Episode 066: Sneakers and Baby Driver
It's a double feature of offbeat heists! Heist movies are a staple of the MG diet - and tonight we have a double-feature of offbeat...
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Apr 27, 20211 min read
Episode 065: Paris, Texas & Blood Simple
It's a Texan double feature this time on MG - First is the Coen Brothers’ debut film Blood Simple, a seething neo-noir that rocked the...
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TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Apr 15, 20211 min read
Episode 064: Tenet & Primer
For the third in our Time Travel series, we present two strangely similar films that were made at opposite ends of the budget spectrum,...
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TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Nov 12, 20201 min read
Episode 053: The Keep & Legend
Directors Michael Mann and Ridley Scott have each developed a strong brand for themselves, so when you see their name on the marquee, you...
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TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Oct 28, 20201 min read
Episode 052: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Join MG for a Halloween treat as we take on our first Twitch-based episode! Classic films always set a standard, but few movies are so...
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TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Oct 14, 20201 min read
Episode 051: Akira & The Promised Neverland
Chris' daughter Lily is with us tonight to talk about the current state of anime! The iconic Japanese style of animation and storytelling...
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TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Sep 30, 20201 min read
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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TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Sep 16, 20201 min read
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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TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Sep 1, 20201 min read
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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TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Aug 19, 20201 min read
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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TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Aug 5, 20201 min read
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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TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Jul 22, 20201 min read
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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TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Jul 8, 20201 min read
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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TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Jun 24, 20201 min read
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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TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Jun 10, 20201 min read
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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TEAM MARTINI GIANT
May 27, 20201 min read
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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TEAM MARTINI GIANT
May 13, 20201 min read
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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TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Apr 29, 20201 min read
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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TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Apr 15, 20201 min read
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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TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Apr 1, 20201 min read
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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