Mark As Played

This episode on SIN CITY is not only about style as substance... but also how what we consider substantive storytelling changes as we become scared old men shouting out clouds. Speaking of which we embrace a new President so that maybe we can get back to those carefree days of Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen and Bruce Willis essentially playing the same character. As long as that character is not Donald Trump things can only be looking up!

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There are some things one can't just see past as a moviegoer.

Like Dustin Hoffman running.

And he runs a lot in MARATHON MAN.

It's a problem.

Enjoy!

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'til the Words Run Out from the album Fair City Lights

For 2021 we implore you to make one New Year's resolution:

DON'T HAVE KIDS. Just stop.

Enjoy our episode on A COOL, DRY PLACE as Vince Vaughn did not learn that lesson and we bring in the great podcast SATURDAY THE 14TH as crucial evidence as to why children are THE WORST.

Happy New Year!

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On Christmas Day 2020 we give you the holiday film that this year deserves: Doug Liman & John August's GO. We discuss the stars that were made (Melissa McCarthy gets her break in one scene of plot exposition) and those that weren't (still trying to figure out why Hollywood hates ginger men; actually we get it.) HOWEVER this being MARK AS PLAYED and Christmas we are never that far off from admiring the directing talents of Sarah Polley and also the equally skilled talents of sex workers. Blame our guest Jared Dotson of SOBER CINEMA.

Happy holidays!

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We travel back to that very special time in a young man's life when he is... awakened... to the charms of Brittany Murphy and also CLUELESS. 

Your other host was already on to his first mid-life crisis and trying to understand the youth by learning new slang from kids named Alicia and Breckin. His name is Jairo and he's still trying to understand those crazy kids to this very day. Thankfully Stacey Dash is occasionally on Fox News to keep him apprised of what's hip.

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For our Halloween special we... go back to the beach for the always seasonal fear of an irrational mayor trying to kill Americans in the name of saving the economy in JAWS. Speaking of things that terrify us! This could also serve as our Election Day special and the possibility that we have four more years of episodes on IDIOCRACY. I've never seen it, but I do like OFFICE SPACE.

Still, let's avoid that if we can. Enjoy!

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When you know you know. And apparently one of your hosts (his name is Jairo) who is a married man (I repeat, his name is Jairo) found love at first sight when seeing Jesse Eisenberg's boner at a pool party.

Once again... this is all Jairo.

However your other host did talk about ADVENTURELAND before and he did so on his other podcast PROJECTING FILM. A bit of self promotion there BUT we make up for it by also recommending THE CULT OF MATT AND MARK. A good show.

Not this one. The other ones.

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Having lived our lives as the out-of-focus guys in the podcast medium we are experts in feeling the pain of Jason Lee in ALMOST FAMOUS... but we also are keeping our eyes open for the possibility of nip slips.

...nip slips. Enjoy!

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One host will stop at nothing that every movie podcast is a TONY SCOTT podcast. This is one of those podcasts.

Thankfully we also feature two better podcasts in FILM HOOLIGANS and MOVIE DATE NIGHT.

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We've talked about manic pixie dream girls (and boys!) this summer and the wasted talents of Blake Lively as a damsel in distress from SAVAGES... so now it's time for something good. GREAT, even. Of course that can't be lowly MARK AS PLAYED but what we can do is watch and talk about something great in Steven Spielberg's SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. Tom Hanks saving the damsel in distress Matt Damon. However we discover an uncanny kinship between Tom Sizemore and one host, which you can ignore but don't ignore these great podcasts in THE WILDER RIDE and EASY RIDERS RAGING PODCAST.

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'til the Words Run Out from the album Fair City Lights