The Twin Geeks

Adam Meeks' Union County is a staggering portrait of recovery in the American Heartland. It's the story of Drug Court, a hybrid film utilizing real drug court cases, and real actors, to tell a recovery story about hope, change, and the possibility of rehabilitation. Director Adam Meeks joins the show to discuss his process -- in a riveting and charged conversation about the process of recovery, what it means to make authentic films about the Midwest, and how there is always a solution. Pay close attention to Adam Meeks, an up-and-coming filmmaker working out of Brooklyn, who has created what's poised to be one of the year's most important and essential films.

Friend of the show Chase Hutchinson, of The Seattle Times, Roger Ebert, and freelance critic at large, joins the show to reminisce about his on-the-ground experience at Sundance. We discuss the festival's final tour of Park City, the shift to Colorado, highlight five of the best films Chase saw at the show, along with a collection of further highlights.Watch Homemade Gatorade online

Welcome to Halloween H2OKComputer, in our annual gathering where we celebrate A. The Great Halloween Franchise and B. Radiohead's discography. In this spirited autumnal delight, Calvin & Jesse uncover the 20-year-anniversary film, Halloween H20, analyzing the shifting cultural design of horror in the post-Scream late-'90s, as we dig deep into our trick-or-treat bag of watched horror films for the month of October, and generally chat up waves and shifts in the genre, and examine the last year of horror releases. Happy Halloween from your friends and ghostly foes at The Twin Geeks.

Friend of the show Wyeth Leslie put the call out: Who wants to talk about the 28 Days Later trilogy? Us. Absolutely. In this episode, we compare & contrast 28 Days, Weeks, and Years Later, and try to define the era-specific nature of what each film's zombie story is trying to tell us socially, while also critically addressing why this enduring franchise has created such a sizable footprint, as our most influential and contemporary zombie franchise of note. Each film is a bit different and we investigate the changes and how they fit together, while also looking forward to the two entries yet to come.Read and support Wyeth's essays on Patreon and follow him on BlueSky and Letterboxd

The podcast you like is going to come back in style.Friend of the show Warren Cantrell — of Scene-Stealers & The Playlist — joins The Twin Geeks for an in-person recording on This Is Spinal Tap & Friendship. A landmark classic for mockumentary and satire filmmaking, This Is Spinal Tap is being reissued this July and receiving a sequel within the year. Friendship, the new cringe-comedy from A24, finds internet-famous Tim Robinson sharpening his blades of hyper-specific comedy, while wrapping up the humor he is known for in a more auteur-driven debut by filmmaker Andrew DeYoung.Between these films, we examine the themes of male friendship, what men experienced in the more collectivist group-focused culture of the past and what men now face with modern isolationism, when they turn inward, and realize they still need someone in their circle. Both films are about folks who are holding onto their old ideals for how to get by, ones that no longer serve them, as society and the culture passes them by, and clinging onto old ideas about who they can be. These disparate comedies find intersection in their dry resonance and outward commentary about what it means to exist as a person living outside the mores of social norms, who really just want to be loved and accepted for who they see themselves as, something nobody else can really see about them.Read Calvin's review of Friendship on The Twin Geeks & Warren's review on The Playlist.