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Guilty Pleasure
Guilty Pleasures vol. 2 The term guilty pleasure is a term we use to protect ourselves. God forbid if we like something that maybe everybody else did not like. Why are we embarrassed by this? we are heard animals so any deviation from the norm causes us some anxiety. To protect ourselves we identify some…
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Impossible Odds
There is something about going up against it. I love movies when you honestly can not tell how it is going to turn out. Are all our heroes going to make it out alive? Will they accomplish the mission? So many times, we see a movie, and everything gets wrapped up in a nice, neat…
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Laughing Scared: Five Horror Comedies
I love a good laugh and I love a good scare. To great taste that taste great together. Horror comedy is so hard to do, but when done right it definitely works. In my younger years, and now of course, horror was little difficult for me. In my teens I loved all those…
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I Don’t Think We are Going To Make It: Five Disaster Films.
I love a big budget disaster movie. The effects the cast and the story all melded together to send you on a thrill ride. We see these pop up from time to time. As the technology got better, we got more fanciful effects driven stories of carnage and change. The story is always key to…
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Living the Dream: Five Music Movies
There was a time when music was my life’s blood. Stealing my dad’s guitar and learning Beatles songs with the greatest hits song book and that blue greatest hits album and practice, when I really should have been studying. My first band, with like a hundred names. When I was with them, we started out…
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Coming in from the Cold: Five Conspiracy Movies
I have always loved a good puzzle to figure out. I mean who does not love piecing it together. A conspiracy movie is so tough. Many times, the ending feels tagged on with information that we did not see or makes some spurious connection. The ability to weave a proper story that unfolds on its…
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Running to the Checkered Flag: Five Racing Movies
I love sports movies. I am not necessarily a sports fan, but I love sports movies. I know enough about sports to follow the movies. I am just not into watching sports. I used to be. I loved nothing more than sitting quietly watching baseball on television. I used love watching football. It was all…
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Case Closed: Five Private Eye Shows.
I love a good action drama. I do not care the setting I love action dramas. Military dramas like Tour of Duty, Black Sheep Squadron, and Seal Team. I like a good cop show too. Talk about a nice mix of action and drama the cop show does this well. The Shield, Hill Street Blues,…
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Round and Round: Five Time Loop Episodes
I LOVE TIME TRAVEL! I love it in all its forms. Stuck in the past trying to find a way Back to the Future with old tech. yep, I love that. fighting off evil robots from the future sent back to kill the leader of the human resistance. Yep, I love that too. If it…
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Reboots
When we like it, we always seem to want more? There was even a hit disco song in the seventies simply title MORE More more. And obviously that is how we like it. this is a world very few, if any, actually saw coming. Go back to those tv actors of the 60’s who made…
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You Got This, an exploration of Competence Porn
I wanted to talk a little bit about being good at what you do. Through the trials and tribulations of the past couple of years it feels as if we have all taken a big hit in what we know to be true and what everyone else is doing. Many are fighting it and trying…
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The Show Within the Show
All right, so what are we going to talk about today? Well, I know writers and writers love writing about what they know. This is actually a writing adage. Which makes me think why are there not more shows about working on shows? We have had some wonderful shows about…well shows. There have been several,…
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Nothing Like your First Time
Today I want to talk about something revealing. No not about me, well probably about me a little bit, but more about those movies you really can only enjoy once. That first viewing is where the magic is, and after that you are just looking for all the clues along the way. I mean it…
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An A for Effort
Today I am going to talk about something that is particularly important. I am talking about education, well sort of. I wanted to honor all of the teachers in my life. I have had several who have given there all for me, and I thought this could be a fun way to honor them. So,…
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Exactly the Same but Completely Different
We all know Hollywood will steal a clever idea. I mean we all do it. of these podcasts so far only, a handful have been original. Why waste a lot of time for no reason when it works. I have no issue with retreading a story or trying to pull more stories from a world.…
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A Cut Above…Five Slasher Films
So today, I wanted to talk about some horror movies. I initially thought I would do a history of horror but I think this will be more fun. When I was younger, a child of the eighties if you have not figured that out yet, I loved horror movies. More importantly, I loved the slasher…
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Be Cool it’s the cops! Top Five Cop Shows.
So, what is today’s topic you ask. Great question. Today I thought we would talk about the one style of show that seems to have continuously been on the air since the dawn of television. I am talking about the cop show. The police procedural feels like the backbone of any network line up. You…
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