Trylove
Film, TV & Pop Culture
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Go see a movie.(Not officially affiliated with or endorsed by the Trylon Cinema or Take-Up Productions, but they seem to like us well enough.)https://bsky.app/profile/trylovepodca.st
Episodes
- Episode 385: DRAGNET GIRL (1933)
Help the Trylon afford a 4K projector! https://trylon.org/4K SURPRISE! We’ve got one more Kinuyo Tanaka movie in the tank, because Cody and Jason weren’t able to get 80s Action Extravaganza tickets this year. With Cody out anyway, we’re co…
- Episode 384: THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA (1958)
Help the Trylon afford a 4K projector! https://trylon.org/4K The Trylon’s series on Kinuyo Tanaka’s acting roles ends with a bang: Keisuke Kinoshita’s THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA (no, not the 1983 version that won the Palme d’Or). It’s a dire t…
- Episode 383: SANSHO THE BAILIFF (1954)
Help the Trylon afford a 4K projector! https://trylon.org/4K A governor in 11th century Japan is exiled, and his wife (Kinuyo Tanaka) and two children are sold into slavery. And it only gets crazier from there! The young boy (Yoshiaki Hana…
- Episode 382: A HEN IN THE WIND (1948)
This episode of Trylove covers Yasujirō Ozu's 1948 film A HEN IN THE WIND. The discussion focuses on the plot, where a single mother turns to prostitution to pay for her son's medical bills, and the impact this has on her relationship with…
- Episode 381: FAMILY PLOT (1976)
This episode of Trylove reviews Alfred Hitchcock's 1976 film FAMILY PLOT, focusing on its plot involving two pairs of criminals and its place in Hitchcock's career. The discussion considers whether the film represents a decline in suspense…
- Episode 380: MIAMI VICE (2006)
This episode of Trylove discusses Michael Mann's 2006 film MIAMI VICE, examining its themes, the director's style, and the emotional depth beneath its surface. The hosts analyze the characters and the film's unique portrayal of its environ…
- Episode 379: COLLATERAL (2004)
This episode recaps and analyzes Michael Mann's 2004 film COLLATERAL. The discussion covers the relationship between Max and Vincent, common themes in Michael Mann's films, and specific scenes, including the coyote scene. Trivia related to…
- Episode 378: HEAT (1995) with Kelly Krantz and Natalie Marlin
This episode of Trylove features Kelly Krantz and Natalie Marlin discussing Michael Mann's 1995 film HEAT. They explore the movie's themes, its place in crime cinema, and share related trivia.
- Episode 377: THIEF (1981) with Kelly Krantz
Michael Mann’s debut THIEF is pretty fully formed, a tightly wound caper with the grit of a ‘70s movie and the pizazz of an ‘80s thriller. Frank (James Caan) is an ex-convict and current master thief with a one-track mind: Make the money,…
- Episode 376: DEMONLOVER (2002) with Natalie Marlin
Olivier Assayas’s post-millennium brain-bender DEMONLOVER is only a corporate thriller up to a point. A business deal over distribution rights to commercialize fetish content stirs discord among French enterprise, Japanese production house…
- Episode 375: MATEWAN (1987) with Louis Gagnon
Based on the real 1920 labor uprising by West Virginia coal miners, John Sayles’s MATEWAN spends much more time on the place than the battle it’s remembered for. Ten people died, including three private detectives hired to violently repres…
- Episode 374: THE BAD SLEEP WELL (1960)
How much Ham could a Hamlet let if a Hamlet could let Ham? Anyway, if you know Hamlet well, you may not enjoy THE BAD SLEEP WELL as much as someone who doesn’t. Toshiro Mifune (the GOAT) is an aggrieved secretary taking on a corrupt corpor…
- Episode 373: THE INSIDER (1999) with Abbie Phelps
Even in the famous glut of great movies that came out in 1999, Michael Mann’s THE INSIDER stands out because it works as a great legal thriller/biopic and as something much sadder and more compelling. Jeff Wigand (Russell Crowe) is a poind…
- Episode 372: MICHAEL CLAYTON (2007) with Dan Nagan
With Dan Nagan! Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is a ‘fixer’ for a big, successful law firm representing big, evil corporations. He doesn’t so much DO things as he does make it easier for the people who DO things to DO them. It’s not real…
- Episode 371: GWEN AND THE BOOK OF SAND (1985)
Jean-François Laguionie’s GWEN AND THE BOOK OF SAND is maybe a little too strange to fully understand, but its juxtapositions and style leave help it get so much more from its 67 minutes than a lot of full-length features can manage. A you…
