Podcast Episodes

SYSK’s Summer Movie Playlist: How the MPAA Works

You may be surprised to learn those ubiquitous ratings, from G to NC-17, put on movies in America are actually handed down by anonymous employees of …

11 months ago

SYSK’s Summer Movie Playlist: Josh and Chuck's List of Horror Movies that Changed the Genre

Once in a while a movie comes along that's so forward-thinking it changes the way that horror is done. A new subgenre is spawned, new tropes are esta…

11 months ago

SYSK’s Summer Movie Playlist: Special Effects: A Short History

Special effects have been around since the first movies. In fact, the techniques the earliest filmmakers created are still around today, we just use …

11 months ago

SYSK’s Summer Movie Playlist: Some Movies That Changed Filmmaking

An estimated 50,000 films were made worldwide in 2009 alone. Many are surely clunkers, but in this episode Chuck and Josh talk about the ones that em…

11 months ago

SYSK’s Summer Movie Playlist: How Stuntmen (and -women) Work

They get blown up, shot, drowned and thrown out of windows on the silver screen - and we don't even know their names. Stuntpeople are the unsung hero…

11 months ago

SYSK’s Summer Movie Playlist: How Exploitation Films Work

In today's SYSK Select episode, we learn about exploitation films. During the 1930s-80s, the work of directors operating in the shadows of Hollywood …

11 months ago

SYSK’s Summer Movie Playlist: The True Story of BlacKkKlansman

In 2018, director Spike Lee brought the story of Ron Stallworth to the big screen to great effect. Today, Josh and Chuck discuss the true story behin…

11 months ago

SYSK’s Summer Movie Playlist: What's the deal with Bond, James Bond?

James Bond, the most infamous secret agent ever to grace the silver screen, originated in the pages of British author Ian Fleming's novels. Amateur a…

11 months ago

Sunset Blvd: One Famous Road

Sunset Blvd is a long road, but is most known for the 1.7 mile stretch called The Sunset Strip. But it's much more than that.

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11 months ago

Short Stuff: Oedipus Complex

The Oedipus complex is probably Sigmund Freud’s most famous theory – that every little boy or girl goes through a phase where they want to kill one p…

11 months ago