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Mary Versus the Movies@maryvsmovies.bsky.social |
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A podcast taking on 1980s cinema, from “Fitzcarraldo” to “The Toy”.
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An arrogant New York shock-jock’s fall from grace is tempered by the debt he owes to an eccentric unhoused man, the woman he loves, and a search for the Holy Grail in Terry Gilliam’s magical-realist tale of redemption.
Episode 15 - The Fisher King
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Unfortunately for the podcast, I have seen this one, can’t do an episode.
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Dennis Fangg
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Have your kids light you a cigar and check out our Bad News Bears pod.
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A washed-up, alcoholic ex-ballplayer is recruited to coach the worst team in little league, pulling them together into a real team, where the star pitcher is a girl and the best player is a dirtbike-riding juvenile delinquent.
Episode 149 - The Bad News Bears
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Mary Jones
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There’s a lot to like about this movie. And one huge thing to hate.
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Unfortunately “today” only starts around 2021–we actually get into how blackface was even on tv (in satirical forms) up through the 2010s.
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Dennis Fangg
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“Otisburg?!?” Silver Streak on MVM this week
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A book editor witnesses a murder during a cross-country trip, and is plunged into a Hitchcockian world of murder and intrigue.
Episode 148 - Silver Streak
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*for those in the back* 🚨 LIQUID SKY IS ON MOTHERFUCKING CRITERION NOW, WHY DID I HAVE TO WATCH IT ON YOUTUBE 🚨
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Dennis Fangg
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Dirty Harry with babies. Cinema’s peak.
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A Miami Vice-influenced cross between neo-Noir and over-the-top action, it’s the story of two cops—one an alcoholic detective, the other an undercover cop playing hitman—taking down some Hong Kong gangsters.
Episode 147 - Hard Boiled
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This is a preview of our Patreon-only series Hollywood Avalon: An Arthurian Film Podcast. To hear the entire episode, join the Mary Versus the Movies patreon for $3/month to hear this and the entire series Hollywood Avalon: www.patreon.com/maryvsmovies.
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Anna and Françoise find themselves in a mysterious forest, where they fall prey to Morgan le Fay, the fairy queen of Avalon who rules her magic island as a savage, Sapphic nightmare.
Hollywood Avalon 14 - Morgane et ses nymphes
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“Pennies From Heaven”
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“A sheet-music salesman's life spirals out of control during the Great Depression, but that doesn't stop him from daydreaming about a better life through song.“
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Pennies From Heaven could easily have a comeback if more people knew about Christopher Walken’s dance scene.
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A sheet-music salesman’s life spirals out of control during the Great Depression, but that doesn’t stop him from daydreaming about a better life through song.
Episode 146 - Pennies from Heaven
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Mary Versus the Movies
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Sorry, no episode this week due to scheduling conflicts. We will be back next week with our episode on the Steve Martin musical “Pennies From Heaven”, as well as the next Hollywood Avalon episode, the French erotic horror movie “Morgane et ses Nymphes”.
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Mary Versus the Movies
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Sorry, no episode this week due to scheduling conflicts. We will be back next week with our episode on the Steve Martin musical “Pennies From Heaven”, as well as the next Hollywood Avalon episode, the French erotic horror movie “Morgane et ses Nymphes”.
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From the section on Birdy, which we covered in episode 59
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We got mentioned in the Philly Inquirer today! Thanks, @classypatrick.bsky.social
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Oh, Lambada is absolutely on the list, we can have you on as a guest.
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Oh, I love the idea of Dance Month!
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I have not! Waited, is that Taps? Or is that a different movie? I haven’t seen Taps either.
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It looks like they just took “Pennies from Heaven” off Max (🙄), but it’s available to rent on Apple, Amazon, YouTube, etc.
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Thanks, Jon!
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Jon Solomon
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The archive of this week's radio show will be up shortly.
While you wait (and I listen to the new Shellac record), please enjoy this comic about WPRB and Steve Albini from listener @zizpa.bsky.social of @maryvsmovies.bsky.social.
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In a world where dancing is banned, only one boy has the courage to stand up to the religious fanatics denying his magical feet. Or something. I guess.
Episode 145 - Footloose
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Bored suburban kids get into trouble, hassled by the cops until it turns deadly, and ending in an orgy of destruction—a pretty familiar American story, done exceptionally well here.
Episode 144 - Over the Edge
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Dennis Fangg
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America: we made jazz and comics, don’t judge us too harshly.
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Oh yeah, we are absolutely rolling in dough.
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A gambler’s cousin shows up from Hungary and suddenly turns his dirtbag life upsidedown, sending them on a roadtrip around America.
Starring John Lurie, Eszter Balint, and Richard Edson. Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.
Episode 143 - Stranger Than Paradise
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Episode might be late this week, might come out Friday night instead, sorry about that. But hey, if you haven’t watched “Stranger Than Paradise” yet, this gives you a chance before our episode posts.
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This is a preview of our Patreon-only series Hollywood Avalon: An Arthurian Film Podcast. To hear the entire episode, join the Mary Versus the Movies patreon for $3/month to hear this and the entire series Hollywood Avalon: www.patreon.com/maryvsmovies.
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We return to Camelot with a look at the 1967 film production of the musical. It’s an overly-long production that loses steam in its third hour, but the first two are possibly the best-looking movie we’ve covered for the show.
Episode 13 - Camelot, Part II
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This sounds terrible, I must see it.
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This looks amazing
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It’s good!
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For those who don’t know, this is the obnoxious groundhog mascot I mention in the Eating Raoul episode. There are dozens of commercials with him.
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A sexually-repressed couple fund their dream of opening a restaurant by posing as sex workers and murdering Los Angeles swingers. When a local thief worms his way into the scheme, everything goes haywire.
Episode 142 - Eating Raoul (1982)
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It better.
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I’m sorry, I have no idea who they are.
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Uhhh what do you mean Camelot is three hours long?
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HEY THE ATARI WAS GREAT YOU DORK
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This is what peak male performance looks like. 70k+ on Pole Position! But sorry ladies, he’s a robot. At least this Daryl didn’t leave John Oates.
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A mysterous boy is adopted by a couple and soon shows himself to be unnervingly perfect. Is he really a robot? Maybe even a secret military project? Yeah, of course he is, this is the 1980s. It’s not great.
Episode 141 - D.A.R.Y.L.
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I *really* want to do Over the Top late this year.
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Mary vs the Movies № 140 “Dream a Little Dream.”
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Alana Phelan returns to Mary vs. the Movies to discuss the oddball 1989 Corey² body swap comedy(?) that Roger Ebert called “aggressively unwatchable.”
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Thanks for this, I hadn’t.
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The Coreys collide with Jason Robards’ dream powers in this new age high school romance dramedy. Who doesn’t love the Coreys?
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