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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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Insider conversations with the people leading the human breakout into space.
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Back to the 80s Radio Get ready to experience the ultimate blast from the past! Los Angeles radio show hosts, Toscano & Chang, are bringing back the electrifying vibe of '80s morning and afternoon radio shows. With a star-studded lineup of special guests from the entertainment world and beyond, they deliver wacky skits and nostalgic stories that will transport you straight to the golden era of the '80s. Whether you grew up in the '80s or are discovering its magic for the first time, Toscano ...
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The SoCool Podcast is a Improv joint, featuring comedians Jerry Pancake, Christopher Robin, and Yolo Monte Cristo. Styled in the image of 1980's Talk Radio, except with swearing. Listen to two forty something guys trying to stay cool, with their sexy sidekick - Yolo Monte Cristo. Nostalgic Generation X Comedy, Movies, and Sexy Banter. More Gen X than hipster Millennial - Jerry Pancake, Christopher Robin, and Yolo Monte Christo will take you down a wormhole you won't soon forget! We tell the ...
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Welcome to our Podcast where we go back and time and talk about your favorite game from the past. Not every episode is the same, you'll never know what retro game we will talk about next. So sit in your car put your seat belt on, put in your earbuds if your car stereo sucks and enjoy the ride. And try to look like you're doing something if you're at work. Because nobody really listens to the radio anymore and we have an hour commute to work.
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Phenomena Nations Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Max Pichette. Phenomena Nations is a podcast built like a radio show, split into segments with music and advertisements in between, that discusses the latest in news, pop culture, politics, conspiracy theories and more. With a comedic twist on each topic, this podcast has something for everyone. So sit back and enjoy this comedic and wild ride of podcastery. Logo and cover design done by @mutant_christ_gore on Instagram
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This is your mixologist, Syrinx, and I’m taking you on a remix ride through the decades. Tune in for The Time Warp, every Sunday night, starting at 8pm Eastern Standard Time. Join us in the chatroom, where it’s always a party from the past to the present. Right here on Sobel Nation Radio – where the future is now! EVERY SUNDAY: 8p-9p EST - http://sobelnationradio.fm =-THE SUNDAY NIGHT MIXSHOWS-= 7:00-8:00 pm est - Liam Shachar || 8:00-9:00 pm est - Syrinx (The Time Warp) || 9:00-10:00 pm est ...
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The independent audio magazine devoted to mashing up pop culture, technology and more. J.D. Biersdorfer and Pedro Rafael Rosado are your hosts. It's an Internet Radio revolution!
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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – MGM – 1931: THE EASIEST WAY & THE CHAMP
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1:09:45For this MGM 1931 episode we watched The Easiest Way, a feminist subversion of melodrama tropes by director Jack Conway and screenwriter Edith Ellis, starring Constance Bennett as the fallen woman and a young Clark Gable, verging on stardom, as her judgemental brother-in-law; and possibly the most sentimental movie ever made, King Vidor's The Champ…
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Special Subject - Farrow vs. Allen – Part 3: SEPTEMBER (1987); ANOTHER WOMAN (1988) NEW YORK STORIES (1989) & CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (1989)
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1:32:39Our Farrow v Allen series continues with four more collaborations: September (1987), Another Woman (1988), Oedipus Wrecks (1989, part of the anthology movie New York Stories), and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). We count the ways in which Allen mashes up his favourite playwrights, filmmakers, and Russian novelists, trace the development of Allen's …
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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Gloria Grahame – Part 1: BLONDE FEVER (1944) and IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
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1:11:56Welcome to our inaugural Gloria Grahame episode, which is also our final Acteurist Oeuvre-view! In this episode we consider Gloria's first significant movie role, as the cause of Blonde Fever (1944), in which she and Philip Dorn confuse each other and provide occasion for Mary Astor's multiple levels of irony. We then turn to Gloria's breakthrough …
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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Paramount – 1931: 24 HOURS and LADIES OF THE BIG HOUSE
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1:10:15Our streak of finding gynocentric crime film gems continues with our second Paramount 1931 episode, featuring two movies directed by Sylvia Sidney specialist Marion Gering. 24 Hours pairs a despairing Clive Brook and Miriam Hopkins, haunted by marriages they can't escape in one way or another. And Ladies of the Big House, starring a radiant Sidney …
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Acteurist Oeuvre-view - Diana Wynyard – Part 7:AN IDEAL HUSBAND (1947) and THE FEMININE TOUCH (1956)
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1:23:20Our final Diana Wynyard episode has arrived all too soon! We look at her two final key roles, in Alexander Korda's film of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband (1947) and The Feminine Touch (1956), a nurse drama that's better than its silly title. And in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, we cover the 2025 Toronto Silent Film Festival, focusing on three fil…
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Retro Re-issue [August 23, 2019] - Ethan Mordden’s The Hollywood Studios (1989) - Now With No Introductory Song!
