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- A Decade of Podcasts, A Century of Movies • 1920s
It's a new season! A tenth season!
Taking as inspiration the powerful work of August Wilson (rest in peace, sir), co-hosts Tracy and Jason will be talking two movies each month that look at an entire decade – one made in the decade, one made after.
We start at the very beginning of what we now know as motion pictures: the 1920s.
Miss Lulu Bett (1921)
Chicago (2002)1 hr 9 min - Remakes and Reboots // The Shop Around the Corner (1940) / You've Got Mail (1998)
From the vaults (it's only been sitting for a few months), Tracy and Jason discuss 1940's "The Shop Around the Corner" and its late-century techno remake, "You've Got Mail" (1998).
We're also saying goodbye to a loooooong ninth season, and will be back after 2021's postponed Academy Awards to start Season number Ten. 👀1 hr 15 min - Remakes and Reboots // Groundhog Day (1993) / Palm Springs (2020)
Tracy and Jason look at an oldie but a goodie – Groundhog Day - and then its innovative and clever remake, Palm Springs.
1 hr 5 min - Remakes and Reboots // Seven Samurai (1954) / The Magnificent Seven (1960, 2016)
Who takes on a remake of a remake? Tracy and Jason do, duh.
1 hr 10 min - Remakes and Reboots // The Count of Monte Cristo (1844 / 1975 / 2002)
Tracy and Jason close out 2020 with a nineteenth-century tale.
1 hr 6 min - Remakes and Reboots // What Women Want (2000) / What Men Want (2019)
Tracy and Jason decide that if Christians remade the original Mel Gibson flick, we'd begin with a simple "what people want" premise – and both films try their hand at conveying empathy. No small task.
59 min - #UnmuteYourself ∞ Day 16
This Advent, we're joining the #UnmuteYourself digital devotional – including hosting the Rev. Katy Stenta and her wonderful riff on our updated verse from I Kings 18:17:
"When [Ahab] saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, you doomscroller of Israel?”3 min - Remakes and Reboots // Robin Hood (1938 / 1973 / 1991 / 2010)
Jason and Tracy are back to talk about a 700-year-old story – and how it still connects to our world today.
1 hr 16 min - Remakes and Reboots // Romeo & Juliet (1968 / 1996) / West Side Story (1961)
Jason and Tracy are back to talk about a 16th-century story remade in several ways and in several names.
1 hr 7 min - Remakes and Reboots // Mad Max (1979) / Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Tracy and Jason disagree on the overall 'madness' of Max. Check it.
1 hr 7 min
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We talk about movies people of faith should see.