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Reel 82: In the Style of Ingmar Bergman
In most arts, there’s a fine line between homage and imitation. Go too subtle and nobody gets the references. Go too hard and chances are, you get dinged for pandering. This time around we land on a couple of films that may do a little of each (in my opinion; Sean might disagree), but they’re…
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Reel 81: In the Style of Hitchcock
Can I just take a moment to sit back and look proudly upon this episode’s cover art? It wasn’t tough to make but I really like the way it came out. Okay, onward: It’s often fun to see a film and realize that there’s something about it that reminds you of another filmic work. Maybe…
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Network (1976) – Review
It may be hard to imagine in this day and age of “Peak TV” (or “Too Much TV”), when television is considered an art form equal to, if not greater than, movies, but back even 40-50 years ago, television was considered “a vast wasteland”, to quote Newton Minow, in a speech he made when JFK…
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A Face in the Crowd (1957) – Review
In his career, Andy Griffith was best known for playing likable characters who are either dimwitted (No Time for Sergeants) or are smarter than they appear (The Andy Griffith Show, Matlock). That likability first came through in his time as a stand-up comedian and in routines such as “What it Was, Was Football”. So it…
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Reel 80: Political Thrillers
In previous episodes, we’ve dealt with political stories. Most of them involved spies of some kind, or they involved fictional characters overlaid on real-life scenarios. This time around we have two stories based on real-life events, though there’s a “but” in there. We’ll get to that in a minute. In this episode we’re looking at…
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Reel 79: The Dark Side of TV
We don’t often use topics that I chose, but when we do, we have a lot to talk about. Sean and I both love each of this week’s films so unabashedly that both halves of the episode are rather overstuffed, even after editing. This time around we’re exploring the dark underbelly of media-based popularity, and…
Two Movies…One Theme
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