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Are you an Italian who Italians everything Italian, and Italian Italian until it Italians? Then Italian Italian Italian! But some Lesbians Italian too. Alto - dir. Mikki del Monico - 2015

NEW EPISODE: “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. The perfect gift for everyone on your Christmas list! The Holdovers - dir. Alexander Payne - 2023

Just because you’re buried, doesn’t mean you’re dead. As the Wyrm turns, he shifts the ground slightly under his friends and family. The Fogies were charmed by this oddball survivor!  Wyrm - dir. Christopher Winterbauer - 2019

Otto, like Auto, as in all by yourself, under your own power, no help! The Fogies watched a movie about a very lonely and self-sufficient man with strong views on AUTOmobiles, whose community said ‘Won’t you be our neighbor?’ A Man Called Otto - dir. Marc Forster - 2022

Happy holiday! Not the one you’re thinking of. The San Gennaro Festival that happened on those Mean Streets in 1973! The movie completes a theme with Shelly’s first movies of S1 & S2, Captain Fantastic and For Your Consideration. A 50th Anniversary for our 50th episode! Mean Streets - dir. Martin Scorsese - 1973

The Fogies watched Million Dollar Baby! This is what Aric thought Boxing Helena was about. Boy, was he wrong. Not exactly a “title” “match.” Except for that one scene. The movie completes a theme with Ruth’s first movies of S1 & S2, The Intouchables and Me Before You.   Million Dollar Baby - dir. Clint Eastwood - 2004

He just wants to camp with young boys in peace! The Fogies get civic-minded in terrified anticipation of the coming presidential election, with Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The movie completes Fahad’s itinerant theme with his first movies of S1 & S2, Ingrid Goes West and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris.  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - dir. Frank Capra - 1939

Sin-Dee Rella has a Prince, but he’s not what you might picture. And technically her romantic rival is the one that loses a shoe. The Fogies got into the holiday spirit, or at least learned to better appreciate what we have, with Tangerine! The movie completes a tasty theme with Aric’s first movies of S1 and S2, A Clockwork Orange and The Fruit Machine.   Tangerine - dir. Sean Baker - 2015

School may be out for the holiday, but the Fogies are back in session with our first episode of Season 3: Teacher! Connecting back to her first movies of S1 and S2, The Kindergarten Teacher and We Need to Talk About Kevin, Tikia completes a theme about disturbed students and teachers, inappropriate relationships between the two, and school violence.  Teacher - dir. Adam Dick - 2019

Bonus episode! See the world—or at least airport-gift-shop-postcard versions of it—with the Fogies and our special guests, Max and Violet! The mischievous Chipmunks and Chipettes get carried away, literally, into a global diamond-smuggling ring. But we wouldn’t trade these cuddly critters for all the cash-stuffed dolls in the world. The Chipmunk Adventure - dir. Janice Karman - 1987

SEASON FINALE: Like syphilis, Florence’s joie de vivre is contagious. The Fogies were dazzled, charmed, and swept away in a crescendo of cringe. Florence Foster Jenkins - dir. Stephen Frears - 2016

Tar is a quagmire. And the titular TÁR’s life has become one. The truth will out: “Time is the thing” as Lydia Tár herself says. Ironically, *runtime* is what most Fogies took issue with. TÁR - dir. Todd Field - 2022