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#464 - Wheatfield with Crows
Late in his career, Akira Kurosawa plumbed his subconscious and came up with DREAMS (1990), one of his most underrated films. We discuss the ways tha…
3 years ago
#463 - Jewellbilly Elegy
In 2019, Clint Eastwood's RICHARD JEWELL took aim at two institutions — the FBI and the media — that were supposed to save America from Trumpism. We …
3 years ago
PREVIEW - #462 - The Most Famous Facts Ever
PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/462-most-famous-89633259 In 2009, a wildly popular movie told the allegedly true story of a…
3 years, 1 month ago
PREVIEW - #461 - Set of Assets
PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/461-set-of-89409879 We Need to Talk About the Death (or Rebirth?) of Cinema. On this specia…
3 years, 1 month ago
#460 - The Stranger Song
In Robert Altman's MCCABE & MRS MILLER (1971), a couple of entrepreneurs find themselves crushed by monopoly capitalism. Of course, this could only h…
3 years, 1 month ago
PREVIEW - #459 - Jerry's Kids
PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/459-jerrys-kids-89032472 From 1966 to 2010, THE JERRY LEWIS MDA LABOR DAY TELETHON raised b…
3 years, 1 month ago
#458 - Airport Paperback
Widely described as "Hollywood's response to the Lewinsky scandal," THE CONTENDER (2000) imagines a Vice Presidential confirmation process derailed b…
3 years, 1 month ago
PREVIEW - #457 - Free Drama Movie
PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/457-free-drama-88663195 What happens when a former Democratic member of the United States H…
3 years, 1 month ago
#456 - Collect 'Em All (w/ Jesse Brenneman)
In the middle of the 20th century, some of America's biggest companies made a habit of staging Broadway-quality musicals simply to hype up their empl…
3 years, 1 month ago
PREVIEW - #455 - Avatars of the Astral Worlds
PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/455-avatars-of-88293850 Last week's Republican presidential debate, competing Tucker Carlso…
3 years, 1 month ago