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Optimism Vaccine episodes

  • Keyface, Smashface, Cultface, and Shakespears Sister

    THIS WEEK: Insidious: The Last Key (2018), Insidious: The Red Door (2023) and Insidious: Out of the Further (2026)

    The times when you have seen only one set of footprints is when Lin Shaye carried you.

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    1 hr 24 min
  • Lin Shaye: The New Face of Fear

    THIS WEEK: Insidious (2010), Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) and Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)

    This franchise is going strong after 16 years, yet seemingly no one on earth actually watches these films. It's well past time that someone investigated Insidious.

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    1 hr 17 min
  • Twinkle, Twinkle, William Peter Blatty

    THIS WEEK: The Ninth Configuration (1980) and The Exorcist III (1990)

    A Shawntober without Shawn? I'm sure this won't devolve into reading Wikipedia synopses for various Popeye-themed horror films.

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    1 hr 21 min
  • Awake on My Airplane (The Crank Franchise)

    THIS WEEK: Crank (2006) and Crank: High Voltage (2009)

    This week, we re-visit a 90 minute Surge commercial. And it's sequel—a 90 minute Surge commercial for racists.

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    1 hr 28 min
  • Cinema's Gulch (Episode 400 Spectacular)

    THIS WEEK: Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011), Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike (2012) and Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt? (2014)

    Who is John Galt? The answer may surprise you.

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    1 hr 40 min
  • Coppola vs. Megalon

    THIS WEEK: Megalopolis (2024) and MegaDoc (2025)

    Is this the one with Jet Jaguar?

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    1 hr 28 min
  • And Grace Zabriskie as "Pilot"

    THIS WEEK: Drop Zone (1994) and Terminal Velocity (1994)

    This Labor Day, let's get Xtreme.

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    1 hr 4 min
  • Troth Talk (The German Films of Roland Emmerich)

    THIS WEEK: The Noah's Ark Principle (1984), Joey AKA Making Contact (1985), Hollywood-Monster AKA Ghost Chase (1987) and Moon 44 (1990)

    Did you ever wonder what Roland Emmerich did before breaking into Hollywood? We have such sights to show you.

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    1 hr 34 min

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