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Summary: "Jessica, only child, Illinois Chicago." This week producer Andrea Gin steps in behind the microphone to help Lisa try and process all our thoughts about the Oscar-winning film Parasite. Also discussed: bomb shelters, Spinning Out, and the history of Super Bowl halftime shows.     Show notes:   Shakira & J. Lo's FULL Pepsi Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show (YouTube)   Prince Performs “Purple Rain” During Downpour | Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show | NFL (YouTube)   Bong Joon Ho on Why He Wanted Parasite to End With a ‘Surefire Kill’ (Vulture)   Bong Joon-ho’s Dystopia Is Already Here (Vulture)   Recommendations: Andrea G.: Spinning Out (Netflix) Lisa: Truth and Lies: Jeffrey Epstein (podcast) Music credits: "Good Times" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (

Summary: "Congratulations to those men." This week resident film critic Dorothy Woodend joins us for our annual Oscars preview to give us her picks and pans for the big night. Also discussed: The Mighty Boosh, Duke Ellington, and Lisa's philosophy on life.     Show notes:   "Tasty Soup Song" by The Mighty Boosh   Did Ozzy Osbourne on FIRE get his assistant sacked?! | Would I Lie To You - BBC (YouTube)   Dorothy Woodend at the Tyee   Dorothy Woodend on Twitter   Oscar Nominations 2020: The Complete List (Variety)     Recommendations: Lisa:  the music of Duke Ellington Dorothy:  Sex Education (Netflix) Music credits: "Good Times" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Stitcher (please consider reviewing and rating

Summary: “Grab hold of the one life we are given.” This week Pop This! producer Andrea Gin gets in front of the mic with Andrea and Lisa to talk about the 1994 coming-of-age dramedy Double Happiness. Also discussed: Cheer, Chinese astrology, and Brad and Jen.   Show notes: Brad & Jen: the award season gossip orgasm (Lainey Gossip)   Who? Weekly Podcast   Twitter Is Losing Its Mind Over These Pictures Of Brad Pitt Looking Like His Girlfriends (Huffington Post)   List of Jennifer Aniston performances (Wikipedia)   Before Brangelina and Jen, Debbie Reynolds Was in the World’s Most Famous Love Triangle (Vogue)   Watch Double Happiness   Chinese horoscope 2020   Recommendations: Andrea W.: Pain and Glory (movie)  Lisa: Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris (podcast)  Andrea G.: Cheer (Netflix) Music credits: "Back to the '90s" by Douglas Mulvey AKA D-Rex From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Ra

Summary: "Rey, never be afraid of who you are." This week, Andrea helps mega Star Wars fan Lisa talk through her many feelings about the latest installment of the franchise, the Rise of Skywalker. Also discussed: Nailed It!, Kids in the Hall and Harvey Weinstein.      Show notes:   Who Would Defend Harvey Weinstein? (Vanity Fair)   Sam Nock on Weinstein (Twitter) I confronted Harvey Weinstein last week. It wasn't the first time (the Guardian)   Why It's Problematic That Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Retcons the Plot of The Last Jedi (Time)   Parasite trailer   ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ – We Need to Talk About This Rose Tico Situation (the Wrap)   The “Star Wars” Misinformation Hell Is The New Future Of Everything (BuzzFeed)   100 Burning Questions We Have After STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (Nerdist)     Recommendations: Andrea W.: Nailed It! Holiday! (Netflix) Lisa:  Severance by Ling Ma (book) Music credits: "Good Times" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0  

Summary:   "Have you gone mad, my husband?" We talk about the term 'gaslighting' a lot on our podcast and this week we finally watch the film from which the term originated, the 1944 thriller Gaslight. Also discussed: Schitt's Creek, desert island brow maintenance and the lotion revolution in Kleenex.     Show notes:   Gaslight (1944) trailer   Revisiting ‘Gaslight,’ the Movie (The Ringer)   Here's where 'gaslighting' got its name (PRI)   Recommendations: Andrea W.:  Schitt's Creek (Netflix) Lisa:  You, Season 2 (Netflix)   Music credits: "Ghost" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL   Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Stitcher (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Google PlayPop This! on TuneIn radioPop This! on TwitterPop Th

