Loose Canons Ep. 52 Jack Reacher

Loose Canons Ep. 52 Jack Reacher

This time, we get REACHED!

Loose Canons Ep. 51 The Docks of New York

Loose Canons Ep. 51 The Docks of New York
This time...BILL ROBERTS! Not that motherscratcher!

Stay tuned for drunk conversation at the end.

Loose Canons Ep. 50 The Cool World

Loose Canons Ep. 50 The Cool World
This time, we get us a piece and hope for some respect.

Loose Canons Ep. 49 A Rage In Harlem

Loose Canons Ep. 49 A Rage In Harlem

This time, we kindly ask that you not hurt our dog.

Loose Canons Ep. 48 Ganja and Hess

Loose Canons Ep. 48 Ganja and Hess

This time, we talk about the horror of internalized racism.

Loose Canons Ep. 47 Civil Brand

Loose Canons Ep. 47 Civil Brand

This time, we replace the podcast with a very suspicious loop of us reading the latest issue of Legal News.

Loose Canons Ep. 46 God Of Thunder

Loose Canons Ep. 46 God of Thunder
This time we try to give ourselves some sort of legitimacy by inviting a real professor to talk about movies with us.

Loose Canons Ep. 45 Camille 2000

This time, we talk about the sexy swingin 60s in Italy with special guest Lily Cade.

Loose Canons Ep. 45 Camille 2000

Loose Canons Ep. 44 Heralds of 2014

This time, we give you our favorite films of 2014. Get ready for some film love.





Loose Canons Ep. 44 Heralds of 2014

Loose Canons Ep. 43 Denouncements of 2014

This time, Basil, Ilya, Patrick, and Reuben discuss their least favorite films of 2014, or in the case of Basil, one film he wished was from 2014.

Loose Canons Ep. 43 Denouncements of 2014

Loose Canons Ep. 42 Suzan Pitt

This time, we are rescued from depression by Mighty Mouse.

Loose Canons Ep. 42 Suzan Pitt

Loose Canons Ep. 41 Destroy She Said

This time we try to have a podcast baby in the dark.

Loose Canons Ep. 41 Destroy She Said

Loose Canons Ep. 40 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I

This time we have some trouble with spacial geography.

Loose Canons Ep. 40 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I

Loose Canons Ep. 39 Barry Lyndon

This time, we just don't quite get it, but that's okay because we're good at fisticuffs.

Loose Canons Ep. 39 Barry Lyndon

Loose Canons Ep. 38 Snowpiercer

Loose Canons Ep. 38 Snowpiercer

This time, we eat a protein bar. Wait...they're made of what?

Loose Canons Ep. 37 Thank God It's Friday

Loose Canons Ep. 37 Thank God It's Friday

This week, we get down and we get funky with some disco cinema.

Loose Canons Ep. 36 The Spanish Earth

Loose Canons Ep. 36 The Spanish Earth

In this episode, we strike a blow for the republic!

Loose Canons Ep. 35 The Masque of the Red Death

Loose Canons Ep. 35 The Masque of the Red Death

This time, we run over babies in our carriages without a care in the world.

Loose Canons Ep. 34 The Slumber Party Massacre

Loose Canons Ep. 34 The Slumber Party Massacre

This time we order pizza, paint each other's nails, and talk about boys.

Loose Canons Ep. 33 Friday the 13th

Loose Canons Ep. 33 Friday the 13th

In this episode, we get slowly killed off one by one, and at the end the real murderer is A First Person Camera Operator!

