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SPACE JAM REVIEW: 25 YEARS LATE
LexG riffs about coming to ‘90s kid “classic” “Space Jam” a quarter century late, and how the silly movies we watch as kids stick with us.
5 years, 1 month ago
LEXG OFF-TOPIC MUSIC EPISODE: ROCK AND METAL 1982-1995
Nothing about sheen or movies in this one, so no hard feelings if it’s not for you. I talk about being a dork trying to rock out when I was already t…
5 years, 1 month ago
LEXG ON FILM TWITTER, ELAINE MAY, THE MALE GAZE, AND LIV TYLER
Freeform rant about various ways in which we process movies now versus my formative era.
5 years, 1 month ago
SPIKE LEE LIGHTNING ROUND
I take you through the films of Spike Lee, from thematics to wardrobe to music to SHEEN to how his filmmaking evolved, interweaving stories of where …
5 years, 1 month ago
SCHWARZENEGGER LIGHTNING ROUND
A little trip down memory lane as I discuss Arnold’s biggest hits of the ‘80s and ‘90s. Apologies to any “Junior” superfans — just genuinely forgot a…
5 years, 2 months ago
MY VIDEO STORE MEMORIES
I talk about my memories of VHS, mom-and-pop video stories, and Blockbuster in the 1980s and ‘90s, with some discussion of the documentary “The Last …
5 years, 2 months ago
INTRODUCTION TO SHEEN
I explain the concept of movies and TV having a SHEEN. Visual sheen can be a result of painterly cinematography, a television broadcast signal, a stu…
5 years, 2 months ago
ZONING OUT AT THE MOVIES
I discuss the phenomenon of zoning out when watching a movie. When exhaustion, boredom, sameness, dull sheen, and bad projection intersect, you enter…
5 years, 2 months ago
THE FILMS OF JOEL SCHUMACHER
I go through the career of the late, great Joel Schumacher, focusing on how this genial libertine often had an inadvertently darker undercurrent.
5 years, 2 months ago
STEVEN SPIELBERG LIGHTNING ROUND
I go through every Spielberg movie from Duel to Ready Player One in an epic endurance test. Enjoy at your leisure, apologies for the length!
5 years, 2 months ago