Podcasts about Seven Samurai

283 Seven Samurai Discussion w/Kenny BloseSteven and Kenny Blose discuss the amazing Seven Samurai on this episode!Please send feedback to DieCastMoviePodcast@gmail.com.Thanks for listening!

Foreign Film Month is officially underway at The WatchTower Film Podcast! And what better way to start than with Akira Kurosawa's legendary Seven Samurai? In this episode, we dive into the film's groundbreaking storytelling, unforgettable characters, and why it still slaps 70 years later. We talk samurai code, rain-soaked battles, and how this epic set the stage for modern cinema—all while having way too much fun with it. Grab your subtitles and swords—it's gonna be a good one.

Three desperate men on a sweaty search for gold... sounds like this podcast, baby! We're back with the final episode in our Dollars Trilogy series, THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY. Joining us is our good friend Jordan Seccareccia, thereby mirroring and completing the titular trio. Which one of us is good, which one is bad, and which one is ugly? Or are we each perhaps some odd combination? You'll have to listen to find out!We also talk about lots and lots of other movies, including new and recent releases like MICKEY 17, SEVEN VEILS, FLIGHT RISK, BLACK BAG, JUROR #2, as well as old classics like UNFORGIVEN, AMADEUS, SEVEN SAMURAI, and JULIEN DONKEY-BOY.There's also a years-in-the-making payoff partway through the episode that you won't want to miss!Next week, new franchise - Mission: Impossible! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to listen and rate and review and subscribe.Follow us @thefranchisees on Instagram and Twitter and email us at thefranchiseespod@gmail.com

Send us a textOur run of classics continues with Akira Kurosawa's genre-creating, hero-assembling action/comedy/drama, Seven Samurai. Don't let the 3.5 hour runtime put you off (or watch at 2x speed - we don't endorse this), it is considered one of the best films ever made for a reason and we discuss why. See where you can catch it below. Where to watchBFI PlayerCheck out this website for links to cinema screenings of Seven SamuraiReferencesCheck out the Stockport PlazaThe eventful production story of Seven Samurai by Collier Jennings on collider.comAn analysis of the opening minutes of Seven Samurai by Arttective on YouTube-----------If you love what we do, please like, subscribe and leave a review!Edited and produced by Lily Austin and James BrailsfordOriginal music by James BrailsfordInstagram TikTokEmail us

This week on Primal Screen, guest host Will Cox is joined by Alex McShane to review Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and Grand Tour. Our favourite frazzled English woman is back for this Valentine's Day-released rom-com. Renee Zellweger returns to the role of Bridget Jones, this time as a single mother of two facing the prospect of re-starting her love life. New love interests are played by Leo Woodall and Chiwetel Ejiofor, as well as old flame Daniel Cleaver played by Hugh Grant. This is the fourth instalment of the series, and is based off Helen Fielder's novels. In contrast, Grand Tour is set in colonial-era South East Asia during the First World War. Stationed in Rangoon, British civil servant Edward miserably awaits the arrival of his fiancé Molly, until he decides to flee to Singapore. The resulting lover's chase across the continent is a dreamy adventure, across jungles, over rivers, and through teeming cities. The film also incorporates hybrid-documentary elements and experimental tableaux, for which Miguel Gomes was awarded Best Director at Cannes last year. Will also speaks with Associate Professor Stephen Gaunson from RMIT about Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece Seven Samurai, screening in stunning 4K at the Capitol Theatre on Tuesday, February 25.Plus, Spiro Economopoulos, Creative Director of the Europa! Europa Film Festival, joins the show to discuss this year's program of arthouse European cinema, running from February 12 to March 12.Tune in Primal Screen on Triple R, Monday nights from 7pm on 102.7

The RMIT The Best Films You Have Never Seen program at the Capitol will be screening Seven Samurai. We chat with Dr Stephen Gaunson here about this ground breaking film a must for amyone serious about filmmaking and viewing.

Hey Podtimists, This week we discover a new day. Also David plays more Metaphor and Chase becomes Ryu Hayabusa. We also took a deeper look at the wild PS2 game, Seven Samurai 20XX. This game was suggested to us by listener Soisoisoisoisoi, thanks for your suggestion! --- Timestamps: (0:00) - Intro (3:59) - What David has been playing (4:59) - Metaphor Refantazio (15:57) - Cat Quest 2 (16:27) - UFO 50 (18:27) - Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (22:06) - What Chase has been playing (22:35) - Ninja Gaiden Black 2 (40:13) - Arco (49:38) - Chase's Podtimistic thing of the week (51:47) - David's Podtimistic thing of the week (55:41) - Good Games! Featuring Seven Samurai 20XX (1:15:38) - Outro --- Games mentioned: Metaphor Refantazio UFO 50 Cat Quest 2 Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Ninja Gaiden Black 2 Arco Seven Samurai 20XX

In another of Frame To Frame's traditions, we look at the highest films on the IMDb 250 that we have not seen, alighting on two Japanese Samurai movies - the Kurosawa classic Seven Samurai and the Masaki Kobayashi thriller Harakiri. Timings for this week are: Seven Samurai: (04:50) Harakiri: (32:14) Next episode our theme will be gangs of New York - but not that one. Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Threads Bluesky Letterboxd Facebook Email: frame.to.frame250@gmail.com Support Film Stories Podcast Network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: https://filmstories.co.uk/ Gothamlicious by Kevin MacLeod Link License Leave us a review on Podchaser or Apple Podcasts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we dive into Akira Kurosawa's epic masterpiece Seven Samurai, exploring its timeless themes of honor, sacrifice, and the battle between good and evil. Join The Dale, Cea, and Twan as we discuss the film's groundbreaking storytelling, dynamic characters, and its influence on cinema worldwide. From the complex relationships between the samurai and villagers to the iconic action sequences, we break down what makes this 1954 classic still resonate today. Tune in as we examine how Seven Samurai has shaped the landscape of film and continues to inspire directors and filmmakers across genres.

Here is my ranking of all 144 2024 movies I saw ranked from the worst to the best! This is an edited re-uploaded of my annual livestream ranking every new movie I saw in the previous year.  I added audio compression, posters, numbers & some trailer footage  AND I cut the Q&A segments to improve teh viewing experience on re-watch. If you want to watch the FULL RAW LIVESTREAM with all the Q&A and banter, WATCH HERE: https://youtube.com/live/llc7u2crT04 SKIP AHEAD 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:00 144 Madame Web 00:02:41 143 Borderlands 00:04:03 142 Snow White & the Seven Samurai 00:05:13 141 Rebel Moon 2 00:07:06 140 A Family Affair 00:08:06 139 The Killer 00:12:00 138 Unfrosted 00:13:04 135 Imaginary 00:14:23 134 Mean Girls 00:16:32 133 My Spy 2 00:16:58 132 Despicable Me 4 00:17:47 131 Kraven the Hunter 00:22:06 137 Atlas 00:23:03: 136 The Crow 00:24:24 130 Trigger Warning 00:25:06 129. V/H/S/Beyond 00:26:15  128. Blackout 00:26:50 127. Damsel 00:27:45 126. The Union 00:28:49 125. Venom: The Last Dance 00:29 53 124. The Garfield Movie 00:30:44 123. Dogman 00:32:29 122. Little Bites 00:33:25 121. In a Violent Nature 00:34:49 120. The Last Video Store 00:35:46 119. Our Little Secret 00:37:22 118. Rebel Moon: The Director's Cut 00:39:12 117. Azrael 00:40:20 116. Never Let Go 00:41:31 115. The Killer's Game 00:42:51 114. Lights Out 00:43:26 113. The Watchers 00:44:10 112. The Book of Clarence 00:45:07  111. Joker: Folie à Deux 00:47:37 110. Time Cut 00:49:14 109. I'll Be Right There 00:50:11 108. The Last Kumite 00:52:02 107. Argylle 00:53:39 106. Apartment 7A 00:54:38 105. Immaculate 00:56:00 104. Ricky Stanicky 00:57:13 103. The Apprentice 01:00:07 102. Stream 01:00:56 101. Hellboy: The Crooked Man 01:01:49 100. Mr. Crocket 01:02:36 99. ‘Salem's Lot 01:03:07 98. Elevation 01:04:03 97. Mufasa: The Lion King 01:05:51 96. Road House 01:06:38 95. Red One 01:08:48 94. 100 Yards 01:09:24 93. Moana 2 01:10:26 92. Wolfs 01:11:48 91. The Greatest of All Time 01:12:51 90. Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 01:14:15 89. MaXXXine 01:15:16 88. Young Lion of the West 01:17:24 87. Blink Twice 01:18:46 86. Trap 01:19:49 85. One More Shot 01:21:03 84. Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part One 01:22:12 83. Fighter 01:22:38 82. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare 01:23:44 81. Subservience 01:25:08 80. House of Spoils 01:26:05 79. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire 01:27:01 78. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 01:28:15 77. Arcadian 01:28:47 76. Infested 01:29:54 75. Crumb Catcher 01:32:41 74. My Hero Academia: You're Next 01:33:12 73. Cuckoo 01:34:10 72. Babygirl 01:40:22 71. Y2K 01:41:31 70. Werewolves 01:42:11 69. New Life 01:43:13 68. Kalki 2898 AD 01:44:02 67. Boy Kills World 01:45:35 66. One Percenter 01:46:55 65. The Bikeriders 01:48:20 64. Lisa Frankenstein 01:49:16 63. Code 8: Part II 01:50:06 62. Things Will Be Different 01:51:36 61. Aliens Expander 01:52:43 60. Am I Racist? 01:57:13 59. Your Monster 01:57:58 58. Kung Fu Panda 4 01:59:09 57. Monkey Man 02:00:32 56. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 02:02:06 55. Emilia Pérez 02:04:43 54. Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F 02:05:50 53. Oddity 02:06:54 52. A Different Man 02:08:53 51. Better Man 02:10:50 50. Carry-On 02:12:30 49. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 02:13:38 48. Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person 02:16:08 47. The Beekeeper 02:17:00 46. The First Omen 02:17:57 45. Land of Bad 02:18:49 44. Piece By Piece 02:21:13 43. Saturday Night 02:22:44 42. Woman of the Hour 02:25:33 41. A Complete Unknown 02:27:54 40. IF 02:29:40 39. Babes 02:31:02 38. Kill 02:32:56 37. Nosferatu 02:35:35 36. The Last Stop in Yuma County 02:36:08 35. The Fall Guy 02:36:50 34. Challengers 02:37:18 33. Juror #2 02:38:25 32. Speak No Evil 02:39:22 31. Smile 2 02:40:11 30. Bad Boys: Ride or Die 02:41:00 29. Ultraman: Rising 02:42:11 28. Terrifier 3 02:43:40 27. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever 02:44:17 26. September 5 02:45:38 25. Abigail 02:46:09 24. The Idea of You 02:47:47 23. Strange Darling 02:48:27 22. A Quiet Place: Day One 02:49:35 21. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 02:51:12 20. Alien: Romulus 02:52:52 19. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 02:53:38 18. Heretic 02:55:19 17. Transformers One 02:56:29 16. Civil War 03:00:20 15. Ordinary Angels 03:01:51 14. Gladiator II 03:03:38 13. Anora 03:04:58 12. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 03:06:53 11. Twisters 03:09:44 10. Deadpool & Wolverine 03:11:46 9. Longlegs 03:12:32 8. Rebel Ridge 03:14:37 7. The Substance 03:16:24 6. Hit Man 03:17:06 5. Wicked 03:18:11 4. Inside Out 2 03:19:04 3. Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story 03:20:28 2. Dune: Part Two 03:22:07 1. The Wild Robot

