Middle of the Row Zac Oldenburg, Lauren Heimbaugh, Ben Grigsby, Rahul Jay

Hello everyone and welcome to The Greatest Thing About Mad Max: Fury Road.... As we get ready for Furiosa this week, we decided to go back to the film it’s a prequel to! Two of us think this is a 5 star classic, but that doesn’t mean we spend the whole time gushing and raving about the incredible filmmaking. We discuss some shortcomings, how it feels like it could have gone deeper and I compare George Miller to Wes Anderson. Come and listen to find out why.

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Favorite Bits... (0:13:30)
Some Frustrations?... (0:32:00)

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Hello everyone and welcome to The Greatest Thing About We’re All Going to the World’s Fair.... We recorded this awhile ago, but with director Jane Schoenbrun’s latest I Saw the TV Glow just going wide this weekend, now seemed like the time to release it in this catch up phase! We have a really lively discussion on this film, a movie none of liked above it being OK, but we do talk about a lot of really good and interesting things going on in this movie and it made me want to re-watch it! It was nice to hear my prediction that Schoenbrun would level up nicely with her next film has panned out (I Saw the TV Glow is pretty damn good!).

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Star Ratings & Spoilers (0:16:00)

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Hello everyone and welcome to The Greatest Thing About Poor Things… The podcast might be coming back? IDK, we have tons of backlog, and hopefully this is the first of many more episodes to start rolling back onto this feed. We are back with Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, his latest film and one of the better films of 2023 from where I’m sitting. We discuss Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo greatness, the ethics of brain transplants and all things Willem Dafoe.

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Star Ratings/Spoilers (0:20:00)

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Hello. We are still a podcast. And this is yet another attempt to get these things out of the pipeline again. We have Middle of the Row & The Greatest Thing About... for days, and I hope this fall to get more to you all. This release is for The Mitchells vs. The Machines, which I’m timing with TMNT: Mutant Mayhem, as they share a director/writer in this film’s co-director/writer Jeff Rowe. Let’s call it a good excuse. The Middle of the Row: The Podcast will still have counting numbers, but won’t be in order, fyi. Anyways, cross those figures.

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8 Words or Less, The Elevator Pitch, Why So & So, General Thoughts, (1:00)
Spoiler! You Gotta See This, Let’s Talk About That Ending..., Performance Piece (20:00)
Repeat After Me, But, Why?, The Hot Take Theater, Expert Opinions, The Upgradeables, To Infinity & Beyond?, Bonus Rounds/Catch All, One Last Pitch..., Star Ratings (34:00)

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Another Flashback episode from the time when we still did those on the OG feed. Catching up with Fright Night from 2011, a movie I soured on since I last saw it, but the rest of the pod is standing up for it! Is Charlie a shitty lead character, is Colin Farrell the dreamiest vampire ever, where is the justice for Poots?

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The Categories: (Time:Stamp)
8 Words or Less, The Elevator Pitch, Why So & So, General Thoughts, Star Ratings (0:00:30)
You Gotta See This, Let’s Talk About That Ending..., Performance Piece (0:15:40)
Repeat After Me, But, Why?, The Hot Take Theater, Expert Opinions, The Upgradeables, To Infinity & Beyond?, Bonus Rounds/Catch All, One Last Pitch... (0:25:00)

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