This week, Ryan & Justin dodge sunlight while watching "The Hideous Sun Demon" (1958), and pick apart...

• Driving while mutating = Fun

• Was sunscreen never an option?

• Open question: does a man keep his mind after turning into a Sun Demon?

• ACTING!!!

• Glorious ineptitudes

• But the makeup was decent!

• How to trigger your easily-avoidable mutation

• Attention to detail: they made a splat!

• Our verdict

• Next week's film: "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951)

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This week, Justin & Ryan set a course "North by Northwest" (1959), and talk about...

• Justin's conflicted feelings about Cary Grant

• the film as a predicessor to James Bond

• love or hate: convoluted villain plan number 8,057

• Ryan's affinity for world-vs-protagonist stories

• Justin's issues on sexually motivated credulity

• Our Verdict

• Next week's film: "The Hideous Sun Demon" (1958)

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Justin and Ryan have questions they'd like to ask "The Third Man" (1949), some of which may involved...

• A surprise Spongebob reference...

• ...that triggers disjointed feelings in Ryan

• where the motivations for the characters are

• spoiling plot elements with your opening credits

• the awards and attention it's gotten

• our verdict

• Next week's film: "North By Northwest" (1959)

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Justin and Ryan check out the "The L-Shaped Room" (1962) to see if it's worth renting, and talk to the landlord about...

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• challenging social expectations of the time

• ambiguous vs. unresolved endings

• waitng too long to break down a main character

• a script that lets the audience use its intuition ...

• ... that sometimes leaves spaces too big to fill

• a cinematographer whose name stands out - to Justin

• Our Verdict

• Next week's film: "The Third Man" (1949)

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We made it a whole year and it's time to party! Today, Justin & Ryan commemorate this auspicious achievement by...

• Ranking our best and worst experiences of the year

• Revealing our favorite actors and actresses (not including Audrey Hepburn and Ingrid Bergman)

• Springing some surprise awards categories on each other

• Rating the films we covered that never got a rating

Ryan and Justin don't expect a fair hearing in "The Trial" (1963), but as they wait to be admitted to the law, they talk about...

• Orson Wells and trippy art films

• Wells' capturing the stylized dream / nightmare experience on film

• Franz Kafka and the philosophy of existentialism and absurdism

• How much Kafka's experiences shaped his worldview

• Our verdict?

• Next week's film: "The L-Shaped Room" (1962)

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Justin and Ryan peel back the layers of "Charade" (1963) this week, and as they get to the bottom of it, they'll talk about...

⦁ Romantic screwball comedy mystery film is quite the venn diagram.

⦁ Is this the Cary Grant film that breaks Justin's streak of negative reactions?

⦁ Social distrust of institutions starting to creep into popular films.

⦁ Ryan waxes eloquent about Audrey Hepburn... Again :-)

⦁ Successfully using misdirection in your thriller

⦁ The icing on top: Dialogue that pops.

⦁ Some interesting trivia on the unusual copyright situation with the film

⦁ Our Verdict

⦁ Next Week's Film: "The Trial" (1963)

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This week, Ryan and Justin run away from their problems with "It Happened One Night" (1934) and talk about...

• Absence of change in characters
• How setting sets this rom-com apart
• An unusual connection to a popular cartoon
• Our individual expectations with rom-coms
• Convoluted romantic complications: flaw or feature?
• Our Verdict.
• Next week's film: "Charade" (1963)

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This week, Justin tells Ryan to take or leave "Hobbson's Choice" (1954), as long as he takes it. And as he contemplates that, they'll talk about...

• Hobson's Choice: not just a movie title!
• Is Maggie a Mary Sue?
• The film as social satire/commentary
• Crossing the bridge of inevitability
• Some Charles Laughton trivia.
• Our Verdict.
• Next week's film: "It Happened One Night" (1934)

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This week, Justin & Ryan get their grins on for "The Man Who Laughs" (1928), and discuss...

⦁ Unexpected ending for a movie based on a Victor Hugo novel

⦁ Gwenelplaine as inspiration for Joker

⦁ A romantic picture that launches a horror franchise.

⦁ The legacy of German Expresionism

⦁ Tim Burton and Batman

⦁ Our Verdict

⦁ Next Week's Film: "Hobson's Choice" (1954)

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