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This weekend, Summer Movie Season unofficially kicks off (in April!) with the release of 'The Fate of the Furious.' And if Hollywood insists on moving up its calendar, we're going to follow suit and move up our big Summer Movie Preview. To break it down, we talk to Slashfilm.com chief Peter Sciretta (00:00:50) about our most anticipated (and possibly most feared) blockbusters. Then we turn to Film School Rejects contributor Jamie Righetti (00:45:25) for a discussion about the smaller releases to explore this summer's counter-programming.

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In this week's episode of Shot by Shot, Geoff and Perry dig into the work of Nicolas Winding Refn and Thomas Newton Sigel on the 2011 crime thriller Drive, in which Ryan Gosling plays a stunt driver who gets himself into a bit of a pickle...

View this week's Shots in the companion post: http://buff.ly/2p7yuVS

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For this week's review, After the Credits host Matthew Monagle is joined by Film School Rejects columnist Danny Bowes to talk about Zach Braff's geriatric heist film Going in Style, starring Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Alan Arkin. Yes, it begins with a discussion of auteurism.

Episode Notes:

00:00:00 - Preview of Going in Style

00:14:20 - After the Credits review (includes spoilers)

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In this week’s edition of The Big Idea, Neil sits down with One Perfect Shot founder and Shot for Shot host Geoff Todd to talk about the inception of the popular film twitter brand, the thought process that goes into picking Shots, our emotional connection to movies, and some listener questions. Then, at the end, they announce the newest addition to the One Perfect Pod channel.

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In this week's episode of Shot for Shot, Perry and Geoff talk about the perfect shots within Martin Scorsese's Silence. Then Geoff sits down to speak with DP Rodrigo Prieto about Silence, working in multiple genres, and honing his craft.

View this week's Shots in the companion post: http://buff.ly/2o3PRpi

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In this week's edition of After the Credits, Matthew Monagle welcomes back Film School Rejects chief critic Rob Hunter (as a last minute replacement guest) to dig into Ghost in the Shell. They discuss their expectations, then come back after the film to deliver a full review.

Timecodes:

00:00:00 - Ghost in the Shell Preview

00:14:20 - After the Credits Review (includes spoilers)

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Whitewashing. It's the practice of casting a white actor in a role that originally was portrayed by a non-white person. And it's a conversation that has reached a new peak this week following the release of Marvel's Iron Fist and Paramount's Ghost in the Shell. To explore these properties, the conversations around them, and how each production just couldn’t stop itself from making things worse, Neil talks to Keith Chow, editor in chief of The Nerds of Color dot org, and Angie Han, movies reporter at Mashable.

This week's supplemental reading:

Five Showrunners Who Could Have Gotten Iron Fist Right, by Keith Chow: http://bit.ly/2nTmI0d

Ghost in the Shell review, by Angie Han: http://on.mash.to/2nThyRQ

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This week's music comes from the original soundtracks of the original and new Ghost in the Shell films.

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This week, Warner Bros. announced that they are in development on a solo Batgirl movie that will be written, produced, and directed by Joss Whedon. To break it down, Neil talks to VanityFair.com writer and podcaster extraordinaire Joanna Robinson about Joss Whedon's fit, the film's comic starting point, and who they'd cast in the titular role.

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This week's music comes from Andy McSteel and Wally Clark on Soundcloud.

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This week, Shot by Shot scours George Miller's apocalyptic wasteland for the most perfect frames. H. Perry Horton and Geoff Todd go in-depth on the impact of Fury Road and each pick their three favorite shots to discuss.

To view the Shots, check out the pod's companion post: http://buff.ly/2ohjIIV

Producer's note: We're working on getting Perry a new microphone. Apologies for the rough audio, especially at the start.

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This week, Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures released its big, full trailer for 'Spider-Man: Homecoming.' This means we need to do another Emergency Pod. To talk all things webhead, Neil welcomes Film School Rejects contributor and podcaster Theo Broxson on to talk Vulture, story theories, Donald Glover, and whether or not this is a team-up movie.

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This week's closing music is by Marco Cela (and Junkie XL) via Soundcloud.

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