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Bio   Brian McDonald, an award-winning author, filmmaker, graphic novelist, and podcaster, is a sought-after instructor and consultant. He has taught his story seminar and consulted for various companies, including Pixar, Microsoft, and Cirque du Soleil.   Interview Highlights   02:45 The gift of writing 04:00 Rejected by Disney 05:35 Defining a story 07:25 Conclusions 10:30 Why do we tell stories? 13:40 Survival stories 17:00 Finding the common thread 19:00 The Golden Theme  20:45 Neuroscience   Connect   Brian McDonald (writeinvisibleink.com) @BeeMacDee1950 on X @beemacdee on Instagram Brian McDonald on LinkedIn  Books and references   Land of the Dead: Lessons from the Underworld on Storytelling and Living, Brian McDonald Invisible Ink: Building Stories from the Inside Out, Brian McDonald The Golden Theme: How to Make Your Writing Appeal to the Highest Common Denominator, Brian McDonald Old Souls, Brian McDonald Ink Spots: Collected Writings on Story Structure, Filmmaking and Craftmanship, Brian McDonald Brian's podcast 'You are a Storyteller' Episode Transcript   Ula Ojiaku   Hello and welcome to the Agile Innovation Leaders podcast. I'm Ula Ojiaku. On this podcast I speak with world-class leaders and doers about themselves and a variety of topics spanning Agile, Lean Innovation, Business, Leadership and much more – with actionable takeaways for you the listener. Very honoured to introduce my guest for this episode, Brian McDonald,. He's an award-winning author, filmmaker, graphic novelist and podcaster. Brian is a sought-after speaker, instructor and consultant who has taught his story seminar and consulted for companies like Pixar, Microsoft, and Cirque du Soleil. In this first part of our two-part episode, we discuss the gift of writing, his experience being rejected by Disney, his book Invisible Ink, that book is lifechanging. We also discuss defining a story, conclusions, and why we tell stories. Stay tuned for an insightful conversation!  Brian, it's a pleasure to have you on the Agile Innovation Leaders podcast and an honour. Thank you for making the time for this conversation.   Brian McDonald Thank you. Thanks for having me.  Ula Ojiaku  Awesome. So could you tell us a bit about yourself? What are the things that have led you to being the Brian McDonald we know today? Brian McDonald  How I got to be, I guess, a story expert or whatever it is I am, the memory I have is of being in kindergarten and seeing an animated film about King Midas, and I was obsessed with it. It was stop motion animation, so it was frightening, it scared me, but I couldn't stop thinking about it. So I got obsessed with stop motion animation and I got obsessed with the story of King Midas and I thought about stories a lot. We lived not very far away from a drive-in movie theatre, and so we would, as a family, watch movies from our porch, and I remember, because we couldn't hear them, I remember piecing together the stories that we couldn't hear, and I would tell my younger brother and my sister what I assumed was happening. So it was an early, early thing for me. I didn't know necessarily that I was studying it, I was just obsessed with it. What made it work and what made people laugh and what made them scared and what made them lean forward, that was fascinating to me, but I didn't know I had any particular gift for it, until I guess I was in the seventh or eighth grade when a friend of mine did a drawing and he said to me, Brian, come up with a story for this drawing because you're good at that. I didn't know I was good at it, right. It was so natural to me, and so I just pursued that path. I wanted to be a director. Before that, before the 70s, not every director was a writer, but in the 70s, it seemed like every director was a writer. So Francis Ford Coppola was a writer, Steven Spielberg was a writer, George Lucas was a writer. So I thought that's what you had to do. And I had dyslexia, so writing scared me, it was difficult for me, but wanting to tell stories overrode that, and I just thought that's what I had to do, so I just kept doing it and pretty soon, accidentally became an expert at it, where people would start asking me for advice and the people who started asking me for advice were higher and higher up the food chain. I remember I was on a plane next to some award winning writer and I happened to be sitting next to him and I was star struck that I got to sit next to him on this plane and we were talking and I thought we were just talking about story stuff and then he said, do you mind if I take notes? So I thought, okay, maybe I've got something, but I didn't think anything I was saying was worthy of taking notes, but he did. Yeah, and then I wrote the book for two reasons. I submitted a screenplay to Disney for their fellowship program, and it was rejected in the first round, and I didn't think that was right, and they also gave me a list of books I could read about screenwriting, and I was so angry and I thought, have you read these books, because I could write one of these books, and so I did. So then I had a student, the first class I ever taught, I didn't mean to be a teacher, it happened accidentally. I needed some money and somebody needed a screenwriting teacher and so, I said, well, sure, I'll try it. It turns out I had a talent for it that I didn't know I had. So a woman in my class said to me, oh, you should write a book, and I said yeah, people say that, and she looked me dead in the eye and she said, no, you're good at this, you're good at communicating it, you have a responsibility to write a book. So those two things made me write the book.  Ula Ojiaku  I'm thankful, because when you experienced those things and sometimes they seem negative in the moment. So who would have thought that being rejected for a fellowship with Disney would lead to better things in my view, of bigger, better things. It's really amazing. I'm glad you did because we wouldn't be having this conversation if you didn't. Thank you again. Your work is affecting even other generations. I know my children definitely are big fans already. You being a storyteller and I don't want to read your book out to the audience, how would you define storytelling?  Brian McDonald First you have to define story. I noticed that most people who teach writing, who teach anything about story, just start talking about it without defining it, and it has a definition, story has a definition, and I find that people are using the word story, it's become a very hip word at this moment and I'll tell you what made me look it up. I heard an interview with a jazz bassist on the radio and this jazz bassist, I wish I could remember who it was, but apparently if you play jazz, this is the bassist you want, and the interviewer said, well, how did you become that guy? How did you become the guy everybody wants? And he said, well, I was a bassist for a long time and I was pretty good, and he said, one day I decided to look up bass in the dictionary, and he said, a bass is a foundation. Everything is built on the bass, and he said, once I understood that, I knew what my job was, and I became a better bassist. So, I'm like, I should probably look up the definition of what I do. So, I looked up the word story, and one of the definitions, now I've altered the definition and I'll tell you why, but I've altered it slightly. So a story is the telling or retelling of a series of events leading to a conclusion, meaning having a point. So one of the first questions I asked my classes is ‘what a story is', and I let them struggle with it for a while because, once you hear it, it sounds like, of course, that's what it is. So I let them struggle for minutes, uncomfortable minutes coming up with all these things, because then they know they didn't know. Before they would say nothing. Now I think they've heard some of what I say or read it somewhere and they come back like they're repeating something I said, but without understanding it. So they'll say a series of events and I'll be like, no, it's not a series of events. It's the telling or retelling of a series of events. Right. That's a huge part of it. Right. So also leading to a conclusion, which I think is a huge part of it, and that's the part I added. Now, here's the thing, I don't know if you know how they write dictionaries, but how they write dictionaries is they go around and they ask people they think are smart, what words mean. That's what they do. That's how they do it. What do you think this word means? And then they get a consensus. And so this many people thought this, that's why you have a number one and number two and number three. Well, people who know that stuff are word people. I'm not a word person. I'm a story person. These are different things. We conflate the two things. We think they're the same, but they're not the same. You don't need words at all to tell a story. The first 30 years of movies were silent, ask any choreographer or dancer or pantomimist, you don't need it, right? We put them together, but they don't necessarily go together. The people who define story as the telling or retelling of a series of events are word people, but as a storyteller, I know that stories have a function. So they are leading to a conclusion. So that's the part I added, because they were word people, not story people, and for a story person, that was not a definition for me that worked, but I think that my definition helps people write stories, whereas the other definition does not. Ula Ojiaku Can I ask you a question about your definition of a story, because you said it's leading to a conclusion. Would you say that the storyteller has to tell that conclusion, or is this something that the people being told the story would infer or a mixture? Brian McDonald Oh that depends. So a lot of times people will talk about resolution, that a story needs to resolve, happily ever after, but if you look in the east, they don't necessarily resolve, but they do conclude, they do allow you to draw a conclusion. A lot of Zen parables are like that, where it's almost as if it's left hanging, but it isn't exactly left hanging. I talk about this in my book, Land of the Dead, but there's a story about a monk and he's walking through the jungle, he sees a tiger, and the tiger starts to chase him, so he's running from this tiger, and he gets to the edge of a cliff, and so he's got the tiger behind him, and he's got the cliff in front of him, and he doesn't know what to do, he jumps, but he catches himself on a branch, a little branch, and the branch is starting to give way and there are these jagged rocks below. So if he falls, that's it. On the end of the branch, there are three strawberries growing, and he reaches out and he grabs strawberries and he eats them, and they're the best strawberries he's ever had. That's the end of that story, because the conclusion is all about how precious life becomes when we know it's near the end, and we could take that into our lives because we never know when it's going to be over, right, so that's a conclusion to be drawn from the story. It doesn't resolve - does he get out of it? How does he get out of it? What happens when… it doesn't resolve, but it concludes. So I like the word conclusion more than I like the word resolution. Ula Ojiaku Thanks for that, Brian. So now that you've laid the foundation for us on what a story is, what's storytelling then? Brian McDonald Well, you have to then ask what stories are for. Why do people tell stories? All around the world, in every culture, in every time, human beings have been storytellers. Why? Now people will come back and they'll say entertainment. That's not why you. You don't need stories to entertain. There's lots of things you could do. Think about it for a second. We tell stories all the time. We think we're just talking, but we tell stories all the time when we're having conversations. We don't even know we're telling stories, but we do it all the time. Then we tell ourselves stories. You have an imaginary conversation with somebody, right? Well, then he'll say this and then I'll say this and then he'll say that, and then I'll say…so you're telling yourself the story. You do it all the time, right? And then when you come home and you want to relax, you'll find a story either on your television or your phone or a book, that's the way we relax, so we do it all day long, right? And then we want to relax and we find a story to relax too. Then we go to sleep and we tell ourselves stories when we sleep. Well, that's a lot of energy for one thing, and the only conclusion I can draw is that it's a survival mechanism, because that's just the way evolution works. It had to have been selected for. The people who didn't tell stories are not here, so it has to be selected for, and anything that's selected for has an evolutionary advantage. There's no other animal that would spend that much time doing anything if it wasn't related to their survival, it doesn't make sense. And there are clues to this. So, some of the clues are, first of all, you'll notice with children. If you tell children it's story time, they lose their mind, and I think the reason they do that is because they are new to the world and they need to know how it works, and stories tell them how it works. So they are feeding in a way. I think story stories and food are very close together in terms of how important they are to us. As a matter of fact, if you found yourself in some place or something without food, you would start to immediately think of stories about people in that situation and how they got out of it. So that's one clue. The other clue is that any writing teacher will tell you that stories need conflict, that you have to have conflict in the story, and they would always say to me when I would ask as a kid, well, why, and they'd say, it's more interesting, for me, that's not really an answer. I think because I'm dyslexic, I have to go to the very basic part of it. Like, no, that's not an answer. There's an answer, and it's that conflict is the thing that we're trying to survive. Stories aren't necessarily entertaining, but they are engaging. Sometimes entertaining, sometimes they're just engaging, take Schindler's List. Is that entertaining? No, but it's engaging, so I think that the reason that we find stories engaging, and sometimes entertaining is because nature wants us to engage in that activity. It's why food tastes good. It wants us to engage in that activity. So it's a by-product, entertainment is a by-product of good storytelling. Ula Ojiaku It makes perfect sense, and I've watched a few of your episodes on the You Are A Storyteller podcast on your website writeinvisibleink.com and you said something about that stories can heal, can save lives. So it's not just about the entertainment factor. Can you expand on that, please? Brian McDonald Now, it's funny, I talk about survival and a lot of times people go immediately to physical survival, but there's all kinds of survival, so there's cultural survival, there is social survival, don't act this way, act that way. There is emotional or spiritual survival, and you'll see that with support groups, 12 step programmes, anything like that, where stories are medicinal, both the sharing of the story and the taking in of the story. Again, nature wants us to engage in that activity, and so we don't even know we're doing it. When I was a kid, we moved from one neighbourhood to another and it snowed one day and a friend of mine said, a new friend of mine, he said he came to the house and he said, hey, we're going to Dawson Hill. I didn't know what it was. What's Dawson Hill? Well, it's a big hill. There's a Dawson Street was the street. It's a big hill, and everybody goes sledding down this hill when it snows. Okay, so I go up there, and when I get up there, I hear this story. I probably told this story later, I don't remember, but I'm sure I did, I heard it retold to new kids all the time. So when you were a new kid in the neighbourhood, you would hear this story. There was a kid about a generation older than us. I actually worked with a woman years later who was from the same neighbourhood, and said she knew that story. She knew the story. She's a generation older than me, she knew the story. So anyway, a kid was going on an inner tube down the hill and he hit a utility pole and he got the wind knocked out of him and everybody gathered around, you know, are you okay, and it took him a minute to sort of recover, and he said, I'm fine, I'm okay, I'm fine, and he stayed for a little while, but after a while said he wasn't feeling well and he went home and took a nap and he never woke up because he had broken a rib and punctured an organ and was bleeding internally and didn't know it. Now, kids tell that story because that's the kind of story kids tell, right, but what were they saying to me? They were giving me survival information. Look, be careful going down this hill. They could have said that, that doesn't stick. The stories are what we've evolved to take in. So that doesn't stick. So, they don't even know they're doing it. This is how natural it is, they're just telling a story they think is creepy or interesting, whatever they think, but what they're saying is, be careful going down that hill, and if you do get hurt, you may not know how hurt you are, so get yourself checked out or let your parents know or something like that. There's two bits of survival information in that story. That's how natural it is. We do it all the time. And we navigate the world that way all the time, we just don't know we're doing it, and that's another thing, it's so natural. It's like breathing, there are people who study breath and how you breathe, but that's a whole field of study because we ignore it, and I think story is one of those things, as far as I know, you can go to school and you can study journalism and you can study medieval literature and you can study French poetry from whenever, you can study all of these things about writing, but I don't know if you can get a degree anywhere on story itself, which I find fascinating. Ula Ojiaku Unless you want to change that. Brian McDonald Maybe I will. I knew a woman who was a playwright and she would come to me for advice about storytelling, and she had a degree in playwriting. And I said, well, what did they teach you when you were in school? She said, it never came up. So it's interesting to me that we don't study that, which is the common denominator across all those other things. All those other disciplines have story at their core. Ula Ojiaku And that's what you were saying, the common denominator in The Golden Theme, I have digital copies of the other books, but The Golden Theme, that was what you were saying, that storytelling is the common denominator, if I remember correctly, but it's like something that runs through all of us as human beings. Brian McDonald Well, the thing is this, that stories have a point, they have a reason to be told, and I was looking for the thing that all stories had in common. One of the things, and again, this goes back to being dyslexic, but one of the things dyslexics do well, is see connections that other people miss. I'm bad with details, but I can see the big picture of things. Let's take the movie Seven Samurai was made into the movie Magnificent Seven. So it takes a samurai movie, they make it into a Western. What I see when I see those things is I say, this is about people learning how to stand up for themselves, this is about all these other things, and that doesn't matter if it's a Western or if it's, so I just see that how they're the same. The differences are superficial to me, I don't see those. So when people say what genre, if I'm writing something with genre, I'm like, I know what you mean, I don't know why it matters. I don't say that part, but I don't, because what matters is, is it compelling? Is it true about being a human being? Does it get to a truth? That's the important thing for me, and so I was looking for the common thread. Every story will have what I call an armature and I can explain what that is, but I thought, there's a common armature, there's got to be, that links all stories, and I thought about it for a long time. As a matter of fact, one of the things that got me started thinking about it was, I was walking through a cemetery with a friend of mine, we were working on a project, and it was a cemetery near where I lived, it's actually the cemetery where Bruce Lee is buried, and my mum is there now, which would have thrilled her to be close to Bruce Lee, but I was walking through that cemetery with a friend of mine and I said, you know, if these people could talk, I bet they would just have one thing to tell us. And he said, what? I go, I don't know, but I bet they'd have one thing to say that they would think this is the most, and I thought about that for a long time, so both The Golden Theme and Land of the Dead came out of that walk through the cemetery. So I thought about it for years, and in fact, it's a strange thing, I didn't even know it was happening. You know that sound of a chalkboard and the chalk, that sound, that was in my head constantly like I was working out some kind of equation, and I don't know if I'm synesthetic or something, but I could hear it, and then one day it stopped, and it was quiet, and what I call now The Golden Theme came to me. The one thing that the cemetery said and the thing that stories have in common is that we are all the same. That's what the cemetery tells you. We're all the same. We're all going to die one day. We all worry about the same stuff. We all care about the same things, and the closer you get to that in a story, because that's the underlying baseline, the more that story resonates with people, the more they see themselves in somebody they don't expect to see themselves in, the more it resonates. Wait, that person's nothing like me and yet they're everything like me, right? So that I think is what's underneath. That's what The Golden Theme is, is that recognition, because stories wouldn't work if that weren't true. For instance, if I say to you, I was walking on the beach and I was barefoot and there was hot sand between my toes. If I say that to you, the only way that you understand it is to put yourself there. Ula Ojiaku In your book, Invisible Ink, you also delved a little bit into the neuroscience, how our brains work and that our brains are wired for storytelling. When someone is telling a story and we're relating to it, the same parts of our brain are being kind of lit up and active, as if we were the people. Brian McDonald Because of the mirror neurons that we have. If you see somebody doing something, your brain does not know the difference between you doing it and them doing it, it doesn't recognise the difference and so the same part of your brain lights up. They'll show people smiling in a picture and have people in an MRI and the smile part of the brain lights up when that happens, and the frowns and all of that stuff. So that's a further proof of The Golden Theme, but also that's how we get the lesson from the story, because we put ourselves there, if we couldn't put ourselves there, we wouldn't get the lesson from the story and we wouldn't get the survival information. We would basically say, well, that happened to them and it would have nothing to do with you. And in fact, there are people like that, and we call those people, we will say, well, that guy, he's got to learn things the hard way. What does that mean? That means they don't listen to other people's stories, that's all it could mean. If there's a hard way, there's got to be an easy way, right? Ula Ojiaku The easy way is listening to people's stories and learning from them instead of you going through the experience. Brian McDonald Yeah, there's a saying that where there is an old person, nothing need go wrong. What that means is they have all the stories, so when there's a drought, go to them, they've been through five droughts. I think as we get older and our bodies fail and all of that, what we become is a collection of stories, and this is where we get the idea of that's where the wisdom is because that is what, before the internet, old people were the internet. That's the natural internet, the old people who have been through a lot and know things and have seen more patterns as you get older, you see more patterns, you're like, oh, I see where this is going to go. Ula Ojiaku And to be honest, you're not by any stretch old or anything, but one of the reasons I have this podcast is to hear people's stories and gather as much from people's experiences, to learn. So it's not really about posting it to the world, it's selfish, it's for me to ask questions of the people. So, like you said, people are a collection of stories, not necessarily just about the age, but just saying that's one of the reasons I want to hear your story. What happened? What made you do this? What made you do that? And I find myself, maybe let's see, tomorrow, a few weeks from now, I'll be like, oh, Brian said he went through this and I'm seeing something, I'm playing out and I'm instinctively knowing how it's going to play out, and then, oh, he said he did XYZ and okay, maybe I should try that and it works. Sorry, it's not about me, but I'm just saying I resonate with what you're saying. Brian McDonald It's just a very normal, natural thing, and I think it usually goes, it can go older to younger, but it can often go more experienced to less experienced, which is really the bigger thing. So I used to work with combat veterans that had PTSD, and I used to help them tell their stories to help with their healing, and I would ask them about storytelling in their work, and I'd say, okay, so you get deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq or something, are there stories before you go? And they were like, yes, there's lots of stories, because that's a highly dangerous situation, so people have a lot of stories about that. People who have been before say, make sure this happens, make sure you don't do this, make sure you do that. They said there's stories when you're going, there's stories when you get there, and there's stories about when you're about to leave, because what I was told was, there are lots of incidents where people are on their last few days of deployment and that's when they get hurt or killed, because they get careless. So the stories are saying, be as careful on your last day as your first day, and that's just naturally happening. I think if people start paying attention now, often they're getting that kind of information, it changes how you hear stories, it changes how you listen to stories. There is this idea, this cliche, particularly in this culture, I don't know how many cultures have it, but in the United States, it's big and it's, oh, grandpa and his stories, or grandma and her stories, on and on and on, and blah, blah, blah with their stories. Here's the thing about that, they're just trying to help you survive. That's all that's happening, and if you listen, because you know, those people aren't going to be around forever and then you'll later, you go, why didn't I ask about this? Why didn't I ask about that? That's what happens. So just listen over and over again, even if you heard it 50 times, because there's going to be a time when you're going to want all those details, I guarantee you. If you listen that way, you listen differently. You start listening for how are they trying to help you survive, and it may not be apparent immediately. So I was in an improv class once and there was a woman in the improv class, Melissa was her name, and we're taking a break and we're having a talk and she used to be a flight attendant, and I said to her during this break, well, what was that like, and did anything weird ever happen on a plane or, you know, I was hoping she'd tell me about a UFO or something, but what she said was, well, she said a couple people died on flights I was on. She goes, that was a weird experience, but then she remembered something, and she said, oh, there was this one time there was a kid who kept getting up and running to the bathroom. She didn't say how old this kid was, but a young kid kept getting up, running to the bathroom and then coming back to his seat and then kept doing this, and he was annoying all the flight attendants, but Melissa said I was concerned. So I went up to the mother and I said, is your son okay, and the woman said, I think so, and she goes, well, I'm just concerned, he keeps getting up and going to the bathroom. And then she said, I noticed that his lips were a little swollen, and she said, I remembered a story that my parents had told me about my father having a fish allergy, where his lips swelled like that, his throat closed up, and he almost died. She said to the mother, is your son allergic to anything? And the mother said, I don't know. Melissa said, I think he might be having an allergic reaction. She checked the menu. They had served a salad that had shrimp in it. She said, I think this is what's happening. She's able to get on the phone from the plane to a clinic, they told her what to do, there was a doctor on the flight and when the plane landed, there was a team ready to help this kid. Now, when Melissa heard that story about her father, she did not think, here's information. She was just concerned about her father, but when she needed that information, that story was right there. We do that all the time. We just don't know we do it. It was right there. So even if you think this story is irrelevant, that this old person is telling me, you don't know that yet, it could be really relevant later on. Ula Ojiaku Thank you for listening to Part 1 of our conversation with Brian McDonald. Be sure to tune in for Part 2, coming up soon. That's all we have for now. Thanks for listening. If you liked this show, do subscribe at www.agileinnovationleaders.com or your favourite podcast provider. Also share with friends and do leave a review on iTunes. This would help others find this show. I'd also love to hear from you, so please drop me an email at ula@agileinnovationleaders.com Take care and God bless.    

