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...

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 Bar...

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, 199...

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, ...

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...

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” ...

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)...

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 D...

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...

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...

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”...

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 Friedk...

This is part of a series about movies from 1971. ***Referenced media:“The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)“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)“Th...

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)“T...

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa learn something new about the birds and the bees: avoid “the Great Imitator”. *** 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...

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...

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”...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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...