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L'invité du Guest aujourd'hui etait Monica Bellucci, la comédienne présente à la salle Garnier à Monaco "Maria Callas : Lettres et mémoires" 

Charles Skaggs & Xan Sprouse provide their commentary track for "We Are Like the Dreamer", a.k.a. "The Return, Part 14", from the 2017 Showtime revival of Twin Peaks, featuring Harry Goaz as Deputy Andy Brennan, Monica Bellucci as herself, Grace Zabriskie as Sarah Palmer, and the introduction of Jake Wardle as Freddie Sykes!

Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 softcore porn adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" seems like a bunch of 14-year-old boys got their hands on a camera for the first time, googled how to do cheap practical special effects, and then forced their friends to act in it doing laughable foreign accents.

It’s weird that one of those immature boys made "The Godfather" and the other was Hannibal Lecter. But, it's true. And it's weird that this movie won three Oscars. It's not weird, however, that Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves were the friends asked to do foreign accents, though. That one made perfect sense and it’s unintentional comedic effect is the best part of this movie by far.

So what was advertised as a very faithful retelling of the famous 1897 book is actually an absurd, campy bastardization. The strong heroine of the novel is instead made to be a starry-eyed ingénue (played lazily by Winona Ryder), and the evil villain, Count Dracula (played by Gary Oldman—who is chewing more scenery here than necks), is made to be some sympathetic, deep-down sweetheart who only wants to make love, not blood.

Um, no.

Then we have one of the greatest film actors of all time, Sir Anthony Hopkins, turning in the worst performance of his career as Van Helsing, who is used primarily as comic relief in this one—and to explain all the dozens of rules the audience has to know (but then the movie disregards completely). 

There's a bunch of boobs, buckets of blood, and boatloads of bull honky, but beware, because, boy oh boy, Bram's baby has been blackened not brightened.

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Gaspar Noé is in the spotlight on this week's episode of the podcast as Dustin and Mike discuss the highly controversial 2002 thriller, Irréversible. It's another great roundtable with a deep dive on a film with a lot to unpack. Will the FYC crew deem Irréversible to be a masterpiece or a museum piece? You'll have to check out the show to find out.

Music: Night Beats, Paris By Night (Thomas Bangalter)

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Happy Easter!

Sir Mel Gibson's 2004 box office smash "The Passion of the Christ" is in a genre of movie we have yet to cover on the show: torture porn. It's a movie about suffering—specifically, the audience's.

Jimmy "JC" Caviezel plays the son of the one true God, Jesus H. Christ. It's a tall tale about a child born after a ghost impregnated his mommy without her consent. He then went around showing off a bunch of magic tricks until it landed him in hot soup with some powerful Jews and Romans.

The famed anti-Semite and misogynist star of "What Women Want" directed this slow-motion snuff film that used more blood than 10,000 elevator scenes from "The Shining" and had more Gore in it than Tipper's vagina in the entire 1980s.

Join us two lapsed Catholics as we discuss this prolapsed anus of a movie.

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