You're In My Shower
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Oliver Twist
The begging-bowl metaphor for the Patreon pitch: metal cup, few coins, please sir.
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The Summer I Turned Pretty
Used to describe an Italian tennis semifinalist's stick-and-poke, boat-rental-boy handsomeness.
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Space Jam
Jordan's stretching arm as the only fair comparison for Wembanyama's reach.
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Marty Supreme
Its months of Chalamet saturation, out-grossed in six days by a teenager's horror movie.
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The Devil Wears Prada
Reached for as the last comedy anyone can name that actually made money.
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Weapons
Great premise, sputtering second half: the complaint they have about most new horror.
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The Monkey's Paw
The wish-and-its-cost template Obsession runs on, as one host explains it to listeners.
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Hereditary
Named as the standard for pushing against horror convention rather than obeying it.
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Midsommar
Cited alongside Hereditary when asking what these young directors do with a real budget.
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Get Out
The horror movie with ideas bigger than the genre, and a comedian's leap into it.
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Black Mirror
"You mean Black Mirror? That's called Black Mirror," on the proposed Obsession anthology.
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Memories of Murder
Still the scariest film he knows, though his co-host will only grant unsettling. Brian Park
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Amélie
The still that lives in every director's mood board, long before AI got blamed.
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Moonlight
Turns up, countless times, in decks for coming-of-age films about being between cultures.
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Killers of the Flower Moon
Offered gently as the reason an 83-year-old master might take the AI money.
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Tiny Furniture
Shot on Canon 5Ds: the earlier technology that also quietly cut people out of the credits.
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Breaking Bad
Cranston's daughter's audition, and the nepo-baby speech no one is buying.