Pop & Locke

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Pop & Locke episodes

June 09, 2021 The Godfather
One of Hollywood's greatest critical and commercial successes, The Godfather, released in 1972, is the quintessential American crime film. Early on in this film we are introduced to the patriarch of the Corleone family and as he ages it's clear that he wants to transfer control of his clandestine empire to his very reluctant son.
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59 min
May 26, 2021 Children of Men
Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men is set in the year 2027. No one has had a child in over 18 years. Infertility threatens mankind with extinction and the last child born has perished. The U.K. is one fo the few countries left with a functioning government, but it is deluged by refugees fleeing from chaos in their own countries.
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50 min
May 12, 2021 Veep
Every television series based in the White House inevitably has to grapple with one fundamental question: what motivates politicians? Vice President of the United States, Selina Meyer, finds that her job is nothing like she expected, but everything her largely incompetent staff had feared. How does Veep compare to House of Cards and the West Wing?

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50 min
April 28, 2021 They Live
The narrative of They Live follows the social-democratic political story described by George Monbiot in his book Out of the Wreckage. This story explains how the world fell into disorder as a result of the self-seeking behavior of the unrestrained elite. Julian Sachez & Jesse Walker join the show to discuss how John Carpenter’s underrated sci-fi horror movie, They Live, did more than skewer yuppies — it gave us the last word on the Reagan era.
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54 min
April 14, 2021 Idiocracy
Idiocracy centers an extremely average Army librarian who wakes up from a centuries-long cryogenic sleep to find that America has gone to seed, with all intelligence bred out of society and the most loudmouth and insipid elements ‎now dominating. A former pro wrestler with rage issues and particularly inane tendencies is now the president. Originally released in 2006, this film is perhaps more politically timely today than it was 15 years ago.
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55 min
March 31, 2021 Wandavision
A sitcom with two Avengers living out their best suburban lives, what could be better? But we all know by now that in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there's always a catch. We discuss what could be next for Scarlet Witch and whether or not Wanda is redeemable after her mind control run amok throughout Wandavision.
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59 min
March 17, 2021 Firefly
In the year 2157, on the outskirts of the system, far from alliance control, nine people look into the blackness of space and see nine different things. Joining us today are three people who see three different things in Joss Whedon’s cult classic series, Firefly, including; Julian Sanchez, Trevor Burrus, & Jennifer Huddleston.
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53 min
March 03, 2021 Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer from Harvard when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a non‐profit law firm in Alabama, dedicated to defending the poor, the incarcerated, and the wrongly condemned. One of Stevenson’s first clients was Walter McMillian, a Black man who was sentenced to die for the murder of a young white woman that he didn’t commit. With Michael B. Jordan portraying Stevenson and Jamie Foxx as Walter McMillian, our movie in focus today, Just Mercy, tells a heartbreaking story of how the US justice system carries out the death penalty.

How has society changed its' views on the death penalty? How has the work of the Equal Justice Initiative helped inmates on death row? How does our criminal justice system treat death penalty cases?
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45 min
February 17, 2021 Mad Max: Fury Road
In a post‐apocalyptic wasteland, Furiosa rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her lost homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, and a drifter named Max. This movie has been hailed as the ultimate feminist action movie, but does it deserve that accreditation? Kat Murti & Lester Romero help us unpack all of the action we witnessed on the Fury Road.
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46 min
February 03, 2021 The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is an epic adventure based on the novels written by J.R.R. Tolkien. Set in Middle‐earth, the story follows the young Hobbit, Frodo Baggins, as he and the Fellowship embark on a quest to destroy the One Ring, to ensure the destruction of the Dark Lord Sauron. What is the Lord of the Rings story actually about? And, why is it so popular?
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55 min