Blockbusters and Birdwalks

This is part of a series about overlooked movies from 2005. ***Referenced media:“Sin City” (Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, 2005)“Crash” (Paul Haggis, 2004)“Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith” (George Lucas, 2005)“Black Hawk Down” (Ridley Scott, 2001)“Gladiator” (Ridley Scott, 2000)“Hannibal” (Ridley Scott, 2001)“War of the Worlds” (Steven Spielberg, 2005)“The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” (Peter Jackson, 2001)“The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” (Peter Jackson, 2002)“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (Peter Jackson, 2003)“Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace” (George Lucas, 1999)“Game of Thrones” (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, 2011-2019)“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” (Rick Berman and Michael Piller, 1993-1999)“Syriana” (Stephen Gaghan, 2005)“Spartacus” (Stanley Kubrick, 1960)“Braveheart” (Mel Gibson, 1995)“Alien” (Ridley Scott, 1979)“Blade Runner” (Ridley Scott, 1982)“Tron” (Steven Lisberger, 1982)“Prometheus (Ridley Scott, 2012)“Napoleon” (Ridley Scott, 2023)“The Last Duel” (Ridley Scott, 2021)Audio quotation:“Kingdom of Heaven” (Ridley Scott, 2005), including the songs “Ibelin”, “To Jerusalem”, “Path to Heaven”, and “Crusaders” by Harry Gregson-Williams

This is part of a series about overlooked movies from 2005. ***Referenced media:“Jaws” (Steven Spielberg, 1975)“The Color Purple” (Steven Spielberg, 1985)“The Brutalist” (Brady Corbet, 2024)“Havoc” (Gareth Evans, 2025)“The Raid” (Gareth Evans, 2011)“The RaId 2” (Gareth Evans, 2014)“The West Wing” (Aaron Sorkin, 1999-2006)“2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanely Kubrick, 1968)“Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure” (Stephen Herek, 1989)Audio quotation:“Munich” (Steven Spielberg, 2005), including “End Credits” and “Avner's Theme” (2005) by John Williams“Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure” (Stephen Herek, 1989)

This is part of a series about overlooked movies from 2005. ***Referenced media:“Baghead” (Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass, 2008)“CB4” (Tamra Davis, 1993)“Zero Dark Thirty” (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)“The Office” (Greg Daniels, 2005-2013)“The Mindy Project” (Mindy Kaling, 2012-2017)Audio quotation:“The Puffy Chair” (Jay Duplass, 2005), including “Disconnect the Dots” (2004) by of Montreal“CB4” (Tamra Davis, 1993)

This is part of a series about romance in movies. ***Referenced media:“28 Days Later” (Danny Boyle, 2002)“Shaun of the Dead” (Edgar Wright, 2004)“Dawn of the Dead” (Zack Snyder, 2004)“Station 11” (Patrick Somerville, 2021-2022)“War for the Planet of the Apes” (Matt Reeves, 2017)Audio quotation:“Warm Bodies” (Jonathan Levine, 2013), including music by Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders and the songs “Yamaha” (2012) by Delta Spirit, “Missing You” (1984) by John Waite, and “Midnight City” (2011) by M83, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl-PS1ki3KJhFAu5XY3Aau1Yq3z3VmI3L

This is part of a series about overlooked movies from 2005. ***Referenced media:“Distant Sky: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Live in Copenhagen” (David Barnard, 2018)“The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” (Peter Jackson, 2001)“The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” (Peter Jackson, 2002)“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (Peter Jackson, 2003)“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” (Steven Spielberg, 2008)“Sexy Beast” (Jonathan Glazer, 2000)“Unforgiven” (Clint Eastwood, 1992)“McCabe & Mrs. Miller” (Robert Altman, 1971)“United 93” (Paul Greengrass, 2006)“World Trade Center” (Oliver Stone, 2006)“Cars” (John Lasseter, 2006)Audio quotation:“The Proposition” (John Hillcoat, 2005), including the songs “Happy Land”, “Down to the Valley”, “Martha's Dream”, “Sad Violin Thing”, “The Rider Song”, “Road to Banyon”, and “Clean Hands, Dirty Hands” by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

This is part of a series about overlooked movies from 2005. ***Referenced media:“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest” (Gore Verbinski, 2006)“Shaft” (Gordon Parks, 1971)“Thelma” (Josh Margolin, 2024)“Looper” (Rian Johnson, 2012)“Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi” (Rian Johnson, 2017)“Blade Runner” (Ridley Scott, 1982)“Sin City” (Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller 2005)“The Greatest Show on Earth” (Cecil B. DeMille, 1952)“Bugsy Malone” (Alan Parker, 1976)“The Big Sleep” (Howard Hawks, 1946)“A Clockwork Orange” (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)“Witness” (Peter Weir, 1985)“Knives Out” (Rian Johnson, 2019)“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” (Rian Johnson, 2022)“The Shining” (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)“Wages of Fear” (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)“Sorcerer” (William Friedkin, 1977)“High School Confidential!” (Jack Arnold, 1958)Audio quotation:“Brick” (Rian Johnson, 2005), including “Emily's Theme” by Nathan Johnson, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-uEelZadhAUjORNgSynf4dEnFeJ2qgpd“Blade Runner” (Ridley Scott, 1982, including “Main Titles” by Vangelis, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3ABE2FBA2900C03E“Sin City” (Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, 2005), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRtz8JQw01A“Fight On” (Milo Sweet, 1922), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX1YxF8ClgE“The Greatest Show on Earth” (Cecil B. DeMille, 1952), including “Prelue (March” by Victor Young“Police Siren Sound Effect” by SoundEffectsFactory, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKieGUH9pzg“High School Confidential!” (Jack Arnold, 1958), including “High School Confidential” by Jerry Lee Lewis and Ron Hargrave, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xx3RmTNHbE

This is part of a series about romance in movies. ***Referenced media:“Golden Girls” (Susan Harris, 1985-1992)“Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” (Stanley Kubrick 1964)“The Graduate” (Mike Nichols, 1967)Audio quotation:“Harold and Maude” (Hal Ashby, 1971), including the songs “Don't Be Shy” and “If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out” by Cat Stevens

This is part of a series about romance in movies. ***Referenced media:“Bros” (Nicholas Stoller, 2022)“Saturday Night Live” (Lorne Michaels, 1975-now)“Clueless” (Amy Heckerling, 1995)“Pride & Prejudice” (Joe Wright, 2005)Audio quotation:“Fire Island” (Andrew Ahn, 2022), including the song “Pure Imagination” performed by Kathleen, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_OPWtgi2GFGVXixDBXQl1dz8DQQaoMgt

This is part of a series about overlooked movies from 2005.  ***Referenced media:“The Emigrants” (Jan Troell, 1971)“The New Land” (Jan Troell, 1972)“The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” (Peter Jackson, 2001)“The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” (Peter Jackson, 2002)“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (Peter Jackson, 2003)“Syriana” (Stephen Gaghan, 2005)“The Thin Red Line” (Terrence Malick, 1998)“John Wick” (Chad Stahelski, 2014)“Pocahontas” (Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg, 1995)“Spaceballs” (Mel Brooks, 1987)“Apocalypto” (Mel Gibson, 2006)“Badlands” (Terrence Malick, 1973)“Days of Heaven” (Terrence Malick, 1978)“Avatar” (James Cameron, 2009)“The Jerk” (Carl Reiner, 1979)“Quest for Fire” (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1981)“Heaven's Gate” (Michael Cimino, 1980)Audio quotation:“The New World” (Terence Malick, 2005), including the songs “First Landing” and “All Is Lost” by James Horner, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF58BABF8997A9930“Cash Register Cha-Ching | Sound Effect | (Kaching) - Sound - HD” by cashregistersound, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trR5YxZjfes“The Jerk” (Carl Reiner, 1979)“Das Rheingold”, including “Prelude” by Richard Wagner (1869), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chLhMuCLEPk