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2:44:46**** [Retro Re-issue Alert!] **** Turns out it wasn't such a great idea to use Le Tigre's "What's Yr Take on Cassavetes?" as our podcast's theme song in 2019 and 2020! Anyway, Spotify (and presumably Le Tigre) don't seem to think so. Accordingly, please find the attached re-issue of one of our foundational episodes, minus the intro music + a couple…
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Special Subject - Farrow vs. Allen – Part 2: THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (1985); HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (1986) & RADIO DAYS (1987)
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1:09:27In this Farrow vs. Allen Special Subject episode we dig into a strong set of films, The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and Radio Days (1987), united by their examination of art, popular culture, and fantasy, the possibilities they offer for transcendence, and the conditions of that transcendence. We also, of course, par…
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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Universal – 1930: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT & OUTSIDE THE LAW
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1:17:19We complete our second round of 1930 on Studios Year by Year with Universal. This time around we've got two auteur entries, Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front, and a much deeper cut, Tod Browning's eccentric crime drama Outside the Law. We discuss All Quiet as emblematic of the Laemmele Jr. era before turning to Browning's tense, mess…
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Miller Morning Madhouse S1E10: Deny Defend Depose...
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24:34🎙️ Episode 10: Deny, Defend, Depose 🧑⚖️ "Somebody ate the evidence." In this legal-thriller-turned-80s-gamer throwback, Jerry Pancake finds himself in the hot seat—literally—being deposed for reasons he may or may not understand. But things take a turn when a mysterious someone eats the only piece of evidence. (No spoilers, but it may have involve…
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Acteurist Oeuvre-view - Diana Wynyard – Part 6: THE PRIME MINISTER (1941) and KIPPS (1941)
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1:25:01In our penultimate Diana Wynyard Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode, our acteur supports two of the greats of her age, John Gielgud as Benjamin Disraeli in Thorold Dickinson's The Prime Minister and Michael Redgrave as the titular innocent of Carol Reed's Kipps, based on the novel by H.G. Wells. We discuss 19th century British politics (enfranchisement …
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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – RKO – 1930: FRAMED & THE RUNAWAY BRIDE
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1:07:54In this week's RKO Studios Year by Year episode, we discuss our favourite movies from our first round with the studio and how that round shaped our impression of RKO, and then turn to two new 1930 movies: Framed (directed by George Archainbaud), a gangster movie focused on Evelyn Brent's tough/tender mixed-up moll, and The Runaway Bride (directed b…
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Today on Back to the 80s Radio Show, Mario Toscano and The Chang take you on a journey through all the exciting new things coming your way! Get ready for some major announcements as they share updates about the future of the show, sneak peeks into upcoming episodes, and some fresh new ideas that will bring even more 80s magic to your speakers. Whet…
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It's Time for a New Mantra: "Space is for All" with Robert S. Katz, CEO & founder of World Innovation Network (WIN)
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1:01:17It's Time for a New Mantra: "Space is for All" with Robert S. Katz, CEO & founder of World Innovation Network (WIN) The title “space visionary” gets thrown around a lot in this industry, but in today’s episode of “The Space Revolution,” Rick Tumlinson sits down with a true Space Visionary: Robert S. Katz, CEO & founder of World Innovation Network (…
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Special Subject – Stanning for Anna Sten: NANA (1934), WE LIVE AGAIN (1934), THE WEDDING NIGHT (1935), & LET’S LIVE A LITTLE (1948)
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1:57:37We've got a big one for you this week: four main movies plus four Fear and Moviegoing viewings. Our main feature is Stanning for Sten: Anna Sten's three movies for Samuel Goldwyn, Nana (1934), based on (more like inspired by) the Zola novel, We Live Again (1934), with a Tolstoy source, and The Wedding Night (1935), plus a glimpse at one of her late…
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Miller Morning Madhouse: S1E9: Everything Sucks Now...
