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PREVIEW - #530 - Reading The Bellboy In Tehran
Growing up in Iran under the shadow of American imperialism, filmmaker Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa felt an unlikely personal connection with American cinema -…
2 years, 1 month ago
#529 - Robert's Rules of Justice
Our journey through America's second-greatest law-and-order franchise continues with WALKING TALL: THE PAYBACK (2007), a direct-to-video adventure wi…
2 years, 1 month ago
PREVIEW - #428 - Studio Sucky, Part 3: Cheeses of Nazareth
The troops fight abroad, and sketch comedians fight on the home front. In our latest dispatch from the universe of Aaron Sorkin's STUDIO 60 ON THE SU…
2 years, 1 month ago
#527 - Trained to Rule the Waves
In the feature-film adaptation of John le Carré's TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY (2011), Cold War-era Britain doesn't look that much different from beh…
2 years, 1 month ago
PREVIEW - #526 - Studio Sucky, Part 2
It's a jumbo-sized helping of Aaron Sorkin as we continue our descent into madness/journey through STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP. In this instalment,…
2 years, 1 month ago
#525 - Freedom and Freedonia
Maybe it's a fool's errand to look for politics in the Marx Brothers' DUCK SOUP (1933), but nevertheless, many have tried. We discuss the philosophy …
2 years, 1 month ago
#524 - Studio Sucky, Part 1
After inhabiting the White House but before examining the Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin created a show that sought nothing less than to fix the most importa…
2 years, 1 month ago
PREVIEW - #523 - From the Freezer to the Plate
You've seen Air, you've seen Blackberry, and are you ready for the Corporate I.P. genre to reach its baroque period? We discuss Jerry Seinfeld's UNFR…
2 years, 2 months ago
PREVIEW - #522 - The Everything Company (w/ David Moscrop and Mitchell Thompson)
A new campaign to boycott Canada's biggest grocery chain raises a plethora of issues about how monopolies work in Canada, and what role governments a…
2 years, 2 months ago
#521 - The Nazarene Troublemaker
In the election year of 2004, an ultraviolent subtitled right-wing Christian movie became a genuine cultural phenomenon and political lightning-rod. …
2 years, 2 months ago