96 Greers

59: Jessica Lipki (Chili Finger)

Back at it again at the Music Box Theatre!  Long time listeners may remember in 2023 when Barry and Patrick saw a screening of ERIC LARUE at the Music Box as part of the Chicago International Film Festival and their minds were blown.  This year, the Chicago Critics' Film Festival displayed some excellent taste and included CHILI FINGER as part of their program, which is a small town caper starring John Goodman, Bryan Cranston, Sean Astin and Judy Motherfuckin' Greer.  Can a movie that begs comparisons to the Coen Brothers stand on its own?  Whose finger was in the chili?  And, most important of all, who showed up for the post-screening Q&A?  Only one way to find out, since Chili Finger is still making the rounds at film festivals as of this episode's release.
 
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58: Michelle (Visioneers)

Do you think dreams are dangerous?  Trying to keep your life together with happy pills and butter?  Sounds like you could learn a little something from Visioneers, in which Zach Galifianakis and Judy Greer live in a society.  Barry and Patrick reminisce about Adult Swim, ponder the revolutionary potential of extra-marital affairs, and present the long-anticipated, user-funded Other Segment. 
The Corporate Indie Canon, orson houellebecq on letterboxd.com 
Music:  "Silver Flame" by Kevin Macleod, incomptech.com.  Licensed under Creative Commons: by Attribution 4.0 

Come to My Lindo #22: A Life Less Ordinary

Maybe the most celebratory episode yet of Come to My Lindo, and all you Delvotees know why: with his best supporting actor win at the 2026 Academy Awards, Delroy Lindo is officially an EGOT winner!  Barry and Patrick are psyched for this moment of glory, and almost as psyched to talk about A LIFE LESS ORDINARY!  Potentially the most 90s of 90s movies, this romantic crime caper with angels was Danny Boyle and Ewan McGregor's 1997 follow-up to Trainspotting.  Patrick and Barry ponder the theological implications of angelic bounty hunters, track the ups and downs of Danny Boyle's career, and help a listener plan their wedding. 
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57: Mom (Everything to Me)

Innovation.  Synergy.  Grit.  Can telling your story incentivize changing your major?  Can a movie inspire girls to maximize profits?   Is somebody finally going to make one gosh darn movie about a young person who lives in the Bay Area?  Somebody already did.  And, in the most synergistic innovation imaginable, she cast Judy Greer to play the mom.  It's Everything to Me.  
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Music:  "Silver Flame" by Kevin Macleod, incomptech.com.  Licensed under Creative Commons: by Attribution 4.0 

56: Diana (Valley Girl)

Where's the beef?  Right here where it always is, on 96 Greers!  Barry and Patrick take on Valley Girl, the 2020 jukebox musical remake of the 1983 purported cult classic of the same name.  What are the reasonable limits on different ways music can function in a movie?  How well does the hardcore punk scene of early 80s LA translate to musical numbers?  Can a social media influencer/endtimes harbinger be a good casting choice?  Pop open a Tab and tune in on your eight-track to find out!

55: Casey (27 Dresses)

Valentine's Day is coming up, and we are delving into yet another romcom!  Adorn yourself in tulle ("tool?" "tuhl?") and your I <3 Kathryn Heigl ("haygle?" "hi gull?") t-shirt, because we're coming at you with 27 DRESSES!  Do Patrick and Barry critique the wedding industry, struggle for something nice to say about Malin Åkerman's ("...?") performance, and lovingly describe every one of the titular bridesmaid dresses for your listening pleasure?  "We do!"
 
Ranking the 27 Dresses of 27 Dresses- ew.com 

54: Patti with an I (All We Had)

Content note: discussions of transphobia, sexual assault, addiction.
 
Listen, [comrade]. Real podcasters don't wear capes, and they don't look like Jesus.  They have codependent relationships with their teenage daughters and work at a restaurant where Richard Kind has a Chekhov's gun that nobody bothered to introduce in the first act.  Is it an elaborate metaphor for a high-profile divorce or Oscar bait fueled by a long-standing, potentially fabricated feud?  We have our theories, but what we can say for certain is that it's Katie Holmes' 2016 directorial debut:  All We Had. 

53: Barb (Playing for Keeps)

Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind... join Barry and Patrick for an end of 2025 episode and acquaint yourself with Playing for Keeps, a 2012 soccer rom?com?? Gerard Butler vehicle.  And then hope that you never have to bring it to mind again.  Find out how Judy Greer fares in a movie where thirteen (13) producers had 13 (thirteen) different ideas about what the movie they were making was supposed to be about, savor Barry's and Patrick's most nuanced and accurate celebrity impression yet, and stick around for the Judy Awards, where we honor the most podcast theme-relevant film performances of 2025. 

52: Holly (Our Souls at Night)

The darkest time of the year is upon us (here in the Northern hemisphere at least) where most of us just want to take a cue from nature and hibernate for a while.  Does 96 Greers have the movie for you!  Gentle music, minimal yelling, and a languid plot that revolves around Hollywood's two sexiest septigenarians (Jane Fonda and Robert Redford) sleeping together.  Literally.  Just falling asleep for the night in the same bed.  Other cozy topics of conversation include movie time with the family and a very soothing Other Segment. 

51: Martha Washington (America: the Motion Picture)

In the winter of our discontent, let necessity be the mother of invention.  As in, we are discontent with America: the Motion Picture and needed to be inventive about recording while Barry was out of town for a week and a half.  Join us in an audio festival of contempt for this animated comedy's poorly-written jokes that rely on the premise "anachronisms = funny" over and over and over.  This podcast would like to humbly submit the idea that you, the audience, deserve better.  Better... for freedom. 
Many thanks to Jessica Conger-Henry for being our Narrator.
 
Soundtrack:
Fife and Drum Corps, "Yankee Doodle/Dixie"
The Hollywood Sound Stage Orchestra, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Overture from The Pirates of Penzance
Telemann Society Orchestra, "Variants on Greensleeves"
Knuckles O'Toole, "The Cannonball"
unknown, "The Internationale"
the Grateful Dead, "Funiculi Funicula"  (June 9, 1977)
Al Hirt and His Band, "It's a Long Way to Tipperary"
The Company of Military Collectors and Historians, "British Reville"
All tracks retrieved from archive.org