POD 366, EP. 73: WEIRD WOKE TRASH IN HONOR OF PRIDE MONTH

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Quick links/Discussed in this episode:

The Animal Kingdom (2023): A mysterious plague turns people into animal-human hybrids. French magical realism now on Blu-ray (and VOD).  Buy The Animal Kingdom.

DogMan (2023): directs in this thriller about a strange and damaged man obsessed with dogs. Now on Blu-ray. Buy DogMan.

Enter the Drag Dragon (2023): A drag queen detective investigates a case that involves kung fu, zombies, ninjas, ghosts, and cameo appearances. From the director of 2001’s Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter. Buy Enter the Drag Dragon.

Possession remake: Another one for the “bad idea for a remake” file:  Possession, but done by the guy who made Smile (2022). will lend his weight as a producer (no word on whether he plans to act in it). There are reports of a bidding war for the project (OK?). Appropriately, we caught the news from “Bloody Disgusting”.

Queendom (2023): A queer drag artist in Russia makes a public spectacle of herself by going out in public in surreal costumes, earning  and putting her freedom at risk. Greenwich Entertainment could have a documentary hit here (in critical terms, at least). Queendom official site.

Querelle (1982): ‘s final film was an expressionist tale of a beefcake sailor who chose to be gay do crime before it was cool. From a novel by gay criminal Jean Genet, to our knowledge this has never been released on physical media in North America until this Criterion Collection edition emerged. Buy Querelle.

Stopmotion (2023): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s review. ‘s debut feature about a stopmotion animator making a creepy stopmotion animated film arrives on Blu-ray. Buy Stopmotion.

Tuesday (2023): Julia Louis Drefuss stars as a mother whose daughter is dying from cancer; Death arrives in the form of a talking parrot. From A24, coming to theaters next week. Tuesday official site.

“Zebraman: Ultimate Z-Pack”: Includes two superhero comedies: Zebraman (2004) and Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City (2010). Zebraman is not as weird or extreme as Miike’s earlier horror work, but is zany and inventive; Zebraman 2 was a flop and has rarely been seen in this country. Buy “Zebraman: Ultimate Z-Pack.”

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

No guest is (firmly) scheduled for next week, although we could have one. Gregory J. Smalley will take the week off, and Pete Trbovich will fill in with Giles Edwards. In written reviews, Shane Wilson will revisit Cool World (1992), Giles examines microbudget Italian filmmaker Fabio Salerno’s The Other Dimension (previously unseen in America and briefly discussed in Episode 71), and Greg goes for Queendom (see above). Onward and weirdward!

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