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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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No Way Out (1987)
The following was originally written on Facebook when I was writing about my favorite movies released in the U.S. in 1987. While I have always said my movie education came from my father – when I was 13 and our family moved to California, he bought a videodisc player, and would bring home an old…
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No Way Out (1950) review
In the years immediately following World War II, Hollywood finally seemed to wake up to the fact racism was a bad thing (to be fair, there are still parts of the country that still haven’t figured that out). Granted, Hollywood didn’t own up to how they had depicted African-Americans (or other people of color) in…
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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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Starship Troopers review
Along with Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein was one of the leading science fiction writers to emerge after World War II. He was praised for the accuracy he brought to the science part of his fiction. Heinlein was also the rare writer who seemed to be praised on both sides…
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Kiss Me Deadly review
The early-to-mid 1970’s in American movies is justly remembered as the time of the New Hollywood movement (or Hollywood New Wave), where directors wanted to depict a different kind of America than what had been put on screen during the studio era, and also combine a love for that studio era with a love of…
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