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Episode 174–The Silence of the Lambs (Double Ft. Scream) from 2021-10-07T00:16:34
Blood, guts, gore, skinning, hanging, stabbing, kidnapping, cannibalisms...oh, and we also watched a movie. Something about a baby sheep I think. Matthew Lillard and Jamie Kennedy showed up too f...
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Episode 173–Men in Black (Double Ft. The Vast of Night) from 2021-09-03T00:02:20
We spend this entire episode lying on the hood of our Dodge Dart, looking up at the heavens, waiting for the little men in their fantastic vehicles. Actually, we ordered Ubereats and they're 20 mi...
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Episode 172–No Country for Old Men (Double ft. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) from 2021-07-27T00:10:51
This month we belly up to the bar, order a sasparilla and settle ourselves at a table for a game of stud...actually, not at all. These two Westerns are a long way from the days of white hat/black ...
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Episode 171–Lupin III: The First (Double Ft. A Fish Called Wanda) from 2021-06-27T19:18:01
This week crime DOES pay, and it pays rather handsomely. We discuss 2 movies, each with a cast of charismatic and hilarious ne're-do-wells. Collin outdoes himself with some in depth research on a...
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Episode 170–The Royal Tenenbaums (Double Ft. The Mitchells vs. the Machines) from 2021-05-27T23:25:45
Doesn't everyone think they belong to a dysfunctional family? Maybe that accounts for the plethora of choices when selecting a movie to represent the genre. For me, head and shoulders above the re...
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Episode 169–Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Double Ft.–This is Spinal Tap) from 2021-04-24T11:59:30
I'm trying to write the show notes and keep getting interrupted because my family thinks the podcast is about as important as you do, so I guess just read the title; we talk about those movies.
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Eight Harry Potter Movies, One Show from 2021-03-21T14:39:15
We took a 2-week trip out west, and after exhausting ourselves hiking around the Grand Canyon and Petrified Forest, we spent our evenings re-watching all the Harry Potter movies. It's one long Good...
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Episode 167–Mad Max: Fury Road / Mortal Engines from 2021-02-18T09:00:31
It's the end of the world on this episode of It's Your Pic. Two post-apocalyptic visions enter, one post-apocalyptic vision leaves. Actually, it's not much of a contest; Furiosa could take Hester...
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Episode 166–O Brother, Where Art Thou? / Cool Hand Luke from 2021-01-28T20:00:11
On this episode we look at two very different stories involving iconoclasts, chain gangs, and escaped cons. Collin's main pick is the Coen brother's borderline musical O Brother, Where Art Thou? ...
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Episode 165–Christmas Top 5 from 2020-12-15T02:25:37
We didn't want to do it, but the podcast police threatened to insert Me Undies and Casper Mattress ads at 3-minute intervals into all our podcasts if we didn't do a top 5 Christmas movies list. Ra...
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Episode 164–Weathering With You / Source Code from 2020-11-24T13:27:38
Collin's pick this month is Makoto Shinkai's follow up to the massive hit Your Name, Weathering With You. It's every bit as visually dazzling, but is the story equally compelling? I also break a s...
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Episode 163–Alien / Cloverfield from 2020-10-19T15:16:04
We're tweaking the format and schedule (like we ever had one of those) for reasons. This month is our Halloween show with a sci-fi twist. It's a monstrous double feature with Alien and Cloverfield.
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Episode 162–The Long, Long Holiday from 2020-09-29T19:49:24
World War 2 for kids / Seems like a pretty tough sell / The French give a try
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Episode 161–Terminator 2: Judgement Day from 2020-09-12T08:30:45
Skynet tries again / This time Arnie's the good guy / Beast mode Hamilton
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Episode 160–Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (Siege) from 2020-08-23T14:45:38
Transformers go grim Decepticons have legit beefElita-1 sighs
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Episode 159–The Terminator from 2020-08-07T07:00:51
Cam's got a tight budget I think my dad drove that carThat robot talks funny
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Episode 158–Dark (Netflix) from 2020-07-30T15:04:53
This week I'm joined by my good friend, Giffy, to discuss Netflix's Dark. The series just released its third and final season, and we're itching to discuss the labyrinthine plot, time travel head-...
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Episode 157–Artemis Fowl from 2020-07-10T08:00:45
Top o'the morning We were hoping for betterBut it's foul indeed
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Episode 156–Say Anything… from 2020-07-01T08:00:34
What if the boombox Played Fishbone, not Gabriel?Would we all still swoon?
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Episode 155–War of the Worlds (2005) from 2020-06-08T23:44:27
This ain't Michael Bay Tom Cruise and his plot armorIs H.G. Wells proud?
