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Snails & Oysters
by Snails & Oysters
Two bisexual nerds review movies with bi characters. Our options are limited.
Episodes
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Thelma & Louise (S&O Series Finale*)
CONTENT WARNING This episode contains extended conversations about sexual assault. Unfortunately, due to professional and personal commitments, we've decided to conclude Snails & Oysters – for now at least. It's a series finale* because we both love this project and hope to bring it back one day....
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The Royal Tenenbaums
In their last episode of 2022, Nat & Alli take it easy with a nice light Wes Anderson movie about... a broken family of egomaniacal has-beens, neurotic eccentrics, and semi-incestuous geniuses. Just in time for Christmas! The Royal Tenenbaums may have launched Anderson's mainstream success, but…
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Easy A
Bust out your normcore, Nat & Alli are taking it back to 2010 with modern high school classic Easy A. Directed by Will Gluck and written by Bert V Royal, Easy A pays loving tribute to John Hughes and his contemporaries, rips shamelessly from John Hughes and his contemporaries, and talks a lot…
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Chasing Amy
It's finally here. The movie you've been waiting for us to tackle and we have been avoiding like the plague. The bisexual's blight: Chasing Amy (1997). Of course, that's not what writer-director Kevin Smith set out to do, but BOY HOWDY it is what he did. Get the popcorn, this is one of those "Nat...
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Advise & Consent (Election Day Special)
Who thought an Election Day special was a good idea in year of our Lord 2022? Only Nathaniel Grant Roberts, aka Booboo the fool. Join Booboo and Alli as they discuss Otto Preminger's capable adaptation of author Allen Drury's "conservative, paranoid fever dream" novel of the same name, starring...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
CONTENT WARNING -- -- -- This episode includes conversations about sexualized violence, rape, and childhood SA. -- This week, Nat and Alli are taking a cozy little jaunt up to Sweden. We'll look at the fjords, ride the metro, and definitely overlook the country's seething undercurrents of…
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The Lost Boys
Nat and Alli kick off the countdown to Halloween right, by discussing Joel Schumacher's blood-soaked teen Vampire classic: The Lost Boys (1987). Although it's not explicitly bisexual, the film contains more queer eroticism than you can shake a stick at, particularly from Kiefer Sutherland as…
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The Children's Hour (with Annette Rainey)
CONTENT WARNING: Suicide. If you or a loved one are struggling, call the new National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, 988. Nat and Alli are delighted to be joined by video editor Annette Rainey to discuss 1961's The Children's Hour, starring Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine as small town...
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Orlando
It's not just a city in Florida anymore! Nat and Alli sit down to discuss Sally Potter's 1992 adaptation of Virginia Woolf's 1928 fantasy novel, Orlando. Tilda Swinton stars as both male and female versions of the titular immortal as they explore life, love, and poetry throughout European…
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Cloud Atlas (with Victoria Provost)
Nat & Alli are joined in the Snoysters studio by NYC playwright Victoria Provost to discuss Cloud Atlas. The Wachowski Sisters' and Tom Tykwer's 2012 adaptation of David Mitchell's 2004 novel of the same name, Cloud Atlas is a science fiction epic that blends six storylines separated by…
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Cabaret
Willkommen! And bienvenue! Welcome! Nat and Alli discuss Bob Fosse's 1972 classic Cabaret, which Roger Ebert termed the "movie musical for people who hate musicals." The final link in a chain of circuitous adaptations, Fosse's Cabaret centers on the intense relationship between actress Sally…
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The Favourite
Nat and Alli are just as c***struck by Yorgos Lanthimos's 2018 black comedy as when they first saw it in theaters – from the central performances by Weisz, Stone, and Colman; to the needle-sharp script by Tony McNamara and Deborah Davis; to the disorienting use of fisheye lenses. With three...
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The Batman (2022)
Nat and Alli cover a popular reinvention of a major superhero franchise that's previously struggled to find its cinematic footing, particularly its love interest because the actress said in an interview that she included the character's canonical bisexuality in her creative process (although the...
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Signals Through the Flames
Watch the full movie for free on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/SignalsThroughTheFlamesALivingTheaterDocumentary Nat & Alli venture beyond their comfort zone of pop culture and sex puns to explore documentary ethics, avant-garde theatre, and anarcho-pacifism as they discuss Signals...
