Best Garret Castleberry Podcasts (2024)

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Film Listology: #82 - Laura 50:12

6h ago50:12

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In this episode, we resume our "Film Listology" countdown with #82 on the Listology Super Index, a second film to emerge on the list from director Otto Preminger, 1944's Laura. A fulfilling cross between film noir and melodrama, Laura features Gene Tierney in a role that combines presence versus absence to suggest a liminal pot-boiling who dunnit? …

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100th Episode Monologue! 24:57

5d ago24:57

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This month Special Topics in Media celebrates its 100th episode with a monologue progress report that details the successful vision of the program, reviewing its epistemological tenets, while peaking ahead as the show begins continues its edutainment mission. Hosts: Garret Castleberry Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Al…

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Film Listology: #83 - Back to the Future 1:15:40

14d ago1:15:40

1:15:40

In this episode, our Special Topics "Film Listology" focus captures the spirit of summer movie popcorn fun with the 1985 time-travel comedy classic from director Robert Zemeckis, Back to the Future. Released from Universal Pictures and co-produced by Amblin Entertainment, Back to the Future situates a cultural moment in time torn between the "me-ge…

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Film Listology: #84 - The General 35:00

20d ago35:00

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In this episode, the Special Topics focus on Film Listology chugs forward with an examination of Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman's Civil War-set action-adventure-comedy, The General (1926). Considered by Keaton among his favorite features, The General hybridizes genres in a time before many film genres had yet to emerge as distinctive storytelling…

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Film Listology: #85 - Once Upon a Time in the West 43:20

29d ago43:20

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In this episode, hosts Garret and Scott weigh the artistic beauty of Sergio Leone's 1968 masterpiece Once Upon a Time in the West, and compare it against the film's lower profile as a pop culture artifact. Do fewer distribution opportunities help protect the film as a critical darling, or is relegating it to cult status a precursor to a short lifes…

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Film Listology, Reveal Episode! #85-81 42:15

1M ago42:15

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In our July RETURN to the Film Listology experiment, Scott McMurry reveals the next five films currently ranked by the analytics super index. What movies emerge as the Dialogic Duo debate the #85-81? Should each of these be canonized in the Top 100, or is the data scheme exhibiting flaws in its matrix? Screen these film classic all month long and c…

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Joker: Top 5 Clown Princes of Crime 1:10:16

2M ago1:10:16

1:10:16

In this BONUS episode epilogue to our Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Season 2 focus, we are thrilled to be rejoined with Batman (and now Joker!) scholar Kyle Hammonds. In this continuation of our conversation concerning Batman's arch nemesis, we count down our Top 5 incarnations of the "Clowned Prince of Crime". Spanning comics, cartoons, literary…

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Joker: The Dark Side of Film Fandom (Author Interview) 1:03:34

2M ago1:03:34

1:03:34

Following the success of our Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Season 2 Retro Rewind season, this week we sit down with academic scholar and author of the newly released book, Interpreting and Transmitting Kynicism in Joker: The Dark Side of Film Fandom (Lexington Books, 2024). In a twist of fate, Joker's author is none other than guest host and frie…

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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns TIME JUMP SPECIAL, "The Batman" (2022) 58:54

2M ago58:54

58:54

In this RETRO REWIND episode, host Garret Castleberry sits down with communication and comics scholar Kyle Hammonds to unmask their Bat-fandom and review Kyle's favorite Caped Crusader moments. Spinning out of the Special Topics in Media Season 2 focus on "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns", Garret and Kyle pick the conversation back up with a 2022 r…

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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Bat-Mania Roundtable 1:53:50

3M ago1:53:50

1:53:50

This week Special Topics in Media hosts a "Bat-Mania Roundtable" as part of our Season 2 RETRO REWIND focus on Frank Miller's Batman:The Dark Knight Returns (1986). In this episode, the dialogic duo is joined by another pair of super scholars Karen Anderson-Lain and Kyle Hammonds, as well as comic shop proprietor Brian "Buck" Berlin. The panel disc…

