Z and Keith Watched A Movie

Z and Keith Watched A Movie

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Z and Keith Watched A Movie episodes

  • Ep 3.49 - Mrs. Doubtfire (Daniel's lying in the den)

    Welcome to the home stretch of 2022, dear listeners  

    With good tidings, we bring you one of the most successful print-to-screen adaptations known to our kind.  

    The second highest grossing film behind Jurassic Park for the year 1993.  
    The movie that made Anne Fine a household name.  
    Chris Colombus' favorite documentary.  
    The celluloid fable that taught us "never buy gribenes from a Mohel." 

    Mrs. Doubtfire  

    You know it, we love to hate it, Keith had never seen it.  

    So don your ambiguous British accents, order up some jambalaya hold the pepper, and strap in for hot takes that are nearly 30 years old.  
    Pobody's nerfect.

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Scorpions performing He's A Woman - She's A Man

    1 hr 10 min
  • Ep 3.48 - Thunderheart

    ...in which learn in real time some details about the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee and the Dawes Act/Dawes Rolls. 

    We're talking the film that fictionalizes (for some reason) real events on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the 1970s, Thunderheart (1992).

    Plus we wrap up our Native November viewing with some good ol contrasts and comparisons.

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: John Trudell performing Rockin' the Rez

    1 hr 15 min
  • Ep 3.47 - Smoke Signals

    In our 3rd entry in our look at films that deal with Indigeneity, we bring you probably the most well known (to US audiences at least) Native production: 1998's Smoke Signals.  

    Written by Sherman Alexie, directed by Chris Eyre and co-produced by the two, it *allegedly* holds the title of being the first film to have Native Americans in all three roles.  

    Anyhoo it's about fathers and trauma and generational stuff. And we get on to talkin' about white supremacy and the like, so: the usual.

    Another kinda heavy episode.  
    Go fig.   

    Thanks for listening

    Be kind to yourself/s
    xo

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

    Outro: Ulali performing All My Relations

    1 hr 23 min
  • Ep 3.46 - Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

    Greetings!

    In this, our first ever review of a non-English language film, we bring also maybe our first Canadian production? If you can call it that... Anyway, it's 2001's Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. Based on an Inuit legend, this epic comes in at just under 3 hours. So strap in. It is as unique as it is worth your time.    


    2017 Interview with Zacharias Kunuk and Natar Ungalaaq

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

    Outro: Tanya Tagaq performing In Me

    1 hr 24 min
  • Ep 3.45 - Powwow Highway

    Welcome to our month of focusing on Native creators and stories.

    It promises to be a somber one!
    A riff of the classic road movie, 1989's Powwow Highway has an undeniable charm.  While not sugarcoating reservation life and the particular struggles of post VietNam War Natives, it avoids the pitfalls of hopelessness and poverty porn. There is sly humor and complex depictions of implicit racisms.  
    A high recommend from us!
    Plus Z dives into some of their lived experiences as an Indigenous person.   

    Powwow Highway on the Criterion Channel 

    Int'l Leonard Peltier Defense Committee 

    American Indian Movement Grand Governing Council   

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    Intro by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

    Outro: Sweet Fire of Love performed by Robbie Robertson & U2

    1 hr 11 min
  • Ep 3.44 - House [1985]: (Hanging Mx Hooper)

    THE HORROR-- This is the final entry in  

    Z & Keith's
    Second Annual
    Doc-Oc-Shock-Rocktober
    Hollerween
    Scream-a-long
    Spook-a-thon! 


    It's been a wild and befuddling journey, and this film is no exception.
    TV's William Katt stars as a horror novelist haunted by his experiences in the war on Viet Nam. A premise with potential that reminded us of Jacob's Ladder but in the end, this movie can't decide if it's a comedy or not.  
    Plus we give you our cheers & jeers for this month's holiday viewing. 

    Thanks for joining us on this haunted hay ride! 

    Stay safe out there!

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

    Outro: Our House (DJ FunkyBeat Remix) - Madness

    1 hr 9 min
  • Ep 3.43 - Hellraiser (or No Sexit: Hell is others' peepshow)

    Holy Hell, it's already the penultimate episode of  

    Z & Keith's

    Second Annual
    Doc-Oc-Shock-Rocktober
    Hollerween
    Scream-a-long
    Spook-a-thon!

    In which we casually breeze through such topics as: 

    morals vs ethics,  consent, the unbearable straightness of Hellraiser (1987), and Keith's inability to cope with the ambiguities therein.

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available onBandcamp

    Outro: Tom Waits performing Frank's Wild Years

    1 hr 17 min
  • Ep 3.42 - Castle Freak (terror is a 40-yo virgin)

    The Shining meets Dracula meets Frankensteinmeets The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Castle Freak (1995) evokes the lineage of gothic and atmospheric horror classics but failed to capture our fancy. 

    Find out how in the 3rd installment of...

    Z & Keith's

    Second Annual
    Doc-Oc-Shock-Rocktober
    Hollerween
    Scream-a-long
    Spook-a-thon!

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp

    Outro: Jonathan Young performing A Thousand Miles

    1 hr 11 min
  • Ep 3.41 - Society (no subtext available)

    It's the year 2022 and HOLLERWEEN 2's second episode is here to terrify you with a blunt, yet effective metaphor about how upper classes stay top in 1989's Society!

    Directed by pod favorite Brian Yuzna and featuring (extremely) wet puppet design by Screaming Mad George, the only thing this film is missing is solid performances.

    Also in this issue:
    Z's meemaw's baller lifestyle
    Trailers vs. Mobile Homes
    And we play "guess the character's name"

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Krokus performing Eat The Rich

    1 hr 16 min
  • Ep 3.40 - Possession (the horror of enforced binaries)

    wElComE to

    Z & Keith's
    Second Annual
    Doc-Oc-Shock-Rocktober
    Hollerween
    Scream-a-long
    Spook-a-thon!

    Ohhhhh boi, do we have a doozie for you to kick off the spooky season!

    Shot in West Berlin, this reflection on relationships, identity, jealousy, oh gosh--so many things, brought to us by Polish filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski, Possession (1981) may be a new favorite.
    There is so much going on in this movie!
    Watch it before listening!

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    Intro: by Professor Ping available on Bandcamp
    Outro: Bobby Tinsley performing What About Bob?

    1 hr 16 min

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