Best Jacob Rhines Podcasts (2024)

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187: Juror #2 (with Corey Atad) 1:44:57

2h ago1:44:57

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The film writer Corey Atad and I went on opening day to see the new Clint Eastwood courtroom drama Juror #2, which is getting an extremely limited release in North America even though Warner Bros. gave it a full rollout in the UK, France and Spain. Why is David Zaslav doing Clint, still working at age 94, one of the icons of American cinema and of …

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TEASER - 186: The Apprentice, Part 2 (with Sami Gold) 4:20

3h ago4:20

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Access this entire 48-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/186-apprentice-2-115230237 On part two of our discussion about The Apprentice, Sami Gold and I discuss the 2024 e…

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185: The Apprentice, Part 1 (with Sami Gold) 1:09:05

8d ago1:09:05

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CW: This episode discusses cinematic sexual violence. Sami Gold, undergraduate political science student at George Washington University and contributor to Liberal Currents, returns to the podcast for a two-part deep dive into the controversial new Donald Trump origin story The Apprentice, which was released weeks before the 2024 election despite h…

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184: Saturday Night (with Adam Nayman) 1:23:24

2d ago1:23:24

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The author and film critic Adam Nayman returns to Junk Filter to discuss the new Jason Reitman race-against-time comedy thriller Saturday Night about the backstage antics leading up to the first episode of SNL in 1975, a feature film that serves an an ode to its producer Lorne Michaels while trying to spin tension and suspense out of a foregone con…

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TEASER - 183: The Curse of the Werewolf (with Meg Shields) 5:10

4d ago5:10

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Access this entire 68-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/183-curse-of-meg-114731524 The film writer Meg Shields returns from Vancouver for a spooky season show about one …

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182: Back to the Cluuub: Megalopolis and The Fountainhead (with Jacob Bacharach) 1:49:33

16d ago1:49:33

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The author Jacob Bacharach returns to continue this podcast’s look at Megalopolis. On this episode we compare Coppola’s latest to another overheated epic about a visionary architect, King Vidor’s ludicrous 1949 adaptation of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. Coppola has acknowledged the film version of The Fountainhead as a key influence on Megalopolis,…

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181: Jokeropolis (with Jessica Ritchey) 1:46:25

21d ago1:46:25

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CW: this episode contains spoilers for Joker 2 and discussions of cinematic sexual violence. The film writer Jessica Ritchey returns to the podcast to discuss the Reverse Barbenheimer of 2024: the more or less simultaneous release of two extremely expensive blockbusters, Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis and Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux, two…

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TEASER - 180: Miami Vice: Heartbeat / Death Drug (with James Majure) 5:48

1M ago5:48

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Access this entire 86-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/180-miami-vice-113085968 We celebrate the 40th anniversary of the premiere of NBC’s crime drama Miami Vice with a…

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0106 with Connector and Operations Manager Cameron 'Cam' Reid - Cleaning The Floors Well 1:43:13

1M ago1:43:13

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Cameron is a fun, loving, optimist - who will try anything once - and thrives on gathering good people together. He has a contagious and ridiculous laugh that 'most' people seem to love. He is a proponent of medicinal psychedelic usage, meditation, breathwork, flexibility, daily intentional movement, spontaneous dancing, karate kicking to fun music…

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179: BlackBerry (with Gus Lanzetta) 1:30:46

2M ago1:30:46

1:30:46

The writer and podcaster Gus Lanzetta returns to the podcast from São Paulo to give our listeners an update on life in Brazil since their Supreme Court banned X: The Everything App from access to the country, and we thought we would pair this with a movie about a revolutionary communication tool that was suddenly not important anymore: Matt Johnson…

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TEASER - 178: Junk Filter Has Fallen (with Jake Serwin & Ian Rhine from Pod Casty For Me) 6:50

2M ago6:50

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Access this entire 126-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/178-junk-filter-112189443 Jake Serwin and Ian Rhine from the great left politics and culture podcast Pod Casty F…

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177: Reagan (with David Weigel) 1:37:54

2M ago1:37:54

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Veteran national politics reporter for Semafor David Weigel returns to the show for a discussion of the new conservative political biopic Reagan, starring Dennis Quaid as The Great Communicator, or as he was known in Russia, The Crusader, for the film is told from the perspective of a former KGB agent (Jon Voight) who identified him early on as the…

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0105 with Tutor and Educational Consultant Matt McGee - How To Stand Out In College Admissions 1:07:20

3M ago1:07:20

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Matt McGee is an educational expert, tutor, and college admissions specialist. He is the founder of MRM Education - An elite tutoring and college admissions consultancy that aims to fosters academic curiosity, mental health, and confidence in students' - with the ultimate goal of admission into a top university. Matt is a member of the National Ass…

