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Reel 65: The Remake Was Better, Part 1
So frequently we bemoan the fact that Hollywood doesn’t seem to have any original ideas. We complain that plots are constantly being recycled, and we get anxiety because films from our childhood are being remade. However, once in awhile—once in awhile—that remake manages to surpass the original. And that’s what this episode, and the next…
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Reel 64: Same Title, Different Movie (redux)
Yowza, my friend. Welcome to the land of weird issues with this episode. Just to peel back the curtain a little bit, Sean and I record an episode, then later on I do some editing, I put in the music and Alex’s bits, then I package everything and run it through some software called Auphonic…
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Reel 63: Same Title, Different Movie
A long while back (Episodes 14—17), we looked at English remakes of non-English films. Those were the same story but different titles. Then in Episode 23, it was four different versions of the same story, with the same title. Now, we give you a pair of films with the same title, but that’s the only…
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Reel 62: Subversive Adaptations
Over the course of this show, Sean and I have covered all kinds of adaptations. Some were based on books, some on record albums, and some on Broadway Musicals (HA! Kidding about that last one; Sean would rather be dragged through broken glass and then dipped in rubbing alcohol). But the one thing they had…
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Reel 61: We May Be Done With the Past…
…but it sure isn’t done with us. Your patience is appreciated with this episode; I spent last weekend at the Southern Studio and had some trouble with my remote access to the files here at home. My brothers and I spent the entire weekend together without any wives or kids; we’d NEVER done that before…
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Reel 59: TANSTAAFL
For the record: Sean kinda hates this title, but there was nothing we workshopped that was any better, so. For the uninitiated, “TANSTAAFL” is an acronym meaning “There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.” It derives from Robert Heinlein’s novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. It’s one of my favorites of his,…
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On the ‘Gram
Hi, folks: Since we’re looking to move away from a certain other social media platform because Elon Killed the Blue Bird, we’ve finally created an Instagram feed. You can find us at: https://www.instagram.com/wordsandmoviespod because we’re clever that way.
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Reel 60: Hail Oceania
Yes, yes, we know. We skipped #59. There’s an explanation at the beginning of this episode, and Mea Culpa. #59 will be the next one we drop. And THAT, rather than this, will finish our tour Around the World in Twenty Films. (So, never mind what Sean says about it being the last stop.) The…
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Reel 58: This Woman’s Work
So many times, it seems, films where women are the central characters seem to treat those women as rather monolithic That may not be quite the right word; let me amend that to say that they’re often treated the same way. Too many of them fail the Bechdel Test*, and that’s a pity. In our…
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A Brief Intermission
Hi there, folks: We know that you’ve been absolutely clamoring for the next episode (shhh, just let us have this), and we’re eager to get it to you. But we learned a couple of days ago that our opening/closing credits are outdated (more even than we thought when we first found out), and so we’re…