This is part of a series about romance in movies. ***Referenced media:“The Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespears (~1590-1592)“Scream” (Wes Craven, 1996)“Some Kind of Wonderful” (Howard Deutch, 1987)“A Knight's Tale” (Brian Helgeland, 2001)“Brokeback Mountain” (Ang Lee, 2005)“The Dark Knight” (Christopher Nolan, 2008)“Warm Bodies” (Jonathan Levine, 2013)“The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare (~1591-1595)Audio quotation:“Scream” (Wes Craven, 1996), including the song “Trouble in Woodsboro” by Marco Beltrami, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Rzp8_M_lU“Glasses Clink Toast Cheers Sound Effect” by UH Sound, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUjujV0PAaM“10 Things I Hate About You” (Gil Junger, 1999), including the songs “I Want You To Want Me” and “Cruel to Be Kind” performed by Letters to Cleo, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0FBF4FD9F6CFC790

This is part of a series about overlooked movies from 2005. ***Referenced media:“Michael Clayton” (Tony Gilroy, 2007)“Up in the Air” (Jason Reitman, 2009)“Good Night, and Good Luck.” (George Clooney, 2005)“The Big Short” (Adam McKay, 2015)“The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)“The Godfather: Part II” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)“Traffik” (Simon Moore, 1989)“Traffic” (Steven Soderbergh, 2000)“Paradise Now” (Hany Abu-Assad, 2005)“United 93” (Paul Greengrass, 2006)“Thank You for Smoking” (Jason Reitman, 2005)“Kick-Ass” (Matthew Vaughn, 2010)“Airplane!” (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, 1980)“The Constant Gardener” (Fernando Meirelles, 2005)“Everything Is Illuminated” (Liev Schreiber, 2005)“A History of Violence” (David Cronenberg, 2005)“Capote” (Bennett Miller, 2005)“North Country” (Niki Caro, 2005)“Jarhead” (Sam Mendes, 2005)“Walk the Line” (James Mangold, 2005)“Rent” (Chris Columbus, 2005)“The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada” (Tommy Lee Jones, 2005)“Munich” (Steven Spielberg, 2005)“The New World” (Terence Malick, 2005)Audio quotation:“Syriana” (Stephen Gaghan, 2005)

This is part of a series about romance in movies. ***Referenced media:“Pretty in Pink” (Howard Deutch, 1986)“Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” (Mark Molloy, 2024)“Ted Lasso” (Jason Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Brendan Hunt, and Joe Kelly, 2020-2023)“Alien” (Ridley Scott, 1979)“Lethal Weapon” (Richard Donner, 1987)Audio quotation:“Some Kind of Wonderful” (Howard Deutch, 1987), including the songs “Do Anything” by Pete Shelley, “The Hardest Walk” by The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Can't Help Falling in Love” by Lick the Tins, and “Miss Amanda Jones” by The March Violets, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn0CsEM2lH5MR2YErPNK1SyXOrCp_3REG

This is part of a series about overlooked movies from 2005. ***Referenced media:“Promising Young Woman” (Emerald Fennell, 2020)“Spartacus” (Stanley Kubrick, 1960)“Marvel's The Avengers” (Joss Whedon, 2012)“Fargo” (Joel Coen, 1996)“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (Martin McDonagh, 2017)“The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” (Peter Jackson, 2001)“The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” (Peter Jackson, 2002)“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (Peter Jackson, 2003)“Whale Rider” (Niki Caro, 2002)“Grizzly Man” (Werner Herzog, 2005)“Lord of War” (Andrew Niccol, 2005)“Capote” (Bennett Miller, 2005)“Good Night, and Good Luck.” (George Clooney, 2005)“Jarhead” (Sam Mendes, 2005)“Munich” (Steven Spielberg, 2005)“Æon Flux” (Peter Chung, 1991-1995)“Liquid Television” (Japhet Asher, 1991-1995)“Æon Flux” (Karyn Kusama, 2005)Audio quotation:“North Country” (Niki Caro, 2005), including music composed by Gustavo Santaolalla, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQcLaWj9GCJZZKMU9wgWbGNBwsrG78olw“JUDGE HITTING GAVEL - Sound Effect & Video - Sound FX / Video FX” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM1LAsuYj48“Æon Flux” (Karyn Kusama, 2005), including music composed by Graeme Revell, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLohYzz4btpaQrMM9AqRdvbNoxgz3xZrhf

This is part of a series about overlooked movies from 2005. ***Referenced media:“The Bad News Bears” (Michael Ritchie, 1976)“Boyhood” (Richard Linklater, 2014)“Slacker” (Richard Linklater, 1990)“Dazed and Confused” (Richard Linklater, 1993)“School of Rock” (Richard Linklater, 2003)“Friday Night Lights” (Peter Berg, 2004)“Pollock” (Ed Harris, 2000)“Talk Soup” (Brad Gyori, 1991-2002)“Little Miss Sunshine” (Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, 2006)“The Fly” (David Cronenberg, 1986)“Bad Santa” (Terry Zwigoff, 2003)“Crumb” (Terry Zwigoff, 2003)“2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)“Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith” (George Lucas, 2005)“The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy” (Garth Jennings, 2005)“The Longest Yard” (Peter Segal, 2005)“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (Tim Burton, 2005)“Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” (Mel Stuart, 1971)“The Dukes of Hazzard” (Jay Chandrasekhar, 2005)“King Kong” (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Shoedsack, 1933)“King Kong” (John Guillermin, 1976)“King Kong” (Peter Jackson, 2005)Audio quotation:“Bad News Bears” (Richard Linklater, 2005), including music composed by Ed Schearmur, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lJM7u4KxMEEijvYTOPM0T4eR7IBNXp6FU“This is War” (Ben Kweller, 2005), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f-Q8BnVUsA&list=OLAK5uy_lJM7u4KxMEEijvYTOPM0T4eR7IBNXp6FU&index=5“Cocaine” (J.J. Cale, 1976), performed by Eric Clapton, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxVZkNfxJdA&list=OLAK5uy_lJM7u4KxMEEijvYTOPM0T4eR7IBNXp6FU&index=8“Friday Night Lights” (Peter Berg, 2004)“‘NFL on FOX' Theme Song” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU1o2blfeO0