- Episode 82: SON OF THE WHITE MARE (1981) [feat. Sarah Seember Huisken] (Republish)
This episode was originally published in August 2020. It was republished February 7, 2026, to coincide with its run at the Trylon as part of the "The Art of Insurgence: '80s Animated Sci-Fantasy" series. Since this episode aired, Sarah spu…
- Episode 368: NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (1984) with Seth Zarate
With Seth Zarate! It’s hard to overstate the importance of NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND to the Japanese animation medium, not least of which because it led to the launch of Studio Ghibli, one of its most influential producers. But it…
- Episode 366: EXTREME PRIVATE EROS: LOVE SONG 1974 (1974)
It’s almost trite to say Kazuo Hara’s second documentary ‘crosses boundaries,’ since every documentary is on some level about the fact that it’s a documentary — forcing you to consider the author, the subject, and yourself as participants…
- Episode 365: I VITELLONI (1953)
Five friends, no motivation, and a dead-end seaside town. Nope, it’s not this podcast! It’s I VITELLONI, Federico Fellini’s proto-slacker dramedy where tension is low and malaise is high. Moraldo’s friend Fausto knocks up Moraldo’s sister…
- Episode 364: 8½ (1963)
The Trylon’s series on Federico Fellini kicked off with his seminal film 8½ , and it’s a hell of a way to start Trylove’s 2026! A hailed director struggles to find the determination to see his latest movie through to the end, instead spend…
- Episode 363: The 2025 Golden Barry Awards
Welcome back to the Golden Barrys, our annual awards ceremony, now in its seventh iteration! Jesus, really? Yeah, our first one was at the end of 2019, so I guess that lines up. Huh. It’s an annual literal roundtable deliberation to decide…
- Episode 362: CASINO (1995)
A retread of GOODFELLAS (1990) or a nastier, meaner take on a life of crime? Our discussion (a rare in-person recording of CASINO looks inward, at the performances, embarrassments, and broken hearts that define it, and outward, at how this…
- Episode 361: THE QUICK AND THE DEAD (1995)
Sam Raimi’s wild-ass Western has his signature style all over it, but from a certain perspective, it’s really Sharon Stone’s vehicle: As star and producer, she reportedly got both Raimi and Leonardo DiCaprio attached to the project, and sh…
- Episode 360: BASIC INSTINCT (1992) with Kelly Krantz
Content warning: This discussion includes references to sexual violence. BASIC INSTINCT superfan and longtime Trylon volunteer Kelly Krantz says it is “THE erotic thriller.” And she’s probably right! But what makes the tale of Catherine Tr…
- Episode 359: THE ISLAND CLOSEST TO HEAVEN (1984)
The Trylon’s 2025 series on the films of HAUSU (1977) director Nobuhiko Ōbayashi comes to a close, and with it our episodes on one of the podcast’s favorite filmmakers… for now, anyway. The series ends with THE ISLAND CLOSEST TO HEAVEN , a…
- Episode 358: SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS (1981) with Kris Montello
With Kris Montello! Just as star student Yuka (Hiroko Yakushimaru) awakens to her otherworldly powers (and her feelings for kendo athlete Koji [Ryôichi Takayanagi]), Venusian imperialist Kyogoku (Toru Minegishi) issues an ultimatum: Use he…
- Episode 357: DOWN BY LAW (1986)
It doesn’t take long for DOWN BY LAW to switch modes, from a grimy, somewhat self-serious noir to an acerbic, straight-faced prison break comedy. Radio DJ Zack (Tom Waits) and low-rent pimp Jack (John Lurie) share a cell in Louisiana after…
- Episode 63: HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (1986) (Republished)
Republished 11/16/2025 (originally published on April 19, 2020, as "'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 4") In April 2020, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, HAUSU (1977) director Nobuhiko Ōbayashi passed away from lung cancer.…
- Episode 356: THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME (1983)
In Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s time-traveling teen movie, there’s nothing to be fixed about the past. After staying late at school one day to help clean up, Yoshiyama (Tomoyo Harada) sniffs the wrong lavender potion in the chem lab and gets caught…
- Episode 355: NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER (1980)
Robert Butler’s NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER is not what the title makes it sound like. It sounds like some kind of bizarro New York neo-noir fairytale, like STREETS OF FIRE (1984) or AFTER HOURS (1985), but it’s far more grounded than that: An ex…
