Episodes
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Hi everyone! For this final episode of our detective series (and the season), we're talking about Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin, 1995), starring Denzel Washington, Jennifer Beals, Tom Sizemore, and baby Don Cheadle. It's a hard-boiled neo-noir with a twist! That twist is that it's not about white people. Surprise!
Also, full disclosure (which you'll also hear on the ep), we had some sound issues in this recording, which means that Charlie's audio is quite a bit louder and clearer, which is, I'm sure, what you all want anyway. Enjoy, and see you after the summer!
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This week, you're in for a treat: we're talking about The Thin Man (Van Dyke, 1934), a murder mystery starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, who for our money make the sexiest movie couple of the 20th Century, or maybe of all time. They're pretty sexy. They also have an adorable pup named Asta, which makes them even cooler. Anyway, in addition to being a murder mystery, this movie is also a hilarious romp full of fast-talking quips, raucous parties, and names like "Face" Peppler. It would also make for one doozy of a hangover if one were to go drink for drink with the characters. Enjoy!
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And we're back! We were on a slight hiatus for reasons, and now we're back slingin' eps and saying the occasional smart thing. Our latest theme is the detective film, and this week, we're talking about The Nice Guys (Shane Black, 2016), starring Russell Crowe and pre-Ken Ryan Gosling. This is one of the funniest movies of recent memory and we have a great little discussion about it. We hope you like it!
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This week we're wrapping up our series on office movies with Corner Office (Joachim Back, 2022), a surreal dark comedy starring Jon Hamm and Danny Pudi. We talk about all manner of things, including Jon Hamm's excellent moustache and bangs and how interchangeable they are, and we compare this movie to the others in the series as well as to Apple TV series Severance, which is an excellent show that does much of what Corner Office tries to do, only better. Please enjoy this episode as we laugh at our own jokes (someone has to).
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Well, folks, we did it. We made an episode about 9 to 5 (Higgins, 1980), one of the greatest movies of [just before] our time. Ever heard of Dolly Parton? She's in this movie! Jane Fonda? She's in it, too! And, of course, Lily Tomlin and Dabney Coleman round out the cast magnificently.
This movie makes fun of office work by depicting very realistic office conditions, rife with misogyny, sexism, and bureaucracy. But, it's also hilarious and very relatable if you're a non-cis man who has ever worked in an office (we can't speak to the other). Oh, it also demonstrates the value of female allyship. Get into it!
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Just in time for spring, the time of year when hope abounds, we present to you our next theme: movies about soul-sucking office jobs (we would never do this to you if spring were not imminent). As such, this episode is about Office Space (Mike Judge, 1999), a movie that child Mandy thought was hilarious and that adult Mandy realizes is problematic (but also so quotable). But still, there is a TON to talk about, including white fragility, ableism, fatphobia, and, of course, the exploitation of workers. So put aside your Jump to Conclusions Mat, celebrate Michael Bolton's entire catalog, and join us!
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In this, our final heist movie episode, we are talking about Fast Five, the fifth in the masterpiece franchise that is The Fast and the Furious. In this romp, Dom (Vin Diesel) and the gang find themselves in Brazil, where they drive right through a wall and hijack a bad guy's safe in a scientifically impossible (but cinematically awesome) way. In this episode, we talk about morality and the film's Catholic imagery, friendship, and, of course, family. So grab a Corona and enjoy as we talk about these things, and digress about Dwayne Johnson's t-shirts and his propensity to sweat.
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Hello! This week, we're talking about a traditional heist movie: The Taking of Pelham 123, starring our king Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw (not to be confused with the 1998 made-for-tv movie starring Vincent D'Onofrio, Donnie Wahlberg, and Edward James Olmos, which is INCREDIBLY '90s; or the 2009 version with Denzel Washington and John Travolta, which I haven't seen).
In this movie we see the impossible: somebody deigning to steal an NYC subway car. How do they do it? Where will they put it? There's really no way to know, except by listening to this episode. And by watching the movie. But mostly listening to this episode. We also talk about things like class, policing, and NYC as an integral part of the plot. Enjoy!
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And we're back! We've decided to begin 2024 with a series of good ol' fashioned (and perhaps some new-fashioned) heist movies, beginning of course with perhaps the silliest romp ever made, Con Air. Con Air stars Nicholas Cage as an Alabama soldier who is too powerful for regular laws and must be subjected to super laws when he nobly and selflessly* beats a man to death for flirting with his poor helpless wife and is sent to prison. Once released he becomes a passenger on "Con Air," a prison transport plane where we meet all sorts of attitudes toward prison and criminality (and Steve Buscemi is there!).
We can't say this movie is intentionally commenting on the prison industrial complex, but we can say that it is ridiculous and that we're mostly here for Nic Cage's accent.