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41:39Episode 9: Everything Sucks Now… 🎙️ 🚨 DOUBLE EPISODE ALERT! 🚨 After a long hiatus filled with illness, burnout, and an overwhelming sense of being over it, Jerry Pancake and the Miller Morning Madhouse crew are back with a nearly double-length episode (41 minutes of pure, unfiltered truth). In this episode, we catch up on what we’ve been up to the …
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Acteurist Oeuvre-view - Diana Wynyard – Part 5: GASLIGHT (1940) and FREEDOM RADIO (1940)
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1:10:12In this Diana Wynyard Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode, we look at probably her best-known film, Gaslight (directed by Thorold Dickinson), and consider its pros and cons relative to the Cukor/Selznick Hollywood version of a few years later, as well as the question of how "gaslighting" became an internet meme and how well the source fits the popular me…
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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Fox Film Corporation – 1930: CITY GIRL and JUST IMAGINE
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1:10:21The first episode of our second Studios Year by Year round with Fox, the "Rube" according to Ethan Mordden, is a real ridiculous/sublime contrast: the sci-fi musical comedy Just Imagine (directed by David Butler), a vehicle for vaudevillian El Brendel, in whom Dave may have found his comedy bête noir; and the F. W. Murnau masterpiece City Girl, whi…
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Acteurist Oeuvre-view - Diana Wynyard – Part 4: ONE MORE RIVER (1934) and ON THE NIGHT OF THE FIRE (1940)
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1:24:16In this Diana Wynyard Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode we finally come to the source, James Whale's One More River (1934), the movie that inspired Dave to schedule this series, and don't worry, we still think it's a masterpiece. We recap how we've watched the Wynyard onscreen persona evolve and how Whale's new context for it gives it an unforgettable …
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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Warner Brothers – 1930: A NOTORIOUS AFFAIR & THE DOORWAY TO HELL
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1:08:44For the first episode of our second round of Warner Brothers 1930, we've got a thoughtful, ambitious gangster movie from the mind of little-known auteur Rowland Brown, The Doorway to Hell (directed by Archie Mayo), and a truly dismal melodrama, A Notorious Affair (directed by Lloyd Bacon), rescued from total worthlessness by Kay Francis's turn as a…
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Valentine’s Day 2025 – My Conceptual Valentine - HER (2013) and I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (2020)
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1:36:46For our Valentine's Day 2025 episode, we plunge deep into the nature of relationships by discussing two films whose romantic pairings are arguably not relationships at all: Spike Jonze's Her (2013) and his sometime collaborator, Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020). Isolation, loss, misogyny, male fantasies, hope and despair: we'v…
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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year - MGM – 1930: THE FLORODORA GIRL & MADAM SATAN
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1:07:16We start off our second round of MGM Studio Year by Year episodes with these 1930 films: the Marion Davies comedy vehicle The Florodora Girl (directed by Harry Beaumount) and Cecil B. DeMille's Madam Satan, which Elise decides is something like Eyes Wide Shut if it was made by James Cameron (but, alas, not as interesting as that sounds). (It's stil…
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Acteurist Oeuvre-view - Diana Wynyard – Part 3 WHERE SINNERS MEET (1934) and THE MARRIAGE SYMPHONY (1934)
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1:03:59For this episode of our Diana Wynyard Acteurist Oeuvre-view series, our featured acteur plays a disillusioned modern woman in two 1934 movies, Where Sinners Meet and Let's Try Again, that are cynical about marriage in a way that (we argue) screwball comedy would soon render archaic. And in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto we give our impressions of t…
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Special Subject - Farrow vs. Allen – Part 1: MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SEX COMEDY (1982); ZELIG (1983); BROADWAY DANNY ROSE (1984)
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1:06:38Our Special Subject this month is the start of a series on the cinematic collaboration of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen. In this first episode we look at A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982), Zelig (1983), and Broadway Danny Rose (1984), paying particular attention to the relationship between the Allen and Farrow characters and to the question of wha…
