Let's Take Five

Get off your vacation butt, it's time to get back to work! While you may hate the small talk in the coffee room, it's nothing compared to the madness The Tramp goes through in Modern Times. The guys discuss how Chaplin views the corporate viewpoints, its large comedy set-pieces and how this film started to use sound in small but meaningful ways.

Charlie Chaplin's Five

1) The Gold Rush

2) City Lights

3) Modern Times

4) The Great Dictator

5) Monsieur Verdoux

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Theme Song by Adam Lord

Tramp meets blind girl. Blind girl needs surgery. Tramp tries to raise money to help the blind girl. Simple story beautifully told in what many consider to be Charlie Chaplin's masterpiece, City Lights. The guys look into what it means for the Tramp to take these avenues for the smallest amount of money, the warmth of its humor and the mystery of its ending.

Charlie Chaplin's Five

1) The Gold Rush

2) City Lights

3) Modern Times

4) The Great Dictator

5) Monsieur Verdoux

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Theme Song by Adam Lord

It's time to go way way back and way way west as the guys start their Charlie Chaplin Five with The Gold Rush. Their introduction to the Tramp is when he is joining so many others in risking their lives in hope to find gold in them hills. The guys look into what separates The Tramp in his search for riches, the way Chaplin plays with sadness in its romance and that pesky bear.

Charlie Chaplin's Five

1) The Gold Rush

2) City Lights

3) Modern Times

4) The Great Dictator

5) Monsieur Verdoux

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Theme Song by Adam Lord

There haven't been a lot of actors covered in Let's Take Five but after these five weeks, Jodie Foster is a reminder that the guys should do this more often. It's not that these were the five best films in the world (they weren't). Yet every time Jodie Foster brings a level of excellence that always surprised them. Listen as the guys look back at the films they watched, the films they didn't watch and who is up next.

Jodie Foster's Five

1) Taxi Driver

2) The Accused

3) The Silence of the Lambs

4) Maverick

5) Contact

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Listening and waiting is the game for Jodie Foster in Contact. If you too have been listening and waiting for this review, you shall wait no longer. The guys break down the Carl Sagan adaptation with an examination of its science vs. religion themes, projections of hope and surprise and a rant against the worst performance in any of the 60 films they've covered. Travel with us. Push the button.

Jodie Foster's Five

1) Taxi Driver

2) The Accused

3) The Silence of the Lambs

4) Maverick

5) Contact

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If Eric gets to be nostalgic for Batman, Austin gets to be nostalgic for...Maverick? Yes, the guys devote a half hour devoted to the Richard Donner western comedy starring Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster. It's a silly world where actors get a lot to play with, but Eric seems to suggest that there are also flaws in the movie. That may be true, but he's not writing the paragraph. It's definitely a great showcase for Jodie Foster to show her comedic timing.

Jodie Foster's Five

1) Taxi Driver

2) The Accused

3) The Silence of the Lambs

4) Maverick

5) Contact

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Prepare a nice chianti for we have a great show this week. Award winning mystery author, Dana Cameron, joins the guys to discuss one of the most beloved films of the genre. Jodie Foster won her second oscar for playing Clarice Sterling in The Silence of the Lambs. She is the FBI cadet who is sent in to learn from the psychopath Hannibal Lecter to track down a killer. The three of them break down what makes Clarice such a remarkable protagonist, if every step of the story fits together and how the film embraced gender roles.

Jodie Foster's Five

1) Taxi Driver

2) The Accused

3) The Silence of the Lambs

4) Maverick

5) Contact

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Films about rape remain some of the most traumatic stories in the medium. In 1988, The Accused got a lot of attention for Jodie Foster's incredible performance and its approach to legally prosecute rapists. Austin and Eric discuss the impressive way that Foster formed her character, how the film remains very relevant and the ways it doesn't. More than usual, you can take these two straight white guy's perspective with a grain of salt, but we would love to continue the conversation.

Jodie Foster's Five

1) Taxi Driver

2) The Accused

3) The Silence of the Lambs

4) Maverick

5) Contact

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In 56 episodes, this is our first time judging such a young performance. Jodie Foster astounded audiences in Taxi Driver not only because of the difficulty of playing a 12-year-old prostitute but how easily she was able to go up against method acting Robert DeNiro. There's a confidence and a complexity to this small role that is a perfect lead-in to the rest of her career.

Jodie Foster's Five

1) Taxi Driver

2) The Accused

3) The Silence of the Lambs

4) Maverick

5) Contact

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Join us next Friday for our episode of The Accused.

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They've leapt tall buildings with a single bound and walked through the wastelands with blades between their fingers. This Five is definitely special. It's been five weeks and the guys are ready to look back at their Super Five. To help gets a greater grasp on these superhero eras of cinema, they are joined by their comic-book aficionados friends Alex Dunning and David Jesse. At the end, they will announce their next Five.

Super Five

1) Superman

2) Batman

3) The Dark Knight

4) Captain America: Civil War

5) Logan

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