Re-Animate THIS!

Episode recorded: November 1st, 2025 (11/01/2025)

This episode is dedicated to Scout's grandmother Susann Tafoya (1937-2025). May she rest in peace. 

We have finally reached the season finale, so Jay and Meredith will be talking about another Lars von Trier movie to bookend the very first episode. Jay brought his former mentor at the City College of New York, Emmett Goodman, along with the past guest Scout Tafoya, who was also a ca...

Note: We have faced some technical issues before, during, and after the recording. We recorded this episode while Brandyn was on his way back home and taking subways. You are about to hear some roughed audio quality.

Recording date: October 18th, 2025 (10/18/2025)

Brandyn from The Most Important Election of Our Lives is back for this Halloween special episode. We will be talking about one movie of Brandyn's choice, and it is Tarsem...

Episode recorded: September 10th, 2025

The September 2025 slot was empty, so Jay and his another rotating co-host Dom filled that up by discussing the movie of the latter's choice - Alex Proyas’s film adaptation of James O’Barr’s indie comic book series of the same name The Crow (1994). 

From now on, we are inserting some scripted segments that give you some background information (about the movie’s summary, director’s biography, e...

Episode recorded: August 10th, 2025

Jay and his co-editor Jessie Hymowitz invited Ali Khamseh, a Hammer Horror movie fan from Iran, and talked about three movies of his choice: the underappreciated Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), and two Hammer Horror movies with the great Christopher Lee (The Devil Rides Out and The Gorgon). We talked about the unexpected genre materials from Iran, how Kerry Conran's tragic flop pred...

Episode recorded: July 19th, 2025 (07/19/2025)

Meredith Nudo is back along with another rotating co-host Alex Beige. We are going to discuss Cory Finley's directorial feature debut Thoroughbreds (2017) and how it is compatible with the overall style of, as Meredith argues, Satoshi Kon's psychological thriller classic Perfect Blue (1997). We're also discussing the challenges of adapting plays into feature films (with Alex Beige, the...

Episode recorded: June 14th, 2025 (06/14/2025)

This is where me and my new co-host Madzy Williams will be talking about the adult-only, French-language anthropomorphic animal puppet movie about the notorious Marquis during the French revolution and it has a talking peepee. And we discuss how I could turn that into a cut-out animated show made for late-night television audiences.

But here are a few things I would like to share.

One,...

Episode recorded: May 12th, 2025 (05/12/2025)

Meredith is still on the break. We will get another episode out once she is available.

Filmmaker, film critic, and video essayist Scout Tafoya came to talk about Anthony Mann, his post-revolution France film noir thriller Reign of Terror (1949), Mann and his cinematographer John Alton's long-lasting influences in filmmaking and visual arts, anti-authoritarian and post-colonial politics ...

Episode recorded: April 27th, 2025 (04/27/2025)

Meredith couldn't be here to record, so I brought in a last-minute guest to fill her role. We talked about Luc Besson's space adventure masterpiece and his tribute to Valérian et Laureline comic book series, which he grew up reading as a teen boy in France. From there on, we talked about Bruce Willis and how much he was the lightning in a bottle and why the world needs more colorful...

Jay and Meredith talk about one danskjävlar Lars von Trier challenging another Danish scum Jørgen Leth to redo the latter's live-action short film The Perfect Human five times based on the former's restrictions. And one of those five obstructions (and one of five main inspirations behind this podcast) is remaking the short into a "cartoon" in spite of their hatred of animation. We will talk extensively on the art of rotoscope anima...