Those naked women got me thinking not about their film counterparts’ inevitable deaths, but rather about their inevitable sex acts. I thrill equally when Craig’s Bond gets the wife of the small-time criminal alone on the floor of his hotel villa, or the adamant but eventually swayed retrieval agent naked in their 5-star shared suite. It’s similar to how I feel when Connery’s Bond presents his Russian double agent with a trousseau of sexy nightgowns in their private train cabin, or even when Brosnan’s Bond finally charms his way past the proper exterior of his MI6 assigned psychologist.
I really like it when Bond gets the girl.
#NoirNovember has arrived, and ain’t she a dame. Josh and Alex sit down in a crudely-lit corner to work their way through several neo-noirs and one old black and white classic. Can they solve the mystery of James Ellroy’s melting clay dog, tell the good girl from the femme fatale (hint: one of them is Robin Tunney), and keep you from slipping into the dark underworld of Chinatown’s 1990 sequel?
#OccultOctober continues! Josh and Alex discuss the scary stuff they’ve been watching, including V/H/S and the films of Ti West, Daniel Radcliffe’s eyebrows, Freddy vs. Jason vs. Alien vs. Predator, and all the unexpected places a person might find Keanu Reeves.
In our very first episode, Josh and Alex discuss the movies they’ve been watching for #OccultOctober, which films truly terrified them as children, and play a horror-themed round of movie trivia. Alex professes her love of Rian Johnson, Josh is terrified of asshole children, and they both get excessively meta while discussing early to mid-90s horror narratives and the political realities they reflect.
We’re back! This month inaugurates both a new format and our new podcast! What better time than Halloween to discuss the films that have inspired our nightmares?
