Dan and Brian welcome Teddy and Matt from Buzzed on Movies to discuss the insane, magical House. Join all four as they admire the visual experimentation and childlike fancy of Nobuhiko Obayashi, deconstruct A-bomb parallels, and hold an impromptu “fantasy draft” of the film’s wildest moments. Brian and Dan both struggle to rate the movie,…
It’s mid-fall, which means it’s time for Brian’s annual viewing of the instant classic animated miniseries Over the Garden Wall, with Dan joining for the first time. Join as they ponder sibling relationships, admire old-timey aesthetic, and revel in Jason Funderburker’s frog voice. Ephemera: A look at vintage Halloween postcards which inspired the art in…
With the presidential election looming, Dan and Brian long for simpler political times and revisit the Aaron Sorkin-penned The American President. Join as they compare the film to The West Wing and wonder what it might’ve looked like if it had taken place in 2020. We are now on Spotify, Apple, and several other podcast…
Brian and Dan take a close look at Richard Linklater’s start-of-college party flick, Everybody Wants Some!! Join them as they ponder Linklater’s hang-out vibe, soak in the 80’s details, and admire Blake Jenner’s nipples. Music credits: RetroFuture Clean by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4277-retrofuture-cleanLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Join Brian and Dan for the second episode of their new film podcast, The Goods, in which they review the 2016 film The Founder. Listen as they admire the delightful origin story montage and as Dan plays script doctor to make the film more anti-capitalist. Ephemera: Here is the song about Ray Kroc by Dire…
Seven books. Seven horcruxes. Seven Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers. It’s an important and recurring theme in the series. I was tempted to rank the series #7 on my Top 100 Everything for that reason alone. (Plus, you know I love the number seven.) In that spirit, here is my Harry Potter story in…
I don’t know much about classical music, but I know I love it. Call me a pleb, but… baroque music sometimes runs together. It doesn’t absorb my attention; it deflects it. Bach is essentially the urtext of Western music, but the fact that we hadn’t invented things like “dynamics” or “cadence” before the mid-18th century…
I don’t know much about classical music, but I know I love it. Saying “Clair de Lune” is one of your favorite classical songs is a bit like saying “Yesterday” is one of your favorite Beatles songs. It’s such an unchallenging opinion that it has almost no meaning. But I love it. I really, really…
I don’t know much about classical music, but I know I love it. I could easily do a whole week of my favorite Tchaikovsky pieces, but I am bound to the one-artist-per-day rule. So then I have to narrow it down to one song. The Nutcracker Suite is one of the most delightful collections ever,…
There’s no business like… Show Tunes Review Week business I’m an avowed fan of Forgetting Sarah Marshall — it was basically the perfect comedy for me in college, and I’ll always hold it close to my heart. One of the film’s stand out moments is when the character played by Jason Segel (maybe my favorite…