Sewers of Paris: Fairies and Mortals Can't Get Married (Ep 546 - The Wizard of Oz/Dee)
To mark the recent release of the second Wicked film, for this week’s episode of The...
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Bonus! Which witches are actually queer?
Are the witches of Wicked queer? How about the witches in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz? There's a lot of rumors and speculation about the actors in both films, with some sources claiming Glinda a...
2025-11-23 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostSewers of Paris: Give Yourself a Little Pleasure (Ep 545 - Christmas film noir/Alonso Duralde)
I am delighted to welcome back a friend of the Sewers, film critic and holiday aficionado,...
2025-11-20 22:20:09 +0000 UTC View PostBonus video! Did these Hollywood-types really eat spaghetti with their hands?
Did director Joe Pasternak and actor Anthony Perkins REALLY eat spaghetti with their hands? In this week's bonus video, we're tackling an extremely bizarre Hollywood mystery. In a documentary about...
2025-11-16 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostIt Makes Every Gay Bone in my Body Vibrate (Ep 544 - Broadway/Stephen Oremus)
The second of the Wicked films comes out later this month, and so for this week’s episod...
2025-11-13 17:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostBonus! Meet the fairies who made MGM musicals so gay
MGM musicals are known for being big, brassy, sassy musical humdingers. They're big and bold and bright and colorful and cheerful and ... very, very, very gay. Why is that, though? Well, it's thank...
2025-11-09 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostJanky and Dark: (Ep 543 - Maurice Sendak/Trung)
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Bonus! Comparing Young Frankenstein vs Old Frankenstein
Hello there! I wanted to get the bonus video out a few days early this week so you can join us for a very special two-day livestream on Twitch this weekend. This Saturday and Sunday, we'll be watch...
2025-10-31 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostSewers of Paris: I Was Born This Way (Ep 542 - Bewitched/Wellington)
My guest this week has been giving a lot of thought lately to what he was born to do. Wellington Lo...
2025-10-30 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostSewers of Paris: It Scared the Sh*t out of Me (Ep 541 - Halloween/Jim)
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Bonus! Prince Charming's affair with the Bride of Frankenstein's bisexual husband
Some very fun gossip in this week's bonus video: Back in the 1940s, the actor who voiced Disney's Prince Charming had a not-very-secret affair with the actor married to The Bride of Frankenstein. B...
2025-10-12 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostSewers of Paris: Swept Away by Dracula (Ep 540 - Frankenhooker/Jeffrey)
Now that we’re in October already, it’s a fine time to reflect on the uncanny grasp that horror...
2025-10-09 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostBonus! Andy Warhol's Frankenstein is not what it claims to be
The film Andy Warhol's Frankenstein is not actually, as the name might suggest, the work of Andy Warhol. (Aside from one visit to the set and his attendance at an after party.) So how did ...
2025-10-05 16:00:33 +0000 UTC View PostSewers of Paris: It Was Really Dark and Kind of Scary (Ep 539 - The Neverending Story/Mark Waddell)
My guest this week on The Sewers of Paris podcast is writer Mark Waddell. His novel, 2025-10-02 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Sewers of Paris: Demons & Ghosts (Ep 538 - The Addams Family/Hamish Steele)
As you may have seen, I have a new video premiering this weekend about the 1985 film Kiss of t...
2025-09-25 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostBonus! How J. Lo became Spider Woman (and invented Google Image Search)
Jennifer Lopez has been waiting her whole life to be in a great big MGM-style musical... and now she is! In this week's bonus video, we're taking a look at some fun stories about how she wound up i...
2025-09-21 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostSewers of Paris: I Bluffed (Ep 537 - David/Winter Kept us Warm)
My guest this week on The Sewers of Paris is David Secter. As a student in the 1960s, Davi...
2025-09-18 18:36:26 +0000 UTC View PostBonus! Before he was Gomez Addams, Raul Julia mastered Shakespeare & cyberpunk
Of course we love Raul Julia for his Gomez Addams. But there's so much more to his career: Making Shakespeare Puerto Rican, dabbling in a sort of pre-The-Matrix cyberpunk movie, a recurring role on...
2025-09-14 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe Lure of London (Ep 536 - Dr Who/Lee and David)
I’m chatting with two guests on The Sewers of Paris podcast this week: TV producer David...
2025-09-11 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostBonus! The "Lost" Marvel X-Men film that never was
Back in the 1980s, the guys who wrote Conan the Destroyer wrote an X-Men film that was supposed to be the launch of a Marvel movie universe ... but then the studio fell on hard times, the ...
2025-09-07 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostFeeding the Hungry & Getting Close to the Naked (Ep 535 - Next to Normal/Joseph)
My guest on The Sewers of Paris this week is the Reverend Joseph Peters Matthews, the vica...
2025-09-04 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostWhat makes X-Men so Queer? (Ep 534 - JP Karliak & Anthony Oliveira)
I have two guests on this week’s Sewers of Paris, both of them connected to a secret soc...
2025-08-28 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostBonus! How Marvel executives were bullied into having the first gay superhero
Sometimes, you can get your way through polite negotiation. And other times, you just have to be a real jerk about it. That's what happened with Northstar, the first openly gay superhero at Marvel:...
2025-08-24 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostSewers of Paris: Thirst Trap Daddies (Ep 533 - Star Trek/David)
My guest on The Sewers of Paris this week is David Duffield, who simultaneously lives in the p...
2025-08-21 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostBonus! How Wolverine became Hugh Jackman (or the other way around)
It's hard to imagine anyone other than Hugh Jackman in the role of Wolverine, and yet ... it very nearly wasn't. And it's even harder to imagine anyone other than Ian McKellen playing Magneto (succ...
2025-08-17 16:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a Rock Concert (Ep 532 - A Star is Born/Jon Kinnally)
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Bonus! Why stealing movies is good, actually
There are two different versions of But I'm a Cheerleader -- one that looks great, and another that looks absolutely terrible. And of course, the terrible version was the only one you could get for...
2025-08-10 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostSewers of Paris: Old Enough to be a Geek (Ep 531 - Star Trek/Seán)
My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is from the future. Sean’s the host of the <...
2025-08-07 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostBonus! What's really behind those BONKERS ex-gay "cures"
There are a lot of "ex-gay" "therapists" who say they can "cure" homosexuality. But they more you hear about their supposed treatments, it's hard not to notice that a lot of them seem really really...
2025-08-03 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostSewers of Paris: Your Secret Would be Out (Ep 530 - Planet of the Apes/Bill)
You are almost certainly acquainted with my guest on this week’s episode of The Sewers of Paris 2025-07-31 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post