Film Studies Minor

"We Will conquer the wilderness. It will not consume us." "Did ye make some unholy bond with that goat?" This week Zack and Jackson betray farmer Colby to forge an unholy bond with a goat named Logan. Listen to learn how witches and billy goats are super spooky and adult shaped toddlers are demon spawn in this conversation over The Witch (2015).

Happy Friday everyone, apologies for the missed week, should be back next Wednesday as usual.

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Secret Nazi Experiments. Indiana Jones Comparisons. The Jaws Shark is an anti-semite. Let's talk about Overlord (2018).

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Hereditary is a spooky movie that is very good. If you like spookies then stop this podcast, don’t look up anything about “Hereditary” (2018) and just sit down to watch it. If you don’t like heebie jeebies then go watch Overlord in preparation for next week. If you find Nazi’s and WW2 scary then go back and listen to the Hot Rod episode since it’s the best movie so far.

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This week the episode opens with a shocking twist and a production error within the first 45 seconds. Then the discussion shifts into a discussion on how the vampire mockumentary "What We Do in the Shadows" (2014) pays homage to various tropes of vampire lore and documentary filmmaking.

There are also several moments where my brain stops working that result in awkward pauses or segues so enjoy!

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Zachary and Colbary discuss that very popular Marvel movie that just came out and made some major cheddar this past weekend. I'm writing this episode description despite the fact I wasn't included in the recording session since I didn't see the movie in time and needed to mow my lawn. Since I wasn't involved this is probably a terrible podcast episode but I don't know since I won't listen to it for a few more days. My understanding is there are SPOILERS discussed in this episode but of course there are, what else would they talk about? 

"Yeah, there are impressive effects for sure. Fans of the genre will love it"

"I don't know if people who haven't seen all 68 prior films will understand everything that happens, but I loved it!"

"I just find it kind of cheap that they brought back X % of the dead characters but oh well."

"So are you excited for Ant Man 3?" 

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Captain Clickbait, SEOMan and some other Marvel/sellout pun are joined by actual knowledgeable human Jenny Mandeville for a conversation covering how the MCU has been built over the last decade and if we all wasted our best years. Preorder your tickets to Disney's The Marvelous Endgame before it's too late!

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We open this week's episode with an interview with Michael John Fuller who served as a technical sound advisor on Christopher Nolan's film Dunkirk (2017) helping craft the ominous warning siren of the JU 87 Stuka dive bomber that haunted the film.

Following the interview we discuss how Hans Zimmer and the rest of the sound design team capture the unceasing anxiety, paranoia,  and terror in Dunkirk (2017).

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Susan Sontag said that "Camp discloses innocence, but when it can, it corrupts it." Perhaps no film corrupts innocence more than Turbo Kid (2015). In this episode, we explore what makes the film campy, and Jackson tries to make us believe that "the far-flung future" is an actual phrase.

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“They’re in space and then they get like a transmission thing so they go down to this little planet. One of them gets this thing stuck to his face and they bring him back to the ship even though Ripley didn’t want to, and then that thing hatches a little chest monster and then that alien turns into an alien and it kills everybody, except her, and she escapes and then it’s with her and then…she, uh, kills it. The End.”

FSM focuses on how editing and sound design elevate tension in Alien (1979).

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Steve McQueen directs and Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Michelle Rodriguez, Carrie Coon, Robert Duvall, and Colin Farrell star in a movie you've probably never heard of. The FSM crew takes a look at Widows (2018) and analyze if it is effective as the heist film it is marketed as.

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