Episode 95: 2018 with Abby Olcese
A podcast about the great movie years.
Abby Olcese’s new book Films for All Seasons walks the reader through “the church year at the movies,” finding unexpected movies to tie in to the liturgical calendar; she joins us to explore the calendar year of 2018, including Bad Times at the El Royale, First Reformed, and Eighth Grade.
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Bad Times at the El Royale is streaming on Amazon Prime, and is available for digital rental or purchase. (Also, here’s a piece Jason wrote for Vulture when it came out, putting it within the tradition of Pulp Fiction knockoffs.) First Reformed is streaming on Kanopy, and is available for digital rental or purchase.
Mandy is streaming on Hulu, Shudder, Hoopla, PlutoTV, and Plex, and is available for digital rental or purchase. Annihilation is streaming on Paramount+ and PlutoTV, and is available for digital rental or purchase. And Eighth Grade is streaming on Kanopy and is available for digital rental or purchase.
You can buy Films for All Seasons: Experiencing the Church Year at the Movies here and here, you can follow Abby on Twitter, Blusky, and Instagram, and her website is here. You can follow Jason on Blusky, Instagram, and Letterboxd - where you'll find his lists of all the movies on every episode of the show (including this one). You can follow Mike on Instagram, Blusky and Twitter/X/whatever.
If you’d like to watch the trailer for The Sessionography, the documentary that Mike mentioned, you can do that here. And if you’d like to pre-order Jason’s new book Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend, you can pre-order it from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop.
Last but not least, if you’d like to make a little donation to support us and the show, you can do that at Ko-fi!