This is part of a series about movies based on comic books. ***Referenced media:“Twilight” (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008)“Interview with the Vampire” (Rolin Jones, 2022)“World War Z” (Marc Forster, 2013)“Beloved” (Jonathan Demme, 1998)“The Last Samurai” (Edward Zwick, 2003)“The Last of the Mohicans” (Michael Mann, 1992)“28 Days Later” (Danny Boyle, 2002)“30 Days of Night” (2002) by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith“30 Days of Night: Dark Days” (Ben Ketai, 2010)“30 Days of Night: Return to Barrow” (2004) by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith“30 Days of Night: Bloodsucker Tales” (2005) by Steve Niles, Matt Fraction, Kody Chamberlain, and Ben Templesmith“The Walking Dead” (2003-2019) by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore“The Thing” (John Carpenter, 1982)“The Terrifier 3” (Damien Leone, 2024)“Smile 2” (Parker Finn, 2024)“Near Dark” (Kathryn Bigelow, 1987)“The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams” (Charles E. Sellier, Jr., 1977-1978)Audio quotation:“30 Days of Night” (David Slade, 2007), including music composed by Brian Reitzell, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLohYzz4btpaQvWrny4rQixCHDjuGwFr0e“Axe blow to the flesh (sound effect)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-_0GkjAoYY

This is part of a series about movies based on comic books. ***Referenced media:“Hulk” (Ang Lee, 2003)“Justice League” (1960-now) by Gardner Fox“Promethea” (1999-2005) by Alan Moore, J.H. Williams III, and Mick Gray“300” (1998) by Frank Miller“300” (Zack Snyder, 2007))“Watchmen” (1986-1987) by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons“Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” (George Lucas, 1977)“The Incredible Hulk” (1962-now) by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby“La Femme Nikita” (Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran, 1997-2001)“Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back” (Irvin Kershner, 1980)“Inception” (Christopher Nolan, 2010)“V for Vendetta” (1982-1989) by Alan Moore, David Lloyd, and Tony Weare“King Solomon's Mines” (J. Lee Thompson, 1985)“American Splendor” (Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, 2003)Audio quotation:“The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” (Stephen Norrington, 2003), including music composed by Trevor Jones, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLohYzz4btpaR4ijRiDh7c_um07ONIlBzQ“Main Theme” from “The Hulk” (Ang Lee, 2003) composed by Danny Elfman, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLohYzz4btpaQYdvYlbq7Vw2z3YNwxPNXE“One Dream” (1991) by Lou Gramm from the “Highlander II: The Quickening” (Russell Mulcahy, 1991) soundtrack, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3E7X7BHpz4

This is part of a series about movies based on comic books. ***Referenced media:“Point Break” (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991)“Orange Is the New Black” (Jenji Kohan, 2013-2019)“Tank Girl” (1988-now) by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett“A League of Their Own” (Penny Marshall, 1992)“Station Eleven” (Patrick Somerville, 2021-2022)“Crumb” (Terry Zwigoff, 1994)“Casper” (Brad Silberling, 1995)“Batman Forever” (Joel Schumacher, 1995)“Judge Dredd” (Danny Cannon, 1995)“Judge Dredd” (1977-now) by John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra, and Pat Mills“Star Wars” (George Lucas, 1977)“Twilight” (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008)“Thirteen” (Catherine Hardwicke, 2003)“Full Metal Jacket” (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)“A Clockwork Orange” (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)“The Terminator” (James Cameron, 1984)“House of Cards” (Beau Willimon, 2013-2018)“Star Wars: Special Edition” (George Lucas, 1997)“The Wizard of Oz” (Victor Fleming, 1939)“Dune” (1984) by David Lynch“Dune” (1965) by Frank Herbert“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, 2022)Audio quotation:“Tank Girl” (Rachel Talalay, 1995), including music composed by Graeme Revell, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiHMp8qY6Yo“Pool pump noise” https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I-_GEM1wRIY“Drown Soda” (1991) by Hole from the “Tank Girl” soundtrack, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQvL6GLJiX927JfXHNRtuj87-vcehTEV-“Clint Eastwood” (2001) by Gorillaz, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V_xRb0x9aw“Big Gun” (1995) by Ice-T from the “Tank Girl” soundtrack, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQvL6GLJiX927JfXHNRtuj87-vcehTEV-

This is part of a series about overlooked movies from 2005. ***Referenced media:“The Kingdom” (Peter Berg, 2007)“Lebanon” (Samuel Maoz, 2009)“Thank You for Smoking” (Jason Reitman, 2005)“Star Trek: The Next Generation” (Gene Roddenberry, 1987-1994)“Lord of War” (Andrew Niccol, 2005)“Syriana” (Stephen Gaghan, 2005)Audio quotation:“Paradise Now” (Hany Abu-Assad, 2005)

This is part of a series about movies based on comic books. ***Referenced media:“Superman” (Richard Donner, 1978)“Adventures of Superman” (Whitney Ellsworth and Robert J. Maxwell, 1952-1958)“Batman” (Bob Kane and Bill Finger, 1939-now)“Wonder-Woman” (William Moulton Marston, 1941-now)“Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut” (Richard Donner, 2006)“Spider-Man” (Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, 1962-now)“Dr. Strange” (Steve Ditko, 1963-now)“The Incredible Hulk” (Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, 1962-now)“Man of Steel” (Zack Snyder, 2013)“Super Friends” (Lewis Marshall and Iwao Takamoto, 1973-1985)“Superman III” (Richard Lester, 1983)“Spider-Man” (Sam Raimi, 2002)“Team America: World Police” (Trey Parker, 2004)“The Adventures of Superman” (George Putnam Ludlam, 1940-1951)“Unbreakable” (M. Night Shyamalan, 2000)Audio quotation:“Superman II” (Richard Lester, 1980), including music composed and arranged by John Williams and Ken Thorne“'50s Adventures of Superman – Intro” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2l4bz1FT8U

This is part of a series about movies from 1971. ***Referenced media:“The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)“A Beautiful Mind” (Ron Howard, 2001)“Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (Mike Nichols, 1966)Audio quotation:“Carnal Knowledge” (Mike Nichols, 1971)

This is part of a series about movies from 1971. ***Referenced media:“The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)“Song of the South” (Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson, 1946)“The Birth of a Nation” (D.W. Griffith, 1915)“Drum” (Steve Carver, 1976)“Mandingo” (Richard Fleischer, 1975)“Django Unchained” (Quentin Tarantino, 2012)“Gone with the Wind” (Victor Fleming, 1939)“Dirty Harry” (Don Siegel, 1971)“Pig” (Michael Sarnoski, 2021)“The Beguiled” (Sofia Coppola, 2017)“Fury” (David Ayer, 2014)“Fury” (Fritz Lang, 1936)“Cold Mountain” (Anthony Minghella, 2003)“McCabe & Mrs. Miller” (Robert Altman, 1971)“Wild Rovers” (Blake Edwards,1971)“The Hunting Party” (Don Medford, 1971)“Doc” (Frank Perry, 1971)“Johnny Got His Gun” (Dalton Trumbo, 1971)“Bless the Beasts and Children” (Stanley Kramer, 1971)“Bonanaza” (David Dortort, 1959-1973)“Gunsmoke” (Charles Marquis Warren, 1955-1975)“The Devils” (Ken Russell, 1971)Audio quotation:“The Beguiled” (Don Siegel, 1971)The Beguiled (1971) Original Trailer [FHD], https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn2ckK1Pia8

