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PODCAST

Wages of Cinema

Jack Gattanella

A podcast that is practically all about MOVIES! Cinema, films, celluloid, digital, whatever you want to call it. Jack and Andrew are the hosts, and we talk about new movies, classics, cult work, things we"ve seen and have never seen, special segments about directors and styles and trends, and "Required Reading" which is about movie books. And the "Local Vocal" series gives you in-depth interviews with NYC/NJ based filmmakers, actors, artists and musicians.

tv & film

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01:40:26

Episode 173: 2022 Academy Award Nominations and Best...

Wages of Cinema ·

2022/02/28

It's here! At last! Were you.... even asking for it? Well, it comes but once a year, at any rate (though in this case it's an Oscar/awards season that technically takes films from March 2021 to December of 2021, so no Judas and the Black Messiah even though that was 2021 February oh hell go listen to our last year podcast for that one, episode... you can figure it out pretty easy, we think). We, Jack and Korey, dissect and look at the films that got nominated for Best Picture of the year - and,

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01:05:43

Episode 172: THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS (and the Matrix...

Wages of Cinema ·

2021/12/23

Mr. Anderson..... (cough cough) ok we've done the impression long enough. So, what's it like to get plugged back in to a franchise? What kind of a series have the Wachowskis given us up to this point, and is this fourth time around (with sister Lana, minus Lily) the one that brings it back to the greatness of the original? What does going back to the well even mean? And why does Jack bring up Free Guy AND Gremlins 2 in a review that really calls to mind (for Korey) Seed of Chucky? oh no, Kansas

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01:10:39

Episode 171: Marvel's SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME

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2021/12/19

Organic and/or Mechanical Web-shooter SPOILERS will be springing out this way and that from many parts of the body you don't even know you had at 23:30 minutes in. Good? Cool! Friendly Neighborhood Podcasting continues! So, how to make sense of a world where characters from the multi-verse(s) of Spider-Man films come into play in one big blow-out Reunion special like No Way Home? Is there any sense to be made, or should we all just come in and coast on the vibes that come with Alfred Molina

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01:59:31

Episode 170: Sam Raimi's SPIDER-MAN Trilogy

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2021/12/05

Who am I? Actually, that's the wrong personage? Who are WE?! No, sorry, that's too strong, what are we, Venom? No, who we are exactly should be no mystery - have we have secret disguises all this time... maybe we have, mwa-ha-ha... - but for real, we are Jack and Trash Panda Korey, and with the upcoming release of the third Spider-Man movie (and just a nostalgia for 2000's New York pizza prices and cameos that include Joel McHale AND Hal Sparks, in one movie, nache), we decided to revisit all

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01:20:54

Episode 169: Marvel's ETERNALS

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2021/11/06

What's bigger than Why are we Here? Who created the Earth and Heavens and those weird Beast Wars characters we take for granted (here called uh looks at notes ah yes Deviants)? And what is up with the Bollywood career of that one actor who looks like his father-grandfather-great-grandfather? We saw Eternals! This being the full crew - Jack, Andrew, Trash-Panda Korey and "Guest-Star" (Uni-Mind) Matt - we go into everything about this new gigantic piece of pop culture ephemera from a title that

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01:07:13

Episode 168: DUNE (part 1) (2021)

Wages of Cinema ·

2021/10/23

whoa. sandworms. you hate em, right? well, here at the Wages of Cinema we just got back from riding a mean mother sandworm and boy are our arms and joints and hips tired and we're here to tell you all about it! Oh, wait, ok ::holds heads:: we had too much spice or something. I (Jack) meant we recorded our thoughts in Denis Villeneuve's DUNE - part one (and fingers crossed they make part two) - and SPICY SPOILERS begin 38 minutes in. Join us, also Andrew from House Birchenough and Korey from

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00:45:02

Episode 167: Marvel's SHANG-CHI & THE LEGEND OF THE...

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2021/09/05

spoilers begin 25 minutes in How does Marvel do a gigantic Wuxia influenced adaptation of a series that origibly was inspired by Bruce Lee? Well, let's just say Marvel is gonna Marvel, but if you got the star of nearly all of Wong Kar Wai's films (he was in Hero too we neglected to mention in the eoisode), how can you go wrong? Jack, Korey and Guest Star Matt saw Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings visit Matt at https://mattthecatania.wordpress.com

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01:05:40

Episode 166: James Gunn's THE SUICIDE SQUAD (+ THE...

Wages of Cinema ·

2021/08/07

THE WAGES OF CINEMA PODCAST IS A PODCAST!!!!! But for real, we're so glad you can join us this week for the hot-as-a-OMG-WE'RE-BUNRING-ALIVE takes on the latest (and greatest?) of DCEU movies... or do we even consider them part of this "Extended" universe or is it just... filmmakers making the stuff they want to? Seems that way. And all the better for us where we now have 100+ million blockbusters featuring the likes of Weasel, TDK(what does it stand for? does it matter?) and of course King

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01:03:09

Episode 165: Marvel's BLACK WIDOW

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2021/07/11

In Russia, podcast records you! Yep, the FULL Wages crew - Andrew, Guest Star Matt (of https://mattthecatania.wordpress.com) and Trash Panda Korey, along with as always Jack - tackle the latest from Marvel, and discuss all Tasks and plot mechanics, and why sometimes a Midquel or a Tenaquel or whatever we are calling this now can be a tricky thing to pull off. RED SPOILERS 30 mins in

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01:20:53

Episode 164: THE FOREVER PURGE (2021)

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2021/07/03

The Purge has to come to an end... but did it have to be like this? Jack and Korey saw the fifth movie in the Purge franchise from Jason Blum, James DeMonaco and Michael Bay, full of violence and grimness and failed immigration policies... How did it go? Listen to find out (spoilers 40 minutes in fyi).

