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Who better to cover a film about unrequited homoerotic lust so powerful it maybe destroyed US civil liberties forever than your two favorite co-hosts of Pod Casty For Me? That's right, it's just us guys this week covering J. EDGAR, Clint's 2011 biopic of FBI Director and anticommunist monster J. Edgar Hoover! We're going deep on this one, talking FBI history, gerontocracy, the film's depiction of Hoover's mysterious personal life, the prosthetics, how we think Clint feels about all this, and a lot more MLK talk than the film really gets into. Plus a lot more. Check it out or we'll know you're a fed!

Topics include: I, FRANKENSTEIN, oysters, Armie Hammer, Leonardo DiCaprio's accent, who everybody looks like, THE MATRIX, THE SOCIAL NETWORK, term limits, civil servant pathologies, Emma Goldman and a brief history of American anarchism, Naomi Watts, Jake goes on a weird tear about carpentry YouTubers, Dustin Lance Black's haircut circa 2011, MLK/FBI, and we take strong positions on such topics as "pigs," "loyalty," and "being tall."

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Hold on to your hats, folks - we're talking Clint's 2010 near-death experience drama HEREAFTER with filmmakers and To The White Sea podcast hosts Jordan Fish and Ray Tintori! It's a wide-ranging chat about hyperlink cinema, visual effects, Matt Damon, and how we all fell for this sort of corny movie a lot more than we meant to. Plus, Jake has a big brain read about capitalist realism and Ray surprises us with a revelation about his friend Doug. Great ep, check it out or we'll haunt you!

Topics include: Top 9 films, Bobbies Deerfield and Bacala, Franz Dameh, PizzaExpress, THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU, Peter Morgan's weird monarchist fixation, Bryce Dallas Howard, Cecile de France (who is really de Belgium!), filmographies, equating the 2004 tsunami and the 7/7 London bombings, the absolute god Richard Kind, what's going on with Derek Jacobi, and more!

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I am the captain of my freaking PODCAST, more like! This week we're talking Clint Eastwood's 2009 true-story South African rugby drama INVICTUS, and Jake's other friend Ian - Ian Green - is joining the scrum! You might call this episode "IANVICTUS" if you weren't concerned about SEO or whatever!!! We're talking accents, sports movies, Nelson Mandela's legacy, the bad music, whether Clint really wanted to make this movie, and more. Plus, a quiz segment that goes perfectly, no issues at all with the quiz segment. Check it out, okes! Hope that's OK to say, not at all confident.

Topics include: Ian Green's experiences attending pro rugby games, who we'd want to play us in a movie, Jake takes a few swings at an Afrikaner accent, historical context missing from the film, connections to modern apartheid in Palestine, whether this should just have been a documentary, and we talk about the "Mandela effect" for like five seconds because that's all it deserves.

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Fasten your seatbelts, listeners: we're taking Clint's 2008 hit GRAN TORINO for a spin with racism expert (and native Michigander) Andrew Ti! This is a loaded one, gang: we talk about the film's lingering effect on the Hmong diaspora community, if it could have been made about any ethnic minority, whether the many slurs are intended to be funny, fatherly advice, and we try to sell Andrew on Clint's many other, better films. Plus there's a lot of Ann Arbor talk because Jake's dad is from there too. Great ep, check it out or we'll steal your car!

Topics include: doing drugs in class, ROMEO MUST DIE, Jake tries to make the case that this could have been a remake of TOKYO STORY, hamburger pizza, ping-pong humiliation, 8 MILE, star Bee Vang's 2021 op-ed about the film's contribution to anti-Asian racism, going from gamer to racer, and more!

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Get ready to sue the LAPD, everybody: this week we're examining Clint's 2008 child abduction docudrama CHANGELING with critic and writer Bilge Ebiri! From the metatextual depth of Angelina Jolie's performance to the film's status as Clint's first ACAB movie to ongoing moves by the state to use forced institutionalization against unhoused and other "inconvenient" people to Bilge's childhood memories of Clint (and of Peter Medak's THE CHANGELING), this is a real corker of a chat! Excited to share it with you, our beloved listeners, whom we love as if you were our own uncircumcised children.