This is part of a series about movies from 1971. ***Referenced media:“The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)“The Wild Bunch” (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)“Jules and Jim” (Francois Truffaut, 1962)“Brokeback Mountain” (Ang Lee, 2005)“Red Dead Redemption” (Steve Martin, Josh Needleman, and David Kunkler, 2010)“A Fistful of Dollars” (Sergio Leone, 1964)“For a Few Dollars More” (Sergio Leone, 1965)“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” (Sergio Leone, 1966)“Once Upon a Time in the West” (Sergio Leone, 1968)“Once Upon a Time in America” (Sergio Leone, 1984)“Dirty Harry” (Don Siegel, 1971)“Taxi Driver” (Martin Scorsese, 1976)“Billy Jack” (Tom Laughlin, 1971)“Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (Terry Giliam and Terry Jones, 1975)“The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid” (Philip Kaufman, 1972)“Chato's Land” (Michael Winner, 1972)“Deep Throat” (Gerard Damiano, 1972)“Frenzy” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1972)“Conquest of the Planet of the Apes” (J. Lee Thompson, 1972)“Joe Kidd” (John Sturges, 1972)“Deliverance” (John Boorman, 1972)“Junior Bonner” (Sam Peckinpah, 1972)“Sounder” (Martin Ritt, 1972)“Aliens” (James Cameron, 1986)“Rio Bravo” (Howard Hawks, 1959)“Being There” (Hal Ashby, 1979)Audio quotation:“Duck, You Sucker!” (Sergio Leone, 1971)

This is part of a series about movies from 1971. ***Referenced media:“The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)“The Devils” (Ken Russell, 1971)“Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom” (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975)“Arabian Nights” (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975)“The Original Kings of Comedy” (Spike Lee, 2000)“Big Love” (Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, 2006-2011)“Last Temptation of Christ” (Martin Scorsese, 1988)“The French Connection” (William Friedkin, 1971)“The Decameron” (Kathleen Jordan, 2024)“Straw Dogs” (Sam Peckinpah, 1971)“Dirty Harry” (Don Siegel, 1971)“A Clockwork Orange” (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)Audio quotation:“The Decameron” (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1971)“The Original Kings of Comedy” (Spike Lee, 2000)

This is part of a series about movies from 1971. ***Referenced media:“The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)“The Omega Man” (Boris Sagal, 1971)“The Last Movie” (Dennis Hopper, 1971)“The French Connection” (William Friedkin, 1971)“The Last Picture Show” (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)“The Big Boss” (Lo Wei, 1971)“Duck, You Sucker!” (Sergio Leone, 1971)“Fiddler on the Roof” (Norman Jewison, 1971)“Duel” (Steven Spielberg, 1971)“The War Game” (Peter Watkins, 1966)“THX 1138” (George Lucas, 1971)“The Hunger Games” (Gary Ross, 2012)“Oppenheimer” (Christopher Nolan, 2023)“Natural Born Killers” (Oliver Stone, 1994)“Man Bites Dog” (Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde, 1992)“2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)“Running Man” (Paul Michael Glaser, 1987)Audio quotation:“Punishment Park” (Peter Watkins, 1971)“The Running Man Revolution End Credits” from “The Running Man” (Paul Michael Glaser, 1987), written by Harold Faltermeyer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl73wrJU1nw&list=PLk83Uk_KUSSfJjwF0oZnhaESCw2cG9j0t&index=18 

This is part of a series about movies from 1971. ***Referenced media:“The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)“Crimes of Passion” (Ken Russell, 1984)“Deep Throat” (Gerard Damiano, 1972)“Behind the Green Door” (Artie Mitchell and Jim Mitchell, 1972)“Whore” (Ken Russell, 1991)“E.T.” (Steven Spielberg, 1982)“Pretty Woman” (Garry Marshall, 1990)“The Transformers: The Movie” (Nelson Shin, 1986)“Elmer Gantry” (Richard Brooks, 1960)“Blue” (Derek Jarman, 1993)“Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941)“The Passion of the Christ” (Mel Gibson, 2004)“Gladiator” (Ridley Scott, 2000)“Spartacus” (Stanley Kubrick, 1960)Audio quotation:“The Devils” (Ken Russell, 1971)“Whore” (Ken Russell, 1991)Theme from “Elmer Gantry” (Richard Brooks, 1960), written by André Previn, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL6UGHLl3hk“Goodbye, My Life, My Love” from “Spartacus” (Stanley Kubrick, 1960), written by Alex North,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pajZbfZvgXE&list=PL91EBC569483515E4&index=21

This is part of a series about movies from 1971. ***Referenced media:“The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)“Benson” (Susan Harris, 1979-1986)“First Cow” (Kelly Reichardt, 2019)“Dances with Wolves” (Kevin Costner, 1990)“Unforgiven” (Clint Eastwood, 1992)“Bonanza” (David Dortort, 1959-1973)“Gunsmoke” (Charles Marquis Warren, 1955-1975)“M*A*S*H” (Robert Altman, 1970)“Nashville” (Robert Altman, 1975)“Deadwood” (David Milch, 2004-2006, 2019)“The Searchers” (John Ford, 1956)“American Graffiti” (George Lucas, 1973)“Big Jake” (George Sherman, 1971)“The Beguiled” (Don Siegel, 1971)“Klute” (Alan J. Pakula, 1971)“Two-Lane Blacktop” (Monte Hellman, 1971)“Bless the Beasts and Children” (Stanley Kramer, 1971)“The Omega Man” (Boris Sagal, 1971)“The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)“The Sting” (George Roy Hill, 1973)“Chinatown” (Roman Polanski, 1974)“Jaws” (Steven Spielberg, 1975)Audio quotation:“McCabe & Mrs. Miller” (Robert Altman, 1971)

This is part of a series about movies from 1971. ***Referenced media:“The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)“The Deuce” (George Pelecanos and David Simon, 2017-2019)“Halloween” (John Carpenter, 1978)“Friday the 13th” (Sean S. Cunningham, 1980)“Red Dragon” (Brett Ratner, 2002)“Manhunter” (Michael Mann, 1986)“The Silence of the Lambs” (Jonathan Demme, 1991)“The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)“Rear Window” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)“Shaft” (Gordon Parks, 1971)“Cruising” (William Friedkin, 1980)“American Psycho” (Mary Harron, 2000)Audio quotation:“Klute” (Alan J. Pakula, 1971)“Mom and Dad” (William Beaudine, 1945)

This is part of a series about movies from 1971. ***Referenced media:“The Muppet Show” (Jim Henson, 1976-1981)“The Benny Hill Show” (Benny Hill, 1955-1989)“Saturday Night Live” (Lorne Michaels, 1975-now)“The Critic” (Al Jean and Mike Reiss, 1994-1995)“The Simpsons” (Matt Groening, 1989-now)“Manhattan” (Woody Allen, 1979)“Monty Python's Flying Circus” (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam, 1969-1974)“The Wild Bunch” (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)“Straw Dogs” (Sam Peckinpah, 1971)“A Clockwork Orange” (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)“Wide World of Sports” (Edgar Scherick, 1961-1997)“Battleship Potemkin” (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)“THX 1138” (George Lucas, 1971)“Summer of '42” (Robert Mulligan, 1971)“Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song” (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)“The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)“Jaws” (Steven Spielberg, 1975)“The Andromeda Strain” (Robert Wise, 1971)“Billy Jack” (T.C. Frank, 1971)“Plaza Suite” (Arthur Hiller, 1971)“Johnny Got His Gun” (Dalton Trumbo, 1971)“Escape from the Planet of the Apes” (Don Taylor, 1971)“Pink Narcissus” (James Bidgood, 1971)“The Beguiled” (Don Siegel, 1971)“McCabe & Mrs. Miller” (Robert Altman, 1971)Audio quotation:“Bananas” (Woody Allen, 1971)“Fog Horn SOUND EFFECT - Nebelhorn SOUNDS”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z1xvXDdjMU“The Stranger Song” by Leonard Cohen from McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzcNu016Cbo 

