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#651 - Break the Barrel
The same year that American Pie became a cultural phenomenon, BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER (1999) re-invented the teen comedy from a queer angle. We try to …
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PREVIEW - #650 - An 'I Love Lucy' Number (Newsroom Part 17)
How far is one of America's most famous liberal creators willing to accommodate a critique of institutional power? We return to Aaron Sorkin's THE NE…
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#649 - Once Upon a Time on King Street
What if a middle-aged Toronto-based businessman decided to become Robert De Niro? Friends, you don't have to wonder! We discuss the hilarious vanity …
1 year, 1 month ago
PREVIEW - #648 - Exctinction of the Dinosaur Hour
We make one last, final, terminal - we really mean it, this is the last one unless they make a second season! - visit to our favourite British instit…
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#647 - Chungking Express
In 1994, Hong Kongers were counting down to the looming Mainland handover. But some of them were also counting down to the expiry date on a can of pi…
1 year, 2 months ago
PREVIEW - #646 - To Be or Not to Be
Released just months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Ernst Lubitsch's TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942) combined farce and thrills in Nazi-occupied Poland.…
1 year, 2 months ago
#645 - NatSec: Shock and Terror
In WAR OF THE WORLDS (2025), Ice Cube stars as a Homeland Security analyst who uncovers a Deep State surveillance plot AND foils an alien invasion - …
1 year, 2 months ago
#644 - Her Celluloid Self
Donald Trump has said repeatedly that Billy Wilder's SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) is one of his favorite movies. We revisit one of Hollywood's enduring cl…
1 year, 2 months ago
PREVIEW - #643 - In Search of Lost Timelines
Ari Aster's EDDINGTON (2025) takes us back to the lockdown year of 2020, satirizing the many archetypes and discourses - right, left, and centre - th…
1 year, 2 months ago
PREVIEW - #642 - Penn and Teller's Bullshit
In the 2000s, there was one form of political iconoclasm that was guaranteed to never get you in any trouble, and it was called libertarianism. At th…
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