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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Narrative Adaptations 1:14:48

3M ago1:14:48

1:14:48

Special Topics in Media continues its RETRO REWIND Season 2 focus on writer/artist Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. In this episode, Garret Castleberry and Scott McMurry analyze the various mass media adaptions and textual legacy of Miller's DKR. While some may contend Miller's muddied pages belong to a bygone era, it's continuous im…

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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Book 4 1:28:50

3M ago1:28:50

1:28:50

In this episode, the Special Topics in Media RETRO REWIND Season 2 focus on Batman: The Dark Knight Returns winds down. We close our our literary focus and cultural analysis of Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns with careful consideration of its text, context, author, and audience. Specifically, the dialogic duo explore facets of Miller's narrative…

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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Book 3 1:31:26

3M ago1:31:26

1:31:26

In this RETRO look back at Season 2 of Special Topics in Media, hosts Garret Castleberry and Scott McMurry explore the narrative discourse emanating out of the pages of Frank Miller's seminal superhero spectacle, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. The dialogic duo discuss "Book 3" in which an aged Bruce Wayne comes to terms with the limits of his myt…

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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Book 2 1:17:10

4M ago1:17:10

1:17:10

In this continuation of our Season 2 RETRO REWIND, Garret Castleberry and Scott McMurry deepen their analytic criticism of Frank Miller's iconoclast graphic novel released as a comic book mini-series, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. In this episode, the dialogic duo further denote the cultural context in which Miller's Batman tale draws upon certa…

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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Book 1 1:14:20

4M ago1:14:20

1:14:20

In this RETRO SEASON of Special Topics in Media, host Garret Castleberry winds back the podcasting clock to the quarantine months of the 2020 global pandemic. The Comics Studies mini-series focuses on what many consider the great stand-alone superhero story ever told, Frank Miller's future shock crime thriller, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. Rele…

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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Prologue 21:32

4M ago21:32

21:32

In this "Prologue" preview to our RETRO SEASON of Special Topics in Media, host Garret Castleberry sits down with Scott McMurry to discuss one of our earliest seasons for Special Topics in Media. The dialogic duo offer a brief framework for the next mini-season on deck, a conversation series covering one of the most influential comic books in histo…

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Film Listology: #86 - The Sting 51:43

4M ago51:43

51:43

Our Film Listology exploration of variability in the cultural significance of film history continues with consideration of director George Roy Hill's ragtime-sounding, depression era "big con" feature The Sting (1973). A winner of seven Academy Awards and a top commercial earner in the year of its release, The Sting provided audiences of 70s cinema…

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Film Listology: #87 - The Lion King 36:07

4M ago36:07

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On this episode, the Film Listology voyage sails onward with the commercial zenith of Disney's 2D Animation Studios era, The Lion King. Released in 1994, The Lion King handed the Mouse House one of its biggest hits of the decade, and more importantly, provided the kind of four quadrant entertainment capable of sustaining an intellectual property en…

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Film Listology: #88 - Anatomy of a Murder 45:53

5M ago45:53

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This week Special Topics continues its Film Listology focus on the '80s. No, not that '80s but 'an' '80s nonetheless. Hosts Garret and Scott discuss Otto Preminger's 1959 courtroom crime drama Anatomy of a Murder. In some ways, the film functions as a precursor to the #TrueCrime movement that will dominate popular interest in the late twentieth and…

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Film Listology: #89 - The Kid 33:16

5M ago33:16

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This week the Special Topics in Media Film Listology season returns to a silent era heavyweight in Hollywood history, Charlie Chaplin. Cohosts Garret Castleberry and Scott McMurry examine 1921's The Kid, a film written, produced, and directed by Chapline, who also wrote and conducted the film's score.The Kid ebbs and flows through film history, whi…

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Film Listology: #90 - Inception 32:40

