Loose Canon

Loose Canon

Librarian, writer, and sometime film critic Caroline K. Fulford leads her guests through their own personal film canons-- the memories, stories, and inexplicable love that keeps us watching in the dark.

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February 23, 2017 46 mins
For our President's Day episode, Julia & Amanda of the Spirits podcast join me to celebrate / bemoan our independenCY!
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Jane Dempsey returns to talk Tangerine, a Christmas movie for those of us who always have to work on Christmas.
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December 26, 2016 44 mins
Josh Hollis and I get our Santa hats on and talk about Christmas, film noir, the death of childhood, and gay detectives. Holiday theme: "If You Want It" by TV Girl (https://tvgirl.bandcamp.com/track/if-you-want-it-2) https://joshhollis.com/
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November 26, 2016 38 mins
Stage actor Larry Owens (Gigantic, A Strange Loop, Boys Who Tricked Me, Spamilton) joins me to discuss his favorite comfort movie, The Family Stone (2005). Featuring: "comfort movies," the mainstreaming of queerness & disability in the early aughts, and SJP's very un-Carrie awfulness. http://larryowenslive.com/
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October 29, 2016 40 mins
Gena Radcliffe of the Kill By Kill podcast joins me to discuss 1982's Cat People. http://apple.co/2dYM84b https://tuneintonight.wordpress.com/
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October 21, 2016 47 mins
Liz Watson (@watsontots) of the Women of the Hour podcast helps me establish another entry in the Kirsten Dunst canon, 1999's Drop Dead Gorgeous. buzzfeed.com/womenofthehour
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October 14, 2016 44 mins
Megan Sunday of Trapped in the Attic (https://trappedintheattic.wordpress.com/) joins me to pick over the gooey remains of Clive Barker's Hellraiser. Listen to Megan on the Lifemark podcast! http://eartrumpetaudio.com/?p=241
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September 25, 2016 38 mins
Julia and Amanda of the Spirits podcast join me to discuss gender bending, emotional men, Chekhov's tampons, and Channing Tatum, my adorable dancing son. https://www.patreon.com/spiritspodcast
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September 11, 2016 61 mins
Amy Pascale (TV Taught Me podcast) joins me to talk The Legend of Billie Jean, the feminist road warrior movie you always wanted. http://theamypascale.com/
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August 18, 2016 43 mins
Alexandra West (@ScareAlex) of The Faculty of Horror podcast joins me to talk about Cherry Falls (2000), a satirical, sexually-charged teen slasher film starring Brittany Murphy that almost never saw the light of day. http://www.facultyofhorror.com/
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Clint Worthington of Alcohollywood and Consequence of Sound joins me to defrag 2001's would-be game-changer Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
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June 19, 2016 29 mins
Dan McCoy (The Flop House podcast, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah) joins me to discuss The Monster Squad. Voices by us, clattering noises by his cat Archie.
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June 5, 2016 36 mins
"The problem of leisure / What to do for pleasure..." Shannon Campe of the Stage of Fools podcast joins me to talk Sofia Coppola's unfairly maligned 2006 biopic Marie Antoinette. http://www.shannon-campe.com/ http://quaintmagazine.com/cinema-of-the-teen-girl-marie-antoinette
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May 20, 2016 33 mins
"I'm alive!" John McCoy of Sophomore Lit joins me to talk fairy tales, death, time, and 70s soft rock bands. https://www.theincomparable.com/sophomorelit/
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May 5, 2016 32 mins
Jamelle Bouie, Slate Chief Political Correspondent & CBS News Political Analyst, joins me to talk action movie masculinism, Guillermo Del Toro's female gaze, and giant robots. Follow Jamelle on Twitter (https://twitter.com/jbouie) or visit his website (http://jamellebouie.net/). Follow the show on our site (loosecanonpod.com), on Twitter (https://twitter.com/loosecanonpod)or Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/loosecanonpod/), a...
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April 21, 2016 32 mins
"Thirty, flirty, and thriving..." Christy Admiraal of The Toast returns as we close out this month with another romantic comedy, 2004's Jennifer Garner vehicle 13 Going on 30. We talk teenage wish fulfillment, Peak Ruffalo, and the magic of synchronized group dance sequences. Read Christy's work (http://the-toast.net/author/christy-admiraal) and follow her on Twitter (https://twitter.com/AdmiralChristy).
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April 15, 2016 44 mins
"Cake? Cake is my world!" In the first of our good-bad April Fools' episodes, Alison Abrams (https://twitter.com/sarcasticvoice) helps me try & make sense of the desperately strange 2001 romantic comedy Down to You.
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March 25, 2016 49 mins
"I used to hate history, didn't you? It's all just a load of stuff that's already happened." I sat down with my friend Chris Tracy (twitter.com/oldchris) of Clean Girls(http://cleangirls.bandcamp.com/) to talk McDonagh, violence, inherited morals, and the Irish worldview. It's a little more academic than we usually get, but there may have been whiskey involved.
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March 10, 2016 34 mins
Chicago-based librarian & self-professed "fansie" Sarah Kantor helps me carry the banner through Newsies, the 1992 cult Disney musical from which Christian Bale is still recovering.
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February 27, 2016 33 mins
Christy Admiraal of The Toast joins me to discuss Billy Wilder's 1960 romantic comedy The Apartment. See Christy's writing here: http://the-toast.net/author/christy-admiraal
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