It's the movie that depicted a conflict that literally brought down the Fourth French Republic. French critics hated it and it took five years for France to release Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers to release theatrically. Internationally, it was incredibly well regarded. American audiences that were against the Vietnam War gravitated towards it. Due to its grounded depiction of urban resilience and guerilla warfare groups such as the PLO and the Black Panthers had screenings of this film. Even the Pentagon had screenings of this film.

This highly controversial film is regarded currently as a fair and balanced depiction of a sociopolitical quagmire in post-war France and Northern Africa. It is considered now to be one of the greatest films ever made.

From the Worker's Lit podcast, Jacob returns and Jen Big Nasty makes her MoviePod debut. Join us for a fascinating discussion on the history of Algeria and colonialism and decolonialism

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This is one of the movies that made me decide to choose this format for the podcast. Polarizing when it came out, thanks to an inferior theatrical cut, it released in the same month as other sci-fi gems like Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, The Thing and E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial. As time went on and additional cuts of the film were released, people went back to the sci-fi noir Blade Runner with deeper appreciation. It is now considered one of the greatest films ever made and it has made a significant impact on other films, video games and television series.

Join me and Kevin for a spirited discussion praising this film and dumping on our modern hellscape's version of artificial intelligence. We discuss the theatrical cut with the awful narration and happy ending as well as the director's cut and the definitive Final Cut of the film.

Blade Runner was directed by Ridley Scott and stars Harrison Ford, Ruger Hauer, Sean Young and Edward James Olmos.

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There's a new Spider-Man in the theatre so it's the perfect excuse to revisit the fantastic, yet maligned, third Sam Raimi film in his trilogy. This film ended a series but people came around to it a bit more a decade later when Tom Holland became the new Spider-Man and people realized this movie was funny on purpose and that the melodrama is something that is missing from the MCU.

Spider-Man 3 is directed by Sam Raimi. It stars Tobey McGuire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, Elizabeth Banks, Bryce Dallas Howard, James Cromwell, Rosemary Harris and J.K. Simmons

Apologies for the audio popping. Going to sort that out by the next episode.

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This is a big one. Batman AND Superman in the same movie? What could go wrong? To many, nothing went wrong and the three hour extended cut of Zack Snyder's superhero team up movie is a a great film. However, those people are wrong. This is possibly my most hated movie ever. I will hand it to them that the longer version is a more coherent movie. Snyder fans to this day like the auteur vision of this film and with films such as Zack Snyder's Justice League getting a proper full release they will still be in the replies of every social media post demanding to Restore the Snyderverse.

I am joined by Tim and Tommy from Haven't Scene It to discuss this film that we all did not have much fun with.

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With one of our greats, Sam Neill, passing away I brough back Dalton Pike to the show to talk about his favourite Jurassic Park film, Joe Johnston's Jurassic Park III. The movie had a mixed reception upon release. However, Spielberg's mixed reception of The Lost World has had people debate for many years on which Jurassic Park sequel is the superior film.

This episode has Dalton explain his love for talking animal films to my absolute amusement. We also go deep on our love as children on dinosaurs and this franchise.

Jurassic Park III stars Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Allesandro Novla, Trevor Mogran, Michael Jeter and Laura Dern.

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In tribute of the late Sam Neill, I brought Maeve back onto the show to talk about Paul W.S. Anderson's sci-fi horror cult film Event Horizon. It was critically blasted upon release. Decades later, it has influenced a lot of sci-fi video games such as Dead Space and the iconic scene of Sam Neill using a piece of paper to illustrate how a wormhole works has been used in in movies like Interstellar.

We also find a way to shit on the Miami Dolphins this episode.

Event Horizon stars Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson and Jason Isaacs.

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As a bonus film that doesn't really fit the format, I am joined again by Audens and egg_brained to discuss the disappointing film Minions: The Rise of Gru! Hopefully the new film in theatres now will rectify the mistakes of this film and feature a lot more slapstick minion violence.

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Welcome to Jackass!

To celebrate Jackass: Best and Last the supposedly final installment of the slapstick comedy franchise, Dalton is back on the show to chat about a series that both mean a lot to the both of us.

Jackass was considered low brow initially. However, the films reviewed better overtime as critics came to realize that the comradery and friendship of the cast are what make it special... on top of the gross out gags and hits the nuts.

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Happy Pride Month!

Surfers, bank heists and homoeroticism are at the centre of Kathryn Bigelow's film about masculinity. This Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves is a true cult classic.

I'm joined by Daberhasher to explore this wild movie with an absolutely hilarious discussion.

Point Break is directed by Kathryn Bigelow, produced by James Cameron, written by W. Peter Iliff and maybe James Cameron. It stars Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze, Gary Busey, Lori Petty, John C. McGinley, James LeGros, Anthony Kiedis, Lee Tergeson and Tom Sizemore.

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Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind premiered in Japan to good reviews. A year later, an awful cut of the film emerged in North America called Warriors of the Wind which misread the tone of the movie and featured a bad English dub. That bad dub changed anime in the west because Miyazaki's hatred of it had him and his people threaten Harvey Weinstein with a prop katana when he wanted to cut Princess Mononoke over a decade later. Miyazaki's films now have quality English dubs, which exposed audiences to anime and eventually Nausicaä received a proper uncut Western release in 2005.

To discuss the uncut version of the film as well as the bad Warriors of the Wind edit I am joined by my co-writer at GG Tribune Amity Gilmour!

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