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
“Savageland” is a harrowing found footage film that uses haunting imagery and sharp social commentary to expose real-world horrors. “He was easy to dehumanize.” …continue reading Headlines and Horror: Savageland (2015)
“Sinners” argues that liberation cannot be gifted by oppressive structures—it must be seized through unyielding creativity and community. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners reimagines vampire mythology …continue reading Movies With a Message: Sinners (2025)
Genre films have long warned us about the terrifying consequences of ignoring women’s voices, turning disbelief into devastating horror. I recently had the enormous …continue reading From Salem to the Silver Screen: Horror’s Warning About Ignoring Women
“The Rule of Jenny Pen” explores the overlooked horror of aging and how society’s dismissal of the elderly creates fertile ground for terror. Let …continue reading Digging Deep: The Rule of Jenny Pen
Smartly satirical and sidesplitting, “The Rebrand” is a demented and gloriously queer horror comedy that strikes all the right notes. The Rebrand opens with …continue reading Sapphic Sunday: The Rebrand (Panic Fest, 2025)
Life often imitates art in scary ways, and these horror films predict and echo a monstrous new anti-inclusion mantra in corporate America. For the …continue reading The Death of Diversity: Horror and the War on Inclusion
“The Girl with the Needle is a breathtaking yet harrowing period piece that explores the horrors of desperation and societal neglect. Based on shocking …continue reading Mubi Monday: The Girl with the Needle (2024)
A decade before “The Substance”, Coralie Fargeat explored similar chilling themes of beauty and identity in her sci-fi short “Reality+”. Subversive French filmmaker Coralie …continue reading Mubi Monday: Reality+ (2014, Short)
“Companion” favors in-your-face storytelling over nuance—delivering sharp humor and social allegory, shouting its message from the rooftops. Horror is not generally known for its …continue reading Movie Night: Companion (2025)
Guilty Pleasures
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.
Guilty Pleasures: Holiday Special Featuring “Elves”
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!
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