Red Rose Film Club

I don't like to speak badly of people. I have grown up thinking and being told that if you cannot say something nice about someone, you should not say anything at all. But I must break that rule in this case because I hate Hulk Hogan very much. He is a big ugly goon and I want to squash his face. -Andre the Giant

🚨🚨NEW EP🚨🚨

We watched Costa-Gavras' MISSING, the true story of Charles Horman, an American in Chile who was disappeared in the days after Pinochet's 1973 coup (with covert help from the good ol' USA).

APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/2OYd...

FRIENDSHIP and EDDINGTON are a perfect double-feature: two movies about ABSOLUTE losers willing to torpedo their entire lives to feel even a modicum of significance in an increasingly isolating and lonely world.

New ep soon!

MISSING (dir. Costa-Gavras) is the true story of Charles Horman, an American living in Chile during the 1973 coup. Horman was disappeared and murdered for uncovering the US' support of fascist authoritarian Augusto Pinochet and his military junta.

🚨🚨NEW EP🚨🚨

We watched this year's SINNERS and discussed Ryan Coogler's young career, the origins of blues music in the Jim Crow south, and ,of course, vampires!

APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/0A8z...

Check out our newest episode and the third and final ep in our series on movies about the Spanish Civil War. We watched the 1996 film LIBERTARIAS and discussed the role of women and anarchists.

APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/4nuh...

We took a bit of a hiatus, but are returning soon with the final episode in our SPANISH CIVIL WAR series! We watched Vicente Aranda's 1996 film LIBERTARIAS and discussed the anarchists role in the Revolution. Episode coming soon!

We were guests on the @loadbearingbeams.bsky.social podcast and got to talk about American Psycho! Check it out!

Oh boy, somehow it's April. Not good. We are mere weeks away from those cursed summer months. Anyway, we're very excited about the month of episodes. Here's our main feed schedule!

SUPERMAN (1978)
AMERICAN PSYCHO (with the great @redrosefilm.bsky.social)
SISTER ACT 2

Continuing our series on films about the Spanish Civil War, we watched the 1942 propaganda film RAZA is a written by THE Fascist Supreme himself: Francisco Franco.

APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/3VIA...

The first episode of our new 3-ep series on the Spanish Civil War is out!

For Episode 51, we watched Guillermo Del Toro's PAN'S LABYRINTH and discussed Franco and the desire to escape fascist rule.

APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/5duz...

Starting with our next episode, we’re doing a three episode series on movies about the Spanish Civil War! First episode of the series (PAN’S LABYRINTH) dropping soon!

🚨🚨NEW EP!!!🚨🚨

We had burlesque and sideshow performer extraordinaire Indie Sinclair on to discuss THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW and the community it has fostered for the last fifty years.

APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/0eRJ...

New episode dropping soon! Hot-patootie, bless my soul!

For our 50th episode, we had Indie Sinclair—Tallahassee's burlesque and sideshow performer extraordinaire—on to discuss THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW!

THE SUBSTANCE getting so many Academy Award noms melts my disgusting, spurting, gloopy little heart.

🚨🚨NEW EPISODE🚨🚨

Hal and Craig discuss the 1988 film HAIRSPRAY. We talk integration, the fear of white suburbia, and the ineffable charm of John Waters, the Godfather of Filth!

APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/7i9U...

🚨🚨NEW EPISODE🚨🚨

It's Craig's favorite kind of episode, wherein he makes Hal watch an AWFUL conservative movie! We watched 2024's Reagan, a shameless hagiography of one of the 20th century's greatest villains!

APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/2VsM...

NOTE: We recorded this on November, 5th, just a few days before the news of Tony Todd's passing. RIP to the horror icon.

🚨🚨NEW EP!!🚨🚨

Following up our episode from last year on the 1992 original, we watched Nia DaCosta's 2021 film CANDYMAN and discussed America's racist legacy and the cycle of violence against black bodies.

APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/4NF7...

🚨🚨NEW EPISODE🚨🚨

The People Under the Stairs (1991) | Slumlords, Gentrification, and the Gimp Daddy-ing of America

We watched Wes Craven's 1991 horror-comedy and talked about Reaganomics & the housing crisis!

APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/3JOt...

NEW EPISODE!

We start spooky season with Brian Yuzna's 1989 body-horror satire SOCIETY. We use this film (where a man's face emerges from his own butthole) to have a serious discussion about Reaganomics!

LISTEN NOW!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Dropping next week is the first of our Halloween 2024 episodes!

We're watching Brian Yuzna's 1989 body horror extravaganza SOCIETY.

Stay safe, Tallahassee.

Wow! We got a lot of first day downloads/listens to our SALÒ episode, which is also one of our LONGEST episodes. Thanks to all you weirdos for listening!

If you also want to be a weirdo, listen to our SALÒ episode here (TRIGGER WARNING, obvs): podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

🚨🚨NEW EPISODE🚨🚨

The final episode in our series Fascism and Italian Filmmakers is here. We watched Pier Paolo Pasolini's SALÒ, OR 120 DAYS OF SODOM with special guest Jared O'Connor.

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/48tJ...

Spooky season is nearly here! And that means it's HORROR MOVIE SEASON on Red Rose Film Club. Here are the episodes we've got lined up for October!

Oof…Pasolini…King of “That movie was great, but I never want to watch it again.”

Episode on SALÒ dropping next Sunday.

This movie fucking rules!

One of the scariest movies I’e seen in ages. Every scare is earned from patient filmmaking that builds a FORTRESS of uneasiness. Inventive, strange, and funny, at times.

Next Sunday, we're dropping the final episode in our three episode series on FASCISM and ITALIAN FILMMAKERS. We're watching Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1970 film SALÒ, OR 120 DAYS OF SODOM.

Listen to our other episodes here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

🚨🚨NEW EPISODE🚨🚨

For episode 42 we watched Bernardo Bertolucci's THE CONFORMIST and discussed fascism and the fascist desire for "normalcy".

Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...