Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
Blockbusters and Birdwalks
At Blockbusters and Birdwalks, you’ll listen to reviews and conversations about all kinds of movies, from Academy Award winners to exploitation masterpieces with a mix of commercial hits and obscure favorites thrown in for good measure. The point is recognizing that movies present our culture with the building blocks of social memory, enabling each of us to enjoy ourselves because movies are fun.
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Jul 7, 2026
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Episodes
"The Silence of the Lambs" (1991) 29.08.2021 15:42
Beauty meets Beast.
"Army of the Dead" (2021) 11.06.2021 12:06
Viva Las Vegas?
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974) 11.06.2021 11:42
Saw is family.
"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (2007) 18.04.2021 11:59
Pitt and Affleck nursemaid the modern celebrity and nearly fall in love.
"The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976) 17.04.2021 11:36
Mid-career Eastwood trying to overcome racism in the Western as bicentennial entertainment.
"Desert Hearts" (1985) 04.03.2021 12:17
Imagine a young Queer person who has never seen a version of themselves on-screen beyond monstrosity. Then imagine seeing how another Queer person made a place in the world through friendship and self-discovery.
"Stop Making Sense" (1984) 04.03.2021 16:27
Home is where I want to be, but I guess I'm already there.
"Memento" (2000) 04.02.2021 14:11
Leonard Shelby has a condition.
"Black Hawk Down" (2001) 04.02.2021 11:15
Soldiers fight for one another, the moral complexities of why be damned.
"Moulin Rouge!" (2001) 04.02.2021 8:42
You’ll be dumb with wonderment!
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (2018) 04.02.2021 20:14
Did Freddie Mercury and the members of Queen lead messy, complicated, R-rated lives?
"Slap Shot" (1977) 04.02.2021 13:29
The greatest sports movie ever?
"Yentl" (1983) 04.02.2021 17:12
God is present in this movie.
"Platoon" (1986) 04.02.2021 12:36
An Oscar winner and exhibition of Classical Style.
"Conan the Barbarian" (1982) 04.02.2021 12:58
Arnold is the basis for a certain kind of masculine expression that I once saw as desirable.
"Blade Runner" (1982 / 1992 / 2007) 04.02.2021 13:20
Anticipating our worries about A.I., the surveillance state, and how to make human connections on spaceship Earth, Blade Runner is a work of genius .
"Pulp Fiction" (1994) 04.02.2021 10:42
Quentin Tarantino’s first masterwork is a sight to behold and listen to.
"Moonlight" (2016) 04.02.2021 13:15
Barry Jenkins trades on 'hood films to achieve something remarkably different.
"Boyz N the Hood" (1991) 04.02.2021 14:09
Boyz N the Hood is more than a big studio prestige picture at the close of the Reagan/Bush era.
"Lone Star" (1996) 04.02.2021 7:20
This is a great John Sayles movie.
"Trainspotting" (1996) 04.02.2021 8:05
Addictive behavior is baked into modern life and the only way to defeat the lure of substance abuse is developing community.
"Hedwig and the Angry Inch" (2001) 04.02.2021 8:14
I put on some make-up, turn up the eight-track; I’m pulling the wig down from the shelf.
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