In this podcast episode, the Gods discuss: The 4:30 Movie (4k UHD Blu-ray) About Dry Grasses (Blu-ray) Addams Family Values (4k UHD Blu-ray) American Movie (4k UHD Blu-ray) Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Limited Series Three-Season Collection (DVD) Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (4k UHD Blu-ray) Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Trilogy (4k UHD Blu-ray) Blazing Saddles 4k UHD (4k UHD Blu-ray) The Block Island Sound (4k UHD Blu-ray) Blue Christmas (Blu-ray) A Bluegrass Christmas (DVD) Bones and All (4k UHD Blu-ray) Born on the Fourth of July (4k UHD Blu-ray) CC40 [8½ (1963), Tokyo Story (1953), All That Jazz (1979), Bicycle Thieves (1948), Repo Man (1984), Naked (1993), Jules and Jim (1962), Being There (1979), Weekend (1967), Yi Yi (2000), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Pickpocket (1959), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), On the Waterfront (1954), Do the Right Thing (1989), Ratcatcher (1999), Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), Mirror (1975), Barry Lyndon (1975), Safe (1995), Seconds (1966), His Girl Friday (1940), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), Y tu mamá también (2001), My Own Private Idaho (1991), Love & Basketball (2000), Night of the Living Dead (1968), Ace in the Hole (1951), 3 Women (1977), The Red Shoes (1948), Down by Law (1986), La Ciénaga (2001), Wanda (1970), House (1977), Sullivan's Travels (1941), The Battle of Algiers (1966), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), Persona (1966), In the Mood for Love (2000)] (Blu-ray) The Crow (4k UHD Blu-ray) The Dark Crystal - Limited Edition 4k Collector's Set (4k UHD Blu-ray) Demon Pond (4k UHD Blu-ray) Drag Me to Hell 4k Collector's Edition (4k UHD Blu-ray) Evil: The Complete Series (DVD) Fear the Walking Dead: The Complete Collection (Blu-ray) Food Wars! The Fifth Plate Limited Edition Premium Box Set (Blu-ray) Funny Girl (4k UHD Blu-ray) Galaxy Quest 25th Anniversary 4k UHD (4k UHD Blu-ray) Godzilla (4k UHD Blu-ray) Gummo (4k UHD Blu-ray) The Hitcher (4k UHD Blu-ray) Hush (4k UHD Blu-ray) I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim: Produced by Val Lewton (4k UHD Blu-ray) The Intern (4k UHD Blu-ray) Interstellar (4k UHD Blu-ray) Irving Berlin's White Christmas (4k UHD Blu-ray) The Killer's Game (4k UHD Blu-ray) The King of Queens - Complete Series (Blu-ray) Labyrinth - Limited Edition 4k Collector's Set (4k UHD Blu-ray) Land of the Dead Collector's Edition (4k UHD Blu-ray) Pandora's Box (Blu-ray) Paper Moon (4k UHD Blu-ray) Pulp Fiction 4K Ultra HD 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition (4k UHD Blu-ray) Rock 'N' Roll High School [45th Anniversary Edition] (4k UHD Blu-ray) Scarface (4k UHD Blu-ray) Seven Samurai (4k UHD Blu-ray) The Shape of Water (4k UHD Blu-ray) Shawscope Vol 3 [Limited Edition] (Blu-ray) Silent Night, Deadly Night [40th Anniversary Edition] + Exclusive Paperback Novelization (4k UHD Blu-ray) So Help Me Todd: The Complete Series (DVD) South Park (Not Suitable for Children) (Blu-ray) A Sudden Case of Christmas (DVD) The Swan Princess: The Royal Collection (DVD) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete Classic Series Collection (DVD) The Terminator 4k UHD (4k UHD Blu-ray) Thanksgiving (4k UHD Blu-ray) Toxic Crusaders (Blu-ray) Trap (4k UHD Blu-ray) Twisters (4k UHD Blu-ray) Walker: The Complete Series (DVD) Watchmen Chapter II (4k UHD Blu-ray) The West Wing: Complete Series (Blu-ray) The Whitest Kids U' Know: The Complete Series (DVD)

