Cinemanimals

Cinemanimals
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Aftercare for animal films by Simon Barrett, Mikal Britt, and Mike Loughran.

  1. 01/25/2021

    COVID STIMULUS #1: AU HASARD BALTHAZAR

    Take it to the bank! We dug deep into the pit of the SINERFAMICALS archive for this gem, recorded over a year ago and nearly lost: an hour of absolutely scalding takes and forceful zingers about the saddest animal movie ever made: Robert Bresson’s 1966 bleak as hell AU HASARD BALTHAZAR about a mule named Gus who kicks field goals  a donkey named Balthazar who is repeatedly tortured. This movie is very artful and confusing. We didn’t understand it, and we didn’t like how it made us feel. We dare you: cinemanimals@gmail.com

    1h 6m

  2. 01/12/2021

    Nightmare 27: D.T. in ‘Dawg Territory’

    This week we honor America’s Real Team the Cleveland Browns, historic defeaters of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the NFL franchise most associated with classic animal-based cinema. We’re talking, of course, about D.T. IN ‘DAWG TERRITORY’, a 1988 film featuring Lil’ John Rinaldi as a dog from outer space marooned in the Brown’s locker room, and several ACTUAL Cleveland Browns, such as Bob Golic. Anyway, D.T. and his new Browns friends take on some evil alien cats who, like the Steelers, hate America and are in turn hated and have lasers. D.T. IN ‘DAWG TERRITORY’ is strangely punctuated and you should watch it? It’s brief and free on YouTube. FREE GOOFBALLS: cinemanimals@gmail.com

    57 min

  3. 11/18/2020

    Nightmare 26: Sky Dog

    Welcome to SEASON FOUR of Cinemanimals, a podcast about relationship problems. This week we watched SKY DOG, which made us sad and angry. It’s mostly Allen’s fault. Most of the episode is about Allen, who recommended SKY DOG to us. Allen is a great guy but he messed up. SKY DOG theorizes a world where you might be in the CIA and not know it, which, actually that sounds great. But don’t watch it! What you should watch instead is Mikal watching movies, a new service we are offering. Anyway, this movie felt like a personal affront to us because there is hardly any dog in it. Don’t you dare email us: cinemanimals@gmail.com

    56 min

  4. 10/03/2020

    Nightmare 25: The Great Rupert

    WE ARE BACK!  Season 3 of cinemanimals. This week we watched THE GREAT RUPERT, the 1950 squirrel movie starring Jimmy Durante as a vaudevillle performer who moves his family into a basement apartment, discovering later that the apartment has a hole that rains $16,000 in cash every Friday afternoon. We get to the bottom of everything about 50s culture: milkshakes, horniness, and cans of beans tied to strings, swinging from the rafters, smashing your dingle.  Simon reveals an extracurricucritters film he saw which he claims is mainstream, Mikal opens up his extracurricucritters vault, we don’t remember much about THE GREAT RUPERT, actually we don’t remember anything. Don’t email us.

    1h 9m

  5. 08/10/2020

    Nightmare 24: Guard Dog

    There are many movies that feature guard dogs, but there can be only one GUARD DOG, an insane 2015 movie about Chance, a boy whose mom dies of cancer, and Abba, a talking dog played by a grown man in a dog suit and voiced by the director. Abba and Chance have a series of adventures that devolve into a Christian allegory, and (spoiler train) at the end a bunch of kids go through a slide, mass hallucinate the same talking dog, and appear to start a church. This movie has everything: an abusive dad obsessed with disposable cups, important lessons about racism, and much more! If you or a friend need help, email us: cinemanimals@gmail.com

    1h 13m

  6. 07/06/2020

    Nightmare 23: Night of the Lepus

    This week we put our therapists on retainer and tuned in to NIGHT OF THE LEPUS, the most frightful film in the entire history of American cinema, in which a colony of rabbits meets the hubris of Texas Science and mutates into a colony of larger, bloodthirsty rabbits. Before certifying NIGHT OF THE LEPUS with the first-ever official Cinemanimals 1000% AA+ rating, Simon launches an exciting, new, and very long segment where he reads the names of animal movies from the upcoming Cannes Film Market. Mikal does his Jay Leno impersonation, Mike tells a story about black market iguanas, and we offer a legally binding taxonomy of which animals are scary. THE NIGHT OF THE LEPUS: we watched it. Dare you to email us: cinemanimals@gmail.com

    1h 17m

  7. 06/14/2020

    Nightmare 22: QUIGLEY

    America asked, and as usual, we over-delivered: this week we watched QUIGLEY, a 2003 film in which Gary Busey slips on dog poop and later . . . becomes a dog. Can the dog talk? Why does Gary Busey fall in a bush? What is Oz Perkins doing here? What are some things women have invented? Is heaven crowded? Like all great narrative art, we feel there is a lot to explore here, and also like all great narrative art, we don’t understand it and we barely care about it. QUIGLEY is bad. Don’t watch it, and don’t listen to this episode. Instead, send us an email: Cinemanimals@gmail.com

    1h 12m

  8. 04/20/2020

    Nightmare 21: Day Of The Animals

    This is a throw-back, one of our very early episodes, originally recorded around Halloween 2019.  We review this 1977 “classic” which at the time was the first animal-themed horror movie for the podcast.  But we’ve grown up and if you are familiar with our podcast, you might notice how the show has evolved (devolved?).  But there are a lot of new fresh drops in this episode.  I hope you know what drops are.  Maybe you call them stingers.  In any event, they were all made recently and we are excited about them.  But who cares about the drops?  I know that you, the faithful listener, are here for the animals.  Do we deliver?  Well if you consider Leslie Nielsen shirtless in the rain to be an animal, then we definitely talk about animals in this episode.  There is lots of film history to explore here, and Simon does not hold back.  We start to heat up about half-way through as we realize how much we dislike yet love this terrible awesome movie.  We discuss what is potentially problematic in the film, and Simon & Mike educate about women’s rights.  This episode might be for the hardcore cinemanimal fans.  Simon accuses us of being “low energy” towards the end.  We are not “low energy”.  Or maybe we are.  You decide.  The most striking thing about this episode is I’m not sure if we hate this movie or love it.  Or maybe we just hate ourselves?  Maybe we hate you?  It’s really hard to be sure of anything after watching this movie.  As always, we have an email address: cinemanimals@gmail.com

    1h 3m
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Aftercare for animal films by Simon Barrett, Mikal Britt, and Mike Loughran.

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  • Creator
    Cinemanimals
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2021
  • Episodes
    29
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Copyright 2021 Cinemanimals
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