96 Greers

On this PODCAST, we BELIEVE: 
- abortions in movies are better without conflict
- gay cowboys are real
- Alan Alda and Alan Arkin should just have the same name, sheesh
- Jane Campion's 2021 Western drama The Power of the Dog and Laurie Anderson's 2015 cinematic meditation on grief Heart of a Dog should just have the same name, sheesh
We also find time to talk about the 2015 indie dramedy Grandma, featuring Judy Greer as Lily Tomlin's ex-girlfriend. 

Spoiler Alert! We got a sneak preview of Aporia and we do discuss the entire plot of the movie.  If you don't want spoilers for the third act, stop listening before 44:00. 
Temps are high, sfx are low, and sci is fi when Reg and Patrick discuss Aporia, an empathetic and intellectual timeline-bender in which Judy Greer heads up an excellent cast.  Other topics include the WGA/SAG AFTRA strike, when it pays to ignore logical inconsistencies, and The Twilight Zone.
 

Dig it:  70's Greer!  That's... all that Reg had prepared coming into this episode.  2011 indie crime film The Key Man doesn't have a lot going for it, but it does have Judy Greer.  Our intrepid Greer fans discuss queer-coded villains, what makes a bad movie bad, the screenwriter's favorite poem, and more! 

For that all-important eleventh episode, Reg and Patrick do something a little different, a little special.  With Judy Greer starring in a world premiere play less than an hour's journey from 96 Greers headquarters, there was no excuse not to throw Reg's carefully planned episode schedule out the window and focus on Kate Arrington's play Another Marriage, in its world premiere run at Chicago's legendary Steppenwolf Theater.

IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single podcast in possession of a cinematic theme must be in want of a Nicolas Cage episode.  And Adaptation gives you two Cages for the price of one!  Two elder millennial film snobs return to this early-oughts Charlie Kaufman metafilm for the first time in years and go way over time talking other movies with dual Cage performances, adaptations of nonfiction books, slow film, financial advice gurus, and MORE!

In 1999, beloved actress Natasha Lyonne teamed up with director Jamie Babbitt to make the queer cult classic But I'm a Cheerleader.  In 2015, Lyonne and Babbitt teamed up again for the indie caper Addicted to Fresno, bringing along with them Judy Greer.  And a rockabilly pet cemetery.  And a bin full of jiggly purple dildos.  Reg and Patrick discuss the problematic implications of incarceration as a plot point, when mean-spirited comedy works (and when it doesn't), and put their punny title-creating skills to the test!

Before Guardians of the Galaxy... before the Office... James Gunn and Jenna Fischer teamed up for a no-budget comedy that satirizes celebrity charity endeavors in an #epic edgy comedy style that only the mid-00's could bring you.  It may shock you to learn that James Gunn isn't the only JG in the cast!

Judy Greer meets Totoro! 
Okay, not exactly, but she was part of the English dub cast of Studio Ghibli's The Cat Returns, a fantasy spin-off of their 90s slice of life film Whisper of the Heart.  Reg and Patrick talk about fatphobia on film, get a little Jungian, and create fursonas. 
Referenced in this episode:  Sarah Kate Istra Winter's Girls Underground project

Not quite mumblecore, not quite Dogme 95, In Memory of My Father definitely has Judy Greer in the cast.  Reg and Patrick bravely soldier forth in their completionist goal with this indie dramedy about a film producer's family reacting-- or not-- to his death. 
 
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The Wedding Planner is the genesis of Judy Greer as America's Best Friend.  Who else could help foster a love connection between Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey?  Let Reg and Patrick throw their opinion-plates at your ears!
 
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