Champions of unsung and underrated cinema Essays & Notes From the Back Row podcast by Veronica, Jenna @agreeablecar, Carlo @carlogocarlo & Dan @yckmd_
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Jenna & Veronica talk about all things spy movies – from various international bootleg Bonds to the romance of Black Bag to the conundrum of why there aren’t more female spy flicks. Listen: back-row.com/home/2025/5/30/…
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NEW- Another notorious film covered for our I Watched It So You Don't Have To! Now talking Nicolas Roeg's Bad Timing, a film about “obsessive love,” that goes much further – more than ‘obsession’, it's deep, dark manipulation and turmoil. Read: back-row.com/home/2025/4/24/…
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Jenna’s top ten features a whole lot of foreign releases and female directed films – including those about the ancient past, dystopian and utopian futures, satanic temptations and howling good times. Read: back-row.com/home/2025/1/9/j…
NEW- Veronica’s top twelve new-to-her watches include dopplegangers, sandworms, traveling through the abyss and Channing Tatum being a creep. Read: back-row.com/home/2025/1/22/…
NEW- With the death of David Lynch, Jenna reflects on how she loved his brand of joy and sense of humor – the likes of which radiated through everything he did, including his most upsetting scenes. Read: back-row.com/home/2025/1/17/…
NEW- Jenna and Veronica defy the haters and sign up for a weekly dose of The Substance (2024) – listen as they pick apart the strengths and weaknesses of the movie and themselves. Listen: buff.ly/3Z7w9e0
NEW- This double feature is about desperation beyond comprehension; these aren’t films about the about the possibility of a disaster but the fruition of one. Read about Dog Day Afternoon and Stephen King's The Mist: back-row.com/home/2024/7/19/…
NEW- If we peel back all of the layers of Asteroid City we discover the paradox of the director – how to truthfully portray the chaos of the world while working within film, a medium that itself calls for tight control and planning at every step. Read: buff.ly/3S1uWAW
NEW- Veronica watched Singapore Sling so you don’t have to, outlining all of the best and worst parts of this wet and gruesome ride through Greek Tragedy and BDSM. Read: back-row.com/home/2024/6/5/i…
NEW- We're talking wonderlands: all of them present an odyssey to the protagonist that stands in the way of what they want and where they’re trying to get to. Read about Problemista, The Rare Blue Apes of Cannibal Isle & Alice Through the Looking Glass: buff.ly/3UAkznU