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Episode 154–A Few Good Men from 2020-05-29T12:02:34
Nicholson v. Cruise Essential for six degreesMaybe Meathead's best
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Episode 153–The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) from 2020-05-21T14:37:38
MItty dreams away But, when adventure calls himGoodbye Papa John's
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Episode 152–Coming to America from 2020-05-11T22:00:24
Hello my neighbors I have come from ZamundaWould you be my wife
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Episode 151–Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius from 2020-04-29T17:54:21
The kid makes rockets With trash cans, toasters, and tapeLikely not legal
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Episode 150–So It’s Come to This: An It’s Your Pic Clip Show from 2020-04-20T09:07:15
We take a break from talking about movies to talk about the only thing we love more - ourselves.
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Episode 149–A River Runs Through It from 2020-04-13T09:20:38
Pretty Montana A family of fishermanBut Paul has problems
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Episode 148–Foodfight! from 2020-03-31T14:53:49
How bad could it be? It is way worse than you thinkTrust me - much, much worse
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Episode 147–Memento from 2020-03-22T15:31:21
A film in reverse What were we talking about?Nolan loves puzzles
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Episode 146–Unbreakable from 2020-03-15T20:09:20
Willis can't get hurt Jackson can crack like an eggNo. No shooting friends
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Episode 145–Forrest Gump from 2020-03-01T18:26:43
We had no trouble finding plenty of people who hate Forrest Gump. Whether it's because it won Best Picture instead of Pulp Fiction (which, true, probably should have won), or the perception of it ...
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Episode 144–Meet the Robinsons from 2020-02-18T11:35:21
When Collin was a toddler, this was one of our trusty babysitter movies -- put it on and you've got yourself an hour and a half of peace and quiet. Bad parenting? Sure. But if you're going to let...
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Episode 143–Saving Private Ryan from 2020-02-09T17:18:04
Before seeing 1917 I thought it necessary for Collin to first see what many consider the greatest war movie ever made. Of course, not everyone thinks that is the case, and we get into a few dissen...
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Episode 142–Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker—Part 2–The Good and Final Thoughts from 2020-01-02T12:08:59
In part 2 of our Rise of Skywalker discussion, Giffy and I get to what we liked about the 9th and final (?) film of the Skywalker saga. Finally, we talk about the series as a whole and our relativ...
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Episode 141–Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker—Part 1–Intro and the Bad from 2019-12-30T01:57:53
I'm joined by a guest co-host this week, Giffy, to discuss the finale of the Skywalker saga. It ended up being a longer than usual episode so I've broken it up into 2 episodes. In part 1 we start...
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Episode 140–Joyeux Noel from 2019-12-20T09:37:55
Collin makes a rather unusual choice this week: a movie about the 1914 Christmas truce that happened between combatants during WWI. It's a try-hard movie with some really good actors, but does it...
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Episode 139–The Usual Suspects from 2019-11-28T04:14:26
Despite its robust Rotten Tomatoes rating, The Usual Suspects has its vocal detractors. No less than Ebert famously panned it upon its release. But if loving that final reveal makes me a gullible...
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Episode 138–Rango from 2019-11-11T22:04:48
After making a few billion dollars for Disney at the helm of the first 3 Pirates of the Caribbean films, Gore Verbinski got a $135 million budget from Paramount to make an animated cowboy lizard mo...
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Episode 137–Breaking Away from 2019-10-24T13:18:09
Rarely does a 40-year-old movie hold up this well. It came out the same year as Apocalypse Now and Alien, and it holds up every bit as well as both those films but isn't near as remembered. My wi...
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Episode 136–My Hero Academia Season 1 from 2019-10-02T20:14:13
It's a Plus Ultra episode this week as we give thoughts and reviews for season one of the wildly popular series My Hero Academia, and we try to minimize flashbacks to previous episodes. We agree o...
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Episode 135–Rushmore from 2019-09-09T21:14:58
This week we tackle Wes Anderson's second and maybe most beloved movie: Rushmore. We discuss multiple favorite scenes, Bill Murray's facial expressions, and the importance of Dirk.
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Episode 134–A Hard Day’s Night from 2019-08-19T08:56:12
The hard-hitting documentary that shocked the world with its uncompromising behind-the-scenes look at the raucous, seedy lives of the progenitors of the British Invasion...well, not even close, rea...
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Episode 133–Stranger Things Season 3 Recap Episodes 7&8 from 2019-08-04T15:14:29
We finish up our season 3 discussion with the final two episodes. How satisfying was the conclusion? Where does this season rank? Are we looking forward to more Stranger Things? We get into all t...
