Pod Casty For Me

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Handsome leading man jumps from television to film working with a handful of dynamic filmmakers before hopping in the director's chair himself - sound familiar?! Unfortunately, it turned out a lot better when Clint did it. But we're talking about George Clooney anyway, starting with his 2002 directorial debut CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND, based on the clearly-a-joke-to-everyone-but-Clooney "unauthorized autobiography" by Gong Show producer/host Chuck Barris. Written by Charlie Kaufman (rewritten by Clooney), produced by Section Eight, edited by Stephen Mirrione...what could go wrong? We'll tell you!
As always, thank you to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our artwork.

Listen to this episode twice and call us in the morning! That's just a joke and is not medical advice. But we ARE talking about Soderbergh's 2013 pharmaceutical thriller SIDE EFFECTS today, with our friend poet/podcaster/famous celebrity Jane Altoids! Topics may include: Hitchcock, the history of madness, women being called crazy, big pharma, our own experiences with mental illness, Blake Lively, Soderbergh's then-impending retirement, the asylum and the prison, the mad rights movement, CONTAGION, and more. Give it a listen!
Further Reading:
Health Communism by Artie Vierkant and Beatrice Adler-Bolton
Quick Fixes by Benjamin Y. Fong
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
Soderbergh interview by Nigel M. Smith for Indiewire
"Trojan Horses and Immaculate Math: An Interview with Steven Soderbergh" by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
"How New York's mentally ill get lost in courts, jails and hospitals" by Ben Hattem
Further Viewing:
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Wilder, 1944)
GASLIGHT (Cukor, 1944)
SPELLBOUND (Hitchcock, 1945)
LES DIABOLIQUES (Clouzot, 1955)
 
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You voted, we watched! For our second Listener Choice episode, we're sitting down with Michael Bay's 2016 action docudrama 13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI, a supposedly just-the-facts look at the 2012 attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. The film is brutally short on context, but don't worry - that's what we're here for. Join us to talk interventionism, AMERICAN SNIPER, Office Jim, Hillary Clinton, and more. Plus - a message from Maxwell.
"Worse Than Benghazi" by David Mizner
"13 Hours and the Benghazi Scandal" at Spy Culture
Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork.

It's here, lawbreakers: our episode on Steven Soderbergh's 2012 runaway hit MAGIC MIKE. Is this a sobering look at economic precarity after the Great Recession? Or is it a movie about gyrating hunks? Here to help us answer that question is writer, adult content creator, and proprietor of Spectrum Boutique, Zoë Ligon! We talk transactional desire, hot bods, side hustles, Zoë's experience seeing Magic Mike Live in Vegas, and a lot more. Look: you're horny, let's do it - listen to the episode, that is!
Plus, a brief note about Minneapolis.
Further Reading:
"'How Would You Like A Lap Dance?': The Oral History of 'Magic Mike'" by Kate Lloyd
"Where Mike Got The Magic" by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Further Viewing:
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (Badham, 1977)
BOOGIE NIGHTS (Anderson, 1997)
BEAU TRAVAIL (Denis, 1999)
STEP UP (Fletcher, 2006)
MAGIC MIKE XXL (Jacobs, 2015)
MAGIC MIKE'S LAST DANCE (Soderbergh, 2023)
 
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Most movies weren't directed by Steven Soderbergh, but few were as notably not directed by Steven Soderbergh as this one: MONEYBALL, the true story of the 2002 Oakland Athletics' revolutionary sabermetrics-based hiring strategy, was 5 days from shooting when Sony pulled the plug on Soderbergh's version. After a rewrite by Aaron Sorkin and a few cast change-ups, a slicker, Fincher-lite version directed by Bennett Miller made it to theaters, and we're talking about the whole deal. This ep has it all, quite frankly: in-depth script revision analysis, baseball talk, sports politics, and a long conversation about how statistics and "disruption" inform the world. It turns out everything is Moneyball, maybe? Give this one a listen, folks.

As always, thanks to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our artwork.