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Josh Lewis

@thejoshl

Mojito fiend, leftist, film bro, host @sleazoidspod.bsky.social, film programmer, theater manager & physical media guy. I write about movies: http://letterboxd.com/thejoshl

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This week we talked about a movie so nasty @bransonreese.bsky.social apologized for selecting it and @theworstnun.bsky.social was forced to defend it via text message.

09.02.2026 14:56 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sleazoids is a great podcast that did not deserve this all out attack from me.

08.02.2026 23:51 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you do a show called "SLEAZOIDS" long enough I suppose at some point you have to accept that @bransonreese.bsky.social is going to make you log something that puts you on a government watchlist.

08.02.2026 23:25 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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For Patrons, we’ll be back with a bonus episode next weekend on WALKER (1987) + TRIBULATION 99: ALIEN ANOMALIES UNDER AMERICA (1991), for access to that ep (and all past + future bonus eps) subscribe to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/sleazoidsp...

08.02.2026 23:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 419 - HEAVY TRAFFIC (1973) + WICKED CITY (1987) ft. @bransonreese.bsky.social 🚨

This weeks subject is animation for evil perverts.

Listen here:
soundcloud.com/sleazoids/41...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
open.spotify.com/episode/6cXC...

08.02.2026 23:21 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

Someone (aka @theworstnun.bsky.social) finally had us talk about the movie where Guy Pearce & Robert Carlyle want to romantically cannibalize each other as part of a larger horror-western metaphor for America's insatiable manifest destiny greed. Also one of the best (and weirdest) movie scores ever.

27.12.2025 17:35 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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For Patrons, we’ll be back with a bonus episode next weekend on 90s Brian Bosworth action movies: STONE COLD (1991) + ONE TOUGH BASTARD (1996), for access to that ep (and all past + future bonus eps) subscribe to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/sleazoidspod...

27.12.2025 17:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 413 - RAVENOUS (1999) + WOLF'S HOLE (1987) ft. @theworstnun.bsky.social 🚨

This week we discussed female-directed, genre-bending snowy cabin fever horror/political satires.

Listen here:
soundcloud.com/sleazoids/41...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
open.spotify.com/episode/5I7W...

27.12.2025 17:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

This week we continued Noirvember with a pair of LA blaxploitation neo-noirs/crime-thrillers about black women in desperate sociopolitical situations taking matters into their own outlaw action hero hands.

16.11.2025 15:41 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™€οΈ 407 - COFFY (1973) + SET IT OFF (1996) ft. @jaysonbuford.bsky.social πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™€οΈ

Listen here:
soundcloud.com/sleazoids/40...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
open.spotify.com/episode/2z6q...

16.11.2025 15:39 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

An opportunity to share one of my favorite original lobby cards that I own!!! Robert Mitchum drunkenly watching Bobby Orr and going β€œwhat a future he’s got, huh?” not knowing what’s about to happen to him makes me tear up.

08.11.2025 15:46 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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For free listeners, we’ll be back next week with a special guest talking about black female-led crime-thrillers: COFFY (1973) and SET IT OFF (1996), until then here’s a brief teaser for this bonus episode: soundcloud.com/sleazoids/40...

08.11.2025 15:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ 406 - OUT OF THE PAST (1947) + FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE (1973) πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

This week we discussed Robert Mitchum's long face and sad, weary eyes in Tourneur's classic, tragic prototypical 40s film noir and Yates' blunt, unglamourous Boston bank-robbing 70s neo-noir.

Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/406-ou...

08.11.2025 15:45 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

NOIRVEMBER is upon us, and we were lucky enough to have
@meganabbott.bsky.social on to talk about two of her favs: Edgar G. Ulmer's dirty, depressed, intensely psychologically subjective murderous hitchhiking noir and Val Lewton/Mark Robson's bleak, satanic Gothic-horror conspiracy-mystery noir.

02.11.2025 14:37 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ 405 - DETOUR (1945) + THE 7TH VICTIM (1943) ft.
@meganabbott.bsky.social πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

This week we kicked off Noirvember with two of the most dreamlike, expressionist & nihilistic 40s B-noirs.

Listen here:
soundcloud.com/sleazoids/40...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
open.spotify.com/episode/0gHc...

02.11.2025 14:34 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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The Seventh Victim (1943) dir. Mark Robson

28.10.2025 22:41 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Final spooky episode of the year is a big one on some of our favorite guys: Boris Karloff, James Whale, Terence Fisher, Peter Cushing, and Christopher Lee.

27.10.2025 13:41 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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For free listeners, we’ll be back next week with a special guest kicking off Noirvember with: THE SEVENTH VICTIM (1943) + DETOUR (1945), until then here’s a brief teaser for this bonus episode: soundcloud.com/sleazoids/40...

27.10.2025 13:39 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŽƒ 404 - FRANKENSTEIN (1931) + CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957) πŸ‘»

This week we discussed two adaptations of Mary Shelley in different eras of Gothic, sci-fi horror: the iconic pre-Code Universal Monsters take in 1931 and the more graphic & lurid 1957 Hammer Horror update

www.patreon.com/posts/404-fr...

27.10.2025 13:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Looks like our pals at the Sleazoids podcast are now over here. Give them some love.

19.10.2025 17:38 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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For the first time in my lifetime our Toronto Blue Jays are going to the World Series.

21.10.2025 03:51 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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20.10.2025 03:28 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Got the deal.

18.10.2025 16:54 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Literally anytime!!

18.10.2025 16:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This week we had @slimyswampghost.bsky.social back on the pod to discuss a pair of disgusting 1980s Video Nasty slashers that are at times also relaxing, slow-burn remote island travelogues. Pretty hard to scrub the image of George Eastman tearing a fetus out of the womb & chowing down on it after.

18.10.2025 15:51 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŽƒ 403 - ANTHROPOPHAGOUS (1980) + THE SLAYER (1982) ft. @slimyswampghost.bsky.social πŸ‘»

Listen 🎧:
soundcloud.com/sleazoids/40...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
open.spotify.com/episode/1vgM...

18.10.2025 15:49 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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17.10.2025 03:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The best movie podcast is finally on here

16.10.2025 18:10 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Looking at an account on here and trying to figure out if I used to follow it or have it blocked…

16.10.2025 18:22 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They're finally on here!

To me, they are the undisputed best genre cinema podcast.

16.10.2025 17:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0