00:00:36 Another spooky podcast! Someone’s getting murdered!
00:01:00 More jokes! Sorry, Flubber.
00:01:49 We’re actually discussing Friday the 13th. Reuben details the plot. Spoilers! Obviously.
00:03:19 The unintended twist ending of Friday the 13th.
00:04:10 Patrick (hated it), Basil (liked it more than expected but still didn’t like it), Ilya (also liked it more than he thought he would), Reuben (didn’t love it)
00:09:13 Basil was surprised by how much he liked the look, especially second unit. There was a discreet sense of place. Empty and desolate.
00:09:51 Ilya notes that the movie includes things that most movies don’t. Patrick says it’s called “shoe leather”
00:10:55 Basil thinks there’s a lot of shots you wouldn’t get in a horror movie. Basil and Reuben both describe one.
00:12:10 Goofy guy or racist guy? Patrick doesn’t like the humor, was embarrassed by it.
00:13:50 The cop doesn’t like weird stuff, and Basil is reminded of the cop in Cabin Fever.
00:14:57 Patrick’s biggest problem: a lack of tension because he didn’t care about any of the characters, but Ilya felt involved without caring about the characters.
00:15:45 Basil appreciates that the characters care about each other unlike in a lot of slasher movies. The characters are pretty sex positive too. Strip monopoly!
00:17:23 One of Basil’s favorite parts is that you think Annie is gonna be the protagonist (she isn’t). No clear character that’s special over the others. Patrick still doesn’t care though. Patrick doesn’t enjoy watching people die, and they die in unsurprising ways.
00:19:27 Reuben reads a review from letterboxd.
00:21:20 Basil doesn’t know why he used to hate this movie.
00:21:50 Patrick thinks the ending is really dumb, and on that point, he and Basil agree.
00:23:04 The unrealism of killers in horror movies.
00:23:45 Mrs. Voorhees cast for her big hands? Man pants.
00:24:23 Ilya suggests the movie’s plot was made up on the fly. The non existence of Jason until the end also suggests this.
00:25:27 Or is this a weird call back to Psycho? Reverse Psycho ending! Ripping off Halloween as well.
00:27:39 What’s amusing about this movie isn’t intentionally amusing. Reuben doesn’t worry about intent though.
00:29:08 The acting’s not good, but it all seems to be on a similar wavelength, so it still works.
00:29:50 Patrick didn’t like the music either. Which sounded a lot like Psycho. Angelo Badalamenti ripped this off for Twin Peaks?
00:31:09 Ilya liked the lack of allegory. No creepy country people, no stupid teenagers, really.
00:31:42 People say this movie is anti-sex, but then you’re aligning yourself with the crazy killer woman.
00:31:58 Patrick doesn’t think it’s anti-sex or anti anything really. This is just a movie that panders to audiences in his opinion. Reuben doesn’t disagree, but it doesn’t bother him much.
00:33:50 Patrick didn’t like the rope scene, but Basil and Ilya did.
00:36:00 Ilya liked how things shifted and changed. The Kevin Bacon death was truly gruesome. The setup of the shot doesn’t hint at his end.
00:37:58 Basil also found the girl in the bathroom scene well lit because modern lighting and processing is so lazy.
00:38:40 Kevin Bacon is not special in anyway. Is this the followup to Footloose?
00:38:52 How did they get to Jason though?
00:40:35 Jason with a burlap sack over his head is a super creepy idea.
00:41:28 Gene Siskel intentionally spoiled the movie and said they should send complaints to Betsy Palmer.
00:42:48 Googling portion.
00:43:50 Horror sequels, not intentional back then
00:44:59 Reuben thinks we’re wrapping up, but we’re not.
00:45:20 The ending is deus ex machina for the villain.
00:46:20 What happened to Mr. Voorhees? We get deep into all the possibilities.
00:47:24 Decapitation is cray-ay-zee. Also, every 80s effect in one shot!
00:48:19 The snake scene was cool: over the top scared and then weirdly sad. Reuben is sad about the snake. But it plays into the themes maybe?
00:51:15 Reuben liked the characters’ unawareness of being in a horror movie. Every one continued in a normal way until the last couple people.
00:53:44 Aping Texas Chainsaw Murder too!
00:54:48 Nothing about crazy Southerners though. Ilya likes the lack of a “moral” in a way.
00:55:40 The stupid old people from the 50s did ruin our lives though.
00:56:02 Patrick and Basil had opposite feelings on Texas Chainsaw Massacre as well. Not fucked up enough?
00:57:12 We found one thing Patrick liked. We push back on Patrick for hating it even though no one loved it.
01:00:20 Reuben hates Halloween. Famously.
01:01:20 Start of a downward trend? But Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween that’s true for as well. John Carpenter was real good. And we like Dark Star.
01:03:15 We wonder if Charles Burnett was graded properly.
01:03:40 Dudes without shirts, we approve. Sleepaway Camp. Cabin Fever.
01:04:46 Ilya is up late.
01:06:30 Sign off

Loose Canons Ep. 32 The Blood Spattered Bride

Loose Canons Ep. 32 The Blood Spattered Bride

This time, we dust off those creepy old portraits with the faces cut out of them that have been hiding in our cellar and get out our snorkels.

