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We usher in the start of spooky season with horror movie recommendations His House and The Boy, then we preview what October has in store: the entire A Nightmare on Elm Street series! Plus badmouthing Stephen King, loving The Orphan, general Halloweening, & more! A Nightmare on Elm Street trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCVh4lBfW-c&ab_channel=RottenTomatoesClassicTrailers His House traile...

Our feature this week is the Audrey Hepburn & Rex Harrison classic musical My Fair Lady. We talk dubbing controversies, feminism, Henry Higgins being a dick, employment opportunities, ambiguous endings, new wave music videos, bigfoot, Spooktember, and more! #FlowerShopForEliza We don’t actually talk about bigfoot, but I don’t think anyone reads these. Corrections: Audrey Hepburn did do another mus...

Indy gleefully recommends the Indian epic action/comedy/musical/historical drama film RRR (Rise Roar Revolt), Samantha reads Simu Liu’s memoir We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story, and we prepare for everyone’s favourite cockney flower girl with My Fair Lady! Plus Wendy Walker shirts, Resting Bikeface, Nightmare Island, Shark tweets, linguistics class, Indian history, Marvel movie...

Today we are discussing the 1990 romantic comedy Pretty Woman! We debate whether this movie is a step forward or backward for feminism, its class systems, meaningful apologies, retail revenge, happy endings, charm, & more! Plus, Seinfeld, the Mandela Effect, The Little Mermaid, The Princess Diaries, & Audrey Hepburn! Pretty Woman is a 1990 American romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall ,...

Samantha reviews her latest Wendy Walker read, Emma in the Night, Indy recommends the pitch perfect sci-fi ridiculousness of Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element, & we preview next week's big watch, the 90’s romantic comedy Pretty Woman!  Plus, the insane baby-marrying of Music From Another Room, physical media, John Steinbeck, & more!   Music From Another Room Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N...

In this episode, we’re dissecting the Steven Spielberg classic Jaws, including how it benefited from mistakes, its painful similarities to our modern lives, the creation of the summer blockbuster, masculinity, economical character development, bell-bottoms, sharks, & more! Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg , based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley . It stars Roy...

Indy listens to the landmark soul soundtrack Superfly by Curtis Mayfield, Samantha goes on a twisty journey with Wendy Walker’s Don’t Look For Me, and we preview the original summer blockbuster, Jaws! Plus the politics of Y2K, multiple narrators, germaphobia, waterparks, and more!

It’s not a series of road trip vignettes, but not quite a movie, this week we are watching the Britney Spears film Crossroads! We discuss smokey eyes, Roadhouse, man-tantrums, casting, and we pitch our ideas for Crossroads 2! Crossroads is a 2002 American teen drama road film directed by Tamra Davis , from a screenplay by Shonda Rhimes . It stars Britney Spears , Anson Mount , Zoe Saldaña , Taryn...

Samantha reads It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover, Indy looks back fondly at the graphic novels of Mariko Tamaki, and we preview the Britney Spears film Crossroads! Plus booktok, beach reads, 2000s fashion, & #GirlGangFunTimeGalPals. Mariko Tamaki (born 1975) is a Canadian artist and writer. She is known for her graphic novels Skim , Emiko Superstar, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, and This O...

This week we tackle one of the greatest films ever created: Citizen Kane! We discuss auteur theory, Orson Welles, camera trickery, cavernous cinematography, Donald Trump, William Randolph Hearst, corruption of idealists, capitalist machinery, semiotics, old age make-up, & more!  Does it deserve the hype? Are some parts actually underrated? Let's see what 2 people born in the 80s have to say!   Cit...

Indy talks about Ethiopian Jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke, Samantha’s latest beach read is With You All the Way by Cynthia Hand, and then we prepare to watch the (maybe) greatest film of all time: Citizen Kane! Plus; Scarface, books for 16 year olds, The Sixth Sense spoilers, bunk, Ed Wood, and more! Mulatu Astatke (ሙላቱ አስታጥቄ, born 19 December 1943) is an Ethiopian musician and arranger considered as...

We are finally finishing our journey into the Step Up universe with the 2019 Chinese film Step Up: Year of the Dance (AKA Step Up China)! Dance battles, prison stints, glass smashing, a villain named Chipmunk, crews, wine throwing, warehouses… does this movie have it all?    Step Up: Year of the Dance is a 2019 Chinese film directed by Ron Yuan . Youth from different social classes in Beijing come...

Samantha reviews the dark comedy Why Women Kill, Indy re-reads some of his childhood favourites like; The Phantom Tollbooth, Maniac Magee, & Bridge to Terabithia, then we prepare to finish of the Step up series with the Chinese film Step Up: Year of the Dance, AKA Step Up China! Plus ice cream cone laws, keeping secrets, sweet sweet crime, Nova reruns, Animal Planet, Samantha’s murder plans, & mor...

