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The Twin Geeks

The flagship film program for The Twin Geeks. Join us for bi-weekly podcast specials where we rank, dissect, and discuss the best of classic and contemporary cinema with friends from our community and the industry at large.A production of The Twin Geeks | Join our Discord

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The Twin Geeks 173: Akira

The Twin Geeks ·

2023/06/16

Good for Health. Bad for Education. The Twin Geeks Editor Vaughn Swearingen joins the show to discuss Akira (1988) and why it has earned and maintained its title as The Definitive Anime. We use Akira as a launching point to discuss our month of Ani-May watches, our history with the medium, and the plethora of other great content that also deserves broad and international audiences.A production of The Twin Geeks | Join our Discord

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The Twin Geeks 172: Succession & the End of Classic HBO

The Twin Geeks ·

2023/06/02

All good things come to an end. Succession, as it stands, might be the best television program of a generation. As it draws to a close, it marks a distinct end of an era for HBO shows and the future of television. What does Succession tell us about the state of television, the future of prestige appointment television, and the shaky future ahead for Warner Bros. Discovery and their latest rebranding exercise? Friend of the show and The Twin Geeks television correspondent Tyler Harford joins the

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The Twin Geeks 171: Pirates of the Caribbean

The Twin Geeks ·

2023/05/19

If it's a podcast ya want, yer in one. Aaron White of Feelin' Film joins the show to discuss the spirited Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. From top-to-bottom, we trace the lineage of the Disneyland ride that inspired the franchise, the great Gore Verbinski action vehicles that defined the movies, those other two entries, and even a rarely-covered short film. Within our discourse, we discover a great love for the nautical adventuring series and lament the end of a certain kind of

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The Twin Geeks 170: The Super Mario Bros. Movie

The Twin Geeks ·

2023/05/05

Dad & daughter join forces as a podcasting duo for the first time ever to record their thoughts after seeing Illumination's Mario film in theaters. Ezra shares her favorite videogames, movies, thoughts about the Mario Universe, Dreamlight Valley, and our shared favorite movie experiences. It's a special show about how families connect over movies and videogames. Let's-a go.A production of The Twin Geeks | Join our Discord

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The Twin Geeks 169: A League of Their Own

The Twin Geeks ·

2023/04/21

There’s no crying in baseball, as friend of the show Renee Marie joins for a wide-ranging discussion of the iconic A League of Their Own, which remains the pinnacle of Women’s Sports Movies. Films that live with us are our bread and butter. This is especially true for this episode, as Renee has a close personal relationship with the film, informed by hosting trivia nights, meeting one of the film’s stars, creating cosplay for conventions, modeling her cosplay for the film in magazines, and most

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The Twin Geeks 168:James Cameron - King of the Sequel

The Twin Geeks ·

2023/04/07

Our friend JD Duran from InSession Film joins the show to discuss the complete works of James Cameron’s filmography, why he is the king of sequels, and how his career as a foremost technician has advanced the course of filmmaking.A production of The Twin Geeks | Join our Discord

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The Twin Geeks 167: Every Oscars Best Picture Winner...

The Twin Geeks ·

2023/03/12

Every Best Picture winner in Oscars history enters and all are ranked according to your hosts, Calvin and Matt, organized into tidy tiers for your viewing and listening pleasure. Every movie has been watched, evaluated, and slotted into careful placement in our lists, including all but this year's eventual winner.A production of The Twin Geeks | Join our Discord

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39:49

TG10: David Punch's List

The Twin Geeks ·

2023/01/27

The Twin Geeks co-founder David Punch presents his list in this The Twin Geeks podcast special, presented by Stephen GillespieA production of The Twin Geeks | Join our Discord

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The Twin Geeks 166: Halloween 4: The Return of...

The Twin Geeks ·

2022/10/28

It's a The Twin Geeks tradition! Our resident Halloween expert Jesse joins the show to talk Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Halloween Ends, seasonal horror watches, and... Radiohead's In Rainbows (2007). See you next year!A production of The Twin Geeks | Join our Discord

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The Twin Geeks 165: Robert Altman - Short Cuts & Long...

The Twin Geeks ·

2022/10/21

Over the course of nearly 50 active years in the film industry, Robert Altman created a total of 35 unique and creative feature films. It has been a long journey to catalog the trajectory of that storied course, but we come now, some four months later, at the end of the road. From an early peak in the mid-1970s, he was churning out an unmatchable string of masterful ensemble contemplations, to a rough era of uncompromised artistic efforts in the '80s, which suffer significantly in spite of his

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The Twin Geeks 164: Robert Altman - Short Cuts & Long...

