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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 sad and stuff in 2009’s ENTER THE VOID! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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 movies in 2025’s PILLION! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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 LIGHTHOUSE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

Experience the faux wood paneling, used dip bottles and strange odors in the Uncle Zone as Heroes Three’s Matthew Tucciarone joins us to talk 1981 animated anthology film HEAVY METAL! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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 anything in 2018’s HIGH LIFE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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 being a discrete person in the world in 1997's THE END OF EVANGELION! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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 art depicting queer people flaws and all in 1970’s THE BOYS IN THE BAND! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

This Patreon session of Anime Club, Jennifer gets a whole closet of gowns, Craig is a living bioweapon, and Josh puts on his cute little helmet to go to Big Gun School as we dig into the Otomo-produced three short films inside of MEMORIES. linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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 1991’s THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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 patreon.com/swimfans

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk surprisingly horny race car drivers, the joys of movies whose seams and craft you can see, and more about Hanna-Barbera cartoons than one would expect in 1975’s DEATH RACE 2000! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

For this Patreon installment, we've decided to visit another chapter in the Baby Assassins franchise. We talk the delicate balance of a comedy duo, the power of a well-done Tony Stark Shot, and the joys of Churu in 2023's BABY ASSASSINS 2! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk the tightrope of making a movie feel truly punk, a delicate tonal balance not since replicated, and the joys of underwear in 1984's REPO MAN! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk movies that are really, really good at just one thing, compulsory cohabitation with your coworker, and the literal woke mob in 2021's BABY ASSASSINS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we keep it real classic and talk the reflections of filmmakers on themselves, the multitude of roles we play in our own lives, and what happens when the mirror stares back in 1966’s PERSONA! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

This week on the show, we travel to Staten Island to talk lo-fi cyberpunk, chilling predictions of the future, and the joys of dining in an undefined space in 1994’s FRESH KILL! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

This week on the pod, we get real Michigan Mindset to talk character as director surrogate, European sensibilites and American aesthetics, and the sublime joy of a really good stick in 2024’s VULCANIZADORA! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

Everybody say, happy birthday Josh!! This week, we celebrate aging by talking about the metaphors of water, the homies under the summer sun, and when gay people just can’t leave each other alone in 1997’s HAPPY TOGETHER! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

On this episode of elite dove content, we're trying out something new! Jenn and Josh sit down and talk in more detail what they've been enjoying lately. This round of Media Catch-up includes: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) and more! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

This week, we’re joined by artist and designer @kevinjaystanton.bsky.social to discuss the steaminess of love unconsummated, the intimacy of the camera, and the allure of a soup thermos in 2000’s IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE! #wongkarwai #inthemoodforlove linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans