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Long-running film podcast featuring hosts Ken and Thomas and numerous guests talking filmographies, oddities, classics and side hustles. Through twelve season they have talked about nearly every movie ever made (verified by PodStats Inc). SEASON 13: 4X4 3! Four films by four directors. Aldrich, Von Trier, Wyler and Tsai Ming-Liang.
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Hail! Be any of ye listening, scions of the ’80s, ’90s or somewhere in betweener? If so, it is very possible (if you’re lucky) that most of your childhoods were blessed with a (un)healthy dose of movies and crummy Lord of the Rings/Masters of the Universe fanmoviefics (just us?)…..From some (relative) classics, ultra-actionverse extravaganzas, comedy for your brown pants, all forms of medieval to modern (hur) horrors, and everything else in between (maybe), we will revisit a few of our favor ...
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Cultural Technologies

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan

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Cultural Technologies features conversations with scholars, artists and scientists on current topics in media, art, science and technology. It is hosted by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, a researcher in media and cultural studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. For more information visit www.bernardg.com.
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After the success of Kids, Harmony Korine doubles down on his next film. Now sitting in the director's seat, Korine proclaims he "hates art" and decides to trash any traditional film tropes to create "perfect nonsense" with Gummo, a fictional/documentary-style snapshot of the tornado-wrecked American town of Xenia, Ohio. Non-narrative, non-linear, …
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A bored housewife is suspicious of a contractor who says he's installing a clawfoot tub. Where is her husband? Who is this guy? And she hates clawfoot tubs! https://linktr.ee/cinekuest_video?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=bc1d2576-566a-42fb-aa70-9f6886233522 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cinekuest-video/…
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Send us a text THE LONGEST YARD This week, the TGTPTU boys return to prison for more fun and games, this time stopping this 4x4 season’s first round drafted director Robert Aldrich’s run with inches to go. For the final film of the first four and to cap the Aldrich coverage, Ken drafted THE LONGEST YARD (1974). Following Ryan’s fumbling the intro a…
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36 years in the making! Where does the time go, am I right? Beetlejuice is back as is still in pursuit of Lydia Deetz and he will stop at nothing to marry his bride. https://linktr.ee/cinekuest_video?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=1cd0d5b9-65d0-4e7c-b990-ae31526f2582 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cinekue…
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Send us a text THE DIRTY DOZEN Season 13’s 4x4 marches on with the most ill-mannered, ill-disciplined hosts that it’s ever been you’re your displeasure to meet, sergeant. That’s right, the dirtiest voices in the TGTPTU’s army are getting filthier covering Robert Aldrich’s THE DIRTY DOZEN (1967). It’s a story of twelve convicted army men, who don’t …
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Take a journey through the month of August's Letterboxd Diary! Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/mokueststudios/ CineKuest Video Links: https://linktr.ee/cinekuest_video?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=8060c689-e052-4d5b-814f-ef97b5779438 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cinekuest-video/support…
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Send us a text What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? TGTPTU Season 13’s 4x4 continues with the second half of its first Robert Aldrich pairing, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962). Like last week’s entry, WEH2BJ is another black-and-white film adaptation of a novel, this one truer to the source material, at least to cohost Thomas who read Henry Farr…
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Send us a text Kiss Me Deadly Welcome back to TGTPTU, and welcome back in Season 13 to both former cohost Jack and to the 4x4, the latter making its third season appearance! For TGTPTU stans reading this, able to recite the following explanation by heart, go ahead and save yourself half-a-minute and skip the rest of this paragraph. But for you sad …
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Cuckoo brings a unique vision to the horror genre but does it stick the landing with all the elements in place? Check out all our links below! https://linktr.ee/cinekuest_video?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=01710249-e35c-44cc-955f-18fee6ae7985 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cinekuest-video/support…
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https://linktr.ee/cinekuest_video?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=aedd6448-9465-47d7-814c-9fdb84e2003e Oh-ho! Looks like the world finally got what it wanted–another Deadpool movie! Blowing in like a hurricane of filth and smut, breaking records and leaving used s*x toys and lube in its wake. Lots of leather and plenty of spanking and gropi…
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Send us a text PAPRIKA For the final episode of Season 12 Nolan Void, the TGTPTU gents get timey-wimy as they repeat last season finale with another film from anime director Satoshi Kon also allegedly plagiarized by the season’s director, this time Kon’s final flick PAPRIKA (2006) and Nolan’s Inception rather than Black Swan stealing from Perfect B…
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It’s been 18 years since the classic disaster film, TWISTER appeared before us. Now we have TWISTERS, a stand alone sequel to the original. Does it have what it takes to honor and step up as a worthy film without the late great Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt? https://linktr.ee/cinekuest_video --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod…
