December 31, 2025

Episode 780: The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023)

Episode 780: The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023) Guest Co-Hosts: Keith Gordon, Lisa Vandever

Writer, director, and star Joanna Arnow delivers one of the sharpest, most quietly uncomfortable comedies of recent years with The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023), a film that weaponizes awkwardness, deadpan humor, and emotional stasis. Arnow plays Ann, a thirty-three-year-old woman drifting through New York City, desperate for connection but seemingly incapable of advocating for herself. She works a job that barely registers as meaningful, endures social interactions that feel transactional at best, and navigates a BDSM relationship that has quietly slipped from consensual ritual into something emotionally hollow.

Lisa Vandever and Keith Gordon join Mike to unpack Arnow’s deceptively modest narrative and the precision with which it captures a very modern kind of paralysis.

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"Solidarity Forever" - Burl Ives

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December 26, 2025

Episode 779: Megalopolis (2024)

Episode 779: Megalopolis (2024) Guest Co-Hosts: Mike Thompson, Rob St. Mary

Mike Thompson and Rob St. Mary join Mike to step into the rubble, rhetoric, and Roman cosplay of Megalopolis (2024), Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed, forty-years-in-the-making cinematic fever dream. A film obsessed with power, legacy, architecture, and Great Men Thinking Great Thoughts, Megalopolis feels less like a movie than a manifesto—one that demands to be taken seriously while daring you to laugh at it. Cesar Catalina, the troubled genius nobody appreciates (write what you know, Francis), strides through a New Rome built on vibes, speeches, and a miracle substance called Megalon.

The episode also explores Megadoc, Mike Figgis’s fly-on-the-wall documentary which attempts to chronicle the chaos, conviction, and sheer force of will behind Coppola’s production. Seen together, the film and the documentary form a portrait of an artist betting everything—money, reputation, legacy—on a single idea. Love it, hate it, or remain profoundly confused by it, Megalopolis refuses to be ignored. And once it gets into your head, it doesn’t leave.

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"Megalopolis" - U.K. Subs

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December 24, 2025

Episode 778: The Book of Revelation (2006)

Episode 778: The Book of Revelation (2006) Special Guest: Ana Kokkinos
Guest Co-Hosts: Spencer Parsons, Rob St. Mary

Spencer Parsons and Rob St. Mary join Mike to unpack Ana Kokkinos’s unflinching 2006 adaptation of ’s novel, The Book of Revelation, a film that refuses easy provocation, using intimacy, trauma, and performance as tools for something far more unsettling.

The story follows Daniel (Tom Long), a dancer who vanishes during a mundane errand for his girlfriend Bridget (Anna Torv). What initially plays as a mystery gradually reveals itself as a confrontation with sexual violence, shame, and the long aftermath of violation—rendered without sensationalism and without moral shortcuts.

Mike also sits down with director Ana Kokkinos to discuss the making of the film, her approach to depicting male sexual assault, and her insistence on pushing past eroticism toward emotional truth. The conversation explores how The Book of Revelation challenges audience expectations, destabilizes gendered narratives of victimhood, and stands as one of the most difficult--and necessary--Australian films of its era.

This episode wrestles with discomfort, representation, and empathy, asking what it really means when cinema turns its gaze on trauma.

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Music:
"The Secret Garden" - Vassilis Tsabropoulos
"Abbaon Fat Tracks" - Tricky

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Special Report: Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)

Special Report: Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) Guest Co-Hosts: Chis Stachiw, Mark Begley

If you're not listening to the Chasing Chevy Chase podcast, here's an episode to whet your appetite... 

Chevy Chase takes an unexpected turn into sci-fi thriller territory with Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992). Directed by John Carpenter and adapted from 's novel, the film follows Nick Halloway (Chase), who becomes invisible after a freak laboratory accident. As he grapples with the perks and pitfalls of invisibility, he also tries to evade ruthless CIA operative David Jenkins (Sam Neill) and connect with Alice Monroe (Daryl Hannah). 

