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How True Do 'Emotional Truths' Need to Be?
Listen now (18 mins) | On this Friday’s bonus episode, Sonny, Peter, and Alyssa debate this piece in The New Yorker about Hasan Minhaj’s distant…
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A ‘Haunting’ Murder Mystery
Listen now (32 mins) | Plus: how social media is changing perceptions of the Hollywood strikes.
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Are Pirates the Archivists of Our Age?
Listen now (18 mins) | Over at Peter’s home, Reason, Jesse Walker has a longish piece on the archival function of Internet piracy. So we discussed how…
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Did the Streaming Game Just Change?
Listen now (33 mins) | Plus: A 'Bat Mizvah' blowout, reviewed!
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Why the Influx in Old Man Action Movies?
Listen now (16 mins) | Alyssa lovingly refers to the genre sparked by Taken and its clones as “Grandpa Murder” movies, and it fits: old-man action…
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Why Taylor Swift and AMC Bypassed the Studios
Listen now (44 mins) | Plus: 'The Equalizer 3,' Reviewed!
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The Fall Flicks We're Most Looking Forward To
Listen now (15 mins) | With news that Dune has dropped off the 2023 calendar thanks to the studios failing to strike a deal with SAG, we looked at the…
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August 2023
Why Streamers Want to Keep Their Data Secret
Listen now (41 mins) | Plus: Is 'Gran Turismo' a serviceable sports movie, or something less?
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Whither the R-Rated Comedy?
Listen now (14 mins) | The results for R-rated comedies this year have been lackluster. Between No Hard Feelings, Strays, The Blackening, and Joy…
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Fraud at the Box Office!
Listen now (32 mins) | Plus: Is 'Strays' doggone funny?
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On the Politics of 'Barbie'
Listen now (16 mins) | The culture war comes for us all. Why left and right alike are laying claim to the billion-dollar box office behemoth.
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Soderbergh's Entrancing 'Full Circle'
Listen now (37 mins) | Plus: How Disney serves as the canary in the entertainment industry's coal mine.
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