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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 5d

This week on Swimfans: Bloodbath, we yap about folk horror, the basic human joys of music and masks, and mount an oddly passionate defense of forest cults in 1973’s THE WICKER MAN!

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 14d

Tonight is What It Means to be Dove; on this Patreon episode, we talk Bigfoot, sub-Abdul tracks, and Dafoe fits in our follow-up to THE WARRIORS with 1984's STREETS OF FIRE!

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 19d

🩸Bloodbath 2025 is nigh! Join us for another October of spooks and scares.🩸

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 20d

This week on the pod, we open the Listener Request Ghoul Box and talk depictions of mental health crisis, Tsukamoto’s huge range of expression, and the general horrors of existing in a society in 2011’s KOTOKO!

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 26d

Switching gears, we return to our grand tradition of our annual Choose Your Own Adventure episode and look at three more movies swimming in THE MATRIX’s wake: ULTRAVIOLET (2006), AEON FLUX (2005) and BLOODRAYNE (2005)!

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · Sep 12

This week on the show, we wrap up FULL CLIP with video editor Shannon Strucci @strucci.bsky.social discussing Cold War-era espionage, the premonition of American empire, and reading books in well-fitting jeans in 1975’s THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR!

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · Sep 4

Thanks to Spotify for summarizing.

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · Sep 4

This week on Full Clip, we talk sheer filmic efficiency, the wisdom of keeping a gay guy in the crew, and how shooting in New York is the best special effect of all in 1979’s THE WARRIORS!

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · Aug 28

This week, we’re joined by comic artist Joey Weiser @joeyweiser.bsky.social to talk the evolution of Toei, the political valences of Fukasaku, and the unusual skill of directors who come from a low-budget background in 1976’s VIOLENT PANIC: THE BIG CRASH!

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · Aug 26

On this Patreon episode of Swimfans, we talk the troubles of interpretation #SusanSontag and not knowing anything about Armenia. It’s the widely revered 1969 Soviet Armenian avant-garde film, THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES.

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · Aug 22

This week on the pod, we welcome back Heroes 3 @heroes3podcast.bsky.social legend Matthew Tucciarone @majorthird.bsky.social to talk Travolta and Cage, Woo’s Hollywood era, and Venice Beach Catholics in 1997’s FACE/OFF!

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · Aug 14

This week on the show, we welcome back podcast queen Niamh Schönherr @foxmomnia.exportaud.io to talk the standards of Yakuza film, the precise chemistry of drugs into hair care products, and the Crime Cenobite in 1981's SAILOR SUIT AND MACHINE GUN!

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · Aug 8

This week on Full Clip, we’re joined by Kyle Daileda @kyledeleted.bsky.social to talk Josh’s taste in men, the novelty of a movie walking and talking like a video game, and explaining stuntwork to gay people in 2006’s CRANK!

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · Jul 31

This week on the pod, we're once again joined by art director Carina Taylor @shecallsmecdawg.bsky.social to discuss the artful rending of garments, the rich, textured flavor of divorce, and how to reconcile a movie that's two movies in 1994's TRUE LIES!

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · Jul 25

Everybody say happy birthday, Jennifer!! This week we take a break from Full Clip to celebrate our beloved’s birthday and talk the prismatic view of man, the melancholy of Werner Herzog, and staring unblinkingly into The Void in 2005’s GRIZZLY MAN!

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · Jul 18

i’m so sorry for this: (duct tape bugs bunny from the intro)

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · Jul 17

Josh has become so proficient at “mime stuck in a box” that he’s trapped. Instead, Craig and Jennifer are joined by @addark.bsky.social to talk corruption in children’s television and the horrors of ice rinks. It’s the 2002 black comedy, DEATH TO SMOOCHY.

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · Jul 10

This week on the pod, the girls get lost on Morocco Street and talk beauty in animated choreography, the fine art of people-watching, and every conspiracy theory known to man. It's Shinichirō Watanabe's 2001 joint, COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE.

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · Jul 3

This week on the pod, we're talking video game-style filmmaking, stylization of action and brutality in movies, and each of our thresholds for the term 'Lynchian' in 2012's UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING!

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · Jun 30

Sources within the Anime community have informed us that this a Mamoru Oshii film. Rest assured, Craig’s enrichment toys are being destroyed as we speak.

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · Jun 30

While Josh learns "mime stuck in a box" in Paris, Jennifer and Craig take over anime club with an iron fist. We talk living in a ruined world, vibes-based cartooning, and poetry censorship in the 1985 Mamoru Hosoda film ANGEL'S EGG.

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · Jun 27

This week, we’re joined by big brother Joel Hocking to discuss the modern war picture, the finer points of C-4, and if the great anti-war movie of the modern era yet exists in 1999’s THREE KINGS!

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · Jun 19

This week on SWIMFANS: FULL CLIP, we’re joined by storyboard artist Leo Garcia @leogarcia.art to discuss being so bad at tailing the French, the joy of car dismantling, and our desire to move to The Zone in 1971’s THE FRENCH CONNECTION!

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · Jun 12

This week on SWIMFANS: FULL CLIP, we’re joined by Heroes Three @heroes3podcast.bsky.social cohost Carlos Leon-Roman to talk James Cameron, the art of the sequel, and the glee of practical effects in 1991’s TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY!

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · Jun 5

Lock and load, doves: this is SWIMFANS: FULL CLIP! In the first installment of Action Movie Summer, we’re talking buddy pairs, evil gay guys and powerful divorced energy in 1991’s THE LAST BOY SCOUT!

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