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 Oct 20, 2021
Wednesday Oct 20, 2021
Lock your door and grab your crucifix, Contextual Deviants is summoning Freddy for this year's Halloween Spooptacular! 1987's Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors packs a lot of weird into 96 minutes, and we're happy to slice it up and examine its bloody insides like no one has before.
Highlights include: Zodiac Gary, Freddy's got claws, Nightmare on 34th Street, the real red scare, the skeleton is COVID, Fredliners, Funky Coma-dina, and much more!
Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
Wednesday Sep 15, 2021
Enjoy a quirky coming-of-age road-trip comedy about two teen best friends, and then donate to pro-choice causes fighting to overturn anti-abortion legislation across the US! Yes, we are making a political statement in an episode description for our silly movie podcast. We will probably do so again.
Highlights include: Chekov's Squatty Potty, reproductive rights are human rights, Plan G, late-stage Jesse Pinkman, a huge twist, and much more!
Wednesday Aug 25, 2021
Wednesday Aug 25, 2021
Hola, fantastic folks! We're talking about Guillermo Del Toro's 2006 dark fairy tale classic Pan's Labyrinth in ways we guarantee no one's ever talked about it before.
Highlights include: A good intro idea, Interrobang and The Schwa, it's in the text, the Dark Knight connection, David Hasselhoff, Aray's, why not Ferngully?, and much more!
Wednesday Aug 04, 2021
Wednesday Aug 04, 2021
Yeah baby. Yeah. We're doing it. It's Austin Powers! David had never seen it before! We had to. We just had to.
Highlights include: Crap and suck etc, Shallow Teeth, Lil Bryan Cranston, steamrolling the working class, Do Die Make You Horny, The Rise of Shagwalker, and more!
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
After a year of separation, the Contextual Deviants crew is back in the studio! We reunited, fully vaxxed, to talk about the 2012 absurdist comedy Wanderlust, starring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston and a banger supporting cast. And wow, what a difference being in the same room makes!
Highlights include: Stan Lee sans mustache, Knife to Meet You, Judd Apatow's legacy, Supreme Court March Madness, Smalltown Penis, and much more!
Wednesday May 19, 2021
Wednesday May 19, 2021
We complete our quartet of 2021 releases with the Netflix Original animated film, The Mitchells vs. The Machines! From the studio that brought you Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse comes a harrowing tale of robot uprisings, family drama, and dogs/pigs/loaves of bread. We promise our podcast won't turn evil!
Highlights include: Fuck, Mayor, Kill, Dave's Haunted Horse Hut, a sweater vest, Honey, We Grew the Network, the most grovel-y individual, the Rick Mitchell Problem, and more!
Wednesday May 05, 2021
Wednesday May 05, 2021
Yee-haw, it's time for some space cowboys! Following the tradition of stories like Cowboy Bebop, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Firefly, we watched 2021's Netflix Original film Space Sweepers! Join us as we take on space capitalism with space goofs and some fun space contexts.
Highlights include: A stealth sequel to Fried Green Tomatoes, big jumpsuits for any size, you might be a Zodiac Killer, Tom Hardy's Hardee's, Uncle Tiger Mister Park, the Alita Battle Angels of Our Nature, and much more!
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
ANCIENT ENEMIES! Take a little jaunt down to the Hollow Earth with your good buddies Contextual Deviants, as we examine 2021's Godzilla vs. Kong!
Highlights include: Rev rev, un-kong-scious, Denzella vs. Kong, the five or six different types of animals, a dangerous Angelfire page, dubstep pollution, and much more!
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
It's okay to hope with Contextual Deviants! We're talking about our first new movie of 2021, the Disney+ original super-squirrel family film, Flora and Ulysses. So dump your cynicism, drop your Jack and Rose Award, and lift an Animal Control van if you have to so you can join us!
Highlights include: Matt's out of the box, WUBB, speaking of, human reproduction, "Everything You Want" by Vertical Horizon, a lot of tangents, and much more!
Wednesday Mar 17, 2021
Wednesday Mar 17, 2021
In honor of the latest in a long line of "sequels to comedies that are over 20 years old," Coming 2 America, we are coming back to where it all started with Coming TO America! As much as people have talked about this movie, we guarantee you'll hear something new about it on our podcast.
Highlights Include: Open-armed rejection, Foibs Top 100, Deer David, take it from me, The Standela Effect, stick fighting, let us be proud of you, and much more!