We’re having fun in the sun, exploring some cinematic beach reads and notable summer-themed movies! We inadvertently veer off into a couple of true crime tangents: from an unreleased Black-Dahlia-adjacent Alfre Woodard project to the real-life creep who inspired the Laura Dern vehicle “Smooth Talk.” Our original movie pitch contends that nothing good can come from a mansion in the woods. And we’ll leave you with a melange of items on our radar. 

Discussed in this episode:

Le Divorce
The Late Shift
Big Business
Mother
Visions of Eight
Haunted Summer
Pretty Hattie’s Baby 
Little Fauss and Big Halsey
“Hou Hsaio-hsien’s ‘Millenium Mambo’ Proves Timeless” by Laurs Kemp
Bitch on the Beach
Smooth Talk
Charles Schmid
P.J. Soles
Teyonah Parris
Greta Lee
Melonie Diaz
The Green Fog
Night Caller
Eric Rohmer

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Intro: electro pop melody to remember 001 by Frankum & Frankumjay / (CC BY 3.0)
Outro: techno pop ambience-piano loop  by Frankum & Frankumjay / (CC BY 3.0)
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