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Blockbuster Film School
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Welcome to the world of higher film education where two former Blockbuster Video employees, film school sorta graduates, and filmmakers take deep dives on different film topics from across the movie universe every week. Taught exclusively by Alex Bonner and Nicholas Souder: This is the world's greatest and cheapest free film school. You'll laugh, cry mascara tears, and possibly if the movie magic kicks in at just the right moment, accidentally get you to learn something. Take drugs and have a good time!(episodes are produced & recorded by Brian Tepps)
Episodes
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Episode 57: NYE In Cinema
Do you like hope based on calendar dates? Do you like balloon drops on top of people running through a crowd trying to find someone before they holiday decide to choose not you? Do you like kissing Billy Crystal while champagne drunk? Well Hollywood does. The boys have a very special holiday...
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Episode 56: David Cronenberg
How would you react to finding four inch long hairs up n down your back? What if your chest grew a secreting orifice with hidden weapons inside? Let’s be honest: we all want to be dude from Scanners popping coworkers’ heads like pimples. Our bodies are haunted houses, and David Cronenberg is the...
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Quik Drop: The Burbs
Before they actually made smart horror thriller comedies that were self aware and post modern and mind bendingly hilarious Joe Dante and Tom hanks basically created the model. It didn’t really work at the box office but since it has created and entire generation of smart ass goofball movie nerds...
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Episode 55: Paul Verhoeven
When you think of international powerhouses outside of Hollywood you usually think of The UK, Japan, Italy, France, Bollywood and… the Dutch? Not really. But then like a heatwave in the late seventies a madman dressed like a suburban dad exploded out of Amsterdam and for the next twenty years…
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Quik Drop: Conan The Barbarian
What is best in life? Blood, swords, and James Earl Jones in charge of a snake cult. A movie that wouldn’t even have shot to be made these days but looks better than most that come out. An epic score, Milius at the true top of his game, and Arnold finds a magic sword that gives him an acting...
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Episode 54: Kathleen Kennedy
Kathleen Kennedy has sneakily taken over Hollywood. She has toyed with the idea of changing her name Movieoverlord Kennedy several times. She produced ET when she was a literal child. She convinced those Dinosaurs in Jurassic Park to be good at acting. She beat George Lucas in a real lightsaber...
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Quik Drop: Shaun of the Dead
Can you have your parody film and eat it too? Many have tried, most have failed, but no one has done three times except Edgar Wright. His debut film Shaun of the Dead was the best horror comedy made since Evil Dead 2. The Blockbuster Quik Drop examines the first entry of the Cornetto Trilogy...
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Quik Drop: No Country For Old Men
It’s a simple formula: take an expertly written novel by a great author, multiply that by two with a pair of filmmaking brothers at the top of their game then add in exquisite cinematography and actors who transcend this dimension. The result is No Country for Old Men, a neo-noir crime western...
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Quik Drop: Almost Famous
Can you recall the past? Do you remember print newspapers & magazines, or when you could board a plane without an ID then smoke on board, or when it was ok to trip your face off then climb a stranger's garage in Topeka, Kansas? Neither do we; thank the rock gods for Cameron Crowe’s magnum opus...
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Office Hours: Wall Of Sound… Tracks
No one thought that Dick Dale/Kool and the Gang/Dusty Springfield would be the perfect sequence on an album until two hit men discussed European fast food. Just the same Way when Q Lazzrus recorded “Goodbye Horses” they probably weren’t thinking about Ted Levine tucking it back dancing in the...
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Episode 53: Kurt Russell
Usually when someone is the kid of a tv actor, a child star, a pro baseball player, and in a movie about Elvis impersonators, that person tends to suck. However with the power of his luxurious hair and cowboy cadence Kurt Russell has managed to tear a whole in the Hollywood suck space continuum....
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1st Annual Blockbusties: 2021
Every year Hollywood gets together to decide which movie about someone with a disability will win an award. Then, they congratulate each other on how they are no longer jerks about anything and how they are saving the world then they yell at a valet in the parking lot. Here at the Blockbusties…
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Episode 52: A Christmas Episode
Has anyone ever really seen chestnuts roasting on an open fire? We live in the city so we do not get carolers. And the only reindeer we've ever seen escaped from a zoo then chased Super Producer Brian Tepps around a Circuit City parking lot. But luckily we have watched a lot of holiday movies so…
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Episode 51: Wes Craven
What’s your favorite horror movie, bob hair cut and boob sweater Drew Barrymore? Sometimes people are great filmmakers, sometimes people are terrible filmmakers. And every so often, there comes a “master of suspense” who makes two straight up rad horror movies and then also a bunch of schlocky...