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Send us a text The One With The Dream Stuff Inside Oppenheimer INCEPTION This week TGTPTU reaches the timey-wimey center of Season 12 as the Nolan Void temporal pincer pairing movement ends with INCEPTION (2010), Sir Chris’s studio-backed super-successful non-supes cinema experience and his first Oscar nom for Best Picture--and finally winning pod-…
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Send us a text TGTPTU reaches the beginning of the end of Season 12 as the team covers THE DARK KNIGHT (2008), the penultimate NOLAN VOID film in our temporal pincer pairing movement. Rebounding from the only moderate success of The Prestige, Sir Chris creates a mega-blockbuster with The Dark Knight, his follow-up to Batman Begins and a film that c…
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Send us a text This week, the TGTPTU’s untrademarked “temporal pincer movement” catches up with the boys as THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012), Sir Christopher Nolan’s conclusion to his Batman trilogy, gets covered before his penultimate The Dark Knight. Sir Chris has been quoted as saying, “There are no good third sequels, basically—Rocky III maybe,” an…
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Send us a text TGTPTU Book Club returns this week with Sir Christopher Nolan’s first and only adaption, i.e., THE PRESTIGE (2006), with bookworm and repeat guest Shannon joining from The Bunker. Post-Batman Begins, Sir Nolan returned to his love of puzzle-box stories to bring to life the work of another Chris (Christopher Priest) while casting a th…
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Send us a text INTERSTELLAR In this week’s episode of TGTPTU, director-writer-producer Sir Christopher Nolan adds space to his repertoire of time-bending narratives as we venture deeper into The Nolan Void with INTERSTELLAR (2014). The Nolan brothers return with cowriting credits, Nathan Crowley on production design, and Lee Smith as editor on this…
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Send us a text BATMAN BEGINS Cast aside your Batnipples! As a certain Patrick Bateman lookalike once said, “Well, a guy who dresses up like a bat clearly has issues,” and this week, TGTPTU tackles these issues in Sir Christopher Nolan’s entry into the franchise that would define his middle career with BATMAN BEGINS (2005). Former cohost Jack return…
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This cult classic stars twins Peter and David Paul as Kutchek and Gore, the Barbarian Bros. Two of the buffest dudes to grace the silver screen, they are the chosen beefers of a caravan of ratchety circus carnies, the Ragnicks. For real–these guys are JACKED. Captured as children and forced to rock that Thunderdome life, these chunkos are eventuall…
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Send us a text NOLAN VOID 3.5: WET 'N WILD WWII Join TGTPTU for an hour, a day, a week—the approximate runtime of, how long it feels listening to us talk for, and the delay in releasing the episode due to internet issues, respectively—as we respectfully cover Sir Christopher Nolan’s DUNKIRK (2017) as part two of our third pairing in our NOLAN VOID …
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Where do we start with this ridiculous pièce de résistance, this magnum opus, this..flaming pile of wonderment? All the slurs. All the cultural appropriation. ALL THE OUTRAGE. Namco-approved and Rated R, baby! The movie follows a series of murders involving (you guessed it) kabuki actors. Sergeant Detective Harry Griswold, hot on the case, somehow …
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Send us a text NOLANVOID FIVE! For the first in our third set of NOLAN VOID pairings this week, TGTPTU hosts Ken and Thomas take on the surprisingly linear INSOMNIA (2002) with newly appointed co-host Ryan to introduce a new drinking game guaranteed to kill any participant: take a dose of an alcohol every time Kenneth says something about not wanti…
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Send us a text This week TGTPTU goes deeper into Season 12’s NOLAN VOID with TENET (2020), a title spelled the same forward and backward, and the progenitor of TGTPTU’s “temporal pincer movement” description of our podcast’s episode pairing methodology. Instead of spoiling the episode with notes, here’s a transcript spoiling cohost Thomas’ plot sum…
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Send us a text MEMENTO Our Nolan Void Season continues with the first of our second pairing MEMENTO (2000). Many of you might suspect we would try writing these show notes in reverse, but, as that’d be too meta for us, we’ll leave that to some other aspiring writer with memory problems we know. Speaking of self-referential memory problems, Memento …
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Send us a text Season 12, Episode 2 continues TGTPTU’s paired exploration of the films of Sir Christopher Nolan with his most recent film OPPENHEIMER (2023). Running the risk of being considered by critics a “bomb,” Sir Nolan boldly moves away from genre pictures for his first biopic of a man who’ll/’d (pardon the time-wimey-ness) get mention in Si…
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Send us a text CHRISTOPHER NOLAN SZN! FOLLOWING *SEASON PREMIERE* For Season 12 *Nolan Void*, TGTPTU continues its iconic practice of pairing bookended movies from a director’s filmography, first and last until we pair the middlemost. This season we cover the twelve movies of the granddaddy/infant son of the temporal pincer movement himself Christo…
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Send us a text Our Darren Ssarfinale! Season 11 of The Good, The Pod, and The Ugly concludes on an odd note, both mathematically and colloquially, as the boys wrap up their Darren Aronofsky season with Episode 9 covering PERFECT BLUE (1997), joined by frequent guest Ryan. The debut film of famed anime and short-lived director Satoshi Kon released o…
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Send us a text DARREN ARONOFSKY CH. 4 E2: THERE'S A LITTLE BLACK SWAN ON THE SUN TODAY Season 11’s temporal pincer movement by The Good, The Pod, and The Ugly draws to a close with tricky reflections on BLACK SWAN (2010). Listen to our opinions double, pirouette, and morph during Chapter 4, Episode 2, covering our final Darren Aronofsky movie but n…
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