R & R Rated: the only podcast that makes your teen years of rewinding sexy film scenes seem like insightful cultural analysis! Film critic and Sexualities scholar Roe McDermott and screenwriter and pop culture critic Rory Cashin look over sex in cinema, and break down why some cinematic representations of sex turn us on, why some make us turn them off, and what themes and messages keep turning up.
What's there left to say about 1995's multi-Razzie award winning cult classic Showgirls that hasn't already been said? Quite a bit actually! Rory has seen the movie a million times, but Roe had never seen this hyperbolic exploration of Las Vegas, sex...
Published 07/28/20
2012's foreign language awards magnet is under the sexy microscope this week, as Roe and Rory examine the cinematic depiction of a life-changing injury, and disability scholars' thinking about this representation of the sex life of a character with a...
Published 07/21/20
Roe & Rory take a look at 2002's romantic drama thriller Unfaithful. Aside from netting Diane Lane an Oscar nomination, it also manages to offer a more complex and interesting examination of infidelity than most Hollywood movies. Until, well, it...
Published 07/14/20