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Who Needs Reasons When You’ve Got Heroin? (When We Were Young, Episode 9)
In the mid 1990s, Hollywood was inundated with an exciting new class of independent filmmakers who would change the movie business as we knew it. People were really paying attention to films with low...
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Twentieth Century Women: Luminous Ladies Bring Life To Stories Of The 1900s
“The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the...
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The Tens: Best Of Film 2016
Another year, another awards season. But this was no ordinary year. Where to begin, when we speak of 2016? Most years, I just pick my favorite films, and that’s it. But this year, it felt important to...
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Hailing A Taxi Cab (When We Were Young, Episode 10)
“An older version of me Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theater?” And now for something I don’t care about at all! Why are you so petrified of silence? In our tenth episode, the...
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Now I’ll Never Be A Teen Model! (When We Were Young, Episode 11)
“Think I’ll go for a walk outside now, The summer sun’s calling my name…” Take Our PollPreviously on the When We Were Young podcast, Becky revealed that she used to serenade her entire middle school...
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The Not-Oscars 2016
It’s just about Oscar time again — though for once, the Best Picture race isn’t exactly the most disappointing contest I’ll witness over the past year. At times like these, the Academy Awards feel...
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We Won Best Picture.
What a night! Leave it to a telecast celebrating the films of 2016 to have a shocking surprise in store at the end. Last year, the modest Spotlight bested the bombastic The Revenant in the Best Picture...
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She Saved The World A Lot (When We Were Young, Episode 12)
“No weapons… no friends… no hope. Take all that away, and what’s left?” “Me.” In every generation, there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the podcasts. She is...
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In An MMMBop, They’re Gone (When We Were Young, Episode 13)
“Life in plastic, it’s fantastic…” Heya, Barbie! Wanna go for a ride? How about all the way back to 1998, when boy bands were just starting to be a “thing” (again), we listened to music on compact...
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I’m Not Bad, I’m Just Drawn That Way (When We Were Young, Episode 14)
“Is there nothing that can permeate that impervious puss?” Just in time for Easter, we’re taking a trip back to visit every kid’s second (or third, or fourth…) favorite bunny! Robert Zemeckis’ Who...
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Businesswoman’s Special (When We Were Young, Episode 15)
“Hey, everyone — Sandy Frink just landed in a helicopter!” Is that an earthquake? In honor of the 20th anniversary of their 10 year reunion, we join the Madonna twins and a big giant girl who smokes...
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Here We Are Now, Entertain Us (When We Were Young, Episode 16)
“He’s the one who likes all our pretty songs And he likes to sing along And he likes to shoot his gun But he don’t know what it means…” I’m not sure any episode of the podcast will ever be as difficult...
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Game Over, Man! (When We Were Young, Episode 17)
“We’d better get back, ’cause it’ll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night… mostly.” Encounter the xenomorph in our ickiest episode yet! First, the gang discusses their own personal experiences...
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Amazon Prime: ‘Wonder Woman’&‘City Of Z’ Explore Uncharted Territory
This just in: WOMEN can direct MOVIES. Despite their menstruation and inability to lift heavy things, females are either as capable or even more capable than men at making films that involve punching...
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Your Mother’s A Tracer (When We Were Young, Episode 18)
“It was a mistake. I didn’t hate her. I wasn’t disgusted with her. I was afraid. At that moment, I felt small, like… like I’d lacked experience, like I’d never be on her level, like I’d never be enough...
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You Could Never Be Jell-O (When We Were Young, Episode 19)
“Maybe Michael couldn’t commit to this marriage, so he created a delusion… produced an unconscious, psychosomatic manifestation of… I’m better with food. Okay? You’re Michael. You’re in a fancy French...
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You Remind Me Of The Babe (When We Were Young, Episode 20)
“You remind me of the babe.” “What babe?” “Babe with the power.” “What power? “Power of voodoo.” “Who do?” “You do.” “Do what? “Remind me of the babe.” I don’t have all that much to say about The Dark...
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Einhorn Is Finkle, Finkle Is Einhorn (When We Were Young, Episode 21)
“Your gun is digging into my hip.” Somebody stop us! In Episode 21, When We Were Young says “alrighty, then!” to a trip back to 1994, when Jim Carrey soared to superstar status in three back-to-back...
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Folie À Boo: A Bleak, Haunting ‘Ghost Story’ Refuses To Go Toward The Light
Every once in a while, a movie comes along that is not really a movie. Technically, yes, it is a movie, but the experience I have watching it is something different. Upon viewing Lars Von Trier’s...
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Black & Blue: Justice Takes A Holiday In Bigelow’s Brutal ‘Detroit’
Fifty years is a long time. Unfortunately, it has not been long enough to distance America from the depicted in Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit. There’s Motown music in the background and the cars look old,...
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