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Episode 132–Stranger Things Season 3 Recap Episodes 5&6 from 2019-07-27T18:52:21
Four down, 4 to go. We continue recapping Stranger Things season 3. From Burger King bags to people goo, we've got it covered.
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Episode 131–Stranger Things Season 3 Recap Episodes 3&4 from 2019-07-21T15:45:48
We continue our season 3 recap with episodes 3 and 4, The Case of the Missing Lifeguard and The Suana Test. Topics include Hopper's fitness as a police officer, air ducts, and whether or not binoc...
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Episode 130–Stranger Things Season 3 Recap Episodes 1&2 from 2019-07-15T11:10:41
The next 4 episodes will be dedicated to season 3 of Stranger Things. We'll be recapping each episode, commenting, making guesses, counting the references, and passing judgment. And until it's al...
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Episode 129–Citizen Kane from 2019-06-30T18:43:22
Realizing the impossibility of analyzing Kane in a half-hour podcast, we don't even try. Instead, we stick to our good thing/bad thing, a few favorite scenes and then we grade it out. http://...
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Episode 128–High Noon from 2019-06-18T01:20:56
Collin picked this movie pretty much at random after a Google search for old movie posters. Neither of us had any foreknowledge of its status as one of the capital"G"Great westerns, nor that Coope...
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Episode 127–The Fifth Element from 2019-05-24T09:12:36
I gave Luc Besson a lot of leeway when I saw this 22 years ago. La Femme Nikita and Leon: The Professional had engendered quite a bit of good will. Now, however, in a post Lucy and Valerian world...
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Episode 126–Detective Pikachu Review from 2019-05-16T12:05:47
This week Collin dragged me kicking and screaming to see a Pokemon movie. That's an exaggeration of course; I'd characterize my feeling toward Detective Pikachu as guarded but intrigued. My inter...
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Episode 125–Avengers Endgame from 2019-05-02T01:16:33
Sometimes it's just best to go with the obvious. Be warned, we are ensconced firmly in the spoiler zone this week.
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Episode 124–Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters from 2019-04-26T20:59:11
Of all the Godzilla movies in all the world Collin had to pick this one. It's Godzilla by way of anime, and the biggest surprise is that it hasn't happened before now. We spoil a lot of the first...
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Episode 123–West Side Story from 2019-03-10T19:10:19
With Spielberg announcing a remake, I thought it was time to revisit the original classic. Was Collin entranced or indifferent?
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Episode 122–Lego Movie 2: The Second Part from 2019-02-10T22:17:42
Lego Movie 2? Cold Pursuit? Lego Movie 2? Cold Pursuit? It actually wasn't that hard of a decision. We saw the latest from the fruitful minds of Lord and Miller, and we have thoughts.
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Episode 121–Glass from 2019-01-27T19:44:35
Our second podcast review of the week in Shyamalan's latest, Glass, the conclusion of his take on the super hero genre. What movie were they watching?Mick LaSalle/Datebook Louisa Moore/Scre...
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Episode 120-Split from 2019-01-27T19:31:45
In the first of 2 podcast episodes this week, we review M. Night Shyamalan's 2017 hit Split. What movie were they watching?Conor Bateman/4:3 Film JMM/AmazonArticle by Bethany Brand and Dani...
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Episode 119-Bumblebee from 2019-01-09T12:59:42
Oh, boy, another Transformers movie. It would take a monumental effort to make Bumblebee worse than The Last Knight, so, yeah, it's better than that. But is it any good? We talk it out on this we...
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Episode 118–Favorite Stuff of 2018 from 2019-01-04T02:47:29
This week is round table style, as me and Collin are joined by Giffy, Maggie, and Techman 21 for a round table rundown of our favorite things from 2018.
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Episode 117-Spider-man: Into the Spiderverse from 2018-12-29T13:10:04
Was anybody clamoring for yet another Spider-Man movie? I know I wasn't, but sometimes it's nice to be surprised with something you didn't even know you wanted. In this episode we give a quick, no...
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Episode 116-Die hard from 2018-12-23T01:07:03
Is it a Christmas movie? Does it even matter? When a movie is this good we can just dispense with the labels, sit back and enjoy. I watch it once a year, and this year Collin joined me.
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Episode 115–Click (2006) from 2018-10-28T03:22:57
It's not the normal Happy Madison movie...well, it is and it isn't, but the important thing is was it any good? We continue our year-by-year Movies of our lives series with Collin's 2006 pick, Click.
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Episode 114–American Graffiti (1973) from 2018-10-14T15:41:38
Skipping a few years in our Movies of our Lives series, I fast forward to 1973 in order to discuss the movie that built an empire (pun intended): George Lucas's American Graffiti. Made for under $1...
