Nat, Cody, and Robert get animated as they discuss 1982’s THE SECRET OF NIMH. Don Bluth challenged Disney animation in the 1980s. And arguably won that decade, before THE LITTLE MERMAID changed Disney’s animated fortunes and set up a decade of triumphs in the 1990s. But, Don Bluth’s success started with THE SECRET OF NIMH. […]
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Nat, Cody, and Robert take the call and discover the meet-cute apocalypse courtesy of MIRACLE MILE. MIRACLE MILE was an acclaimed screenplay that spent the better part of the 80s not getting made. But, screenwriter/director Steve De Jarnatt stuck with it and it eventually got made. Perhaps it was for the better as the delays
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Cody, Robert, and Nat mark ten years of podcasting with Sylvester Stallone as one of the last real men around in Demolition Man, a rundown of this year’s Fantasia film festival, and a lookback at some of the highs of the last ten years of podcasting. The 90s were a time of transition for the
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Robert, Nat, and Cody take time off from our summer to bring you a special bonus episode focusing on four films reflecting Hollywood’s journey from BATMAN to THE MATRIX and current comic book movies via several independent comic books. It’s a podcast full of martial arts, tragic origins, night time settings, and tortured leads. Our
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“This has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did.” – Phillip K. Dick Nat, Cody, and Robert take a trip, into a world of drugs, questions about identity, addiction, love, and surveillance via Richard Linklater and Phillip K. Dick in A SCANNER DARKLY. A lot of
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Robert, Nat, and Cody journey to the moons of Jupiter to follow up on the mysteries of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and discover cooperation amidst the Cold War. Legacy sequels are very common these days. 2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT may not be the first legacy sequel, heck PSYCHO II was released the year
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