Unwrapped w/ Marc Summers: Recent Episodes
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Armand and I break down Panos Cosmatos' Mandy! We're talking a leisurely 1980s horror power ballad with tigers, chainsaws, and super-LSD. We both went into this film expecting full Cage, and I think it's fair to say that neither of us imagined the experience we were about to have. Also, WE FORGOT TO TALK ABOUT CHEDDAR GOBLIN.
It's the full moon, and you know what that means: this Enraged Lycanthrope is out to... marry his mom? Fall in love with a psychic tiger? Investigative journalize?? I sat down with Kyle, one of my oldest friends and basically-brother, to pick apart this '70s genre film from Japan.
Content warning: the rape of a female character is a major subplot in this film, and as icky as it is we do briefly talk about it in this episode. I'm highly opposed to male film-makers using sexual violence against women as a plot device and I wanted to address that.
Get a bunch of alienated rich kids together and you either have a pretentious slasher film, an EDM festival, or this retro camp classic. It's a rip-roarin' good time this episode because I'm finally able to record with resident animation expert/sister Linus! Let us tell you how this movie goes all the way back to our Homestar Runner-fueled childhood.
Ian and Temperance are brewing a poisonous batch of Unwrapped for you. Last night we talked about David Lynch's visionary (or ego-fueled?) new short film. Try to guess which one of us likes him and which one doesn't. Just a hint: I'm wearing my obligatory, totally edgy Eraserhead shirt as I type this.
This podcast is about responding to all movies, no matter how good or how bad. So that means when we do something as atrocious as the 1985 aerobics-fueled... romance? Drama? Jamie Lee Curtis and John Travolta twerk-a-thon? Well, in the inclusive spirit, the 1985 film Perfect is our subject for this ep. I'm joined by mi familia Random, Sarah, Melanie, and Armand.
In this episode of Unwrapped, resident white boy Ian is joined by social media influencer/playwright/his girlfriend Temperance for an impromptu discussion recorded seconds after finishing the movie.