Blind Spots & Second Thoughts

Heather doesn’t remember Iron Man We take our first steps into the wide, wide universe of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with 2008’s Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the titular hero. This movie, directed by Jon Favreau, kicked off the entertainment juggernaut that is the MCU, so even though Heather has technically seen the movie before, we’re going to revisit it to start our Marvel superher...

Part two and recap of Fight Club Fight Club is a 25 year old movie that still has a lot to say, so we had a lot to say about it, too! We pick up where we left off from part one, and dive into the recap of the movie. We talk about themes of masculinity vs. femininity, decay and destruction, how the movie is relevant today, and why the Olsen Twins and Jigsaw are very relevant to Fight Club. Make sur...

Heather hasn't seen Fight Club. We are going to break the first and second rule and talk all about David Fincher's 1999 movie Fight Club, based on the novel of the same name, starring Brad Pitt, Ed Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Jared Leto, and Meat Loaf. We talk about the big twist of the movie and if Heather knew it before seeing the movie (spoiler: she did). We'll also get into how the movie age...

Heather hasn't seen Groundhog Day. If you're ready to look at the 1993 classic Harold Ramis film starring Bill Murray with fresh eyes, then we got you, babe, as Heather has somehow managed to avoid this cultural institution. We discuss the ethics of time looping, how the language of movies has changed since 1993, and the ancestral genetic memory of character actors. 00:00:00 Groundhog Day 00:01:51...

Heather hasn't seen The Nice Guys. Travel back with us to seedy 1977 Los Angeles and Shane Black's buddy comedy detective noir from 2016 starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe! In this episode we discuss the different classifications of firearms according to Heather, if the movie qualifies as a "romp", and what a more appropriate title would have been. 00:00 - What does Heather know about The Nic...

Heather hasn't seen Napoleon Dynamite. In our inaugural episode of Blind Spots & Second Thoughts, we explore the deep character study that is Napoleon Dynamite. Is the movie actually a depiction of neurodivergence, or is the titular character simply a huge jerk? How does the movie hold up 20 years later? Exactly how creepy is Uncle Rico? And what about Kip's hard-fought emotional journey? Reli...

"What do you mean, you haven't seen it?" Blind Spots & Second Thoughts is a podcast featuring Dan and Heather (that's us!), a couple of movie lovers -- and a couple -- who love to have occasionally deep, but more often than not, incredibly silly conversations about movies. In each episode of Blind Spots & Second Thoughts, we'll pick a movie that one of us has seen, and the other hasn't. Us...