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Wha’ Hoppen?
You might have noticed that the website hasn’t been getting updated, even though new episodes have been coming through for the past few weeks. We’ve been having a weird issue with GoDaddy, our website provider, and after spending literally hours on the phone with them (most of it on hold), we realized that we weren’t…
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Reel 33: Modern-Day Kurosawa
…and by “Modern-Day” we mean that, while Akira Kurosawa is best known for period pieces, in this episode we’re checking out a couple of instances where the film is set in the present day. They have something else in common, too, but you’re just going to have to listen to the episode to find out…
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Reel 32: Cop & Crook Team Up
Sean chooses most of the movies that we cover, and occasionally he chooses stuff that’s a little tough to find. But in the long run you don’t mind going through the hunt, because they’re still a romp. In this episode we first take a look at The Killer, a film from 1989 directed by John…
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Reel 31: Pacino and DeNiro Together
It’s not our worst title, but it does get to the point. Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro appeared in four films together. And that’s if you count The Godfather Part II, in which they shared zero screen time because they appeared in separate timelines. So that really makes three, including a 2008 movie called Righteous…
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Reel 30: Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard started out as a Western novelist, but soon discovered a knack for suspense thrillers and crime fiction. Many of these—and several of his short stories—were turned into feature films or TV movies, and in a couple of cases they became TV series. In this episode we’re looking at two of the better examples…
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Reel 29: Pictures From a Revolution
There was a time, once, when movies had to have a certain look. They needed to be bright so they’d look good at the drive-in theater. They needed to have a specific sound because of technical limitations when presented. They needed to avoid certain topics. They needed to tone down the graphic violence. They needed…









