Episodes

  • Scrooged
    Dec 23 2025

    In our SERIES FINALE, we'll look at 1988's Scrooged and how the Christmas season contains an inherent darkness.

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    26 mins
  • RE-GIFT: Elf with Tiffany Stafford
    Dec 12 2025

    Listen to my conversation with Tiffany Stafford about the role holiday movies play in grounding us and setting annual markers in our lives, and the hidden nuances within the story of Buddy the Elf.

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    24 mins
  • RE-GIFT: White Christmas with Candice Fanning
    Dec 5 2025

    Happy Christmas! Here is a re-gifted episode, a look at White Christmas, snow, Vermont, and the age-old adage that "the show must go on."

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    27 mins
  • The Green Mile with Dan Condon
    Nov 28 2025

    In this conversation, we take a look at Frank Darabont's The Green Mile and the burden of compassion.

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    31 mins
  • Remember the Titans with Coach Beth Condon
    Nov 7 2025

    Inspirational, based on a true story, and with a performance from Denzel Washington that keeps the sentimentality under control, Remember the Titans (2000) goes under post-game analysis in this episode of Why This Movie?

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    28 mins
  • Psycho
    Oct 24 2025

    It's the spookiest time of year, and the perfect time to dive deep into the best scary movie ever made. Hear about the calculation and intelligence that went into the making of Psycho, and how its every move has been working like crazy for 65 years.

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    20 mins
  • RE-RELEASE Scanners with Stefan MacDonald-LaBelle
    Oct 17 2025

    In honor of spooky season, we're releasing this conversation with filmmaker Stefan MacDonald-Labelle about Scanners (1981), his film Head Like a Hole, and the power of horror to illuminate social issues.

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    28 mins
  • West Side Story (2021) with Scout M.
    Sep 26 2025

    It's a movie first, and a musical second. Or is it the other way around? Join us this week for a look at Steven Spielberg's 2021 West Side Story, starring Rachel Zegler and Ariana DeBose. "Things are all right in America / When you're all white in America..."

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    26 mins