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02:13:51

Episode 163: The SUPERMAN Franchise (1978 - 1987)

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2021/06/30

Live from Hackensack, New Jersey (no extra missile here, Luthor, take that!) comes the Wages of Cinema!! LOOK! Up in the sky: it's a bird, it's a plane, no it's... discourse!! Jack and Korey watch the first five Superman movies! Yep, even Supergirl. (We start off for about the first ten to fifteen minutes talking about what led up to us doing this gigantic episode- and why Superman Returns is decidedly *not* part of the discussion). SPOILERS are more powerful than a locomotive, but we got em

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01:23:58

Episode 162: The PURGE Movies (2013-2018)

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2021/05/08

Think of all the good the Wages of Cinema does.... muahaha! Nah but seriously, we talk at great length about these ridiculous pieces of modern exploitation pulp (yet with kernels of true facts all around).

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01:04:54

Episode 161: GODZILLA VS KONG (2021)

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2021/04/04

ROOOAAAAR! SCRREEEOOONK! This is all to say this movie's about Capitalism, folks! Our first major release-review of 2021 and we have returning guests Andrew and Guest-Star Matt as we take apart and try to figure out what is is that makes this big bag of emotions known as Kong and the less-emotional but no less motivated Godzilla go after one another. Is there even reasoning to their bashing each other's heads in? And what about the human characters? Just how useless are they in the scheme of

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01:38:29

Episode 160: The LEPRECHAUN Movies (1 to 6)

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2021/04/01

Well... they can't all be Oscar nominees, right, folks? We watched six - count your gold pieces there, SIX - Leprechaun movies (we neglected to mention we saw one of these *on St Patrick's Day" because of course we had to - of the Leprechaun series of movies starring Warwick Davis! what did we think? With one of our co-hosts with the alias "Trash-Panda," It's difficult to say for sure. I mean, is one of them being in SPACE the deal clincher? or that not one but TWO are "in Tha Hood" (emphasis

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02:18:48

Episode 159: The 93rd Oscar Best Picture Nominees -...

Wages of Cinema ·

2021/03/25

Psst hey everyone, did you know there were movies released last year? Madness, we know, but even more wild a thing: the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (those lovable scamps known as the AMPAS) are not backing away from the same thing they've done for almost a hundred years and counting, giving cinema and the people who star and craft it all recognition through nominations and in particular for "Best Picture." How do we at the Wages of Cinema fit in? turns out we (and by we, we

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01:00:12

Episode 158: WONDER WOMAN 1984

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2020/12/27

Tonight on this special Saint Stephen's Day podcast (or is it Boxing Day, one of those), Jack, Trash-Panda Korey, and joining for the first time as a group since Rise of Skywalker (shudder - the movie, not the episode, that's great and you should listen to it), Guest Star Matt and Andrew discuss the latest from Warners and the DCEU (no, we don't get into HBO Max and the theatrical experience differences, that's for another time), as Diana is now in 1984 for some reason (yes, we do try to figure out

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01:07:29

Episode 157: REBECCA (1940) VS REBECCA (2020)

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2020/12/16

Is it at all possible to come to the suspenseful and gothic heights of what Alfred Hitchcock and producer David O. Selznick achieved with their (Best Picture winning) achievement in 1940? Ben Wheatley, the idiosyncratic and very off-kilter genre director behind such films as Free Fire, A Field in England and Kill List, decided to aim as high as he could with his first Netflix production, and the results.... Well, let's just say Manderley could still use a paint job.... No, seriously, can we be at

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01:09:46

Episode 156: Fincher's MANK

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2020/12/06

Everybody's always talking about Mank! Mann- Mank- Mank!! Actually, not really, but in this latest episode, Jack and Korey watch the new film from director David Fincher (and his late father, writer Jack) about the man who had a hand in crafting what many call the greatest American film ever made (as the poster said more simply of Citizen Kane: "It's Terrific!" and that's truth in advertising right there). Starring Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried and Tywin Lannister in an aptly cast role (and... yep

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01:53:34

Episode 155: The PSYCHO Series

Wages of Cinema ·

2020/10/28

What started as a pulp author doing a tawdry riff on the Ripped-from-the-Headlines saga of Wisconsin mass murderer Ed Gein somehow turned into - via one of the superlative True Entertainers of his century in the medium, Alfred Hitchcock - a series! (though mostly after he died, funny that, but anyway). This is a story all about how Norman Bates got twisted upside down, we'd like for you to take a little moment and sit right there and hear a story about... the Bates Motel, and Detective Arbogast,

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01:47:46

Episode 154: Blumhouse's INTO THE DARK Films (on Hulu)

Wages of Cinema ·

2020/10/14

The question isn't "Oh, this Hulu 'Into the Dark' series from Blumhouse? That's vaguely familiar based on the targeted ads I get on my Instagram. What's it about?" The question is "What ISN'T it about?" We mean, just in the crop of films we talk about today on this SPOOKTACULAR SAVINGS episode (and rightfully posted on Tuesday... the 13th!) - We're talking sinister religious purity rituals; dastardly cloning experiments; a maniacal security guard with a look of "love" and an elevator key; a dog

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