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A movie analysis show looking at your favorite cult and genre films from across cinema history. Each week, Dustin, Arthur, and Dalton try to apply academic rigor and critical analysis to the films you wouldn’t talk about in a film studies class while having a few laughs along the way. It’s the conversations you have in the lobby of the multiplex with a little more room to breathe, and the occasional footnote. Stay tuned to the feed for bonus episodes on new releases.
Episodes
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Hello friends, deadCenter Film Festival 2023 is almost underway. Dalton, Dustin, and pals will be reporting from the event with interviews, responses, and reactions to this year's programming. Dalton is here on Day 0 with a preview of the festival and general festival thoughts with friend of the show and Praisedown co-host, actor, comedian, and all around good soul Alex Sanchez. Tune in to hear their thoughts, and subscribe to keep up with all the news that fit to print coming out of deadCenter 2023.
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
Grab your schedules and your best costume party fit, it's time to go back to school with a Patreon-selected pick: Legally Blonde. The Reese Witherspoon comedy classic crosses our table, so we totally had to analyze it. We're talking sexual politics, empathy devices, representation, and much, much more as we dive into the comedy fave that is Legally Blonde.
TIMESTAMPS
00:30 - Introductions and Synopsis
05:14 - Quick Legally Blonde Reviews
18:23 - Expanding the Syllabus
34:12 - Analysis
55:22 - Shelf or Trash
58:08 - Wrap Up and Next Week's Film
Thursday May 25, 2023
Thursday May 25, 2023
As Part Threes: Part Tres comes to a close, happenstance has taken us to a galaxy far, far away as we look at Return of the Jedi on its 40th anniversary. Do the Ewoks hold this back? Is the Skywalker family drama too much for us? We talk trilogies and franchises, Freud, storytelling, post-modernism, and much, much more.
TIMESTAMPS
00:30 - Introductions and Synopsis
05:08 - Quick Return of the Jedi Reviews
22:10 - Expanding the Syllabus
35:38 - Analysis
1:07:53 - Shelf or Trash
1:08:56 - Wrap Up and Next Week's Film
Friday May 19, 2023
Friday May 19, 2023
Welcome back to Woodsboro fiends and familiars... Well, to be more exact, welcome to Hollywood by way of Woodsboro. That's right, Part Threes: Part Tres continues with Wes Craven's meta franchise Scream 3. The, at-the-time, final part of Sidney Prescott's story is bigger and badder, and this week we talk the rules of trilogies, postmodernism, cultural literacy, and much, much more as we take apart Scream 3. Tune in now for 100% less Cotton.
TIMESTAMPS
00:30 - Introductions and Synopsis
05:33 - Quick Scream 3 Reviews
21:29 - Expanding the Syllabus
32:17 - Analysis
1:08:55 - Shelf or Trash
1:10:11 - Wrap Up and Next Week's Film
Thursday May 11, 2023
Thursday May 11, 2023
Hello and welcome, friends and familiars! Our Part 3s: Part Tres marathon continues this week with an animated adventure filled with laughs and kung fu. That's right, it's Kung Fu Panda 3. Jack Black is here to make us laugh with an ensemble of A-listers. This week, we talk Kung Fu, animation, voice acting contracts, parenting and children, and much, much more—also, Arthur spends a lot of time trying to figure out a movie featuring Snoop Dogg. It's a good time—you should join the conversation below!
TIMESTAMPS
00:30 - Introductions and Synopsis
06:13 - Quick Kung Fu Panda 3 Reviews
19:09 - Expanding the Syllabus
30:58 - Analysis
47:34 - Shelf or Trash
49:19 - Wrap Up and Next Week's Film
Friday May 05, 2023
Friday May 05, 2023
Well, hello again. Franchises, am I right? This week, we dust off one of our silliest marathons as we take a look at Part Threes for a third time (meta!). We kick of Part Threes: Part Tres with James Mangold's finale of the Wolverine saga: Logan. Jackman is old and tired, just like the rest of us—but Logan has one more mission to go on (until the inevitable Disney intervention). We talk R-rated super heroes, genre flexibility in regards to comic adaptations, westerns, and much, much more as we settle in with Logan. Listen now!
TIMESTAMPS
00:30 - Introductions and Synopsis
05:53 - Quick Logan Reviews
27:34 - Expanding the Syllabus
44:37 - Analysis
1:14:00 - Shelf or Trash
1:15:41 - Wrap Up and Next Week's Film
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Mount up fiends and familiars, we're taking it back to 2001 to talk about knights, jousts, and Geoffrey Chaucer—that's right, it's A Knight's Tale. Sometime after being told there were 10 things hated about him but before becoming the clown prince of crime, Heath Ledger took to horse back in an attempt to change his stars. This week, we talk about needledrops and soundtracks, changing destiny, literary intertextuality, and much more as we discuss A Knight's Tale.
TIMESTAMPS
00:30 - Introductions and Synopsis
02:37 - Quick A Knight's Tale Reviews
19:09 - Expanding the Syllabus
32:51 - Analysis
57:36 - Shelf or Trash
1:02:19 - Wrap Up and Next Week's Film
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
All aboard fans and fiends! We're taking the first train out of the station to take a look back at Tony Scott's final film, Unstoppable. Last week, we talked Ridley, and this week is all about Tony. So, get ready. We got Denzel, Chris Pine, trains, the media, companies weighing human lives, and much, much more as we ride the rails with Unstoppable.
TIMESTAMPS
00:30 - Introductions and Synopsis
04:14 - Quick Unstoppable Reviews
17:04 - Expanding the Syllabus
29:03 - Analysis
48:29 - Shelf or Trash
50:42 - Wrap Up and Next Week's Film
Thursday Apr 13, 2023
Thursday Apr 13, 2023
At ease friends and familiars! This week, we've enlisted in a high-specialized force of podcasters to take on Ridley Scott's G.I. Jane from 1997. Starring Demi Moore and Viggo Mortensen, G.I. Jane marked a pivotal point in the at one time highest paid actress in Hollywood. But, does the film deserve the hate? We talk about sexism, equality and equity, boot camp movies, and much, much more as we get this 1997 action war movie to the analysis table: Join us now!
TIMESTAMPS
00:30 - Introductions and Synopsis
05:39 - Quick GI Jane Reviews
26:19 - Expanding the Syllabus
42:39 - Analysis
1:08:57 - Shelf or Trash
1:10:43 - Wrap Up and Next Week's Film
Thursday Apr 06, 2023
Thursday Apr 06, 2023
Here we go again! We're back with episode 501 as we keep the crazy train rolling down the tracks. And we're making a hard pivot into a dance, dance revolution as we take a look at the cult classic Mamma Mia. Adapted from the stage show of the same name, this island adventure pulls from the greatest hits of ABBA. We're talking camp, musicals, ABBA, feminism and much more as we take on the dancing queens. So, put on your dancing shoes and join us at the analysis table for Mamma Mia.
TIMESTAMPS
00:30 - Introductions and Synopsis
05:10 - Quick Mamma Mia Reviews
18:23 - Expanding the Syllabus
34:04 - Analysis
53:45 - Shelf or Trash
55:03 - Wrap Up and Next Week's Film