Episodes
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Critic and culture writer Brandon Streussnig glams up the pod with his pick Du Jour for the Contemporary Costumes program, 2001's "teen comedy" cult classic Josie and the Pussycats. Before he, Joshua, and Katharine break down all the fashions, all the pr🎯duct pl🎯cement, and all the Parker Posey, Andrew stops by with Now Showing reviews of Cuckoo and Handling the Undead. Finally, there's just One More Thing with Female Prisoner Scorpion, Peter Greenaway, and the Olympics for cinephiles!
Next up is Andrew's fashion-frenzy pick, Sion Sono's Why Don't You Play in Hell? Until then, please share, subscribe, and review! Read on at TheTake-Up.com and follow us @thetakeupstl on Instagram, Twitter, Letterboxd, and Facebook. Special thanks to editor Jessica Pierce and Social Media Manager Kayla McCulloch. Theme music by AMP.
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Joshua is dressed to kill with Ken Russell's 1984 Psycho-sexual thriller/satire/melodrama Crimes of Passion, his pick for the new Contemporary Costumes program. Before digging into the Big Performances of Kathleen Turner and Anthony Perkins in full drag(s), he, Katharine, and Andrew are Now Showing yet another crime of passion with Catherine Breillat's latest, Last Summer. Finally, they've all got One More Thing: a new Elaine May biography, an old No Man's Sky, and the old/new of Les Vampires.
Next up is a special guest, critic Brandon Streussnig, and his pick of Josie and the Pussycats! Until then, please share, subscribe, and review! Read on at TheTake-Up.com and follow us @thetakeupstl on Instagram, Twitter, Letterboxd, and Facebook. Special thanks to editor Jessica Pierce and Social Media Manager Kayla McCulloch. Theme music by AMP.
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For the final episode in the Queer Classics program, Katharine picks the 1959 queer killers story Compulsion, based upon the real-life Leopold and Loeb case. Of course she, Joshua, and Andrew couldn't help but go into the other Leopold and Loeb-inspired films, Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Tom Kalin's Swoon, also covered here.
First up is a killer of a different kind in Osgood Perkins' Longlegs. For this Now Showing segment, the Take-Uppers go long (spoilers from 11:45-28:20) on Mr. Downstairs. Finally, they've got One More Thing with Paula Prentiss, Riddance, and Alt Shift X explainers for you House of the Dragon fans.
Queer Classic Summer is over and next up is the Contemporary Costumes program. Fear not, however, since Joshua's pick of Crimes of Passion keeps things boiling hot! Until then, please share, subscribe, and review! Read on at TheTake-Up.com and follow us @thetakeupstl on Instagram, Twitter, Letterboxd, and Facebook. Special thanks to editor Jessica Pierce and Social Media Manager Kayla McCulloch. Theme music by AMP.
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Mother of Mercy, Katie Carter is back guns a-blazin' with her pick for the Queer Classics program, Little Caesar (1931), the landmark gangster picture featuring Edward G. Robinson's breakout performance.
Before she schools Katharine and Joshua on queer depictions in the Pre-Code Hollywood era, Andrew appears to review MaXXXine, America, and A Quiet Place: Day One with everyone. Finally, they'll have One More Thing with Burt Reynolds, Siskel & Ebert, and The Projection Booth.
Up next is a Leopold & Loeb-palooza with Katharine's pick, Compulsion (1959) (and a little Rope [1948], for good measure). Until then, please share, subscribe, and review! Read on at TheTake-Up.com and follow us @thetakeupstl on Instagram, Twitter, Letterboxd, and Facebook. Special thanks to editor Jessica Pierce and Social Media Manager Kayla McCulloch. Theme music by AMP.
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It's a matter of life and death when Andrew picks famed French Renaissance Man Jean Cocteau's Orpheus for his pick in the Queer Classics program. Joshua and Katharine roll on their rubber gloves, paint eyeballs on their eyelids, and join Andrew to jump backwards into the 1950 Orpheus redux.
First, they go Inside Out (2) with Disney/Pixar's latest and Kill Your Lover, both of which are Now Showing. All three hosts take the Known 4/IMDb Game challenge with some classic gays before stumping for Agatha Christie, Ohuhu markers, and a forgotten film by Mike Nichols during One More Thing.
Up next, Katie Carter returns with her pick, 1931's Little Caesar. Until then, please share, subscribe, and review! Read on at TheTake-Up.com and follow us @thetakeupstl on Instagram, Twitter, Letterboxd, and Facebook. Special thanks to editor Jessica Pierce and Social Media Manager Kayla McCulloch. Theme music by AMP.
