Hello, Next Picture Show listeners. Tasha, Genevievee, Scott, and I have been working together for many years now and working on this podcast together since 2015. The Next Picture Show has mostly been a passion project for us, but we've recently started a Patreon to support it. Here's where you come in. As a supporter at the $3 a month level, you'll get a weekly newsletter with podcast updates and links to our written work and other film writing we've admired from the week,'m usually a little essay for me. At the $5 month level, you'll have access to bonus audio segments where we argue about films that didn't make the main podcast. And whatever else we feel will spark a good discussion. We're even delving into gasp television. We've had recent audio discussions about Spider-Man far from home and Netflix's

Stranger Things, and we have some more on the way, including conversations about Ariasters

horror movie, Human Summer, and the new Fast and Furious movie Hobbs and Shaw. To describe

to our Patreon, please visit patreon.com slash next picture show. And currently, you could be the

person that puts us over the top for our first method goal, and wouldn't that feel good?

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film

and how it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Tasha Robinson, here with...

Keith Phipps, Scott Tobias.

Genevieve Kosky is not a name we speak any longer around here now that she's joined the collective, but if her current mission goes very poorly, her name will be restored, and visitation will be every alternate Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. in the hastily dug garden outback. Every week we get together to talk over a classic film and consider how it relates to a current movie. This week, we're manning up, and we're considering what manning up means.

Mostly it seems to mean hitting things, or maybe kicking things, but with the power of punches.

Are we even allowed to talk about this?

Wait, what? Well, the first rule of fight club is you don't talk about fight club. So how are we going to manage an entire podcast where the point is us talking about fight club?

We're going to bypass talking about fight club and we're just going to live it. So I'm calling this movie fight club.

We're going to throw down in a vicious critical battle that makes us feel alive and like we're

part of something larger than ourselves. That sounds dangerous and unpleasant. Too bad. It's

your first time at movie fight club. You have to fight. Scott Pilgrim versus of the World was a terrific hilarious movie that you underrated because you didn't fully take in the meta commentary. Well, fine. Defending your life is a brilliant modern comedy classic and you have no appreciation for the dry, self-deprecating wit of Albert Brooks. Tropical Malady is an insanely boring film. Outrageous. MASH is a lively, harmless comedy, and you can't see the humor because you're hung up on how misogynous it is.

Oh, okay.

Audition is an exercise in empty sadism and grotesquely graphic violence with nothing to say about either the role of women in the modern world or the experience of urban anime and repression.

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