Summary: "I don't mind being alone. I just don't want to be insignificant." This week we have writer and performer Morgan Brayton on the podcast to discuss the early feminist fantasy show The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Also discussed: New Year's resolutions, The Allusionist and The Lady Show.     Show notes:   Morgan Brayton   Morgan Brayton on Twitter   The Lady Show   Pioneering comic Jean Carroll (YouTube)   Lenny Bruce: All Alone (YouTube)   Shtick, stereotypes, and self-parody: How ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ gets Jewish culture wrong (LA Times)     Recommendations: Andrea W.:  The Allusionist: Live on the Road (podcast) Lisa: Catch and Kill with Ronan Farrow (podcast)  Morgan:  I Saw Three Ships by Bill Richardson (book)   Music credits: "Nouvelle Noel" by Kevin MacLeod Music from https://filmmusic.io CC BY 4.0 "Ghost" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy

Summary:    "You're supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for god's sake!" This week, comedian, writer and actual twin Kerri Donaldson brings a fresh voice to year 5 of Andrea and Lisa arguing about The Holiday and incredibly, we have a bit of a breakthrough. Also discussed: the Promising Young Woman trailer, Lost Notes podcast, and Kumail Nanjiani getting ripped. Show notes:   Kerri Donaldson on Instagram   Kerri's comedy duo Brunch Comedy   Kerri's podcast Nasty Women Comedy   Pop This! Love Actually vs. The Holiday 1 Pop This! Love Actually vs. The Holiday 2   Pop This! Love Actually vs. The Holiday 3   Pop This! Love Actually vs. The Holiday 4   Pop This! Love Actually Live at the Rio Theatre!   Jack Black forgot he was in a holiday movie for a second there (Variety)   Recommendations: Andrea W.:  You're Wrong About - The OJ Simpson Trial (podcast) Lisa: Lost Notes with Jessica Hopper (KCRW podcast) Kerri: Norman F***ing Rockwell by Lana Del Ray,  I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robin

Summary:    This week, we bring you a very special holiday edition of Pop This! - our annual argument about whether Love Actually is the best or worst Christmas movie of all time! We recorded this show live from the legendary Rio Theatre in Vancouver and it features very special guests Alicia Tobin and Rachel Fox.      Show notes:   Episode 5: Love Actually vs. The Holiday 1   Episode 59: Love Actually vs. the Holiday, Round 2 Episode 109: Love Actually vs. the Holiday, Round 3 Episode 163: Love Actually vs. The Holiday 4   Music credits: "Nouvelle Noel" by Kevin MacLeod Music from https://filmmusic.io CC BY 4.0 Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0   Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Stitcher (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Google PlayPop This! on TuneIn radioPop This! on TwitterPop This! on Instagram Logo design by Samantha Smith Pop This! is two women talking about pop

Summary:    "Based on a song of the same name." This week, in spite of our many misgivings, we embrace the spirit of the holidays and dive headfirst into the incredibly literal Yuletide romance Last Christmas.  Show notes:   Wham! - "Last Christmas"   Last Christmas trailer   Was That Last Christmas Ghost Theory Right? (Refinery29)   Is ‘Last Christmas’ a terrible rom-com or a terrible Christmas movie? Spoiler alert: It’s both. (Washington Post)   Recommendations: Andrea W.:  How To Write and Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee (book) Lisa:  Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 4 (TV)   Music credits: "Nouvelle Noel" by Kevin MacLeod Music from https://filmmusic.io CC BY 4.0 "Ghost" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop Th

Summary:    "I only see myself." Film programmer, writer and musician Selina Crammond joins us to talk about French New Wave visionary Agnes Varda and her brilliant film Cléo from 5 to 7. Also discussed: Cindy Sherman, Alanis Obomsawin and Jagged Little Pill on Broadway.     Show notes:   Viva Varda! The Films of Agnès Varda at the Cinemathque in Vancouver starting Dec. 12   Selina Crammond on Twitter   Cléo from 5 to 7 / Cléo de 5 à 7 trailer   How Cleo from 5 to 7 portrays a city under the female gaze (Little White Lies)   Where to begin with Agnès Varda (BFI)     Love Actually x Pop This! Podcast live at the Rio! Come see us do a live taping where we debate whether Love Actually is the best or worst Christmas movie of all time with special guests Alicia Tobin and Rachel Fox! Sunday, December 15 Doors 6:00 pm Pop This! Live Podcast Taping 6:30 pm Love Actually 7:45 pm BUY TICKETS HERE Recommendations: Andrea W.: Jagged Little Pill on Broadway Lisa:  Cindy Sherman at the Vancouver Art Gallery Selina: Bus