This week we are covering the biopic Ed Wood! We discuss the careers of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, the art of filmmaking, relentless optimism, the friendship of Ed Wood and Bela Lagosi, 1950s sci-fi, and the dream of creating art free of judgement. Plus; Nicolas Cage Superman, Danny Devito toys, arguments about Alice in Wonderland, pirates, eye makeup, and more! Ed Wood is a 1994 American biograp...

Indy explores the wholesome but captivating drama of the Japanese reality TV show Old Enough! (はじめてのおつかい), Samantha reviews the mystery thriller Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter in time for its Netflix release, and Indy prepares for the Tim Burton / Johnny Depp collaboration about a filmmaker with more enthusiasm than talent, Ed Wood!   Old Enough! ( Japanese : はじめてのおつかい, romaniz...

We’ve finally made it to the final (American) installment of the Step Up dance movie franchise: Step Up: All In! We have an all-star(ish) cast of returning characters, fantastic outfits, unsafe driving practices, Las Vegas, manufactured conflict, sand throwing, enigmatic pop stars, and even dancing! Step Up All In on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGrAEPfrhVw&t=3s&ab_channel=Conceited St...

Samantha recommends the historical biography Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England by Gemma Hollman, Indy reminisces about the brilliant subversion of the comedy troupe The Kids In The Hall and previews their reboot, and we prepare to Step Up all over again with Step Up All In! Step Up All In on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGrAEPfrhVw&t=3s&ab_channel=...

On this week’s episode we are discussing the underappreciated 1999 animated film The Iron Giant. We discuss 1950s America, the fear of outsiders, gun control, the changing face of the villain in American cinema, why Indy doesn’t like Mark Sinclair (Vin diesel), wisdom of the innocent, putting yourself back together after failure, Happy Gilmore, the controversy of non-violence, self-made heroes, an...

Indy reveals the winners (and who he thinks should have won) from the 2022 Young Readers Choice Awards like; New Kid by Jerry Craft, The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman, With The Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo, and more. Samantha revisits the early days of the pandemic with Jodi Picoult’s novel Wish You Were Here. Then we reveal next week’s big watch, the underappreciated 1999 animated classic...

This week we’re breaking down the 4th instalment of the Step Up dance movie franchise: Step Up Revolution! It’s a film full of lowriders, bikinis, forgettable characters, domestic terrorism, real estate dealings, Moose, ski movie plots, terrible waiters, welding, Nike sponsorships, and some dancing. What more could you ask for? Step Up Revolution (released in some countries as Step Up 4: Miami Hea...

Samantha’s latest read is the historical true crime book The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan, Indy recommends the Netflix anime Aggretsuko, the cutest show about loneliness and frustration around, then we preview the 4th installment of everyone’s favourite dance movie franchise, Step Up Revolution!   Aggretsuko, also known by its original Japanese title Aggre...

This week we’re discussing the 1951 Sci-Fi classic The Day The Earth Stood Still, including its place in American history, how little we’ve changed in 70 years, 5G microchip vaccines, the Red Scare, the theremin, space Jesus, American exceptionalism, and we try to figure out where heaven is.   The Day The Earth Stood Still full movie:  https://archive.org/details/The. Day. The. Earth. Stood. Still...

Indy wants you to be a casual astronomy fan, Samantha read the ballet memoir Swan Dive by Georgina Pazcoguin, and we get ready to explore 1950s sci-fi with The Day The Earth Stood Still! Plus wedding talk, Mark Messier, why sports journalism and Edmonton Oilers fans make Indy look at stars, realtor names, theremin, and more!   The Day The Earth Stood Still full movie: https://archive.org/details/T...

It’s time for the 3rd installment of the Step Up franchise: Step Up 3D! Samantha claims it’s in the top 5, or 10, or 20, films of all time, Indy pitches Step Up X: Dance of Death, plus the Bushido code, magic Nike Dunks, boring engineering students, and more! Step Up 3D (also known as Step Up 3) is a 2010 American 3D dance film directed by Jon M. Chu and written by Amy Andelson and Emily Meyer. It...

Samantha Hees recommends the novel After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Indy Randhawa has short reviews of the last novels of Kurt Vonnegut, including Galapagos, Bluebeard, and Timequake, and we preview next week’s feature Step Up 3D! Plus NPR voices, French serial killer Gilles de Rais, relationship advice, shirt predictions, and more! Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ( /ˈvɒnəɡət/ ; [1] November 11, 1922 – April...