Streaming—and a pandemic—have radically transformed cinema consumption, but there is a growing number of mostly younger people contributing to a renaissance of LA's independent theater scene. The city's enduring, if diminished, role as a mecca of the film industry still shapes its residents and their entertainment preferences, often with renewed appreciation after the pandemic. Part of what makes the city unique is its abundance of historic theaters, salvaged amid looming closures or resurrected in recent years by those with ties to the film industry. Experts see a pattern of success for a certain kind of theater experience in Los Angeles. Kate Markham, the managing director at Art House Convergence, a coalition of independent cinema exhibitors, said a key factor is the people who run these theaters. “They know their audiences or their potential audiences, and they are curating programs and an environment for them to have an exceptional experience,” she wrote in an email. American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino pioneered the trend when he purchased the New Beverly in 2007. After Netflix bought and restored the nearby Egyptian Theater, which first opened in 1922 as a silent movie house, the company reopened it to the public in November in partnership with the nonprofit American Cinematheque. It's now a bustling hub, regularly welcoming A-list celebrities premiering their projects as well as film buffs willing to stick around for hours-long marathons, like a recent screening of four Paul Thomas Anderson movies. What draws people to independent theaters can vary, from older programming to elevated food-and-drink offerings to lower prices. But many agree, above all, there is a communal aspect chains can't match. “The bigger places obviously have premium formats and stuff like that. But I think there's a lot less communal connection,” said Dr. Michael Hook, who attended a matinee of “Seven Samurai” at Vidiots with a Children's Hospital Los Angeles co-worker. “You're not just milling around with people who also have selected to go to a three-hour-long 1950s Japanese movie.” This article was provided by The Associated Press.

