You watch 700+ movies, what do you get? Another year older and closer to death.
Whoa, that got dark. Anyway… Yay movies!

You can dress it up in stars and glamour but at some point you’ll realize the sunny dream of Los Angeles is really just made of plaster and plyboard like the rest of it. Play It As It Lays and Ingrid Goes West both feature protagonists who figure that out a little too late.

Since La Dolce Vita premiered, we've been treated to so many versions and variations of this story, all with varying degrees of glitz and sadness. While there have been no direct remakes, there has been a pretty impressively diverse group of films that have been inspired by it.

You may be surprised to find out that 8 1/2 and 9 1/2 Weeks have more in common than their sequential titles; they’re both approaches to art-making about approaching art-making.

This week on the podcast: Dan, Jenna and Veronica take a compare-and-contrast look at the original Suspiria, as well as the 2018 companion piece.

With the character of Dr Klemperer, Luca Guadagnino and David Kajganich make an assumption of guilt that should be unpacked. In weighing the insinuations of this storyline, Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi comes to mind.

Movies spend a lot of time ruminating on how much of who we are is inherent and how much is learned. Yet the films Good Manners, The Woman, and Spring ask us: what if nothing about us is a choice?

“All day I face the barren waste / Without the taste of water, cool water
Old Dan and I with throats burned dry / And souls that cry for water, cool, clear, water.”

“The worst animated feature film of all time.” Argle-bargle or foofooraw? We find out!

This week on Notes From the Back Row, we are talking about every Saturday Night Live feature-film ever! Strap in, it’s going to be bumpy!

There are scores of horror movies that follow formulas, rules, and tropes to the bitter end. Even with the 2018 glut of art house horror, plenty of familiar aspects linger. To really see beyond the rainbow on this one, we need to look to experimental horror.

It's the Halloween episode of Notes From the Back Row! We're discussing everything from horror franchises, teen horror, horror comedies and VHS horror.

If you watch The Party’s Over and Last Summer in a row and you'll come away realizing not only was the dream of the 1960s a lie, but we've never actually accomplished anything.

We tend to think of Fascism as everyone “agreeing” to the same ideals, but those boundaries are rarely ever publicly decided. Instead of a commentary on what fascism does, Salo presents what it allows for.

Jenna and Veronica (and some technology failure) talk about overhyped movies – including Hereditary, mother!, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – and who gets to decide on what’s overrated or not.

Black 47 and Bad Day for the Cut both star bearded Irish men with rifles who are out for blood over political strife. So if you want some charming accents and a whole lot of violence, look no further than this double feature.

The season of spoops is upon us, boils & ghouls. So you know what that means… let’s go crazy horror-style! Take your “Tomatometer,” put it in a box, mail it to your butt, and open your minds to the healing power of schlock.

Burt Reynolds will be remembered for being gorgeous, funny, and a great actor. But I’m here to make sure people know that he was also a sensitive, sweet and easily shocked mama’s boy from the South.

We're back, and this week Dan and Carlo take the wheel of the podcast and speed off, careening right off a cliff and into cult cinema territory - hand in hand.

This week on the podcast, we’re getting heisty! That’s like feisty, but with heists - listen in, won’t you?