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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Paramount – 1930: THE LOVE PARADE & THE VAGABOND KING
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1:08:04It's time for another round of Studios Year by Year, starting over with Paramount 1930! And this time Dave has brought even more nostalgic reading material to give some context for this studio content. We also launch another new series feature: a review of our favourite movies from the previous 1930-1948 round. Turning to the Paramount movies we wa…
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Let's Rock with Eric Martin of Mr. Big
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1:29:18Back to the 80s Radio - Special Guest: Eric Martin from Mr. Big! Get ready for an unforgettable episode of Back to the 80s Radio! Today, we’re turning the dial up to 11 as we welcome a true icon of 80s rock: Eric Martin, lead singer of the legendary band Mr. Big! From their chart-topping anthem "To Be With You" to electrifying rock ballads that sti…
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Acteurist Oeuvre-view - Diana Wynyard – Part 2: MEN MUST FIGHT (1933) and REUNION IN VIENNA (1933)
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53:39Our second Diana Wynyard Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode brought two real oddball pre-Codes to our attention: Men Must Fight (1933), a hardcore pacifist film that predicts the upcoming world war in certain ways, in which Wynyard more or less reprises her Cavalcade role; and Reunion in Vienna (1933), based on a Robert E. Sherwood play, which could hav…
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Miller Morning Madhouse S1E8: Bathrooms and Backdrafts...
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25:44Episode 8: Bathrooms and Backdrafts... Sponsored by SoCool Shirts, All In Jest Trivia This week on Miller Morning Madhouse, we flush out some of the messiest tales yet. Join Jerry Pancake, Josh Scramble, and Jen Pancake as they tackle the pressing issues of bathroom etiquette, work poop protocols, and the dreaded backdrafts that leave lasting impre…
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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Universal – 1948: A WOMAN’S VENGEANCE & LARCENY
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46:57Our first round of Studios Year by Year comes to an end with these Universal 1948 movies: A Woman's Vengeance (directed by Zoltan Korda with a screenplay by Aldous Huxley, based on his short story "The Gioconda Smile") and Larceny (directed by George Sherman). Huxley's philosophical concerns add unexpected dimensions to familiar Gothic tropes and g…
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Toscano and Chang are back (finally!) to unwrap the mystery of why they've been MIA—it involves Santa, a sleigh, and some serious holiday drama. Join us as we jingle all the way down memory lane, reminiscing about the coolest (and weirdest) gifts of the 80s, holiday traditions, and more. It's never too late to feel festive, so grab some eggnog and …
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Christmas 2024 - The Festive Bergman – FANNY & ALEXANDER (1982)
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1:01:01Our 2024 Christmas episode is devoted to all 312 minutes of Ingmar Bergman's late masterpiece Fanny and Alexander (1982); a phantasmagorical smorgasbord of genres and summary of the writer-director's obsessions. We explore the film's Keatsian and Kierkegaardian implications, its relationship to the Modernist moment, and its oneiric inquiry into the…
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Acteurist Oeuvre-view - Diana Wynyard – Part 1: RASPUTIN AND THE EMPRESS (1932) & CAVALCADE (1933)
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53:22Our first Diana Wynyard Acteurist Oeuvre-view presents us with a couple of politically reactionary pre-Codes: Wynyard's Hollywood debut, Rasputin and the Empress (1932), which is mostly Rasputin (a very freaky Lionel Barrymore), not much Empress (Ethel B), and almost no Wynyard; and her Hollywood triumph, Cavalcade (1933), Noël Coward's version of …
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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – RKO - 1948: BERLIN EXPRESS & THE BOY WITH GREEN HAIR
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50:20In this 1948 Studios Year by Year episode, we look at two artefacts from Dore Schary's brief tenure as Head of Production at RKO, Berlin Express (directed by Jacques Tourneur), an early Cold War curiosity in which Robert Young and Merle Oberon try to save Paul Lukas from the clutches of Nazis in war-torn Frankfurt, and The Boy with Green Hair (dire…
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Miller Morning Madhouse S1E7: In the Dog House...