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*this beating is neither noble nor selfless, and we tend to think he should have used his words/driven away in his car, which was RIGHT THERE.
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Happy holidays, everyone! To finish up our Christmas series, we're talking about Tangerine, a film about Alexandra (Mya Taylor) and Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez), two friends trying to navigate LA, sex work, and transphobia, and Razmik, an Armenian cab driver trying to escape his family. Oh, and it's all happening at Christmastime!
This is our last episode before we take a much-needed break. But feel free to contact us by email ([email protected]) if you need anything!
Happy holidays and thanks for listening. We appreciate you so much, and we look forward to putting out new episodes for you soon.
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In this second week of TJB Christmas episodes, we're lightening up the mood a bit and bringing you a conversation about The Muppet Christmas Carol, starring Michael Caine as Scrooge and the Muppets as almost everyone else. We talk about capitalism, ghosts, Christmas (obviously), and we both try to say "Moycal Kaiyne" as best we can (listener, it's not great, but we try our best).
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Well, it's that time of year again, when we get cozy and reflect on the love of family and friends. This Christmas time, we'd like to kick off the season right by talking about Violent Night, which features David Harbour as a very curmudgeonly Santa who happens to be great at making a candy cane into a shiv. We talk about violence, capitalism, and man buns, so we hope you enjoy this first instalment of our Christmas triptych!
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In this episode we discuss our first animated feature! Spirited Away is a beautiful film about a child who must save her greedy parents from the clutches of a witch who runs a spa for spirits. And really, who among us hasn't had to parent our parents?
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In this second episode of our road trip series, we're talking about Thelma & Louise (Scott 1991), an uproarious comedy if the trailer has anything to say about it, but a drama to those of us who have watched it. This movie has been pivotal for many feminists, people who like watching protagonists who are not men, and those who enjoy a good mom jean (these are not mutually exclusive), and our conversation talks about all these things.
A word of warning: the movie depicts an attempted sexual assault, and we mention it (the movie's mostly about what happens after the assault is thwarted).
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This episode marks the beginning of our latest theme: road movies! And, to kick off this new theme, we're talking about The Green Knight, a surreal take on the 14th-Century chivalric romance poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," which you probably read in an intro lit course (and if you didn't, you were robbed). It follows Gawain (Dev Patel) as he makes a series of bad choices while trying to become a knight in King Arthur's court (Camelot, the Round Table, the whole bit). Also, his mom helps him out in some very weird ways and possibly/probably oversteps, hence the title of this episode. It's a very strange, very aesthetically beautiful movie, and we can't recommend it highly enough.
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This week, we're rounding out our series on "House" movies with House of Flying Daggers (Yimou 2004), a very sexy wuxia film that combines gorgeous aesthetics with sleeve agility and fighting in trees. It is at its core a period drama, starring Ziyi Zhang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and Andy Lau, but it also involves love, deception, loyalty, and conflict, which we talk a lot about, obviously.
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In this episode we get "cerebral" (whatever that means) and talk about Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse (2019), starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson. It's a complicated movie that has steered us toward a complicated (yet ridiculous) discussion. We talk about gender, the monstrous-feminine, the abject, and eco-criticism, as well as our crushes on Willem Dafoe and our delight in his character's dialogue. Oh, and Charlie can't let go of thinking this is a pirate movie. It isn't.
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And we're back! Welcome to season two of The Juiciest Bits, in which we endeavour to become more organized. This season, we've decided to group our movie selections by theme (and hopefully take some requests!), so expect* scholarly through-lines and hilarious callbacks.
Our first theme of the season is "house movies," and to kick things off, we're talking about Road House, that sexy Swayze movie from 1989. It has everything: mullets! inappropriate clothing! unbridled violence! a song written and performed by P. Sways himself!
This episode makes us feel like we never left (in a good way), and we hope you like it too. Thanks for joining us!
*Neither is guaranteed.
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In this, our season one finale, we discuss millennial classic Bring it On (Reed, 2000) and come face to face with the hard reminder that the culture in which we went to high school was rough, especially for the queer, trans, disabled, and P.O.C. crowds. BUT we talk about all of this and the acrobatic miracle that is cheerleading and how cool Gabrielle Union is, so there's that.
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Hello! This week, we're talking about Nobody (Ilya Naishuller, 2021), in which Bob Odenkirk takes a break from playing our favourite smarmy lawyer and is instead a repressed and very swole dad who has a real yen for beating up bad guys in incredibly violent ways (think John Wick, but with a house in the suburbs). The movie also features Connie Nielsen, Christopher Lloyd, and RZA, which makes for a very badass cast. Perhaps most important to us, though, is how familiar the setting is. While many movies are filmed in Winnipeg, this one actually forgoes the Hallmark-style fake snow and holiday themes in favour of showing what our city actually looks like! Anyway, we were excited. Enjoy!
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