Paul and Corey Cross the Streams

Let's put on a show! It's season 8 for Paul and Corey Cross the Streams , and this season we're watching musicals. It's a singular art form with a dynamic history, and we get to listen to a lot of cast recordings... This week, Paul continued along, and is now easing down, the Yellow Brick Road as he and Corey discuss The Wiz (1978). It's another example of a film adaptation of a hit Broadway show...

Let's put on a show! It's season 8 for Paul and Corey Cross the Streams , and this season we're watching musicals. It's a singular art form with a dynamic history, and we get to listen to a lot of cast recordings... This week, Corey chose Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! (2001). This is the first instance where both hosts could not bring themselves finish the film in question. But not to worry they bo...

Let's put on a show! It's season 8 for Paul and Corey Cross the Streams , and this season we're watching musicals. It's a singular art form with a dynamic history, and we get to listen to a lot of cast recordings... This week, Paul chose perhaps the most influential American film - The Wizard of Oz (1939). A film so omnipresent in everyone's life that Corey couldn't even watch it. A film so ingrai...

Let's put on a show! It's season 8 for Paul and Corey Cross the Streams , and this season we're watching musicals. It's a singular art form with a dynamic history, and we get to listen to a lot of cast recordings... This week, Corey chose what is arguably the greatest book musical of all time, Gypsy . This is also the first time that Paul and Corey watch a live recording of a musical and, in this...

Let's put on a show! It's season 8 for Paul and Corey Cross the Streams , and this season we're watching musicals. It's a singular art form with a dynamic history, and we get to listen to a lot of cast recordings... This week, Paul wanted to pick a straight-down-the-middle classic. A crowd-pleaser. Grease  (1978). Well, it turns out everyone loves Grease  except for Corey. Although, that's not qui...

Let's put on a show! It's season 8 for Paul and Corey Cross the Streams , and this season we're watching musicals. It's a singular art form with a dynamic history, and we get to listen to a lot of cast recordings... Attend the podcast on Sweeney Todd ! Yes, this week Corey chose the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp joint  Sweeney Todd (2007). This adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's brilliant musical from 1979...

Let's put on a show! It's season 8 for Paul and Corey Cross the Streams , and this season we're watching musicals. It's a singular art form with a dynamic history, and we get to listen to a lot of cast recordings... It may be the Great Depression, but Paul and Corey are in the money! Yes, this week's episode is Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933). Directed by Mervyn Leroy, music & lyrics by Harry Warren a...

Let's put on a show! It's season 8 for Paul and Corey Cross the Streams , and this season we're watching musicals. It's a singular art form with a dynamic history, and we get to listen to a lot of cast recordings... For his first episode, Corey chose the international smash-hit, the Tollywood (India) film, RRR  (2022). Directed and written by S. S. Rajamouli, the film is a fictional and fictionali...

Let's put on a show! It's season 8 for Paul and Corey Cross the Streams , and this season we're watching musicals. It's a singular art form with a dynamic history, and we get to listen to a lot of cast recordings... For our first episode, Paul chose his favorite musical, The Music Man  (1962), based on the hit show which opened on Broadway in 1957. Written entirely(!) by Meredith Wilson and starri...

It's the grand finale of Season 7! This season we looked at the trends, genres, styles, and more that make up cinema of the first 25 years of the 21st century. This week, Corey looked back to look forward and also sideways, without and within. It's Charlie Kaufman's meta-meditation on evolution and adaptation, Adaptation (2002). Both Paul and Corey were shocked at how much better the film is than...

Welcome to Season 7! As we are now a quarter of the way through the 21st century, like Bill Murray in Tootsie , Paul and Corey are asking, "What happened?" This season we are looking at the trends, genres, styles, and more that make up cinema of the past 25 years. This week, Paul shot for the moon in his final choice for the season. A film he believes is one of the most important of the 21st centu...

Welcome to Season 7! As we are now a quarter of the way through the 21st century, like Bill Murray in  Tootsie , Paul and Corey are asking, "What happened?" This season we are looking at the trends, genres, styles, and more that make up cinema of the past 25 years. This week, Corey reacquainted us with Nepo baby libertarian Jason Reitman's sensitive and insightful examination (I'm being sarcastic,...

Welcome to Season 7! As we are now a quarter of the way through the 21st century, like Bill Murray in Tootsie , Paul and Corey are asking, "What happened?" This season we are looking at the trends, genres, styles, and more that make up cinema of the past 25 years. This week, Paul took a cue from Corey and his son to canvass the youth to see what else they may be watching in the 21st century. Thank...

