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Discussed in this episode:
Boys Go to Jupiter (2024): Animated coming-of-age story about a 16-year-old food delivery cyclist. The trailer and promo material proudly highlights quotes like “otherworldly,” “surreal,” and “bizarre,” so you know they’re aiming for our type of viewer. Boys Go to Jupiter official homepage.
Ebony & Ivory (2024): In 1981, two pop superstars hole up in a Scottish cottage to write a musical masterpiece. The Greasy Strangler‘s director Jim Hosking and star Sky Elobar team up almost a decade later on another absurd, anti-comic obscenity. Ebony & Ivory official site.
Friendship (2024): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s review. Tim Robinson‘s higher-profile, less-obscene (compared to Ebony & Ivory, above) anti-comedy is now available on Blu-ray with deleted and extended scenes and other goodies. (Also, the VOD version has now dropped to a more affordable price point.) Buy Friendship.
Harvest (2024): Athina Rachel Tsangari directs Caleb Landry Jones in a meditation about the birth of modern capitalism as a Scottish town is mapped and parceled out. This slow-paced (and Marxist?) arthouse weirdness is not to be confused with horror film Strange Harvest, also in theaters this week. Harvest at MUBI.
Late Night with the Devil (2023): Read Giles Edwards’ Apocrypha Candidate review. The popular exorcist found-footage feature arrives in the ultimate physical media format: the 4K steelbook. We may now lay our coverage to rest. Buy Late Night with the Devil.
WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:
No guest scheduled on next week’s Pod 366, and Giles Edwards will take the week off, but Greg and Penguin Pete Trbovich will be there to give you the latest on the week’s weird news and releases. In written content, Shane Wilson reviews Fiend (1980), a microbudget creature-feature from Don Dohler (“a bid to become the Roger Corman of Maryland”); while Gregory J. Smalley plans to report on whether Ebony & Ivory (see above) provides perfect harmony. Onward and weirdward!