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Mission Creep episodes
- S2E10: Meet Joe Black (1998), with Rachel White
What can we say about a film that has everything--love, death, a soaring score, the widest ties, a SHOCKING effort at a Jamaican accent? Plenty, as it happens! Join us!
1 hr 18 min - S2E9: Face/Off (1997) REDUX, with Winston Thompson
Why would you remove a guy's face FIRST, and only then trim up his bangs??
1 hr 16 min - S2E8: Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), with Rachel White
I heard that you were feeling ill: headache, fever, and a chill. I came to help restore your pluck, because I'm the nurse who likes to spend inordinate amounts of time dissecting Ed Rooney's trauma, Ferris's own sociopathic tendencies, Charlie Sheen's louche and effortless sexiness, and whether Cameron is not the actual protagonist of this movie. Won't you join us?
1 hr 4 min - S2E7: The Bourne Trilogy (2002-2007), with Winston Thompson & Andy Karlson
In which it is revealed that what we had previously thought of as genre-defining artistry in the world of spy-based action films is really, basically, the Pilgrim's Progress on the levels of both the individual and the national soul.
And never has the phrase "This is not who we are" been more laughably, enragingly false.
1 hr 31 min - S2E6: Demolition Man (1993), with Andy Karlson & Winston ThompsonEnhance your calm! Velvety fascism is here!1 hr 17 min
- S2E5: Clueless (1995), with Susan HaarmanPop quiz, hot shot. Which movie features a college freshman reading Nietzsche by the pool, a lot of drug jokes that went over our teenaged heads, and a surprisingly underwhelming soundtrack? It's Clueless! Susan Haarman joins us LIVE and IN PERSON to talk about this classic adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma.55 min
- S2E4: Total Recall (1990), with Winston Thompson and Andy KarlsonIs this an end-of-history movie or not? Is Arnold Schwarzenegger dreaming the whole thing or not? What is the political vision, and what are the stakes, of this film?1 hr 28 min
- S2E2: Jurassic Park (1993), with Andy Karlson and Winston ThompsonAndy describes the end of this movie as a "Deus rex machina" and I have not stopped chuckling about it since.1 hr 27 min
- S2E1: Independence Day (1996), with Andy SmarickWelcome to Earth! Andy and I get together to remember a time when Will Smith wasn't yet a huge star, when Harry Connick, Jr. was just a crooner, and when Jeff Goldblum was still playing characters rather than "Jeff Goldblum."And we talk about the 90s geopolitics that made this movie possible, including Vietnam War memory, Clinton-era cosmopolitanism, and the role of aliens as an external and existential threat to unified humanity.1 hr 5 min
- S1E14: You’ve Got Mail (1998), with Annie SchultzThere is a huge question that runs throughout our conversation here: Should we understand romantic comedies as parables of a certain kind, or should we hold the characters in romantic comedies to a standard of psychological realism? But that's far from the only question on which Dr. Schultz and I find ourselves divided.Is Nora Ephron an object-oriented ontologist? Is the city of New York the true romantic lead in this film? Does Greg Kinnear's character just utterly indict all of us nerds? Is this movie suffused with economic anxiety and yet bereft of class politics? Wasn't the late-90s internet aesthetic just the best thing there's ever been? Come with us, dear listener, and remember your bated breath as you waited for dial-up to connect.1 hr 22 min
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A movies podcast that wanders