217 episodes
Does This Still Work? George Romaka & Joe Dixon
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- TV & Film
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4.2 • 19 Ratings
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A podcast where we look at old movies and ask "Does this still work?"
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216 Batteries Not Included 1987
Living machines from out of space having nothing better to do with their time help a bunch of New Yorkers hang on to a condemned building. Does that sound stupid? Sure. But maybe it still works?
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Two Gross People Fight
https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday/143910904/
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Teen Wolf 1985
It’s the movie that launched a sequel, a cartoon, a TV show and a remake. But does that mean it still works? Also, just how many montages can a 90 minute movie have? A lot of them, evidently.
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Sports 1985
https://www.newspapers.com/image/506895328/?terms=Basketball&match=1
15 Facts About NE
https://bestthingsne.com/fun-facts/#gsc.tab=0
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214 Manhattan Murder Mystery 1993
Our patreon people picked this minor Woody Allen movie. Can’t say here if it still works but we can mention that the women are all age appropriate and nobody wants to bed an underage child.so that’s different from Woody’s usual fare.
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Twin Towers
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/27/nyregion/explosion-twin-towers-overview-blast-hits-trade-center-bomb-suspected-5-killed.html
LIRR Shooting
https://www.newspapers.com/image/472081168/?terms=LIRR%20shooting&match=1
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Guest Calvin Williams
It’s not a sequel. It’s not a remake. It’s simply another Bad Lieutenant but this time he’s in New Orleans and he is Nicolas Cage. Does that make it better or worse?
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Calvin
Radio Free Brooklyn
https://www.radiofreebrooklyn.org/
MejisticLV - Twitch
https://www.twitch.tv/mejisticlv
Hurricane Katrina
https://www.history.com/topics/natural-disasters-and-environment/hurricane-katrina
Inquiries
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/us/09orleans.html
Cops go up the river
www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/04/new-orleans-police-officers-katrina
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MATEWAN 1987
It is the final movie in our Union Films Series. Here we look at an 80s movie about 20s coal miners attempting to unionize under horrible circumstances. Have a listen.
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Few Clothes Johnson/Dan Chain
https://youtu.be/BE6Pxb9pL4s?si=4jxaKw9aPzoJaDcZ
https://www.facebook.com/WVMineWarsMuseum/posts/today-this-image-of-dan-chain-known-to-fellow-miners-as-few-clothes-johnson-now-/1654995611189565/
Fire In The Hole
Lyrics by John Sayles and Mason Daring
Music by Mason Daring
(c) 1987 Daring Music/ASCAP
Sung by Hazel Dickens
Fire in the Hole (feat. Hazel Dickens) -
Norma Rae 1979
Before her Oscar willing performance here, Sally Field was a flying nun on TV and starred in a movie about smuggling 400 cases of Coors beer. So, this was a step up. Anyway, join the boys for our latest installment of Union movies month.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
https://www.bls.gov/wsp/publications/annual-summaries/pdf/work-stoppages-1979.pdf
Steelworkers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1979/01/19/steelworkers-to-strike-newport-news/ce2768b5-49b2-4c43-b5a1-74a43e59f388/
Massacre
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1027948284/?terms=WVO&match=1
Customer Reviews
Progressive, Supportive, Informative & Affirming
I listen to this when I need zero stress. It’s light entertainment I can enjoy. But there is something deeper going on at the same time. These guys are very socially progressive and the older movies they review serve as a vehicle for astute social commentary without being emotionally heavy. It’s the unexpected back door to the enlightened view and for that reason, I wish more people were listening. Their commentary is supportive, informative and affirming. Bonus that Joe does a bit of a history review from the time the movie was released (more commentary opportunities). And the guest stars are really fun. Does This Still Work works because it identifies and names social patterns, relationship norms, ideas and ways of relating and often provides a sorely needed update without ever feeling like a lecture because they talk about movies!
Original Views
This podcast is always my go-to, whenever I’m thinking of current movie trends against the films of the past. Plus their guest stars bring great charisma and insight to the discussions!! Really just love the guest stars.
Unbalanced, but still kinda fair
I was turned on to this podcast because a few of my other favorite podcasters have been on as guests. I listened to their shows and chuckled a bit, and the listened to a few more due to auto play and being out of other podcasts. Not going to lie…very fair to middling podcast. While it doesn’t follow the “two white guys yammering” stereotype, it’s not far off. As far as I can tell neither host has any qualification to talk about film, and seem, quite often to miss the point. This is especially true around sci-if and movies made as reflections of their time. I found myself yelling “your missing the point” more that once In just about every episode I listened to! (Blade runner, apocalypse now, clue, clueless and Paton)