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Episode 50: Harrison Ford
It’s our 50th episode! To celebrate we chose one of the most iconic film stars of all time to be the subject of this special occasion. We even invited him to appear on his own episode! Ladies, gentlemen, and non binary friends, the one, the only, Harrison Ford… did not reply to our emails so Mike...
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Episode 49: Simpson/Bruckheimer
Life is about balance but art is another story. Sometimes two different types of mayhem create hit films. If Jerry Bruckheimer is chaos then his former producing partner Don Simpson was a riot during a coup d’état. When Simpson/Bruckheimer were in top form they couldn’t be stopped, producing one...
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Episode 48: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Sometimes the famous lead actor surviving the apocalypse is basically the same character who killed aliens in their last film but now they have glasses. Others actors transform themselves with each role inhabiting a new soul at a level which is unrecognizable to even themselves. Philip Seymour...
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Office Hours: Overrated/Underrated
Sometimes a movie comes out and people are so into nu metal or disco or Pokémon or whatever dumb shit they don’t process just how dope it is until years later when they go “wait did I buy a Disturbed CD, with money? Did I do that shit?”. This is the formula for underrated films however sometimes...
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Office Hours: 1995 Oscars Reboot
Awards season is three months of celebrities reminding each other how important and talented they are culminating with the Academy Awards, the Mount Rushmore of self fellating. In a shocking twist sometimes they get it wrong. The Office Hours crew re-examines the ‘95 Oscars, a year that crowned a...
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Episode 47: The Terminator Franchise
Terminator! Terminator 2: Judgement Day! Diminishing Return: Rise of the Machines! A Welsh man yells at an extra! More embarrassing than Sega Saturn! Arnold is captivating discussing drapes or blinds, no one remembers exactly and we will not rewatch. We discuss the highs and terrible, terrible…
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Office Hours: Terminator 2: Judgement Day - 30th Anniversary Special
Come with me if you want to live. (Long awkward silence) Alright, come with me if you want to listen to our Terminator 2: Judgement Day 30th anniversary special. There we go! James Cameron’s sci-fi action classic was a phenomenon upon release and the majority of it still holds up today. The…
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Episode 46: Halle Berry
There are over four hundred species of berries so for all the great ones like Matt or Gwen Berry you might end up with a Marion Barry. Once in a great while you find a berry so exceptionally charismatic that three years after becoming the first woman of color to win best actress (#oscarssowhite)...
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Episode 45: Clint Howard (B-Movie Mania crossover)
Lon Chaney was known as the man of a thousand faces. He’ll have his own episode at some point. This one is about a man who is the polar opposite of Chaney: Clint Howard only has one face, a face so distinctive you’ll never be able to forget it. You will always remember part two of the B-Movie…
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B-Movie Mania S5E6: Ice Cream Man (Blockbuster Film School crossover)
Do you like your podcasts with two scoops or one? If you said two (and let’s be clear: your answer did not matter) you are in luck today because it is our first ever crossover episode with the living legends at B-Movie Mania! We combined our humor, film knowledge, and alcoholism to tackle the 90s...
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Office Hours: 90s Horror Picks
If we were to be honest the scariest parts of the 90s would be oversized jeans, nu-metal concerts, and Court TV. Horror movies of that time often get overlooked because, well, they weren’t the best. The office hours crew found some of the best 90s horror films available on streaming services so…
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Office Hours: Black & White Film Picks
In the before time people couldn’t see colors. The heads at MGM studios said, “we need yellow bricks and green women” and films were never the same again. Regardless of how much of that is true black and white films have become an under appreciated medium. The office hours crew hand picked some…
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Episode 44: Christopher Guest
Before every Thursday night sitcom had people staring into the camera discussing how to put a stapler in Jell-O, a string of independent comedies perfected the faux documentary film. The common denominator for many of those movies was the 5th Baron Haden-Guest, better known as Christopher Guest....
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Watch-A-Long: Wayne's World
Wait, I’m sorry did you just say that BFS is doing a watch along to Wayne’s World? Exsqueeze me? Baking powder? That’s right. It is not bogus or sad it is excellent. I had never done a crazy thing in my life before BFS, why is it if you kill a man in war it is called heroic but if you kill him...
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Episode 43: Amy Heckerling
Here at Blockbuster Film School we ask hard questions. Questions like where is Cher’s closet fashion software from Clueless goddamnit? How am I supposed to dress myself? As if. Or do you ever pretend that Jeff Spicoli and Sean Penn are different people because Spicoli is the fucking man and Penn...
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Office Hours: The Snyder Cut
To quote celebrity crazy person Eric Andre, you gotta give the Internet what it wants. The cries for equality have not been answered yet but the D.C. fan boys were gifted a four hour wet dream when Zack Snyder’s cut of Justice League landed on streaming. The sprawling epic is better than expected...
