We’re back with an all-new season of Guide for the Film Fanatic! In each episode, Jason Bailey and Mike Hull invite a guest from the world of film (including filmmakers, authors, critics, actors, and more) to select one of the 1600+ “must-see movies” collected in Danny Peary’s seminal 1986 book, Guide for the Film Fanatic. Bailey, Hull, and their guests deep dive on each film, discussing its history, themes, style, performances, initial reception, and legacy, taking a fresh look at some of the most beloved titles in cinema history.

Carmelita Valdez McKoy is a carnivorous watcher of movies, and has been her entire life. She shares the details of her cinematic education with us on this week’s episode, and her thoughts on David Cronenberg’s both of its moment and waaaaay ahead of its time smash-up of sci-fi, body horror, and media commentary.

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. We’ve partnered up with One Heat Minute Productions on this show, so we’ve migrated over to their feed; subscribe now if you haven’t already. 

We’re also putting our new episodes up on YouTube! Watch the show on our YouTube channel, @guideforthefilmfanatic, for visual accompaniment and bonus stuff and who knows what else:

Videodrome is available for digital rental or purchase and available on 4K UHD and Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection. You can read Janet Maslin’s New York Times review here, the Variety review here, Dave Kehr’s Chicago Reader review here, and Gary Arnold’s Washington Post review here. 

You can follow Carmelita on Letterboxd here and Bluesky here. You can listen to Mike’s new podcast “Whitewashed History” here, and you can also watch his documentary  Betrayal at Attica on Tubi and Apple TV+. And Jason’s new book Yippee Ki‐Yay:“Die Hard,” Bruce Willis, and the Reinvention of the Action Movie (out 5/11/27) is now available for preorder from Bookshop, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Inidigo, or wherever you get your books.

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!