It’s an ambitious mash-up of comedy, romance, and paranoia that didn’t quite land with audiences or critics at the time but remains one of the oddest entries in Chase’s career. Mike, Mark, and Chris break down the film’s tonal shifts, behind-the-scenes clashes, and its place in both Chase’s and Carpenter’s filmographies.

Visit http://www.chasingchevypodcast.com for more... 

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"I Am Invisible" - They Might Be Giants

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December 22, 2025

2025 Year End Wrap Up

2025 Year End Wrap Up I never like to talk about the most- and least-downloaded episodes of the year until the next one but that's not how these year-end lists work. I want to emphasize how much I think folks should check out the movies and episodes in the least-downloaded list as there are some great films there.

Least-Downloaded 2025 Episodes

  1. Episode 763: Romance for Bugle (1967)
  2. Episode 764: Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
  3. Episode 771: The Killer (1989) - Redux
  4. Episode 732: Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)
  5. Episode 774: Cop (1988)
  6. Episode 766: In My Skin (2002)
  7. Episode 749: O Pagador de Promessas (1962)
  8. Episode 773: Black Gravel (1961)
  9. Episode 762: Lemonade Joe (1964)
  10. Episode 772: V.I. Warshawski (1991)

Most-Downloaded 2025 Episodes

  1. Episode 755: Return of the Jedi (1983)
  2. Episode 736: Casablanca (1942)
  3. Episode 725: All the President's Men (1976)
  4. Episode 727: Being There (1979)
  5. Episode 739: La Haine (1995)
  6. Episode 740: Airplane II - The Sequel
  7. Episode 737: Dumb and Dumber (1994)
  8. Episode 724: 24 Hour Party People (2002)
  9. Episode 752: Metropolis (1927)
  10. Episode 753: Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

Music Mix Track Listing:

TitleArtistEpisode
A Little Drop of PoisonTom WaitsPoison
24 Hour Party PeopleHappy Mondays24 Hou Party People
Watching the DetectivesElvis CostelloVI Warshawski
There She GoesThe La'sSo I Married an Axe Murderer
Ingrid BergmanBilly BraggCsablanca
No Birds do SingPublic Image LimitedThe Langoliers
CenturionSammy BurdsonThe Image (Metzger)
Story of ODaddyCoolThe Story of O
MetropolisKraftwerkMetropolis
Plus putes que toutes les putesOrtiesRaw
Assassin De La Police Vs. Edith PiafCut Killer RemixLa Haine
Dans La PeauMarie CarmenIn My Skin
Metti Una Sera A CenaMafalda MinnozziLove Circle
CandombléMariana AydarO Pagador de Promessas
Shock MeOriginal SoundtrackBlood and Diamonds
Limonádový JoeÚvodní titulky k americké verziLemonade Joe
MoveLarry MarksMove
Abbaon Fat TracksTrickyThe Book of Revelation (2006)
Man For All SeasonsThe Bee GeesMan for All Seasons
Drunk For LifeSally YehThe Killer
Eye in the SkyThe Alan Parsons ProjectRed Lights
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?Bette Davis & Debbie BurtonWhatever Happaned to Baby Jane
Hush... Hush, Sweet CharlottePatty PaigeHush Hush Sweet Charlotte
Johnny's GardenStephen StillsBeing There
Sluneèný hrobThe Blue EffectPelisky
Season Of The WitchLana Del ReySeason of the Witch
Exterminating AngelThe CreaturesExterminating Angl
AlucardaCarriageAlucarda
Boom Shaka-A-LakApache IndianDumb and Dumber
Friday on my MindThe EasybeatsWeekend
GloriaLaura BraniganGloria
Sweet RachelBeau CoupSweet Sweet Rachel
Impeach the PresidentThe HoneydrippersAll the President's Men
Jumpin' Jack FlashThe Rolling StonesJumpin' Jack Flash
Cathy's ClownThe Everley BrothersCOP
Hot Pie and Tomato SauceJohn MeillonOn the Beach
Fräulein SchmidtBilly SandersBlack Gravel
Space CowboyThe Steve Miller BandBattle Beyond the Stars
Midnight RamblerThe Rolling StonesThe Strangler
Ewok CelebrationJohn WilliamsReturn of the Jedi
Bobcat Rap (I'm A Lot Like You)Bobcat GoldthwaitBurglar

