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Death By Movies

Nick Sanford

Who will survive movie discourse and what will be left of them?

tv & film film history

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Friday the 13th with Raygun Busch

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2024/09/13

Send us a textRaygun Busch, frontman of Chat Pile and lover of all things Jason Voorhees, stops by to celebrate and interrogate the Friday the 13th franchise and tell the world and God WHY IT RULES.Sean S. Cunningham's Friday the 13th doesn't exist without John Carpenter's Halloween, but what did the saga of Jason Voorhees and his vengeful mother actually help codify for mainstream audiences in a way no other slasher had at that point?Raygun delves into the behind the scenes history of the fr...

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The Eastrail 177 Trilogy with Matthew Price

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2024/09/02

Send us a textSuperhero summer comes to an end with M. Night Shyamalan's Eastrail 177 trilogy - Unbreakable, Split, and Glass, the very normal trilogy that had very normal audience reactions!And who better to dive into Shyamalan's attempt to deconstruct superhero mythology than with actual comic book shop owner (Speeding Bullet Comics in Norman, Oklahoma!) Matthew Price?The origins of the contemporary superhero are laid out, such as vigilantism's racist roots and Fredrich Nietzsche's ubermenc...

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The Cinema of The Avengers with Caleb Masters and...

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2024/08/19

Send us a Text Message.Podcast listeners, assem--*falls down an elevator shaft*Superhero summer nears its end with its penultimate episode, looking at the legacy of the mega-blockbuster Avengers films.Caleb Masters (The Cinemetropolis) makes his debut on this very podcast, alongside Dalton Stuart (GoodTrash Media) who makes his fifth appearance and is newly-anointed as Death By Movies' Resident Little Stinker, a very serious responsibility, and they join Stupid Sandy to discuss how the Avenge...

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The Cinema of Spider-Man with Andrew McDonald

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2024/08/05

Send us a Text Message.Andrew McDonald (fixer of Madame Web!) swings by to visit the podcast he helped build to keep our superhero summer rolling along by talking about our friendly neighborhood Spider-Movies!We deep-dive into all ten theatrically released films dealing with The Human Spider, starting with Sam Raimi's 2002 paradigm-shifting Spider-Man all the way through 2023's paradigm-shifting Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, answering important questions like:Does Spider-Man ...

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The Cinema of Batman with BradChad Porter

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2024/07/22

Send us a Text Message.Bat-freaks! An extra-stuffed episode awaits you as legendary comedian BradChad Porter grapple-guns by to try and unpack why Batman seems tailor made for the big screen!Important questions are raised, such as: what does Batman have in common with Zorro and Davy Crockett? Has any actor had as much fun as Jack Nicholson did while making Tim Burton's Batman? Why does the character seem to thrive so much on reinterpretation? What made Batman Begins feel so revolutionary? Is ...

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The Cinema of Superman with Adam Hampton

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2024/07/08

Send us a Text Message.Superman's arrival was the apotheosis of the contemporary comic book superhero, the character all superheroes after were measured against or reacting to.Yet for the character's massive pop cultural footprint across the decades, his cinematic legacy has been largely wonky at best and divisive at worst. What is it about the design of the character that makes him so tricky to adapt in the film medium?Actor, filmmaker, and fellow Superman nerd Adam Hampton (Play It Loud and...

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The Jaws Sequels with Marnie Vinge

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2024/07/01

Send us a Text Message.Jaws is one of the most effective and consequential motion pictures in this history of the medium, and an absolute staple around Fourth of July, so naturally we're giving the people what they want by devoting time to unpacking Jaws' three widely dismissed and maligned sequels - Jaws 2, Jaws 3-D, and Jaws: The Revenge. Marnie Vinge (Eerie Okie Podcast and author of I Remember Everything and Cold Blood) stops by to help try and give The Jaws Sequels th...

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124:32

The 1999 Movie Hall of Fame

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2024/06/11

Send us a Text Message.1999 is regarded as one of the most consequential Hollywood movie years ever - bold films about identity and perception that play with the cinematic form (The Matrix, Being John Malkovich, The Sixth Sense, just to name a few), and many from major studios connecting broadly with audiences. What a time! But a quarter century later, which major releases still hold up and admirably define the year, which get close, and which have aged like milk?Frightful Femme Kirsten Therk...

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Furiosa with James Oster

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2024/06/02

Send us a Text Message.James Oster (Jimmy O from JoBlo.com!) stops by on his spiky dirt bike thing and we ride away from the Podcast of Inaccessibility and across the wastelands of Internet movie discourse to talk George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, and have a wide-ranging conversation of topics including:How does Anya Taylor-Joy follow in the footsteps of movie stars like Lauren Bacall and Marlene Dietrich? Is Furiosa some sort of bizarrely beautiful hybrid of The Wizard of Oz...

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The Shining with Marlena Williams

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2024/05/21

Send us a Text Message.Marlena Williams (author of Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist) shines in from across the country to talk about Stanley Kubrick's The Shining!Are the conspiracy theories about the ghastly Overlook saga overblown, or is there any truth to them? Was Stanley Kubrick actually a cinematic puzzle maker, or was he actually more of a "vibes" guy? What's the value of how "boring" the opening of the film is? Was The Shining kind of the first A24 ho...

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86:41

Skinamarink with David McEntire

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2024/05/01

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Ep. 12 - 96th Academy Awards of the 2024 Oscars About...

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2024/03/11

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Ep. 11 - Dune: Part 2 - Inherent Spice

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2024/03/05

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Ep. 10 - Sometimes I Think About Dying

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2024/02/19

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Ep. 9 - Febru-scary Movie Draft!

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2024/02/14

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Ep. 8 - The Exorcist

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2024/01/01

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Ep. 7 - Godzilla Minus One & The Nuclear...

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2023/12/14

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Ep. 6 - Film Culture & Discourse with Dalton Stuart

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2023/12/06

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Ep. 5 - Smokey and the Bandit

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2023/09/28

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79:09

Ep. 4 - Barbie World, Destroyer of Deaths

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2023/08/20

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