Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks - Freaks (Episode 39)
In the thirty-ninth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by screenwriter Katy Baldwin and editor Kristi Shimek to discuss the original cult sensation that centers around the quotidian normalcy and fulfilling community of circus performers that is interrupted by self-doubt, exploitation, and betrayal resulting in a swift and demented form of justice in Tod Browning's sensational horror melodrama Freaks (1932).
21/5/2025
2:13:08
Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks - Kids (Episode 38)
In the thirty-eighth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with screenwriter August Gummere to discuss one of the most provocative mosaics of youthful despair and apathy in Larry Clarke's gritty and authentic assessment of a pre-Giuliani New York skating subgroup as they navigate poverty, societal neglect, the AIDs epidemic, and their own worst impulses in Kids (1995).
16/5/2025
2:10:52
Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks - Schizopolis (Episode 37)
In the thirty-seventh episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with cinematographer Ezra Balcha to discuss the surrealist satire on the falsity of the American Dream, the soullessness of corporate cubicle life, and the deconstruction of language in Steven Soderbergh's anarchic and creatively revitalizing Schizopolis (1996).
14/5/2025
2:08:45
Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks - Sorcerer (Episode 36)
In the thity-sixth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by filmmakers Daniel Lopez and Mario Ruiz to discuss the madcap ambition and delirious purgatory of William Friedkin's technically stunning and thematically dense adaptation of Georges Arnaud's The Wages of Fear that becomes a bleak assessment of fate, world politics, and desperate circumstances in Sorcerer (1977).
09/5/2025
2:21:47
Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks - Crash (Episode 35)
In the thirty-fifth episode of Season 11: The Son of Cult Flicks, Kyle is joined by novelist Samuel Cullado and film critic Tyler Harlow to discuss the clinical scalpel of David Cronenberg's personalized adaptation of J.G. Ballard's novel depicting a new flesh of metal, wire, and collision that was trying to assess our natural dehumanization in conjunction with technological advancement in Crash (1996).
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