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Episode 113- Madagascar (2005) from 2018-09-23T14:48:27
We continue (finally) our Movie's of our Lives series with Collin's pick from 2005: Madagascar. We take thirty minutes of podcast to discuss the okay-ness of it all. We also throw in some quick ...
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Episode 112–Little Big Man (1970) from 2018-08-26T09:31:51
We (finally) continue our Movies of our Lives series with my second pick, Arthur Penn's adaptation of Thomas Bereger's novel Little Big Man. Off the heels of the landmark Bonnie and Clyde, Penn wa...
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Episode 111–Whitetail/How it Ends/A Quiet Place from 2018-07-18T20:29:02
Still solo this week with three new releases: Two new on Netflix, and one Just released on VOD and home video. First up is The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter, which is as mediocre as it's titl...
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Episode 110–I Kill Giants/Kodachrome/Tau from 2018-07-11T09:08:47
In the words of Eric Carmen, this week I'm all by myself. I've got three mini-reviews of some titles that are available for streaming now: I Kill Giants, which is now on Hulu and two Netflix Orig...
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Episode 109–I, Robot (2004) from 2018-07-01T16:32:08
Next up in the Movies of Our Lives series Collin picked 2004s I, Robot, a movie that I have seen before but have no recollection of doing so. In the future will A.I. be ironically amused by human'...
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Episode 108–True Grit (1969) from 2018-06-22T18:44:26
Continuing our Movies of our Lives series, I chose, from the year of my birth, the classic Western, True Grit. We discuss John Wayne's performance, the G rating, and whether or not the movie is wo...
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Episode 107: Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) / Solo from 2018-05-28T12:58:51
This is the first in our Movies of our Lives series (I literally just made that up) where we begin with the years of our births and pick a movie from each subsequent year. Collin picked first with...
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Episode 106–Le Samourai (1967) and Avengers from 2018-05-06T15:44:41
This week I picked the 1967 French film about a hitman trying to keep one step ahead of the police and the people that hired him after a job goes bad. It's a movie that is a bit like required read...
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Episode 105–Wonder from 2018-04-17T08:54:15
Wonder is an unabashedly sentimental movie, but is that a good thing or a bad thing? We discuss that plus"What were they thinking?"movie reviews.
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Episode 104–The Matrix / Ready Player One from 2018-04-03T19:38:24
Two dystopian futures, two computer simulated universes, and two very different visions of what that could mean for humanity. This week we tackle two movies, some Platonic philosophy, the holograp...
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Episode 102–Your Name from 2018-02-26T21:07:15
January and February are traditionally becoming our time to catch up with last years movies. This week we watch the movie that unseated Spirited Away and the top grossing anime movie of all time, ...
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Episode 101–The Lego Ninjago Movie from 2018-02-12T16:55:50
This week Collin picked 2017's Lego Ninjago Movie. Clever genre mish-mash or unfocused jumble of ideas? Everything Wrong with Lego Ninjago from CinemaSins (decidedly PG-13 content) Lego Ninjago...
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Episode 100–Raising Arizona from 2018-02-04T18:22:13
It's our 100th episode! For this milestone episode I decided to pick a movie I've been keeping on the shelf for a special occasion -- Raising Arizona. It's one of my favorite movies, and it's one ...
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Episode 99–Paddington from 2018-01-22T20:11:28
I had a track coach in high school, and when it would rain he would make us go to the library and write single page biographies of track stars. After about the second paper I began to suspect that...
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Episode 98–Rope (1948) from 2018-01-14T13:12:17
Hitchcock dismissed it as a"stunt;"Jimmy Stewart didn't like it because he felt he was miscast, and the film was kept out of circulation for 30 years along with Rear Window and a 3 other Hitchcock ...
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Episode 97–*batteries not included (1987) from 2018-01-07T21:51:02
It's our first episode of 2018 and Collin picked...batteries not included? I missed this one in the'80s. I'd already seen the octogenarian/space alien angle with Cocoon, and 18 year old me wasn't ...
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Episode 96-The Last Jedi from 2017-12-16T21:20:32
As spoiler-free as a 30 minute movie review can be.
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Episode 95–9 from 2017-12-09T20:10:40
Collin's pic this week was the 2009 animated movie 9, based off of an Oscar nominated short of the same name. I've always been intrigued by this movie but had never seen it after being turned off ...
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Episode 94–Strange Justice from 2017-11-27T21:49:59
This week: Super spoilery entrée of Stranger Things Season 2 with a side of Justice League.
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Episode 93–Fantastic Mr. Fox from 2017-11-15T13:38:01
This is one of those movies a studio had no idea how to market. It's pretty obvious even from the previews on the DVD that the target audience was a mystery - Date Night and Marley and Me 2 were b...
