Once or twice, I’ve thought about shaking up my format.

Every once in a while, I’ll hear an episode of one of the shows I listen to regularly – shows that feature a regular team that talk amongst themselves every episode. They have a rhythm all their own, a banter, a familiarity. When I hear that, I think about stopping my neverending conga line of guests and instead teaming up with one person permanently.

But then I get afternoons like yesterday, and it makes me think that’s just temptation speaking.

The one thing I like about the neverending conga line is the way it keeps me on my toes. It allows the show to ebb and flow, with certain episodes making certain segments longer than usual and certain segments shorter.

So besides the fact that my guest this week did a stellar job of filling in when a friend got called away, she also got me to get out of my comfort zone a bit and talk about a different slice of cinema. There’s no way I’d get that with a steady co-host.

 

Here’s what’s in store in episode seventy-eight…

 

Runtime
59 minutes

Up for Discussion

1. Introduction
2. KNOW YOUR ENEMY– Q& A with this week’s guest Titania Plant (2:41)
3. COME TALK TO ME – Fielding some listener feedback on underrated Best Picure winners (11:17)
4. THE NEW SLANG – Review and reaction to SIDE EFFECTS (26:27)
5. THE OTHER SIDE – We couple THE IRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO and BIGGER THAN LIFE (45:28)

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8 Replies to “Episode 78”

  1. Glad you finally saw Bigger than Life, Ryan. It’s one of those great gems from classic American cinema that I hope gets more fans over the next decade and beyond.

    For my favorite dumb action movie, I guess it depends on what you define as dumb and action. In any case, I’ll choose SPEED RACER, a film that’s high on style and spectacle and has a childish sensibility that brings out the 10-year-old in me every time I see it. Yes, the story is corny and melodramatic (which is part of the reason why I enjoy it), but I defy you to find a more visually excessive and delightful action sequence than any of the racing scenes in this film.

  2. Maybe it’s because I was in mid-20s when I was in film school, I never walked out of a single in-class screening (even though there were a few I didn’t like).

    In fact, I saw FESTEN in one of my classes (and liked it).

    1. Yes, I’ve never left a class screening, but I did skip a few screenings of films I had already seen and wasn’t going to suffer through again. KING KONG (2005) & WEEKEND are the main two that come to mind.

      2. Haha you both make me look like a bad film student! Chalk it up to experience, but in my undergrad there were some films that I am not ashamed to admit that I either slept through parts of or just had to walk out on.

  3. Wow! If you truly did not see the “crisis” for side effects coming, you definitely do keep yourself under a rock when it comes to movies. All it takes is watching the trailer and looking closely at the acting credits to guess what was going to happen. In fact, I am surprised at all the efforts to hide this act, since knowing it doesn’t really hurt the film in my opinion.

    Also, look for an e-mail with my feedback answer. I need to do a bit of an audit first.

    1. I don’t really keep myself under a rock so much as I refrain from researching a film I’m already sold on.

      If I know a director I like has a new film coming out – I just go. I don’t watch different versions of the trailer, nor do I look all that closely at credits.

      We already go into these films knowing so much and building a lot of preconceived notions. Why would I want to fuel that fire?

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