5M ago32:40

32:40

This year marks the critical peak in Christopher Nolan's quarter century of commercial filmmaking. In this episode, cohosts Garret Castleberry and Scott McMurry wind up the countdown clock to consider the wide-reaching cultural significance of Nolan's 2010 blockbuster Inception. Written and directed by Nolan, co-produced by Nolan and career-life pa…

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Film Listology, Reveal Episode! #90-86 1:01:11

5M ago1:01:11

1:01:11

In this Special Topics in Media Film Listology reveal episode, hosts Garret Castleberry and Scott McMurry unveil the films results quantified by the McMurry SuperIndex (MSI) at ranking #90-86. Accompanying each entry, Scott provides data points for contextualizing each film's placement in the running, just as Garret reacts to the film's poll positi…

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Caleb Cole, Graphic Designer (Graphic Design Interview Series) 33:14

5M ago33:14

33:14

Continuing our Graphic Design and Portfolio Management mini-series, host Garret Castleberry introduces listeners to graphic designer Caleb Cole. An alumni of Oklahoma Baptist University, Caleb unpacks his formal educational journey and professional training in visual design, and thoughtfully individualizes his experience in ways that will allow lis…

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Corey Fuller, Professor of Art & Design (Graphic Design Interview Series) 37:40

6M ago37:40

37:40

In this extension to our Graphic Design and Portfolio Management mini-series, host Garret Castleberry connects with fellow academic and chair for the division of art and design at Oklahoma Baptist University, Corey Lee Fuller. Corey discusses the intricacies of a life (and lifestyle) devoted to art and graphic design. He helps unpack the evolution …

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Allison Garner, Podcast Cover Artist & Graphic Designer (Media Methods/Graphic Design Interview Series) 1:06:54

6M ago1:06:54

1:06:54

In this episode, Special Topics in Media bridges two themes tied to our Season 9 emphasis. Seasons 9 emphasizes two distinct professional arenas of digital communication, podcasting and graphic design. This week we blend and blur those words. We sit down with emerging graphic design artist Allison Garner. Alli shares parts of her creative journey, …

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Christine Becker, Aca-Media Podcast (Media Methods & Content Creation Interviewing Series) 52:52

6M ago52:52

52:52

In this episode, the Media Methods and Content Creation mini-series welcomes Dr. Christine Becker, co-host and co-producer of the Aca-Media Podcast. As she explains, Aca-Media provides a cross-disciplinary series that serves as an mediated brand extension for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). Dr. Becker then walks us through Aca-Medi…

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Scott Hardy and Cam Smith - SpyHards: A Spy Movie Podcast (Media Methods & Content Creation Interview Series) 1:18:50

6M ago1:18:50

1:18:50

This week we return to our Media Methods and Content Creation mini-series. Host Garret Castleberry interviews Scott Hardy and Cam Smith, cohosts of SpyHards -- A Spy Movie Podcast. Scott and Cam reveal the origins of their multimedia partnership and explain how their participatory roles within fan culture helped birth their current mission to engag…

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Film Listology: #91 - The Matrix 1:40:18

6M ago1:40:18

1:40:18

"What is real? How do you define, real?" In this episode, cohosts Garret Castleberry and Scott McMurry unpack the wide-reaching cultural significance of 1999's The Matrix. Written and directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski, produced and distributed by Warner Bros., The Matrix redirected popular cinema for the 21st Century through its ingenious remixi…

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Film Listology: #92 - Alien 1:22:05

7M ago1:22:05

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This week the Film Listology season of Special Topics in Media continues with an all-timer that has evolved from lowbrow crowd-pleasing mainstream B-movie from 20th Century Fox and relatively unknown director upon release, Sir Ridley Scott, to a "Top-Shelf Classic" that finds increasing cultural cache for its simplicity, elegance, ingenious concept…

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Film Listology: #93 - Annie Hall 1:17:12

7M ago1:17:12

1:17:12

The Film Listology season continues with a welcome break from recent genre form. Garret Castleberry and Scott McMurry revisit Woody Allen's Academy Award Winner for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Original Screenplay from 1977, Annie Hall. The film captured the hearts of film critics and belongs in the pantheon of great "New Yor…

