Cults on Film Episode 4: Brainwashing (The Ma...

In the penultimate episode of our Cults on Film series. Mary and Sarah tackle two heavily alliterative titles; Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) and Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline. We discuss isolation, disassociation and the psychically dangerous profession o ...  Show more

In the final episode of our Cults on Film series, Sarah and Mary talk deprogramming in Jane Campion’s Holy Smoke! (1999) and Mary Harron’s Charlie Says (2018). Our discussion covers the termination of psychoanalysis, education and the ‘cult of love’. Also we wonder whether any Ma ...  Show more

In part 2 of the Eyes Wide Shut story, the movie is finally unveiled, and critics are divided on its quality, and the use of digital effects to evade an NC-17 rating. Where could Hollywood eroticism go from here? We’ll wrap up the Erotic 90s story with some thoughts on Richard Ge ...  Show more

Just as the AIDS-related death of Rock Hudson was finally forcing straight people – and Hollywood – to acknowledge that epidemic, a film was released that transposed the new climate of sexual fear into a murder mystery. The sleeper hit of 1985, Jagged Edge turned Glenn Close from ...  Show more

In the early 90s, Madonna was the biggest pop star in the world, and she used – and in the minds of some, squandered – her star capital to launch a multi-media exploration of sexuality: the album Erotica and its companion book Sex, followed by her starring role in the much-malign ...  Show more

Dans cet épisode spécial d'AMIES, enregistré en direct et en public au Paris Podcast Festival, sur la scène de la Gaité Lyrique, Anaïs et Marie ont décidé de s'attaquer à la plus grande œuvre érotico-romantique du premier trimestre de 2015, le seul film qui allie buttplugs et dro ...  Show more