00:00-01:15 Podcast is off to a great start!
01:15-02:00 It’s horror-theme month here at LC, once again
02:00-04:20 Brief Plot Recap: Patrick
04:20-12:00 Liked It (Everyone), Disliked it (Noone)
12:00-12:30 “He’s got a panty on his head!”
12:30-13:00 Creepy red finger jam gets Patrick into it
13:00-13:40 Opening shot freaked Basil out
13:40-14:30 Reuben thought the framing was unique (esp. in contrast to modern horror)
14:30-15:30 Hair pulling scene looked super painful
15:30-16:00 Pigeon scene also looked super uncomfortable
16:00-17:10 Real on-screen animal death reminiscent to Rules of the Game
17:10-18:10 How come the couple quasi surrendered in the end?
18:10-18:40 Patrick sees ending as reversal of family history (women as murderers, men as martyrs)
18:40-19:30 Reuben also sees reversal in media coverage (headlines for men vs. women)
19:30-20:10 Basil thinks it’s mind-blowing that this was made during Franco’s reign
20:10-21:00 Movie as fatalistic allegory on the futility of resistance against a fascist, patriarchal regime
21:00-22:00 Ilya sees ending as being unambiguously shot in a way that would make the husband look like a fascist murderer
22:00-22:40 Ever the prude psychopath, the husband has to close the coffin before he shoots the women inside
22:40-23:10 Lots of cool shots in this movie
23:10-23:50 Lots of good tag-teaming also!
23:50-26:00 The character who stubbornly insists creepy horror happenings are just a coincidence is an annoying horror-movie trope
26:00-27:30 Is Carmilla the ancestor? 
27:30-28:40 “Diabetes is the official disease of ‘no one tells me what to do!’”
28:40-30:00 More cool shots: Carmilla walks through the series of doorways, Susan wears the same dress
30:00-30:20 Vertigo-esque things
30:20-31:50 Women in this movie get to do fun and weird shit, while the men are boring spoilsports
31:50-32:30 Super-racist statue!
32:30-35:40 Discussion of the caretaker lady role
35:40-37:00 Honeymoon Hotel
37:00-38:00 Just your average, everyday choking
38:00-40:00 Not a lot of super gory parts in this movie compared to a lot of Euro-Horror
40:00-41:20 Husband kind of felt bad about breaking that door (not as much about assaulting his wife)
41:20-42:40 Basil thinks the movie is a series of ways men try to rationalize why women would possibly have anything against them
42:40-44:00 Shout-out to Billy and his favorites list!
44:00-44:30 Everyone laughs at image Reuben posted!
44:30-45:00 Shout-out to Talking ‘bout Practice!
45:00-46:00 Reuben usually hates psychiatry being depicted this way, but it made sense here
46:00-47:00 Vicente Aranda seems like one of the few Euro-Horror dudes who doesn’t hate women!
47:00-48:30 If you like us, give us 5 stars! (And if not, you’re CRAAAAAAAAAAZY!)
48:30-50:10 OUTTAKES: In which we make fun of 9/11 and Ilya eats chips!

Loose Canons Ep. 31 The Adventures of Prince Achmed

In this episode, we see what folks were cool with back in the 20s. 

Loose Canons Ep. 31 The Adventures of Prince Achmed

Loose Canons Ep. 30 The Garden of Words

In this episode, we try to figure out how robots learn to taste.

Loose Canons Ep. 30 The Garden of Words

Loose Canons Ep. 29 Black Book

This time we take a closer look at World War II and find sympathy for the Nazis. Well...one of them anyway.



Loose Canons Ep. 29 Black Book

Loose Canons Ep. 28 Come Drink With Me

This time we get drunk and bust out some kung fu. Michael, our resident Kung Fu Master, fills in for Patrick.

Loose Canons Ep. 28 Come Drink With Me

Loose Canons Ep. 27 Nostalgia Films

This time we take a trip down memory lane to find out if we were complete idiots when we were younger.


Loose Canons Ep. 27 Nostalgia Films

Loose Canons Ep. 26 Beau Travail

This time we do some good work, or make a good catch, or a nice find, or whatever beau travail is supposed to mean. Also, Marcia joins us to play games!

