Flicking #57: The Substance (2024)

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Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Coralie Fargeat’s gonzo body horror comedy The Substance just bagged Demi Moore a Golden Globe and started a lot of conversations when it hit cinemas last year. Conversations in which the word “feminist” came up a lot. And so, for the first Flicking of 2025, Mick, Hannah and Yosra hold onto their boob vomit to talk ageing, bodies, ageing bodies, the relationship between younger and older self, and how they may never get over Dennis Quaid eating shrimp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.6	There were three ordinary women on what seemed like a simple mission to find a film they liked.
0:38.3	One where women got something to do and not just look pretty or be murdered,
0:43.3	which, to be totally honest, has complicated matters a bit.
0:48.3	Welcome to Flicking. Yes, it sounds a bit rude. That's the joke.
1:03.4	Welcome to What the Fuck Did We Just Watch, which, if this first flicking of 2025 is anything to go by, is a fitting new title.
1:10.3	I'm Mickey Noonan, holding on to my ears and teeth as I introduced the marvellous boob vomit that is Hannah Delevy.
1:11.1	Hannah, hello.
1:13.4	Wow, I was not expecting that.
1:14.9	No one was expecting that.
1:18.9	And delightful bloody face squid, Josra Osmond.
1:19.8	Yosra, hello.
1:21.5	Never had a better intro.
1:22.0	Hello.
1:23.3	You're very well. This month, we watched one of 2024's most Talked About Films, The Substance, a gonzo
1:30.4	body horror comedy starring Demi Moore, Margaret Quarley and a whole lot of pus. It's also a
1:37.1	contender for most Marmite film of 2024. It both received a standing ovation at its can
1:42.8	premiere in May last year and had people leave the theatre halfway through.
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