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A pop culture time machine! Each episode covers that very week from 30 years ago, 20 years ago and 10 years ago, which means each show is loaded with forgotten movies, timeless TV episodes and songs best left to the past. We'll examine TV, movies, music and video games from the 90s, 2000s, and 2010s. Come remember with us!
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Join Dave and Elise every week for a buggy-ride of cinematic exploration. A bilingual Montreal native and a Prairies hayseed gravitate to Toronto for the film culture, meet on OK Cupid, and spur on each other's movie-love, culminating in this podcast. Expect in-depth discussion of their old favourites (mostly studio-era Hollywood) and their latest frontiers (courtesy of the TIFF Cinematheque and various Toronto rep houses and festivals). The podcast will be comprised of several potentially n ...
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We love videogames….and comics…..and movies…..and…..well I guess we just love fiction and we have a lot to say about it. Everything means something. Our passion for these mediums leads us to pull about the intricacies of their stories, and mechanics. We provide analysis, editorials and reviews of our favorite works of pop culture. Okay…. Good. Now that we got all that pretentious, grown-up, business fluff out of the way, a lot of the modern art we love is weird, strange and well, dumb. The i ...
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In this 1947 Universal Studios Year by Year episode, a little Ella Raines never hurt no one: we struggle to understand her role in the intermittently riveting Gothic melodrama Time Out of Mind (stylishly directed by Robert Siodmak), while Edmond O'Brien struggles to understand her role in Vincent Price's life in The Web, a white-collar film noir di…
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The first episode of our Paul Robeson Acteurist Oeuvre-view series has a high context-to-text ratio, as we introduce one of the most important figures in entertainment and political activism of the 20th century. The two movies we look at, Oscar Micheaux's Body and Soul (1925) and Kenneth Macpherson's Borderline (1930), by auteurs from radically dif…
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Oliver Stone interprets Quentin Tarantino, the wrongest SNL movie, found horror in the Paris catacombs, the end of Johnny Bravo, and let's not sugarcoat it: THE WORST WEEK OF MOVIES IN THIRTY TWENTY TEN HISTORY. Give here: https://www.patreon.com/lasertime
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We've been waiting for this episode, a 1947 RKO noir double bill with two of the all-time greats, Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past, in which Robert Mitchum's cool detective and Jane Greer’s psychopathic moll work at cross purposes in their attempts to escape their shady pasts so that they can be free to love, and Robert Wise's Born to Kill, in wh…
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We went deep for our second King Vidor Special Subject episode, looking at four films from the 1930s: Street Scene (1931), adapted by Elmer Rice from his famous stage play about working-class New Yorkers; the little-known Cynara (1932), starring Ronald Colman as a kindly upper-middle-class man who stumbles into adultery and the abyss; Our Daily Bre…
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Aug. 16-22: Bruce Willis kills the erotic thriller, Seth Green goes camping, the first Exorcist prequel, Scott Pilgrim goes forth, GamerGate gives everyone a bad name, Terry Gilliam’s hung up on math, Sin City returns, and Chloe Grace Moretz might go. All that and more this week 30, 20, and 10 years ago!…
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Our final Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode is an odd one, with Dave arguing for the value of John Frankenheimer's The Holcroft Covenant (1985), a Nazi conspiracy thriller from a novel by Robert Ludlum, and Elise arguing for the value of The Other Side of the Wind (2018), Orson Welles' startling comeback film-that-never-was. Then we give o…
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Aug. 9-15: Sly Stallone is expendable again, the good Woodstock revival, Pauly Shore joins the army, baseball shuts down, we go inside the Actor’s Studio, the Princess Diaries return, Richard Linklater takes 12 years to make a movie, Jeff Bridges is giving, Outlander goes to the highlands, and we miss Robin Williams. All that and more from 30, 20, …
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This Fox 1947 Studios Year by Year episode looks at two examples of the docu-noir: Boomerang! (directed by Elia Kazan), starring Dana Andrews as a prosecuting attorney who has to decide between morality and political expedience; and Kiss of Death (directed by Henry Hathaway), in which Victor Mature's sympathetic gangster is menaced by Richard Widma…
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Aug. 2-8: Harrison Ford’s in danger, Ang Lee makes us hungry, Alfalfa sings, Dave Matthews craps on Chicago, horror on the open water, The Venture Brothers begin, Sharknado minus sharks, and we spend five nights at Freddy’s. All that and more, this week 30, 20, and 10 years ago.
