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August 07, 2017 Question of the Week 475: Favorite Westerns
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Question of the Week 475: Favorite Westerns originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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July 31, 2017 Episode 474: I Didn’t Blow Up the Planet, the System Blew Up the Planet!
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather open their mouths to be force-fed mind-bending sci-fi action in Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of A Thousand Planets, but ending up sending the meal back to the kitchen. It’s hard out here for a space pimp, but the word “problematic” doesn’t even begin to describe some of this movie’s issues. Set aside the genocided indigenous alien economy. Set aside the alien race of fat Polinesian cannibal savages. What the hell is Rihanna doing as an illegal immigrant, indentured servant, stripper?
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Episode 474: I Didn’t Blow Up the Planet, the System Blew Up the Planet! originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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July 24, 2017Episode 473: Teach Me How to Dunkirk
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, discussing the film’s unusual narrative technique, its status as a war movie, the extraordinarily compelling, almost primal, effect of watching the film, and some of the celebrated technical aspects (like exhibition in IMAX 70mm) and how they related to the film’s artistic project.
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Further Reading
Dunkirk, France on Wikipedia
Bilge pump on Wikipedia
Little Ships of Dunkirk
Association of Dunkirk Little Ships
Mimosa
Episode 473: Teach Me How to Dunkirk originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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July 17, 2017Episode 472: Okja: The Super-Pig Slaughterhouse
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather gather the kaleidoscopic shards of Okja, the latest effort from acclaimed Korean director Bong Joon-ho, and try to figure out what the film has to say about, well, anything.
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Further Reading
Okja: Wikipedia, IMDb
Mi-ja: information about the name
“Did You Catch the Translation Joke in Okja?”
“Photos: Tilda Swinton Is Sleeping In A Box At MoMA This Year”
Episode 472: Okja: The Super-Pig Slaughterhouse originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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July 10, 2017 Episode 471: Spider-Man: He Who Came Home
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Spider-Man: Homecoming, analyzing the reboot of the friendly neighborhood web-slinger in terms of its spacial relationships (rise above!), its geographical and class dynamics, its coming of age story and moral universe.
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Episode 471: Spider-Man: He Who Came Home originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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July 03, 2017 Episode 470: Making It a e s t h e t i c
Peter Fenzel and Matt Wrather talk not about the movie that Baby Driver was, but rather about the movie it yearned to be.
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Episode 470: Making It a e s t h e t i c originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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June 26, 2017Episode 469: The Various Rich Valleys
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Prestige Comedy. Can comedy be prestigious? Can it be a comedy if it isn’t funny? (The answer may surprise you!)
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Further Reading
G.L.O.W. on Netflix
Master of None
Catastrophe: Season 1, Season 2, Season 3
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix
Episode 469: The Various Rich Valleys originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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June 19, 2017 Episode 468: The Shopping Cart is an Allegory Of The Soul
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather extol the mystical and practical realities of the grocery store, including Mark’s harrowing personal story of abasement and crippling anxiety; Matt’s typology of grocery-enabled collisions between the individual and society; and Pete’s theory of Tony the Tiger and the challenge he poses to children everywhere.
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Episode 468: The Shopping Cart is an Allegory Of The Soul originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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June 12, 2017Episode 467: The Thing You Can’t Reboot is Tom Cruise
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Further Reading
The Mummy (2017) on Box Office Mojo
“Is Frankenstein in the Public Domain?”
Dracula Untold (and unseen)
Bride of Frankenstein
List of Cinematic Universes from Vulture
The Katy Perry and Taylor Swift Feu Seems to Be Over
Episode 467: The Thing You Can’t Reboot is Tom Cruise originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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June 05, 2017Episode 466: Red Shiny Boots on the Ground
Rachel D, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Ryan Sheely, and Matt Wrather gather to overthink Wonder Woman‘s feminism, its humor, the comic team of Gal Gadot and Chris Pine, the philosophical message of Ares, and the difference between DC and Marvel superheroes.
Spoiler alert for all of the new Wonder Woman, and for Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War.
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Further Reading
Wonder Woman’s crossed arms pose through the years (cf. the Goku Block)
Fridging: TV Tropes
Fridging: “Does Christopher Nolan Have a Woman Problem” from Overthinking It
Thucydides and Herodotus
Episode 466: Red Shiny Boots on the Ground originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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