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Updated 31/10/2025
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Updated 02/05/2023
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Updated 31/10/2018
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Updated 15/10/2019

02/12/2024

Trying to Hold On to Something

On nostalgia in Tolkien.
03/05/2018

Social Awkwardness.

Michael and Rebecca join Nadia to discuss theories of awkwardness, how it's different from bullying, and the connection between social awkwardness and comedy.
03/10/2018

Artscape Gibraltar Point.

We visit Artscape Gibraltar Point, an artists residency on Toronto Island, and sit down with Julia Tausch and Anna Synenko on getting away from it all—but not, you know, too far away.
21/06/2021

A Pie Chart Instead of a Pie Fight: Hudson Hawk

The Fiascos understand hubris, and sometimes they even admire it. This time they chase the hawk—Hudson Hawk (1991)—and try to uncover what went wrong… and what went weirdly right!
13/06/2020

Sean Has a Yarn Board: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

The Fiascos try to unravel the place of the evil Dr. Mabuse in the history of masterminds, as they cover the banned 1933 film The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.
03/10/2021 · Bonus

Bonus: Melissa Kaercher on Hudson Hawk

The Fiascos bring back Melissa Kaercher to talk more about the making of a flop. Buckle up for more discussion of Hudson Hawk!
13/07/2019

Blindness / Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club

Emily strongly recommends an encounter with the disorienting bleakness and collapse of Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s Blindness, while Michael strongly recommends an encounter with the soul-wracking cruelty and violence of Megan Gail Coles’s Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club.
14/10/2019

The Island of Lost Souls (1932)

Tim and Sean begin to suspect that something’s wrong as they recuperate with Charles Laughton.
03/10/2025 · Bonus

HubrisWeen 2024 Wrap Up

HubrisWeen is over for another year. While the Fiasco Family plans for next year’s event, we take some time to answer some questions from friends and colleagues.
27/10/2020

Vamp

The Fiasco Family answers the ages-old question: what was that vampire movie with Grace Jones? (It’s Vamp.)

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