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Ticket Stubs

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Ticket Stubs episodes

  • The Color of Money
    We follow up last week's discussion of the beloved billiards classic The Hustler with its sequel, 1986's The Color of Money! Listen as we walk through our very first Martin Scorsese picture while admiring the aged wine that is Paul Newman, the burgeoning superstardom of Tom Cruise, the delights and dangers of life spent in smoke filled pool halls, and an appreciation of the reality that *all* roads eventually lead to Atlantic City.
    Feel free to skip to 55:59 for the beginning of our audio commentary.
    As always, please like, subscribe, rate, and review us on all of our channels, which include Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube! Contact us at [email protected] with your questions, comments, and requests.
    3 hr 18 min
  • The Hustler
    We ride the cheese and settle all outstanding debts with our discussion of 1961's The Hustler! Listen as we gush over the inimitable Paul Newman, love to hate the steady villainy of George C. Scott, suppress our tears over Piper Laurie, deeply consider Murray Hamilton's Kentucky accent, and generally appreciate the very presence of Jackie Gleason. Actors: now more than ever!
    Feel free to skip to 49:54 for the beginning of our audio commentary.
    As always, please like, subscribe, rate, and review us on all of our channels, which include Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube! Contact us at [email protected] with your questions, comments, and requests.
    3 hr 11 min
  • Our Favorite Books
    We decided to take a brief break from the audio commentary racket to discuss some of our very favorite books, our own literary histories, and what literature means to us both as a means of escapism and as a larger art form.
    As always, please like, subscribe, rate, and review us on all of our channels, which include Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube! Contact us at [email protected] with your questions, comments, and requests.
    2 hr 26 min
  • Inherent Vice
    Calling all dopers, flower children, and undercover operatives for your friendly neighborhood vice squad...tune in and drop out with our tenth and most special episode yet on 2014's Inherent Vice! Listen to us ramble our way for just over five minutes short of five hours through a whole host of questions: To what extent was Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel a success? What does the well-worn and in many ways exhausted shaggy dog LA (that's Los Angeles, *not* the Lenoir-Area) detective story have to tell us at this point that hasn't been expressed before? What are our impromptu takes on the trailer for Space Jam: A New Legacy? All these and many more pressing issues are (kinda, sorta??) answered by the episode's end!
    Feel free to skip to 2:04:27 for the beginning of our audio commentary.
    As always, please like, subscribe, rate, and review us on all of our channels, which include Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube! Contact us at [email protected] with your questions, comments, and requests.
    https://thepointmag.com/criticism/the-master-paul-thomas-anderson/
    4 hr 53 min
  • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    For our ninth episode, we nearly drowned in 2004’s gloriously self-indulgent marine romp The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Listen as we consider the at once deep and narrow cinema of Wes Anderson, appreciate Bill Murray's transition from comedy superstar into indie drama darling, find joy in Seu Jorge's Portuguese renditions of David Bowie classics, and ever so briefly consider the presence of Dwayne Johnson in Anderson's oeuvre ("The Grand Smackdown Hotel?").
    Feel free to skip to 58:30 for the beginning of our audio commentary.
    As always, please like, subscribe, rate, and review us on all of our channels, which include Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube! Contact us at [email protected] with your questions, comments, and requests.
    3 hr 13 min
  • Seconds

    What better way to celebrate our contemporary era of avatars, ghosting, and the crippling realization that we'll all die alone  than with 1966's own portrait of prolonged emotional crisis?! Listen to our eighth episode for a discussion on John Frankenheimer and the place his trilogy of paranoid thrillers had in the opening and middle years of a tumultuous decade, the many symbols and precedents Seconds signaled for the forthcoming New Hollywood era, and the endlessly exquisite camera work of the great James Wong Howe.

    Feel free to skip to 1:00:57 for the beginning of our audio commentary. 

    As always, please like, subscribe, rate, and review us on all of our channels, which include Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube! Contact us at [email protected] with your questions, comments, and requests.

    3 hr 10 min
  • Sixteen Candles
    In our lucky number sleventh episode, we decided to throw a lackluster surprise party with Sixteen Candles, 80s icon John Hughes's directorial debut. We discuss the highs and lows of Hughes here and elsewhere, touch on the experience of viewing older art with contemporary eyes, weigh what exactly mainstream 80s American cinema was aiming to accomplish, and generally suffer through the experience known as Long Duk Dong.
    Feel free to skip to 51:21 for the beginning of our audio commentary.
    As always, please like, subscribe, rate, and review us on all of our channels, which include Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube! Contact us at [email protected] with your questions, comments, and requests.
    https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/what-about-the-breakfast-club-molly-ringwald-metoo-john-hughes-pretty-in-pink
    2 hr 37 min
  • Syriana
    For our sixth episode, we decided to dive right into perhaps the quintessential example of 2000s hyperlink cinema: 2005's Syriana. We explore the genre's function as both entertainment and journalism, puzzle over what the heck happened to the career of Stephen Gaghan, gaze longingly at the paunch of George Clooney, and take general delight in a cinematic work of profound, unrepentant cynicism!
    Feel free to skip to 1:02:20 for the beginning of our audio commentary.
    As always, please like, subscribe, rate, and review us on all of our channels, which include Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube! Contact us at [email protected] with your questions, comments, and requests.
    3 hr 28 min
  • Waves

    We're back (not a dinosaur story) with our fifth and longest episode yet on 2019's Waves, the latest film from writer-director Trey Edwards Shults! Our conversation explores the ins and outs of one of the most exciting films of recent years, what exactly the presence and success of A24 says about the health of contemporary American cinema, parse the meaning of "the drama" in the context of an ever-shifting industry, and every so briefly address the artistry of one Kanye West.

    Feel free to skip to 54:15 for the beginning of our audio commentary. 

    As always, please like, subscribe, rate, and review us on all of our channels, which include Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube! Contact us at [email protected] with your questions, comments, and requests.

    3 hr 31 min
  • Snow Day
    Strap-on the longjohns and lace up your winter boots...we're fixing to have ourselves a Snow Day! Listen to two dumb blondes talk about 90s and 00s children's entertainment, the many joys of Chris Elliott, the even greater failures of Chevy Chase, and Iggy Pop's mysterious love of Al Martino, all while struggling to come up with a convincing enough reason for why they're revisiting a mediocre and largely forgettable kids comedy from the early 00s. Maybe one day we'll get around to Max Keeble's Big Move...
    Feel free to skip to 48:28 for the beginning of our audio commentary.
    As always, please like, subscribe, rate, and review us on all of our channels, which include Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube! Contact us at [email protected] with your questions, comments, and requests.
    2 hr 34 min

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Whether it's programming double features, providing audio commentaries, or just gabbing about movies in all their forms, Kyle and Levi have you covered. At Ticket Stubs, cinema is taken seriously—even…