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Episode 92–The Village from 2017-10-30T00:44:20
For many, this was the beginning of the end for Shyamalan as a director to be reckoned with. The diminishing returns of his moody atmospheres and gotcha endings seemed to have finally worn out the ...
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Episode 91–Transformers the Movie (1986) from 2017-10-23T13:10:07
Before Michael Bay dug his talons into this franchise, there was an animated version of Transformers in the 80's that got and animated, big-screen treatment in 1986. Collin has been searching for ...
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Episode 90–Predator (1987) from 2017-10-16T09:02:37
This week a movie staring 2 future state governors and a pretty awesome alien. It's a mashup of action, war, sci-fi, and horror. It's one of Arnold's best but does that even mean it's good? We di...
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Episode 89–The Breakfast Club from 2017-10-09T15:57:05
For my generation this was THE high school movie. Early in his career, John Hughes spent several movies delving into the strange social dynamics of high school, most of the time with comedy. This...
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Episode 88–Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure from 2017-09-26T00:37:30
More 80's time travel this week. Collin stole one of my picks with Back to the Future, so I counter with this 1989 semi-cult hit. It's not the smartest, most polished, or even funniest 80's time ...
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Episode 87–Back to the Future from 2017-09-15T22:20:05
In 1985 Robert Zemeckis (with a little help from Steven Spielberg) crafted a nearly perfect piece of entertainment. This week we watch and struggle to find something new to say about that entertai...
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Episode 86-The Dark Knight from 2017-09-04T18:26:58
Fresh off of Dunkirk, I decided to pick another Christopher Nolan film. The Dark Knight, for better or worse, is the gold standard by which super hero movies are measured. As with most Nolan movi...
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Episode 85–The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) from 2017-08-19T15:24:46
When I started this podcast the intent was for me to expose my son to movies he might never see otherwise, but what has been happening often is the opposite. Collin's pick this week is another cla...
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Episode 84–The Sixth Sense (1999) from 2017-08-04T20:48:35
I was not alone in 1999 when I had my mind blown by the ending of this movie. Now, on my 4th viewing, how does it hold up as a complete film? Meanwhile, Collin has somehow avoided all knowledge, s...
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Episode 83–War and Homecoming from 2017-07-16T23:44:47
We went to the theater and weren't coming out until we saw both War for the Planet of the Apes and Spider-Man: Homecoming. Five hours later we talk generally and then get nice and spoilery about ...
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Episode 82–Gravity Falls from 2017-07-09T19:56:25
Take Twin Peaks, The X-Files, and Scooby Doo and put them in a blender and you might end up with something like Disney's animated adventure series Gravity Falls. Collin is my guide through the myst...
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Episode 81: Stand By Me from 2017-06-21T09:16:41
There's a lot of baggage, literal and otherwise, that the young actors of Stand By Me were asked to carry. We discuss the varying degrees in which they are successful. Also, more Bad Movie Parents...
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Episode 80–Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) from 2017-06-11T17:42:23
With 11 books in the series and something in the realm of 150 million sold, the Diary of a Wimpy kid series is legitimately huge. The fourth movie in the film adaptation of the series, however, ha...
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Episode 79–The Truman Show from 2017-06-03T11:49:07
Here are some of the movies that came out in 1998: Saving Private Ryan, Shakespeare in Love, There's Something About Mary, The Big Lebowski, Rushmore, A Bugs Life. All movies you would probably re...
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Episode 78–Castle in the Sky from 2017-05-25T22:54:44
It's too bad that Hayao Miyazaki didn't make more movies, because I could watch one a week for the foreseeable future. Castle in the Sky was his third full length animated feature and the first un...
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Episode 77–Shane from 2017-05-15T11:51:23
For some reason I continually underestimate these movies that were made before I was born. Judging from the DVD cover (thank you, Spout Springs Library) I figured I was in for more Roy Rodgers tha...
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Episode 76–Toy Story from 2017-05-01T19:39:35
This is the movie that pretty much changed the way animated movies are done: almost entirely gone (with the exception of Ghibli and a few others) are feature length, hand drawn animated features. ...
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Episode 75-The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King from 2017-04-19T23:45:27
It's the last episode of our Lord of the Rings review. I think the experience has taxed Collin's patience, and his final grade of this Oscar winner shows. Gollum in particular is a point of conte...
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Episode 74–The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers from 2017-04-11T01:45:16
Part 2 of our 3 part Lord of the Rings series. We come to the conclusion that the extended version of The Two Towers may be too much of a good thing. Also, lack of ethnic diversity in Middle Eart...
