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Irony, Sincerity, Hilarity, Clarity
Does a comedy owe its audience even an ounce of heartfelt sincerity, or is it enough to just tell jokes? Is ironic detachment an open excuse for artistic laziness, or can it be a useful tool that cuts deeper than straightforward sentimentality when wielded with intent? I recently took in a double feature of new-release comedies that challenged my relationship with ironic, bad-on-purpose humor,…
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Conan the Sequelian
It would be ridiculous to claim that the sword & sandal genre is having “a moment” in Hollywood right now, given that two isolated examples do not equal a trend, and the two examples in question—Christopher Nolan’s epic Odyssey adaptation and Mattel’s failed He-Man reboot—are more of a “hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby” situation than they are brothers in arms. Regardless, spending so much time…
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War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 (1967)
War and Peace: Part III: The Year 1812 opens with the same shot which ended Part II: Natasha Rostova, as Napoleon’s army of thousands enters the Russian theater of war. We then return to Russian high society, where the final lines of the previous film, regarding war as an event “beyond human nature, and human reason” are repeated over the image of another gala, but this one is quickly interrupted…
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Podcast #269: Sweet Charity (1969) & Bob Fosse
Welcome to Episode #268 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss the cinematic career of stage choreographer Bob Fosse, starting with his 1969 movie musical debut Sweet Charity. 00:00 Welcome01:50 Agon (2026)08:18 Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (2026)18:05 Criminal Lovers (1999)24:25 Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026)27:20 Maddie’s Secret…
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Au Revoir, Godzilla, Mon Amour
It’s been three years since Criterion’s towering box set of Shōwa era Godzilla films arrived on my doorstep, and I’ve been madly in love ever since. Anytime I’m unsure what movie to watch, I’ll toss on a Godzilla disc to pass the time, the same way an old Beatles record is always there for me whenever I’m indecisive on what to listen to. It’s been lovely, but all affairs eventually run their…
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War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova (1965)
The second part of Sergei Bondarchuk’s four-part adaptation of War and Peace contrasts and serves as companion to the previous film, which focused primarily on the “war” of the title, while Part II: Natasha Rostova, instead gives us a portrait of “peace,” as much as such a thing can exist in the heartland when war is at the borders. Natasha Rostova (Ludmila Savelyeva) played a fairly minor role…
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War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1965)
How do you adapt a novel like Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, a tome so notoriously lengthy (587,287 words) that, for over a century, merely having read it was considered a badge of honor, a sign of elite literary prowess? If you’re Paramount Pictures in the 1950s, you cast Audrey Hepburn as the teenaged ingenue Natasha Rostova opposite fifty-year-old Henry Fonda and forty-year-old Mel Ferrer, and…
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Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America (2003)
One of the buzzier cultural events on the cinematic calendar in recent years has been the annual celebration of Bleak Week, a repertory block designed to celebrate the “cinema of despair.” What started as a cheeky attempt to create a Shark Week style marathon for arthouse cinema’s most notoriously dour, punishing missives in the cultural hubs of Los Angeles & New York City has since escalated to…
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The Invite (2026)
After the much derided (but enjoyed by me) Don’t Worry Darling, Olivia Wilde was put in director jail for a while, only returning this year with the premier of The Invite, a comedy starring Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz, and Edward Norton. Wilde and Rogan portray Angela and Joe, a couple whose married life is circling the drain, with Norton and Cruz as their upstairs neighbors Hawk and Pína.…
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Lagniappe Podcast: BLKNWS - Terms & Conditions (2026)
For this lagniappe episode of The Swampflix Podcast, Boomer & Brandon discuss the encyclopedic Black culture mixtape BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (2026). 00:00 Welcome02:35 Supergirl (2026)14:14 Roommates (1982)18:45 Touch Me (2026)33:05 BloodSisters (1995)37:12 War and Peace (1965-1967)1:02:22 Shōwa era Godzilla (1954–1975)1:11:33 Vortex (2022)1:21:51 Family Portraits – A Trilogy of America…
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The Prince of Pictures
Prince was a lot of things: a genius, a control freak, a madman, a pervert, an enigmatic visionary. Based on those descriptors, you might assume he was also a great filmmaker, but it’s difficult to make a convincing case. Having already mastered the medium of pop music by the mid 1980s (an indisputable fact by the time he produced the album 1999), Prince was determined to get into pictures,…
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Deeper Inside Annie Sprinkle
There’s a new HBO documentary out called Bang My Box that profiles the life and art of late-night TV host Robyn Byrd, who first became famous for hosting a pornographic call-in show on NYC public access channels in the mid 1970s. Byrd’s career spanned multiple decades of bright-eyed & bubbly political provocation, as she used her TV broadcast platform to advocate for free speech, safe sex, gay…
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Pornography Trichotomy
Anytime the cult media distributor Vinegar Syndrome advertises an online sale, I immediately start perusing the offerings on their sister site Méluisne, where they’re also selling discounted Blu-rays of vintage pornography. Since most streaming services won’t touch hardcore titles of any quality, the only legal way to access most Golden Age pornos is to collect them on physical media, which makes…
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The Doll (Vaxdockan, 1962)
Stop me if you think that you’ve heard this one before: A lanky loner who works late nights and has uneasy relationships with women lives alone in an upstairs attic with an empty rocking chair, muttering increasingly disconcerting, violent things to an imagined woman who isn’t really there. Psycho was on my mind during the entire runtime of Arne Mattsson’s The Doll, which was produced in Sweden…
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Night Nurse (2026)
Usually, when a movie is described as “Cronenbergian,” that genre descriptor is meant as a synonym for “body horror,” focusing solely on the mutational gore effects of Cronenberg’s early calling-card works like Videodrome or The Fly. Georgia Bernstein’s debut feature Night Nurse is Cronenbergian in a different way; it’s Cronenbergian in the way that it imagines a world where any interaction can…
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Touch Me (2026)
Touch Me had its Shudder premiere this week, and I went into it completely blind, which I recommend for anyone who is interested. The film is a color-soaked fever dream of a movie, an erotic thriller wrapped in a science fiction plot that doesn’t shy away from turning a titillating moment into one of pure body horror, then following that up with a joke that underlines the tone without…
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Podcast #268: Jackass - Best and Last (2026) & New Releases
Welcome to Episode #268 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of new releases from the first half of 2026, starting with the gross-out clip show Jackass: Best and Last. 00:00 Welcome01:30 Sleepaway Camp (1983)09:47 Annie Sprinkle16:00 Disney animation25:36 Undertone (2026)27:47 How to Make a Killing (2026)29:44 Straight to Hell…
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