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Podcast Mini-Series Preview: Love at First Laugh Episode 1 – His Girl Friday

Ariana and Seth kick off their six episode podcast mini-series exploring romantic comedies. This first episode sees them sharing their thoughts on the genre (what they love, what they loathe) and talking about the classic Howard Hawks comedy His Girl Friday starring Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant. All upcoming episodes will be available exclusively to our Patreon subscribers.

PopCult Podcast – Cuckoo/His Three Daughters

A teenage girl is taken to a strange German community by her family where dark secrets are hidden away. Three women gather in the apartment of their dying father to grieve and figure out who they are to each other when he passes.

PopCult Podcast – Rebel Ridge/Evil Does Not Exist

Two recent releases are in the spotlight. Jeremy Saulnier presents an entertaining & tense action film about a Black man against the local law preventing him from helping his cousin. Ryusuke Hamaguchi delivers a complicated a story of a rural Japanese village facing an outsider developer.

PopCult Podcast – Beetlejuice/Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

With Tim Burton’s latest opening in theaters, we decided to take a look back. The first is a classic, his second feature which introduced us to the ghost with the most. The second is YA novel adaptation from 2016 that is heavy on the CG and exposition.

PopCult Podcast – Kinds of Kindness/The Teachers’ Lounge

Two tense new releases are our focus in this episode. Yorgos Lanthimos delivers a triptych of tales about twisted versions of love. A teacher in Germany becomes caught in the drama of thefts in her school and decides to record who is doing it.

PopCult Podcast – The Crow/Opening Night

We go retro this episode to look at two old releases. The first is a 90s Goth cult classic that has recently been remade. The second is a premier performance from the late, great Gena Rowlands.

PopCult Podcast – The People’s Joker/Ghostlight

This week it’s two new releases about performance & identity. In one, we see a transgender woman’s story of self-realization through a parody of Batman and his world. In the second, a construction worker happens upon a theater putting on Romeo & Juliet that helps he and his family process a recent trauma

PopCult Podcast – Janet Planet/The Beast

This week we’ve got a close-up examination of a complicated mother/daughter relationship and a woman going on a surreal odyssey through her past lives.

PopCult Podcast – Longlegs/Maxxxine

It’s a new release horror double feature. First, we follow a troubled FBI agent as she uncovers the truth behind a series of murders that connect to her childhood. Then Ti West delivers the finale for his X trilogy that takes us to sleazy LA in the 1980s.

PopCult Podcast – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes/Happer’s Comet

Two very different films in runtime, budget, scale, and content are featured in this episode. From a post-human Earth to a ghostly night in Long Island.