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December 17, 2025

Episode 777: The Image (1975)

Episode 777: The Image (1977) Special Guests: Rob King, Lina Mannheimer
Guest Co-Hosts: Jessica Shires, Heather Drain

Radley Metzger pushes the boundaries of erotic cinema with The Image (1975), a film that treats desire as ritual, performance, and provocation. Adapted from the infamous novel by -—writing under the name Jean de Berg—-the film unfolds as a stylized confession. Carl Parker plays Jean, the author surrogate recounting a charged encounter with his estranged friend Claire (Marilyn Roberts) and the young woman who becomes the focus of his controlled cruelties, Anne (Mary Mendum).

Joining Mike are Jessica Shires and Heather Drain, as the conversation situates The Image alongside Metzger’s other works and within a broader lineage of European erotic literature and BDSM aesthetics. The episode interrogates authorship, consent, power, and the uneasy space between fantasy and autobiography that defines Robbe-Grillet’s writing and Metzger’s adaptation.

Interviews with Rob King, author of Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger, and filmmaker Lina Mannheimer (La Cérémonie) expand the discussion, connecting The Image to questions of female authorship and the gaze.

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Music:
"Centurion" - Sammy Burdson

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December 10, 2025

Episode 776: Story of O (1975)

Episode 776: The Story of O (1975) Special Guests: Pola Rapaport, Maya Gallus
Guest Co-Hosts: Samm Deighan, Jessica Shires

Jessica Shires and Samm Deighan join Mike for a deep, unflinching look at Just Jaeckin’s Story of O (1975), the adaptation of ’s notorious novel. Corinne Cléry embodies O with startling vulnerability as she’s led by her lover René (Udo Kier) into the secretive Chateau at Roissy -- an isolated world of ritual, discipline, and erotic power exchange.

The conversation opens up the film’s legacy, its aesthetics, and its complicated relationship to the source text’s authorship and mythology. The episode also features two illuminating interviews: Pola Rapaport, director of The Writer of O, discusses the real story behind Dominique Aury and the creation of the literary sensation; and Maya Gallus, director of Erotica: A Journey Into Female Sexuality (1997), explores the film’s place in a broader lineage of women’s erotic expression, taboo-breaking, and cinematic desire.

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"Story of O" - DaddyCool

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December 8, 2025

RIP Stuart "Feedback" Andrews

RIP Stuart Feedback Andrews
Stuart “Feedback” Andrews never whispered his opinions — he weaponized them. The longtime Rue Morgue Radio rabble-rouser and Cinephobia Radio agitator carved out a cult legacy with his mercurial personality, meticulous audio collages, and an manical belief that cinema deserved passion, noise, and occasionally a little chaos.

Mike revisits one of Stuart’s final deep dives: “Jungle Gate,” a three-part Cinephobia takedown of the marketing circus surrounding Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno. The original broadcasts unraveled into sprawling tangents and media theory rants, so Mike presents a cut Stuart would absolutely hate — a leaner, sharper, “Feedback-but-Edited” version that preserves the spirit while cutting through the brush.

Before that, Mike shares personal stories of Stuart’s impact on horror media, the lost recordings that vanished into the void, the wild highs and combustible lows, and the legacy of a critic who could never stop stirring the pot. It’s messy, loud, obsessive, uncompromising, and fittingly infuriating — exactly the way he liked it.

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Music:
"Trioxin Theme" - Francis Haines
“I Eat Cannibals” - Toto Coelo

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