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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 and For A Few Dollars More? How much does Chris Hemsworth rule as a villain? And what does the perceived box office failure of Furiosa mean for the moviegoing landscape in general - and is it even the movie's fault?

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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 horror film? Did The Shining kind of break film discourse and culture? What does the Tippi Hedren film Roar (you know, the movie where tigers and lions are mauling the cast and crew on film) have to do with any of this bullshit?

All these topics and so many more are delved into, so hang your weird naked lady artwork on the wall and strap in for a conversation about one of the wildest and most totemic horror films in modern Hollywood history!

Buy and read Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist from Amazon or The Ohio State University Press today!

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How much sense does it make to try and recall Skinamarink a year and a half after seeing it? Is it truly a cursed film with the power to leave long lasting psychological scars or are these two grown-ass men just being little babies about it? What does it mean that filmmaking is entering a phase where filmmakers can now replicate and redesign basically any aesthetic from history?

David McEntire and Nick Sanford sit down (in this house) to try and answer all these questions and more!

Some of the videos we talk about in this episode:

Why The Ring Didn't Use Color Grading
Mandy: The Art of Film Grain
Atemporality: Our Relationship To History Has Changed

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