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Bang, bang! Joan Crawford shoots a whole town down in Nicholas Ray's 1954 cult/camp/queer/western/melodrama classic Johnny Guitar. It's Joshua's choice for the first episode in the Queer Classics program, celebrating our favorite queer-leaning films made before 1960.
Before they figure out if its Cahiers du Cinéma stamp-of-approval is appropriate or not, he, Andrew, and new co-host Katharine Coldiron discuss Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, The Bikeriders: A Midwest Accent Saga, I Saw the TV Glow: A Take-Up Brawl Saga, In Our Day: A Hong Sang-soo Saga. Lastly, it's all creamy keyboards and new and old Star Wars for One More Thing.
Up next, Andrew picks Jean Cocteau's classic waking dream Orpheus. Until then, please share, subscribe, and review! Read on at TheTake-Up.com and follow us @thetakeupstl on Instagram, Twitter, Letterboxd, and Facebook. Special thanks to editor Jessica Pierce and Social Media Manager Kayla McCulloch. Theme music by AMP.
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Joshua and Andrew time-travel alllll the way back to 2019 to discuss guest Alex McPherson's favorite movie year! His pick from the not-so-distant past? Jim Jarmusch's star-studded zom-com The Dead Don't Die. First, Challengers, Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus, Hundreds of Beavers, and The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed are Now Showing. Finally, they've all got One More Thing with Fallout, Normal Gossip, and Slow Horses.
Next up is a new series when taking a peek into The Celluloid Closet with some queer classics. Until then, please share, subscribe, and review! Read on at TheTake-Up.com and follow us @thetakeupstl on Instagram, Twitter, Letterboxd, and Facebook.
Special thanks to editor Jessica Pierce and Social Media Manager Kayla McCulloch. Theme music by AMP.
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Katharine Coldiron joins Joshua and Andrew for a showdown with Andrew Dominik's "Imagined West" in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Before discussing Andrew's Brad Pitt-starring pick for the My Favorite Movie Year program and the cinematic year that was 2007, Sasquatch Sunset and The People's Joker are Now Showing. Finally, they'll visit the Wisconsin Film Festival, Marleen Gorris on the Criterion Channel, and a movie YouTube channel that doesn't suck.
On the next episode, film critic Alex McPherson argues that 2019 is supreme with his pick, Jim Jarmusch's The Dead Don't Die. Until then, please share, subscribe, and review! Read on at TheTake-Up.com and follow us @thetakeupstl on Instagram, Twitter, Letterboxd, and Facebook.
Special thanks to editor Jessica Pierce and Social Media Manager Kayla McCulloch. Theme music by AMP.
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Shannon Weber, Managing Editor of Feast Magazine, returns to the podcast to take up her favorite movie year! She joins Joshua and Andrew to party like it's 1999 when they discuss her pick from that year, The Virgin Suicides. Before flashing back to Sofia Coppola's debut feature, the boys talk some films that are Now Showing: Radu Jude's (masterpiece) Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World and a spider-rific Sting. Finally, they'll all have One More Thing with more Jeffrey Eugenides, Netflix's 3 Body Problem, and... something else?
Katharine Coldiron returns on the next episode to talk with Joshua and Andrew about the latter's pick for the My Favorite Movie Year program: 2007 and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Until then, please share, subscribe, and review! Read on at TheTake-Up.com and follow us @thetakeupstl on Instagram, Twitter, Letterboxd, and Facebook.
Special thanks to editor Jessica Pierce and Social Media Manager Kayla McCulloch. Theme music by AMP.
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Things get hot in the cold as The Take-Up goes a little stir crazy with Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. It's Joshua's pick for the new My Favorite Movie Year series, and guest Katharine Coldiron joins to discuss the horror classic and the totally un-horrific, great movie year that is 1980 (and 30-plus films that prove it so).
First, Late Night with the Devil, Stopmotion, Riddle of Fire, and, sure, Ghostbusters: Kicking Ice Edition are Now Showing. Finally, they all have One More Thing with Waxahatchee, Jean Arthur, and Stephen King.
On the next episode, Feast Magazine Managing Editor Shannon Weber returns to take-up her pick, Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, for a 1999 edition of the podcast. Until then, please share, subscribe, and review! Read on at TheTake-Up.com and follow us @thetakeupstl on Instagram, Twitter, Letterboxd, and Facebook.
