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Jordan and Brooke are joined by Morgan M Page ("One From the Vaults") for a whole month on the films of Lilly and Lana Wachowski, starting with 1999's seminal sci-fi. They chat everything from this film's extensive trans allegories to leather in rain to the sneaky inclusion of bondage clubs to the deep lore of the Matrix sequels. Plus Brooke battles a really fun cold on-mic, Jordan gives us his best Switch impression, and Morgan proves she knows way more about the early Internet than either of them.

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The most haunting ghosts of all are the revenant memories of the plans we never went through with and things we never did. Whether or not people become ghosts when they die, we all haunt our future selves to remind them of how much more we had in mind for them.

With that in mind we procrastinated a bunch and waited a whole month to post the Halloween episode, because we commit to the bit. We watched The Thing with your old pal Tyler Senjanin (@senjanint) and your new pal Jonathan Boehle (@jonathanmb32), two guys who actually know about movies.

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Jordan and Brooke are joined by comedian Avery Edison to discuss 1991's seminal horror. They talk the complicated legacy of this film and how it affected future on-screen representation, attempt some Dr. Lecter impressions, and prove (once again) why NBC Hannibal is the best show to ever grace our airwaves.

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You’ll notice that this episode is longer than most of our episodes. That’s just the way it tends to go with Griffin Newman. Episodes of his own podcast, Blank Check, regularly clock in at more than two hours. He acts in films and those often top two hours as well. And although he’s only in his thirties, Griffin has had a long career, growing up in a showbiz-adjacent family and starting in standup while not yet out of middle school. We hear how he quit acting (several times) and always got pulled back in, sometimes for dream-come-true roles like Arthur in The Tick, sometimes for experiences that ended up being nightmares, like acting in and then deeply regretting acting in a Woody Allen movie. Griffin Newman examines the roles that depression and anxiety played in his life decisions and where one can see them poking out in his performances.

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It's a mega-sized ep for a mega-sized movie as Jordan and Brooke are joined by filmmaker Patrick Willems to discuss Michael Mann's 1995 cops and robbers epic. There's a deep bench of character actors, a thesis on the aching loneliness of LA, and an argument that this movie is secretly a gay rom-com (Letterboxd agrees). Plus tangents on everything from Shane Black vehicles, to camera equipment tech talk, to the 2001 film "Swordfish".

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12:45 ... Restate our assumptions: Darren Aronofsky's 'Pi' is a hardcore headtrip that every film fanatic should take. That's why this no-budget math thriller is the next episode in our First Timers mini-marathon about our favorite directors' debut films. We dive deep into Aronofsky's career highs (his upcoming Brendan Fraser movie?), lows (mother!), and near misses, including how influential his unmade Batman: Year One movie seems to be on the Matt Reeves's RPattz Bats.
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The NeverEnding Movie Marathon is a weekly podcastic celebration of cinema. Dive deep into fan-favorite films (#NoStinkers!), thematically curated to enhance your movie viewing by hosts Matt Detisch, Alex Logan, and Michael Rocco.

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How do our favorite directors' first films stack up against their illustrious careers? That's what Rocco, Alex, and Matt will try to answer on their newest miniseries! We kick things off with a nail-biting, nihilistic, neon noir from the Coen Brothers, starring Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, John Getz, and the incomparable M. Emmet Walsh-- it's 'Blood Simple' (1984)! 

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We end our '90s rewind by reckoning with our fat kid pasts, the highs and lows of summer camp, and that big inflatable "Blob" in the lake... plus, more talk about what makes Kenan Thompson the best! Join Rocco, Alex, and Matt for the finale of Kenan's Secret Sauce with this Judd Apatow, Ben Stiller, and Steven Brill joint... it's 'Heavyweights' (1995)!

The NeverEnding Movie Marathon is a weekly podcastic celebration of cinema. Dive deep into fan-favorite films (#NoStinkers!), thematically curated to enhance your movie viewing by hosts Matt Detisch, Alex Logan, and Michael Rocco.

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Jordan and Brooke are joined by Ang Ferraguto to discuss this film from 2006, a year with TWO magic-based blockbusters. But are Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman just playing slightly unhinged versions of themselves? Did Nolan give us two dead wives for the price of one? Is this film secretly one big bisexuality metaphor? And how many Michael Caine impressions can Jordan and Ang pack into one episode?

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Only '90s kids will understand this deep-dive into the nostalgia for All That, Snick, Shaq, Nickelodeon Magazine, Kenan & Kel, and of course, the triumph that is 'Good Burger' (1997). Join us for this trip down the memory hole in Week 2 of the Kenan's Secret Sauce mini-marathon!

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Matt, Rocco, and Alex present a new mini-marathon all about our favorite funny man: Kenan Thompson! This Secret Sauce series of three films breaks down the special ingredients that make Kenan hilarious, beginning with the spoof-and-a-goof starring Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler,  Cobie Smulders, and of course, Kenan...  it's David Wain's 'They Came Together' (2014)!

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We'll be honest: we 100% expected the United States to be in complete flames post-Inauguration (reality: it was super boring), so in anticipation of massive bloodshed, Aya and Kevin decided to spend their final moments alive pounding beers and watching ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL. And why not dude, it's a Power Hour, too, sure, welcome to the BATTLE ANGEL POWER HOUR.

Aya and Kevin get plowed to smithereens by the secretly perfect 2019 cult classic, exploring the coziness & perversions of anime, Rosa Salazar's incredible earnestness, and the surprising similarities to Bong Joon-ho's PARASITE.

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Rosie is out of commission for this episode so Mark hangs out with Declan from the Have You Seen: The Podcast to talk about movie tropes, seeing movies you loved now as an adult, and changing your name. 

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David Sims (The Atlantic, Blank Check with Griffin and David) joins the show to talk about King Vidor's remarkably timeless 1928 drama The Crowd.

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PitchBook venture capital analyst Cameron Stanfill joins the pod to discuss his recent analyst note "The 2020 SPAC Frenzy," which breaks down this year’s SPAC boom. Topics discussed include what’s driving the surge (1:35), how private equity firms and SPACs are forever intertwined (5:40), why reverse mergers are more forgiving to startup founders than the typical leveraged buyout (7:12) and why host Adam Lewis can’t wait to see what baseball executive Billy Beane will do with his SPAC (11:10).