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26:59Episode 7: In the Doghouse... Sponsored by SoCool Shirts – because looking cool has never been easier (or funnier). This week on Miller Morning Madhouse, Jerry Pancake and Josh Scramble team up with the ever-entertaining Elizabeth Benedict to bring you an unforgettable episode full of nostalgia, surprise endings, and laughs so big, they might scare…
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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Paul Robeson – Part 6: NATIVE LAND (1942), TALES OF MANHATTAN (1942) and SONG OF THE RIVERS (1954)
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1:18:09Sadly, it's time to say goodbye to another acteur after an all-too-short time. For our final Paul Robeson episode, we watched Julien Duvivier's Tales of Manhattan (1942), which notoriously brought an end to Robeson's career as a film actor, and two extraordinary socialist documentaries to which he contributed his voice, Leo Hurwitz's Native Land (1…
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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – 20th Century Fox - 1948: ROAD HOUSE & UNFAITHFULLY YOURS
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1:15:54This 1948 20th Century Fox Studios Year by Year episode is a doozy, a doubleheader of psychotic lovelorn men with bad ideas in their heads. First, in Jean Negulesco's rural noir Road House, Richard Widmark's spoiled road house owner selects Ida Lupino's unlikely and unforgettable femme fatale as his reluctant assassin, and then, in Preston Sturges'…
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Miller Morning Madhouse S1E6: Jesus is Just Alright...
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26:06Episode 6: Jesus is Just Alright Sponsored by SoCool Shirts, All In Jest Trivia, and Chad's Shack of Crap. On this hilarious and unexpectedly heartfelt episode of Miller Morning Madhouse, we continue our conversation with Elizabeth Benedict, the Madhouse's newest true crime detective. From the scandalous stories of Miller Beach's past to a surprisi…
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Special Subject - Supported By Oscar Levant – the 1940s - RHAPSODY IN BLUE (1945); HUMORESQUE (1946); ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS (1948) and THE BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY (1949)
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1:21:10Part 1 of our Oscar Levant Special Subject sees us explain our very personal relationship with this singular figure of 1940s/50s Hollywood in preparation to discuss Gershwin biopic Rhapsody in Blue (1945), great Warner Bros. woman's picture/noir Humoresque (1946), Doris Day debut Romance on the High Seas (1948), and accidental Fred and Ginger reuni…
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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Paul Robeson – Part 5: JERICHO (1937) and THE PROUD VALLEY (1940)
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1:00:45For our penultimate Paul Robeson Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode we watched Thornton Freeland's Jericho (1937), in which Robeson plays a court-martialed WWI officer who takes up a new life as the leader of a group of Saharan herders and traders, and Pen Tennyson's The Proud Valley (1940), often cited as the film Robeson was proudest of, about the str…
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Miller Morning Madhouse S1E5: Suicide by Charleston...
