It's here, lawbreakers: our episode on Steven Soderbergh's 2012 runaway hit MAGIC MIKE. Is this a sobering look at economic precarity after the Great Recession? Or is it a movie about gyrating hunks? Here to help us answer that question is writer, adult content creator, and proprietor of Spectrum Boutique, Zoë Ligon! We talk transactional desire, hot bods, side hustles, Zoë's experience seeing Magic Mike Live in Vegas, and a lot more. Look: you're horny, let's do it - listen to the episode, that is!

Plus, a brief note about Minneapolis.

Further Reading:

"'How Would You Like A Lap Dance?': The Oral History of 'Magic Mike'" by Kate Lloyd

"Where Mike Got The Magic" by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Further Viewing:

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (Badham, 1977)

BOOGIE NIGHTS (Anderson, 1997)

BEAU TRAVAIL (Denis, 1999)

STEP UP (Fletcher, 2006)

MAGIC MIKE XXL (Jacobs, 2015)

MAGIC MIKE'S LAST DANCE (Soderbergh, 2023)

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Most movies weren't directed by Steven Soderbergh, but few were as notably not directed by Steven Soderbergh as this one: MONEYBALL, the true story of the 2002 Oakland Athletics' revolutionary sabermetrics-based hiring strategy, was 5 days from shooting when Sony pulled the plug on Soderbergh's version. After a rewrite by Aaron Sorkin and a few cast change-ups, a slicker, Fincher-lite version directed by Bennett Miller made it to theaters, and we're talking about the whole deal. This ep has it all, quite frankly: in-depth script revision analysis, baseball talk, sports politics, and a long conversation about how statistics and "disruption" inform the world. It turns out everything is Moneyball, maybe? Give this one a listen, folks.

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Get your silly little trunks on, listener: we're headed to the octagon this week to talk HAYWIRE, Soderbergh's much-delayed 2011 (anti-?) spy thriller starring MMA fighter Gina Carano. And joining us is our friend, podcaster and musician Ryan Torgeson (@molecularlioneI)! We talk mid-2010s action cinema, mixed martial arts, Soderbergh's decision to alter Carano's voice in post, Carano's decision to blow her career up by being a hateful moron, special consultant and Duvdevan Unit war criminal Aaron Cohen, and more.

Further Reading:

"Steven Soderbergh, an MMA Fighter, and Five Stars Walk Into a Spy Movie" by Adam Nayman

"Gina Carano took her fighting to a new level for 'Haywire'" by Nicole Sperling

"Steven Soderbergh on 'Haywire,' 'Magic Mike' and Why He's Given Up on 'Serious Movies'" by Nigel M. Smith

"Haywire's Body Talk" by Kiva Reardon

"Covert Affairs: Why 'Haywire' is the Most Sneakily Political Movie of the Year" by Matt Singer

"The Vulture Transcript: Steven Soderbergh on Haywire, Pranking Matt Damon, and His Looming Sabbatical" by Jennifer Vineyard

"'Haywire' Star Gina Carano Addresses Voice Alteration Controversy" by Lauren Schutte

"Disgraced actor Gina Carano denies ruining her own career with anti-trans jokes and Nazi comments" by Jake McKee

Further Viewing:

THE IPCRESS FILE (Furie, 1965)

FUNERAL IN BERLIN (Hamilton, 1966)

THE EXPENDABLES (Stallone, 2010)

THE RAID (Evans, 2011)

Scott Adkins movies

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