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TEASER - 176: Danpilled Extended Universe: Michael McDonald (with Matthew Perpetua) 4:03

4M ago4:03

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Access this entire 100 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/176-danpilled-109048208 Fluxblog’s Matthew Perpetua returns to the show to continue our Danpilled series, this t…

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175: Shane (with Chris Cassingham) 1:35:51

4M ago1:35:51

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The Milwaukee-based film critic and programmer Chris Cassingham joins the show this week to discuss the great director George Stevens and his 1953 masterpiece Shane, starring Alan Ladd and Jack Palance, about a mysterious gunfighter who finds work with a homestead family in the open range of lawless Wyoming and is drawn into the community’s conflic…

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TEASER - 174: Costner's Horizon (with Corey Atad) 4:12

4M ago4:12

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Access this entire 86 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/174-costners-108247008 The film writer Corey Atad returns for a show about the return of Kevin Costner to the dir…

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173: Hardhat Cinema (with Sami Gold) 1:54:57

4M ago1:54:57

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Sami Gold, an undergraduate political science student at George Washington University and contributor to Liberal Currents joins me from New York City to discuss some key texts of reactionary right-wing cinema from the post-Civil Rights era and the beginning of America’s involvement in Vietnam and the election of Richard Nixon, what we could call co…

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TEASER - 172: American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, Part 2 (with Karen Geier) 5:32

5M ago5:32

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Access this entire 93 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/172-american-v-o-107059565 In the second half of our discussion about the 2016 FX miniseries American Crime Story…

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171: American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, Part 1 (with Karen Geier) 1:29:38

5M ago1:29:38

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With the recent death of O.J. Simpson and this month’s 30th anniversary of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, the writer and content strategist Karen Geier returns for a look at the other great O.J. tv epic of 2016, Ryan Murphy’s 10 part series American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson: On part one of our discussion we dis…

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170: Fresh (with David Jamell Moses) 1:38:45

5M ago1:38:45

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The film writer David Jamell Moses joins the show for a discussion about a great nineties film that has been flying under the radar for too long, Boaz Yakin’s debut feature Fresh (1994) starring Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L. Jackson and a 13-year-old actor named Sean Nelson making his film debut, in one of the greatest screen acting performances by…

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TEASER - 169: Cannon’s Prestige Pictures (with Jessica Ritchey) 6:14

6M ago6:14

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Access this entire 105 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. ⁠https://www.patreon.com/posts/169-cannons-with-105061266 The film writer Jessica Ritchey returns for a show about Cannon Films, and the aggre…

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168: Second Wave Ska (with Elana Levin) 1:35:07

6M ago1:35:07

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Elana Levin from Graphic Policy Radio returns to the show for a deep dive into the second wave of Ska music, a brief but influential era when black and white UK musicians fused Jamaican dance music of the sixties into punk and new wave music of the seventies to create a sound that would further revolutionize American popular music in the nineties. …

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TEASER - 167: Civil War (with Ursula Lawrence) 5:52

7M ago5:52

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Access this entire 87 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows every month) by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/167-civil-war-102981212 The comedy writer Ursula Lawrence (Drunk History, Adam Ruins Everything) returns to the show from Madison…

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166: Road House (with Sean T. Collins) 1:43:37

7M ago1:43:37

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The writer Sean T. Collins joins the pod from Long Island for a deep dive into the original 1989 Road House and the 2024 remake now streaming on Amazon Prime. Sean’s book Pain Don’t Hurt offered daily meditations on specific elements of Road House for an entire year, and we discuss the many virtues of this eighties classic about Dalton, the second-…

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0104 with Author and Spiritual Coach Julie Hoyle - 'Awakening From The Lucid Dream' 1:21:49

7M ago1:21:49

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In 1989, Julie had a radical awakening. Her conscious experience changed indefinitely via shaktipat (energetic exchange of spiritual knowledge) in a lucid dream experience. She was gracious enough to join me on the podcast to share her fascinating experiences, heartfelt wisdom, and warm expertise. She's a spiritual coach, author, teacher, and she a…

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165: Deep in the Heart (with Jonathan Hertzberg of Fun City Editions) 1:23:29

7M ago1:23:29

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CW: This episode discusses cinematic sexual violence. The founder of Fun City Editions, Jonathan Hertzberg, joins the podcast from New York City to discuss the boutique video label and their latest blu-ray release, 1983’s Deep in the Heart, aka Handgun, directed by Ken Loach’s longtime English producer Tony Garnett. Deep in the Heart, a brutal port…

