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“The one star reviews of this podcast are hiliarious! It's like bonus content!
Actually this is a good show, that started as a way to explore an underexamined genre in film: the earnest liberal agit-prop movie. I never watched any of these but they would be frequently mentioned in left-leaning and anti-war publications in the Bush era. They always sounded terrible to me, so I never watched them. I'm glad to hear I was correct. The hosts dunk on the self-seriousness and lack of message that films like this reflect.
As this genere is rather limited, they've moved on to the political aspect of other films. Viewing films through a partisan political lense can be painful if it's done wrong, but the hosts have so far done it quite right. They acknowledge good things - if there are any - and understand quality filmmaking is not the same as ideological correctness. I particularly enjoy when the talk about films they unironically enjoy, like Chaplin's Great DIctator or Kazan's Face in the Crowd.
I can't recall disagreeing with their critical judgement, though eventually it will happen. Until then, though, this podcast is tops!”Read full review »
zangief420 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/05/18
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happy in the city via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/18/18
“Came this way first via my appreciation of John Semley's twitter presence (he's on the American Sniper ep), then started actually reading full articles from all involved. Wow. Really will save your soul. I'm a fiend for this stuff, likely what you've been looking for forever as...”Read full review »
Slopp B Hole via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/15/19
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