Show: Movie of the Year
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Movie of the Year: 1973 Westworld This week we discuss Westworld! Does this sci-fi/western have enough firepower to become our Movie of the Year? Westworld is a lot of things: cool, well-known, probably about 45 minutes too long. It tells the story of the eponymous Westworld (go to heck Romanworld and Medievalworld) a place for…
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Movie of the Year: 1973 Introduction Part 2 In our 1973 Introduction Part 2 we pick the 16 movies that will make up our season bracket! By the time you are done listening to this episode, you will know the sixteen movies that will make up our 1973 season. Hidden among those movies, still unknown…
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Movie of the Year: 1973 Introduction Part 1 What wonders and horrors will the 1973 Introduction Part 1 unleash on our delicate brains? Wow, 1973. Let me start by saying, congratulations. And, you’re welcome. And, we are so sorry. 1973 was 50 years ago y’all, and it’s the ancientiest season we’ve ever done. Much has…
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Movie of the Year: 2002 Catch Me If You Can Can Catch Me If You Can con its way to our 2002 Movie of the Year? Catch Me If You Can is a Steven Spielberg joint, so you know we are going to get rowdy on this one. Steve Spiels has meant so much to the…
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Movie of the Year: 2002 Finale Part Three It is time to finish picking 2002’s Movie of the Year in our 2002 Finale Part Three! We work really hard on each of the seasons of this show. We do it because it means a lot to us and because that is what the movies deserve.…
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Movie of the Year: 2002 Finale Part Two It is time to continue picking 2002’s Movie of the Year in our 2002 Finale Part Two! As we discussed last time, fifteen great movies (and, yes, one stinkeroo) made their way into the sweet sixteen. And now it is time to take that number DOWN. To…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 2002 Finale Part One It is time to start picking 2002’s Movie of the Year in our 2002 Finale Part One! It seems like just yesterday we started the 2002 season, but as they say: time flies when your castin’ pods. This year we embraced just how many movies there are…
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Movie of the Year: 2002 Morvern Callar Is Morvern Callar too obvious a choice to become 2002 Movie of the Year? Stop any yahoo on the street and ask them to bleat out a movie from 2002 and the first one that is going to spring into 90% of their brains is Morvern Callar. MorvernMania was everywhere is…
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Movie of the Year: 2002 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Can The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers unite all our panelists and become 2002 Movie of the Year? The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a movie that asks, “What if our enemies are actually so bad that we can…
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Movie of the Year: 2002 25th Hour Can 25th Hour capture the title of our 2002 Movie of the Year? 25th Hour may be a bit of a forgotten gem of 2002, but it is a gem nonetheless. With Rosario Dawson, Edward Norton, Philip Seymore Hoffman, and Barry “That’s-Right-It’s-Me” Pepper, the movie has star power…
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