Summary:    "'Lady who means business' hair." This week we look back to the year 2000 version of Charlie's Angels because it's the only one that matters. Also discussed: Andrea's horny '40s, Lisa's inability to appreciate dark comedy and the cultural differences between the 'ought' decade and the 2010s.     Show notes:   Crispin Glover in Back to the Future (YouTube)   Remember how hot Sam Rockwell was in Charlie's Angels? (Junkee)   Charlie’s Angels: Love it or hate it, the original movie is an unintentional Warholian masterpiece (Guardian)   The Complicated Legacy of the 2000 Charlie’s Angels (Vanity Fair)   Charlie’s Angels Is Now On Netflix. How Well Does It Hold Up? (Refinery29) Love Actually x Pop This! Podcast live at the Rio! Come see us do a live taping where we debate whether Love Actually is the best or worst Christmas movie of all time with special guests Alicia Tobin and Rachel Fox! Sunday, December 15 Doors 6:00 pm Pop This! Live Podcast Taping 6:30 pm Love Actually 7:45 pm BUY TICKETS HERE R

Summary:    "Ellen always wins." Join us for a Pop This! classic film club as we invite writer and noir expert Don English on to discuss the bonkers  1945 movie Leave Her To Heaven, starring Gene Tierny. Also discussed: our upcoming live show at the Rio Theatre on Dec. 15!   Show notes:   Vancouver Noir (book)     You can watch Leave Her to Heaven on YouTube!   You Must Remember This - Star Wars Episode IV: Gene Tierny (podcast)   Pop This! Episode 152: Out of Sight with Don English   Love Actually x Pop This! Podcast live at the Rio! Sunday, December 15 Doors 6:00 pm Pop This! Live Podcast Taping 6:30 pm Love Actually 7:45 pm BUY TICKETS HERE   Recommendations: Andrea W.:  Criminal (Netflix) Lisa:  Back to Life (Showtime)   Don: Watchmen (HBO), In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (book) Music credits: "Deviate" by Podington Bear "Ghost" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco

Summary:    This week we invite comedian Katie-Ellen Humphries on the podcast to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the cult classic Drop Dead Gorgeous, a movie both Andrea and Lisa have somehow never seen until now. Also discussed: Pamela Des Barres, open water swimming and Ronan Farrow.   Show notes:   WTF with Marc Maron: Episode 1065 - Pamela Des Barres     Katie-Ellen Humphries is a 3-time Canadian National Champion for the 5 Kilometer Open Water Swim   Drop Dead Gorgeous trailer   Drop Dead Gorgeous at 20: how dark pageant comedy works better in 2019 (the Guardian)   “Drop Dead Gorgeous,” Which Is Finally Streaming, Is Possibly My Favorite Movie of All Time (Jia Tolentino, New Yorker)   "Catch and Keep It" (with Ronan Farrow) (Keep It podcast)   Recommendations: Andrea W.:  You Must Remember This (Song of the South) (podcast) Lisa:  Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow (book) Katie-Ellen: So You're A Little Sad, So What? Alicia Tobin (book) Music credits: "Ghost" by Podington Bear From Free Music

Summary:    This week we invite our favourite librarian Cecily Walker on the podcast to talk about the new TV series Batwoman. Also discussed: Martin Scorsese, The Dollop, and The Righteous Gemstones.   Show notes:   Who is Cecily Walker?   Who is Batwoman?   Who is Dougray Scott?   After their CW treatments, Batwoman and Nancy Drew have a hard time being themselves (Washington Post)       Recommendations: Andrea W.:  The Righteous Gemstones (TV) Lisa:  The Dollop (podcast) Cecily: Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (book) Music credits: "Ghost" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Stitcher (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Google PlayPop This! on TuneIn radioPop This! on TwitterPop Thi

Summary:    "The husband did it." This week, we might be having a little too much fun with author, comedian, and first-time guest Alicia Tobin talking about her new book So You're A Little Sad, So What?, her dog Hank Tobin and the TV show Shrill.   Show notes:   Alicia Tobin on Twitter   Alicia Tobin's new book So You're A Little Sad, So What?   100 Greatest Singers of All Time from 2010 (Rolling Stone)   Super! Sick! Podcast! with Alicia Tobin and Kevin Lee   Retail Nightmares podcast   Bonkers, the dog from Shrill       Recommendations: Andrea W.: Sky Wallace, self-titled (album) Lisa: Hookup Plan, Season 2 (Netflix) Alicia: M Crouton on Instagram Music credits: "Ghost" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Sti

