Best Timemachine Podcasts (2024)

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Non-Soprano Jersey Boys, Jack Nicholson’s Werewolf and Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller Dodge Balls 2:12:45

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June 14-20: Everyone watches the world’s slowest car chase, Macaulay Culkin gets even, Jackie Chan goes around the world, Tom Hanks gets stuck, the best Six Feet Under death, Kevin Hart thinks like a man, Joe Rogan ends a show like a man, and it was only a kiss, how did it end up like this? All that from this week 30, 20, and 10 years ago.…

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Special Subject – The Wartime Mizoguchi – THE STORY OF THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM (1939) & THE 47 RONIN (1941) 1:08:50

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For our June Special Subject we revisit the work of Kenji Mizoguchi, looking at two films from earlier than his best-known (in the West) period: The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939), about cross-class lovers and what it takes to become a great artist, and The 47 Ronin (1941), based on a true story that became emblematic of samurai values. To…

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Jump Street and Riddick Get Sequels and the Bus that Couldn’t Slow Down 2:43:38

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June 7-13: The OJ saga begins, Garfield is on screen (the first time), video games bust a move, Nicole Kidman is a robot, dragons continue to be trained, TLC is on fire, Zelda gets more swords, Tracy Morgan has a close call, and the Nights Watch fights mammoths. All that and more from 30, 20, and 10 years ago.…

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Harry Potter 3, Fantastic Four, and Edge of Tomorrow: Thirty Twenty Ten - May 31 - Jun6 2:48:40

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The Fault in Our Stars has the opposite problem of cinema's first (abandoned) attempt at a Fantastic Four movie, a great Tom Cruise movie with a bad title, Sopranos penultimate finale, Harry Potter movies click into gear, the greatest abortion comedy ever made, and Game of Throne and Silicon Valley hit series highs!…

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Lilli Palmer – Part 15: SEBASTIAN (1968) & OEDIPUS THE KING (1968) 1:00:20

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This week's Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view sees Lilli in two small but crucial roles: Sebastian (1968), starring Dirk Bogarde as a Cold War cryptanalyst of divided political loyalties, and Oedipus Rex (1968), starring Christopher Plummer as Freud's favourite plaything of the gods. We discuss Cold War politics, the Swinging Sixties New Woman, fr…

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Universal – 1946: THE CAT CREEPS & SHE-WOLF OF LONDON 42:21

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For this Universal 1946 episode, we chose a B-movie double bill, The Cat Creeps (directed by Erle C. Kenton, best known for Island of Lost Souls) and She-Wolf of London (directed by Jean Yarbrough, Abbott and Costello specialist), hoping for hidden gems. But did we find any? And in the Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto segment, our Powell and Pressbur…

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Angelina Jolie Gets Revenge, a Freezenado Hits Tomorrow, and Yabba Dabba Live Action! 2:53:23

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May 24-30: Beverly Hills Cop disappoints, celebrity marriages that look like publicity stunts, The Eagles freeze over hell, Keanu is the Buddha, Mario Van Peebles honors his dad, Kevin Hart takes to the air, Jon Favreau cooks something up, Family Guy goes west, Mad Men lands on the moon, and the best Mario Kart ever. All that and more looking back …

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Shrek 2, X-Men Days of Future Past, and Star Trek: The Next Generations Says Goodbye: Thirty Twenty Ten May 17-23 3:22:31

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Angle, Static Shock, Bob Ross and TNG come to a close, X-Men returns to form, the Babadook continues to haunt us, happiness and adventure return to the modern movie western just as Brisco County Jr says bids adieu, Aladdin and Shrek get sequels, and we celebrate the final piece of the Sandler/Barrymore trilogy.…

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Lilli Palmer – Part 14: MIRACLE OF THE WHITE STALLIONS (1963) and OPERATION CROSSBOW (1965) 46:38

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In this week's Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode, we encounter more Nazis in a couple of movies very loosely based on real WWII incidents: Disney's Miracle of the White Stallions (1963), based on Operation Cowboy (but with the equine eugenics shoved into the subtext), and Operation Crossbow (1965), about the attempt by British Intelligence…

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Special Subject – Produced By Sam Goldwyn, The 1940s: THE LITTLE FOXES (1941), THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES (1942), THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946), and MY FOOLISH HEART (1949) 1:30:39

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This week we have a whopping big episode for you: Part 2 of our look at Samuel Goldwyn Productions, dealing with the 1940s; and, in our Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto segment, brief discussions of three Powell and Pressburgers, kicking off TIFF's May retrospective. For this episode we watched The Little Foxes (directed by William Wyler), The Pride …

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The Crow, Godzilla, Troy: Thirty Twenty Ten - May 10-16 2:49:23

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Brandon Lee leaves a damn good legacy, the last time anybody saw The Jetsons, Godzilla Raids Again (again!), Frasier Crane says goodbye (again!), Spike Lee changes course, Homer adapted, the greatest dream seqeunce in all of television, Penny Dreadful and more! Take a look at our world 30, 20, and 10 years ago!…

