Wicker & Wildwood

This week we’re talking about Wicker and Wildwood, two fantasy movies that start with W, take place in the woods, and otherwise have almost nothing in common! But we love a theme so it’s Cottagecore Week, baby!

We get into why Wicker worked so well as a cozy little fairy tale, why the movie is less about sex than the marketing would have you believe, Olivia Colman serving as everyone’s inspiration to make this movie, Alexander Skarsgård really reveling in messing with the weird edges of what his handsomeness does to people, and the very simple idea that maybe you should just like your spouse.

Then we move on to Wildwood, an unbelievably beautiful stop-motion movie that took 16 years to make. We talk about the level of craft, why Emily liked it more than Monika did, why this might be one of the most violent children’s movies we’ve seen in a while, and our ongoing complicated relationship with Portland, Oregon.

(Also, we recorded this on Halloween night and gradually lost our minds. This really isn’t our greatest work.)

Spoilers for Wicker and Wildwood throughout the episode!

00:00 Intro

03:12 Wicker

32:59 Wildwood

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