I've developed an unhealthy obsession with the Real Housewives, let's face it. But for as much vapid bickering over white wine as there is on any iteration of this show, every once in a while it gets refreshingly real. This week I'm diving into

Episode 65: All About All About My Mother (w/ Leanne Kubicz!)

Feb 15th, 2022 1h 6m

In the Details is back this week/month/year to queen out on Pedro Almodovar's homage to mothers, actresses and the modern melodrama, 1999's "All About My Mother." Joining me this week is the always brilliant Leanne Kubicz to help me dive into t

Episode 64: Fever Dreams on VHS

Oct 28th, 2021 29m 18s

Just in time for Halloween, I've curated a fantasy movie marathon of some of the more questionable choices in the horror movie aisle of yesteryear's video store. These are not just bad movies (though I don't know if any of them would qualify as

Episode 63: Panic on the Platform

Oct 14th, 2021 30m 20s

One of the rings of hell is likely a New York City subway station in the 80's. And it probably looks like the 59th Street stop depicted in 1980's super sleazy "Maniac." I can't say I recommend the movie, but the subway scene with the nurse is a

Episode 62: A Spooky Masseuse and a Suspicious Spouse

Oct 5th, 2021 33m 18s

I’m kicking off a month of Spooky Nuances with the 1950 film noir classic “In a Lonely Place,” a tense and twisted vehicle for superstars Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame that also features a face journey by actress Jeff Donnell as the suspic

Episode 61: Oh Mo, We Gotta Touch This

Sep 17th, 2021 28m 46s

After an extended spring break and summer vacation, I'm back this week with some thoughts on Malignant, Bernard Hermann's score for Sisters, the shows Work in Progress and The Other Two, and Sarah Paulson's Linda Tripp, before a necessary celeb

Episode 60: The Undoing of the Enlightened Flight Attendant

Mar 15th, 2021 40m 43s

I was quick to write off both "The Undoing" and "The Flight Attendant" only months ago, but after finally bingeing both, I found reasons to appreciate both shows--specifically, some fine actressing from Nicole Kidman, Lily Rabe, Noma Dumezweni,

Episode 59: Cherishing Valerie - Part 7: Valerie Loses It

Feb 4th, 2021 25m 36s

The much anticipated next chapter of "Cherishing Valerie" is here! This week we're breaking down Val's biggest meltdown, the Season 2 desert monologue. And perhaps it's perfect timing--never more have I identified with a woman in a track suit m

Episode 58: The 3rd Annual Nuancies

Jan 10th, 2021 59m 34s

Awards season has officially begun this year! My fake award show looking back at a years' worth of episodes, plucking out the highlights, then ranking them on a purely emotional basis is back for a third year. The Nuancies are bigger than ever,

Episode 57: A Visit From Mrs. Daigle

Nov 28th, 2020 1h 5m

Few actors can play drunk as convincingly as Eileen Heckart does in 1956's "The Bad Seed." Heckart won the Golden Globe and was nominated for both the Oscar and a Tony in the Broadway production a couple years earlier for her heartbreaking port

Episode 56: The Exquisite Agony of Christine Penmark

Nov 2nd, 2020 38m 51s

1956's "The Bad Seed" is most well-known for being a pioneer of the "killer kid" horror sub-genre. But it also features three Oscar-nominated female performances--Patty McCormack as the pigtailed psycho Rhoda Penmark, the brilliant Eileen Hecka

Episode 55: The Stepford Best Friend

Oct 18th, 2020 43m 31s

One of my favorite things about "The Stepford Wives" is the dynamic duo of Joanna and Bobbie--two former city girls turned suburban moms who find refuge in each other's humanity in the sinister utopia of Stepford. This week I'm queening out on

Episode 54: The Last Two Minutes of Lunch Meat

Oct 9th, 2020 25m 39s

If "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is the filet mignon of horror movies, this is boiled bologna at best. Today I'm digging into the ultra-obscure shot-on-video, zero budget 1987 slasher "Lunch Meat," and specifically, it's bizarre and oddly fascinati

