Red Rose Film Club Podcast

28/02/2025

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!

19/01/2025

🚨🚨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!

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27/10/2024

Spooky season continues and Hal and Craig watched Wes Craven's 1991 horror-comedy The People Under the Stairs. We discuss how the economic policies of Ronald Reagan (and his putrid Wormtongue Milton Friedman) led to our current housing crisis. Discussion also includes:

- Our favorite Wes Craven films;
- The bombing of the Al-Aqsa hospital in Gaza and Palestinian martyr Shaban Al-Dalou;
- Some books we're reading: "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein and "When the Clock Broke" by John Ganz;
- Other recent viewings including "The Apprentice", "The Substance", and "Wolfs"; and
- Ving Rhames' all-time great lines.

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24/08/2024

New episode drops on Sunday! We're starting a three episode series on films about Italy and fascism!

07/05/2024

Check out our newest episode! We talk INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978) and red scare paranoia, discover peak Jeff Goldblum hotness, gas up the brave college protestors, discuss the Kendrick vs. Drake beef, and determine if Sydney Sweeney has cured us of wokeness!

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Phillip Kaufman's 1978 adaptation of "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" starring Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy, & Jeff Goldblum. Discussion also include: the Kendrick Lamar v. Drake beef; the continued crackdown on Pro-Palestenian protests; Irving Adler, a communist math teacher,

03/12/2023

NEW EPISODE of Red Rose Film Club!

Hal Gentil and I are continuing our series on the conservative fantasies of S. Craig Zahler. This time we watched BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99, Zahler's attempt at a 70s style prison exploitation flick. Discussion also includes:
- Henry Kissinger is dead (YAY!);
- The Daily Wire released an anti-trans "comedy" film called LADY BALLERS (BOO!);
- Upcoming movies we're geeked for: THE IRON CLAW, THE SWEET EAST, POOR THINGS, and FERRARI;
- What makes an exploitation film?

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Continuing our series on the films of S. Craig Zahler and their bizarre depiction of a violent, conservative utopia/dystopia. We watched BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99, Zahler's attempt at a prison exploitation flick. Also: the death of Henry Kissinger, one of history's greatest villains; the Daily Wire ha