This is part of a series about movies from 1971. ***Referenced media:“The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)“Jurassic Park” (Steven Spielberg, 1993)“The X-Files” (Chris Carter, 1993-2002, 2016-2018)“Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)“Wag the Dog” (Barry Levinson, 1997)“Natural Born Killers” (Oliver Stone, 1994)“Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941)“Magnificent Ambersons” (Orson Welles, 1942)“It's All True” (Orson Welles, 1941-1942)“The Sound of Music” (Robert Wise, 1965)“West Side Story” (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, 1961)“The Day the Earth Stood Still” (Robert Wise, 1951)“Airport” (George Seaton, 1970)“Stunt Rock” (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1978)“Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” (George Lucas, 1977)“Plato's Stepchildren” (David Alexander, 1968), November 22, 1968, Episode 10 of Season three of “Star Trek” (Gene Roddenberry, 1966-1969)“The Thing from Another World” (Christian Nyby, 1951)“Wanda” (Barbara Loden, 1971)“Get Carter” (Mike Hodges, 1971)“THX 1138” (George Lucas, 1971)“Summer of '42” (Robert Mulligan, 1971)“Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song” (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)Audio quotation:“The Andromeda Strain” (Robert Wise, 1971)Theme from “The X-Files” (Chris Carter, 1993-2002, 2016-2018), written by Mark Snow, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4-GcS1UQyg“RUMSFELD / KNOWNS” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REWeBzGuzCc

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa learn something new about the birds and the bees: avoid “the Great Imitator” and “the clap”.***Referenced media:“Johnny Dangerously” (Amy Heckerling, 1984)“Gone with the Wind” (Victor Fleming, 1939)“Leave it to Beaver” (Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, 1957-1963)“High School Confidential” (Jack Arnold, 1958)“Reefer Madness” (Louis J. Gasnier, 1936)“The Explosive Generation” (Buzz Kulik, 1961)“Teenage Mother” (Jerry Gross, 1967)“Teenage Father” (Taylor Hackford, 1978)“Sex Hygiene” (Otto Brewer and John Ford, 1942)Audio quotation:“Mom and Dad” (William Beaudine, 1945)“Chicken Clucking And Other Chickens Sound and Noises

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa glory in Mae West as the avatar of Pre-Code Hollywood***Referenced media:“Looney Tunes” (Leon Schlesinger, Hugh Harman, and Rudolf Ising, 1930-now)“Angels with Dirty Face” (Michael Curtiz, 1938)“I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang” (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932)“Call Her Savage” (John Francis Dillon, 1932)“Safe in Hell” (William A. Wellman, 1931)“Footlight Parade” (Lloyd Bacon, 1933)“Scarface” (Howard Hawks, 1932)“Tarzan the Ape Man” (W.S. Van Dyke, 1932)“The Story of Temple Drake” (Stephen Roberts, 1933)“The Jazz Singer” (Alan Crosland, 1927)“King Kong” (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)“Gabriel Over the White House” (Gregory La Cava, 1933)Audio quotation:“She Done Him Wrong” (Lowell Sherman, 1933)

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa embrace a soap opera in the sky.***Referenced media:“Airplane!” (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, 1980)“Zero Hour!” (Hall Bartlett, 1957)“One on Top of the Other” (Lucio Fulci, 1969)“Stunt Rock” (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1978)“The Twilight Zone” (Rod Serling, 1959-1964)“An Officer and a Gentleman” (Taylor Hackford, 1982)“All the President's Men” (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)“Hud” (Martin Ritt, 1963)“Cool Hand Luke” (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967)“M*A*S*H” (Robert Altman, 1970)“Patton” (Franklin L. Schaffner, 1970)“Zabriskie Point” (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970)“The Boys in the Band” (William Friedkin, 1970)“The Ballad of Cable Hogue” (Sam Peckinpah, 1970)“The Liberation of L.B. Jones” (William Wyler, 1970)“Woodstock” (Michael Wadleigh, 1970)“Waterloo” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1970)“Hi, Mom!” (Brian De Palma, 1970)“Greetings” (Brian De Palma, 1968)“A Man Called Horse” (Elliot Silverstein, 1970)“Let It Be” (Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 1970)“Beneath the Planet of the Apes” (Ted Post, 1970)“Cotton Comes to Harlem” (Ossie Davis, 1970)“The Out-of-Towners” (Arthur Hiller, 1970)“Watermelon Man” (Melvin Van Peebles, 1970)“Two Mules for Sister Sara” (Don Siegel, 1970)“Crimes of the Future” (David Cronenberg, 1970)“Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” (Russ Meyer, 1970)“Catch-22” (Mike Nichols, 1970)“Myra Breckinridge” (Michael Sarne, 1970)“Perry Mason” (Gail Patrick Jackson, 1957-1966)Audio quotation:“Airport” (George Seaton, 1970), including “Airport Love Theme”, “Airport (Main Title)”, “Joe Patroni Plane or Plows?”, “Ada Quonsett, Stowaway”, “Inez-Lost Forever”, and “Airport (End Title)”, written by Alfred Newman, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBQzJzvVCvI&list=PLkAUJkbhd-RhBK5_wKcr55aTy2erljUve&index=1Trailer for re-release of “Stunt Rock” (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1978), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OkXef2leWA

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa visit where the eagles cry, on a mountain high, far from the world we know, where the clear winds blow.***Referenced media:“Police Academy” (Hugh Wilson, 1984)“Top Gun” (Tony Scott, 1986)“Entertainment Tonight” (Al Masini, 1981-now)“Conan the Barbarian” (John Milius, 1982)“The Road Warrior” (George Miller, 1981)“Annie” (John Huston, 1982)“Rocky III” (Sylvester Stallone, 1982)“Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” (Nicholas Meyer, 1982)“Poltergeist” (Tobe Hooper, 1982)“E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” (Steven Spielberg, 1982)“Blade Runner” (Ridley Scott, 1982)“The Thing” (John Carpenter, 1982)“Tron” (Steven Lisberger, 1982)“The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” (Colin Higgins, 1982)“Fast Times at Ridgemont High” (Amy Heckerling, 1982)“First Blood” (Ted Kotcheff, 1982)“Sophie's Choice” (Alan J. Pakula, 1982)“Gandhi” (Richard Attenborough, 1982)“The Verdict” (Sidney Lumet, 1982)“Tootsie” (Sydney Pollack, 1982)“The Hunger Games” (Gary Ross, 2012)“The Deer Hunter” (Michael Cimino, 1978)“Coming Home” (Hal Ashby, 1978)“Rolling Thunder” (John Flynn, 1977)“Sgt. Bilko” (Jonathan Lynn, 1996)“Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment” (Jerry Paris, 1985)“Full Metal Jacket” (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)“Dirty Dancing” (Emile Ardolino, 1987)“Heartbreak Ridge” (Clint Eastwood, 1986)Audio quotation:“Police Academy” (Hugh Wilson, 1984), including “Police Academy March”, written by Robert Folk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRxgXzk_L0s“An Officer and a Gentleman” (Taylor Hackford, 1982), including “Up Where We Belong”, written by Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Will Jennings“Full Metal Jacket” (Stanley Kubrick, 1987), including “Full Metal Jacket”, written by Abigail Mead and Nigel Goulding, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNVFpNA2B30&list=PLOKfQ2dxS6KLVZ1ZFLfvDqRL_77BkHabU“Dirty Dancing” (Emile Ardolino, 1987), including “(I've Had) The Time of My Life”, written by John DeNicola, Donald Markowitz, and Franke Previte, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3NndBTqC3Y“Heartbreak Ridge” (Clint Eastwood, 1986), including “Heartbreak Ridge Intro Music”, written by Lennie Neihaus, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hh1k1vmQrM