Episode 53: Meryl Crying Against the Dishwasher

Sep 29th, 2020 39m 57s

It's just too much! This episode I'm queening out on Meryl Streep and Jeff Daniels' emotionally precarious minutes together in "The Hours." Julianne Moore's talking through tears and Nicole Kidman's raspy grasp of an Oscar get moments of apprec

Episode 52: This Song Can't Get Its Sh*t Together

Aug 3rd, 2020 48m 9s

There are few things I love more than an over the top movie soundtrack. This week I'm highlighting some insanely good Italian horror movie soundtracks that are all over 30 years old but could have been recorded last year, and are bonkers in the

Episode 51: Good Grief

Jul 5th, 2020 37m 22s

This week, I correct a grievous error from last week's episode that, well, no one would probably notice but me, and highlight some Blanche Devereaux nuances I forgot to mention! Plus: some thoughts on the 2007 revival of "Company," a re-appreci

Episode 50: The Blanche Devereaux Episode

Jun 22nd, 2020 50m 24s

I've been wanting to celebrate Rue McClanahan's nuanced Golden Girl Blanche from the moment I first watched her figure out what "lesbian" meant. Blanche is more than just the original Samantha Jones--while she's best known for being a vivacious

Episode 49: Rose's Last Birthday

Jun 12th, 2020 24m 52s

Rose Nylund may seem like the least nuanced of the Golden Girls gals, but in one Season 6 episode, she got a whole scene to herself to prove otherwise. Betty White hand acts and self-interrupts and eventually even talks through tears in a brill

Episode 48: The North Avenue Character Actresses (w/ Craig Filar)

May 8th, 2020 1h 12m

The North Avenue Irregulars is an admittedly obscure 1979 Disney family film, and an unlikely source of nuance. But not only is the movie teeming with double entendre and a delightfully 70's color palette, it's filled to the brim with wackadoo

Episode 47: A Tearful Goodbye to Schitt's Creek (w/ Nick Kochanov!)

May 1st, 2020 1h 15m

Canadian cult favorite "Schitt's Creek" went out on a high--not only with a satisfying final season but a post-series documentary/love letter "Best Wishes, Warmest Regards." (I spend the whole episode calling it "Best Wishes, Warm Regards," I k

Episode 46: Channeling My Inner Brenda Vaccaro

Apr 23rd, 2020 34m 56s

Strange times call for strange content! This week I'm queening out on some recent favorite nuances that have found their way into my life in lockdown. From a perplexing Sylvia Miles in "Midnight Cowboy" to some really wackadoo Italian horror mo

Episode 45: I Am Trapped in Small, Private Elevator!

Mar 22nd, 2020 35m 38s

I'm certainly empathetic to poor Mrs. Hilyard in 1964's sweaty, sleazy "Lady in a Cage"--trapped like a caged animal while the world outside seems to go mad. This week I queen out on some of my favorite acting choices from star Olivia DeHavilla

Episode 44: Debbie Does Bayonne (w/ Leanne Kubicz)

Feb 28th, 2020 1h 28m

Hysterical Blindness is a lesser-known HBO original movie from 2002, directed by Mira Nair and featuring a Golden Globe winning performance by Uma Thurman as the occasionally delusional Debbie Miller, looking for love in all the wrong dive bars

Episode 43: On My Bobby Baby 35th Birthday

Feb 1st, 2020 44m 20s

Stephen Sondheim's 1970 musical "Company" snuck up on me at the perfect time in my life. In the months before I turned 35, I discovered (a)musical theatre I genuinely liked and (b)a deep understanding and appreciation of the central character o

Episode 42: Troop Zero Gets a Badge in Nuance (w/ Jonathan Foster!)

Jan 25th, 2020 47m 48s

Allison Janney, Viola Davis, Edi Patterson, Jim Gaffigan and McKenna Grace (and little BSA Bella Higginbotham!) are at the heart of the charming, eventually tearjerking "Troop Zero" that just came out on Amazon Prime. My boyfriend Jonathan jo