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Folie À Boo: A Bleak, Haunting ‘Ghost Story’ Refuses To Go Toward The Light
Every once in a while, a movie comes along that is not really a movie. Technically, yes, it is a movie, but the experience I have watching it is something different. Upon viewing Lars Von Trier’s...
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Black & Blue: Justice Takes A Holiday In Bigelow’s Brutal ‘Detroit’
Fifty years is a long time. Unfortunately, it has not been long enough to distance America from the depicted in Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit. There’s Motown music in the background and the cars look old,...
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Dirt In The Skirt (When We Were Young, Episode 22)
“Are you crying?” Did a baseball diamond used to be your playground? If so, you’re probably one of the fans who made the Rockford Peaches stars of the most successful baseball movie of all time. Penny...
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Take This Pink Ribbon Off My Eyes (When We Were Young, Episode 23)
“I thought I knew you I thought I knew you I thought I knew you… Oh well.” Check out the No Doubt episode here! No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom has been mentioned on the podcast several times. Romy And...
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‘Mother’ Lover: Aronofsky’s Defiantly Divisive Antidote To The State Of...
How to review a movie like Mother? Honestly, it’s probably best not to try… but here goes. Darren Aronofsky’s films usually inspire debate. From the manic dread of Requiem For A Dream to the...
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How I Became The Prince Of A Town Called Bel Air (When We Were Young, Episode...
“You’re moving with your auntie and your uncle in Bel-Air.” Listen to When We Were Young here. In a lot of ways, The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air feels like an older show than it is, because I associate it...
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Glitter In The Dark (When We Were Young, Episode 25)
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time....
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Back To The Future: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Just Might Be The Greatest Sequel...
I hate to react too quickly to any movie, because opinions settle over time. I often see a movie and have a negative reaction, only to find that it sits better over time. Sometimes, I leave a film...
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Smart, Clean, Totally Decent Human Being… Gay! (When We Were Young, Episode 26)
“Now, repeat after me: ‘Yo!'” “Yo!” “Hot damn!” “Hot damn!” “What a fabulous window treatment!” “What a fabulou—” “That was a trick!” Come one, come all, and come out already for When We Were Young’s...
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I’m Everything You Ever Were Afraid Of (When We Were Young, Episode 27)
“Suck my fat one, you cheap dime-store hood.” Stranger things have happened than what happened on Stranger Things — thanks in large part to one of horror’s most prolific names. In honor of the Netflix...
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