The Silver Linings Playlist
Not every movie wraps up with a neat little bow on the end. Some leave you asking "what the f@#$?!" We're here to find the silver lining in the latter. Join Dustin, Mallie, and Nathan every Monday as we try to find the light at the end of the tunnel for some of cinema's bleakest endings - and have some laughs while doing so.
Episodes
201 episodes
Episode 196: Hell House LLC (with Michael Moss)
If you’ve ever worked on a feature length film before, you know one thing is for certain: it’s a miracle any movie ever gets made. It’s even more impressive when a bunch of scrappy filmmakers set out to make one with close to nothing for...
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Season 8
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Episode 14
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1:40:47
Episode 195: The Midnight Meat Train
All aboard! Step onto The Midnight Meat Train with us as this week we’re talking about the 2008 box office bomb from Ryûhei Kitamura. Bradley Cooper is about to pop with
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Season 8
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Episode 13
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1:07:40
Episode 194: House (aka Hausu) (with Priscilla Hendry)
As the great poet Gwen Stefani once said: this shit is bananas. 1977’s House (aka Hausu) is anything but conventional – piano monsters, mattress tornados, dancing skeletons, and a painting tha...
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Season 8
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Episode 12
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1:14:00
Episode 193: Jill Rips (aka Jill the Ripper aka Tied Up)
We’re not quite done discussing bondage and all things kinky this week as we cover a movie we guarantee you’ve never heard of. 2000’s Jill Rips (also known as Jill the Ripper or T...
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Season 8
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Episode 11
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1:07:55
Episode 192: Fifty Shades of Grey (with Brian Cottington of The Cinema Psychos Show)
Valentine’s Day is this week – a special time of year where couples and crushes come together to celebrate their romance with one another. But one couple will be doing no such thing. Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey (totally real names) have...
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Season 8
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Episode 10
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1:51:40
Episode 191: The One (with John Houzer)
This week on the program we’re diving back into the world of multiverses to discuss a truly bizarre product of the aughts. Two Jet Lis, nü-metal needle drops, and a pre-bald Jason Statham all get mushed into a blender and out comes 2001’s
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Season 8
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Episode 9
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1:23:23
Episode 190: Madame Web (with Brandi Dewberry and Jenn Paulemon)
Bonjour! A lot has been said already about the absolute trainwreck that is Madame Web – but we still have our fair share to offer as well. Lazy performances, confusing writing, and baffling A...
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Season 8
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Episode 8
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1:42:09
Episode 189: The Hunt (2020)
We’re not quite done discussing the divide between liberals and conservatives this season, but this movie seems to be as 2020’s The Hunt has virtually nothing to say on the topic (other than h...
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Season 8
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Episode 7
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1:27:46
Episode 188: Longlegs
It’s the 13th of the month, and Longlegs only needs one more murder to complete his task! Will he succeed? Will Lee Harker stop him in time? Or will the devil claim another soul? Tune in this...
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Season 8
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Episode 6
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1:48:54
Episode 187: Soft & Quiet (with Priscilla Hendry)
It’s maybe our least favorite day of the year as we’re reminded of a truly embarrassing stain on our nation’s history, so it seems only appropriate to discuss a movie that focuses on similar themes in a microcosm. 2022’s
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Season 8
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Episode 5
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1:39:36
Episode 186: Battle Royale
To cap off a pretty violent year, we’re talking about a pretty violent film with the mother of all death game movies – 2000’s Battle Royale. It was
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Season 8
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Episode 4
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2:14:21
Episode 185: Black Christmas (1974) (with Ashley McGlothren of Southern Haunts)
Ho, ho, fuck: it’s our Christmas episode of 2024, and with how dour things seemed to be this year, we could think of no better movie to discuss this week than the OG Black Christmas from Bob C...
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Season 8
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Episode 3
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1:45:01
Episode 184: Joker: Folie à Deux
If Joker: Folie à Deux is anything, it’s unconventional; jokes on you if you were expecting otherwise from a sequel to its billion-dollar gross...
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Season 8
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Episode 2
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2:05:39
Episode 183: Noah
A flood is coming, and not just the water swallowing the Earth to kill everyone and everything – it’s a brand-new season of our show! We’re back from our much-needed break, and we’re kicking things off with the last of Darren Aronofsky’s theatr...
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Season 8
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Episode 1
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1:44:40
Special Announcement!
Just poking our heads back in for a moment during our summer break to let you know about some big things happening over at TSLP headquarters. The first is that Nathan and Dustin are starting a brand-new limited series podcast about the 1995 cul...
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21:48
Episode 182: Oppenheimer
As we close up shop on Season 7, we could not leave without talking about arguably the biggest movie of 2023. With 7 Oscars and an unfathomable amount of other prestigious awards, Oppenheimer...
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Season 7
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Episode 26
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2:42:33
Episode 181: Shin Godzilla (with JT Kelly and Michael Moss)
Before Minus One got all the love and admiration it so rightfully deserved, there was another Godzilla movie not so long ago that really stomped its way into the hearts of millions. So after ...
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Season 7
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Episode 25
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1:16:03
Episode 180: Totally Killer
Like, we're totally diving into the radical '80s this week as we're talking all about the dark comedy slasher Totally Killer from last year. This one's, like, totally got it all: tubular time...
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Season 7
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Episode 24
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1:05:26
Episode 179: Judas and the Black Messiah (with Brandi Dewberry and Jenn Paulemon)
We couldn't let Black History Month end without discussing not only one of the best movies about Black history, but one of the best movies of the decade. While 2021's Judas and the Black Messiah
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Season 7
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Episode 23
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1:44:06
Episode 178: Stay Alive (with Brian Cottington of The Cinema Psychos Show)
Well, it's been two weeks since we've discussed a video game movie, so time to do another one. But this time, there's a twist: if you die in the game, you die for real! That's right, of course we're talking about none other than 2006's
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Season 7
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Episode 22
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1:48:28
Episode 177: In the Mouth of Madness
This episode is going to drive people absolutely mad! It's the week of Valentine's Day, and you know what that means: it's time to celebrate John Carpenter's utterly bleak view of the world. Or at least that's how we celebrate it around here. W...
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Season 7
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Episode 21
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1:09:16
Episode 176: Mortal Kombat (1995) (with JT Kelly)
We're testing your might and maybe even your patience this week as we're back discussing video game adaptations (and yet another one from Paul W. S. Anderson) with the original Mortal Kombat f...
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Season 7
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Episode 20
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1:44:34
Episode 175: Don't Worry Darling (with Jennie Lee)
2022 was a rough year in the entertainment industry. First there was The Slap, and then there was The Spit – or the alleged spit, we should say. Has there been a wilder ride (one could even say an Olivia Wilde-r ride) than the production and pr...
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Season 7
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Episode 19
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1:26:41