@roxana-hadadi.bsky.social  and  @kvanaren.bsky.social  on the "good old boy" truck driver in Thelma & Louise: it's not a one-region problem, it's just American masculinity. This one's a Patreon-only conversation, and it's worth the subscription. @pmiscove.bsky.social  #DoesItHoldUp

Sam Raimi's whole post-Evil Dead run to The Gift = chasing the critical respect the Coen brothers got. Cult hero vs prestige, and what that does to a filmmaker. @aprilwolfe.bsky.social  ,  @pmiscove.bsky.social  & @emilystjams.bsky.social  get into it. Full video's on Patreon (link in bio).

New on Patreon: "Thelma & Louise" (1991). Ridley Scott, Callie Khouri's Oscar-winning script, two friends and one Thunderbird headed for the edge of the Grand Canyon. Does it hold up 35 years on? @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social  ,  @kvanaren.bsky.social   and  @pmiscove.bsky.social   get into it.

"What if goodness was a pyramid scheme?" Phil and Carson Olshansky revisit Pay It Forward and debate why its message and especially its ending still divides audiences. 🎥 Full video episode is exclusive to our Patreon. @pmiscove.bsky.social  @carsonolshansky.bsky.social  @emilystjams.bsky.social

New episode: "Pay It Forward" (2000). Haley Joel Osment is sure one good deed times three can fix the world. Kevin Spacey's scarred teacher is not. Then it dares you not to cry. Does it hold up? @carsonolshansky.bsky.social, @pmiscove.bsky.social and @emilystjams.bsky.social get into it.

Rewatching *Tommy Boy* as an adult comes with a realization: Chris Farley really wasn’t that fat. @pmiscove.bsky.social , @huntercovington.bsky.social  & @seanoconnz.bsky.social  revisit the fat jokes and Farley’s incredible physical comedy.  Full video exclusively on Patreon. Link in profile.

A dead car company, a road trip, and Chris Farley demolishing every take. We rewatched Tommy Boy (1995) with @huntercovington.bsky.social and @seanoconnz.bsky.social. Hosted by @pmiscove.bsky.social. New ep out now on Patreon. #DoesItHoldUp

New on Patreon: The Box slides out of political allegory into something genuinely cosmic, where Frank Langella could be Satan, God, or both. @judedoyle.bsky.social , @pmiscove.bsky.social and @emilystjams.bsky.social  on Richard Kelly finding agnosticism like a college freshman. 💜

Chi-Chi was the most self-accepting one all along. The real growth in To Wong Foo belongs to Vida and Noxeema, learning to be less scared of other people. #KatieMcGrath and @nicoleamaines.bsky.social  join @pmiscove.bsky.social  Full ep on Patreon. #DoesItHoldUp

Patrick Swayze's performance as Vida in To Wong Foo still feels remarkable 30 years later. Phil, Katie McGrath, and Nicole Maines discuss why it works so well. 🎥 Full video episode is exclusive to our Patreon. Link in profile. @pmiscove.bsky.social  @nicoleamaines.bsky.social

Wendy & Lucy guts me, and it's the economics. There was a version of this country where you could land in a strange town with no car and still get a job and a one-bedroom. Now? 3x rent, first, last, deposit. @pmiscove.bsky.social @emilystjams.bsky.social @mitchellbeaupre.bsky.social #DoesItHoldUp

Wendy and Lucy is live now for our Patreon members. Kelly Reichardt, Michelle Williams, a dead car and a missing dog. 80 of the quietest, most devastating minutes you'll sit through. Full video w/ @pmiscove.bsky.social @emilystjams.bsky.social @mitchellbeaupre.bsky.social. 🔗 in profile.

"People joke Southland Tales was a documentary." It's more honestly disjointed than most retrospectives of the last 25 years. "It doesn't make sense" is fair. So has America. @pmiscove.bsky.social   @emilystjams.bsky.social  @josie.zone

Our Southland Tales episode is officially out, with journalist Josephine Riesman, who wrote the definitive deep-dive on Richard Kelly's magnificent 2006 disaster. Full video + members-only perks on Patreon 👉 patreon.com/Podcastlikeits @pmiscove.bsky.social    @emilystjams.bsky.social  @josie.zone

