Episode 70 - "Miami Vice" Part 2
When writer/director Michael Mann adapted his hit series into a feature length film, he ditched the flashy 80's aesthetic for a dark, gritty and hyper-realistic vision of global drug trafficking that ...
24 Aug 1h 7min
Episode 69 - "Miami Vice" Part 1
Two words changed television forever: “MTV Cops.” In 1984, “Miami Vice” exploded onto screens where neon lights, pastel suits and synth-pop beats masked a criminal underworld that redefined cool. Crea...
22 Aug 1h 27min
Episode 68 - "Entourage"
A defining monument to HBO’s golden age of Sunday night dominance, “Entourage” captured the pre-streaming, pre-social media Hollywood landscape with vivid, nostalgic accuracy. Decades later, the serie...
1 Aug 1h 32min
Episode 67 - "Bloodsport"
Ready for the Kumite? In the ‘80s, Cannon Films pumped out cheap, glorious B-movies fueled by the home video boom. 1988’s “Bloodsport” was the crown jewel of this era. While it stumbled in theaters it...
1 Juli 1h 32min
Episode 66 - "Moneyball"
Michael Lewis’ acclaimed best seller "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" may not have been obvious source material for a major Hollywood screen adaptation. After all, the book was about sab...
27 Juni 1h 46min
Episode 65 - The Length Paradox with Professor Akira Mizuta Lippit
In today’s highly fragmented media landscape, most people can’t last more than a few seconds without checking their phones for another dopamine hit. We live in a doomscroll culture where audiences rai...
7 Juni 1h 27min
Episode 63 - "Caddyshack" and Sam Sokolow
Film comedies are often time capsules, but some, like Harold Ramis’ 1980 cult classic “Caddyshack,” resonate universally. Film and television producer - and now Clemson University film professor in pr...
9 Maj 1h 35min