In this episode of the Movie Amigos Podcast, the Movie Amigos talk about movies, since that's the name of the podcast. There's Barbie, there's Oppenheimer, and other surprises too! Also, there's some movie trivia. We like movies and we're amigos. Join us and be our movie amigos. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/movieamigospodcast/ Find us wherever you listen to podcasts! Letterboxd profiles: Gila https://letterboxd.com/gilasantos1/ Josh https://letterboxd.com/joshman972/ Juve https://letterboxd.com/mrfalcon/ Movies mentioned this episode: Roar (1981) Citizen Kane (1941) Finding Jesus (2020) Finding Jesus 2 (2021) Finding Nemo (2003) Barbie (2023) Oppenheimer (2023) The Creator (2023) I, Robot (2004) Dual (2022) Fast X / Fast & Furious 10 (2023) Fast Five / Fast & Furious 5 (2011) Fast & Furious 6 / Furious 6 (2013) The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) Trainspotting (1996) The Transporter (2002) Retribution (2023) 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) The Fast and the Furious (2001) Fast & Furious / Fast & Furious 4 (2009) F8 / The Fate of the Furious (2017) F9 / Fast & Furious 9: The Fast Saga (2021) The Artifice Girl (2022) Your Name / 君の名は。 (2016) Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train / 劇場版 鬼滅の刃 無限列車編 (2020) One Piece Film: Red (2022) Spirited Away / 千と千尋の神隠し (2001) Princess Mononoke / もののけ姫 (1997) Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983) Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015) Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) Over the Hedge (2006) The Flash (2023) The Fifth Element (1997) Parasite / 기생충 (2019) Memories of Murder / 살인의 추억 (2003) Barking Dogs Never Bite / 플란다스의 개 (2000) Twilight (2008) The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) Pitch Perfect (2012) 101 Dalmatians (1961) 102 Dalmatians (2000) Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) Mein Kampf (1960) Birth of a Nation (1915) Transformers (2007) Triumph of the Will (1935) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) La La Land (2016) Singin' in the Rain (1952) The Prince of Egypt (1998) The Sound of Music (1965) Taxi Driver (1976) Casablanca (1942) Gone with the Wind (1939) Children of Paradise / Les Enfants du Paradis (1945) Back to the Future (1985) Hustlers (2019) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Captain Marvel (2019) 21 Jump Street (2012) Forbidden Planet (1956) The Invisible Boy (1957) Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005) Ikiru / 生きる (1952) Seven Samurai / 七人の侍 (1954) Ran / 乱 (1985) Rashomon / 羅生門 (1950) The Shining (1980) Jaws (1975) Dumb and Dumber (1994) The Mother (2023) Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) Intro music by: Avalerion Music Outro music by: Don General For any inquiries: Email us at movieamigospodcast@gmail.com

The Seven Dwarves have got winner this week when the Magnificent One Jeremy Black joins us to pit the original, 1954's “Seven Samurai,” against the remake, 1960's “The Magnificent Seven.” *** “Seven Samurai”: Big Ben Haslar. “The Magnificent Seven": Jeremy Black. Judge: The Honorable Maynard Bangs. Jurors: Ryan Luis Rodriguez, Dylan J. Schlender, Maynard Bangs. *** Advisory: Silvana Carranza. Prologue: Kirk R. Thatcher. Original Theme: WT Golden.What did you think of the verdict?

Moody Movies: Seven Samurai (1954), Dìdi (2024), Opening Night (1977), Bunny Lake is Missing (1965), and Kneecap (2024).Welcome back to Moody Movie Club! In this episode, Kylie and Elliott feel awe at a contemporarily relevant seventy-year-old film, feel gratitude for not being a teenager anymore, float in the sensory deprivation tank made by Cassavetes and Rowland, wonder if Keir Dullea wants to kiss them or kill them, and rock out to Kneecap's stick-it-to-the-man-iosis. Follow along onInstagram: @moodymovie.clubLetterboxd: kylieburton Letterboxd: ElliottKuss Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Send us a Text Message.The Criterion Break is back! On this week's show, the guys from the back row chat about some recent watches, including a theatrical viewing of the new 4K remaster of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. Next, they briefly discuss the upcoming CC40 box set and what their thoughts are on this being Criterion's big November box set. Finally, for the featured conversation, they chat about Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love, from Adam Sandler's performance, to the magic of Emily Watson, to the impact of Philip Seymour Hoffman's short runtime. We evaluate where this oddball comedy falls amongst our personal ranking of PTA's filmography.Blake can be found on Letterboxd @therealjohng and on Instagram @blakeg_5150 Derrick can be found on Instagram AND Letterboxd @dervdude.Follow Fat Dude Digs Flicks across social media:Facebook - Fat Dude Digs FlicksInstagram - FatDudeDigsFlicksTwitter - FatDudeFlicksTikTok - FatDudeDigsFlicksLetterboxd - FatDudeFlicksSubscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Goodpods, or wherever you get your podcasts. Search for Fat Dude Digs Flicks and click on that subscribe button. Please take a second to rate and review the show, while you're at it!Subscribe to the Fat Dude Digs Flicks YouTube channel and send a thumbs up or two my way!If you'd like to contact me for any recommendations, questions, comments, concerns, or to be a future guest, you can send an email to FatDudeDigsFlicks@gmail.com. Support the Show.

The chronological watch through provides us with a big bonus early in the second season, with a Seven Samurai tribute episode immediately followed by a Godzilla/King Kong arc with the Zillo Beast episodes. These episodes are some of our early favorites, and we have a blast revisiting them. Let's jump in!BECOME A PATRON: https://www.patreon.com/massivebreakdownpodcastsCHAT SERVER: https://discord.gg/C44PeM5RSf

This week, I welcome Andy Carr back to the show to review Borderlands in both a non-spoiler and spoiler feature review. Then, in this week's secondary review, we review Tilman Singer's Cuckoo. We also talk about Seven Samurai 4k restoration screenings and recent announcements from this year's D23 Expo including Toy Story 5, Incredibles 3, Dream Productions, Win or Lose, Monster Jam, and more.   Timestamps Show Start - 00:28 News - 12:54   Feature Review Thoughts on Borderlands Video Games - 34:17 Borderlands (2024) - 39:23 Spoiler - 1:04:24   Secondary Review Cuckoo (2024) - 1:24:56   Potpourri Andy: John Woo Movies - 1:47:06 Matt: Seven Samurai 4k Restoration - 1:49:11  Closing the Ep - 2:04:26 Patreon Clip - 2:06:40   Related Links Start Your Podcast with Libsyn Using Promo Code OBSESS ‘Borderlands' Bombs With $8.8 Million Weekend, A Fourth Place Debut D23 2024: Every movie and series announced and shown at this year's fan event, so far   Odd Trilogies Andy's Letterboxd Odd Trilogies Ep 84: The Deadpool Trilogy Odd Trilogies Ep 83: Kevin Costner: Director Andy's Review of Longlegs   My 2024 Podcast and Writing Archive One Year of Criterion Channel - Dec 24, 2023 - Dec 23, 2024 Movies I Own But Haven't Watched/Rated Yet   Follow Us on Social Media My Letterboxd | YouTube | Facebook | Twitter/X Instagram | Threads | Bluesky | TikTok | Tiny's Letterboxd   Subscribe to the Podcast Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Audible   Support Us on Patreon for Exclusive Content Official OV Merch  Obsessive Viewer Obsessive Viewer Presents: Anthology Obsessive Viewer Presents: Tower Junkies As Good As It Gets - Linktree   Mic Info Matt: ElectroVoice RE20 into RØDEcaster Pro II (Firmware: 1.3.4) Andy: Samson Q2U via USB in Google Meet   Episode Homepage: ObsessiveViewer.com/OV438   Next Week on the Podcast OV439 - Alien: Romulus (2024) & TBD

