About this episode

The episode discusses the film 'To Die For' and its cultural significance in the 1990s.

This week's BKMC takes a look at director Gus Van Sant's black comedy "To Die For," starring Nicole Kidman. Tom and Lorenzo unpack how the film sits perfectly in a 1990s cultural continuum that includes everything from the Menendez brothers to Cher Horowitz as well as all the ways it eerily predicted the cultural shifts of the internet and social media.

People in this episode

Hosts: Tom, Lorenzo

Topics covered

• 1990s culture
• black comedy
• film analysis
• internet predictions
• social media

Keywords

• To Die For
• Gus Van Sant
• Nicole Kidman
• 1990s culture
• black comedy
• internet
• social media

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: To Die For, Cher Horowitz

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