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Episode 050: Masculin Féminin & Hairspray
At first glance, Chris' pairing of Godard's New Wave groundbreaker Masculin Féminin with John Water's mainstream crossover Hairspray...
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Oct 1, 20201 min read
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Episode 049: The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
When Julian Schnabel decided to make a film out of of Jean-Dominique Bauby's autobiographyThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly, he was...
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Sep 17, 20201 min read
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Episode 048: I Shot Jesse James & The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
MG takes on a double dose of Jesse James! First up: Samuel Fuller'sI Shot Jesse James from 1949, a film that many regard as the most...
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Sep 2, 20201 min read
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Episode 047: Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Seymour: an Introduction
Steven Spielberg's masterpiece Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a deeply personal film - it's one of the few screenplays he wrote...
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Aug 20, 20201 min read
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Episode 046: Time Travel Part 2
We dive into our second Time Travel episode with a double-dose of 50's nostalgia: Frances Ford Coppola'sPeggy Sue Got Married, and Gary...
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Aug 6, 20201 min read
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Episode 045: Brainstorm
Douglas Trumbull is a legend in the world of VFX; the iconic imagery and techniques he developed for such classics as Ridley Scott'sBlade...
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Jul 23, 20201 min read
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Episode 044: Grizzly Man
For nearly sixty years, Werner Herzog has been a force in world cinema, serving as an inspiration to both mainstream and independent...
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Jul 9, 20201 min read
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Episode 043: Godzilla vs Runaway Train
Tonight MG offers a strange double feature as we take a look at two very different films.First up: the little-remembered American...
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Jun 25, 20201 min read
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Episode 042: The Death of Stalin
Over the past decade, Armando Iannucci has delivered some of the sharpest, most bitter political comedy we've ever seen - and from his...
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Jun 11, 20201 min read
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Episode 041: Early Woody Allen
Woody Allen has averaged a production rate of a movie a year since 1966: in just over five decades, he's made over fifty films. Luckily...
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May 28, 20201 min read
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Episode 040: Wes Anderson Films
Few filmmakers have realized their personal style so thoroughly as Wes Anderson, whose movies have only become more stunningly art...
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May 14, 20201 min read
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Episode 039: A Clockwork Orange
MG puts Chris through the Ludovico treatment! Yep, the rumors are true: even though Stanley Kubrick's bizarre, ultra violent masterpiece...
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Apr 30, 20201 min read
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Episode 038: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Most fans think of Ferris Bueller's Day Off as more or less The Rosetta Stone of 80's film, as it is both a perfect cross-section of that...
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Apr 16, 20201 min read
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Episode 037: The Wrong Guy and Run Ronnie Run
MG knows that, like everyone else in our socially-distanced world, you've probably reached the end of Netflix by now - so this week we...
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Apr 2, 20201 min read
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Episode 036: Marriage Story
MG takes on Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story in an episode that is a bit of a time capsule it was recorded a few months ago, before we had...
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Mar 19, 20201 min read
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Episode 035: Shampoo
Hal Ashby made some of the greatest movies of the 1970's, from The Last Detail, to Coming Home, to Harold and Maud - so why have so few...
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Mar 5, 20201 min read
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Episode 034: The Irishman
With a budget of 159 million, Netflix's epic The Irishman was an expensive experiment, combining cutting-edge VFX and old-fashioned...
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Feb 20, 20201 min read
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Episode 033: Bad Boy Bubby with Justin Denton
Director Justin Denton joins us to talk about 'Bad Boy Bubby,' a movie none of us had heard of, let alone seen. But it's safe to say that...
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Feb 6, 20201 min read
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Episode 032: John Wick trilogy
After The Matrix trilogy began with a bang but ended in a whimper, Keanu Reeves' career seemed to wander: a string of misfires, including...
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Jan 23, 20201 min read
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Episode 031: Titanic
When James Cameron launched his passion project Titanic in 1997, Hollywood braced for disaster - it was already legendary for it's wildly...
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Jan 9, 20201 min read
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