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Podcast: Hit Factory
Episode: UNLOCKED: Jade
Description: No new episode this week, so enjoy this unlocked Patreon epsiode...We explore a fascinating critical and commercial dud from the great William Friedkin: 1995's erotic thriller 'Jade'. Topics include the pitch perfect performance from Linda Fiorentino, the film's brilliant "bare essentials" approach to its genres, and its thematic relationship to a classic of the 70s neo-noir canon. We also talk some recent critical misreads of onscreen eroticism and explore a new paradigm of cultural myopia we like to call "The Smoothening".Read "The Sex Scene is Dead. Long Live the Sex Scene" from The...