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Film Listology: #94 - Mulholland Drive 1:36:53

7M ago1:36:53

1:36:53

In this episode, hosts Garret Castleberry and Scott McMurry introduce uninitiated listeners to the unique career highlights of artist-director David Lynch. For the uninitiated, the dialogic duo walk through a chronological explanation of the director's nontraditional route to fame, contextualizing his journey as a lead-in to this week's feature fil…

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Film Listology: #95 - All Quiet on the Western Front 1:04:48

7M ago1:04:48

1:04:48

This week Special Topics in Media resumes its focus on "Film Listology" with a discussion of director Lewis Milestone's 1930 war film All Quiet on the Western Front. Winning the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director, All Quiet might better be understood as an anti-war film for its grueling depictions of the human cost of war. Based on th…

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Film Listology, Reveal Episode! #95-91 54:01

8M ago54:01

54:01

The Special Topics in Media Film Listology season reveals a number of contemporary classics just in time for the holiday season. No, these films don't necessarily rock around the Christmas tree. But they do rock, and in some cases, heads will roll. Hosts Garret and Scott announce and respond to the latest output from the McMurry SuperIndex, the #95…

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Film Listology: #96 - The Rules of the Game 23:36

8M ago23:36

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The Film Listology season of SpecialTopics in Media continues with an abbreviated assessment of the critically adorned foreign langugage film from renown French director Jean Renoir, 1939's The Rules of the Game. Highly valued for its groundbreaking use of deep focus and dolly camera movement, Renoir's coveted love lorn prewar social satire employs…

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Film Listology: #97 - L.A. Confidential 42:21

8M ago42:21

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This week Special Topics in Media resumes production on our Film Listology journey with the bad boy grandchild born out of wedlock between Film Noir and Golden Age Hollywood, writer/director Curtis Hanson and co-screenwriter Brian Helgeland's detective potboiler L.A. Confidential. Adapted from the same name novel by James Ellroy, L.A. Confidential …

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Film Listology: #98 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1:20:17

9M ago1:20:17

1:20:17

With the holiday season in full swing, hosts Garret Castleberry and Scott McMurry step away from the dinner table long enough to partake in an alternative pastime, cultivating our Film Listology season on Special Topics in Media. In this episode, the dialogic duo revisit the recently invoked "Dad Movie Hall of Fame" to inaugurate what many consider…

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Film Listology: #99 - The Great Dictator 32:02

9M ago32:02

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As our Film Listology season drops into the nineties, Scott and Garret examine The Great Dictator from 1940. Falling in familiarity to many, The Great Dictator wisely uses comedy (and tragedy) to spotlight and critique rising fascism in early twentieth century Europe. Charlie Chaplin writes, produces, and directs this satirical story of mistaken id…

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Film Listology: #100 - Cool Hand Luke 50:31

9M ago50:31

50:31

... Hosts: Garret Castleberry, Scott McMurry Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music) Recommended readings paired with our Film Listology season: Rick Altman. Film/Genre. British Film Institute, 1999. Jim Collins, Ada Preacher Collins, Hilary Radner (Eds.). Film Theory Goes to the …

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Film Listology, Reveal Episode! #100-96 48:52

10M ago48:52

48:52

The Special Topics in Media Film Listology season is BACK! After our Communicating Fears in Film Octoberfest, hosts Garret Castleberry and Scott McMurry return to the realm of classic cinema to count down the algorithmic rankings computated by the "McMurry Super Index" (MSI) to determine an alpha populous movie rating system to end all movie rating…

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Killers of the Flower Moon - Film Screening First Impressions 1:25:18

10M ago1:25:18

1:25:18

This week Special Topics in Media teams up with the Okie Bookcast for a podcasting event! We're crafting a two-part discussion surrounding the adaptation of author David Grann's 2017 New York Times bestseller Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI into a major motion picture now in theaters from director Martin Scors…