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – RKO – 1946: STEP BY STEP & CRACK-UP 48:57

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In this RKO 1946 episode we discuss Crack-Up (directed by Irving Reis), an eerie noir with a couple of great Expressionist set pieces. Pat O'Brien oozes vulnerability as a WWII vet and populist art critic who has to find out who's trying to make him look, or go, insane; Claire Trevor plays the love interest who's trying to help him (or is she?). Oh…

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The End of Friends, Van Helsing and the most forgotten Robin Williams: Thirty Twenty Ten - May 3-9 2:40:01

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There's a Robin Williams movie out there that deserves a proper restoration, Universal kills its Monsters Universe AGAIN, Seth Rogen and Zach Effron must learn how to live together, Stephen King's second most famous TV mini-series, Being Human should be properly restored, Friends are no longer there for you, arguably Jurassic Park's best game, and …

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Lilli Palmer – Part 13: THE PLEASURE OF HIS COMPANY (1961) & THE COUNTERFEIT TRAITOR (1962) 59:54

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This week's Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode is a George Seaton double feature that once again gives us Lilli the sophisticate and Lilli the saint: in The Pleasure of His Company (1961), she plays the ex-wife of Fred Astaire, an absentee father whose plan to recapture his youth by seducing their daughter into becoming his travelling compa…

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Amazing Spider-Man 2, Mean Girls, PCU: Thirty Twenty Ten - Apr 26-May 3 2:47:31

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Spider-Man falters, John Oliver breaks out, Principal Skinner gets fired, PCU is appropriately dated, only YOU can save JFK, and Mean Girls might be the best high school movies of the entire 2000s.

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White Water Summer Commentary 1:37:19

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It's a commentary on the 80's cult classic White Water Summer, where Kevin Bacon becomes the worst travel guide of all time. We invite you to listen along or watch with us. Sync Point - Just after the Columbia logo has faded to black.

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Bad Girls, Man on Fire, The Other Woman and more: Thirty Twenty Ten - Apr 19-25 2:12:56

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Cowgirls doin it for themselves, Denzel's violent bodygaurd movie, Cameron Diaz's last comedy, Adult Swim and South Park are at their apex, Streets of Rage closes fr a good while, a really dumb video game movie, the lady Big and the black American Graffitti. All that and more 30, 20, and 10 years ago…

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – 20th Century-Fox – 1946: THE DARK CORNER & THE RAZOR’S EDGE 1:22:27

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This week's Fox 1946 Studios Year by Year episode features the strange bedfellows of Henry Hathaway's The Dark Corner, a curiously feminist film noir in which the tormented protagonist is saved by the persistence of a good woman (played by Lucille Ball), and Edmund Goulding's The Razor's Edge, based on a Somerset Maugham novel about spiritual enlig…

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Kill Bill Vol 2, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Punisher vs Space Ghost: Thirty Twenty Ten - Apr 12-18 2:47:06

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Johnny Depp dials it in, the premiere of the two best things to ever happen to television (both courtesy of Ted Turner), the cringiest Sopranos outing, Chevy Chase's last stand, Community says goodbye for the first time, Hugh Grant becomes a made man, and good times with Quentin Tarantino at his most indulgent! All that and more from 30, 20 and 10 …

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Lilli Palmer – Part 12: BUT NOT FOR ME (1959) and CONSPIRACY OF HEARTS (1960) 51:27

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Our examination of the film career of Lilli Palmer continues with a couple of excellent films that show us Palmer's range when playing "loveable": But Not for Me, in which she gives a comedic performance as the ex-wife of a Broadway producer played by Clark Gable, benevolently interfering in his budding relationship with young actress Carroll Baker…

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Warner Brothers – 1946: DEVOTION & NIGHT AND DAY 1:20:00

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For this Warner Bros. 1946 episode we watched two fantastical biopics, Devotion (directed by Curtis Bernhardt), starring Ida Lupino and Olivia de Havilland as Emily and Charlotte Brontë, and Night and Day (directed by Michael Curtiz), starring Cary Grant as Cole Porter and Monty Woolley as himself. We found them to be like night and day in terms of…

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Special Subject – Produced By Sam Goldwyn, The 1930s - THE DARK ANGEL (1935), DODSWORTH (1936), THESE THREE (1936) and WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939) 1:34:20

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In our April Special Subject, Part 1 of our look at the films of Samuel Goldwyn, we discuss Dark Angel (1935), These Three (1936), Dodsworth (1936), and Wuthering Heights (1939), a selection heavy on Dave favourites Merle Oberon, William Wyler, and Gregg Toland. We ask in what sense these are "quality" films, and in what ways they escape our expect…

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Oculus, Wing Chun, The Raid 2, Kurt Cobain passes: Thirty Twenty Ten - Apr 5-11 2:43:31

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Rio is back for probably the last time, Silicon Valley premieres alongside another meteroic HBO show, a very 90s Threesome, Oculus is scarier than Meta, Kevin Costner drafts, we remember The Alamo, Metroid becomes a classic franchise. and a massive blow to the music world.

