

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Hail Satan: A Cinematic Look at the Satanic Panic

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March 27, 2025
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Alongside a sensationalist book, a few films fueled the Satanic Panic of the 80s, blending cinematic terror with real-world paranoia. Satanism never goes out …continue reading Hail Satan: A Cinematic Look at the Satanic Panic

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Guilty Pleasures

She’s a lover, he’s a fighter. Together, they’re CHEER AND LOATHING. Tune in to hear your hosts, Stephanie (Cheer) and Casey (Loathing), clash over the films they love — and the ones they love to hate.

In this holiday extravaganza episode of Guilty Pleasures, join hosts Stephanie, Kelly, and our newest addition, Jonathan (Jack was tied up in tinsel and couldn't join us), as they unwrap the bizarre and unhinged world of holiday cinema. They dive into the depths of Elves, a film that's as chaotic as it is entertaining. It's a sleigh full of questionable decisions, diabolical dialogue, absurd plot twists, wildly offensive antics, and unhinged holiday mischief.

And that's not all! In the second half of the podcast, join your festive cinephile friends for a look at four more ”nutty as a fruitcake” holiday treats: A New York Christmas Wedding, Elf Bowling, A Medea Christmas, and Jack Frost. Plus, we each offer a bonus Christmas flick guaranteed to make you say, ”Ho, Ho, HO-LY Hell!”

Expect laughter, disbelief, and a spirited debate about what truly makes a movie a guilty pleasure. Don't miss this festive journey through the weirdest corners of holiday films!