Welcome to Season 7! As we are now a quarter of the way through the 21st century, like Bill Murray in Tootsie , Paul and Corey are asking, "What happened?" This season we are looking at the trends, genres, styles, and more that make up cinema of the past 25 years. This week, thanks to his son, Logan, Corey chose Oldboy (2003), the critically-acclaimed South Korean film by Park Chan-wook. Folks, th...

Welcome to Season 7! As we are now a quarter of the way through the 21st century, like Bill Murray in  Tootsie , Paul and Corey are asking, "What happened?" This season we are looking at the trends, genres, styles, and more that make up cinema of the past 25 years. This week, Paul chose a film close to his heart, Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). It's the fourth Coens film Paul and Corey have covered, a...

Welcome to Season 7! As we are now a quarter of the way through the 21st century, like Bill Murray in  Tootsie , Paul and Corey are asking, "What happened?" This season we are looking at the trends, genres, styles, and more that make up cinema of the past 25 years. This week, Corey chose perhaps the most cleanly divisive film in all of PACCTS, Past Lives  (2023). Written and directed by Korean-Ame...

Welcome to Season 7! As we are now a quarter of the way through the 21st century, like Bill Murray in  Tootsie , Paul and Corey are asking, "What happened?" This season we are looking at the trends, genres, styles, and more that make up cinema of the past 25 years. This week, Paul chose Jane Schoenbrun's second feature film, which they wrote and directed, I Saw the TV Glow (2024). The film is an a...

Welcome to Season 7! As we are now a quarter of the way through the 21st century, like Bill Murray in  Tootsie , Paul and Corey are asking, "What happened?" This season we are looking at the trends, genres, styles, and more that make up cinema of the past 25 years. Corey's pick this week - Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) - is perhaps the most 2011 film ever made. There are so many reasons that tie it t...

Welcome to Season 7! As we are now a quarter of the way through the 21st century, like Bill Murray in  Tootsie , Paul and Corey are asking, "What happened?" This season we are looking at the trends, genres, styles, and more that make up cinema of the past 25 years. Paul really wanted to change it up this time. From the era of Matthew McConaughey leaning on the poster rom-coms, it's How to Lose a G...

Welcome to Season 7! As we are now a quarter of the way through the 21st century, like Bill Murray in  Tootsie , Paul and Corey are asking, "What happened?" This season we are looking at the trends, genres, styles, and more that make up cinema of the past 25 years. Corey takes us back to the heady days of 2013 with "arguably the last good Woody Allen movie," Blue Jasmine  (2013). Between Woody, Al...

Welcome to Season 7! As we are now a quarter of the way through the 21st century, like Bill Murray in  Tootsie , Paul and Corey are asking, "What happened?"  This season we are looking at the trends, genres, styles, and more that make up cinema of the past 25 years. It's a big discussion today. Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon  (2023). Adapted from the nonfiction book of the same name,...

Welcome to Season 7!  As we are now a quarter of the way through the 21st century, like Bill Murray in Tootsie , Paul and Corey are asking, "What happened?"  This season we are looking at the trends, genres, styles, and more that make up cinema of the past 25 years. In today's episode, Paul and Corey look at the (mis?)adventures of an old man, a boy scout (Not capitalized! Some other organization!...

Welcome to Season 7! As we are now a quarter of the way through the 21st century, like Bill Murray in  Tootsie , Paul and Corey are asking, "What happened?"  This season we are looking at the trends, genres, styles, and more that make up cinema of the past 25 years. In today's episode, we leave the hustle and bustle of the old US of A and relax in a little village two hours outside of Tokyo. The f...

Welcome to Season 7! As we are now a quarter of the way through the 21st century, like Bill Murray in  Tootsie , Paul and Corey are asking, "What happened?" This season we are looking at the trends, genres, styles, and more that make up cinema of the past 25 years. In today's episode, we discuss 12 of those 25 years - 12 years during which Richard Linklater and co. shot the film, Boyhood  (2014)....

Welcome to Season 7!  As we are now a quarter of the way through the 21st century, like Bill Murray in Tootsie , Paul and Corey are asking, "What happened?"  This season we are looking at the trends, genres, styles, and more that make up cinema of the past 25 years. Now, if you came here expecting us to discuss The Avengers  (2012), we apologize. Both Corey and Paul only made it about 40 minutes i...