The Oddity Film Society: Recent Episodes

Oddity Film Society

Students and teachers of an Ontario school talk about movies, but it‘s mostly off topic tangents.

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We get noir with Rian Johnson's Brick.

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Michael and Peter Spierig's Predestination is our topic this week.

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We chat The Banshees of Inisherin by Martin McDonagh on this episode.

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Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive is chatted about during this episode.

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On this day we chat about Jacob Tierney's The Trotsky at the request of Linaya.

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We chat about Jordan Peele's Nope during this episode.

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This week we discuss Wes Anderson's (no relation) The Royal Tenenbaums.

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On this episode we chat about Alex Garland's AI thriller Ex Machina.

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In this podcast we discuss Stanley Kubrick's family holiday favourite, The Shining.

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In this episode, we chat about Michael Dougherty's Christmas classic, Krampus.

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We try for a three parter of the comedy classic, Clue, the bloody revenge of Sweeny Todd, and the norther thriller, The Grey.

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Today we chat about James Ward Byrkit's little film that could, Coherence.

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We do a triple feature of Happy Death Day and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Black Swan.

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In this podcast we discuss Taika Wattiti's What We Do in the Shadows.

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We kick of the 2023/2024 school year rambling and eventually get to Mark Mylod's The Menu starring Ralph Fiennes, Anna Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, and others.

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During this podcasty thing we chat about Yorgos Lanthimos' The Lobster.

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We chat about Edgar Write's Scott Pilgrim vs the World.

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On this episode we catch up and chat about Spike Jonze' Her.

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Today we discuss some unusual obsessions and eventually the unusual experiment that is The Blair Witch Project.

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On this episode we get way in the weeds with Stranger Things, but we also review Taika Wattitti's Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

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This time we marvel at the beauteous facial hair sported by Kurt Russel in John Carpenter's frigid thriller The Thing.

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On this podcast we discuss Denis Villeneuve's Enemy and attempt to figure out what spiders mean.

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In today's podcast we discuss John Carney's very Irish (it's not British) Sing Street. It might be better with subtitles.

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On today's podcast we discuss Alex Garland's rainbow tinted Annihilation and Jeremy Saulnier's surprisingly gruesome Green Room.

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On this day we discuss one Mr Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox. Cusscusscuss.

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On this episode we chat about Lenny Abrahamson's paper mached Frank. Enjoy!

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On this week's podcast we discuss Park Chan Wook's Snowpiercer. If you make it to the end you will be rewarded with some baloon animal ASMR.

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On this podcast we continue to ramble and eventually get to a pretty insightful discussion of Jordan Peele's Us.

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Continuing on with Spooktober, we brave the symbolic horror of Jennifer Kent's The Babadook - amongst other things.

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In our first podcast of the 2021-2022 school year, we chat about Sam Raimi's horror/comedy Drag Me to Hell. Good news is that we are back together around a table in person!

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In this final episode of The Oddity Film Society for the 2020-2021 school year, we discuss Wes Anderson's sophomore film, Rushmore. We also unveil our top watches from this year's selections. Finally we say some goodbyes-for-nows to Sydney and Thomas.

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In this episode we chat about all of the Dan's that participated in Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert's Swiss Army Man, starring  Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano.

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Today (or whatever day we recorded this) we chat about Quentin Dupieux's masterpiece of cinema Rubber.

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In this episode we discuss two movies that couldn't be more different. First up is Melina Matsoukas' timely and poignant Queen & Slim. We follow that with Jonathan Lynn's 1985 classic, Clue.

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We talk about John Carpenter's classic Big Trouble in Little China and I'm pretty sure the sound quality sucks. We will try to fix that.

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This week we talk about Noah Baumbach's mumblecore triumph, Frances Ha. Or at least I think we did.

Is anything more heart warming than Greta Gerwig's awkward smile?

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The first episode of the new year was supposed to be on No Country for Old Men, but we had sad technical issues and will never see the light of your ear cavities, so we're following up with this here episode on Jojo Rabbit.

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We come back from a long Covid 19 hiatus to host a distanced conversation. Sorry for the wait.

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We discuss the Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In directed by Thomas Alfredson.

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After a loooooooooooong break we are back to talk about Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.

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We chat about Jeremy Saulnier's Green Room.

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We get lost discussing Christopher Nolan's Memento.

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We chat spooky things, like Michael Dougherty's Trick 'r Treat.

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We continue Spooktober with Adam Wingard's The Guest.

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We begin this scholastic year with some familiar voices and some new ones. We eventually get around to talking about Jordan Peele's Us.

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We talk about Ari Aster's Hereditary, rank this years offerings and say sad goodbyes to graduating members.

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This was supposed to be our last episode of the 2018/2019 school year, but Eddy messed everything up, so we just talk about Damien Chazelle's Whiplash.

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We talk about Drew Goddard's Bad Times at the El Royal and go off topic as per usual.

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We were supposed to cover Ridley Scott's Alien, but end up discussing the Russo brothers Endgame even more.

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We talk about Spike Lee's Blackkklansman.

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We talk about the Cohen Brothers Inside Llewyn Davis and get horribly off topic.

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Another conversation about David Lynch's unusual work. This time it's concerning Eraserhead.

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We talk about David Lynch's Elephant Man and Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler.

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We talk about David Lowery's Ghost Story and Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation.

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We watch a more upbeat movie in Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom and discuss our favourite Pixar flicks.

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After two weeks off, we come back big time with a triple review. Enjoy!

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One week after All Hallow's Eve we finally get to talk about Mr. Myers coming home.

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Another stop in Spooktober brings us to Sam Raimi's masterpiece, Evil Dead 2.

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We chat about Daniel Boyle's "28 Days Later" and Kurt Russel as Santa. Much appreciation to Probable Fog for our new theme music.

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We come back from the summer holidays and kick things off with Edgar Wright's Baby Driver.