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Disaster in Pleasantville

Spoilers: We continue the joy of black and white movies from last week, as we bathe in nostalgic television from yesteryear. We completely fail to recognize the obvious transition from talking about a pleasant beer to a pleasant film. We critique the sex positions of fictional virgins. We also disagree with the writer and director…

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Top 10 – Black & White

Spoilers: This week is all about the power and beauty of black and white films, both old and new. We break down a ton of history about how this medium started, and also go in detail about how it manages to still be relevant today. We are excited to share our favorites in every decade…

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Let’s Get Real about Documentaries

This week we explore a new conversational format as we discuss documentary films and filmmakers. The conversation focuses on what makes a good doc versus what can make a doc terrible, and bring up some of our favorites along the way. We cover examples in several subgenres, from sports, music, culture, politics, food, and obviously…

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Top 10 – Villains

Spoilers: Episode Description – We have the extremely difficult task this week of identifying our top ten favorite movie villains of all time. Jake gets Dustin to jump offsides to start the episode, and we completely miss the beer opening. Jake also pulls a fast one by anticipating Dustin’s list in order to free up…

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Waking Up to They Live

We’ve hacked into your podcast stream to warn you we have discovered some disturbing signals, quite by accident. This week our minds are opened by the 1988 John Carpenter cult classic “They Live.” We of course can’t avoid talking about how relevant it still is, how it works so well in the Sci-Fi/Horror genre, and…

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In a Love/Hate Relationship with The Twilight Saga

This week we tackle the most popular, complicated, and disturbing love story of our generation. We go through all five chapters in the Twilight Saga film franchise. We explore how it is possible that we enjoy these movies that are bad on several levels, and how these books and films, which impacted our culture immensely,…

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SNL Characters Get Feature Films

SCHWING!! This week we discuss the highs and lows of the eleven movies based on Saturday Night Live characters. We speculate about why some films work and some don’t, the timing for release they chose, and which characters, if any, could have been more successful. We also watch Christopher Walken dance in the Fatboy Slim…

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American Psycho Proves Why Movies are Better than Books

Is American Psycho the best page to screen adaptation ever? The guys explore that this week in a very adult and very gross conversation that is certainly not for the faint of heart. Dustin shares some very gory differences from the book, while Jake compares the movie to the sequel and somehow also brings Clueless…

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Top 10 – Animated Disney

Spoilers: Episode Description – This week we do a fairly poor job of keeping things PG as we share our top ten favorite animated Disney movies of all time. We have a healthy mix of old and new, and try to explore just what makes Disney the best at this genre of story telling. Join…

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Complex Characters in As Good as It Gets

This week we offer two different perspectives on the 1997 classic “As Good as It Gets” as Dustin has seen it many times since childhood and Jake saw it for the first time this week. We try to get to the bottom of how Melvin Udall, one of the worst people to center a movie…

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