Mile Wide Club

59:54 | Jun 23rd, 2017

What does a horror movie series from the aughts have to say about dealing with the inevitability of death.... and teens? Can death itself shoot you with a gun? What makes a horror movie funny? Jacob d...Show More

59:57 | May 20th, 2017

MWC takes another trip to Nostalgia City with the premier card collecting anime of your youth! Shel discusses Clamp tropes, romantic destiny as queer fatalism, the magical girl as a trans experience, ...Show More

59:05 | Apr 24th, 2017

From caricature of Kant to their present, well, omnipresence, the Moomins are an exemplar of unsaccharine familial love. This MWC covers all things Moominvalley, including Grace's deft takes on childr...Show More

59:51 | Mar 10th, 2017

What do you do with a synthpop album that doesn't get gender quite right? How do you determine if an artist 'communicated' clearly, poorly, or not at all? Thomas articulates a creator-focussed metric ...Show More

59:59 | Feb 11th, 2017

Season 2 of MWC starts with more of a Babadook vibe. Mary Houston, of Masters and Movies, "where social worker meets film critic" (mastersandmovies.com), and I talk about mental illness and parenting ...Show More

59:59 | Dec 29th, 2016

What's the deal with parenting? What's the deal with Connecticut? What's the deal with infantilizing women as a romantic gesture in media, specifically in media which otherwise sells itself as empower...Show More

57:20 | Dec 1st, 2016

Anemone, Gina, and Aurora joined me to talk about a melancholy, sparsely orchestrated western.... digimon movie? It's true! Hear about how it's kinda like the end of Evangelion (really) and other less...Show More

1:00:13 | Oct 16th, 2016

It's another manga! This time, we look at memory, mediocrity, misery, and massive robots in Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys. This comic is potentially fascinating as a document about a particular tu...Show More