Podcasts by The Visual Text
Chunky is a casual conversation between best friends about contemporary film, its antecedents, and their relationship to the Zeitgeist. Mitchell Cravens is your host, and Francesco Pascuzzi is your film expert. Most films that we discuss also have been reviewed by Francesco or Mitch at http://thevisualtext.com. So check us out!
Further podcasts by Francesco Pascuzzi, Mitchell Cravens
Podcast on the topic Bildende Kunst
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A Sofia Coppola-Out from 2023-12-14T07:23:11.585753
We discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of Sofia Coppola's work. We'll take a close look at her latest work, The Beguiled, which is out in theaters now starring Nicole Kidman, and compare it ...
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Hello, Mother! from 2023-12-14T07:23:11.577423
OMG, Mother! was weird but kind of amazing. We break down the film and try to give some guidance on how to deal with challenging and/or abstract films in general. YAY FOR INFANTICIDE!
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My Name is Ladybird from 2023-12-14T07:23:11.570991
Ladybird was really good! We discuss its comedic chops, its originality as a genre film, and its (and our) observations on finding common ground with your parents.
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90th Annual Academy Award Predictions (FINAL) from 2023-12-14T07:23:11.562328
From the For Your Speculation podcast:
"Ted hosts a final roundtable podcast with most of our previous guests, Cesco, Erik, Topher, Rob and Matt, while we salute Rachel for taking it...
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Roma - The Story Of A Pepperoni Pizza from 2023-12-14T07:23:11.534020
We had mixed feelings on Roma. It's an interesting social commentary that comes off as a bit impersonal and objective.
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The Cabin in the Woods from 2020-09-12T17:34
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Pet Sematary from 2019-04-18T19:09
Pet Semetary could have been so much more. Eric is back to discuss this remake of his FAVORITE BOOK EVER.
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Oscars, Smoshcars from 2019-02-27T22:13
We review the Oscars. The first half was wonderful - we're really happy for the historic number of woman and POC winners. The second half - the fucking poop emoji.
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Cold War (Zimna wojna) from 2019-02-25T00:27
Cold War (Zimna wojna) is a 2018 Polish film by Pawel Pawlikowski that probably should win best foreign film. We'll see.
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The Guilty from 2019-02-25T00:15
The Guilty (Den skyldige) is a 2018 Danish film by Gustav Möller that got snubbed for an Oscar nom. We discuss.
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The Favourite from 2018-12-27T18:33
The Favourite was fun, and for once we had slightly differing views about it! What a concept.
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Green Book Solved Racism from 2018-12-18T17:23
Green Book was yet another film about racism directed by a white person. Because we need more of those.
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More Rampant Speculation from 2018-11-20T19:02
More rampant speculation about the Oscars from the For Your Speculation podcast ft. our boy Chonké.
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A Fart Is Born from 2018-11-15T05:06
The episode title says it all. A Star Is Born was not our fave.
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Let's Speculate from 2018-11-13T00:37
Chunky and the folks at For Your Speculation discuss the current state of the oscar race!
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Hereditary from 2018-07-28T22:35
Hereditary was messed up and we loved it! We break down a wonderful performance from Toni Collette and explore some horror tropes along the way.
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Love, Chunky from 2018-05-30T15:02
Love, Simon was important to us and a lot of other people. We discuss.
Note from Mitch: Thank you to our producer, Eric Revilla, for making me sound significantly less cross-faded than I ...
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We've Arrived from 2018-04-21T16:06
We did Arrival because the Shape of Water can fuck off. XOXO Denis Villeneuve && XOXO Amy Adamssss. Oh and RIP Abbott; Abbott is death process.
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Call Me Mitchy (HI THANKS ERIC YOUDA FREAKIN BEST) from 2018-03-26T15:05
Call Me By Your Name is our jam. Oh, and Eric Revilla is a god. I was apparently giving my microphone a blowjob this entire episode and my audio was garbage, and whatdya know Eric provided his m...
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The Darkest Hour (In The History of Awards Shows) from 2018-03-24T19:54
Yeahhh, we didn't like the Oscars much.
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Coco, Por Fín from 2018-03-24T16:25
We give a much-overdue review of Coco. God it was increíble.
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Star Wars Ep. VIII - The Last Jedi(s)? from 2017-12-28T17:37
The Cravens bros are back for a Star Wars special. https://thevisualtext.com
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Premature Prognostication from 2017-12-17T19:32
Francesco joins the for your speculation podcast to break down the Oscar race in the main eight categories.
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IT is Loooooong Overdue from 2017-12-17T18:52
We recorded our IT pod fucking forever ago, but the audio got corrupted and I had no idea how to fix it. Hardcore props to Eric Revilla, our guest on this pod, who not only contributed some awes...
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The Comedy Brothers from 2017-10-10T00:41
A coupla' bros talk about offbeat comedies, namely Little Miss Sunshine and Hot Fuzz. #brosesh
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ATOMIC LESBIAN SEX from 2017-08-19T02:27
OMG THE HOT LESBIAN SEX IN ATOMIC BLONDE WAS SO HOT. (No, not really, and it was kinda problematic...we discuss.) We also get into straight stars playing queer characters and bad films with grea...
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Don't Get Eaten! from 2017-07-10T05:35
We discuss the work of Bong Joon-Ho via Okja (on Netflix/in theaters now) and The Host (2006). If you could subscribe to our podcast and/or rate it, that would be awesome - it's available on iTu...
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Wonder Woman/It Comes at Night from 2017-06-27T16:01
It's time for.....CHUNKY! In this episode we introduce our wonderful selves and talk a lot about It Comes at Night (2017, Shults) and what it means in today's America. We also tack on a bit about W...
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