Strange and Beautiful Book Club
Episodes
2023 Pride Collection - "In the Flesh (Season 2 Ep.2)" - If you call it a scheme you might as well just say EVIL PLAN
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
2023 Pride Collection - "In the Flesh (Season 2 Ep 1)" - Kieren just hurry up and go to Paris already.
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kieren is back and he's got a job. We pick up some time after the events of the last episode and I can already tell we are going to harder on story th...
"Fifth Element (1997)" - Technicolor Science Fiction perfection.
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bright, bold, ambitious and so narratively tight you couldn't fit a postcard in between the plot points. This movie was, and still is, sheer perfectio...
"Psalm for the Wild Built" by Becky Chambers - Is it a book or a comfortable cup of tea?
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing Feast Sheath and Shatter! The new name for the Book Talks with Kate! In July, Feast Sheath and Shatter will be permanently moving to it's ...
2023 Pride Collection - "In the Flesh (Season 1 Episode 3)" - Two truths and a lie
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The next episode in our 2023 Pride Collection. This is the third and last episode of In the Flesh's initial season and it's a really really good one. ...
2023 Pride Collection - "In the Flesh (Season 1 Episode 2)" - Might want to see a doctor about that Toxic Masculinity.
04 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Trigger Warning: This episode of the Strange and Beautiful Book Club as well as the episode of In the Flesh contain discussions of suicide.This episod...
2023 Pride Collection - "In the Flesh (Season 1 Ep.1)" - Let's Meet the Partially Deceased
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our first introduction to the cast and characters of this wildly layered, emotionally engaging show about Partially Deceased Syndrome Suffers (don't c...
Waterworld (1995) - "Beyond the horizon lies the secret to a new beginning."
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Costner stars in this gluttonously ambitious film about a man adapted for life on the water in world made of water where no one else is adapted ...
Feast, Sheath and Shatter - Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Mass (Throne of Glass Book 5)
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Soldier (1998) - "A fallen hero has one last battle to fight"
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kurt Russell stars as Todd, a now obsolete soldier who must carve out a new life on a trash planet but finds himself thwarted at every turn by his utt...
Near Dark (1987) - "We keep odd hours."
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever asked yourself, what if half the cast of Alien were vampires in a vampire movie that wanted to be a western but couldn't be a western be...
Highlander 2: The Quickening (1991) - "Remember Highlander the first movie? Good, we don't either."
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We polish this absolutely amazing turd of a movie from 1991 in which everyone collectively worked together to create a sequel for a movie none of them...
The Brave Little Toaster (1987) - "From Heartwarming to Horrifying"
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Let's unpack some of the trauma that led us to the quirky podcasters we are today and we owe no small part of that to this movie. It's so rife with re...
Drunk Fantasy Review - "Dungeons and Dragons - Honor Among Thieves (2023)"
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We had another movie planned but things are wild right now and we decided that getting you all an episode this week was of greater moral significance ...
Equilibrium (2002) - "In the near future, freedom is a thing of the past."
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss this near future post apocalyptic (kind of) dystopian film with lots of martial arts and guns. So many guns. The world, and a puppy, are sa...
Vesper (2022) - "One Seed can change everything."
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This movie had so many pieces of wonderful bits that it feels like a shame they couldn't stitch it together into the beautiful whole it definitely cou...
Frailty (2001) - "Only Demons should fear me and you're not a demon, are you?"
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss the 2001 psychological horror masterpiece, Frailty with Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe and Matthew McConaughey in which Bill Paxton good-nature...
Strange and Beautiful Book Club (Trailer)
19 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Krull (1983) - "Rocks in our pockets and a tombstone over our heads."
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The 30 million dollar (roughly 90 million today) fantasy epic that is the very definition of style over substance. Lets face it, a million went to the...
Wing Commander (1999) or "It's not faith, it's genetics!"
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's naval battles... in space. With fighter ships named after swords and space ships shaped like submarines. There's a plot, we think, and someone ac...
Annihilation(2018) - "If I wasn't Kane, what was I? Was I you? Were you me?"
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matt and I tackle this absolute gem, a PRISM if you will, of a horror movie. Surrealist, visually stunning, and absolutely horrific in all the right p...
The Fountain (2006) or "Death is a disease, just like any other."
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In depth discussion of the 2006 visually stunning gem starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz, "The Fountain". A simple, but powerfully told story of l...
Enemy Mine (1985) or "Your Mickey Mouse is one big stupid dope!"
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr. are pure magic in a movie that takes on one of the most quintessential life lessons that we should all embrace: no ...
Wisdom of the Crocodiles or "The line that separates good and evil cuts through every human heart."
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by Erik Hanson of the "Cradle to the Grave" Podcast to discuss a little known Jude Law vampire movie called "Wisdom of the Crocodiles" o...
Solomon Kane (2009) - "The Devil will have his due."
05 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In which we discuss the entertaining but not deep fantasy epic of 2009 starring James Purefoy as the bad-ass puritan warrior involuntarily bound for H...
"Dark City (1998)" or "The only place home exists in your mind."
28 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matt and I delve deep into the 1998 Noir masterpiece that starred Rufus Sewell and Jennifer Connelly along with William Hurt and so many more surprisi...
Defense of Everything Everywhere All at Once and Outtakes: Book Talk with Kate (Murderbot 3 and 4)
22 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Outtakes from our most recent episode of Book Talk with Kate! Includes her defense of Everything Everywhere All at Once, the answer to the question of...
"Jennifer's Body (2009)" or "Do you get all your murder weapons at Home Depot?"
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We had more fun than a barrel full of murderous teenagers possessed by the Beast. We cover everything from the clinical definition of erotic to the fa...
Everything Everywhere All At Once or "Of all the places I could be, I just want to be here with you."
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The long awaited (by some anyways) episode on Everything Everywhere All At Once or the universally loved comedy hit of 2022 that Matt and Rachel....ki...
Love Bites (1993) or "I don't know if I'm witnessing a phenomenon or a felony."
31 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our last episode of 2022! How fitting that it's the 20th episode. We LOVED this movie and had, despite what I thought when I scheduled it, never seen ...
WATCH ALONG: "Scrooged"
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The very first (pre-recorded) Strange and Beautiful Book Club WATCH ALONG! This episode is designed to be listened to while watching the 1988 holiday...