The Goods: A Bucket of Blood (1959) – The mad sculptor

Brian shares with Dan a poorly-titled, personally-resonant Roger Corman deep cut telling a story of death turned to art. Join as Brian shares his connections to the story and Dan recites some updated Beatnik literature. Dan and Brian ponder the film’s dark meditations on art and creativity, Leonard’s amusing complicity, and parallels of 2010’s hipsters…

The Goods: Parasite (2019) vs. It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947) – Sometimes it’s caroling, sometimes it’s beskewerment

In our first entry in a hopefully-recurring, compare-and-contrast feature called “Violent Ends,” Dan and Brian break down two films about secretly squatting in billionaire’s mansions. Human shish-kabobing in one film, Christmas carols in the other. Music credits: RetroFuture Clean by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4277-retrofuture-cleanLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The Goods: Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) – Mi amigos de fuckwithery

Brian and Dan take a close look at Richard Linklater’s start-of-college party flick, Everybody Wants Some!! Join them as they ponder Linklater’s hang-out vibe, soak in the 80’s details, and admire Blake Jenner’s nipples. Music credits: RetroFuture Clean by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4277-retrofuture-cleanLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/