Ep. 72: THE BAD BATCH (2016) - I Want Spaghetti

Please help the Black Lives Matter movement by visiting this website: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Donate to Trans Lifeline: https://www.giveoutday.org/organization/Translifeline We're back! AGAIN! This week your favorite ghouls discuss Ana Lily Amirpour's sophomore film: The Bad Batch (2016). Topics of discussion: racism, white privilege, the boarder wall, post-apocalyptic fairytales, and the American Dream. --- Follow Bianca Xunise: https://www.instagram.com/biancaxunise/?hl=en Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: The Bad Batch (2016). dir. Amirpour, Ana Lily The Bad Batch Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Batch Ana Lily Amirpour on romance in the desert and the racial controversy over her new film, The Bad Batch by Kaitlyn Tiffany https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/23/15855842/the-bad-batch-interview-ana-lily-amirpour-dystopia Ana Lily Amirpour Responds to Racism Charges — But Won’t Apologize For Making You Uncomfortable by Eric Kohn https://www.indiewire.com/2017/06/ana-lily-amirpour-interview-the-bad-batch-1201846307/ The Bad Batch isn't a great dystopian film, but it's definitely an interesting one by Alissa Wilkinson https://www.vox.com/summer-movies/2017/6/23/15844944/bad-batch-review-ana-lily-amirpour ‘The Bad Batch’ is a poetic — and disturbingly persuasive — parable by By Michael O'Sullivan https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/the-bad-batch-is-a-poetic--and-disturbingly-persuasive--parable/2017/06/22/c8368164-5389-11e7-91eb-9611861a988f_story.html ‘The Bad Batch’ Review: It’s Social Rejects vs. Cannibals in Dystopia U.S.A. by Peter Travers https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/the-bad-batch-review-its-social-rejects-vs-cannibals-in-dystopia-u-s-a-204752/ 'Bad Batch' director on racism, her intentions and growing up Iranian-American by Michael Phillips https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-ana-lily-amirpour-bad-batch-20170627-column.html Maybe someday the world will appreciate The Bad Batch, but not today by Katie Rife https://film.avclub.com/maybe-someday-the-world-will-appreciate-the-bad-batch-1798191861 ‘The Bad Batch’ Review: Cannibals Battle Skateboarders in Confusing Saga by Tricia Olszewski https://www.thewrap.com/the-bad-batch-review-jason-momoa-ana-lily-amirpour/ ‘The Bad Batch’ Review: A Half-Cooked Cannibal Tale BY ADAM CHITWOOD https://collider.com/the-bad-batch-review/ The Title of The Bad Batch Tells You All You Need to Know by Jordan Hoffman https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/09/the-bad-batch-movie-review Film Review: ‘The Bad Batch’ Cannibals and Trump-era politics converge in Ana Lily Amirpour's striking but dissatisfying sci-fi mashup. By Guy Lodge https://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/the-bad-batch-review-1201852606/ The Bad Batch': Venice Review https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/suki-waterhouse-bad-batch-review-925877 Keanu Reeves Gives a Dramatic Pitch for ‘The Bad Batch’ with Ana Lily Amirpour https://www.indiewire.com/2017/06/keanu-reeves-the-bad-batch-interview-1201846642/