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Episode 150 Vertigo and The Silence of the Lambs

April 06, 2020 / Matt Fisher

In defiance of every imaginable odd, we’ve reached our 150th episode. If you bet against this milestone ever happening, and honestly, we don’t blame you, it’s time to pay up because we’re spending our 15th double feature talking about two movies on … — In defiance of every imaginable odd, we’ve reached our 150th episode. If you bet against this milestone ever happening, and honestly, we don’t blame you, it’s time to pay up because we’re spending our 15th double feature talking about two movies on the semi-verboten AFI 100 list! We forwent our vetos last week as our first spin of the AFI Roulette Wheel landed us the primo picks of Alfie P’s Vertigo (1959) and Johnny D’s The Silence of the Lambs (1991). One’s a colorful, bizarre, expressionist exploration of duality, repetition, and desire. The other is a drab, empathetic, workplace procedural with serial killers. Both are great. Join us for a quintessential episode packed with high-brow analysis and low-brow blumpkin jokes, this week on Ex Rated Movies!

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Episode 149 Grizzly Man

March 30, 2020 / Matt Fisher

Whether he’s hypnotizing chickens, eating his own shoe, or shrugging off insignificant bullets wounds, Werner Herzog’s reputation as a film legend precedes him. And, while he has created many fiction movies, his cinematic essays are arguably the greatest showcase for his talents. One of his strongest films, Grizzly Man (2005), paints a portrait of Timothy Treadwell, a daring environmentalist who spent several summers living with bears in the Alaskan wilderness. Herzog uses self-shot footage of Treadwell to try and understand the man and make sense of his tragic death at the paws and claws of a grizzly. Join us as we go deep on the final installment of Ryan’s meta season, as well as give the old AFI roulette wheel a spin, this week on Ex Rated Movies!

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Episode 148 Contagion

March 23, 2020 / Matt Fisher

897406325-Contagion-Movie-2011-Marion-Cotillard-Matt-Damon.jpg — Reversing our brand of not capitalizing on current trends, this week Matt chose a movie that directly relates to the one thing that everyone is talking about! Written by Scott Z. Burns and directed by Steven Soderbergh, Contagion (2011) envisions what a present-day deadly global pandemic might look like. Told from multiple viewpoints and boasting a star-studded cast, this brisk thriller manages to strike the right balance between scientific fact and cinematic spectacle. Join us for an anxious conversation about the proprietary nature of blood, how Gwyneth Paltrow is similar to Judge Doom, and the unifying horror of how often we touch our faces, this week on Ex Rated Movies!

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Episode 147 Who Framed Roger Rabbit

March 16, 2020 / Matt Fisher

Very few of our favorite movies from childhood hold up when revisited as adults. We believe that Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1987) not only holds up, it deserves to be added to the AFI top 100 list! This movie not only manages to pull off the difficult technical feat of integrating hand-drawn animation into the real world, but it also keeps us entertained with memorable characters and a solid noir plot. It is truly an unmatched cinematic achievement. We say hello again to Freddy Molich and Scott Shoemaker as they join us to talk about Bob Hoskins’ back hair, space pears, and how depressing Chuck Jones cartoons are, this week on Ex Rated Movies!

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Episode 146 The Handmaiden

March 09, 2020 / Matt Fisher

While we love the guy, it’s important to remember that South Korean cinema is more than just Bong Joon-ho. Take Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden (2016) for example. This inspired adaptation of Sarah Waters’ novel, Fingersmith, succeeds on every level. With its sublime cinematography, surprising plot twists, superb performances, and super hot gay sex to boot, this movie deserves to be remembered as one of the best of the past decade. Join us as we pull out our best British accents, get down with VPOV, and dip our toes in the waters of Lake Lesbionica this week on Ex Rated Movies!

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Episode 145 Stories We Tell

March 02, 2020 / Matt Fisher

Stories We Tell (2012) is difficult to sum up. In 2007, director Sarah Polley discovered that her father was not her biological father. Ostensibly, this documentary is about that revelation and Polley’s desire to tell the story her own way. However, as the movie progresses, it becomes a poetic and surprising mediation on the fuzziness of memory, the perception of truth, and ultimately life itself. It’s more meta than your average meta documentary and well worth the watch. Join us for a reverse Mama Mia, a slightly melted Gene Shalit, and a milk bag story that’s running above the fold, this week on Ex Rated Movies!

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Episode 144 The House That Jack Built

February 24, 2020 / Matt Fisher

Lars von Trier is an extremely polarizing filmmaker. His stunning yet brutal depictions of violence married with heady philosophical nugs, force viewers to question their everyday notions of art, beauty, and humanity. The House That Jack Built (2018) has all the typical components that make up a von Trier film, but adds a layer of self-reflection that challenges our expectations of him as a director and ourselves as movie watchers. Join us for some PETA-approved animal mutilation, a lesson in trickle-down strippernomics, and a bunch of gloopy gloop in the Guggenheim, this week on Ex Rated Movies!

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Episode 143 Being John Malkovich

February 17, 2020 / Matt Fisher

Ryan’s season of meta movies just wouldn’t be complete without at least one Charlie Kaufman movie! And while Adaptation is probably the more correct choice, he’s chosen the highly absurd yet completely digestible fun nugget, Being John Malkovich (1999). Some highlights from this brilliant piece of cinema include Catherine Keener as the chaotic evil Maxine, Cameron Diaz sporting some OTT hair, and John Malkovich himself dancing Craig’s Dance of Despair and Disillusionment. Nothing but effervescent praise this week as we retire an old catch phrase, usher in a new one, and follow up with Darren Dewes about this year’s astonishing Oscar results, this week on Ex Rated Movies!

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Episode 142 We Need to Talk About Kevin

February 10, 2020 / Matt Fisher

We’ve needed to talk about Lynne Ramsay for a long time. And what better way to do it, than to punish ourselves with her chilling and challenging creation, We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011). Perhaps more poetic than literal, this harrowing dive into the darker reaches of the human psyche succeeds in critiquing modern day America’s mishandling of young, violent boys. And while the subject matter is dour, the movie’s style, tone, and intelligence make it worth a watch. Join us as we slump into our sadness, practically beg for money, and celebrate Siobhan Fallon Hogan, this week on Ex Rated Movies!

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Episode 141 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

February 03, 2020 / Matt Fisher

r&D1.jpg — Nothing says “welcome back to our regularly scheduled programming” like a heady meta rumination on death, theater, and Shakespeare’s Hamlet. We’re kicking off Season 15 with Tom Stoppard’s brilliantly witty Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990). What is death? What if it’s awesome? How good is Ricard Dreyfus in this? How insufferably long is Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet? Why is America so backwards on bidets? What’s the proper lady bits emoji? Questions abound as Ryan kicks off a whole season of meta movies, this week on Ex Rated Movies!

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