Tom & Lorenzo’s Pop Style Opinionfest

Latest Episodes:

Dems With Pecs! Nov 10, 2026

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T Lo take a look at the historic midterms sweep and attribute its
success to the hotties, unpacking how important attractiveness is in
politics and what it means to have people like Jon Ossoff, Abdul
El-Sayed and Sam Forstag as the new, square-jawed faces of the party.
PLUS: The Met Gala's new theme, the DC Studios shakeup, and "Black Doves."

The Bitter Kitten Movie Club: "Les Misérables" (2012) Nov 06, 2026

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T Lo take a hard look at the choices of director Tom Hooper and how they badly served both the musical itself and the performers, resulting in a musical that seemed embarrassed about the conventions of musicals.

Patrick Stewart, James Bond, Celebrity Halloween & AI Nov 02, 2026

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T Lo tackle a whole range of topics in order to distract you from obsessing over the mid-terms, from a remembrance of Patrick Stewart to a rant about celebrity Halloween costumes to their complaints about modern television production and the long wait between seasons to the next James Bond and finally, to the looming threat of AI and what it means to them as publishers.

The Bitter Kitten Movie Club: "The Exorcist" (1973) Oct 30, 2026

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T Lo take a look at the grand-daddy of modern horror, director William Friedkin's "The Exorcist" and look at how the film is less scary than it is disturbing and why the focus on the medical drama before the supernatural kicked in is what elevates the story, along with Ellen Burstyn's iconic performance.

The Bitter Kitten Movie Club: "The Shining" (1980) Oct 23, 2026

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Tom and Lorenzo dive into director Stanley Kubrick's spooky season classic and look at how Kubrick used ambiguity in the story, thereby enraging its author Stephen King. PLUS: Jack Nicholson is NOT the acting MVP of The Shining. Shelley Duvall is.

T Lo Saw "You Can See Everything" Oct 21, 2026

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Tom and Lorenzo dive into Nathan Fielder's reality-bending documentary Elizabeth Holmes and explores how it manipulates reality and why so many people are misreading the film's intent. Hint: It's not a film about Elizabeth Holmes, it's a film about Nathan Fielder.

The Bitter Kitten Movie Club: "Crimson Peak" (2015) Oct 16, 2026

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Tom and Lorenzo dive into director Guillermo Del Toro's gothic horror classic to kick off their spooky season film festival, pointing out the overwhelming aesthetic qualities of the film like the stunning production and costume design, the references to classic cinema, the reasons for certain casting decisions, and the differences between modern horror, gothic horror and gothic romance, which are all baked into the film.

Kelly Clarkson, Fan Culture & The Media Oct 15, 2026

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T Lo weigh in on the biggest, dumbest celebrity story of the month: Kelly Clarkson vs. Brooklyn Boutiques, unpacking all the bad things it says about the culture and the media that kept this pointless story alive much longer than it should have. PLUS: Once again, what are Harry and Meghan even thinking? What's going on with Selma Blair? And why does Saturday Night Live keep bringing Shane Gillis on?

The Bitter Kitten Movie Club: "The Royal Tenenbaums" Oct 09, 2026

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Tom and Lorenzo tuck into director Wes Anderson's whimsically melancholy story of a family of depressed geniuses and the patriarch who's the cause of all their problems, noting the film's innate darkness and how it manages to navigate tales of death, depression, failure and suicide with humor, kindness, and the director's unmistakably mannered style.

Did "East of Eden" Make Cathy into a Heroine? Oct 06, 2026

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T Lo dive deep into the Netflix adaptation of John Steinbeck's "East of Eden," written by Zoe Kazan and starring Florence Pugh as the iconic Cathy Ames. Did Kazan turn Steinbeck's embodiment of evil into a girlboss or did she simply look at the world she lived in through a woman's eyes and write that? Plus: Hoon Lee's stunning work as Lee and why the elder Trask brothers were cast the way they were cast.