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The Criterinot Podcast is a comedic podcast about films that are not in The Criterion Collection. Host Graydon Sheppard is joined in each episode by a filmmaker, actor, producer, comedian, etc., to get into the mainstream movies they love that don't get enough cred.
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In the Season Two finale I am joined by superstar editor Matt Hannam (The Iron Claw, Enemy, Swiss Army Man, The OA) to talk about the ultra-depressing and incredibly innovative Requiem for a Dream. Did Miranda July get "pooping back and forth" from watching the ass-to-ass scene in this film? Yes. Well, I don't know for sure, but...yes. Thank you fo…
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"Dear God, guide us and protect us. We are too young to reign." On this week's episode I'm joined by a French-Canadian queen to talk about THE French queen and the injustices that both she and director Sofia Coppola have suffered. Magali Simard (TIFF Programmer, Toronto Film Development Manager) and I are quietly outraged about the way this film wa…
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This motion picture is a grim foreshadowing of Britney's real life. It's uncanny how many things in the story wound up playing out in Brit Brit's IRL timeline. Producer and Southern belle Jacki Calleiro gets into this Shonda Rimes/Tamra Davis spectacle of teen suffering with me. We also talk about Frances Farmer, Kim Cattrall's day-play, felons cro…
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It's the movie that dares to ask "Fellas, is it gay to hug?" Filmmaker and hunk Carlo Guillermo Proto (El Huaso, Resurrecting Hassan) joins me to talk about the shockingly f-slurless Good Will Hunting. Directed by queer auteur Gus Van Sant, this extremely straight movie will have you in tears simply because a couple bros open up about their feeling…
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Yellowjackets director and producer Jamie Travis joins me to talk about the 1992 "lady thriller" The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. Annabella Sciorra, Rebecca De Mornay, Ernie Hudson, Matt McCoy, and Julianne Moore star in this wild, upsetting, and incredibly entertaining movie about a psychotic usurping nanny.…
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Writer Katie Silberman (Don't Worry Darling, Booksmart, Set It Up) is a master of storytelling and a MAJOR fan of The First Wives Club. This 1996 adaptation of the Olivia Goldsmith novel stars absolutely everyone, but mostly Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, Stockard Channing, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth Berkley, and Sarah Jessica Parker.…
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The Holiday is a delightfully boring movie. At Criterinot, we're fans not critics, but we do shit-talk this movie quite a bit and still come out the other end loving it. Other topics this episode include Jerry Seinfeld's bee fetish, why moms love pan flute music, people being "90s hot", and Amanda Knox. My guest this week, Jennifer Shin, is Directo…
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Writer/director Jordan Canning (Schitt's Creek, Fraggle Rock, Baroness von Sketch, We Were Wolves) joins me this week to talk about Robert Zemeckis and Diane Thomas's 1984 adventure comedy Romancing the Stone. Kathleen Turner stars as the romance novelist turned reluctant adventurer Joan Wilder. Along with the pits and pratfalls that Joan deals wit…
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Look out Tucson, here we come! The inimitable comedian and elusive chantuese Tranna Wintour is here to talk about 1997’s Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, written by Robin Schiff and directed by David Mirkin. We go deep on this 90s classic featuring an incredible cast that includes Mira Sorvino (hot on the heels of her Oscar win), Lisa Kudrow…
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White Chicks is a fever dream of a movie and I'm a huge fan. My guest, Oscar and Emmy-nominated director Hubert Davis is also a fan. Directed, written, and produced by Keenen Ivory Wayans, this perfect movie stars the incredible Shawn and Marlon Wayans, B*sy Ph*l*pps, Dexter's Sister, Terry Crews, Jaime King, Frankie Faison, and my high school crus…
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Strangers in Good Company is my favourite Canadian film (full disclosure, I haven't seen the unauthorized Céline Dion biopic yet...so, that could change). I'm joined by actor, comedian, and fellow Stranger-head John Early (Search Party, I Think You Should Leave, and an IMDb STARmeter score of 13,959) to laugh and cry together about this fabulous ga…