Do old movies hold up in our fast-paced culture? The Plugged In team looks back at three black-and-white movies they've recently reviewed - To Kill a Mockingbird, The Many who Shot Liberty Valance, and Seven Samurai. You might be surprised what messages your family can take away from these older films! Paul Asay then speak with Emily Tsiao about Spotify's move into a social media set-up.   Get Your Copy of Becoming a Screen-Savvy Family!   Connect with us! www.ThePluggedInShow.com Connect on Facebook Find us on Instagram EMAIL: team@thepluggedinshow.com PHONE: 800-A-FAMILY (800-262-3459)   Read the full review: ·       To Kill a Mockingbird ·       The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ·       Seven Samurai ·       Joker ·       Batman: Arkham Asylum ·       Batman: Arkham City ·       Batman: Arkham Knight Check out the Plugged In Blog: ·       On the Radar   Focus on the Family with Jim Daly Episode: How Your Family Can Manage Technology Well Part 1 How You Can Make Wise Entertainment Choices for Your Family   Donate Now!   We'd love to hear from you! Visit our Homepage to leave us a voicemail.   If you've listened to any of our podcasts, please give us your feedback.  

The train keeps rolling this week pardners as we take a look at the Antoine Fuqua directed remake of The Magnificent Seven and Seven Samurai. In this action-packed western, Denzel leads an ensemble of some of the best character actors around—and Chris Pratt. We talk about westerns, story structure, casting, Denzel, and much, much more! Round up the wagons, and jump on in for this week's convo! TIMESTAMPS 00:30 - Introductions and Synopsis 03:13 - Quick The Magnificent Seven Reviews 21:16 - Expanding the Syllabus 34:39 - Analysis 52:19 - Shelf or Trash 54:21 - Wrap Up and Next Week's Film

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we revisit our series on rotoscoping with a fun chat with Jordan Mechner, of Karateka, Prince of Persia, and The Last Express fame. We also talk about his new graphic memoir: Replay, Memoir of an Uprooted Family. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Podcast breakdown: 00:50   Interview 1:01:50 Break 1:02:03 Outro Issues covered: his history, train trips, caricatures and making stuff, not living up to the greats, improvising into his games, animation not holding up, filming his mother's karate teacher, his father, and his brother, handcrafting for rotoscoping, taking silent film classes, cross-cutting and wipes, the moment it came to live, the power of abstraction vs the uncanny valley, the impact on what we wanted for animation, caricature and capturing someone, finding the essence of a person, specialization and stepping into direction, drawing ten real people and getting into the graphic memoir, caricature and selling the big moments of small animations, abstraction and universality, adapting to higher resolution, breaking the illusion of interactivity, not being photorealistic but still having the nuance of real actors, highly compressible art and fluidity, uncanny valley of interactivity, picking the right constraints, the train's limitations enabling the possibility of depth, the fascination of interactive theater, holding up better, physical recording separated from voice, allowing for improvisation or variability, being attracted to historical fiction, his family's history, drawing the real things into the memoir, experience, technical nuance and caricature, moments of impactful character interactions, committing to a high bar. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Karateka, Prince of Persia, The Last Express, Smoking Car Productions, Disney, Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family, LucasArts, Space Invaders, Apple, Hitchcock, Thief of Baghdad, Sabu, Conrad Veidt, 1001 Nights, MAD Magazine, Al Hirschfeld, Frank Sinatra, Broderbund, Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud, MYST, Dragon's Lair, Buster Keaton, Robyn Miller, The 7th Guest, Rebel Assault, GTA, Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot, Deadline, The Witness, Infocom, Sleep No More, Assassin's Creed, Zoetrope Studios, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Seven Samurai, Fathom, Michael Turner, The Last of Us, Uncharted, Templar, Count of Monte Cristo, Emily, Michel Ancel, Eric Chahi, Ubisoft, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia.  Next time: TBA! Links: Jordan Mechner's website Twitch: timlongojr Discord DevGameClub@gmail.com

For Episode 390, Brendan takes Jon to Tactical Brewing for a beer ahead of Monday's Drag Bingo night. This week's topics include a massive meat recall, the death of the mayor's Labradoodle, the closing of Graffiti Junktion, and Seven Samurai. This week's episode was sponsored by Credo Conduit, Enzian Theater, and JustCallMoe.com. Tune in to Bungalower and The Bus on Real Radio 104.1 FM every Friday at 8 p.m. or catch the podcast to stay in touch with all of the latest headlines, new restaurants, and best-bet events to attend this week.

Zack Snyder first pitched the idea Seven Samurai in Space when he was in college. In 2012, he pitched it to Kathleen Kennedy as his way of “fixing” Star Wars. In 2023, Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire was released on Netflix. This is the story of how one idea becomes ten hours worth of movie. CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses suicide at 16:10. There is also discussion of fictional depictions of sexual assault and sexual violence at 6:55 - 7:04, 15:08 - 15:27, 28:58 - 29:06, 32:05 - 33:45, 37:25 - 38:23 Please do it! I need to buy so many Rebel Moon art books. You can follow the show on twitter or tumblr @goingroguepod, or for slightly less hinged content, follow @tansyclipboard on twitter or @tansyg.bsky.social on Bluesky. If you want to get in touch, you can email goingroguetansy@gmail.com CLIPS USED:  Rebel Moon Part One - A Child of Fire (dir. Zack Snyder, 2023) Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire with Zack Snyder and Louis Leterrier (The Director's Cut Podcast Ep. 464) Zack Snyder

After Italian producers balked at director Enzo Castellari's idea to remake The Dirty Dozen, he raised the money himself and hired American B-movie titans Bo Svenson and Fred Williamson to lead a group of military prisoners across Nazi German territory (really the backlots of Cinecitta and surrounding areas) on a trek to freedom into Switzerland.  In 1978's The Inglorious Bastards, Castellari uses all the staples of Italian 70's schlock cinema (boobs, blood and bad dubbing) to great effect in this rousing and silly war film.   Dan and Vicky discuss the film that so inspired Quentin Tarantino he bought the rights to the title to use for his own 2009 Nazi war film.  Along the way, you'll get conversations on saving movie theatres, Sip and Paint and 80's actress Lisa Eilbacher as well as find out what a Disney bitch is (hint: Vicky is one).  You'll also hear talk of some recently seen like Beverly HIlls Cop: Axel F, The Seven Samurai in 4K, A Quiet Place: Day One, Will and Grace reruns and Fly Me To The Moon.  Check us out on all our socials:  hotdatepod.com FB:  Hot Date Podcast Twitter: @HotDate726 Insta:  hotdatepod

Max and Evan are discussing legacy sequels. What are they? What makes them good? When does the formula just not work? Additionally, Max reviews Seven Samurai in 4K, a new IFC Films release Ghostlight, and the new Twisters movie. Meanwhile, Evan reviews the new IFC Films release, Oddity and takes a look back at Loki Season 2 ahead of Deadpool & Wolverine hitting theaters.  Website: itsthepicturespodcast.com itsthepictures.substack.com Download the episode today and tweet at Max and Evan (@itsthepicpod). Like the show? Review us on iTunes! We are also available on Stitcher, Spotify, and Letterboxd.  Opening: "The Fire" by Dan_Mantau (c) 2022 - http://ccmixter.org/files/Dan_Mantau/64603 Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) Closing: Pixie Pixels (featuring Kara Square) by spinningmerkaba (c) copyright 2016 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/jlbrock44/53778  Additional comments? Email us: itsthepictures@gmail.com

Description For our special 500th episode, Protagonist Podcast co-founder Todd Mack returns to discuss two classic films with Joe: The Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven. The Seven Samurai is a 1954 film directed by Akira Kurosawa about farmers hiring … Continue reading →

This week, we oldest/highest movie on the list. Celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, this film is a rare example of age, language, or length of a film not inhibiting its ability to feel modern, fast paced, funny, dramatic, action packed…it has it all. It is easy to see how all films have taken influence from this absolute classic. Seven Samurai (1954), directed by Akira Kurosawa.

One of the most prolific and exceptional filmmakers who ever lived, Akira Kurosawa has an anniversary for his best works. His 1954 film “Seven Samurai” has now hit its 70th anniversary this year, and its 4k restoration is soon to be in select theaters. It's a film that was voted the 20th best film of all time by prominent members of the film industry who took part in BFI's Top 225 list back in 2022. ‘Seven Samurai' followed hits in Kurosawa's filmography like “Rashomon” and “Yojimbo'... but what's led to that common sentiment? For this week's FilmWeek Feature, we reprise our retrospective for the film with LAist film critics Peter Rainer, Tim Cogshell, and Andy Klein about why Seven Samurai is essential viewing for cinephiles and all moviegoers.