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Episode 73–Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring from 2017-04-02T15:53:14
So apropos of nothing except simple whimsy we've decided to dedicate the next 3 episodes to the Lord of the Rings series, beginning with 2001s Fellowship of the Ring. This will be Collin's first t...
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Episode 72–Pinocchio (1940) from 2017-03-24T12:40:49
Nope, not the reviled Roberto Benigni version, we watched the classis 1940's Disney version: a rated-G movie that features smoking and drinking by minors, and a preoccupation with butts. In typica...
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Episode 71–Jaws from 2017-03-13T20:45:22
Jaws is often credited with ushering in the blockbuster era of film. It preceded Star Wars by 2 years and was the first to hit the coveted $100 million box office take. I didn't catch up with it ...
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Episode 70–Treasure Planet (2002) from 2017-03-02T21:51:19
Sometime between the Disney renaissance and Disney owning the world was a period of time, particularly in the animation department, when things were looking pretty grim. Offerings like Fantasia 20...
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Episode 69–Monty Python and the Holy Grail from 2017-02-24T21:37:47
Funniest. Movie. Ever. But does Collin agree? When we started the podcast this was one of the movies I knew I was going to show Collin. The question was when would he be ready? There's only one wa...
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Episode 68- The Amazing World of Gumball from 2017-02-17T16:28
This week Collin picked the Cartoon Network animated series The Amazing World of Gumball. We discuss the shows unique animated goulash aesthetic, and Collin tries to answer some of my questions. ...
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Episode 67–It’s Your Pic: The Musical from 2017-02-06T19:57:46
It seemed like, cinematically speaking, 2016 was a good year for the musical. La La Land, Moana, and Sing Street were all well received releases. We are never ones to shy away from a bandwagon, s...
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Episode 66–Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events from 2017-01-20T17:11:29
It seems Netflix is churning out a new show every few days, some more palatable than others. Their newest (at least of this writing) is based on the super popular book series of the same name. The...
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Episode 65–Transformers Prime from 2017-01-14T01:11:33
When I first asked Collin if he wanted to do a podcast with me in which we took turns picking movies for the other to watch, this is the type of thing that I was expecting to have to watch on a pre...
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Episode 64–Spirited Away from 2017-01-06T11:55:54
Last week we watched Ghostbusters; this week it's a very different kind of ghost story. Hayao Miyazaki doesn't make conventional animated stories. Those used to the Disney/Pixar way of doing thin...
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Episode 63–Ghostbusters (1984) from 2016-12-31T02:06:09
Collin once again steals my thunder and picks an'80s flick. I take this as evidence that my experiment is working. This week: the jerkiness of Bill Murray characters, an awkward discussion about...
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Episode 62–Gremlins from 2016-12-16T13:05:58
We had a small window to cram in one more show before Christmas, and so we powered up the Zoom recorder and did the show with very little prep, which is pretty typical of how we do the show anyway....
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Episode 61–Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (by way of MST3K) from 2016-12-10T14:25:09
How do you review an empirically bad movie that is simultaneously being lambasted by a TV show? Do you review the movie? The TV show? We take a shot splitting the difference as we discuss the Myste...
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Episode 60–Planes, Trains and Automobiles from 2016-11-22T14:21:17
Thanksgiving movies are few and far between, but John Hughes managed to make a classic based around the holiday. Oddly enough, this is the first rated R movie we've done on the podcast, which we d...
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Episode 59–Aladdin (1992) from 2016-11-15T13:36
Right in the middle of the Disney renaissance came this retelling of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. It's been duly Disneyfied (there's no beheading at the end, for instance). Collin knew of Robin...
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Episode 58–The Twilight Zone (TV Series) from 2016-11-06T21:42:26
Seeing The Twilight Zone series as a kid was a seminal experience. The Brady Bunch and Diff'rent Strokes did not prepare me for the more bizarre and morally challenging episodes that the series of...
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Episode 57–The Invisible Man (1933) from 2016-10-28T13:34:11
I asked Collin to pick something appropriate for Halloween, and he chose this 1933 James Whale joint based on the H.G. Wells book. In 5 questions we try to decide what kind of movie this is (horro...
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Episode 56–A.I. Artificial Intelligence from 2016-10-17T16:05:38
This week, as a companion piece with last week's Short Circuit, I picked Steven Spielberg's A.I. We discuss the movie, it's controversial ending, and whether humans should even be pursuing artific...
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Episode 55–Short Circuit from 2016-10-09T19:45:50
We hit double nickels this week with the 1986 John Badham (Saturday Night Fever, War Games) directed Short Circuit. Usually it would be me dialing up the 80s for a movie pick, but this one was all ...