- Episode 354: THE EXORCIST (1973)
It’s the big kahuna of demonic possession movies, and honestly, a big fish in the pond of horror cinema in general: THE EXORCIST remains an absolute stone-cold classic more than 50 years after its release. Harry even wrote a Perisphere blo…
- Episode 353: THE WICKER MAN (1973) with Dan Nagan
Wicker Dan the Birthday Man is back to specifically NOT talk about the bees! THE WICKER MAN isn’t the folk horror you’d assume based on the movies it inspired (including the 2006 remake). It’s more about a square who just can’t hang, the f…
- Episode 352: ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968) with Louis Gagnon
Content warning: This episode contains discussions of sexual violence, including as depicted in ROSEMARY’S BABY and as perpetrated by director Roman Polanski. We’re jazzed to welcome Louis Gagnon, a Trylon volunteer and fellow film fella,…
- Episode 351: THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974)
THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE is one of the most important American movies ever made. There, we said it! It’s hot, it’s gross, it’s tense, and it’ll test your patience — Tobe Hooper’s cult classic set the table for literally every slasher m…
- Episode 349: THE DIRTY DOZEN (1967)
Robert Aldrich’s iconic ensemble action movie is brimming with testosterone, redemption arcs, and more little gags than you would probably guess. Lee Marvin uses 12 no-hope inmates’ basic distrust of authority as glue to bind them, wind th…
- Episode 348: THE LAST DETAIL (1973)
Hal Ashby’s Navy comedy-drama THE LAST DETAIL is pretty straight on paper: Young seaman Larry Meadows stole from a charity favored by the boss’s wife, and longtimers Billy "Badass" Buddusky and Richard "Mule" Mulhall are his ferrymen to th…
- Episode 346: PATTERNS (1956)
In PATTERNS, engineer-turned-executive Fred Staples is excited to start his new job at the big firm that acquired his factory. But before long, he realizes he’s being groomed to replace Bill Briggs, a friendly long-timer who’s lost favor w…
- Episode 345: BOY (1969)
That’s right — three of your favorite boys talkin’ BOY ! A preteen boy living on the streets of Tokyo pulls scams to provide for his dysfunctional family. It takes a toll on his body and his mind: He and his stepmom take turns throwing the…
- Episode 344: HEAVENLY BODIES (1984) with Dan Nagan
With Dan Nagan (@aDapperDanMan)! HEAVENLY BODIES is a 1984 drama film directed by Lawrence Dane and written by Dane and Ron Base. Cynthia Dale plays Samantha, the lead instructor of a dance fitness studio called Heavenly Bodies whose caree…
- Episode 343: THE ROCKETEER (1991) with Matt Clark
Matt Clark steps out of his crime film wheelhouse to chat about… a comic book movie??? THE ROCKETEER failed to stand out from the growing crowd of comic book adaptations and superhero franchises hitting their stride in the early ‘90s. But…
- Episode 342: NIGHTSHIFT (1981)
Robina Rose’s bewitching NIGHTSHIFT invites viewers into the private rooms of a surreal London hotel in the 1980s during the wee hours of the night. An enigmatic receptionist (London artist, model, and counter-culture icon Jordan) is the g…
- Episode 341: MERRILY WE GO TO HELL (1932)
We don’t often get the chance to cover pre-Hays Code movies on this podcast, but when we do, we make sure that a former Catholic gets at least 30% of the airtime. MERRILY WE GO TO HELL wasn’t the most salacious rule-flouting film of its da…
- Episode 340: DONNIE DARKO (2001) with Finn Odum
Sure, it launched Richard Kelly and Jake Gyllenhaal’s careers, but DONNIE DARKO also cemented a cultural touchstone of upper-middle class teen alienation that’s only been burnished by time and rewatches. In a sense, Donnie is the average w…
- Episode 339: INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989)
It’s definitely not the best movie starring Indiana Jones, but it’s okay if it’s your favorite. For INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE — a movie on which the boys of the podcast are somewhat split — we’re talking what works and what doesn’…
- Episode 338: THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940)
Anyone else think this guy looks familiar??? Charlie Chaplin’s first non-silent movie, THE GREAT DICTATOR , was both a sidesplitter and a rallying cry for a world at war. It’s best remembered for its closing monologue — a clear-eyed and im…