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(500) Days of Summer
Tempers flare as Nat & Alli butt heads over 2009's controversial twee anti-romcom (500) Days of Summer, directed by Marc Webb and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. Is it an insightful satire of the romantic comedy genre or a half-baked hit piece written by a spiteful ex? Is Tom a...
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Shiva Baby
Holy moly, a contemporary, realistic film with a bi lead where bisexuality is a big part of her life without becoming the sole defining feature of her characterization????? This is it, boys! The one we've been waiting for! Nat and Alli are thrilled to discuss Emma Seligman's debut feature Shiva...
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Top Gun
DISCLAIMER: This episode contains a discussion of the aesthetics of fascism and how Top Gun can be read as a fascist film. To be clear, we are in no way suggesting that director Tony Scott, writers Jack Epps Jr. & Jim Cash, or any other person involved in the making of Top Gun is a fascist or…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
SPOILERS! For once that feels relevant, since this movie is still in theaters. Nat and Alli celebrate Snails & Oysters' first anniversary by discussing the best movie of 2022 and a strong contender for the best movie of the decade, the Daniels' sci-fi action comedy Everything Everywhere All at...
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Brokeback Mountain (with Michelle Hsu)
It's the Snails & Oysters Spaghettageddon Extravaganza! Alli flew all the way out to LA just to eat fresh pasta and watch Brokeback Mountain with Nat and our special guest, TV writer Michelle Hsu! Listen in as Michelle initiates Nat and Alli into Brokeback lore, the trio reflects on the gentility...
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Pariah
Episode CW: Domestic violence, child abuse. If you or someone you know is suffering from DV, know that you can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233 or text "START" to 88788. Nat and Alli discuss Dee Rees's exquisite feature debut, 2011's Pariah. After its debut at the...
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The Green Knight (with Peter AKA @gorbachev_simp)
Nat and Alli are joined by filmmaker Peter AKA @gorbachev_simp to discuss David Lowery's 2021 fantasy film, The Green Knight. Adapted from the 14th century poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," the movie leans into its source material's bisexuality subtext, while also questioning the Arthurian...
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Bi The Way
Nat and Alli celebrate Nat's mom's birthday with a completely irrelevant discussion of Bi the Way (2008), a road documentary directed by Brittany Blockman and Josephine Decker. While the film itself is somewhat flawed, it serves as a window into early Aughts and the Bi Panic of Yesteryear. Nat…
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Imagine Me & You (with Alex Mannix)
Nat and Alli are joined by Day 1 Listener and Friend of the Show, Alex Mannix, to discuss Ol Parker's surprisingly queer romantic comedy: Imagine Me & You. We discuss how vernacular has changed since 2006, the power of deviating from the romcom formula, and how we (not including Alli) all want to...
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Moonlight
Nat and Alli spend well over an hour gushing over Barry Jenkin and Tarell Alvin McCraney's 2016 coming of age drama, Moonlight. While sensitive lead Chiron is solidly coded as gay, his more confident love interest Kevin appears to be bisexual. How does that distinction separate Chiron and Kevin's...
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Appropriate Behavior
Nat and Allie use Desiree Akhavan's 2014 romantic comedy Appropriate Behavior as an opportunity reminisce about the halcyon days of their youth spent on overcrowded 4 trains and at bougie Bushwick bars. Writer, director, and star Akhavan breathed fresh life into the deadpan romcom genre by...
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Gosford Park
Snails & Oysters celebrates Nat's birthday by discussing one of his favorite movies: Robert Altman's 2001 "whodunnit where you don't care who did it," Gosford Park. From the beginning, Altman and producer Bob Balaban intended to use the conventions of the Christie-esque "parlor mystery" to…
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Jennifer's Body (with Olga Lexell)
Nat and Alli close out 2021 with writer, writers' assistant, and labor activist Olga Lexell, who visits Snails & Oysters Studios to talk about 2009's camp horror classic Jennifer's Body. Widely misunderstood on release, recently a new critical consensus has arisen that director Karyn Kusama and...
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
No, this isn't a music podcast now, Nat and Alli are discussing the 1971 FILM Sunday Bloody Sunday, directed by John Schlesinger, written by Penelope Gilliatt, and starring Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, and Murray Head as the members of an open ménage à trois. Nat and Alli break down the film's...
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Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Nat and Alli talk 2013 festival darling Blue Is the Warmest Colour, directed by Abdellatif Kechiche and starring Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux as lovers Adèle and Emma. The film was controversial on release for its explicit sex scenes, both due to the usual moral panic and because many…
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Dare (Nat & Alli in NYC!)
