History Lesson Part II

History Lesson Part II

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Film Reviews
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A podcast about movies about history, and (sometimes) the history of movies.

2024-02-09

18 - The Social Network

[Reuploaded due to audio exporting issues] Sources: Aaron Sorkin versus reality | Salon.com Why Zuckerberg should like the Facebook movie - CNN.com (archive.org) Facebook Founder Says The Social Network ‘Emphasizes Things That Didn’t Matter’ (archive.org) Mark Zuckerberg rejects his portrayal in The Social Network | Film | The Guardian Facebook Co-Founder Speaks Publicly: What I Learned From Watching “The Social Network” (cnbc.com) “The Social Network” will inspire an entirely new generation of entrepreneurs | Social Media Today (archive.org) “The Social Network” will inspire an entirely new generation of entrepreneurs (archive.org) Mark Zuckerberg rejects his portrayal in The Social Network | Film | The Guardian (archive.org)

1h 48m
2023-10-11

17 - The Wind That Shakes The Barley

We discuss Ken Loach's brilliant war epic The Wind That Shakes The Barley in an unintentionally relevant episode. Plus: Jackson takes a pop quiz.

1h 54m
2023-08-31

15 - Django/The Great Silence w/Cody Severtson

Cody joins us again to talk Spaghetti Westerns and the ways they channel both Italian and US politics of the 1960s and 70s.

2h 9m
2023-07-28

14 - Broken Arrow, High Noon & Rio Bravo w/Cody Severtson

In part 1 of our miniseries on Westerns we discuss a trio of movies with varying degrees of Hollywood Blacklist connections with our friend and first guest, Cody Severtson.

1h 60m
2023-07-03

13 - Trumbo (2015) and the Hollywood Blacklist

We discuss Jay Roach's Trumbo (2015), a pretty ok biopic about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. We also talk about a few much shittier movies about the blacklist, including The Front (1976), Guilty by Suspicion (1991), and Good Night and Good Luck (2005).

1h 50m
2023-06-12

12 - M3GAN and AI in Film

We talk Gerard Johnstone's delightful horror-comedy M3GAN as well as Ex Machina, Black Mirror, and Blade Runner in a jumbo-sized ep about how much AI sucks.

2h 5m
2023-05-16

BONUS: Tyler and Jackson Explain Everything

We do things a little different this time by discussing our philosophy towards film criticism and film more broadly. We also discuss the importance (or unimportance) of the artist's intent, how much we weigh the ideology of the film, and whether or not attempting to review films objectively is even possible.

58 min
2023-04-29

11- Matewan

In Episode 11, we discuss John Sayles' brilliant Matewan (1987), which dramatizes the events leading up to a violent skirmish between striking miners and the Baldwin-Felts detective agency in 1920s West Virginia. This one was already long enough so no theme music this time.

1h 53m

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A podcast about movies about history, and (sometimes) the history of movies.

Creator

History Lesson Part II
Years Active

2022 - 2024
Episodes

18
Rating

Explicit
Copyright

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History Lesson Part II