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TEASER - 164: Ghostbusters V (with Adam Jackson) 5:15

8M ago5:15

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Access this entire 89 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows every month) by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/164-ghostbusters-101387544 The writer and friend of the pod Adam Jackson returns for a show about the Ghostbusters series, which …

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163: Tenet (with Corey Atad) 1:44:24

8M ago1:44:24

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The writer Corey Atad joins me from Phuket, Thailand for a sequel to our Junk Filter episode about Bane that turned into a discussion about Tenet, and we return to the topic because of the recent cultural reconsideration of Christopher Nolan’s 2020 time-bending thriller, which was released during the pandemic and has taken some time to find an audi…

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TEASER - 162: The Zone of Interest (with James Slaymaker) 6:50

8M ago6:50

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Access this entire 99 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows every month) by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/162-zone-of-with-100893723 The writer James Slaymaker, author of Time is Luck: The Cinema of Michael Mann, returns to the pod fro…

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161: Dune: Part Two - The Kwisatz Tabarnak (with Jacob Bacharach) 1:36:15

8M ago1:36:15

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The author Jacob Bacharach returns for a sequel to our Junk Filter episode about Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, with a look at his long-awaited Dune: Part Two. Villeneuve said in interviews that he thought of Frank Herbert’s novel as an allegory for the French Canadians under the thumb of the authoritarian government of Maurice Duplessis that used the Ca…

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TEASER - 160: Burt Reynolds in the Eighties (with Will Sloan) 5:34

8M ago5:34

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The writer and podcaster Will Sloan is back for a show about Burt Reynolds, who started the eighties as the most popular movie star in America but who by the end of the decade was consigned to a series of B-movies that asked less and less of him, in the years before his unexpected mid-nineties comeback in Boogie Nights (a film he hated even though …

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UNLOCKED: 139: Oppenheimer (with Corey Atad) 1:55:34

8M ago1:55:34

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In honour of Oppenheimer winning the Oscar for Best Picture, we're unlocking our July 26, 2023 premium episode about the film. Over 30% of Junk Filter episodes are available exclusively to patrons of the podcast: you can support the show directly and get every episode by going to patreon.com/junkfilter The film writer Corey Atad returns to the show…

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159: Year of the Dragon (with Adam Nayman) 1:26:47

9M ago1:26:47

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CW: This episode discusses cinematic sexual violence and racist themes. The film critic and author Adam Nayman returns to the show for a deep dive into Michael Cimino’s 1985 pulp crime thriller Year of the Dragon, starring Mickey Rourke, John Lone and introducing the fashion model Ariane Koizumi as the female lead. Year of the Dragon was Cimino’s a…

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158: The Sci-Fi Visions of Peter Hyams (with Brandon Streussnig) 1:41:22

9M ago1:41:22

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The film writer Brandon Streussnig (Vulture, Fangoria, GQ) joins the pod for a discussion about the undersung director Peter Hyams through four of his science fiction movies across a career full of genre work, films that reveal a singular style can be applied to a craftsman, a former Chicago newsman turned director who also (controversially for his…

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TEASER - 157: Five Corners (with Kieran Grant) 4:09

10M ago4:09

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Access this entire 89 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows every month) by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/157-five-corners-96799903 The music and film writer and editor Kieran Grant joins us to discuss the 1987 comedy/drama Five Corner…

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156: The Cassandra Cat (with Ashley Naftule) 1:06:39

10M ago1:06:39

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Arizona-based writer and playwright Ashley Naftule returns to the podcast for a look at the Czechoslovak New Wave of the 1960s, focusing on the recently rediscovered 1963 film The Cassandra Cat, and its director Vojtěch Jasný. In the strange fairy tale The Cassandra Cat, a village is disrupted when a travelling circus comes to town featuring a magi…

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TEASER - 155: O.J.: Made in America - Part 2 (with Karen Geier) 4:33

11M ago4:33

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Access this entire 107 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows every month) by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/155-o-j-made-in-95579279 In the second part of our salute to Ezra Edelman’s 2016 documentary O.J.: Made in America, Karen Geier …

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154: O.J.: Made in America - Part 1 (with Karen Geier) 1:47:11

11M ago1:47:11

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The writer and content strategist Karen Geier returns for a deep dive into Ezra Edelman’s Oscar-winning documentary from 2016, O.J.: Made in America, made for ESPN’s film unit ’30 for 30’ but released in theatres (the Academy changed the rules for the Documentary category after this 5 part docuseries won). This episode covers the first half of this…

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TEASER - 153: Godzilla Minus One (with Ben Clarkson) 5:38

