Trilogy in Theory

Look, it wasn't enough to just survive 2020. To celebrate moving from one tough year to what looks like a marginally less tough year in 2021 we recruit some of our most charismatic screen icons to talk about endings... and hopefully new beginnings.

Mainly we just want an excuse for Ed Harris, Virginia Madsen and George Clooney to talk at us. Okay, so maybe not so much Mr. Harris.

He's scary. We're not. Enjoy as we wrap-up our TRILOGY IN THEORY on THE TRUMAN SHOW, SIDEWAYS and UP IN THE AIR!

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The disrespect to the great state of Kentucky continues as our most handsome candidate is FINALLY off the waitlist for one co-host while the other jeopardizes his marriage with trivia about stunt butts for Vera Farmiga in UP IN THE AIR. We assume this is the type of commentary that Jason Reitman expected in his film about rising unemployment released in the shadow of an economic crisis in America and blah blah blah Anna Kendrick has the cutest cry that... We. Have. Ever. Seen.

2021 is here. Things are looking up. If not we will continue to look up to old-fashioned movie star vehicles and be sad with very beautiful people. Enjoy!

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No expertise to be had on this episode for Alexander Payne's SIDEWAYS. Oh sure, both your hosts have revisited this film many times. One of them fondly remembers experiencing its charms while eating a frozen pizza. So it shouldn't surprise any of you that neither man on this podcast is a wine snob. Or even drinks the stuff.

Though I assure you that we do drink. Probably not as much as we should the way things have been going. ANYWAY the movie is great and Virginia Madsen delivers an ALL TIMER of a speech and just thinking of the shenanigans that Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church get into makes the poor bastard typing out these show notes want to watch it all over again. Enjoy!

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Thank the maker for Jim Carrey though! As we discuss on this episode it takes a light touch to navigate the murky ethical waters of THE TRUMAN SHOW. Thankfully Peter Weir cast a comedian for this part written by Andrew Niccol and what results is a very entertaining film that the Academy could safely ignore. Because it was entertaining!

On this episode your hosts about how it could have all gone wrong and that includes placing themselves in the role of Truman resulting in a show that no one would watch. Which is why we podcast. To thousands. All adoring fans. Enjoy!

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Well... we made it to a new year. And with that in mind we figured 2020 deserved no celebration of joy but instead a trilogy of loss. So board this episode with us as we decidedly are not in the mood for SNOWPIERCER's shenanigans of violence, the privileged gaining time travel powers in ABOUT TIME and/or Rooney Mara being made to feel bad about falling in love.

Yep. This is a trilogy of warm fuzzy feelings that the previous year deserves. Enjoy!

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On this special Christmas Day episode we give our listeners those new identities that they probably didn't even know they wanted. HOWEVER for those that listened closely who could deny putting on the catsuit and becoming Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman in BATMAN RETURNS? Or perhaps a dead ringer for Veronica Lake like Kim Basinger in L.A. CONFIDENTIAL? And Leonardo DiCaprio bedding any number of young starlets as... well, Leonardo DiCaprio in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN?

Doesn't this already sound better than Christmas 2020? TRILOGY IN THEORY works best when facing such weak competition. Happy holidays!

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In the third part in our criminal Christmas trilogy we are granted many a gift from the Steven Spielberg classic (that's right, we're old and you're old) CATCH ME IF YOU CAN. These presents include:

• A great knock knock joke from Tom Hanks that you most definitely should tell to your non-mask wearing family member.
• Amy Adams with an even deadlier combination of disarming charm when you add braces to the mix.
• And Leonardo DiCaprio in no man's land of handsome (which ain't that bad, Leo) in playing too young and too old.

Okay maybe that last one was a bit of coal but I believe one of the finest actors of his generation will get over it. Hopefully you will as well and come back for your stocking of film nerd neuroses as we wrap-up our trilogy of A New Identity for Christmas in our TiT Holiday Special!

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All we want for Christmas is a lovely lady who looks like Veronica Lake. And not, we can not stress this enough, a gift that resembles in ANY WAY one Kevin Spacey.

But he's still pretty good in the Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland film adaptation of James Ellroy's L.A. CONFIDENTIAL. So that means our listeners will have to settle for Guy Pearce. Better than a PS5, right?

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Most people say, it's just not Christmas without Christopher Walken as a scheming businessman with great hair. And if you are most people you also listen to TRILOGY IN THEORY.

Unless it's a month on Michael Cera, you jerks.

But no Michael Cera this month! For it's December which means a podcast is obligated to do a Christmas theme.

Every week.

This week it's BATMAN RETURNS. And one host is not yet in the spirit. For he hates penguins. And cats. But he likes Batman. Which makes him all the more put out by what Tim Burton is laying down.

Merry Christmas Part One!

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On this Thanksgiving we attempt to be thankful for all of the things in our lives.

Right before we get rid of them.

No, this isn't one of this creepy and extremely privileged YouTube minimalist videos from a wealthy twenty something who is tired of having so much stuff. This is about a man dealing with the trauma of destroyed Nintendo Switch cases and the trilogy of films that got him through it.

This is just another month of TRILOGY IN THEORY.

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