Summary:    "Why don't you get a publicist?" This week we bring Feminist Horror Month to a close with guest Erika Thorkelson talking about Jennifer's Body and the male gaze in film criticism. Also discussed: Joshua Jackson, superhero rom-coms and Courtney Love.     Show notes:   Erica Thorkelson on Twitter   Christina Ricci and Joshua Jackson in Cursed   You Probably Owe "Jennifer's Body" An Apology (Buzzfeed)   Roger Ebert's 2009 review of Jennifer's Body     Recommendations: Andrea W.: Joseph Planta, the Commentary (podcast) Lisa: Baroness Von Sketch (TV) Erica: Difficult People (TV) Music credits: "Ghost" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Stitcher (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on G

Summary:    "Pain in the nip." This week we roll into the third week of Feminist Horror Month by tackling the Babadook and the terrors of motherhood with our resident film critic Dorothy Woodend. Also discussed: Hereditary, Great British Bake Off, and Alicia Tobin's new book So You're A Little Sad, So What?      Show notes: Dorothy Woodend's bio  ‘The Babadook’ and the Mother of All Terrors (Dorothy Woodend, the Tyee)   How the Babadook became the LGBTQ icon we didn’t know we needed (Vox)   The Horrors of Motherhood Creep Through “The Babadook” (Bitch Media)     Recommendations: Andrea W.: So You're A Little Sad, So What? by Alicia Tobin (book) Lisa: Great British Bake Off (TV) Dorothy: Parasite (film) Music credits: "Ghost" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (

Summary:    "Half-bastard." This week we celebrate our 200th episode and Feminist Horror Month with guest Rachel Fox and the film Halloween (2018). Also discussed: Silence of the Lambs, final girl tropes, and Andrea Warner's discovery that her birth wasn't an accident.   Show notes: Rachel Fox on Twitter  Rio Theatre   Halloween: The complete timeline and how to watch the horror series in full (Digital Spy)   Dead Calm trailer   JAMIE LEE CURTIS Comforts a Fan at Comic Con Whose Life She Saved (YouTube) Goodnight Mommy trailer Recommendations: Andrea W.: "Disco Ball" by Littte Scream (music) Lisa: Mandy (film) Rachel: Mindhunter (TV) Music credits: "Ghost" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Stitcher (plea

Summary:   "Wendy, we're home." This week we kick off our first ever feminist horror month by talking about Wendy Torrance as the protagonist of The Shining. Also discussed: childhood crushes, Scatman Crothers, and the difference between being possessed vs. being evil.     Show notes:   TIFF 2019: Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker is the antihero the alienated and angry have been waiting for, and that’s precisely the problem (Sarah Hagi, Globe and Mail)   Rodney DeCroo's Vancouver Fringe Festival solo show: Didn’t Hurt (John Lucas, Georgia Straight) Doctor Sleep trailer    The Simpsons -The Shining part 1 (YouTube)   Real Horror Of 'The Shining': The Story Of Shelley Duvall (Vocal)       Recommendations:   Lisa: The Highwomen (music)   Andrea: Succession (TV)   Music credits:    "Ghost" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL Pop This!

Summary:   "Women working." This week we're debating who the real criminals are in Hustlers, one of the best movies we've seen in a long time. Also discussed: the Vagina Bible, Tegan and Sara's new album and the bonds of female friendship. Show notes:   How I mastered the Pole Dance (Jennifer Lopez YouTube) The Versace Dress: Then & Now | I closed the show!!! (Jennifer Lopez YouTube) Nicole Byer pole dancing on Instagram The Story Behind Jennifer Lopez’s ‘Hustlers’ Pole Dance to Fiona Apple (Rolling Stone) Jennifer Lopez’s body (Vox) Pop This! Episode 152: Out of Sight with Don English   Recommendations: Andrea W.: Hey, I'm Just Like You by Tegan and Sara (music) Lisa: The Vagina Bible by Dr. Jennifer Gunter (book) Music credits: "Good Times" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL Pop This! Links: Pop This! on Tumbl