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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a late night wrestling podcast focused on Historical and zany wrestling content. There is alot of Drinking, Smoking and Swearing...
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Nightcrawler, Ray, Saw, Stargate: Thirty Twenty Ten - Oct 25-31
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Please enjoy one of the weirdest sci-fi franchises of the last 30 yers, the viopic to rule them all, a defiant Skinemax, Nickelodeon Monsters, and more!
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Clerks, John Wick, The Grudge: Thirty Twenty Ten - Oct 18-24
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Peter Jackson goes legit, a trip to wine country, George Lucas' forgotten movie and more!
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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Paul Robeson – Part 4: BIG FELLA (1937) and KING SOLOMON’S MINES (1937)
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Things 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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Our 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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Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Team America: World Police: Thirty Twenty Ten - Oct 11-17
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Two of the BEST MOVIES OF ALL-TIME, screwing puppets, and the best WW2 movie of the 21st century?! https://www.patreon.com/lasertime
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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Paul Robeson – Part 3: SHOW BOAT (1936) & SONG OF FREEDOM (1936)
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In 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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Ed Wood, Friday Night Lights, Whiplash: Thirty Twenty Ten - Oct 4-10
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The greatest movie ever about making movies, Sonic meets Knuckles, rush vs drag, TV's greatest Flash, and more. https://www.patreon.com/lasertime
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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Paramount - 1948: SO EVIL MY LOVE & THE BIG CLOCK
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In 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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Will Smith is Fishy, Meryl Streep Goes Rafting, and David Fincher Gets Gone, Girl
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Sept. 27-Oct. 3: Muriel’s getting married, Albert Brooks scouts Brendan Fraser, Clarissa finishes explaining, R.E.M. is a monster, Daniel Craig eats cake, Joaquin Phoenix fights fires, William Shatner is a lawyer, Serial takes over podcasting, Nicolas Cage is left behind, Annabelle is creepy, and nothing can possib-lie go wrong at Itchy and Scratch…
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Denzel Equalizes, Friends Debuts, and Shaun of the Dead
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Sept. 20-26: Lost breaks everyone’s brains, Charlie Sheen jumps out of a plane, Quentin Tarantino thinks Top Gun is gay, angels go touching people, Green Day aren’t idiots, John Waters’ last film, Katie Holmes in the White House, the Boxtrolls take your stuff, we learn how to get away with murder, and Katamari absorbs the universe. All that and mor…
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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Paul Robeson – Part 2: THE EMPEROR JONES (1933) & SANDERS OF THE RIVER (1935)
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For our second Paul Robeson Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode, we watched The Emperor Jones (1933), a film by Dudley Murphy loosely based on the Eugene O'Neill play, and the Kordas' Sanders of the River (1935), an experience that proved crucial in Robeson's own political education. We discuss the Modernist appropriation of African culture and the figur…
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Special Subject - Lois Weber Sampler – HYPOCRITES (1915); WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN? (1916); SHOES (1916); and THE BLOT (1921)
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We devoted our 2024 September Special Subject to American silent film auteur Lois Weber. We discuss four films, the allegorical Hypocrites (1915), which created a sensation at the time with its full-frontal female nudity, and three films that showcase Weber's progressive Christian social vision, Where Are My Children? (1916), which confusedly tackl…
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The Running Maze, Sky Captain, JCVD Splits Time, and The Tick
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Sept. 13-19: Jean Reno and Natalie Portman are professional, Margaret Cho is too Asian for TV, a Mountie, ER and Chicago Hope walk into the Windy City, Hitler yells about memes, Werner Herzog goes to Loch Ness, Bernie Mac plays ball, Justin Long is the walrus, Liam Neeson goes for a walk, Tina Fey leaves you and you get a car! And you get a car! Al…
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The Next Karate Kid, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Dolphin Tale 2: Thirty Twenty Ten - Sept 6-12
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Batman begins again, Hillary Swank is next, Bumpy's big break, Idris Elba's bad deed, Ms Frizzle's TV debut, and Resident Evil: The Movie 2! https://www.patreon.com/lasertime
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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Universal – 1947: TIME OUT OF MIND & THE WEB
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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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Milk Money, Frank, Father of the Pride: Thirty Twenty Ten - Aug30-Sept5
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Roger Ebert: The Movie, Simpsons summertime, the best Pikmin, the last Sims, Hitchcock talk, and costliest failure in TV animation history.
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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Paul Robeson – Part 1: BODY & SOUL (1925) and BORDERLINE (1930)
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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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Napoleon Dynamite, Natural Born Killers, It's Pat: Thirty Twenty Ten - Aug 23-29
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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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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – RKO – 1947: BORN TO KILL & OUT OF THE PAST
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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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Special Subject: King Vidor Sampler, the 1930s – STREET SCENE (1931), CYNARA (1932), OUR DAILY BREAD (1934) & STELLA DALLAS (1937)
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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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Zach Braff Mopes, Bojack Horseman Sulks, so Horray for Blankman
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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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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Lilli Palmer – Part 19: THE HOLCROFT COVENANT (1985) and THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (2018)
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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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The Aussie Desert Gets Dragged, We Lose to AVP, and an Ill-Timed Cop Comedy
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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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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – 20th Century Fox – 1947: BOOMERANG & KISS OF DEATH
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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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Adam Sandler’s a Lone Ranger, Tom Cruise Hijacks Jamie Foxx, and the Ninja Turtles Go Big
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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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Guardians of the Galaxy, The Mask, The Village: Thirty Twenty Ten Jul 26-Aug2
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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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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Lilli Palmer – Part 18: LOTTE IN WEIMAR (1975) and THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL (1978)
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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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Lucy, Catwoman, North, and the death of Dinosaurs: Thirty Twenty Ten Jul 19-25
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Jim Henson's darkest ending ever, as Elijah Wood defies expextations, Scarlett Johansson defies limits, and the actual worst DC movie ever made?! All that and more, this week 30, 20 and 10 years ago.
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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Warner Brothers – 1947: POSSESSED & DARK PASSAGE
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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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True Lies, Sex Tape, I Robot: Thirty Twenty Ten - Jul 12-18
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James Cameron’s James Bond, Will Smith Adapts Asimov, Cameron Diaz’s Sex Tape and more. Patreon.com/LaserTime
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Special Subject – Anna Magnani Sampler, Part 2 - THE ROSE TATTOO (1955), WILD IS THE WIND (1957), THE FUGITIVE KIND (1960) and MAMA ROMA (1962)
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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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Forrest Gump, Anchorman, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Thirty Twenty Ten - Jul 5-11
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This episode is like a box of chocolates! Two sci-fi classics, one comedy masterpiece, and one Oscar Winner for Best Picture. All that and more, coming in hot from 30, 20, and 10 years ago!
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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Lilli Palmer – Part 17: DE SADE (1969) and THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED (1969)
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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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