Nat and Alli record the first episode of Snails & Oysters: Nights – AKA they got drunk and recorded this episode together while Nat was in New York this summer. Dare (2009) is a lesser known indie film starring a pre-Shameless Emmy Rossum, and covers the highs and lows of high school, acting...
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Frida
Nat and Alli discuss 2002's Frida, a biopic of Mexican Surrealist Frida Kahlo directed by Julie Taymor (The Tempest, Across the Universe) and starring Salma Hayek and Alfred Molina as Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera. The film accurately depicts both Kahlo's bisexuality and commitment to...
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Call Me By Your Name
Nat and Alli discuss 2017's bisexual romance/coming-of-age film Call Me By Your Name, directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by James Ivory, based on the novel of same name by André Aciman. The conversation ranges from full-frontal nudity and Greco-Roman statuary to the commonplace erasure of...
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GoldenEye
Completely by coincidence, Nat and Alli cash in on the excitement around No Time to Die's long-delayed premiere with an episode about 1995's Goldeneye. The first Brosnan Bond film, GoldenEye shares a lot of thematic interests with Craig's turn in Skyfall: Namely, is James Bond still relevant? Nat...
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Y tu mamá también
Nat and Alli discuss Alfonso Cuarón's famous and/or notorious 2001 road film Y tu mamá también (Sp: "And your mom, too"). In a movie that builds to a climactic moment of bisexuality, how are sex and gender portrayed in the lead up? What does the movie have to say about life and death? And why...
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Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
Nat and Alli tackle Edgar Wright's 2010 action romcom, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, based on the comics series by Bryan Lee O'Malley. Scott Pilgrim poses a particularly difficult challenge, since it's both an incredibly good movie AND an example of the "bisexual phase" stereotype. How do you...
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Spartacus
At long last, Nat and Alli reveal the origin of the name "Snails & Oysters." Assuming we didn't explain in the first episode. Did we? Regardless, tune in to here your bi nerds discuss Stanley Kubrik and Dalton Trumbo's 1960 classic, Spartacus. We talk about the nature of freedom, homophobia among...
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Deadly Illusions
Snails & Oysters Season 2 kicks things off wrong, as Nat and Alli discuss the notoriously terrible Netlfix thriller Deadly Illusions. Our intrepid heroes examine harmful stereotypes around mental illness, the paranoia of the upper class, and the boundary between "so bad it's good" and "so bad…
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Nat and Alli take a trip to Transylvania to discuss Jim Sharman's 1975 camp classic. Along the way, they discuss heteronormativity in Americana imagery, Operation Paperclip, and the timeless charisma of Tim Curry's turn as Dr. Frank-N-Furter Follow us on Twitter Snails & Oysters:...
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Thor: Ragnorak
Alli and Nat talk Tessa Thompson, post-colonial theory, and Hulk's sex life in our second episode in a row concerning a Disney property (as far as we know, they may own all the movies we've discussed by the time you're reading this). Valkyrie is canonically bi in the comics and Thompson has...
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Mulan
Nat and Alli get down to brass tacks and settle the age old question: Is Li Shang bisexual? He is. With that out of the way, they go on to discuss how Mulan handles gender and gender roles as well as the movie's place in conversations around cultural appropriation and the corporate culture...
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Barbarella
Nat and Alli struggle to follow the plot of the cult classic Barbarella, starring Jane Fonda. While Barbarella has influenced countless sci-fi movies since its release, how does the original hold up to modern scrutiny? Not well. Spoiler alert, I guess... Follow us on Twitter Snails & Oysters:...
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Some Like It Hot
Alli and Nat dive into Billy Wilder's surprisingly fresh 1959 screwball comedy Some Like It Hot, starring Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe, and Jack Lemmon. How does the 62-year-old film hold up to modern standards of gender expression, sexual orientation, and horniness? How does Some Like It Hot fit…
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Nat and Alli sit down to discuss Céline Sciamma's 2019 romance, Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Critics and viewers often refer to PoaLoF as a "lesbian love story," but how does Marianne's implied bisexuality play into the film? How does the movie grapple with capital-t-Themes like Art, Love, and...
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
Nat and Alli kick off the world's first bicoastal, biweekly, bisexual podcast with a conversation about The Talented Mr. Ripley. How does the title character's bisexuality play into his murderous instability? How does the director frame queerness? How many goddamn young, A-list celebrities can…
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Two bisexual nerds review movies with bi characters. Our options are limited.
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