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January 2, 2023

EP 019: Boyhood (2014), Call Me By Your Name (2017) & Coming of Age

Coming of age movies come in many shapes and sizes, but it is a subgenre of films that often evokes a sense of nostalgia for its central chara...

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December 27, 2022

BONUS EP: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) Christmas Special

The holiday season is one of the best times of the year to celebrate cinema and all of the movies that utilize Christmas as setting or subject...

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December 26, 2022

EP 018: The Whale (2022), Critics Choice Awards Nominations & Academy Award Shortlists

In Darren Aronofsky’s first film since 2017, he returns with The Whale, an adaptation of a play by Samuel D. Hunter of the same name. Starring...

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December 19, 2022

EP 017: The Florida Project (2017), Vertigo (1958) & Color in Film

Ever since the advent of color in the 1930's before it became mainstream in filmmaking in the 50's and 60's, filmmakers have fo...

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December 16, 2022

BONUS EP: Babylon (2022)

Damien Chazelle has returned with his first film since 2018 in the form of a grand epic about the transition in early Hollywood to “talkies.” ...

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December 12, 2022

EP 016: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022), Sundance 2023 Lineup & Oscar Predictions (Original Song, Visual Effects, and Sound)

Guillermo del Toro returns to the big screen to bring us the latest iteration of the classic tale of Pinocchio, this time in stop-motion form....

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December 5, 2022

EP 015: Bones and All (2022), Parasite (2019) & Genre Bending

Genre is a term that sets a framework of expectations for an audience based on themes, aesthetic qualities, and narrative characteristics that...

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November 30, 2022

BONUS EP: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) Thanksgiving Special

Rian Johnson and Detective Blanc are back and bigger than ever in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the follow up to the 2019 whodunnit myste...

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November 28, 2022

EP 014: The Fabelmans (2022), Independent Spirit Award Nominations & Oscar Predictions (Production Design, Costume Design, and Makeup/Hairstyling)

Since its world premiere at TIFF where it won the People’s Choice Award, Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical “love letter to cinema,” The Fabe...

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November 21, 2022

EP 013: All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), Inglourious Basterds (2009) & The Ethics of Violence in Cinema

Violence has been depicted on screen since movies were first made, and the contexts within which it has been portrayed have changed over the c...

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November 14, 2022

EP 012: The Banshees of Inisherin (2022), AFI Festival Reactions & Oscar Predictions (Animated Feature, International Feature, and Documentary Feature)

Martin McDonagh returns to direct the dynamic pairing of Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson by returning to the UK with The Banshees of Inisher...

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November 7, 2022

EP 011: Adaptation. (2002), Clue (1985) & The Art of Adaptation

Many of our greatest films have derived from adaptations of books and other source materials begging the inevitable question of whether the bo...

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