Today UNWATCHABLES goes Down Under for two grim Australian thrillers with the help of film critic @lauravenning.bsky.social We discuss Ted Kotcheff's 1971 psychological thriller WAKE IN FRIGHT, and Jennifer Kent's 2018 revenge Western THE NIGHTINGALE.

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Filmmaker/author Steven Bernstein joins us for two painfully raw relationship dramas that courted controversy for the conditions under which their explicit sex scenes were shot: LAST TANGO IN PARIS and BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR. 

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Today we’re joined by Jetta Weinstein, aka theironcupcake, to discuss two peaks of Doris Wishman’s inimitable brand of trash cinema: 1965's questionably feminist softcore drama BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL, and 1974's bra-busting spy film DOUBLE AGENT 73.

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Dr. Ethan Lyon joins us for two movies it’s hard to imagine getting made today: Lars Von Trier’s 1998 dark comedy THE IDIOTS, and THE “Gary Oldman as a little person” movie, Matthew Bright’s 2002 romantic drama TIPTOES

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Filmmaker Frank Ritz joins us to talk about two films that blur the line between sex and death, including the rare look at necrophilia that’s… actually kind of sweet? The films are: 1996’s necrophiliac romance KISSED, and 2009’s avant-garde giallo AMER.

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This Tuesday:
Why should romance stop at the grave?

Today we’re joined by Cinematary's Grace Winburne to help us chart one film’s course from THE defining flop of the 90’s to midnight cult classic to the unlikely subject of critical reappraisal. But one question remains: does SHOWGIRLS actually not suck?

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Today we’re joined by Cinematary’s Zach Dennis for the wild, weird, and (in one case) horrific films of director John Boorman - 1972's disturbing survival thriller DELIVERANCE, and its truly bizarre cult sci-fi follow-up: 1974's Sean Connery-starring ZARDOZ.

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Thanks for the kind words! And we have to agree.

Amy Hensarling returns to discuss two films mired in controversy for their depictions of victims of sexual violence: Sam Peckinpah's 1971 thriller STRAW DOGS and Paul Verhoeven's 2017 psychological thriller ELLE.

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Writer @souljagoyshmulik.bsky.social joins us to discuss WHAT IS A WOMAN?, a piece of transphobic propaganda hosted by conservative anti-personality Matt Walsh, and LADY BALLERS, an anti-woke sports comedy that somehow hates women even more than trans people.

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Today we're joined by @bilgeebiri.bsky.social to help us consider whether MEGALOPOLIS is another of Coppola's misunderstood masterpieces-- or if it was understood very well indeed.

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This Tues:

An Unwatchables 40 years in the making

Feat. Vulture's Bilge Ebiri (@bilgeebiri.bsky.social)

We’re on bluesky now! We’re posting links to each new episode here, starting with our latest. You can still find us on Twitter and Instagram, as well as www.unwatchablespod.com

Critic @jasondashbailey.com returns for two controversial films by Joel Schumacher: 1993's FALLING DOWN, which may be THE angry white man vigilante thriller, and 1999's 8MM, which answers the question: what if SE7EN shared a director with BATMAN & ROBIN?

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