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on the latest hotbox, our good friend makenzie joins the groupchat to talk all things SCREENLIFE, from the timur bekmambetov produced desktop universe of unfriended, searching, and profile to an all-around convo about how smartphones, social networks, and streaming interface with contemporary horror movies. in the unboxing section, nadine and makenzie go to the beach that makes you old, and we all break out of the Escape Room. if u listen to this episode u just might make it to our top friends list, xoxo

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on the latest hotbox, we tear the crust off our tuna sandwiches, fire up the nitro, and get into the gears of our glorious return to multiplex cinema: the one and only F9. yall know your hosts ride for this series like few others, so we go under the hood and look at how it's changed over 20 years and absorbed trends in blockbuster cinema, how people misunderstand vin diesel as an actor, john cena's heel turn, & the franchise's essential tension between analog mechanics and digital technology.

in a quite literal opening Unboxing section, we talk about downsizing our physical media collections, the plague of rick and morty-themed glassware, and how haunting is the original pilling.

LISTENER PROMPT: slide into our DMs, hit or line, or send a smoke signal and tell us... if you could see any wrestler or rapper in a future fast & furious movie, who would it be?

super-fast and especially furious new mix from nadine around 1 hr 26

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on the latest hotbox we SMOKE HARDER with a discussion about the influence of john mctiernan's towering action inferno Die Hard. we talk bruce willis' contributions to divorced dad representation, the endless glut of die hard knockoffs in the 1990s, & the changing bodies of action cinema, & do a little theorizing abt skyscrapers. we also answer some burning listener questions about the bressonian gameplay of Dark Souls & the jrpg vibes of Fire Emblem, and in the Unboxing segment seth gets hellbent for leather with william friedkin's Cruising. it's like Die Hard In A Podcast Studio.

go hard with a new mix from seth around 1 hour 35

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on our latest hotbox session, the one and only gita jackson (@ xoxogossipgita) of waypoint/vice stops by for a wide-ranging, free-flowing deep dive into that modern media tendency known as PRESTIGE. from the sopranos to the last of us, we go full Cinematic Mode as we explore the aesthetic, thematic, and referential techniques of pop entertainment that desperately wants you to take it seriously. topics include: how premium cable dramas like the walking dead & breaking bad paved the way for game storytelling techniques over the last decade, why 50 cent: blood on the sand is better than the last of us, the no-homo-eroticism of hideo kojima, & the plague of #OnePerfectShot culture. in our Unboxing section, gita takes a stab at dark souls, nadine goes all in on AEW, & seth treads dark waters. so roll up One Perfect Blunt and tune in.

chill grooves courtesy of seth around ~2:40

show notes: https://tinyurl.com/cm94r2n7

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on the latest episode of hotbox we invite aster gilbert (@ asterofpuppets) for an uncut conversation about the snyder cut and the tatted himbo auteur behind it... from his dawn of the dead remake to the animated owl movie, from a michael jordan docufiction to 300 memes on web 2.0, we cover snyder's cuts deep and not-so-deep, and answer that burning question ur dying to know: is zack snyder, in fact, a fascist? is he a lowkey revolutionary icon and thoughtful artist of painterly tableaus? or is he just another fanboy run amuck? in the first part of the show, aster unboxes the cinema of monte hellman (RIP), seth goes spelunking, and nadine steps into the wrestling ring.

show notes: tinyurl.com/njfv4f73

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on the latest hotbox the cinema, we hunt and gather new ideas about the recent big-screen adaptation of capcom's Monster Hunter franchise, directed by cinema's ultimate wife guy paul ws anderson & starring milla jovovich and tony jaa. topics we go after include the video game adaptations of PWSA, the hawksian tendencies of class-based RPGs, the unexpected direct influence of metal gear solid on the monster hunter movie, & supply-chain cinema. in the Unboxing opening segment we get into the ring to talk about the training montages of rocky IV and creed 2, the latest wrestlemania, & the late great dmx, who once was slated to beat george zimmerman's ass in a pay-per-view match. a little chopped & screwed classic country at the end...

tune in to our 4/20 video program at 8EST(including a mind-melding re-score of hype williams' classic Belly) on twitch.tv/hotboxthecinema

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