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Why This Movie?

Why This Movie?

By: Christopher Alan Maloney
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A podcast about the movies we love and why we love them.

Christopher Alan Maloney 2024
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  • Forrest Gump with Trent Ashcraft
    May 16 2025

    In this conversation about Forrest Gump, Trent Ashcraft and I mourn the loss of the monoculture and the time when a character-driven movie could become a cultural phenomenon without being part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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    39 mins
  • The Big Lebowski with Matthew Rand
    May 2 2025

    "The Dude abides..." What does that mean? And how do we - throughout life's hurdles (even when our rugs are micturated upon) - continue to abide? The Big Lebowski presents a philosophy of relaxed indifference and a focus on life's little pleasures that we may do well to embrace. In this conversation with Matthew Rand, we uncover the Dude's outlook and what we can glean from it as we trudge through our troubled world.

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    31 mins
  • Goodfellas with Amy Maloney
    Apr 18 2025

    In this episode of Why This Movie?, listen to my conversation with my ex-wife about Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese's epic from 1990 about the reality of life in the mob.

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    29 mins

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