Popcorn Politics

Movie: The Forigner (2017)

This week Jack and Diarmuid stay closer to home with the Foreigner; a movie about Jackie Chan taking a tour of Northern Ireland and learning about the local culture - all while terrorizing and systematically dismantling a fictional version of the IRA. It's a lot of fun.

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Movie - The Great Dictator (1940):

Jack and Diarmuid watch an actually good movie this week! Recorded on the 80th anniversary of the week of the Great Dictator's Release, we talk about how it holds up way better than you'd think and what lessons we can learn from one of the greatest comedies of all time.

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Movie: The Dictator (2012):

This week, Jack and Diarmuid do whatever they can to avoid talking about the movie in question, all while appreciating whatever fine art they can find from their box-seat-view.

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Movie: Network (1976):

Jack and Diarmuid delve into the dark origins of modern spectacle media this week. As they do, they come to the realization that what we all find normal today, was seen as grotesque satire a only few decades ago!

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Movie the Ides of March (2011):

This week Jack and Diarmuid yell about the really stupid mistakes that Ryan Gosling makes trying to manage George Clooney's US Presidential campaign. All the while the director, finally, puts all the political arguments he's been making in the shower onto the big screen.

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Movie: The Final Year (2017):

This week Jack struggles through watching the final year of the Obama administration and re-living his experience of learning about Trump's 2016 victory. Meanwhile, Diarmuid talks about virtual reality in the European Parliament and John Kerry's love of activism and opera.

Diarmuid and Jack talk about Adam McKay's 2015 movie, The Big Short, in this inaugural podcast. Also lots of tangents about things like Irish history and how Europe has (hopefully) learned from the events portrayed in this movie in their response to the economic impacts of the pandemic. Enjoy!

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