We talk about movies like no one else talks about movies. Through a series of randomly-selected critical contexts, we tackle questions like: What is the True Meaning of Christmas in The Matrix? Is Eighth Grade secretly Die Hard? Is Kung Fu Panda Marxist? And much more
Episodes
Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
Roll for initiative, it's time for Contextual Deviants! This ep, we're covering 2023's action-adventure hit Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, with special returning guest Kady Jaspersen!
Highlights include: Jarnathan, Horns Up Horde, the Red Scare, enemies-to-lovers, a wet goof, and much more!
You can check out Kady's contribution to the Geistron fanzine Out Of Pocket here: https://ko-fi.com/s/75ac4e1ed6
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Wednesday May 03, 2023
It's not metaphorical, rhetorical, poetical, or theoretical. It's Contextual Deviants. Straight up. This ep, we're joined by special guest Kady Jaspersen to talk about 2022's Academy Award-nominated animated film, Puss In Boots: The Last Wish. It starts with a howl, and ends with us howling! For real, though, this is one of our silliest episodes, and it was a delight recording it.
Highlights include: Standing energy, a Scorpio bleh rising, ShrekCU, what about second Pippin?, The Algo, searching for Shrek smut, Gatopath Traveler, John DDD Dreamworks, and much more!
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Everything Everywhere All At Once broke new ground at the Oscars, but it wasn't the first sci-fi martial arts multiverse movie to hit American cinemas. To prove it, we watched 2001's edgy Jet Li action flick The One! A movie that everyone definitely remembers with all the fondness and reverence it deserves.
Highlights include: Not THAT Don't, Satan's Stingy Dick Colony, The Suckeradumdum, Dextering it, Papa Roach's Last Resort, exact-Jet-Li, The One, The Two, and The Three, and much more!
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Your podcast hunt is over! Join us as we catch Prey, the groundbreaking 2022 prequel to Predator starring Amber Midthunder. Also, to be clear, the dog's name is Sarii. We're Sarii not Sarii to tell you that.
Highlights include: Predator's Got Mail, quicksand's back, remembering the creature, Sophie's Choice Deal or No Deal, the prophecy of Dick Cheney, King Wicket, Kill Prey Eat, high LOTR reference emissions, and more!
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
Ba-da-dum, ba-da-dum-dum-DUM-DUM, it's Contextual Deviants! We watched the Indian action epic that's burning down the internet, RRR, and just had to do an episode about it. It's wild. Spoilers: It's wild.
Highlights include: Sheamommydom, the best thing since sliced butt, wet wet flags, a brand new context, RRRby's, Lil' Bheem, and much more!
Wednesday May 18, 2022
Wednesday May 18, 2022
DRAW! In honor of director Sam Raimi's latest film, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, we're taking a trip back to 1995 and covering his previous work, and our first western(!), The Quick and The Dead. Come for a stellar cast featuring Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, Russell Crowe, and a young Leonardo DiCaprio, stay for the old man in the bar with a top hat who's missing most of his teeth and laughing!
Highlights include: AGAB, they didn't explicitly say a lot of things, farmer's hands, are you leg?, real "first-time D&D character" energy, and much more!
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Fire up your seaplanes! Contextual Deviants is talking about an anime for the first time, and we've chosen the strange Studio Ghibli classic Porco Rosso! A movie that preaches the always-relevant point: It's better to be a pig than a fascist.
Highlights Include: Lie Daddy, John McPlane, he flies a red plane, Sit and Spin, reinventing the squeal, David's favorite movie Pearl Harbor, and much more!
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
The Batman is back! And so are we! To celebrate the latest dark and intense and dark and dark new Bat-flick, we wanted to take a look back at the much lighter 2017 entry in the Bat-legacy, The Lego Batman Movie!
Highlights Include: Our origin story, too many Os, "Nobody wants to work anymore (as Catwoman)," penguin kisser, female tennis stars, Notice Anyone, Batpai, a double Shawshank situation, and much more!
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Hey, snow holidays are better than no holidays. We're talking about everyone's favorite Christmas classic, Jack Frost, aka the movie where Michael Keaton turns into a talking snowman!
Holly-jolly highlights include: Bahn's sleepytime routine, snow-blank is better than no-blank, the driver's license bit, Martin Of-Coursese, Immortan Jack Frost, Nick Flurry, The Worst News Bears, and much more!
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Ride your dragons and call your Klev, it's Contextual Deviants time! This ep, we're tackling Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which was recently added to Disney+. We apologize in advance for our sloppy American pronunciation!
Highlights include: Klump It Up Awkwafina-Style, the QR code for a Reign of Fire ARG, a little dolphin you can just carry around, Call Me By My Car's Name, and much more!