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God only knows how we’ve reached 150 episodes. Which is a wonderful segue into talking about Dogma: Kevin Smith’s most goddiest film.
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Telling the story of a woman disillusioned with her faith getting coerced into a holy mission by one of God’s right hand angels, Dogma got Kev in a lot of trouble when it was released because Catholics have as much of a sense of humor about their religion as ISIS.
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It’s got a great subject, and money, and a cracking cast. It should all fall into place nicely, right? I remember it being really good, and memory is never wrong, right? Is it any good?
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To help me decide, I enlisted the help of a woman who hates organized religion a mite less than I, Tiffany B. Through our exploration of the film we chatted about the effectiveness of yawn reviews, double bubble permissions and reference a cartoon that you won’t guess in a million years.
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There's a spoiler-free section, followed by a spoiler-filled, so if you've seen all of the films or none of the films, there's something for you to listen to!
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Cheers!

It’s Kevin Smith’s birthday today! Happy Birthday to Kevin Smith! Let’s celebrate by continuing our deep dive into his back catalog and sharing the episode that, in all likelihood, we’re going to be the nicest to him about.
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Chasing Amy is the one, for me. The film that took my Smith-ffection to the next level. Watching this film, young Dan was overjoyed to see Kevin Smith continue focusing on comic books and sweet dialogue as he had been doing with his previous films, but adding in relationship melodrama and much more Ben Affleck. What more could anyone ask for?
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And so, with my heart full of that fear that comes with rewatching films you really liked for the first time in ages, I pressed play on Chasing Amy. Having watched it, is it any good?
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To help me decide, I enlisted the help of a woman harboring a nuclear bias against the female lead, Tiffany B. Through our exploration of the film we chatted about the sexual arena being the hottest arena, Tasmanian Devil sex and perms, perhaps?
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There's a spoiler-free section, followed by a spoiler-filled, so if you've seen all of the films or none of the films, there's something for you to listen to!
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Cheers!

Continuing our journey down Kevin Smith’s rabbit hole, we find ourselves in the heady days of 1995 with Kevin’s follow up to Clerks where he attempted to spoil all the good favour he’d earned with that indie classic by making a studio dud.
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Mallrats will always hold a special place in my heart, as it was the first Kevin Smith film I saw, thanks to a Christmas gift from my now-brother in law. He earned cool points that day for buying me an 18 certificate video (VIDEO) when I was only 15 or 16, but the journey he set me on with that film was worth even more.
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My teenage brain was bursting with happiness watching these characters talking about comics and girls with equal parts eloquence and crassness. But watching it now, with my old, wizened adult eyes… is it any good?
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To help me decide, I enlisted the help of my very own suitorette, Tiffany B. Through our exploration of the film we chatted about wearing your obese dad’s suit, how many godamn kids these days are named Pilot, and giving girls a chance so you can get into their parnts.
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There's a spoiler-free section, followed by a spoiler-filled, so if you've seen all of the films or none of the films, there's something for you to listen to!
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Cheers!

Kevin Smith will always have a special place in my heart. I fell in love with his films as a teen, and my respect for him has endured to my adulthood.
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But even for a Kevin Smith fan such as I, his more recent efforts have been… lackluster. So I thought it would be a good idea to relive the glory days by delving into his back catalog to wash away the taste of Yoga Hosers.
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It starts, fittingly, at the beginning, with Clerks. It was made with very little money and even less studio interference, but it produced a film that put Smith on the map and had people raving about him as a paragon of the indie film scene. But is it any good?
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To help me decide, I enlisted the help of a fine looking woman who makes great lasagne and doesn’t cheat on me, Tiffany B. Through our exploration of the film we chatted about the correct pronunciation of the title for English people, how the film is really just Shakespeare in a way, and how relieving it is when a teacher shows up in a school play.
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There's a spoiler-free section, followed by a spoiler-filled, so if you've seen all of the films or none of the films, there's something for you to listen to!
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Cheers!

"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster”, “Funny how?”, “Now go home & get your fuckin' shinebox!” Goodfellas is not bereft of iconic moments.
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It’s one of those films, along with Scarface, that I’ve found a lot of blokes who aren’t massively into films love. Speak to any Tom, Mick or Darren and ask them what film they like watching when they’re knocking back cans of Tenants Super before going out on the lash, they will likely mention Goodfellas.
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But it also has the critics’ adoration. The film is hailed as an all time classic of cinema, the high point of Martin Scorcese’s storied career, and the definitive cinematic look at organized crime in the US. But is it any good?
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To help me decide, I enlisted the help of my own coke-addled, coiffured trophy wife, Tiffany B. Through our exploration of the film we chatted about angsty teen rebels, not liking things that gangsters don’t like, and why Road to Perdition is a better gangster film.
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There's a spoiler-free section, followed by a spoiler-filled, so if you've seen all of the films or none of the films, there's something for you to listen to!
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Cheers!

I love love, I’ll make no excuses for it. I love romantic films. I love seeing two hot people fall in love and be all cool and fun and sexy and then do a kiss. It’s like sports films: the formula is so well worn because it’s fantastic when it all works.
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One of cinema’s most enduring love stories is that between Jesse and Celine in the Before Trilogy. Told over 3 films and 18 years, the story tells of them meeting, and chatting, and meeting, and chatting, and there’s a boat at one point. Basically they love to talk and they love each other.
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The trilogy is part of the Criterion Collection, which lets you know how worthy and fancy it is. To quote the CC website: “Attuned to the sweeping grandeur of time’s passage as well as the evanescence of individual moments, the Before films chart the progress of romantic destiny as it navigates the vicissitudes of ordinary life”. Yeah, but are they any good?
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To help me decide, I enlisted the help of someone just as romantic as I, but sometimes a little more eye-roll-ish at rom coms, Tiffany B. Through our exploration of all 3 films in this one podcast, we chatted about how women and men have biologically-enforced personalities, the wonderful work of Ariane Labed, and a cruel cinematic April Fool’s joke.
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There's a spoiler-free section, followed by a spoiler-filled, so if you've seen all of the films or none of the films, there's something for you to listen to!
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Cheers!