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Movie of the Year: 2002 GenreBlast The Taste Buds meet to discuss 2002 GenreBlast and argue about which genres were best represented in 2002! Genres, they make up the bulk at the movies lefty Hollywood pumps out to us year after year, but we here at Pop Filter have no time for anything that is…
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Movie of the Year: 2002 Lilo & Stitch (Bonus Episode) The Taste Buds learn the meaning of family by watching Lilo & Stitch! Lilo & Stitch is a beautiful, loving, caring look at what it means to be a family. Not the blood coursing through our veins, but the love that beats within our breast.…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 2002 Battle Royale The Taste Buds go to a remote island to kill each other, while discussing Battle Royale! Before Squid Game, before Ready or Not, before Avengers Arena, before the Purge series, before the Hunger Games, there was Battle Royale. The final film directed by Kinji Fukasaku, with a screenplay written by…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 2002 Insomnia The Taste Buds stay awake for 7 days straight to bring you the authentic Insomnia experience! You know how you get a little slow, a little rough around the edges, a little cranky when you’re sleepy? Imagine you’re working a murder case in Alaska where the sun only shines,…
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Movie of the Year: 2002 State of the Franchise The Taste Buds drill into the biggest movie franchises of 2002! In 2022, everything is a franchise. It’s basically mandated, that unless Jordan Peele is directing it, these movies better be part of a longer string of movies–how else will people know they should see it?!…
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Movie of the Year: 2002 Bonus Show Comic Books The Taste Buds take on one of the most important years in comics: 2002! 1939- the world met Superman and Batman. 1941 – Captain America punched Hitler in the face. 1961 – The First Family of Marvel Comics changed the game. 1986- The Dark Knight…
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Movie of the Year: 2002 Mix Tape The Taste Buds create the greatest 2002 mix tape the world has ever known! Mix tapes give a unique picture of the year, but making them can take a lot of thought and care. We did it despite this fact because we are very brave. But how exactly…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 2002 Spider-Man The Taste Buds dip into some deep comic lore to talk about little-known 2002 property, Spider-Man! Put this one in the category of what was 2002 smoking? Some kid gets bitten by a radioactive spider, and we all know what happens next, right? He gets cancer and dies screaming,…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 2002 – Talk to Her Does Talk to Her say enough to be 2002’s Movie of the Year? 2002 is here, and we are off to the races with Pedro Almodóvar’s Talk to Her. This is a movie the defies simple encapsulation, so it will have to suffice for me to…
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