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Short Subject: Around the World in 20 Films
The next ten episodes are going to cover a variety of foreign films from all over the world. Sean went through a very meticulous process to curate this particular list, and in this mini-episode, we’re going to chat a little bit about what first got us interested in foreign films, and the criteria that he…
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Michelle Yeoh: An Appreciation
We’ve talked on our show about a handful of movies from Hong Kong, as well as how Hong Kong movies became popular (at least on a cult level) in America in the 1980’s and 1990’s. That popularity led to Hollywood recruiting some of Hong Kong’s stars (Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-Fat) and filmmakers (Tsui Hark,…
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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…









