The Fly (1986)
October 21, 2026
Krissy Lenz and Nathan Blackwell welcome returning guest Eric Weir to revisit David Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986)—Brundlefly, doomed romance, and the deleted scene too gross to keep.
Krissy Lenz and Nathan Blackwell welcome returning guest Eric Weir to revisit David Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986)—Brundlefly, doomed romance, and the deleted scene too gross to keep.
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Krissy Lenz and Nathan Blackwell welcome returning guest Eric Weir to revisit David Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986)—Brundlefly, doomed romance, and the deleted scene too gross to keep.
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Shannon Mauck of the Neighborhood Comedy Theatre joins us to dig into Blood Simple (1984), the lean, sweaty debut that first put the Coen brothers on the map.