119 episodes
Blockbusters and Birdwalks Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
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- TV & Film
At Blockbusters and Birdwalks, you’ll listen to reviews and conversations about all kinds of movies, from Academy Award winners to exploitation masterpieces with a mix of commercial hits and obscure favorites thrown in for good measure. The point is recognizing that movies present our culture with the building blocks of social memory, enabling each of us to enjoy ourselves because movies are fun.
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1971, a conversation – “Klute”
This is part of a series about movies from 1971. ***Referenced media:“The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)“The Deuce” (George Pelecanos and David Simon, 2017-2019)“Halloween” (John Carpenter, 1978)“Friday the 13th” (Sean S. Cunningham, 1980)“Red Dragon” (Brett Ratner, 2002)“Manhunter” (Michael Mann, 1986)“The Silence of the Lambs” (Jonathan Demme, 1991)“The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)“Rear Window” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)“Shaft” (Gordon Parks, 1971)“Cruising” (William Friedk...
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1971, a conversation – “Bananas”
This is part of a series about movies from 1971. ***Referenced media:“The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)“The Muppet Show” (Jim Henson, 1976-1981)“The Benny Hill Show” (Benny Hill, 1955-1989)“Saturday Night Live” (Lorne Michaels, 1975-now)“The Critic” (Al Jean and Mike Reiss, 1994-1995)“The Simpsons” (Matt Groening, 1989-now)“Manhattan” (Woody Allen, 1979)“Monty Python’s Flying Circus” (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam, 1969-1974)“Th...
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1971, a conversation – “The Andromeda Strain”
This is part of a series about movies from 1971. ***Referenced media:“The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)“Jurassic Park” (Steven Spielberg, 1993)“The X-Files” (Chris Carter, 1993-2002, 2016-2018)“Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)“Wag the Dog” (Barry Levinson, 1997)“Natural Born Killers” (Oliver Stone, 1994)“Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941)“Magnificent Ambersons” (Orson Welles, 1942)“It’s All True” (Orson Welles, 1941-1942)“T...
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“Mom and Dad” (1945), a Conversation about a Blockbuster
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa learn something new about the birds and the bees: avoid “the Great Imitator”.***Referenced media:“Johnny Dangerously” (Amy Heckerling, 1984)“Gone with the Wind” (Victor Fleming, 1939)“Leave it to Beaver” (Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, 1957-1963)“High School Confidential” (Jack Arnold, 1958)“Reefer Madness” (Louis J. Gasnier, 1936)“The Explosive Generation” (Buzz Kulik, 1961)“Teenage Mother” (Jerry Gross, 1967)“Teenage Father” (Taylor Hackford, 1978)“Sex Hygie...
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“She Done Him Wrong” (1933), a Conversation
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa glory in Mae West as the avatar of Pre-Code Hollywood***Referenced media:“Looney Tunes” (Leon Schlesinger, Hugh Harman, and Rudolf Ising, 1930-now)“Angels with Dirty Face” (Michael Curtiz, 1938)“I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang” (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932)“Call Her Savage” (John Francis Dillon, 1932)“Safe in Hell” (William A. Wellman, 1931)“Footlight Parade” (Lloyd Bacon, 1933)“Scarface” (Howard Hawks, 1932)“Tarzan the Ape Man” (W.S. Van Dyke, 1932)“The Story of T...
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“Airport” (1970), a Conversation about a Blockbuster
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa embrace a soap opera in the sky.***Referenced media:“Airplane!” (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, 1980)“Zero Hour!” (Hall Bartlett, 1957)“One on Top of the Other” (Lucio Fulci, 1969)“Stunt Rock” (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1978)“The Twilight Zone” (Rod Serling, 1959-1964)“An Officer and a Gentleman” (Taylor Hackford, 1982)“All the President’s Men” (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)“Hud” (Martin Ritt, 1963)“Cool Hand Luke” (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967)“M*A*S*H” (Robe...