The Bitter Kitten Movie Club: "To Die For' (1995)

Tom & Lorenzo’s Pop Style Opinionfest

Tom Lorenzo

Entertainment News, Fashion & Beauty, Arts, Tv & Film, News

4.5 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week's BKMC takes a look at director Gus Van Sant's black comedy "To Die For," starring Nicole Kidman. Tom and Lorenzo unpack how the film sits perfectly in a 1990s cultural continuum that includes everything from the Menendez brothers to Cher Horowitz as well as all the ways it eerily predicted the cultural shifts of the internet and social media.

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0:00.0	We're Tomiler Lorette.
0:11.0	And this is the Bitterkate. We're Tommy Lorenzo.
0:23.7	And this is the Bitter Kitten movie club.
0:25.8	Hello Kittens.
0:26.2	Welcome back to another edition of the PKMC, a supplemental edition of the PSO, where we take a look at one film per week and dissect it.
0:34.0	And Lorenzo is laughing his ass off.
0:38.3	But we're not cutting.
0:40.3	It takes like five times.
0:42.3	This is like the fifth time I've had to.
0:44.3	Actually, it's literally only the second time.
0:47.3	Anyway.
0:48.3	Are we done?
0:49.3	Feel better?
0:50.3	Okay.
0:51.3	Nothing but a lamp riot here at the BKMT. It's a lot of BTA and PCO.
0:56.7	That's why.
0:57.3	Anyway.
0:58.2	You don't have to say.
0:59.7	So this week's film is 1995's To Die for by director Gus Van Sant,
1:06.2	starring Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Wachene Phoenix, and a bunch of other 90s faces.
1:13.6	Ileana Douglas.
1:15.6	I was a name, Fallin, or something like that.
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