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Hail to the Guardians of the Watchtowers of the Notties! It's October so I guess it's time to catch up with "The Bitches of Eastwick." Grammy nominated music video and short film director David Wilson (Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, M83, Tame Impala, Metronomy) hops on the pod to talk with me about Andrew Fleming's teen witch drama The Cra…
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It was the ass that launched a thousand gays. Nancy Jo Sales (journalist, writer of The Bling Ring, director of Swiped on HBO) joins me to talk about Roger Kumble's interpretation of Dangerous Liaisons. We get into the good and the bad, the unparalleled soundtrack, the incredible performances of Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair, Sarah Michelle Gellar…
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Aleysa "Best Quality Crab" Young, director of Baroness von Sketch Show, Workin' Moms, Cavendish, and the upcoming New Eden joins me to talk about the tearjerker that is The Joy Luck Club. 1993's Chinese-American answer to Steel Magnolias is heartbreaking in the best way. There are poisoned sticky dumplings, family secrets, concubines, curses, Lubri…
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In a Criterinot first I let my guest, the wonderful Martha Kelly, choose a movie I'd never seen before. This week we talked about 2007’s Alvin and the Chipmunks. The original, NOT the squeakquel. We get into David Cross’s feelings about being in the movie, hamsters with huge balls, eating poo, divorce, loss, Martha’s role in Marriage Story, and muc…
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Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith, the co-writer of The House Bunny, Legally Blonde, 10 Things I Hate About You, and much more LOVES Postcards from the Edge, and you should too. After She-Devil and Death Becomes Her, Meryl Streep makes her third appearance in a Criterinot film. She plays a fictionalized version of Carrie Fisher in the adaptation of Fisher's epo…
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It's the 10th episode spectacular! For the very first time we have one of the stars of the movie we're discussing as a guest on the pod. Anna Faris plays Shelley Darlingson, the Playboy Bunny who becomes a sorority house mother to Emma Stone, Kat Dennings, and Rumer Willis. Lara Schoenhals joins us to talk about 2008's comedic underdog. We get the …
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Watch his balls! Witch witch you're a bitch! Jacki Calleiro becomes the first return guest on The Criterinot Podcast for the genre-busting film Practical Magic starring Nicole Kidman and Sally Field. This Halloween we're asking all the right questions. Is Aidan Quinn hot? What are the rules of the magic in this movie, and do we even need rules? Why…
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Director, writer, and coolest person I know, Eva Michon, joins me on the podcast this week. We get into the Scream 3, Wes Craven's answer to 8 1/2. Originally slated as the final film in the franchise, this meditation on filmmaking stars Courteney Cox-Arquette's bangs, Carrie Fischer, and Parker Posey giving life back to all the dead bodies. "My la…
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Comedian Martha Kelly and her pets Barry, Gary, and Rosie talk with Graydon about 1992's Death Becomes Her. Is it mean to women? Or is that the point? Does Bruce Willis come out on top? Or is he a horrible murderer? How are Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn so stunning? We explore all these questions as well as topics like Alvin and the Chipmunks, One D…
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Prolific actor Sam Pancake joins Graydon to talk about Stepmom, starring Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon. The Chris Columbus film from 1998 is the perfect tearjerker for a balmy fall afternoon. Come with us as we talk about Julia Roberts' acting tricks, Graydon's connection to one of the stars, and, for some reason, Alexis Neiers.…
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It's New York Fashion Week, the perfect time to talk about the iconic New York fashion film: Zoolander. Graydon is joined by comedian, artist, and fellow podcaster Casey Jane Ellison. They dive deep on the film's weird connections to 9/11, director Ben Stiller's separation from Christine Taylor, the ubiquity of McDonald's, and what it means to be t…
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