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Episode 54–Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) from 2016-10-01T21:26:52
This week I answer Collin's pick of Night at the Museum with my own father/son, somewhat museum influenced (the word"museum"gets uttered a few times) selection, the third in the Indiana Jones cycle...
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Episode 53–Night at the Museum from 2016-09-27T00:33:24
School's back in session, so we're back to one movie a week. Collin picked this week and made me watch a movie that I had zero interest in seeing again: Night at the Museum. Was he able to convin...
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Episode 52–Groundhog Day (1993) and Edge of Tomorrow (2014) from 2016-09-19T12:26:05
Ever had an embarrassing situation that you wish you could relive? Ever wanted to live a day unencumbered by fear of consequences or death? This week we watched two movies that propose just such a ...
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Episode 51–1st Annual Meeting of the Atlanta Falcon’s Support Group from 2016-09-09T03:16:28
This week might be a tough sell for what is primarily a movie podcast, but let me see if I can explain my reasoning: American Football, more so than other sport is mainly enjoyed via a television ...
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Episode 50–The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie(2004) and The Fugitive(1993) from 2016-09-03T20:25:55
This week on our 50th IYP episode we watched a couple of movies that, at first glance, have very little in common, but to my surprise tuned out to have a couple of similarities. Besides both being...
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Episode 49–Kubo and the Two Strings from 2016-08-28T18:03:31
This week we present the sad tale of Kubo and the Two Strings, a marvelous movie form Laika studios that simply no one is going to see. It's a movie with beautiful stop motion animation and a real...
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Episode 48–April and the Extraordinary World / The Little Prince from 2016-08-20T01:18:29
This week, by patriarchal decree, we tackle a couple newish animated movies: the French-language feature April and the Extraordinary World, and the based-on-a-French-novella Netflix movie The Littl...
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Episode 47–The Iron Giant and Starman from 2016-08-08T12:13:45
Collin's back this week, and we've picked two Stranded Alien movies to talk about: Brad Bird's The Iron Giant and John Carpenter's Starman. Common themes include confused but powerful titular chara...
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Episode 46–Favorite Song and Scene Pairings from 2016-07-23T23:52:29
Collin is enjoying himself at summer camp for 2 weeks so in his stead I welcome Giffy from the Movies, Music and More podcast to talk about some of our favorite moments in movies that utilize a pop...
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Episode 45–The Incredibles(2004) and Sky High(2005) from 2016-07-17T13:24:50
It's all relative (ugh, I know) this week on IYP as we compare two movies about super powered families: pre-Disney Pixar's The Incredibles and pre-hegemonic Disney's Sky High. I think I could hav...
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Episode 44-Inside Out (2015) and Big (1988) from 2016-07-06T20:49:34
We tried a different format this week. We were a little late in getting out a new episode, so it afforded us the time to see two movies. We tried to pick movies that had somewhat similar themes. ...
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Episode 43–Raiders of the Lost Ark from 2016-06-24T17:45:10
Jaws, Close Encounters, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T.: Four of Spielberg's first six studio releases are widely considered film classics. Eventually we'll get around to watching all of them. We...
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Episode 42–Voltron: Legendary Defender from 2016-06-19T23:48:52
Collin and I are separated in age by 32 years. This is nearly the same difference in age between the original Voltron and the current DreamWorks/Netflix iteration. For a show that's entire missio...
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Episode 41–A Town Called Panic from 2016-06-12T19:19:17
This week things take a turn for the surreal as we discuss this 2009 Belgian animated film. Descriptors are hard to come by for this one. We take several cracks at explaining the crazy aesthetics...
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Episode 40–Galaxy Quest from 2016-05-31T15:08:11
Remember when Tim Allen was a big time movie star? No lie. It was an actual occurrence in cinema history, and you know what: he was pretty good at what he did. In this week's movie pick, Allen l...
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Episode 39–Independence Day from 2016-05-25T01:11:37
It's Your Pic takes to the road again for another episode. This week on a family trip to Washington D.C. we watched the 1996 Roland Emmerich film Independence Day (in the back of a Honda Odyssey o...
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Episode 38–Civil War / Summer Movies from 2016-05-15T20:10:59
Yes, much like the rest of the planet, we too saw Captain America: Civil War, and since we do a movie podcast we're contractually obligated to discuss said movie. We try to keep it brief and non-sp...
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Episode 37–The Chronic-(What?)-cles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe from 2016-05-08T12:59:36
This week It's Your Pic steps through the wardrobe and into the fabled land of Narnia with the first of Disney's adaptations of the C.S. Lewis books: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Does th...
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Episode 36–The Goonies from 2016-05-01T09:27:47
For some The Goonies is THE quintessential 80's movie: a nostalgic trip of a movie about one perfectly adventurous day. A treasure map, childhood friends at your side, and the discovery that all t...