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa assess prestige kitsch and consider carrying a spathae to defend a London-born Egyptian matriarch.***Referenced media:“My Fair Lady” (George Cukor, 1964)“Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf” (Mike Nichols, 1966)“Rome” (John Milius, William J. MacDonald, and Bruno Heller, 2005-2007)“All in the Family” (Norman Lear, 1971-1979)“Kill Bill: Volume 1” (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)“Kill Bill: Volume 2” (Quentin Tarantino, 2004)“National Velvet” (Clarence Brown, 1944)“Doctor Dolittle” (Richard Fleischer, 1967)“Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” (George Lucas, 1977)“Star Trek” (Gene Roddenberry, 1966-1969)“Flaming Creatures” (Jack Smith, 1963)“Bye Bye Birdie” (George Sidney, 1963), “Hud” (Martin Ritt, 1963)“The Nutty Professor” (Jerry Lewis, 1963)“The Terror” (Roger Corman, 1963)“The Little Shop of Horrors” (Roger Corman, 1960)“Jason and the Argonauts” (Don Chaffey, 1963)“PT 109” (Leslie H. Martinson and Lewis Milestone, 1963)“The Great Escape” (John Sturges, 1963)“Blood Feast” (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1963)“Beach Party” (William Asher, 1963)“Flipper” (James B. Clark, 1963),“The Cool World” (Shirley Clarke, 1963)“The V.I.P.s” (Anthony Asquith, 1963)“Dementia 13” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1963)“Tom Jones” (Tony Richardson, 1963)“The Haunting” (Robert Wise, 1963)"High School Confidential" (Jack Arnold, 1958)“Cleopatra” (Cecil B. DeMille, 1934) Audio quotation:“Cleopatra” (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963), including “Overture” and “Requiem”, written by Alex North“Indiana Jones Whip sound FX” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMQ4A1n4NU“Theme from “The Dick Van Dyke Show”, written by Earle Hagen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK_8QW8LO-c

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa consider Johnny Cash, a man with many chapters in his book of life, and wonder if they got to see the right one get made into a movie.***Referenced media:“Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (James Cameron, 1991)“Ray” (Taylor Hackford, 2004)“Happy Days” (Garry Marshall, 1974-1984)“Bohemian Rhapsody” (Brian Singer, 2018)“A History of Violence” (David Cronenberg, 2005),“Brokeback Mountain” (Ang Lee, 2005)“Munich” (Steven Spielberg, 2005)“Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” (Mike Newell, 2005)“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (James Mangold, 2023)Audio quotation:“Walk the Line” (James Mangold, 2005), including the songs “Cocaine Blues” and “Long Legged Guitar Pickin' Man”“Hurt” by Johnny Cash (2003), written Trent Reznor, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI“Theme from ‘The Dukes of Hazard' (Good Ol' Boys)”, written by Waylon Jennings, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Wqo3CvtUc“New York, 1969” from “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (James Mangold, 20123), written by John Williams, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glf5KmRGvOk&list=PLxA687tYuMWiRzSL6tJxmPbIEinvT00AH&index=19

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa examine one middle brow entertainment that earned an inflation-adjusted box office gross of over $1,000,000,000 in North America.***Referenced media:“The Bridges of Madison County” (Clint Eastwood, 1995)“Indecent Proposal” (Adrian Lyne, 1995)“Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” (George Lucas, 1977)“In the Heat of the Night” (Norman Jewison, 1967)“On the Waterfront” (Elia Kazan, 1954)“Fitzcarraldo” (Werner Herzog, 1982)“My Best Fiend” (Werner Herzog, 1999)“The Sound of Music” (Robert Wise, 1965)“How the West Was Won” (Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall, 1962)“The Andy Griffith Show” (Sheldon Leonard, 1960-1968)“For a Few Dollars More” (Sergio Leone, 1965)“A Patch of Blue” (Guy Green, 1965)“The Flight of the Phoenix” (Robert Aldrich, 1965)“The Spy Who Came In from the Cold” (Martin Ritt, 1965)“Thunderball” (Terence Young, 1965)“Bad Girls Go to Hell” (Doris Wishman, 1965),“Dracula: Prince of Darkness” (Terence Fisher, 1966)“Horror of Dracula” “Terence Fisher, 1958)“The Chase” (Arthur Penn, 1966)“E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” (Steven Spielberg, 1982)“Blade Runner” (Ridley Scott, 1982)“War and Peace: Part I” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1966)“War and Peace: Part II” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1966)“War and Peace: Part III” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1967)“War and Peace: Part IV” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1967)“I Love Lucy” (Jess Oppenheimer, 1951-1957)“The Dick Van Dyke Show” (Carl Reiner, 1961-1966)“Lawrence of Arabia” (David Lean, 1962)“The Bridge on the River Kwai” (David Lean, 1957)Audio quotation:“Main Title”, “Lara's Theme”, “Lara Reads Her Poem”, “Intermission”, and Lara and Komarovsky Dancing Up a Storm” from “Doctor Zhivago” (David Lean, 1965), written by Maurice Jarre“Colonel Bogey March” from “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (David Lean, 1957), written by Kenneth J. Alford

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa analyze the sleeper hit of summer 2023.***Referenced media:“The Passion of the Christ” (Mel Gibson, 2004)“Law & Order: SVU” (Dick Wolf, 1999-now)“God's Not Dead” (Harold Cronk, 2014)“First Blood” (Ted Kotcheff, 1982)“Columbiana” (Olivier Megaton, 2011)“The Equalizer” (Antoine Fuqua, 2014)“Survivor” (Charlie Parsons, 2000-now)“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, 2023)“The Flash” (Andy Muschietti, 2023)“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (James Mangold, 2023)“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” (Christopher McQuarrie, 2023)“Barbie” (Greta Gerwig, 2023)“Oppenheimer” (Christopher Nolan, 2023)Audio quotation:“Sound of Freedom” (Alejandro Monteverde, 2023)Theme for “Survivor” (Charlie Parsons, 2000-now), written by Russ Landau

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa consider whether it's worth having the best-paid, part-time job in the history of movies.***Referenced media:“Saturday Night Live” (Lorne Michaels, 1975-now)“Gran Torino” (Clint Eastwood, 2008)“A Star is Born” (Bradley Cooper, 2018)“Bohemian Rhapsody” (Brian Singer, 2018)“Green Book” (Peter Farrelly, 2018)“The Favourite” (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018)“American Sniper” (Clint Eastwood, 2014)“Scent of a Woman” (Martin Brest, 1992)“Unforgiven” (Clint Eastwood, 1992)“Cry Macho” (Clint Eastwood, 2021)“Letters from Iwo Jima” (Clint Eastwood, 2006)“Flags of Our Fathers” (Clint Eastwood, 2006)“Changeling” (Clint Eastwood, 2008)“Mystic River” (Clint Eastwood, 2003) Audio quotation:“Saturday Night Live”, Season 44, Episode 10, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5TEsdb918c“The Mule” (Clint Eastwood, 2018)

