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Movie of the Year: 1997 The Battle Begins The Taste Buds figure out which movies have a chance of becoming the Movie of 1997! The movies of 1997, they’re so good, but which of them is the best? How would someone even decide something like that? It seems, at least to us, that the best…
Read MoreMovie of the Year 1988: Finale Part 2 The Taste Buds choose THE movie of 1988! This is really it. Everything you have done in your life has really been leading to this moment. Take a really deep breath and prepare yourself to finally really know the real answer to the only question that has…
Read MoreMovie of the Year 1988: Finale Part 1 This is it. Everything you have done in your life has been leading to this moment. Take a deep breath and prepare yourself to finally know the answer to the only question that has ever mattered to you: what is the 1988 Movie of the Year? Are…
Read MoreMovie of the Year 1988: Big The Taste Buds review the 1988 blockbuster Big! Big is a movie about the worlds of adults and kids colliding, but also it is a movie about adult life being a nightmare. Is this a good way to handle such a sensitive issue? I’m going to say maybe, but…
Read MoreMovie of the Year 1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit The Taste Buds review the 1988 blockbuster Who Framed Roger Rabbit! Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a movie about the worlds of people and toons colliding, but also it is a movie about race in this country. Is this a good way to handle such a…
Read MoreMovie of the Year 1988: Genreblast The Taste Budz–and two of their favorites from the Unnatural 20s podcast–have genre fever and the only prescription is more genre. That can’t be right. Why would genres cure genre fever? If anything they probably cause it, right? I bet the real prescription would be something like antibiotics. I…
Read MoreMovie of the Year 1988: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, a very nice name for a very terrible, uh, demon? Well, he’s clearly not a demon but is he a ghost? Like, what is this dude? Was he like that when he was alive, if he ever was alive? So many questions about the terrible eponymous being at…
Read MoreMovie of the Year 1988: My Neighbor Totoro The Taste Buds are discussin’ yet another hard-hitting, pull-no-punches drama with 1988’s Oscar-worthy My Neighbor Totoro, the movie that taught us that horrible forest monsters can be cute if they are furry and go into fugue states in between baring their oddly human teeth and bellowing in…
Read MoreMovie of the Year 1988: State of the Franchises The Taste Budz–and two of their favorites from the Unnatural 20s podcast–have franchise fever and the only prescription is more franchise. That can’t be right. Why would franchises cure franchise fever? If anything they probably cause it, right? I bet the real prescription would be something…
Read MoreMovie of the Year 1988: The Naked Gun The Taste Buds are yet another hard-hitting, pull-no-punches drama with 1988’s Oscar-eligible The Naked Gun, the movie that taught us that the Juice could really get it done as a dramatic actor. The boys discuss whether or not the humor of this movie still holds up thirty…
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