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Episode 35–Goosebumps from 2016-04-19T23:09:27
This week Collin picked the 2015 Jack Black movie Goosebumps. The trailer for this movie gave me exactly zero in the way of anticipation or hope for this movie, but as I have vowed to watch whatev...
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Episode 34: Battle of the Wonkas from 2016-04-13T00:30:01
Since Spielberg's BFG is looming in the near future I decided to revisit another Dahl adaptation: 1971's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. And, being in a capricious mood, decide to add Tim B...
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Episode 33-The Lego Movie from 2016-04-06T19:29:39
I wish I could say that the release of the Lego Batman teaser trailer inspired us to revisit 2014's The Lego Movie, but in reality it was just a serendipitous choice by Collin. We'll take whatever...
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IYP Quick Pic–Batman v. Superman from 2016-03-30T19:56:05
The new movie from the DC universe is currently getting hammered critically. Do we take our turns at the dead horse, bats (no pun) in hand? Listen in and find out in our first Quick Pic assessment...
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Episode 32–Rear Window from 2016-03-21T21:51:10
Collin had never seen an Alfred Hitchcock movie before, so I started him out with one of my favorites. I may have actually jumped the gun a little bit in starting with this one. He was pretty bor...
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Episode 31–The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy from 2016-03-13T14:07:07
This week Collin spent $5 of his own, hard-earned money to buy a copy of 2005's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which also tuned out to be his movie pick. The movie cost $50 million to make ...
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Episode 30–The Sandlot from 2016-03-06T10:15:10
A lot of people have a fondness for this movie that I've never shared. But, since I've only seen it once before this viewing, I decided to give it another look. Listen in to see how Collin and I ...
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Episode 29–Over the Garden Wall from 2016-02-21T21:34:20
For this episode of It's Your Pic, Collin selected the 2014 Cartoon Network miniseries Over the Garden Wall. It contains the typical CN weirdness with a good story and a lot of heart. One of Coll...
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Episode 28–Field of Dreams from 2016-02-14T19:05:10
Whether or not you enjoy this 1989 movie depends on your tolerance for heavy handed nostalgia and sentimentality. If it's as lovely and heartfelt and had Kevin Costner at his most charming you can...
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Episode 27–Kung Fu Panda 3/Pixar v. DreamWorks Animation from 2016-02-08T14:24:41
This week we saw the latest from DreamWorks animation studios, Kung Fu Panda 3. We also saw, kind of randomly, the Pixar classic, Wall-e. Seeing these two movies back-to-back got me thinking abou...
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Episode 26-Avengers: Age of Ultron from 2016-01-31T13:58:50
I didn't think we'd get a show out this week--Collin developed strep throat (on his 13th birthday, no less) and was pretty much bed ridden until Saturday. But he toughed it out, snorting and cough...
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Episode 25 – The Karate Kid (1984) from 2016-01-24T19:08:24
Some movies just have staying power. Despite whatever cheesy, cringe-worthy pop music or hammer-fisted sentimentality that dates it, The Karate Kid has been in America's movie lexicon for over 30 ...
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Episode 24 – Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith from 2016-01-12T14:33:43
I apologize to all those who are experiencing Star Wars fatigue, but all the Force Awakens talk got Collin wanting to revisit his "favorite" Star Wars movie. After the re-watch he may or may not r...
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Episode 23 – Singin’ in the Rain from 2016-01-03T23:58:25
It's Your Pic gets in the Wayback Machine and visits a movie that older than the two of us combined. We've both somehow avoided seeing this 1952 classic musical...some might say, the classic Holly...
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Episode 22 – The Obligatory Force Awakens Show from 2015-12-27T21:24:10
It really wasn't my plan to do what literally every other movie podcast has been doing and talk about Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but the proverbial hustle and bustle of the holiday season left m...
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Episode 21-Home/Holiday Binge Watching from 2015-12-20T15:07:51
This week Collin picked the 2015 animated feature Home. After I ask my 5 questions, we discuss how movies with overly familiar plots can be rescued from blandness. Whether or not Home gets rescue...
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Episode 20 – Christmas Vacation/The Good Dinosaur from 2015-12-14T02:23:46
Tis the season to blow the dust off the Christmas DVDs and watch those classics that we haven't watched since last year. Does Christmas Vacation fit into that "classic" category? Well, if an annua...
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Episode 19 – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen from 2015-11-29T21:07:16
Oh, the Baymanity! It was Collin's pic this week, and he is determined to muscle through these Transformers movies. Maybe, just maybe, the experience is starting to wear on him a bit. Imagine a 1...
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