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25:41Episode 5: Suicide by Charleston Sponsored by SoCool Shirts and the Great State of Indiana: "It's not that bad..." In this episode of Miller Morning Madhouse, we’re diving deep into the dramatic and tragic story of former Gary mayor William J. Fulton, a man who lived and died during the wild Jazz Age. Join us as we uncover how the allure of speakea…
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Show 1 of 2 - Today on Back to the 80s Radio, Toscano & Chang dive into a world where the unthinkable happened—what if certain iconic 80s things never existed? From classic movies and music to trends that defined a generation, we'll explore how life might've been radically different without them. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spre…
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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Warner Brothers - 1948: THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE & JOHNNY BELINDA
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1:25:37For this 1948 Warner Bros Studios Year by Year episode, we watched a couple of the studio's most prestigious releases for the year, John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Jean Negulesco's Johnny Belinda. We explore some extraordinary performances by Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, and Jane Wyman in these tales of capitalist nihilism and…
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From the blistering guitar solos to the outrageous fashion, this episode is a wild ride through one of the most iconic eras in music history. Join Toscano and Chang as they explore the bands that defined a generation, including Motley Crue, Poison, Def Leppard, and Guns N' Roses. Hear the stories behind the hits, the controversies that shook the sc…
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Halloween 2024 Special Subject: With Mad Love from Peter Lorre - M (1931) and MAD LOVE (1935)
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1:18:21For our 2024 Halloween Special Subject we watched two films in the German Expressionist tradition starring one of the greatest actors to be relegated to Hollywood character actor status, Peter Lorre: Fritz Lang's masterpiece M (1931), through which Lorre came to international recognition playing a child murderer, and Lorre's first Hollywood film, K…
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Miller Morning Madhouse S1E4: Smokestack Jack and the Tiny Hands...
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26:07Episode 4: Smokestack Jack and the Tiny Hands… Sponsored by SoCoolShirts.Com, Chad GPT, and Johnny Five’s Robot Brothel. Also, Millerites, make sure to join Josh Scramble for All in Jest Trivia at the Marshall J Gardner Center for the Arts here in Miller Beach on Black Friday! It's all about food! Welcome back to Miller Morning Madhouse! Episode 4 …
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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Paul Robeson – Part 4: BIG FELLA (1937) and KING SOLOMON’S MINES (1937)
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1:00:44Things are looking up in this week's Paul Robeson Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode, for which we watched Big Fella (directed by J. Elder Willis), in which Robeson is a dockworker who becomes involved in the search for a kidnapped rich kid, and King Solomon's Mines (directed by Robert Stevenson), the first film adaptation of the H. Rider Haggard coloni…
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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – MGM - 1948: SUMMER HOLIDAY and EASTER PARADE
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56:09Our MGM 1948 Studios Year by Year episode is a Freed Unit double feature: the great Irving Berlin musical Easter Parade, starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, and Summer Holiday, a Mickey Rooney coming-of-age story based on a play by Eugene O'Neill, directed by studio-era "art director" Rouben Mamoulian. We discuss Easter Parade as a vehicle for …
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Miller Morning Madhouse S1E3: Just the tips...
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26:19Episode 3: Just the Tips... Sponsored by SoCoolShirts.Com and Hair BNB We’re back with another wild ride in Miller Morning Madhouse Episode 3, and this one’s all about Just the Tip(s). We’re serving up the ultimate guide for potential Air BNB renters at Miller Beach, with everything you need to know to avoid sunburns and seagull ambushes. Plus, we …
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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Paul Robeson – Part 3: SHOW BOAT (1936) & SONG OF FREEDOM (1936)
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1:00:06In this episode of our Paul Robeson Acteurist Oeuvre-view series, we consider the ways in which Robeson, as acteur, inscribes himself on James Whale's Show Boat (1936) and J. Elder Wills' Song of Freedom (1936). First, we consider the racial themes of Show Boat, and how both the writing of Robeson's character, and Robeson's playing of him, undermin…
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Miller Morning Madhouse S1E2: Her Hole had Lots of Visitors...
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25:27Episode 2: Her Hole Had Lots of Visitors... Welcome back to the Miller Morning Madhouse, where Jerry Pancake and Josh Scramble keep things chaotic and unpredictable with another round of local drama, fan interactions, and, of course, hilarious weather updates. Hold on to your hats, because this episode goes off the rails fast! In this episode: We d…
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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Paramount - 1948: SO EVIL MY LOVE & THE BIG CLOCK
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1:06:49In this Paramount 1948 episode we dig deep to get the stories behind the stories of two great film noirs starring Ray Milland: The Big Clock (directed by John Farrow), based on a novel by Depression-era poet and Communist Party fellow traveler Kenneth Fearing, and So Evil My Love (directed by Lewis Allen), a historical noir/Gothic melodrama based o…
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