Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchStigmata (1999): Bleeding Saints, Banned Scriptures and Billy Corgan
Episode 22
The wounds of Christ. A chain-smoking atheist. Gabriel Byrne as a brooding Vatican investigator in designer black. Welcome back to Hot Priest Summer.…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Dogma (1999): Kevin Smith vs. The Catholic League and Bill Donohue
Episode 21
Dogma looms large in the canon of Morally Offensive films, casting a long shadow over many millennial Catholics. For those of us who were teens when …
1 year ago
The Devils (1971): The True Story of Witch Hunts, Mass Hysteria, and Moral Panic in the Catholic Church
Episode 20
On this episode of Morally Offensive, Cisco takes a break, so Bill is joined by frequent guest and film presenter Stephanie Sack along with televisio…
1 year ago
Cruising (1980): Kink, Controversy, and Catholic Guilt with Jim Marcus
Episode 19
Jim Marcus (author, musician, and designer) joins us to dissect the controversy surrounding Cruising (1980), the William Friedkin thriller that pushe…
1 year, 1 month ago
Bonus Episode: Baby Face (1933) Extras!
Episode 18
This week, we were slightly concerned that we would not have our Freddy Got Fingered Episode done in time, so we prepared a backup episode to buy us …
1 year, 1 month ago
Freddy Got Fingered: The Worst Comedy of the 2000s...or Surrealist Masterpiece?
Episode 17
On this episode of Morally Offensive, Bill and Cisco dive headfirst into Freddy Got Fingered (2001), Tom Green’s aggressively unhinged film that migh…
1 year, 1 month ago
Blood for Dracula: “Virginity, Vampires, and the Velvet Underground” with Matt Harding (Severin Films)
Episode 16
This week on Morally Offensive, Bill and Cisco are joined by Matt Harding of Severin Films to unpack Blood for Dracula, the 1974 cult horror film tha…
1 year, 1 month ago
Final Destination (2000): A Pre-9/11, Y2K Time Capsule
Episode 15
On this episode of Morally Offensive, Bill and Cisco revisit the Y2K-era horror classic Final Destination (2000), the film that made audiences afraid…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) — Scorsese, Schrader, Controversy, and the Catholic Backlash
Episode 14
It’s all been building up to this. The Last Temptation of Christ is one of the most, if not the most, controversial films of the 1980s—and of Martin …
1 year, 2 months ago
Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke (1978) — “Dave’s Not Here, Man” (But the Church Definitely Is)
Episode 13
Easter falls on 4/20 this year, so the guys decided to push their Last Temptation of Christ episode back a couple of weeks, to make room for two othe…
1 year, 3 months ago