Contextual Deviants

Contextual Deviants

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 read less

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82 - Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

82 - Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

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

82 - Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

82 - Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

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

81 - Puss In Boots: The Last Wish

81 - Puss In Boots: The Last Wish

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!

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!

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!

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!

77 - The Quick and The Dead

77 - The Quick and The Dead

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!

76 - Porco Rosso

76 - Porco Rosso

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!

75 - The Lego Batman Movie

75 - The Lego Batman Movie

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!

74 - Jack Frost

74 - Jack Frost

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!

73 - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

73 - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

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!

72 - Nightmare on Elm St 3: Dream Warriors

72 - Nightmare on Elm St 3: Dream Warriors

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!

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!

70 - Pan's Labyrinth

70 - Pan's Labyrinth

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!

69 - Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

69 - Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

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!

68 - Wanderlust

68 - Wanderlust

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!

67 - The Mitchells vs The Machines

67 - The Mitchells vs The Machines

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!

66 - Space Sweepers

66 - Space Sweepers

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!

65 - Godzilla vs. Kong

65 - Godzilla vs. Kong

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!

64 - Flora and Ulysses

64 - Flora and Ulysses

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!

63 - Coming To America

63 - Coming To America

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!