it’s been bout a year since the very first Brunswick Underground Film Festival (@brunswickunderground), and the sequel promises to be bigger, better n BUFFER… our pal + head of programming Kai Perrignon (@meanwhile_im_dying) comes by before tonight’s opening night screening of THE DEVILS - to talk about the best of the fest. a mind-blowin selection of local shorts!! coming of age and 100% PURE RAGE! Stooges! Angelina Nikonova’s incandescent 2011 gem TWILIGHT PORTRAIT ! You’ve still got plenty o time to book tickets, for any of the 69+ movies screening this weekend in Brunswick, Melbourne. OR ! check out fabulous FREE BUFF events at Balam Balam Place, like screenings + live talks (Eliza’s on the film criticism panel !)

CONTENT WARNING: Sexual Assault

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• BUFF: Brunswick Underground Film Festival - Website
• BUFF: Twilight Portrait - Ticket Link
• BUFF: In The Land Of Fish and Honey - Ticket Link

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NEXT EPISODE = Midnight Marathon: I, FRANKENSTEIN x FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND // The Modern Prometheus Part 3

oops, too many frankensteins!! noah and eliza are the modern podmetheus in this electrifying midnight marathon, taking a look at just six of the HUNDREDS of film adaptations of mary shelley’s 1818 novel.

Guillermo del Toro’s lavish, fussy FRANKENSTEIN and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s quirked up THE BRIDE! remix were both released over the last 6 months or so. the monster is still alive in the (bolt-studded) brains of filmmakers and audiences 200 years on from its unholy invention

The gang get to monster MASHIN in this introductory marathon chapter, sewing together the rotten parts of 2 highly personal and flawed adaptations… did GDT just get around to making his shelley movie way too late ? what is a brain attack?

come up to da lab and see what’s on the slab - four frankensteins to go!!

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NEXT EPISODE = Midnight Marathon: THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN x FRANKENHOOKER // The Modern Prometheus Part 2

it’s a film nerd coming-of-RAGE - and dear friends of the pod Parker and Flynn are here ta dish the dirt !!

Pls welcome back the Underground Film Collective (Parker Constantine and Flynn Boffo), who have travelled ALL the way from Sydney to creep inside the studio and talk THE DIRTIES - Canadian indie maverick Matt Johnson’s directorial debut.

Balancing big edgelord laughs and profound empathy for its characters, this (very) dark comedy sees Johnson and Owen Williams playing bullied teens whose fantasies of revenge spiral into sinister action.

If (like us) u just got into NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE ETC, or loved Johnson’s BLACKBERRY and OPERATION AVALANCHE, this emo cinephile high school diary will rattle n impress you. AND it’s just been released in a nifty Umbrella box-set with brilliant essays from Flynn and dear pod pal Ivana Brehas!!!

We r all mad about Matt and keen to break down those tantalising, sometimes wafer-thin barriers the filmmaker sets between his IRL self and his striving film bro characters. listen up to hear us tryin to keep up with the Johnson(s)!!!

CONTENT WARNING: School shooting

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• The Dirties Blu-Ray Collector's Edition from Umbrella

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NEXT EPISODE = Midnight Marathon: FRANKENSTEIN (2025) x THE BRIDE! // The Modern Prometheus

Most of us grow up n get boring n stop playing with dolls…but not Russ Meyer.

A supreme leader in sexploitation, the director of 1965’s FASTER PUSSYCAT! KILL KILL!, 1970’S BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, and 1975’S SUPERVIXENS gets a mini-marathon of sorts in this boobalicious episode.

In the first episode of season three, Noah and Eliza watched the three mentioned cult films and dig into the ever-complex line between empowerment and exploitation, all in celebration of their short I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S NOT THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS! dropping online. (Russ would’ve rlly dug our indulgent use of an exclamation point in the title imo)

Between scorching one liners, outrageous performances and one notably disturbing murder scene, the trio of films shows off Meyer at his breast and worst (uuugggggh)

CONTENT WARNING: Sexual Assault

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• Watch our Super 16mm baby I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT VALLEY OF THE DOLLS! now on YouTube or Vimeo

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NEXT EPISODE = How do you solve a problem like Carrie The Musical?

Prepare ur brain n body for RISKY QUIZNESS: it’s exactly like the Tom Cruise movie Risky Business but w way more mentions of The Electric State (2025, dir. Joe and Anthony Russo)

Noah’s the quizmaster this year, torturing Team Anthony and Eliza by asking the who’s, what’s, how’s and WHY’s of cinema in 2025. After a disastrous attempt at guessing movies from their film festival standing ovations, can the good guys crawl their way to victory with a moving original song composed live for Wicked: For Good?

Play along and let us know what you scored. Who knows: you might be a Very Smart Guy when it comes to screen stuff from last year.

This will be our last episode until the start of February: see ya in a few weeks friends!!

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Welcome to the new year mama…2006 is going to b crazyyyy I can’t wait to see uhhh The Benchwarmers this year!!

Ha Ha No, we’re only goofin - it’s 2026, which means Noah + Eliza are already a tad late to list out their top 10 movies of 2025. Screw awards season this is the only awards ceremony u gotta worry your pretty lil head about.

Follow along as we climb from honourable mentions to our absolute faves of the year gone by. And! Let us know what modern classics we might’ve missed - which movie defined 2025 for u??

Much much love to friends of the pod Hersh, Ivana, Tyler, Buster, Darcey, Karis and Meg for their audio contributions offering up some other great stuff to watch from 2025.

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NEXT EPISODE = RISKY QUIZ-NESS: Noah's 2025 Movie Quiz

a brand new format on the pod ?? dedicated to hasty film-to-book adaptations, ie artless exercises in turning the written word into studio merch?? why, what a NOVEL concept !!

yea that’s right, we can and DO read books - and this nutty, troubling novelisation of the classic Christmas comedy-horror Gremlins is a great place to start.

Noah and Eliza both read George Gipe’s tie-in novel and are horrified to realise the thus-far-untold depths of Mogwai suffering. Are all movie novelisations like this, and why are they like this, and can we find one that stands on its own merits as a work of literary fiction?

Let us know if you’ve read one and we’ll give it a try. as long as there’s a few pages of sick movie stills in the middle.

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NEXT EPISODE = Now Screaming: Runnin' with THE RUNNING MAN and Walkin' with THE LONG WALK

You might not know songwriter Diane Warren, but u for sure know her songs - 'Don't Wanna Miss a Thing'! 'If I Could Turn Back Time'! etc etc ! And you might also know her as the most Oscar-nominated woman in history without a win.

Memed for her schmaltzy one-size-fits-all romantic ballads and perceived desperation to win a stupid lil statue, Diane is actually a goddamn legend and this episode is a deep dive into why.

How much does asexuality and autism influence her insanely prolific discography? What Best Original Song Oscar did she TOTAlly deserve to win ? All this stuff n much more, as we randomly spotlight a showbiz striver who should really get her flowers at this point.

SHOW NOTES:

Interview w Diane in The Guardian

Mariah Carey shoving Diane (not Ghislaine Maxwell) out of the way

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NEXT EPISODE = Read It ‘N WEEP: GREMLINS