By Rhys Marks, Kane Murcott
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PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON FILMOGRAPHY MARATHON
PTA decides to take a quick break from epic-proportion madhouse ensembles that make your mind work in overtime, to both explore the complexities of something as simple as love, and work with Adam Sandler.
Barry Egan is a timid and shy man leading a lonely, uneventful life -- partly due to the constant berating he suffers from his seven sisters. However, several events transpire that shake up Egan's mundane existence, one of which is falling in love with one sister's co-worker, Lena.
Kane and Rhys unpack what they think PTA is trying to say about love in this effort, and try to figure out why he may have decided to stay from the ensembles he was more used to and instead go for something a bit more... intimate.
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PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON FILMOGRAPHY MARATHON
How does one go on living after watching 'Magnolia'? You record a podcast about it. Impressively, the pod doesn't reach the length of the film itself.
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.
Rhys and Kane take on this daunting film, intimidated by its length, intense themes and the slight possibility that Kane isn't into this maybe as much as Rhys is.
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PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON FILMOGRAPHY MARATHON
Everyone is blessed with one special thing.
For PTA, it seems to be film making.
It's 1977, and teenage busboy Eddie Adams gets discovered by Jack Horner, who takes him under his wing and transforms him into the adult-film sensation: Dirk Diggler.
Rhys and Kane bite off PTA's second feature, which already packs in a giant ensemble, and shoves its audience deep into the adult-film-industry of the 1970s. There's drugs, blood, inspirational character transformations, and Jessie's Girl.
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PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON FILMOGRAPHY MARATHON
The hardcore film analysis helmets are coming on. Rhys and Kane are taking a break from horror and kids movies to go through the filmography of one of Rhys' favourite directors: PTA.
This episode sees a bit of a rundown of who Paul Thomas Anderson is as a film maker, why we should care about him, and explores his first directorial feature.
A seed has been planted, and a whole floodgate opened unleashing: strange paternal dynamics, lost men in a world full of loneliness, and John C. Reilly. Without any of which, a PTA movie could not be formed.
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ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS FRANCHISE MARATHON
After a long road of many little singers covered in fur, a few strange A-to-B kids movies, and only one Dave and Uncle Ian, the entire Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise has been marathoned.
Kane and Rhys are more cut-out for horror movies and iconic trilogies, but they've done the hard work and walked the line... now its time that they rank these Chipmunk films and cleanse them from the podcast for good.
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ALIEN FRANCHISE MARATHON
Alien is BACK... and Marathon Me could not be more excited. Horror franchise installments from this year have been pretty damn good, and with Fede Alvarez on-board, things are looking promising.
In this entry, we join the timeline between Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986) and see Space colonisers come face to face with the most terrifying life-form in the universe while scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station. I wonder if we'll see a familiar face(hugger) or two.
Rhys and Kane revisit the franchise, place Romulus in their ranking, and debate all things alien-babies and maternal fears once again.
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ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS FRANCHISE MARATHON
A fourth entry to a beloved children's franchise that changes up the look and feel of the originals and is set on a road trip?... oh no. We've been here before and it wasn't pretty.
Alvin, Simon and Theodore believe that Dave is going to propose to his girlfriend Samantha in Miami. In a bid to retain their place in Dave's life, the three set out to stop him. And the Chipettes are hosting American Idol, but don't worry about that.
Rhys and Kane buckle up for the road chip of a lifetime. With expectations down to the ground, there's no way to go but up.
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ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS FRANCHISE MARATHON
The next logical step in this series based around Chipmunk children who can sing: they all have to survive the trials and tribulations of a desert island.
Dave, Alvin, Simon, Theodore, (Brittany, Jeanette, Eleanor and Ian) ALL find themselves on a cruise together. All is good, the world is content. Until one crazy thing leads to another, and the crew of misfits, oddballs and rodents all end up stranded on a desert island. They encounter treasure, volcanoes and Jenny Slate.
Kane gets sent back to a childhood favourite, and Rhys gets sent to hell. Both men... are chipwrecked.
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ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS FRANCHISE MARATHON
History has been made: the first ever Squeakquel. They said they were mad... but Hollywood made it happen.
Following Alvin and the Chipmunks' rise to fame in the first film, only to discover that family and love is much more valuable than being in the spotlight, they move onto the next logical narrative step: going to high school. And also there's girl chipmunks now, too.
Kane and Rhys mourn the loss of screen time spent with Jason Lee in this entry, and discuss how it makes no f*cking sense that these little creatures were accepted in human high school.
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ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS FRANCHISE MARATHON
It's all been building up to this one... the journey of Dave Savil and his borderline psychotic break, where Chipmunks take over the man's life.
There's Alvin, Simon and Theodore, and the whole world is there oyster. They're not just cool, handsome, smart and ambitious... they can also SING. And this is all that Jason Lee... I mean Dave, needs to save his crumbling life.
Kane and Rhys start to unpack their watch-a-thon of the Chipmunk movies and answer the question if the original still holds up now as grown-ass adults.
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