Special thanks to editor Jessica Pierce and Social Media Manager Kayla McCulloch. Theme music by AMP.
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Andrew picks the final film in the Critics Are Stupid program, Jonathan Glazer's misunderstood 2004 film Birth. Before he, Joshua, and returning guest Katharine Coldiron dive into the Nicole Kidman-starring "ghost story," Io Capitano, Here, and Behind the Haystacks are all Now Showing. Lastly, they all have One More Thing with Alamo Drafthouse's Time Capsule, the African Film Festival at Wash University, Forbidden Films, and an interview of sorts with novelist Sjón.
On the next episode, the gang enter their own time capsules with their next program, My Favorite Movie Year! Joshua is up first with 1980 and a little film called The Shining. Please share, subscribe, and review! Read on at TheTake-Up.com and follow us @thetakeupstl on Instagram/Twitter/Letterboxd/Facebook.
Special thanks to editor Jessica Pierce, Social Media Manager Kayla McCulloch, and our partners at Cinema St. Louis. Theme music by AMP.
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Katharine Coldiron joins Andrew and Joshua for the latter's pick for the Critics Are Stupid program, The Truth About Charlie. Before rushing the streets of Paris in Jonathan Demme's Charade remake, the film critics discuss Dune: Part Two, Drive-Away Dolls, and The Legionnaire. Finally, everyone has One More Thing with some Swans, some Terror, and more on The Zone of Interest.
On Thursday, Feb. 29 at 7 PM, the WUFS will be screening Joshua's pick for the program, Jonathan Glazer's Birth! Then return here the following Tuesday to listen to the episode about it, featuring returning guest Katharine Coldiron. You can see the full schedule on their site and on their social media.
Please share, subscribe, and review! Read on at TheTake-Up.com and follow us @thetakeupstl on Instagram/Twitter/Letterboxd/Facebook. Special thanks to Editor Jess Pierce and Social Media Manager Kayla McCulloch. Theme music by AMP.
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Harmony Korine goes to Ohio in Gummo, guest Pete Timmermann's pick for the Critics Are Stupid program. Before diving into the iconoclast director's red flag-raising debut feature, the Webster University Film Series Director joins Joshua and Andrew to discuss Lisa Frankenstein, How to Have Sex, Under the Fig Trees, and Skin Deep, all of which are Now Showing. Finally, they'll round the episode out with video game, book, and music recs. BYE BYE!
On Thursday, Feb. 22 at 7 PM, the WUFS will be screening Joshua's pick for the program, Jonathan Demme's The Truth About Charlie! Then return here in a few days to listen to the episode about it, featuring returning guest Katharine Coldiron. You can see the full schedule on their site and on their social media. Please share, subscribe, and review! Read on at TheTake-Up.com and follow us @thetakeupstl on Instagram/Twitter/Letterboxd/Facebook. Special thanks to Editor Jess Pierce and Social Media Manager Kayla McCulloch. Theme music by AMP.
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The great Katharine Coldiron returns to the podcast with her pick for the new Critics Are Stupid program, celebrating critically reviled films we love. Before breaking down the 1991 porkchop/bulldozer Stone Cold, Andrew and Joshua are Now Showing True Detective: Night Country, Trunk: Locked In, Dario Argento Panico, and The Seeding. Finally, they'll have One More Thing featuring good bad movies and good good movies, like the 1964 classic Woman in the Dunes, which will be showing in St. Louis at the Webster University Film Series.
Speaking of our friends at WUFS, our next three picks will be playing on the big screen there, beginning with a Feb. 8 7 PM screening of Harmony Korine's Gummo! Then return here to hear the episode about it. You can see the full schedule on their site and on their social media. Please share, subscribe, and review! Read on at TheTake-Up.com and follow us @thetakeupstl on Instagram/Twitter/Letterboxd/Facebook. Special thanks to Editor Jess Pierce and Social Media Manager Kayla McCulloch. Theme music by AMP.
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On this special episode, Andrew and Joshua countdown their respective top ten films of 2023. They talk some tentpole franchise entries marking the return of Ethan Hunt and Spider-Man, tasty docs like Frederick Wiseman's latest, not-so-tasty ones like De Humani Corporis Fabrica, critcs' darlings like Past Lives and The Zone of Interest, one-half of Barbenheimer, and a lot more.
