Will & Jared discuss the newest and most divisive film from director Ari Aster: Eddington.

Why are reactions to this film so confused and angry? What subtext did most viewers seem to overlook? What exactly is a "SolidGoldMagikarp"? How do we process our collective trauma from the pandemic? Listen to find out!

Eddington is currently available on VOD and the services listed here.

David Ehrlich's full Eddington review can be found here.

The Film Colossus essay on Eddington can be found here.

Our outro track is "Gymnopedie No. 1" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Will & Jared discuss the influential science fiction cult classic Dark City.

How divided are the hosts on this film? Is this the best movie made by the director of The Crow? Who is acting circles around everyone else in this? What drug did Jared take that did a number on his head? Did we have to cut out almost twenty minutes of us ranting about how the federal and state governments are failing us? Listen to find out!

Dark City is available to watch on the services listed here.

Will's friend Derek can be found on Letterboxd here.

The movie Jared recalls with Lawrence Fishburne around the 24:00 mark is This Signal (2014).

Our outro track is "Gymnopedie No. 1" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Debaser concludes our extended Pride coverage with a criminally underseen erotic lesbian crime thriller by the duo that gave us such films as The Matrix, V for Vendetta, and Speed Racer: Bound.

How long does this erotic thriller take to get to the lauded sex scene? Did this film have an intimacy coordinator before that was even a thing? How realistic are the depictions of 90s lesbians in the film? What does this pre-transition film tell us about the Wachowskis? Is Joe Pantoliano hot? Listen to find out!

Bound is available to watch on many streaming platforms, including Kanopy, Fubo, The Roku Channel, and Paramount +.

You can find the cover art being made for Criterion's release of Bound at the artist's Instagram page here.

You can find McKenzie Wark's essay on Bound entitled "Be Gay, Do Crime" here.

Our outro track is "Gymnopedie No. 1" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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You can listen to Reno Championship Wrestling & Spellbound and Gagged anywhere you get podcasts.
Email the show at debaserpod@gmail.com
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Cover art by @DogBitesBackNY