Movies imo

Format shift! This week on the talking homosexual podcast known as movies imo, your fav film f@gz are breaking all the rules as they speak at length about some motion pictures they are yet to see for the year in cinema ahead… With the fall festivals looming, Ben puts together a questionnaire across various topics of prognostication for the group to make individual predictions on which films will or won’t land in the markets of ideas and box office receipts. They answer questions such as: What will win Best Picture? What fall release will be the biggest discourse generator? And before he was Scrooge, what was he called?All these questions and more (nine in total!) will be picked apart in a roiling discourse of fruity ephemera as Ben, Brandon, and Daniel lay down their markers in guessing what movies we’ll be talking more about very soon. If you’ve never heard of the Olivia Colman vehicle Wicker, you’re guaranteed to learn about it today. Thanks for listening!

Should The Fame Monster have defeated famous surprise winner The Suburbs for Album of the Year? Who are Heurtebise and René Worms? Who would make it out alive from the poets’ brawl? Should John Goodman have crushed that horny toad? Is heterosexual marriage a prison? And what is Merlin wearing on his head? The answers to all these pressing inquiries and more will be revealed in this, the latest missive from the gay guy podcast enterprise known as Movies imo. This week, the film faguettes are exploring Mythology in Film — timed to no new releases whatsoever. Here are the texts in discussion:Ben selects Jean Cocteau’s gay fantasia on netherworld themes Orpheus (1951) starring homosexuals and the divas they worship.Daniel selects John Boorman’s King Arthur comeback vehicle Excalibur (1981) starring Helen Mirren and a bunch of boys.Brandon selects the Coen Brothers’ Odyssey-inspired cultural phenomenon O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) starring Ulysses, Delmar, and Pete.These myths come alive and inspire more than a few biting observations. Just like Dracula!

Is there no limit to Holly Hunter’s charisma? What do you do when your friend George asks you to direct another film in his beloved franchise? And just how fat-phobic is a beloved children’s film about “Peter Banning” returning to Neverland? All these questions are more will be answered in this, the first official REFORMATTED edition of movies imo — a podcast that was once dead, is now alive, and still features three film faguettes having a big chat about the cheenema. But the most important question that Ben, Brandon, and Daniel dive into this week is the theme of the episode, inspired by a certain unforeseen but cosmically fated calendar event that requires one to ahem disclose…What is your least favorite Steven Spielberg film?Daniel chose Always (1989) — Spielberg’s romantic seriocomedy inspired by the 1943 “this ghost represents the meaning of life, actually” film A Guy Named Joe.Ben chose Hook (1991) — Spielberg’s beloved-by-millennials (but not by the man himself!) children’s fantasy film, a take on the Peter Pan story but with more Play Doh.Brandon chose Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) — Spielberg’s fourth swing at trying to convince audiences that Dr. Henry Jones might be worth watching trek across the globe for two hours… In a fun twist, nobody agrees on their least favorite! Give it a spin, have a laugh, maybe even stick a straw in a Twinkie like John Goodman does in one of these three pictures…

Why is Marilyn Monroe not the main character in the movie Niagara when she’s so clearly the best thing in it? Is the va-va-voom sound effect that’s made every time Marilyn enters a film actually diegetic? And what did Ben say that led to being [redacted] by [redacted] by suggesting that Marilyn was [redacted] by [redacted]? Well, nobody’s perfect. And who sums up these immortal lines better than the three film faguettes at the heart of this - movies imo! The once dead but now alive film podcast where gay guys convene to yap about topics of fruity miscellanea. But wait! Sound the alarms. There’s big news in the realm of Movies imo…FORMAT SHIFT! Starting today, the format for movies imo is focusing in on just one topic per week — lovingly selected by a different member of the trio every week, with each one bringing a film or other or media object to the table beneath the chosen theme of the week. And this week, they’re setting out to answer one of life’s great questions:The query: Is Marilyn Monroe the funniest person to ever act on screen in the history of the cinema?The evidence: Howard Hawks’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Billy Wilder’s Some Like it Hot, Henry Hathaway’s Niagara, Kenneth Branagh’s The Prince and the Showgirl, and — just for fun — Michelle Williams’s My Week With Marilyn.The faguettes: Ben, Brandon, and Daniel.Oh what a laugh was had… If you’ve ever wondered how many gay guys it takes to yap about Marilyn for nearly two hours, the answer to this query (and all the others above) is now finally settled…

If one faget sees a baby perched at the end of a bed, but there are no other fagets paying close attention to the frame to see it, does the baby actually exist? Why do the immensely pleasurable late career films of French New Wave filmmakers go down so smoothly? Was this episode sponsored by Ambien? All these questions and more will be answered in this, France Week! On the once dead and now alive podcast movies imo, featuring three gays yapping on mic about the women’s liberation movement, the concept of weather, and getting h-word at the beach. This week, they’re discussing the following:Brandon: Let's go to the BEACH! With Éric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach (1983)Daniel: Crossing the final Varda major work off the list! With One Sings, The Other Doesn't (1977)Give it a listen! Or don’t! It’s GAYline at the beach!