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Kendall Phillips - Horror Rhetorician, Part 2 (Communicating Fears in Film Interview Series) 39:42

10M ago39:42

39:42

Part 2 of our interview with Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Dr. Kendall Phillips. In conversation with our Communicating Fears in Film topic theme, Kendall discusses his own "origins" and how his path first intersected with horror cinema at the crucial threshold of childhood adolescence. Garret and Kendall discuss several horror…

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Kendall Phillips - Horror Rhetorician, Part 1 (Communicating Fears in Film Interview Series) 41:22

10M ago41:22

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As the Communicating Fears in Film, The Return! season continues, host Garret Castleberry sits down with Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Dr. Kendall Phillips to discuss the fantasy of horror entertainments and their relationship to the reality of American anxieties. In part 1 of their conversation, Kendall helps paint a picture for "Why Rhe…

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Communicating Fears in Film, The Return!: "They Live" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" 1:25:13

11M ago1:25:13

1:25:13

October is upon us! With scary movie season under way we're returning to our "Communicating Fears in Film" theme all month long. To kick off our specialty programming this spooky season, host Garret Castleberry is joined by Scott McMurry to dissect a pair of science fiction horror films that strike at fears relating to identity and duplicity. In th…

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Summer Movie Season Epilogue: August 2023 42:56

11M ago42:56

42:56

In this "Epilogue" to the 2023 Summer Movie Season, host Garret Castleberry recaps the roadmap for this mini-series and its analytic structure. After providing a context for the summer movie season analytic structure, Garret then posits five criteria for "Why Summer Movie Season Works" as the perfect antidote to late summer podcasting malaise (13:3…

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Summer Movie Season: July 2023 34:53

11M ago34:53

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Our Special Topics in Media Pod-a-Thon! reaches its summer 2023 conclusion with an examination of the twinning effect that impacted the month of July. Garret Castleberry is joined by Kyle Hammonds in a conversation that highlights the cultural peaks and valleys encountered through July's movie releases. Among the films released, a clear trend of op…

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Film Listology: #101 - Mad Max: Fury Road 50:53

11M ago50:53

50:53

Rounding out the "Honorable Mentions" list of acclaimed films, hosts Garret Castleberry and Scott McMurry examine the most current film to rank on the McMurry Super Index, 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road. Directed by Australian auteur George Miller, Fury Road expands the post-apocalyptic mythology established by Miller nearly forty years prior with 1979'…

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Summer Movie Season: June 2023 - Part 4 28:59

11M ago28:59

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Previously on the Special Topics in Media Pod-a-Thon!: franchise fatigue, IP gone awry, brand dominance in colossal collapse. Garret Castleberry cracks the rhetorical whip with Summer Movie scholar Kyle Hammonds as they tackle the close-out films that helped make June 2023 one of the most commercially promising, yet financially flailing months in r…

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Film Listology: #102 - Cabaret 42:35

11M ago42:35

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As the Film Listology season closes in on #100, Garret and Scott complete their "transgressive trilogy" of vintage New Hollywood films with Cabaret from 1972. Directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minelli and Michael York, Cabaret snuck in a win with the Academy Award for Best Director (among others) in the same year as Francis Ford Coppola's ori…

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Summer Movie Season: June 2023 - Part 3 50:34

11M ago50:34

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The summer heat reaches its epoch, and so does the 2023 Summer Movie Season with this Special Topics first, a "Lightning Review" of the Warner Bros./DC Entertainment franchise killer, The Flash (2023). Culminating the volatile and polarizing "Zack Snyder Universe" in the DC Extended Universe, The Flash was strategically delayed due to the COVID-19 …

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Film Listology: #103 - Midnight Cowboy 40:58

11M ago40:58

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After a brief pause to commemorate Special Topics 50th episode, Garret and Scott resume their Film Listology countdown with the second in their "transgressive trilogy" of New Hollywood films, Midnight Cowboy (1969). Directed by John Schlesinger and starring John Voight and Dustin Hoffman, Midnight Cowboy is the first and only film to receive an ini…

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