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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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Thursday Sep 03, 2015
Thursday Sep 03, 2015
On Fridays, we podcast. That's right dear listener, we're back and you can sit with us, at least for this week. We take a look at the 2004 cult teen comedy Mean Girls. We talk marxism, social circles, and feminism. Also, the reaction is lukewarm to resoundingly great. We talk about our favorite SNL Alum films. And, of course, we talk about pop culture. So, pull up a chair, and see if you can hang with The Plastics.
Thursday Aug 27, 2015
Thursday Aug 27, 2015
Welcome back Dear Listener, this week GTGC is back with a little more trash and a little less good. That's right we take a look at Francis Ford Coppola's, 1996 peculiar choice, Jack. Come find out who hates the film and how much, and then listen as we talk about Directors who made detours in their film choices. We talk mortality awareness, emotional manipulation, and Oedipus Rex. So, just sit down (or get in your car, or on the treadmill, whatever you like really) and hit that play button.
Friday Aug 21, 2015
Friday Aug 21, 2015
Ahoy Mateys! We have returned from our adventures amongst cursed pirates to bring you this piece of Good Trash Treasure! We take a look at Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. We talk symbolism, historicism, romanticism, and a bit of auteurism, all of this and more this week on Good Trash. Oh, and we talk about how Pop Culture influences society, and our favorite examples of such influence. So, Dear Listener, you best start believing in Podcasts... You're listening to ONE!
Sunday Aug 16, 2015
Sunday Aug 16, 2015
Theres some criminally good analysis of this episode and we break into Wesley Snipes' New Jack City.
Monday Aug 10, 2015
Monday Aug 10, 2015
We're back with more smashing analysis in Tom Cruise's film Jack Reacher. Remember you wanted this.
Thursday Jul 30, 2015
Thursday Jul 30, 2015
#YouPickTheTrash is back and we're joined by listener and recurring guest host, Nick Sanford. This week, we pick the film he suggested Twister. The blockbusters keep on coming, so get to your safe place and check out this weeks show. We talk formalism, westerns, naturalism, and social commentary. We pick some of our favorite spectacle films, and finally we wind up in the pop culture arena. We also urge you to sit through the credits for a little more fun.
The Rabbit Hole
Saturday Jul 25, 2015
Saturday Jul 25, 2015
Have you got your vaccination, dear listener? That's right, we need camo to avoid infection as we struggle through World War Z. The movie gets a mild reaction as we talk production, class, adaptation, and a post-9/11 cinematic world. We highlight some of Brad Pitt's finest moments and end with pop culture as always. Thanks for listening Dear Listener.
The Rabbit Hole
For more on the production history of World War Z, go check out this piece from Vanity Fair, entitled "Brad's War".
For a more in-depth look at Horror Blockbusters, and also a really good podcast, go check out The Faculty of Horror.
Thursday Jul 16, 2015
Thursday Jul 16, 2015
We get back around the table, ladies and gentlemen, to discuss a keystone from the 80s; Steven Spielberg's E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. In a rare moment, Dalton does not make it to the table, so Alex searched high and low for a decent replacement; please welcome @huffmanheath Heath Huffman as he provides a generic trope reading of the film. The rest of the gang talk psychoanalysis, cultural immersion, christian iconography, and narrative scoring. We talk about what movie creatures we would like as pets or friends. And we end as always, with what has us fired up in pop culture.
Saturday Jul 11, 2015
Saturday Jul 11, 2015
We're back dear listener! This week we bring, political, religious, queer and neocolonial readings to 1987's Predator.
Saturday Jul 04, 2015
Saturday Jul 04, 2015
Just because we love you, dear listener: here's a commentary track on ID4 from Dustin and Arthur to go with this week's regularly scheduled programming.