Before that, the Mean Girls musical, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, and Apolonia, Apolonia are Now Showing.
Next time they admit that "Critics Are Stupid" with a program full of critically reviled films that they and their guests love. Stay tuned to find out just how wrong they are. Please share, subscribe, and review! Read on at TheTake-Up.com and follow us @thetakeupstl on Instagram/Twitter/Letterboxd/Facebook.
Special thanks to Editor Jess Pierce and Social Media Manager Kayla McCulloch. Theme music by AMP.
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Joshy's with the maggots now! Calm down, he's just picked Lee Cronin's Evil Dead Rise for the final episode of the Gems of '23 program. He and Andrew spill all the gory tea (be warned!) about one of the year's better genre entries. After that, they're catching you up on 2023 with reviews of Saltburn, Infinity Pool, Silent Night, Bottoms, and Blackberry. Finally, they're Landscapers-ing and thinking about cookie cutters with One More Thing.
To put a neat little bow on 2023, Joshua and Andrew will be breaking down their top tens of the year on the next episode! Please share, subscribe, and review! Read on at TheTake-Up.com and follow us @thetakeupstl on Instagram/Twitter/Letterboxd/Facebook.
Special thanks to Editor Jess Pierce and Social Media Manager Kayla McCulloch. Theme music by AMP.
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It's your last chance for the Last Dance with Max Havey of St. Louis Magazine! He joins Joshua and Andrew with his pick for the Gems of '23 program: Steven Soderbergh's latest (and last) Magic Mike. Before that, the two hosts have Now Showing blow-out bonanza with the final segment of the of the year covering Ferrari, The Color Purple, Wonka, Eileen, The Iron Claw, and The Zone of Interest. After allllll that, the three still have One More Thing.
Next up is the final episode in the program with Joshua's pick of Evil Dead Rise. Please share, subscribe, and review! Read on at TheTake-Up.com and follow us @thetakeupstl on Instagram/Twitter/Letterboxd/Facebook.
Special thanks to editor Jess Pierce, Social Media Manager Kayla McCulloch, and our partners at Cinema St. Louis. Theme music by AMP.
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Past and future guest Billy Rock of Do You Like Apples returns to the Gems series for our 2023 edition with agitprop melo-thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline in tow. Before that, Godzilla Minus One and Frederick Wiseman's Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros are Now Showing. Later, they'll play a Pipeline edition of Known Four and recommend One More Thing each: real Christmas trees and two Criterion Channel recs among them.
Next time, St. Louis Magazine's Max Havey makes his inaugural appearance on the podcast with his pick, Magic Mike's Last Dance! Please share, subscribe, and review! Read on at TheTake-Up.com and follow us @thetakeupstl on Instagram/Twitter/Letterboxd/Facebook.
Special thanks to editor Jess Pierce, Social Media Manager Kayla McCulloch, and our partners at Cinema St. Louis. Theme music by AMP.
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John Boyega, Jamie Foxx, and Teyonnah Paris headline the sci-fi satire They Cloned Tyrone. Juel Taylor's debut feature is Andrew's pick for the Gems of '23 series, highlighting the best of the underrated or underseen films of the year. First, they'll talk Todd Haynes' May December and Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things in Now Showing. After Tyrone, they've got a few suggestions for Academy members. Finally, they've got One More Thing.
Next up is Joshua's pick for the series... which is TBD! Please share, subscribe, and review! Read on at TheTake-Up.com and follow us @thetakeupstl on Instagram/Twitter/Letterboxd/Facebook.
Special thanks to editor Jessica Pierce, Social Media Manager Kayla McCulloch, and our partners at Cinema St. Louis. Theme music by AMP.
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The blood-sucking Brady Bunch is back with Dark Dream Cinema's Michael Morlaine picking The Lost Boys for QU66R COD6D. Before getting into Joel Schumacher's 1987 vampy vampire cult hit, Andrew and Josh go long on some killers: David Fincher's The Killer and Martin Scoresese's Killers of the Flower Moon. Later, the Take-Up critics preview the 32nd St. Louis International Film Festival, presented by partners Cinema St. Louis. Finally, and maybe just a couple hours or so later, they'll have One More Thing.
Please share, subscribe, and review! Read on at TheTake-Up.com and follow us @thetakeupstl on Instagram/Twitter/Letterboxd/Facebook.
Special thanks to editor Jessica Pierce, Social Media Manager Kayla McCulloch, and our partners at Cinema St. Louis. Theme music by AMP.
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