We've traveled oceans of time… since the last time we recorded together! The SHUD boys reconvene after a month of traveling the world both physically and cinematically to discuss a hundred or so movies that we've collectively watched as we culminate in the beginning of our newest theme, “Oh My Gottttthhhhh!” courtesy of Lucas, and dive deep into Francis Ford Coppola's artistic fever dream BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA!   00:00 - 13:00ish - Intros! Some of us went places! We went to a “new place” to record the episode!   13:00ish - 1:36:00ish - ALLLLL of the movies we've watched recently:   Lucas: Challengers, L.A. Confidential, When Evil Lurks, Perdita Durango, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, The Munsters, IF, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, In a Violent Nature, Good Boys, The Coffee Table, Transformers, Rush Hour 1 & 2, Alien, Aliens, The Shining, and The Fifth Element   Cody: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (x2), In a Violent Nature, The Coffee Table, Seconds, 10 Things I Hate About You, Blood and Black Lace, The Strangers, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, I Saw the TV Glow, Malevolence, Mortuary, Mad Max: Fury Road, Maniac (2012), The Skin I Live In, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, The Beekeeper, Santo vs. Doctor Death, Frank & Zed, Return of the Living Dead Part II, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, Castle of Blood, Contamination .7 aka The Crawlers, City of the Walking Dead aka Nightmare City, Alien, Longlegs, Intruder, Hercules and the Haunted World, The Princess & the Frog, Aliens, Inside Out, Inside Out 2, and Pain & Gain   Austin: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, The Strangers, Longlegs, Conan The Barbarian, Seven Samurai, The Pope's Exorcist, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt. 1, Brave, Not Just a Goof, Kwaidan, Renfield, Split, The Others, Fight Club, Val, Shrek 2, The Fall Guy, Infested, Jungle Cruise, Idiocracy,    Curtis: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, In a Violent Nature, The Coffee Table, Blood and Black Lace, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, Castle of Blood, Contamination .7 aka The Crawlers, City of the Walking Dead aka Nightmare City, Longlegs, The Fall Guy, The American Society of Magical Negroes, Ready or Not, Legally Blonde, Petey Wheatstraw, Torso, The Borderlands, Mad Max, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Messiah of Evil, Deathstalker, Bay of Blood, Crimson Peak, Mad Mad: Fury Road, Peeping Tom, Targets, Revenge, Hit Man, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Wedding Singer, Martin, Pieces, Nope, Jaws, The Watchers, Crawl, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Under Paris, Sting, Bad Boys II, and The Idea of You.   1:36:00ish - 2:24:00ish - Intro to our new theme and BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA SHUDdown and discussion!   2:24:00ish - End - Our next movie in our series “Oh My Gotttthhhhh!”

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We take a look at Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon - Part 2: The Scargiver and how it compares to Star Wars.   In this fully armed and operational episode of Podcast Starust, we discuss: Our overall, non-spoiler thoughts on Rebel Moon - Part 2, How this movie follows in the tradition of movies like The Seven Samurai, The Star Wars influences we found in Rebel Moon - Part 2, The scenes that stood out to us and criticisms we have of the movie, The potential for a sequel, and How, if at all, this movie could work as a Star Wars movie. Find our discussion of Rebel Moon - Part 1 in episode 684.   Thanks for joining us for another episode! Subscribe to Podcast Stardust for all your Star Wars news, reviews, and discussion wherever you get your podcasts. And please leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts.   Get your Ultimate Lightsaber 2.0 from SaberMasters and use our referral code (STARDUST) at checkout for $10 off. Head to www.sabermasters.com/discount/stardust   Find Jay and her cosplay adventures on J.Snips Cosplay on Instagram.   Join us for real time discussion on the RetroZap Discord Server here: RetroZap Discord.  Follow us on social media: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | YouTube. T-shirts, hoodies, stickers, masks, and posters are available on TeePublic. Find all episodes on RetroZap.com.

The FX miniseries Shōgun takes viewers on a journey filled with action and adventure through historically accurate 1600's Edo-era Japan. Englishman John Blackthorne arrives on a Dutch trading ship after a rough voyage, interested in beginning trade with the Japanese. The country is governed by five regents locked in a power struggle, and the ruler Toranaga thinks the Englishman might be useful to him. Director Jonathan van Tulleken and cinematographer Christopher Ross worked on episodes one and two together, establishing the look of the series. They have a deep understanding of each other's creative vision, collaborating on several TV shows over the years. For Shōgun, Jonathan and Chris created a visual experience that honors both the grandeur of feudal Japan and the disorientation of a foreign visitor like the “anjin,” John Blackthorne. The two met and created a look book and sizzle reel to present to FX. Jonathan drew inspiration from movies such as The Revenant and Apocalypse Now. Chris was influenced by classic Japanese films Ran, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, and Akira Kirosawa's jidaigeki (historical drama) films. Most importantly, they wanted the show to be bold and stand out with a cinematic look and genuine artistic intention behind it. Chris chose anamorphic lenses and wider aspect ratios for the first two episodes, playing with the point of view of the outsider's subjectivity and disorientation. The choice of anamorphic lenses, which create a lot of background blur but keeps the character in crisp focus, may have seemed controversial, but has become more widely used on today's television shows. (Read this article from The Ringer to learn more.) Shōgun was shot in British Columbia during the winter, with the wild ocean shores of Canada and carefully designed soundstages standing in for Japan. Jonathan, Chris and the production team chose a lighting and color palette of browns and greens for the warring factions. Opulent costumes, warmer lights and colors represented palace life in Osaka, while in the village, the use of blues and grays reflected the harsh realities of the time period. The dialog is almost entirely in Japanese, and Jonathan actually enjoyed directing in a language he didn't speak. “It meant that you were not giving line readings, you couldn't give line readings. You had to direct in a much more pure way, dealing with the bigger arcs of the scene, the character development, without getting into very macro stuff that isn't helpful. I think you could just feel the emotion.” Chris agrees. “What you're hoping to achieve is some sort of emotional resonance with a character that is in tune with what they're saying and synchronous with what they're saying.” Find Jonathan Van Tulleken: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1743387/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Find Chris Ross: Instagram @edjibevel Sponsored by Hot Rod Cameras www.hotrodcameras.com Get Tickets to Cinebeer 2024! https://www.tickettailor.com/events/hotrodcameras/1263845? The Cinematography Podcast website: www.camnoir.com Facebook: @cinepod Instagram: @thecinepod Twitter: @ShortEndz

After demands from the fans and a brief hiatus, Will & Jared have decided to cover the big budget Netflix original Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver.  Does Zack Snyder's Seven Samurai in Space work everything out by the end of this second film? Or are we left half asleep and denied the dignity of a real ending in lieu of a cliffhanger for another sequel? (And another? And another?!). Did Will or Jared come away from this film with a newfound respect for director Zack Snyder? Are there some absolutely baffling scenes and plot points that Jared is going to bring up multiple times? Listen to find out! Next week on Debaser: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga!Our outro track is The Aki Way by Purrfect.Cover art by @DogBitesBackNYEmail the show at podcast@debaserpod.comFollow Will on Instagram and Jared on Twitter.Follow the show on Instagram and Twitter.

When farmers from a village are brought trouble by bandits, they hire a samurai warrior for protection.  He helps recruit six others to prepare for the battle to come to protect these people.  An epic battle ensues when the bandits attacks and the samurai help save the day.  This is Akira Kurosawa's brilliant classic, Seven Samurai on this week's episode, our 400th! Also this week, Furiosa:: A Mad Max Saga is discussed, plus watching Godzilla Minus One on Netflix now, we take a brief look back at 400 episodes so far, and discuss the state of the movie going experience.  Plus a preview of next week's episode, Star Trek III The Search For Spock! Visit us for all episodes & more at the www.therebelradiopodcast.com Please leave us a 5-Star review on iTunes! You can also find us on Spotify iHeartRadio Follow us on Facebook

Zack Snyder's Star Wars Seven Samurai Rebel Moon is out! Zack Snyder pitched his Seven Samurai in space to Disney and they said "fuck off." So, then, he pitched it to Netflix and they said: "Awesome!" Now, we've got these two movies featuring all the Zack Snyderisms-- slow motion, speed ramping, gratuitous action, and portentious monologues. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Want to watch these episodes live? Check us out at https://www.youtube.com/@somederpsplaygames or twitch.tv/somederpsplaygames Check out the podcast on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/somederpstalkaboutgames Want to tell us something? Email us at podcast@somederpsplaygames.com Like our Facebook page too! www.facebook.com/SomeDerpsPlayGames/ We have a Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/somederpsplaygames Rate us on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/some-derps-talk-about-games/id1048899720 Follow us on Twitter! SDPG: twitter.com/somederps Buddy: twitter.com/thatbuddysola Mango: twitter.com/theonetruemango Intro and Outro courtesy of twitter.com/VinceRolin

EPISODE #418-- We eschew all semblance of taste and decency to celebrate the life and death of Roger Corman (RIP) with the women-in-prison nightmare THE BIG DOLL HOUSE from 1971. It's got Pam Grier and that's about the best thing in the movie. The rest of is a fetid horrorshow of 1970's politics, exploitation aesthetics, and run of the mill schlock. It was a massive box office success. We also talk George Miller's THE ROAD WARRIOR (1981), Vera Drew's THE PEOPLE'S JOKER (2024), CAPTAIN MILLER (2024), as well as Hitchcock's THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, along with GAMBIT and Kurosawa's SEVEN SAMURAI. A fine little episode. Join the cause at Patreon.com/Quality. Follow the us on Twitter @kislingtwits, on Bluesky at kislingconnection.bsky, on Instagram @kislingwhatsit, and on Tiktok @kislingkino. You can watch Cruz and show favorite Alexis Simpson on You Tube in "They Live Together." Thanks to our artists Julius Tanag (http://www.juliustanag.com) and Sef Joosten (http://spexdoodles.tumblr.com). The theme music is "Eine Kleine Sheissemusik" by Drew Alexander. Listen to DRACULA: A RADIO PLAY on Apple Podcasts, at dracularadio.podbean.com, and at the Long Beach Playhouse at https://lbplayhouse.org/show/dracula And, as always, Support your local unions! UAW, SAG-AFTRA, and WGA strong and please leave us a review on iTunes or whatever podcatcher you listened to us on!

