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Genre Reveal Party!

Dave Maher and Madeline Lane-McKinley

Examining TV and movies through the lenses of politics and genre: its definition, its limits, and what we can learn by exploding... more

The Brat Pack (St. Elmo's Fire and BRATS) with guest Eleanor Russell: We Just Don't Even Know Who to Be Anymore

For our final episode of this season on school films, Eleanor Russell helps us emotionally process the recent documentary about... more

26 Jul 2024 · 2 hours, 9 minutes

The Faculty with guest Kayte Terry: We're Discontent

This week we're joined by Kayte Terry, host of Tender Subject and Fangs for the Memories (a Buffy and horror... more

19 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 32 minutes

Bottoms: We're, Like, the Main Guy

This week we covered the most contemporary film from our season "School Days," the queer-absurdist high school sex comedy Bottoms... more

12 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 39 minutes

More Graduation Movies (Ghost World and The Graduate) with guest Jasmine Bridges: We Want You to Know How Much We Appreciate This

We talked about even more graduation movies, this week with Genre Reveal Party series regular Jasmine Bridges. We paired two... more

05 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 41 minutes

Graduation Movies (Reality Bites and Kicking and Screaming (1995)): We Do Nothing

This week we talk about two canonical gen-x graduation movies: Reality Bites and Kicking and Screaming (no, not the one... more

28 Jun 2024 · 2 hours, 2 minutes

More Student Uprisings (if.... and Class of 1984) with guest Sean O'Brien: We Like Tigers

It's our second double feature of student uprising films, including perhaps the most legendary movie in the genre, 1968's if...... more

21 Jun 2024 · 2 hours, 34 minutes

Student Uprisings (Over the Edge and Bambule) with guest E Conner: We Only Got One Law

This week we talk about two excellent films from the 1970s about two very different contexts of student uprising. We're... more

14 Jun 2024 · 1 hour, 59 minutes

School Scandals (May December and Notes on a Scandal) with guest Milo Muise: We Don't Think We Have Enough Hot Dogs

This week we're joined by Milo Muise to discuss what we're calling the "School Scandals Double Feature," May December (2023)... more

07 Jun 2024 · 2 hours, 2 minutes

All Teachers Are Cops (Dangerous Minds and Kindergarten Cop): We Lack Discipline

We put together another double-feature for this week called "All Teachers Are Cops." We watched a couple '90s, VHS classics:... more

31 May 2024 · 2 hours, 16 minutes

Precocious Students (Rushmore and Election): We're Here for the Extracurriculars

This week we discussed two films about precocious high school students that came out in 1998 and 1999, which were... more

24 May 2024 · 1 hour, 59 minutes

The Brat Pack (St. Elmo's Fire and BRATS) with guest Eleanor Russell: We Just Don't Even Know Who to Be Anymore

Genre Reveal Party!