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Reel 50: Inspired TV
Yow! We’ve made it to the 50-episode mark! Thanks so much for your support; we couldn’t have done it without you. Today we’re looking at a pair of films that bear a very strong resemblance to a pair of television shows, but (on paper, at least) there’s no official connection between the two productions. We…
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Reel 49: Female Thieves
First and foremost, Sean and Claude are celebrating their adjacent birthdays this week. That’s something that neither knew about the other until after they’d started on this project. So, Happy Birthdays to us! Second, Claude really wanted to call this episode “Girls Kicking Ass,” but he chickened out and didn’t petition Sean to change it.…
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Reel 48: A Fan’s Eye View
Strap in, kids, this is going to be a long one. It took forever for Sean and I to get to this particular episode, and both of us have been dying—DYING, I tells ya—to talk about Almost Famous. It may be Sean’s favorite film that doesn’t involve music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It’s certainly one…
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Reel 47: Concept Album Musicals
At last! The last of our “lost” episodes. It’s also almost the end of our run of music-based episodes. This time around we’re sitting in the screening room and looking at a pair of films based on concept rock albums. First up is 1979’s Quadrophenia, based on the 1973 album of the same name by…
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SHORT SUBJECT: The BFI/Sight and Sound 100 Greatest Films Ever (2022)
Not long ago, Sight and Sound, the magazine dedicated to film that’s run by the British Film Institute (BFI) published it’s eighth decennial list of the 100 Greatest Films Ever, as voted on by hundreds of film critics worldwide. It’s fun to contrast this with the American Film Institute’s list, especially inasmuch as they’re so…
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Reel 46: David Bowie Musicals
…in fact, I got the film titles backward. Absolute Beginners is first. But this looks a little better, graphically (he said, twisting himself to justify the goof). This is the second of our three “lost” episdoes, and it seems like we managed to cover all the same points we did the first time around. Unfortunately,…
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