Matthew Burchanoski 1/31/22 Matthew Burchanoski 1/31/22

The Deer Hunter: Wedding Bells

Weddings bring out the best and worst of Vietnam vets, bumbling fathers, and nightclub owners.

Casey Lovegrove 1/1/22 Casey Lovegrove 1/1/22

MAS*H: The Worst Person You Know

Tim has good analysis and Matt has loud thoughts about some truly awful people.

Casey Lovegrove 12/13/21 Casey Lovegrove 12/13/21

North By Northwest: To Thine Own Auteur Be True

Auteurs don’t just make movies, they make themselves in movies.

Casey Lovegrove 12/6/21 Casey Lovegrove 12/6/21

Jaws: 100 Years…100 Thrills

AFI maybe should have decided what “Thrills” means more deliberately, but Jaws, The Exorcist, and Notorious are fun movies to talk about regardless.

Casey Lovegrove 12/1/21 Casey Lovegrove 12/1/21

Rocky: Losing the Last Fight

Whether it’s in boxing or gambling or family, we all have to fight hard to find meaning in losing.

Casey Lovegrove 11/15/21 Casey Lovegrove 11/15/21

The Gold Rush: The Oceana Roll

Three movies that maybe couldn’t be more different in plots, but which all have little joys to savor.

Matthew Burchanoski 10/26/21 Matthew Burchanoski 10/26/21

Nashville: Diegetic Musicals

Swan and Bob Dylan walk into a Lower East Side club…

Matthew Burchanoski 10/12/21 Matthew Burchanoski 10/12/21

Duck Soup: Zany Brainy

Screwballs. We all love ‘em. We especially love ones with a bit of bite, like Duck Soup, The Palm Beach Story, and What’s Up, Doc?

Matthew Burchanoski 10/12/21 Matthew Burchanoski 10/12/21

Deci’s Midnight Runners #4: Metal & Lucas

With a Lucas Choose Your Own Adventure and an 80s metal bracket, you might say we’re operating at peak us.

Matthew Burchanoski 10/5/21 Matthew Burchanoski 10/5/21

Sullivan’s Travels: 1941

Which of The Devil and Daniel Webster and The Little Foxes gets the ultimate reward of sitting on the fence with pie?

Matthew Burchanoski 7/1/21 Matthew Burchanoski 7/1/21

American Graffiti: Nostalgia

In which Matt crashes into the postmodern position that anything pre-1940s feels like fundamentally different history.

Matthew Burchanoski 6/21/21 Matthew Burchanoski 6/21/21

Cabaret: “Do You Still Think You Can Control Them?”

Control is illusory and the people of Cabaret, The Towering Inferno, and Ace in the Hole learn that the long, hard way.

Matthew Burchanoski 6/18/21 Matthew Burchanoski 6/18/21

Network: Modern Times

Modernity has failed us, say The 1975 and most contemporary theorists. Listen in to see if Speedy and All that Heaven Allows, like Network, suggest similar.

Matthew Burchanoski 6/16/21 Matthew Burchanoski 6/16/21

The African Queen: “Gonna Take A Lot to Drag Me Away from You”

Being able to reference Toto and Michael Ondaatje in the same episode is exceedingly dangerous for Tim and Matt.

Matthew Burchanoski 5/26/21 Matthew Burchanoski 5/26/21

Raiders of the Lost Ark: Poindexter Comes Alive

Various academics must step outside the ivory tower and punch their own literal or metaphorical Nazis.

Matthew Burchanoski 5/19/21 Matthew Burchanoski 5/19/21

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Marriage Crackups

An episode in which someone from each movie either is or should be taken to a mental health facility.

Matthew Burchanoski 5/12/21 Matthew Burchanoski 5/12/21

Unforgiven: Print the Legend

Tim chose some good options here considering how animated we get about the various legends at play in Unforgiven, The New World, and The Social Network.