Four Favorites: Gemma Gracewood & Slim on Strictly Ballroom, Robocop and human nipples

A podcast hosted in fear is a podcast half-hosted—so now we have two hosts! Slim and Gemma introduce a new format, in which we interrogate a guest about their four Letterboxd favorites. First in the hot seat: the hosts themselves. Slim makes Gemma watch Vanilla Sky, while Gemma puts Slim through his bago-pago with Strictly Ballroom. Plus: Daniel Day-Lewis’s most surprising role, Paul Verhoeven’s normalization of the nipple, and Mark Ruffalo can be anything you want. Finally, the pressing question: are you Team Tom or Team Nicole? Related links: The Letterboxd list of films mentioned in this episode The Official Letterboxd Top 250 Edgar Wright’s 100 Favorite Comedies “Being tasteless paid off”: the Mank couple in Slate Gemma’s A Room with a View review Slim’s Robocop review and North by Northwest review 70mm Podcast Slim’s stats Gemma’s stats Slim’s Man Ass list Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible—the documentary about Australia’s legendary film editor Lockdown Thirst: Letterboxd Show episode 4, featuring In the Cut Letterboxd Q&A with Paddington writer-director Paul King Steadicam inventor Garrett Brown’s favorite shots (including Casino’s counting room) Credits: This episode was recorded in Philadelphia and Auckland and edited by Slim. Theme music: ‘Vampiros Danceoteque’ by Moniker. Transcript by Sophie Shin.