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#600 - The 600th Episode Spectacular
When you speak into a microphone for 600 episodes across nine years, you're going to forget a lot of it. So to celebrate a very special anniversary, …
1 year, 4 months ago
PREVIEW - #599 - Olbermanncore (Newsroom Part 6)
In episode six of THE NEWSROOM ("Bullies"), Aaron Sorkin brings some much-needed shading and complexity to the character of Will McAvoy. But of cours…
1 year, 4 months ago
#598 - We Have Lingered In Puddles of Melted Gremlins
With its Trumpian billionaire presiding over a steamrolling everything-company, Joe Dante's GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH (1990) satirized the 1980s whil…
1 year, 4 months ago
PREVIEW - #597 - Live from Tahrir Square (Newsroom Part 5)
The Arab Spring hits THE NEWSROOM in its fifth episode ("Amen"), but once again Aaron Sorkin finds himself more concerned with Will McAvoy's workplac…
1 year, 5 months ago
#596 - The Union Forever
Paul Schrader's BLUE COLLAR (1978) follows three struggling auto workers who rob their union office and uncover a world of corruption. It's one of th…
1 year, 5 months ago
PREVIEW - #595 - On High in Blue Tomorrows Part 2
David Lynch's most frightening and abrasive movie leads to his most hopeful conclusion. It's part two of our discussion of INLAND EMPIRE (2006). PATR…
1 year, 5 months ago
#594 - Guilty Pleasures (Newsroom Part 4)
Our journey through Aaron Sorkin's THE NEWSROOM arrives at Episode 4 ("I'll Try to Fix You"), in which the power of a conscientiously-run newsroom he…
1 year, 5 months ago
#593 - On High in Blue Tomorrows (Part 1)
We pay tribute to the late, great David Lynch with a two-part discussion of his strangest, most abrasive, and arguably most innovative feature. We di…
1 year, 5 months ago
PREVIEW - #592 - West's Side Story
We recap the first week-or-so of Trump Era 2.0, and then, because we can all use a larf right now, discuss LOOKWELL (1991), the legendary unsold sitc…
1 year, 5 months ago
PREVIEW - #591 - Facts are the Center (Newsroom Part 3)
In episode three of THE NEWSROOM, "The 112th Congress," Will McAvoy finally runs afoul of the people who really run the network. We discuss what Aaro…
1 year, 5 months ago