Topics include: taking Bilge to task for something he wrote in 2014, public transit, Mike Leigh's ANOTHER YEAR for some reason, SALT, Universal Studios Blu-rays, the 2008 Universal backlot fire, a PHANTOM MENACE connection, celebrity activsm, the history of anti-institutionalization movements, comparing CHANGELING's execution scene to those in TRUE CRIME and A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING, conservative art, and more!

Here are Bilge's pieces on Clint that we mention in the episode:

https://www.vulture.com/2010/10/will_this_clint_eastwood_movie.html

https://ebiri.blogspot.com/2010/11/why-clint-matters.html

https://ebiri.blogspot.com/2011/07/outlaw-josey-wales-mending-patchwork.html

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Take this down, listeners - we're talking the second half of Clint Eastwood's 2006 WWII diptych, LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA, and we're joined by writer and filmmaker Comrade Yui! We're talking Ken Watanabe, connections to FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, both films' perspectives on propaganda, and Jake and Yui pressure Ian to acknowledge Clint's GOAThood. Check it out!

Topics include: THE BATTLE OF OKINAWA, much of the film's cast appearing in Takeshi Kitano's KUBI, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's take on the film, the bushido code, killing ourselves with grenades, elves, the occult, and more!

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Say cheese, listeners: this week we're taking a look at FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, the first part of Clint's 2006 diptych about the Battle of Iwo Jima, and we're joined by writer, lecturer, and Pacific Arts Movement Managing Director Glenn Heath, Jr.! We talk WWII cinema, shout out our favorite little guys in the cast, publicity machines, look ahead to LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA, and say the word "simulacrum" even more than usual. Great ep, check it out!

Topics include: Steven Spielberg, beach-taking on film, Adam Beach's wonderful performance, whether Clint has seen BRING IT ON, his public spat with Spike Lee over this movie, whether this movie is about Vietnam or Iraq, Ryan Phillippe's powerful mind, artfully unconvincing CGI, and the upcoming San Diego Asian Film Festival.

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Get in the ring, listeners! We're going toe-to-toe with MILLION DOLLAR BABY, Clint Eastwood's 2004 Best Picture winning boxing drama, and we're joined by producer and Hollywood big-wig Jarrod Murray! It's all here, baby: race and class in boxing and the boxing film, the response from voices for disability rights, Hilary Swank's career since her Oscar, the whole Paul Haggis thing, Irish terms of endearment, whatever Jay Baruchel is doing. Listen to this one or we won't tell you how they get the ice in the water bottle!

Topics include: real life nice boxing women, Paul Haggis's self-mythologizing, Clint showing his ass re: accessibility ramps, Fry's Electronics, Taylor Swift, when Woody Woodpecker was Universal Studios's Mickey Mouse, and Jake gets revenge on TMZ.

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Climb aboard this relaxing cruise down the MYSTIC RIVER (2003) - jk this movie is actually a huge bummer but we have a wonderful time talking about it with New York Times bestselling author Jamie Loftus!!! We talk the mid-aughts trend of Boston crime downers, what this film has to say about the patriarchy, and we all weigh in on Sean Penn. Plus vampires.

Topics include: actors doing Boston accents, Laura Linney as Lady MacBeth, the BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY tie-in fragrance Jamie discovered, McGruff the Crime Dog, Jamie's book Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs, Dirty Harry's fondness for hot dogs, Tim Robbins, how Marcia Gay Harden seems really nice, THE MATRIX RELOADED, and more.

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Let your heart guide you...to listen to this episode! We're joined by writer and podcaster Molly Lambert to talk Clint's final detective movie (to date), 2002's Michael Connelly adaptation BLOOD WORK. We cover it all, from Long Beach to the Valley, organ transplant injustice to boat guys, Jeff Daniels's weird personal politics to Paul Rodriguez's weird personal politics. Be careful listening if you have a heart condition, because this ep is so good it could freaking kill you jk!!!!

Topics include: Ian's birthday present for Jake, movie locations on Google Maps, Anjelica Huston, the Bosch literary universe, the Queen Mary, Selena Gomez's kidney replacement drama, Clint as sex object, BOPRA, changes to the Malpaso crew, Jeff Daniels as avatar of capital on and off-screen, the surprising connections between the fictional origins of criminal profiling and EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE, and more!

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