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PREVIEW - #603 - Hail, Coens!
The Coen Brothers' BURN AFTER READING (2008) offers a jaundiced take on Washington and its institutions at the tail end of the Bush era. We were in a…
1 year, 7 months ago
#602 - Prestige Slop
Imagine someone fed the last 10-or-so years of American liberal politics into an A.I. machine and told it to create a Netflix miniseries. Friends... …
1 year, 7 months ago
PREVIEW - #601 - Machine Gun Preacher (w/ Alex Shephard)
What if the makers of the God's Not Dead movies attempted a violent action film that combined John Wick and Taken with a Christian message? Friends, …
1 year, 8 months ago
#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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago