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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.
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Friday Jun 09, 2023
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Somewhere between a preview and a night cap, Dalton, Dustin, and Alex are here with a precap of Day 2 of the deadCenter Film Festival. In the midst of Day 2, Alex, Dalton and Dustin sit down with Caleb Masters from The Cinematic Schematic to talk festival life and preview the remainder of the day.
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Friday Jun 09, 2023
The deadCenter Film Festival 2023 kicked off in earnest yesterday, and Dustin, Dalton, and Alex Sanchez are continuing their coverage. Per Dalton, they consider the vibe of the opening night wrap party before Dustin recaps his watch of What Rhymes with Reason. Then, the boys discuss the Oklahoma premier of the screwball, neo-noir, comedy of manners that is Hell Hath No Fury from Okie director Zachary Burns and writer Jacob Leighton Burns.
Thursday Jun 08, 2023
Thursday Jun 08, 2023
Drop your Roy Orbison vinyl on the deck, and let down your hair, it's time to revisit THE rom-com of the 1990s: Pretty Woman. It's the movie that certified Julia Roberts as box office gold. We talk all about fairy tales, rom-coms, movie stars, the classic Hollywood style, and much, much more.
TIMESTAMPS
00:30 - Introductions and Synopsis
05:07 - Quick Pretty Woman Reviews
20:55 - Expanding the Syllabus
36:26 - Analysis
54:42 - Shelf or Trash
57:02 - Wrap Up and Next Week's Film
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