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History Lesson Part II
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A podcast about movies about history, and (sometimes) the history of movies.
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18 - The Social Network
Feb 9, 202401:47:30Tap to summarize[Reuploaded due to audio exporting issues] Sources: Aaron Sorkin versus reality | Salon.com Why Zuckerberg should like the Facebook movie - CNN.com (archive.org) Facebook Founder Says The Social Network ‘Emphasizes Things That Didn’t Matter’ (archive.org) Mark Zuckerberg rejects his portrayal in The Social Network | Film | The Guardian Facebook Co-Founder Speaks Publicly: What I Learned From Watching “The Social Network” (cnbc.com) “The Social Network” will inspire an entirely new generation of entrepreneurs | Social Media Today (archive.org) “The Social Network” will inspire an entirely new generation of entrepreneurs (archive.org) Mark Zuckerberg rejects his portrayal in The Social Network | Film | The Guardian (archive.org)
Transcribe →17 - The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Oct 11, 202301:53:54Tap to summarizeWe discuss Ken Loach's brilliant war epic The Wind That Shakes The Barley in an unintentionally relevant episode. Plus: Jackson takes a pop quiz.
Transcribe →15 - Django/The Great Silence w/Cody Severtson
Aug 31, 202302:08:30Tap to summarizeCody joins us again to talk Spaghetti Westerns and the ways they channel both Italian and US politics of the 1960s and 70s.
Transcribe →14 - Broken Arrow, High Noon & Rio Bravo w/Cody Severtson
Jul 28, 202301:59:31Tap to summarizeIn part 1 of our miniseries on Westerns we discuss a trio of movies with varying degrees of Hollywood Blacklist connections with our friend and first guest, Cody Severtson.
Transcribe →13 - Trumbo (2015) and the Hollywood Blacklist
Jul 3, 202301:50:07Tap to summarizeWe discuss Jay Roach's Trumbo (2015), a pretty ok biopic about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. We also talk about a few much shittier movies about the blacklist, including The Front (1976), Guilty by Suspicion (1991), and Good Night and Good Luck (2005).
Transcribe →12 - M3GAN and AI in Film
Jun 12, 202302:05:10Tap to summarizeWe talk Gerard Johnstone's delightful horror-comedy M3GAN as well as Ex Machina, Black Mirror, and Blade Runner in a jumbo-sized ep about how much AI sucks.
Transcribe →BONUS: Tyler and Jackson Explain Everything
May 16, 202300:57:57Tap to summarizeWe do things a little different this time by discussing our philosophy towards film criticism and film more broadly. We also discuss the importance (or unimportance) of the artist's intent, how much we weigh the ideology of the film, and whether or not attempting to review films objectively is even possible.
Transcribe →11- Matewan
Apr 29, 202301:53:05Tap to summarizeIn Episode 11, we discuss John Sayles' brilliant Matewan (1987), which dramatizes the events leading up to a violent skirmish between striking miners and the Baldwin-Felts detective agency in 1920s West Virginia. This one was already long enough so no theme music this time.
Transcribe →10 - Barry
Mar 16, 202301:46:01Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Jackson and Tyler discuss "Barry", the godawful 2016 Barack Obama biopic chronicling the former president's first year at Columbia University.
Transcribe →9 - Knives Out/Glass Onion
Feb 14, 202301:33:19Tap to summarizeJackson and Tyler discuss the Knives Out cinematic universe, the difficulties of parodying Elon Musk, and contrast Glass Onion's attempts to satirize tech bros with Gerard Johnstone's M3GAN (2022).
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