Loose Canons Ep. 26 Beau Travail

00:00-01:05 Marcia joins the Podcast! (Ilya is away)
01:05-09:10 Let’s Play a Game!
09:10-11:30 Brief Plot Recap: Reuben (who used to hate this movie)
11:30-19:30 Loved It (Reuben), Liked It (Marcia, Patrick liked it OK), On The Fence (Basil)
19:30-22:00 Reuben thinks this movie is funnier/more playful than he initially gave it credit for
22:10-22:40 The perfect crease
22:40-23:20 Weird army exercises
23:20-24:00 The women are the Greek chorus of the movie
24:00-25:50 Colonialism & Branding
25:50-26:30 Marcia thinks the movie is less postcolonial as much as it is about new colonial powers
26:30-27:30 The Sexyfication of Sentain
27:30-29:05 Laura Mulvey and the meaning of looking
29:05-30:30 Galoup’s body issues as satire of Leni Riefenstahl’s obsessive bod worship
30:30-32:00 Galoup – He’s The Greatest Dancer
32:00-32:45 Patrick likes that kiss-kiss pop song in the beginning
32:45-33:30 Basil likes the women staring back in the African Disco
33:30-34:30 Galoup’s heaven is a Discotheque (with him in it)
34:30-36:00 Is there even any good work left in the world?
36:00-37:45 More weird Army exercises
37:45-38:30 Galoup and Sentain get really close to kissing
38:30-41:15 Patrick doesn’t get the Galoup/Sentain jealousy
41:15-42:00 Computer proooooooooblems!
42:00-42:45 Marcia read a hilarious gay panic-filled synopsis of this movie
42:45-43:20 GOOGLING PORTION!
43:20-44:30 Looking at pictures of the French Foreign Legion
44:30-44:45 Join the French Legion and get hugged!
44:45-45:40 Reuben likes that this is a poetic movie that also makes fun of itself
45:40-46:20 Basil feels like that church digging scene was from another (worse) movie
46:20-46:50 Instead of slow motion people just move really slowly
46:50-48:35 Loose scripting and amateur acting
48:35-49:30 Finally a movie that acknowledges Denis Levant is weird-looking
49:30-50:20 Reuben thinks he looks weird in a good way
50:20-51:10 Patrick talks about Rooney and Kate Mara for a bit
51:10-52:00 Betsy hates Denis Levant’s face
52:00-53:20 Reuben saw a movie where Sentain looks like a child
53:20-54:00 How about them salt fields!
54:00-55:00 Basil had a lot of salt in his movie diet that day
55:00-55:50 Reuben likes a lot of shots in this movie
55:50-57:40 Basil hates the digital look (and hates that he notices that)
57:40-58:20 Car problems in Beau Travail
58:20-01:00:10 Reuben wants to check other Denis films for funny parts
01:00:10-01:01:10 I Can’t Sleep and Vendredi Soir
01:01:10-01:02:40 Inversions in Beau Travail (Military life as regular life, sexual repression causes perversion)
01:02:40-01:04:30 JBaum on Beau Travail (as usual, his review ends when it gets really interesting)
01:04:30-01:12:00 Let’s Play a Game again!
01:12:00-01:12:47 Thanks, Marcia! Thanks for listening everybody!

Loose Canons Ep. 25 The Wind Rises

This time we risk life and limb for a podcast no one listens to.