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Marvel's biggest cinematic risk breaks out, M. Night Shyamalan silliest twist yet, and Jim Carrey becomes one of comedy's biggest stars. Plus Manchurian remakes, a James Brown biopic, Justice League will never die, Harold and Kumar begin their quest, and the end of Rugrats. All that and more this week 30, 20 and 10 years ago!…
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Our penultimate Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode brings us Lilli as a protagonist again at last, in Lotte in Weimar (1975), based on the Thomas Mann novel, and Lilli Lite in The Boys from Brazil (1978), an outrageous anti-Nazi sci fi story in which Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck wage an epic battle (and also get into a very brutal girl…
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This Warner Bros. 1947 Studios Year by Year episode features two gems that put their own particular slant on noir's familiar theme of murderous conflict between women and men: Curtis Bernhardt's Possessed, starring a more-than-usually deranged Joan Crawford, with Van Heflin as the rakish object of her obsession, and Delmer Daves' Dark Passage, star…
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Our second Anna Magnani Sampler includes three Hollywood films, two with parts written for her by her friend Tennessee Williams, as well as the second film directed by Pasolini: The Rose Tattoo (1955), Wild is the Wind (1957), The Fugitive Kind (1960), and Mamma Roma (1962). Paired with a wacky Burt Lancaster, a bullying Anthony Quinn, a quietly in…
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In this episode of our Lilli Palmer Acteur-ist Oeuvre-view series, we watched a couple of 1969 movies somewhere on the horror spectrum: De Sade, a movie of ideas that doesn't live up to them, written by famed horror/sci fi author Richard Matheson; and The House That Screamed, an Italian slasher with a twist or two to recommend it. Good parts for Li…
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For this MGM 1947 Studios Year by Year episode, we discuss Cynthia, a gentle family melodrama starring a luminous 15-year-old Elizabeth Taylor as an over-protected teenager, and High Wall, a psychiatric film noir with great roles for Robert Taylor and Herbert Marshall as sweaty noir protagonists at cross purposes. Our Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto…
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June 28-July 4: John Hughes makes a baby movie for babies, Tommy Lee Jones is a mad bomber, Julia Roberts hates trouble, Bruce Campbell gets a ham sandwich, Eric Bana tries to outrun evil, and 2% of the world disappears. All that and more from 30, 20, and 10 years ago this week.
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After some rocky episodes, our Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view uncovers a couple of gems: Nobody Runs Forever aka The High Commissioner (1968, directed by Ralph Thomas), a spy thriller bursting at the seams with the charms of Rod Taylor and Christopher Plummer, and Hard Contract (1969, the only feature film made by writer-director S. Lee Pogosti…
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The biggest animated movie ever meets the biggest documentary ever (kinda!) Plus white chicks and mega men, Larry flips back, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams charm their way to stardom, and Transformers has dinosaurs now. Whatever! https://www.patreon.com/lasertime
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For this Paramount 1947 Studios Year by Year episode we watch a couple of films by producer/director team of Seton I. Miller and John Farrow: California, starring the belligerent sexual tension of Barbara Stawyck and Ray Milland in a left-leaning fable about the establishment of law and order in the West Coast, and Calcutta, a terrific Alan Ladd/Ga…
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June 14-20: Everyone watches the world’s slowest car chase, Macaulay Culkin gets even, Jackie Chan goes around the world, Tom Hanks gets stuck, the best Six Feet Under death, Kevin Hart thinks like a man, Joe Rogan ends a show like a man, and it was only a kiss, how did it end up like this? All that from this week 30, 20, and 10 years ago.…
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For our June Special Subject we revisit the work of Kenji Mizoguchi, looking at two films from earlier than his best-known (in the West) period: The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939), about cross-class lovers and what it takes to become a great artist, and The 47 Ronin (1941), based on a true story that became emblematic of samurai values. To…
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June 7-13: The OJ saga begins, Garfield is on screen (the first time), video games bust a move, Nicole Kidman is a robot, dragons continue to be trained, TLC is on fire, Zelda gets more swords, Tracy Morgan has a close call, and the Nights Watch fights mammoths. All that and more from 30, 20, and 10 years ago.…
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The Fault in Our Stars has the opposite problem of cinema's first (abandoned) attempt at a Fantastic Four movie, a great Tom Cruise movie with a bad title, Sopranos penultimate finale, Harry Potter movies click into gear, the greatest abortion comedy ever made, and Game of Throne and Silicon Valley hit series highs!…
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This week's Lilli Palmer Acteurist Oeuvre-view sees Lilli in two small but crucial roles: Sebastian (1968), starring Dirk Bogarde as a Cold War cryptanalyst of divided political loyalties, and Oedipus Rex (1968), starring Christopher Plummer as Freud's favourite plaything of the gods. We discuss Cold War politics, the Swinging Sixties New Woman, fr…
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For this Universal 1946 episode, we chose a B-movie double bill, The Cat Creeps (directed by Erle C. Kenton, best known for Island of Lost Souls) and She-Wolf of London (directed by Jean Yarbrough, Abbott and Costello specialist), hoping for hidden gems. But did we find any? And in the Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto segment, our Powell and Pressbur…
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May 24-30: Beverly Hills Cop disappoints, celebrity marriages that look like publicity stunts, The Eagles freeze over hell, Keanu is the Buddha, Mario Van Peebles honors his dad, Kevin Hart takes to the air, Jon Favreau cooks something up, Family Guy goes west, Mad Men lands on the moon, and the best Mario Kart ever. All that and more looking back …
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Angle, Static Shock, Bob Ross and TNG come to a close, X-Men returns to form, the Babadook continues to haunt us, happiness and adventure return to the modern movie western just as Brisco County Jr says bids adieu, Aladdin and Shrek get sequels, and we celebrate the final piece of the Sandler/Barrymore trilogy.…
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