Emily on Old Joy: it's "homoerotic in the way real life is," when you were so close to someone that a gray area opens up, sexuality aside. Full video + members-only perks on Patreon 👉 patreon.com/Podcastlikeits @pmiscove.bsky.social  @emilystjams.bsky.social  @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social

"The texture of this film is two people in a state of stasis." Isaac Feldberg on the eroding friendship at the center of Old Joy. Full video + members-only perks on our Patreon 👉 patreon.com/Podcastlikeits @pmiscove.bsky.social  @emilystjams.bsky.social  @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social

Our Old Joy episode with critic Isaac Feldberg is officially out. For the full video and access to our exclusive members-only content, become a member of our Patreon 👉 patreon.com/Podcastlikeits @pmiscove.bsky.social  @emilystjams.bsky.social  @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social

"All the imagery is fascist." Starship Troopers opens with a gleefully ridiculous recruiting reel and still asks "Do you want to know more?" So how did anyone miss that it's satire? Full ep + video on Patreon 👉 patreon.com/Podcastlikeits @pmiscove.bsky.social

"Just pretty pictures with pretty people." Starship Troopers cast actors who wouldn't overthink it on purpose. Verhoeven was chasing Leni Riefenstahl, not Keanu Reeves. The pretty veneer is the whole point. Full ep + video on Patreon 👉 patreon.com/Podcastlikeits @pmiscove.bsky.social

"This is about people searching for God." Fiona Dourif on Donnie Darko: suburbia laced with existential dread, like American Beauty or Magnolia's frogs. Full ep + video on Patreon 👉 patreon.com/Podcastlikeits @pmiscove.bsky.social   @emilystjams.bsky.social

Fiona Dourif on why Donnie Darko still gets under your skin: it starts as a normal high school movie, then gets weirder and weirder into a Lynchian fever dream. @emilystjams.bsky.social  @pmiscove.bsky.social This clip is a taste. Full episode + video on our Patreon 🔗 in profile.

"The world is still the world. VR just exists." Tom and Katie on why Strange Days (1995) feels like it was written about right now. Good sci-fi doesn't change everything at once, it starts from today and builds up. Full convo + video on our Patreon 👉 🔗 in profile @pmiscove.bsky.social

@eliasisquith.blog  on Wanted: "It is hyper-individualistic to a psychotic degree." God knows how many civilians die, and the movie acts like it's irrelevant. "There is no society. Just these people who operate on these levels we can't see."@pmiscove.bsky.social @emilystjams.bsky.social

#KatieMcGrath refuses to watch The Sheep Detectives because she's permanently on the edge of losing it. @pmiscove.bsky.social  and @nicoleamaines.bsky.social  both saw it and cried . Also the MGM lion makes a sheep sound. Full ep on Patreon. #DoesItHoldUp

Nicole Kidman was originally cast in Mr. & Mrs. Smith. @pmiscove.bsky.social  @emilystjams.bsky.social  and @lindseyromain.bsky.social  break down why that alternate universe film would be a completely different movie. Full ep on Patreon. #mrandmrssmith #angelinajolie #nicolekidman

She made us start a whole miniseries. The least we could do is wish her a happy birthday. Angelina Jolie turns 50 today and we have now rewatched three of her 2000s action films in her honor. Full video episodes are on Patreon now for members. Link in profile. #AngelinaJolie

"This movie is so much more competent along every axis. And that made me... I didn't like it." Tomb Raider 2 learned all the right lessons from Tomb Raider 1. That was the problem. Full ep on Patreon now. @pmiscove.bsky.social  @emilystjams.bsky.social  @sportclimbbarbie.bsky.social & Carson Betts

"I did get upset when Lola Bunny's boobs went away. Not for the reason those freaks got weird about it." Harmony on why erasing femininity to prove strength is its own problem. Tomb Raider ep is up. @pmiscove.bsky.social  @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social @pmiscove.bsky.social  @emilystjams.bsky.social

Tomb Raider video out for Patreon fam only. Angelina Jolie IS Lara Croft. The script takes 45 minutes to explain what's at stake. Daniel Craig is doing one specific block in Lincoln, Nebraska. @pmiscove.bsky.social  @emilystjams.bsky.social  @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social

Blade Runner: gritty, dirty, lived-in. Judge Dredd: grimy but clean. Plastic. Tom and Katie nail why 90s future aesthetics hit different. "You could eat your McDonald's off the table." Full ep on Patreon now. @pmiscove.bsky.social