11M ago5:38

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Access this entire 93 minute episode and additional monthly bonus episodes by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/153-godzilla-one-95000376 The cartoonist and co-creator of Justice Warriors, Ben Clarkson, joins the pod from Montreal to talk about Godzill…

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0103 with Landon 'Dirtyzen' Smith - Breaking Into The Abyss 1:48:49

11M ago1:48:49

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Landon Smith is an artist mostly known for his alias “Dirtyzen”. A creative visionary & spiritual teacher, he hangs his hat in the world of music by interlacing a sub-genre of dubstep called ‘chillstep’ with philosophical spiritual talks from well-known masters. Landon takes the listener on a journey that seeks to liberate and amplify one’s experie…

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152: Ridley Scott’s Napoleon (with Jacob Bacharach) 1:38:06

11M ago1:38:06

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The author Jacob Bacharach returns for a show about Ridley Scott’s latest, the 200 million dollar epic Napoleon, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby. History nerds, YouTube film cranks and the Roman statue bluechecks on Twitter are up in arms about the latest from the Riddler, for straying too far from the real history and most egregiously f…

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151: The Marvels & The Heroic Trio (with Jessica Ritchey) 1:26:33

12M ago1:26:33

1:26:33

The writer Jessica Ritchey returns to the pod for a show about the continuing collapse of the superhero movie as the dominant American film genre with the latest MCU entry, Nia DaCosta’s The Marvels, which cost $270 million dollars and after 4 release date changes finally opened last week and bombed as hard as a Marvel movie has ever bombed, especi…

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150: The Exorcist (with Meg Shields) 1:17:05

1y ago1:17:05

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For the 150th episode of the podcast, returning guest Meg Shields joins me from Vancouver for a show about William Friedkin’s legendary horror film The Exorcist, which turns 50 years old this December. I had always been TOO SCARED to watch the original Exorcist (even though I had seen the first two sequels) so for this podcast, as a farewell tribut…

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TEASER - 149: Terence Davies (with Ben Nash and James Slaymaker) 3:38

1y ago3:38

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Access this entire 83 minute episode and additional monthly bonus episodes by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/149-terence-with-91945894 To mark the passing of the great British filmmaker Terence Davies, I’m joined for this episode by two returning gu…

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148: Sam Peckinpah: Junior Bonner (with Brian Abrams) 1:20:40

1y ago1:20:40

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The writer Brian Abrams, author of the new book "You Talkin' to Me?”: The Definitive Guide to Iconic Movie Quotes, joins me from New York City to discuss Sam Peckinpah and his underrated 1972 rodeo drama Junior Bonner starring Steve McQueen and Joe Don Baker. Right after Peckinpah wrapped on his controversial Straw Dogs in England, he jumped into p…

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0102 with Megan Hawkins From 'BetterU' Psychedelic Therapy - At Home Ketamine Therapy To Heal Anxiety And Depression 2:54:59

1y ago2:54:59

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To skip solo intro: @11:03 In this episode, we get to meet Megan Hawkins, one of the Co-Founders of BetterU Psychedelic Therapy. She joins us from her home in Los Angeles, where she and her partner Derek Du Chesne have been recently working on opening the first brick-and-mortar location for BetterU. Once an international model, Megan's life took a …

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TEASER - 147: Miami Vice: GTA Vice City and John Woo (with Toph) 6:24

1y ago6:24

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Access this entire 80 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus episodes, including the entire Miami Vice sidebar series) by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/147-miami-vice-88727844 For the eighth episode in our Miami Vice series, Twitchstreamer an…

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TEASER - 146: Miami Vice: Attack of the Clones (with Jessica Ritchey) 3:54

1y ago3:54

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Access this entire 90 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus episodes, including the entire Miami Vice sidebar series) by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/146-miami-vice-88370980⁠ Success breeds imitators, and on this seventh instalment of the p…

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145: Papa Loach (with James Slaymaker) 1:29:34

1y ago1:29:34

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The writer James Slaymaker, author of Time is Luck: The Cinema of Michael Mann, returns to the pod from Southampton for a discussion of selected works from the veteran British filmmaker Ken Loach, who at age 87 is about to release what is said to be his final feature, The Old Oak. Ken Loach’s 1969 feature Kes is a staple of the British school curri…

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144: Big Love for Pee-wee (with Karen Geier) 1:25:29

1+ y ago1:25:29

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The writer and content strategist Karen Geier returns to the pod to say farewell to Paul Reubens and his iconic Pee-wee Herman character. Reubens created the Pee-wee character in the mid 1970s as part of the LA improv troupe The Groundlings, in a cohort that included Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks. A failed attempt to join the cast of SNL in 1980 doubl…

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