1980's Battle Beyond the Stars A farm boy recruits a band of outlaws to save the planet Akir from forces that threaten to wipe them out from the face of the universe. A battle stretching beyond the stars begins here. This low budget sci fi version of Seven Samurai is, well, a low budget version of that classic movie.  It has a wide range of characters and locations.  The ships look terrible and the acting is hilarous.  The film score is amazing and led James Horner to land the Wrath of Khan film, so we can be thankful for that.  Cheapseat Reviews the Podcast that explores the Hollywood film industry for the greater good. 

The latest Star Wars animated series concludes and the Geeks have their say! They also review an all time classic in Kurasawa's Seven Samurai! This week's Top 3 List features the comics the boys wished they could read again for the first time! Thanks for listening and Keep On Geekin' On! Timestamps 8:36 Top 3 Comics We Wished We Could Read for the First Time Again 37:51 The Bad Batch Episodes 13-15 1:00:25 Seven Samurai --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/3oldgeeks/message

Akira Kurosawa. Ever heard of him? We kick off the final 5 episodes of Season 7: The Big Ones Part Two, with one of the pillars of cinema, Seven Samurai. We're joined by Escape Hatch Kurosawa Korrespondent, MikeyP. And by Escape Hatch Projectionist, Silly Oswald.  Chapters Introduction (00:00:00) Hatch News (00:07:58) Seven Samurai Roundtable (0:10:02) Your Letters (01:39:18)   Notes and Links Check out the Escape Hatch Merch! Great swag and every order includes a free Cameo style shoutout from Haitch or Jason. Browse our collection now. Join the Escape Hatch Patreon! Support the show as a patron and receive exclusive bonus episodes, early access to episodes, join our LIVE recordings, and much more. Join the Escape Hatch Discord Server! Our server is live, and this is the place to hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. It's a spot to chat movies, books, games, whatever. Join us! https://discord.gg/R5ThKbTn7t Checkout TAPEDECK Podcasts! Escape Hatch is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts. Check out our fellow podcasts! Escape Hatch Set List on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/escapehatchpod/list/escape-hatch-set-list/ Let us know what you think of the show. Write us at letters@escapehatchpod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211‬. Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it wherever you listen to the pod.  Follow @escapehatchpod on Twitter and Instagram Music by Scott Fritz and Who'z The Boss Music Cover art by Ctcher Edited and produced by Haitch Escape Hatch is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn, a production of Haitch Industries

Not simply content with making one terrible Rebel Moon movie, Zack Snyder delivers another via Netflix called Rebel Moon Part Two: The Scargiver. Almost nothing happens in this film as it decides to dedicate its running time to slow motion grain harvesting rather than world-building or character development, leading to some rushed and hilarious moments. Interspersed with occasionally interesting visuals, Rebel Moon ends up being a hybrid of the Seven Samurai and The Canterbury Tales if they were interpreted by an idiot. Watch for laughs only.

Glenn Kenny is the author of the new book “The World Is Yours: The Story of ‘Scarface,' and is one of our favorite film critics and scholars in general. He's here to talk about the mighty 1954, a less-discussed year that gave us everything from “The Seven Samurai” to “Rear Window” to “The Creature from the Black Lagoon.”  For show notes - including where to stream this week's movies, links to referenced media, and more - subscribe on Buttondown at https://buttondown.email/AVeryGoodYear. https://plus.acast.com/s/a-very-good-year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Dames finally cover the film that gave us our name as we discuss some incredibly essential films from the Criterion Collection (and why they're so important): Citizen Kane (1941), Seven Samurai (1954), and The Graduate (1967). So...what do you think about the significance of Rosebud?

Script Rippers Hobert and Mike are back for their first ever sequel, returning to the very sexy moon of Veldt for more Rebellin.' In this installment of Zach's Synder “whatever, I'll make my own Star Wars!” series, Kora and the rest of her gang of 2-dimensional space warriors prepare for a showdown with the empire by harvesting grain for a surprisingly large portion of the film's run time. Join the Rippers as they turn this bland Seven Samurai rehash into an ode to farming equipment that's equal parts agricultural revolution, Transformers, and Baja Blast!

One of the most prolific and exceptional filmmakers who ever lived, Akira Kurosawa has an anniversary for his best works. His 1954 film “Seven Samurai” has now hit its 70th anniversary, released on April 26. It's a film that was voted the 20th best film of all time by prominent members of the film industry who took part in BFI's Top 225 list back in 2022. ‘Seven Samurai' followed hits in Kurosawa's filmography like “Rashomon” and “Yojimbo'... but what's led to that common sentiment? For this week's FilmWeek Feature, we talk to LAist film critics Peter Rainer, Tim Cogshell, and Andy Klein about why Seven Samurai is essential viewing for cinephiles and all moviegoers.

We're heading back to Rebel Moon for Part 2! After Part One - A Child of Fire lit up Netflix screens in December of last year, we had to wait four months for the second half of Zack Snyder's Seven Samurai in Space. Now, it's here, and it is indeed a movie that we have seen. But was it worth the wait or was it better off left to our imagination? And how does it compare to that other Part 2 of a sci-fi epic that we got this year, Dune? We're heading to the Netlix app and clicking “play” on Rebel Moon: Part 2 - The Scargiver to find out!   For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com   You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please subscribe and give us a positive review. You can also follow us on Twitter @LegendsPodcast or even better, send us an e-mail: LegendsPodcastS@gmail.com   You can write to Rum Daddy directly: rumdaddylegends@gmail.com You can find all our contact information here on the Network page of GonnaGeek.com Our complete archive is always available at www.legendspodcast.com, www.legendspodcast.libsyn.com

Brian and Amanda delve into two enthralling episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, season two. "Cat and Mouse" sparks their interest with its thematic parallels to The Last Jedi. The episode introduces the formidable villain Admiral Trench and marks the true chronological beginning of the season."Bounty Hunters" takes a different turn, channeling the spirit of Akira Kurosawa's classic film Seven Samurai. This episode unveils a new group of bounty hunters as well as familiar scum and villainy such as the cunning Hondo Ohnaka. Both Brian and Amanda find these episodes to be a turning point for the series, impressed by the diversity of characters and storylines on display.

Welcome to the Junior edition of the SHUDcast's BETA THETA DIE: COLLEGE HORROR series! As we come into legal drinking age we take a time-honored adolescent adventure to our local gentleman's club and discover 1986's horror-comedy cult classic, VAMP! During our little beer run we also make pit stops and discuss the myriad of other titles we've recently watched (including more Dune talk) and things get a little spicy as we tried our darnedest to race through everything. We hope you enjoy us at maybe our most unhinged, the way college-esque experiences are supposed to be!   00:00 - 16:00ish - Friendship – We discuss Cody's two Letterboxd accounts and personalities, and his disturbing nightmare shouting.   16:00ish - 1:25:30ish - All the other stuff we watched this time!   Lucas: Dune Part II (a bunch), Ricky Stanicky, Imaginary, The Other Guys, The American Society of Magical Negroes, Glengarry Glen Ross, Poor Things, Road House (2024), Late Night With the Devil, Love Lies Bleeding, Infinity Pool, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire   Curtis: The American Society of Magical Negroes, Late Night With the Devil, Love Lies Bleeding (again!), Infinity Pool, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Spaceman, Speak No Evil (2022), Ghost Snatchers, The Spider Labyrinth, Lovely, Dark, and Deep, 300, The Abyss, The Blob (1988), Exists, Immaculate, Alien 3, Alien: Resurrection, Prometheus, Alien: Covenant, The Company of Wolves, SPL: Kill Zone, The Church, and The Devil's Candy   Austin: Dune Part II (just the once), Love Lies Bleeding, Infinity Pool, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, The Devil's Rejects, Past Lives, Silent Hill, 3 From Hell, Blow Out, Now You See Me, Now You See Me 2,    Cody: Dune Part II (also a bunch), Late Night With the Devil, Love Lies Bleeding, Infinity Pool, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Ghost Snatchers, The Spider Labyrinth, Immaculate, Batman Begins, Mean Girls (2024), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, The Dark Knight, Blade Runner, The Dark Knight Rises, Joker, The Batman, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, The Matrix Resurrections, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Batman & Robin, I Saw the Devil, Batman Returns, The Face of Another, Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey II, Super Mario Bros., Superbad, and Seven Samurai.   1:25:30ish - 1:59:00ish - VAMP - SHUDdown and discussion   1:59:00ish - End - Our next movie and finale of BETA THETA DIE: COLLEGE HORROR!