Loose Canons Ep. 25 The Wind Rises

00:00-02:00 The podcast gets really weird really quick
02:00-03:15 Brief Plot Recap: Patrick
03:15-07:30 Liked It (Everyone, Ilya not very much), Disliked It (Nobody!)
07:30-09:00 Basil imitates the movie’s sweet lofi sound design
09:00-11:40 Does the movie lionize or critique Jiro?
11:40-13:45 Reuben doesn’t think it does either
13:45-14:30 "Would you rather live in a world with or without the Pyramids?"
14:30-15:20 Patrick thinks the movie was critical of Jiro
15:20-16:30 Ilya thinks Naoko is instrumentalized as a muse character
16:30-18:55 Basil thinks Miyazaki is ambivalent about the planes and their constructors
18:55-20:30 They’re gonna put guns on it, Jiro
20:30-23:20 Jiro is straightforward & heroic but doesn’t know how to live
23:20-24:40 Everyone in the movie except for his sister enables Jiro
24:40-24:50 God, let Patrick talk!
24:50-26:30 Miyazaki uses Jiro to take stock of his own filmmaking process
26:30-27:30 Jiro’s a dreamer (he’s the only one)
27:30-28:40 Ilya likes the super weird coughing on the soundtrack
28:40-30:00 The sound design and dialogue remind Ilya of Lynch sans irony
30:00-31:00 Miyazaki is just doing his thing at this point
31:00-32:10 Basil likes that the movie doesn’t divide itself into “for adults” and “for kids” parts
32:10-33:30 Contrast/similarity to Spirited Away
33:30-34:10 There’s an ad on the podcast!
34:10-35:30 There’s no talking in the first five minutes of the movie (followed by lots of talking)
35:30-36:50 Jiro’s voice-actor is as restrained as his character’s range of emotion
36:50-37:10 It’s Basil’s birthday!
37:10-39:15 Patrick likes how Jiro’s myopia mirrors his emotional condition
39:15-41:00 Paper plane chase turns into near-death experience
41:00-41:30 Life is pretty miserable isn’t it? Yes, it is.
41:30-43:30 Critique of Japanese valorization of work and big stuff that kicks ass! 
43:30-44:30 Ilya thinks it’s weird that the movie doesn’t show civilian/non-Japanese cost of war
44:30-45:30 Basil thinks awfulness of World War 2 can be inferred
45:30-46:30 Reuben likes the sympathetic portrait and Japanese perspective on WW2
46:30-47:00 Also, Reuben thought Ilya disagreed that Basil liked Dinosaurs as a kid
47:00-48:00 Sentimentalization of Axis powers’ past still gross
48:00-50:20 Brief scene in Germany is evocative of Nazi regime/Jiro’s cluelessness about it
50:20-52:00 Basil thinks not seeing the Axis powers as monsters helps people be more aware of/non-participatory in their ideology
52:00-52:50 Hans Castorp is a stand-in for the Weimar émigré of the late 1930s
52:50-56:10 His invisibility to the characters mirrors the obliviousness of the time
56:10-57:25 Song sounds like it’s from Noriko’s Dinner Table
57:25-58:00 GOOGLING SECTION OF THE PODCAST BEGINS HERE!
58:00-59:00 Reuben loves the shot of Nayoko in her wedding dress
59:00-01:00:10 Felliniesque planes
01:00:10-01:01:00 Ilya brings up The Aviator and we discuss Scorsese
01:01:00-01:02:00 De Niro banging his head against the wall in Raging Bull should be a 10-hour Youtube loop
01:02:00-01:03:00 Caproni’s massive plane looks like Howard Hughes’ Hercules
01:03:00-01:04:30 Caproni throwing film into the water is reminiscent of the failures you don’t get to see when watching movies as well as with historiography
01:04:30-01:06:00 Miyazaki’s “every artist gets ten years to do great work” is probably tongue-in-cheek
01:06:00-01:06:30 This movie is much better than Ponyo & Howl’s Moving Castle
01:06:30-01:07:40 Let’s speculate on Studio Ghibli projects!
01:07:40-01:10:00 “From the Studio that brought you…” & other hilarious marketing strategies!
01:10:00-01:10:45 This movie is much, much better than The Aviator
01:10:45-01:12:30 “World War 2 was my favorite war!” – Stephen Spielberg (according to JBaum, via Joe Dante)
01:12:30-01:14:00 Patrick compares Miyazaki’s popularity in Japan to Spielberg in US
01:14:00-01:17:20 Ozu/Mizoguchi/ Kurosawa/Miyazaki/Oshima – Who’s Big In Japan?
01:17:20-01:17:40 Who is even listening anymore?
01:17:40-01:18:15We don’t even have enough ratings on ITunes
01:18:15-01:18:30 Dogs love podcasts!
01:18:30-01:19:30 Miyazaki loves Ozu and Spielberg loves Ran
01:19:30-01:20:30 Basil is now hooked on Russian/Former Soviet Republic movies!
01:20:30-01:21:40 Underworld is the Night Watch of American Cinema
01:21:40-01:22:50 Reuben once ran (surprisingly!) fast to watch Underworld!
01:22:50-01:23:45 Go listen to other podcasts!
01:23:45-01:24:00 TEASER: next time there will be games!
01:24:00-01:24:15 Thanks for listening everybody!