Sex in the Cinema

WINTER SOLSTICE HOLIDAY SPECIAL: The Love Witch, Virgin Witch, Hagazussa

Happy Yule, cinephile freaks! This holiday season we're celebrating the Winter Solstice in this very special episode starring wonton, willful and wonderful witches!
Self help goes lethally awry in Anna Biller's ingenious meta-Technicolor treasure THE LOVE WITCH (2016). Sexploitation is style over substance in the VIRGIN WITCH (1972). Cinematic art finds a new masterstroke in the haunting, enigmatic (and f**king awesome) folk horror fable HAGAZUSSA (2017). 
 
 

LYNCHIAN LECHERY: Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Wild at Heart

Trigger Warning: Please be advised this episode includes explicit discussion of sexual abuse and assault. This is a really tough one so tune out and take care if you need to <3 
For the penultimate episode of 2024, we're kicking off our mini director retrospective series. Our first entry delves into modern cinema's ultimate Master of Macabre, David Lynch. 
Baby talk reaches a new level of unacceptable foreplay in BLUE VELVET (1986). Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern burn hot in WILD AT HEART (1990). Naomi Watts has the ultimate career breakout role in the dreamlike hate letter to Hollywood, MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001).
 

UNCUT AND UNRATED: Fratboy F**kery

SITC is back with a new installment of Uncut and Unrated - extended "director's cuts" of some of our favorite episodes.
FRATBOY F**KERY, our episode discussing a trio of "boys will be boys" blockbusters, returns to manspread its dick tentacles all over the airwaves. The original cut of this episode was released in April 2024 but the collective ethos of these misogynistic trash fires is now distinctly timely. 
Tune in for previously unreleased deep cuts about Doug Kenney and the birth of The National Lampoon, another cringeworthy tale about Torie's adolescent pervy playacting, and much more. 
Keep your eyes peeled and your ears open for all-new episodes including the first installment of our Director Retrospective series and our upcumming holiday special!
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Trigger warning: this episode discusses themes of sexual and verbal assault, rape, and body shaming.
Welcome to the black hole of misogyny where "boys will be boys" and fratboy mentality reigned supreme to brainwash multiple generations.
 Torie struggles to kill her darlings in the National Lampoon classic ANIMAL HOUSE (1978). Kim Cattrall is the only saving grace in the postulating butt boil that is PORKY'S (1981). Witness the birth of virtual assault and revenge porn in the generation-defining Y2K flick, AMERICAN PIE (1999).

HOT(ISH) HORROR PART 2: The Fly, Rosemary's Baby, Don't Look Now

SITC is back with the long-awaited second installment of our horror series just in time for Halloween. Hot or not? You decide. 
Body horror brings on the heat thanks to Jeff Goldblum's insectile sex symbol Seth Brundle in David Cronenberg's classic remake of THE FLY (1986). Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland prove graphic sex can have narrative value in Nicolas Roeg's enigmatic meditation on grief DON'T LOOK NOW (1973). Mia Farrow gets down with the devil and suffers the ultimate perversion of pregnancy in Roman Polanski's legendary ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968). 

ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT ATTRACTION: Her, Ex Machina, Making Mr. Right

Can AI offer humans genuine connection? Can AI be trusted? It is worth it to bang a bot?!? Tune in for SITC's most thought-provoking episode to date in which Torie and Maggie disagree A LOT.
Oscar Isaac's misogynist tech bro gets served by the scariest sexbot of all time in Alex Garland's masterfully character-driven psychological mindf**k EX MACHINA (2014). A mustachioed Joaquin Phoenix turns up the heat with Manic Pixie Dreambot Samantha in Spike Jonzes's insufferably twee but undeniably poignant romantic classic HER (2013). John Malkovich charms as a wacky, well-endowed robot in Susan Seidelman's darling diamond in the rough MAKING MR. RIGHT (1987). 

CUMMING OF AGE CLASSICS PART 2: Y tu mamá también, Turn Me On Goddammit, Stealing Beauty w/ Cecilia Conti

Returning special guest Cecilia Conti joins Torie and Maggie to discuss three eminent coming of age narratives with some solid silver screen sex. 
Cringe comedy has integrity and dick poking gets literal in TURN ME ON, GODDAMMIT/FÅ MEG PÅ, FOR FAEN! (2011), a Norwegian hidden gem Torie incorrectly refers to as Swedish. Horney men run amok and Torie fails to distinguish Italian character names in Bernardo Bertolucci's mid-90s Liv Tyler flick, STEALING BEAUTY (1996). Cinema's most legendary ménage à trois crowns the gut-wrenchingly moving, multi-layered masterwork Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN (2001). Bonus - Cecilia shares her story of meeting Diego Luna who, we are thrilled to report, is genuinely a sweet guy!!

SEX ON THE BEACH: The Blue Lagoon, Paradise, Summer Lovers

Quick note for our listeners. Apologies for minor technical issues, we recorded this "campfire episode" during a power outage on the first day of Mercury in Retrograde. Also, trigger warning for a brief mention of suicide in our coverage of the first film. 
As we round out the summer, SITC is setting the scene on theme with three films featuring sex on the beach (coitus, not cocktails). 
Torie and Maggie kick off with the Brooke Shields blockbuster and kissing cousin's classic THE BLUE LAGOON (1980). Maggie is thrilled with Torie's burgeoning bi-sexuality specific to the one Phoebe Cates in the atrocious Blue Lagoon ripoff, PARADISE (1982). Throuples and lizards run rampant on the island of Santorini in SUMMER LOVERS (1982) starring a young Daryl Hannah and Peter Gallagher. 

LADIES IN LOVE: Desert Hearts, Blue is the Warmest Color, Personal Best

Holy tits! It's SITC's one-year anniversary!!! To mark this momentous occasion, we're covering three (markedly more) momentous classics of lesbian cinema.
Barren deserts and parched pussies get WET in the moving indie darling DESERT HEARTS (1985). Female pentathletes engage in erotic arm wrestling in PERSONAL BEST (1982). Torie and Maggie color commentate seven minutes of male gaze-infested f**king in the Palme d'Or-winning masterpiece, BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (2013). 

POETIC PERIOD PIECES: Cold Mountain, Shakespeare in Love, Dangerous Beauty

From love letters to love poems to lyrical Venetian rap-battles, these three historical dramas put the PEN in penis. 
Jude Law makes a lot of noise playing a man of few words in COLD MOUNTAIN (2003). Verses get venereal in DANGEROUS BEAUTY (1998). Theatre once again proves its inherent queerness in SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998). 

UNCUT AND UNRATED: Religious and Raunchy

Welcome to Uncut and Unrated, SITC's version of the re-release.
Instead of a straight up re-post of an older episode, we're giving you the podcast equivalent of a Director's Cut.
SITC Uncut and Unrated includes everything we would have kept in - the digressions, the truly cringe-worthy anecdotes, and the content our paranoia convinced us would get us cancelled. LISTEN AT YOUR OWN RISK. 
In the meantime, SITC is banking content like good little podcasters. Keep your ears open and your eyes peeled for all-new episodes dropping soon!
We hope you enjoy the Uncut and Unrated version of Religious and Raunchy, one of our favorite episodes to date. 
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Heresy alert! Please be advised this episode contains some serious sacrilege.
Maggie drools over Gael Garcia Bernal in THE CRIME OF PADRE AMARO (2002). Torie gets a little (way) too excited about THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (1988). Maggie gags on her sandwich during THE NAME OF THE ROSE (1986), whereas Torie finds an unexpected new crush.