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Millennium Actress with Hoai-Tran Bui
Our Satoshi Kon series continues with his 2003 film Millennium Actress, a moving exploration of memory, history, and the magic of da moviesh. Writer …
1 year, 9 months ago
Perfect Blue with Bowen Yang
Welcome to the filmography of Satoshi Kon - a thrilling series of funhouse mirrors and puzzlebox narratives that proved what is possible in the anima…
1 year, 9 months ago
Basic with BenDavid Grabinski
Our McTiernan series concludes with 2003’s BASIC - a film that Griffin thinks should instead be titled “COMPLICATED” - get it? Because there are so m…
1 year, 9 months ago
Rollerball with Zach Cherry
Finally, we arrive at the film that helped put John McTiernan in both “director jail” and “jail jail” - the incoherent nu-metal fart that is 2002’s R…
1 year, 10 months ago
The 13th Warrior with David Lowery
What if there was a 13th Warrior? What if there was a version of Beowulf so grounded in reality that the climactic battle with Grendel just kind of f…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) with Amanda Dobbins
A Fiji water bottle. “Sinnerman” by Nina Simone. That Magritte painting with the bowler hat. A SCINTILLATING, AGE-APPROPRIATE ROMANCE WITH TWO OF THE…
1 year, 10 months ago
Die Hard with a Vengeance with Shea Serrano
John McTiernan back with the Die Hard franchise after the spectacular flop of Last Action Hero. Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson back together after…
1 year, 10 months ago
Last Action Hero with Paul Scheer & Jason Mantzoukas
You either love this movie or you hate it, and guess what - we’re landing all over the LOST ACTION HERO spectrum this episode! Paul Scheer & Jason Ma…
1 year, 11 months ago
Medicine Man with Jamie Lee
Oh baby, this one’s a STINKER! Sean Connery finds the cure for cancer but then he loses it (??). Lorraine Bracco delivers all of her dialogue like so…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Hunt For Red October with Jamelle Bouie
We love da submarinesh! Host of “Unclear and Present Danger” Jamelle Bouie joins us this week to talk about middle aged white guys, airport novels, a…
1 year, 11 months ago