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa discuss Alma, a high school girl boiling over with sexual curiosity in a small Norwegian town.***Referenced media:“Top Gun” (Tony Scott, 1986)“The Hunger Games” (Gary Ross, 2012)“American Pie” (Paul Weitz, 1999)“American Reunion” (Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, 2012)“The Avengers” (Joss Whedon, 2012)Audio quotation:“Turn Me On, Goddammit!” (Jannicke Systad Jacobsen, 2011) “Take Me Breath Away”, composed by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock and performed by Berlin, from “Top Gun” (Tony Scott, 1986),“boing sound effect 1” (2021), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-3qnJxEYmc

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa consider how Herman Melville's novella, “Billy Budd”, was translated into a movie that the 2022 “Sight and Sound” poll of the greatest films of all time maintains is the seventh greatest ever.***Referenced media:“Dune: Part One” (Denis Villeneuve, 2021)“Blade Runner 2049” (Denis Villeneuve, 2017)“Chocolat” (Claire Denis, 1988)“High Fidelity” (Stephen Frears, 2000)“American Psycho” (Mary Harron, 2000)“Gladiator” (Ridley Scott, 2000)“Trouble Every Day” (Claire Denis, 2001)“Blood for Dracula” (Paul Morrissey, 1974)“Olympia 1: Festival of Nations” (Leni Riefenstahl, 1938)“Olympia 2: Festival of Beauty” (Leni Riefenstahl, 1938)“Reflections on a Golden Eye” (John Huston, 1967)“Blue Lagoon” (Randal Kleiser, 1980)“Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie” (Cal Bunker, 2023)Audio quotation:“Dune: Part One” (Denis Villeneuve, 2021), “Paul's Dream” composed by Hans Zimmer“PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie” (Cal Bunker, 2023), “PAW Patrol: The Might Movie” composed by Pinar Toprak

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa feel the weight of what really is the most intense horror story ever made.***Referenced media:“Band of Brothers” (Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, 2001)“Eddie Murphy Raw” (Robert Townsend, 1987)“The Day After” (Nicholas Meyer, 1983)“Avatar” (James Cameron, 2009)“Kill Bill: Volume 1” (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)“Kill Bill: Volume 2” (Quentin Tarantino, 2004)“Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.” (Errol Morris, 1999)Audio quotation:“Shoah” (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)“Band of Brothers” (Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, 2001), Episode 9: “Why We Fight” (John Orloff, 2001)“Eddie Murphy Raw” (Robert Townsend, 1987)

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa sink into the first half of what might be the “greatest” horror story ever made.***Referenced media:“Parks & Recreation” (Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, 2009-2015)“To Be or Not to Be” (Alan Johnson, 1983)“To Be or Not to Be” (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)“The Twilight Zone” (Rod Serling, 1959-1964), Season 3, Episode 9: “Deaths-Head Revisited” (Rod Serling, 1961)“Sophie's Choice” (Alan J. Pakula, 1982)“Schindler's List” (Steven Spielberg, 1993)“Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, 1975)“Twilight Zone: The Movie” (John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, and George Miller, 1983)“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (Tobe Hooper, 1974)“Son of Saul” (László Nemes, 2015)“A Clockwork Orange” (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)“Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS” (Don Edmonds, 1975)“The Night Porter” (Liliana Cavani, 1974)“Night and Fog” (Alain Resnais, 1956)“John Wick” (Chad Stahelski, 2014)“Mad God” (Phil Tippett, 2021)“Boyhood” (Richard Linklater, 2014)“Evolution of a Filipino Family” (Lav Diaz, 2004)“Back to the Future” (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)“Pee Wee's Big Adventure” (Tim Burton, 1985)“Cocoon (Ron Howard, 1985)“Commando” (Mark L Lester, 1985)“Agnes of God” (Norman Jewison, 1985)“Kiss of the Spider Woman” (Héctor Babenco, 1985)“After Hours” (Martin Scorsese, 1985) Audio quotation:“Parks & Recreation” theme song (Gaby Moreno and Vincent Jones, 2009)“Parks & Recreation” (Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, 2009-2015), Season 5, Episode 16: “Bailout” (Joe Mande, 2013)“Shoah” (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa respond to a moody and twisted police procedural.***Referenced media:“Sicario” (Denis Villeneuve, 2015)“La La Land” (Damien Chazelle, 2016)“The Shape of Water” (Guillermo del Toro, 2017)“Zodiac” (David Fincher, 2007)“The Sixth Sense” (M. Night Shyamalan, 1999)“Happy Days” (Garry Marshall, 1974-1984)“Little Miss Sunshine” (Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, 2006)“The Elephant Man” (David Lynch, 1980)“Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace” (George Lucas, 1999)“Fruitvale Station” (Ryan Coogler, 2013)“Blue Jasmine” (Woody Allen, 2013)“Enough Said” (Nicole Holofcener, 2013)“Don Jon” (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 2013)“Gravity” (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013)“Captain Phillips” (Paul Greengrass, 2013)“12 Years a Slave” (Steve McQueen, 2013)“All is Lost” (J.C. Chandor, 2013) Audio quotation:“Prisoners” (Denis Villeneuve, 2013)Trojan Commerical: Fire & Ice” (2012), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbmZhgAW1-s

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa mourn the decline of theatrical movie-going and celebrate sentimental entertainment.***Referenced media:“Belfast” (Kenneth Branagh, 2021)“Don't Look Up” (Adam McKay, 2021)“Drive My Car” (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021)“Dune: Part One” (Denis Villeneuve, 2021)“King Richard” (Reinaldo Marcus Green, 2021)“Licorice Pizza” (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2021)“Nightmare Alley” (Guillermo del Toro, 2021)“Power of the Dog” (Jane Campion, 2021)“West Side Story” (Steven Spielberg, 2021)“Marty” (Delbert Mann, 1955)“Our Gang” (also known as “The Little Rascals”) (Hal Roach, 1922-1944)“Barbie” (Greta Gerwig, 2023)“Oppenheimer” (Christopher Nolan, 2023)“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” (Christopher McQuarrie, 2023)“Top Gun: Maverick” (Joseph Kosinski, 2022)Audio quotation:“CODA” (Sian Heder, 2021)“Polybius Cypher” (written by John Williams, and performed by the San Francisco Symphony, from “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (James Mangold, 2023))“Closer to Fine” (written by Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, and performed by Brandi Carlile and Catherine Carlile from “Barbie” (Greta Gerwig, 2023))

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa ponder old cowboys.***Referenced media:“The Simpsons” (Matt Groening, 1989-now)“The Terminator” (James Cameron, 1984)“Barry Lyndon” (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)“Blood Simple” (Joel Coen, 1984)“Psycho” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)“Batman Begins” (Christopher Nolan, 2005)“The Dark Knight” (Christopher Nolan, 2008)“The Dark Knight Rises” (Christopher Nolan, 2012)“Iron Man” (Jon Favreau, 2008)“The Kingdom” (Peter Berg, 2007)“3:10 to Yuma” (James Mangold, 2007)“Eastern Promises” (David Cronenberg, 2007)“Michael Clayton” (Tony Gilroy, 2007)“Blade Runner (The Final Cut)” (Ridley Scott, 1982/2007)“Lake of Fire” (Tony Kaye, 2006)“Lars and the Real Girl” (Craig Gillespie, 2007)“Gone Baby Gone” (Ben Affleck, 2007)“Dan in Real Life” (Peter Hedges, 2007)“American Gangster” (Ridley Scott, 2007)“Beowulf” (Robert Zemeckis, 2007)“The Savages” (Tamara Jenkins, 2007)“Atonement” (Joe Wright, 2007)“Charlie Wilson's War” (Mike Nichols, 2007)“The Great Debaters” (Denzel Washington, 2007)“There Will Be Blood” (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)“Greatest Geek Year Ever: 1982” (Roger Lay, Jr. and Mark A. Altman, 2003)“E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” (Steven Spielberg, 1982)“Top Gun: Maverick” (Joseph Kosinski, 2022)Audio quotation:“No Country for Old Men” (Ethan and Joel Coen, 2007)

