Trade Movies #29 - Skibidi Toilet (2023) and Playtime (1967) with Aidan Walker

How Groundhog Day shows love via specificity

A documentary that shows you things CAN change

The Holocaust Began in Appalachia.

Trade Movies #028 - The Lynchburg Story (1994) and You Got To Move (1985) with Chloe

The Bone Temple fails the victims of Jimmy Savile

No Other Choice is a class-conscious modern Film Noir classic

How lack of agency can turn a woman MAD, film noir edition

Is this a LGBTQ film noir? Or neurodivergent? Or gender nonconforming?

The tragic love story of Cary Grant and Randolph Scott

Andy Finds His Prompt Redux

Trade Movies BONUS #5 - Interview with Matt Ellis on his new "France in the 1960s" online course

Trade Movies #027 - Stalag 17 (1953) and Die Hard 2 (1990) with Emma

Simply maybe the best 6-minute-23-second dolly shot ever?

Werckmeister Harmonies is the opposite of short-form video

The magic trick that Frank Capra uses in It's A Wonderful Life.

Trade Movies #026 - It's a Wonderful Life (1946) & Trapped in Paradise (1996) with Bianca Castronovo

Trade Movies #025 - The Philadelphia Story (1940) and Sylvia Scarlett (1935) with Marza Whatever

Trade Movies #024 - Hypernormalisation (2016) & The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) with David Backer

Trade Movies #023 - Undercurrent (1946) & Night and the City (1950) with noir expert Stephanie Edd

Interview with Matthew Ellis about his new Weimar Cinema class on CineJourneys

Trade Movies #022 - Dracula (1931) and Dracula (1931) with Lugosi Theatre

Interview with stop-motion filmmaker and author Mari Robeson on her new short The Mystery of Eve

Trade Movies #021 - Mr. Turner (2014) & The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) with Emma

How to do shadows in movies

The best movie of the 2020s (so far)

Trade Movies #020 - To Be or Not to Be (1942) and Trouble in Paradise (1932) with Claudia Lonow

I HATE CGI, not cgi.

Interview with Tad Griffith, legendary trick rider and stuntman for The Mask of Zorro (1998)

just some GORGEOUS black/white cinematography in John Ford's The Informer (1935)

The wrestling scene from Night and the City (1950)

where THAT picture comes from (a 1920s wrestling screwjob)

Trade Movies #019 - Auntie Mame (1958) and Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)

10 movies to watch if you like "The Mask of Zorro"

Trade Movies #018 - The Snake Pit (1948) and My Cousin Rachel (1952) with Wilhemina

The Mask of Zorro is almost perfect...except for its casting

action movies are just professional wrestling, and you need to pay off the heat

EXHALE!!! EXHALE!!! ahhhh--how The Mask of Zorro's music releases its tension so well

men only want one thing, and it's to romantically duel a baddie in a barn

class consciousness in big budget movies needs to make a comeback

how to elevate a script with incredible acting

the coolest horse stunt in all of movies

The Princess Diaries is an allegory for Princess Diana conspiracy theories

the gaslighting of Dorothy Johnson

Trade Movies #017 - Meek's Cutoff (2010) and The Hanging Tree (1959)

the insane history of Erwin, Tennessee

the Powerful Gay Guy archetype in Golden Age Hollywood Melodrama

the most realistically intimidating character in all of movies

Breath of the Wild only happened because of a 1940s gossip columnist

Laura Palmer wouldn't exist without this movie

the coolest disabled side character in old movies

Lawrence of Arabia is 100% straight. there's 0 gay subtext in this movie

Trade Movies #016 - Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Warlock (1959) with social media manager Megan

a movie in which a gay man inverts the danger of the closet

Trade Movies #015 - Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) and The Sea Hawk (1940) w/ DM Millie Odegard

your favorite modern guy directors are part of the lineage of women's pictures

the very best writing/editing in a movie, ever

Trade Movies #014 - 35 Shots of Rum (2008) and Duel (1971) with Michael/sharkeyflor

Trade Movies #013 - But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) and Calamity Jane (1953) with Liezyboy

Fool's Fire (1992) Full -- A Very Weird Puppet Movie