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Reel 39: You Can Like Both, Part 4
Even if they haven’t seen it, most people know a little something about The Big Chill, the film released in 1983 that was directed and co-written by Lawrence Kasdan: a bunch of thirty-something types get together and stuff happens. And of course that’s true, but it’s also true that it goes a little deeper than…
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Reel 38: You Can Like Both, Part 3
When two films are this similar in subject matter, it’s curious that they were both released by the same company during the same year (Columbia Pictures, 1964). But therein lies a story, as Sean will tell you during this episode. Both Dr. Strangelove and Fail-Safe deal with an American airplane that’s “gone rogue” for different…
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Reel 37: You Can Like Both, Part 2
This is one of those pairings that’s a little tough to understand why people would be asked to choose between the two films, because they really couldn’t be much more different from one another. But, here we are, telling you that despite what other people have to say, you don’t have to make a choice,…
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Short Subject: Reel 36 Outtake
This one isn’t an outtake so much as it is a little bit of extra stuff we did after recording Episode 36. But we made the template and we’re gonna keep using it. In this clip, Sean had some comments about Auteur Theory when it comes to film, and Claude mostly let him do his…
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Reel 36: You Can Like Both, Part 1
When it comes to daily emails, there are only a few that Claude reads on a regular basis. You know how it goes: you skim the rest of them and maybe click if something is of interest, but generally you’re deleting them until finally you realize that you’re deleting ALL of them and haven’t bothered…
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Short Subject: Reel 35 Outtake
This was a chunk of Episode 35 that went off-topic and we decided to cut it for time, but also thought most of what was said was actually kind of important. Also, we both made a mistake regarding Cecil B. DeMille near the end of the clip, so Claude took the opportunity to eat crow…









