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Reel 24: Foreign Correspondents
It’s a fact. With some films, all you need to do to enjoy it is shut up and eat your popcorn. With other films you need to be able to buy into the story. And when you’re dealing with films that take place during real events, verisimilitude is where it’s at. If the viewer doesn’t…
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Reel 23: Little Womens
Little Women is a book that’s been adapted into some sort of visual medium, whether it’s a big-screen film, or a TV movie, or even a mini-series, many many times. Now, we have been making an effort to keep the episodes down to a more digestible length, but this time around we’ve got a righteously…
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Reel 22: Southern Stories
Typically, when a film is set in a southern state, we get a lot of rednecks and yahoos behaving badly. That’s not to say that there isn’t any bad behavior in the films reviewed in this episode, but it’s not the focus of the films. In fact, both Dazed and Confused (1993) and Ruby in…
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Reel 21: Ex-Spies
While this is a truly overstuffed episode, it’s worth it just to hear Sean connect all the dots with regard to various people’s Hollywood careers and how they relate to one another. In today’s episode we look at the lives of spies after they’re done being government employees. Our first film is 1998’s Ronin, directed…
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Reel 20: Depression Comedies
We’ve heard any number of film scholars suggest that the films of the Depression Era were meant to be escapist entertainment, and that’s why screwball comedies and lavish musicals really took off during that period. People were having miserable lives, and for a couple of hours they could get away from all that. 1941’s Sullivan’s…
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Reel 19: War is Absurd
Sean went to Boston to visit family. I went to Nashville for a podcasting conference. He and I have had a hectic couple of weeks. But we’re back and better than ever, baby, as we take on a pair of comedies that outline just how insane war can be. Our first entry is 1933’s Duck…
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