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Captain America: Winter Soldier, Clifford, Home on the Range: Thirty Twenty Ten - Mar 29-Apr 4 3:06:22

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The end of a road for Disney animation, Home Movies and How I Met Your Mother conclude so Danny Phantom and Hellboy can live, Martin Short's weirdest movie ever, Guillermo Del Toro introduces us to Hellboy, Community's delusion is half the battle, and the best movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe premieres!…

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Lilli Palmer – Part 11: LES AMANTS DE MONTPARNASSE (1958) and MADCHEN IN UNIFORM (1958) 1:05:05

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For this week's Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode, we watched Jacques Becker's The Lovers of Montparnasse (1958), in which Palmer, playing Modigliani's rejected lover Beatrice Hastings, perfects her persona of brittle dissociation; and Mädchen in Uniform, the 1958 remake of the famous Weimar-era film about a teenager at an all-girls' board…

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The BEST Wes Anderson movie, MIGHTIER Ducks, and the WORST Coen Bros Movie: Thirty Twenty Ten - Mar 22-28 2:52:44

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The Coens strike out for the first time, Scooby-Two, a Biblical Epic (seriously), Michael Bluth Breaks Bad and more.

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – MGM – 1946: TWO SMART PEOPLE and A LETTER FOR EVIE 1:01:33

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This MGM 1946 Studios Year by Year episode is a Jules Dassin double feature that shows the range of the famed blacklistee even during his most constrained studio period: the noirish romantic drama Two Smart People, about two con artists (Lucille Ball and John Hodiak) and a cop who are all out to con each other; and the remarkable A Letter for Evie …

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Leslie Nielsen’s Final Insult, When Harry Forgot Sally, and the Muppets are Beaten by Dauntless 2:54:22

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Deadwood shows how the west was won — with mud and cursing, monks make bank, Prince’s monster guitar solo, South Park goes anime, Kevin Sorbo fights God, Jim Carrey’s best movie, fast zombies are OK with us, Rick and Morty plugs in the interdimensional cable box, Harvey Keitel has a monkey, and Community plays Dungeons and Dragons — and it’s advanc…

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Lilli Palmer – Part 10: TEUFEL IN SEIDE (1956) and LA VIE À DEUX (1958) 1:17:05

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For this Lilli Palmer episode of our Acteurist Oeuvre-view series, we watched another West German movie, Devil in Silk (directed by Rolf Hansen), and Life Together (directed by Clément Duhour), a tribute to famed French playwright, screenwriter, and film director Sacha Guitry with an all-star cast. We analyze the surprisingly sophisticated structur…

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Jesse Pinkman’s desire for Velocity, Johnny Depp’s Life Gets Burned, and It’s Time to Talk Schindler's List 2:45:52

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The Coen brothers invent the hula hoop, Denis Leary ruins Christmas, Nicolas Cage is Driving Miss Shirley MacLaine, Nancy Kerrigan whiffs SNL, Cody Banks goes to London, Stephen King writes about a writer, Curb Your Enthusiasm hits the stage, one of our aircraft is missing, Review debuts to five stars, crowd-funding saves a teenage detective, and F…

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Peabody and Sherman, Duckman debuts, and What's Eating Gilbert Grape: Thirty Twenty Ten - Mar 1-7 2:30:16

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Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson waste time and money on 70s nostalgia, Rocky and Bullwinkle's best bit takes the spotlight, EWW a 300 sequel, Leonardo Dicaprio heats up in a way many choose to forget, "Hello, Fellow Sopranos!", South Park puts the TV and game industry to shame, and one of the most influential cartoon shows of the 1990s is sadly the mos…

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Paramount – 1946: MISS SUSIE SLAGLE’S and THE BLUE DAHLIA 1:04:25

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In this Paramount 1946 episode we look at two movies featuring Veronica Lake which otherwise could not be more dissimilar: Miss Susie Slagle's (directed by John Berry), about the trials of pre-WWI Johns Hopkins medical students living in a boarding house presided over by Lillian Gish; and famous Lake/Ladd noir outing, The Blue Dahlia (directed by G…

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Club Dread, In the Name of the Father, Passion of the Mel: Thirty Twenty Ten - Feb 23-29 2:44:05

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Broken Lizard's follow up to Super Troopers, Mel Gibson makes a very lucrative, kinda insane horror movie, Luke Perry stars in a movie with a title tailor-made for late nite monologues, Daniel Day Lewis earns his paycheck, Homer's ultimate dumb job, Liam Neeson is once again Liam Neeson. All that and more 30, 20, and 10 years ago!…

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