The Twin Geeks ·

2022/09/29

It's not often, in Hollywood, that our heroes find a second wind. It's true that everyone loves a happy ending, but they love a devastating tragedy just as much, if not more. Some of the industry's most treasured pioneers spent the later halves of their career languishing out in the cold, and after more than a decade of relative isolation from the bigwigs in California, it seemed like that same familiar fate was destined for Robert Altman, too. But in 1992, Altman had his comeback, and

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The Twin Geeks 163: Robert Altman - Short Cuts & Long...

The Twin Geeks ·

2022/09/10

Altman's continued trend of adapting stage plays into feature films proceeded into the end of the '80s with mixed successes. On one hand there were films like Secret Honor (1984), a scaled-back character study of a fictional Richard Nixon contemplating on the missteps and bitter grudges of his tumultuous political career, carried by an astounding one-man performance from Phillip Baker Hall. On the other you have something like Fool for Love (1985), an oddball testimony of toxic relationships

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The Twin Geeks 162: Robert Altman - Short Cuts & Long...

The Twin Geeks ·

2022/08/26

The legacy of Robert Altman presides mostly in the '70s, based on the strength of his back-to-back run of multiple masterpieces in the early part of that decade. That trend did not continue for him on into the '80s, as a series of previous flops put him in a precarious scenario of needing a big commercial hit that studio executives were praying would allude him. Peculiar oddities like A Perfect Couple (1979) and HealtH (1980) estranged him from producers in Hollywood, on top of already being

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The Twin Geeks 161: Robert Altman - Short Cuts & Long...

The Twin Geeks ·

2022/08/12

If the central thesis of Altman's directorial bent has always been an investigation of what America means, then Nashville (1975) is his ultimate statement on the matter. This sprawling opus of the country musical capital of the country brings together all the disparate, intersecting elements of our culture into an overlapping menagerie of cultural curios and distinct personalities, clashing and interacting with one another as political tensions broil in the background. Altman produced this film

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The Twin Geeks 160: Robert Altman - Short Cuts & Long...

The Twin Geeks ·

2022/07/29

And thus began Altman's unprecedented run of innovative masterworks. One by one, Altman ran the gamut of American genre favorites, upending and undoing every convention and expectation held within their structures as a means of dissecting and interrogating the inherent truths buried beneath their mountains of cliches. Time and time again, contemporaries of Altman have called McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)(a film Altman himself dubbed an "Anti-Western") his greatest film. Not to give

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The Twin Geeks 159: Robert Altman - Short Cuts & Long...

The Twin Geeks ·

2022/07/01

Often recognized as a maverick within the Hollywood system, during a time when everyone was a maverick trying to reinvent the American industry just as it had creatively bottomed out, Robert Altman was truly a filmmaker of his own making. Preceding his New Hollywood contemporaries by about a generation, Altman fought in World War II and made his directorial debut in the '50s, before moving on to hone his craft in television. Over time, Altman would become known for his naturalism as a filmmaker,

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The Twin Geeks 158: Ralph Bakshi - X-Rated, Animated,...

The Twin Geeks ·

2022/06/03

Bakshi continued his pursuit of avante-garde animation throughout the 1980s. His refinement of rotoscoping as a means of perfecting the fluid translation of human movement continued into the decade, beginning with American Pop (1981): a jukebox journey through America's cultural apogee, starting with the sonic roots of vaudeville and ragtime, building towards an electric rock 'n roll climax through the eyes of four musicals generations. 1982 saw the release of a project Bakshi first began

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The Twin Geeks 157: Ralph Bakshi - X-Rated, Animated,...

The Twin Geeks ·

2022/05/20

With the death of the Haye's Code in the late 1960's and a dearth of new movies from the Disney Corporation's homogenous stranglehold over the field of animation, the time was right for new players to take up the field, carving out a unique landscape in cinema which was not only varied in its style and artistic voices, but in its audiences as well. The leader of this pack was a Jewish animator from a historically Black neighborhood in Brooklyn -- two informative elements of Bakshi's

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The Twin Geeks 156: In Your Honor - A Foo Fighters...

The Twin Geeks ·

2022/05/06

The world's most famous rock band. The last vestiges of a style and sound still thriving after the world has moved on to so many other modern genres. A link to the revolutionary sound stemming from Seattle, Washington in the early '90s, birthed from the ashes of its most infamous loss. And now, another cloud of ash threatens to blanket the Foo Fighters for good, as the tragic eruption of drummer Taylor Hawkins' untimely death signals a potential conclusion for this group's near

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The Twin Geeks 155: Jean Cocteau - The Rest is...

The Twin Geeks ·

2022/04/08

Take a new look at the world around you. Look through a mirror. What does it say about your world that is new? The cinema of Jean Cocteau is a world of mirrors and new ways of imagining the world. Looking at Cocteau’s movies is also a kind of gazing into a mirror, reality reflected back more fantastical, more fabulous, more than the real thing ever could. Cocteau made the prosaic profound.Cocteau called mirrors the door from which death comes and goes. They are essential Georges Méliès-styled visual

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