In this idiosyncratic history of post-World War II movies, we conclude with “Summer of Soul” and Nostalgia.Past podcasts in this series:“Rome, Open City” (Robert Rossellini, 1945)“The Killers” (Robert Siodmak, 1946)“Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (Howard Hawks, 1953)“The Seventh Seal” (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)“North by Northwest” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)“Midnight Cowboy” (John Schlesinger, 1969)“The 36th Chamber of Shaolin” (Lau Kar-leung, 1978)“The Castle of Cagliostro” (Hayao Miyazaki, 1979)“A Nightmare on Elm Street” (Wes Craven, 1984)“Pulgasari (Shin Sang-ok, 1985)“Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (James Cameron, 1991)“The Piano” Jane Campion (1993)“Persepolis” (Marjane Satrapi/Vincent Paronnaud, 2007)“Parasite” (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)Audio quotation:“Typewriter” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsEbtUcDw40“Summer of Soul” (Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, 2021)

In this idiosyncratic history of post-World War II movies, we continue with “Parasite” and Commentary.Future podcasts in this series:“Summer of Soul” (Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, 2021)Past podcasts in this series:“Rome, Open City” (Robert Rossellini, 1945)“The Killers” (Robert Siodmak, 1946)“Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (Howard Hawks, 1953)“The Seventh Seal” (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)“North by Northwest” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)“Midnight Cowboy” (John Schlesinger, 1969)“The 36th Chamber of Shaolin” (Lau Kar-leung, 1978)“The Castle of Cagliostro” (Hayao Miyazaki, 1979)“A Nightmare on Elm Street” (Wes Craven, 1984)“Pulgasari (Shin Sang-ok, 1985)“Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (James Cameron, 1991)“The Piano” Jane Campion (1993)“Persepolis” (Marjane Satrapi/Vincent Paronnaud, 2007)Referenced media: “Joker” (Todd Phillips, 2019)Audio quotation:“Typewriter” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsEbtUcDw40“Parasite” (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)Trump mocks Oscar win for Parasite: ‘What the hell was that about?' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suIT517IBmg

In this idiosyncratic history of post-World War II movies, we continue with “Persepolis” and Memoir.Future podcasts in this series:“Parasite” (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)“Summer of Soul” (Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, 2021)Past podcasts in this series:“Rome, Open City” (Robert Rossellini, 1945)“The Killers” (Robert Siodmak, 1946)“Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (Howard Hawks, 1953)“The Seventh Seal” (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)“North by Northwest” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)“Midnight Cowboy” (John Schlesinger, 1969)“The 36th Chamber of Shaolin” (Lau Kar-leung, 1978)“The Castle of Cagliostro” (Hayao Miyazaki, 1979)“A Nightmare on Elm Street” (Wes Craven, 1984)“Pulgasari (Shin Sang-ok, 1985)“Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (James Cameron, 1991)“The Piano” Jane Campion (1993)Referenced media:“Persepolis 1: The Story of a Childhood” (Marjane Satrapi, 2000)“Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return” (Marjane Satrapi, 2004)“National Treasure: Book of Secrets” (Jon Turtletaub, 2007)“Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (James Cameron, 1991)Audio quotation:“Typewriter” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsEbtUcDw40“Persepolis” (Marjane Satrapi/Vincent Paronnaud, 2007)

In this idiosyncratic history of post-World War II movies, we continue with “The Piano” and Ideology.Future podcasts in this series:“Persepolis” (Marjane Satrapi/Vincent Paronnaud, 2007)“Parasite” (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)“Summer of Soul” (Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, 2021)Past podcasts in this series:“Rome, Open City” (Robert Rossellini, 1945)“The Killers” (Robert Siodmak, 1946)“Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (Howard Hawks, 1953)“The Seventh Seal” (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)“North by Northwest” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)“Midnight Cowboy” (John Schlesinger, 1969)“The 36th Chamber of Shaolin” (Lau Kar-leung, 1978)“The Castle of Cagliostro” (Hayao Miyazaki, 1979)“A Nightmare on Elm Street” (Wes Craven, 1984)“Pulgasari (Shin Sang-ok, 1985)“Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (James Cameron, 1991)Referenced media:“Broadcast News” (James L. Brooks, 1987)Audio quotation:“Typewriter” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsEbtUcDw40“The Piano” Jane Campion (1993)

In this idiosyncratic history of post-World War II movies, we continue with “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” and Innovation.Future podcasts in this series:“The Piano” (Jane Campion, 1993)“Persepolis” (Marjane Satrapi/Vincent Paronnaud, 2007)“Parasite” (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)“Summer of Soul” (Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, 2021)Past podcasts in this series:“Rome, Open City” (Robert Rossellini, 1945)“The Killers” (Robert Siodmak, 1946)“Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (Howard Hawks, 1953)“The Seventh Seal” (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)“North by Northwest” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)“Midnight Cowboy” (John Schlesinger, 1969)“The 36th Chamber of Shaolin” (Lau Kar-leung, 1978)“The Castle of Cagliostro” (Hayao Miyazaki, 1979)“A Nightmare on Elm Street” (Wes Craven, 1984)“Pulgasari (Shin Sang-ok, 1985) Referenced media:“The Terminator” (James Cameron, 1984)“The Abyss” (James Cameron, 1989)“Appetite for Destruction” (Mike Clink, 1987)Audio quotation:“Typewriter” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsEbtUcDw40“Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (James Cameron, 1991)“You Could Be Mine” from “Use Your Illusion II” (Mike Clink and Guns N' Roses, 1991)

In this idiosyncratic history of post-World War II movies, we continue with “Pulgasari” and Theft.Future podcasts in this series:“Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (James Cameron, 1991)“The Piano” (Jane Campion, 1993)“Persepolis” (Marjane Satrapi/Vincent Paronnaud, 2007)“Parasite” (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)“Summer of Soul” (Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, 2021)Past podcasts in this series:“Rome, Open City” (Robert Rossellini, 1945)“The Killers” (Robert Siodmak, 1946)“Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (Howard Hawks, 1953)“The Seventh Seal” (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)“North by Northwest” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)“Midnight Cowboy” (John Schlesinger, 1969)“The 36th Chamber of Shaolin” (Lau Kar-leung, 1978)“The Castle of Cagliostro” (Hayao Miyazaki, 1979)“A Nightmare on Elm Street” (Wes Craven, 1984) Referenced media:“A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power” by Paul Fischer (2015)“Godzilla” (Ishirō Honda, 1954)“Mystery Science Theater 3000” (Joel Hodgson, 1988-now) Audio quotation:“Typewriter” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsEbtUcDw40“Pulgasari” (Shin Sang-ok, 1985)