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Episode 42: Denzel Washington
This week the boys get a talk storm going about maybe the greatest actor ever known by one name. Eat that, Charro. It is the legendary Denzel!!!! Everybody has a Denzel movie they like, if they don’t they are aliens wearing human skin and you should tear their face off even if it gets you fired...
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Office Hours: The Criterion Collection
So you’e decided to become a fancy pants movie person? Step one, listen to Blockbuster Film School tell you some sweet Criterion Collection picks which will make you cool. Step two, start ONLY WATCHING The Criterion Collection, wear a beret, and start referring to things as “ a lesser work." Step...
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Office Hours: Winter Streaming Picks
Oh the weather outside is weather. Locally it is winter at the Blockbuster Film School but you might be experiencing summer or stuck in a strange time dimension located behind your daughter’s bookcase. No matter where or when you are the Office Hours winter streaming picks will provide you with...
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Episode 41: George Lucas
What’s the best way to appear completely over something while also flaunting how powerful you are? Sell it for billions of dollars then give away the loot. Being one of the most successful film producers while also one of the more divisive movie directors has garnered George Lucas uneven career...
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Episode 40: Batman
Caped Crusader. Dark Knight. Jennifer Garner’s husband. He may have lots of monikers but there is only one name that criminals fear when the sun goes down: Alfred. No, crap; we meant Batman. Listen as we run down the entire Batman catalog from comic books and groovy 60s TV show to Tim Burton &…
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Office Hours: Films Released in 2020 That Don't Suck
There is a scene in Sonic the Hedgehog - yes, the Sonic movie is better than it ever deserved to be and we all have to deal with it- where Sonic’s entire life is shattered and he must pick the pieces. That’s how everyday in 2020 felt. Luckily, as always, there were movies. We at Office Hours…
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Episode 39: Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman is not like the others, sure is she a super tall attractive alien from Australia? Yes. But is she also one of the best award winning actors in the world? You know it. Also, she married to a 4 foot tall king of Scientology and a country music star and was friends with Kubrick. Also,...
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Episode 38: John Carpenter Part 2
The best part of being a multi talented artist is that when one skill fades away the rest get stronger. Rather than going blind and hearing better as a result, John Carpenter directed John Carpenter’s Vampires and then went on tour with his band. In Carpenter part two we discuss the rapid decline...
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Episode 37: John Carpenter Part 1
They said the power of the skullet could never really be harnessed, that it was too dangerous, that the synth chords it created would be too spooky and that the action horror movies it could unleash would be too amazing for mortal men. They would be half right. Young John carpenter and his spooky...
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Episode 36: 70s Horror
Hard to believe but there was a time when a person wearing another person’s face while wielding a chainsaw was not a normal part of cinema. Did you know that slasher movie tropes had to be invented? Are you aware Richard Dreyfus used to be both young and handsome?! Don’t worry your worried little...
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Episode 35: Spike Lee
Does Michael Jordan become as big with out that Nike commercial? Does Hollywood have any street cred, AT ALL, if Mookie doesn’t throw that trash can through that window? Does Reggie Miller even exist if he doesn’t drain those 3s and then yell at Spike to sit his ass down and you watch Spike’s…
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Episode 34: Bill Paxton
Cowboy. Soldier. Astronaut. Cowboy vampire. Space soldier cowboy. We got Bill Paxton bingo! Game over, man, game over. It didn’t matter if he was larger than life or playing someone so average it reminded you of a dude you met at party once, Bill Paxton made all his roles special and undeniably…
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Office Hours Contemporaries: Robert Eggers
Talent blooms in the dark then suddenly reveals itself, much like a mysterious goat speaking to you telepathically for the first time or learning Willem Dafoe can flatulate on command. In our new segment Office Hours Contemporaries we discuses filmmakers on the rise who have all our attention. We...
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Office Hours: 2006 Oscars Reboot
Oh, what a wild year 2006 was: Al Gore had just invented the internet, the Seattle SuperSonics completed their three-peat championship run, and Jennifer Lawrence was born. Does that sound completely preposterous to you?! Well wait until you listen to this episode of Office Hours when we remind…
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Episode 33: Heist Movies
Do you have a diverse group of sassy frenemies? Do you like to steal implausible things like big diamonds that are actually gateways to other dimensions or some shit? Are you a aging handsome boy actor with salt and pepper? Well you might be be in a heist movie. This week Alex and Nick go into...
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Episode 32: Joel Schumacher
Da na na na na na na na bat nipples! Every so often an artist’s missteps become their greatest hits catalog. Joel Schumacher is one of them. With the recent passing of this director we look back on his vampire mullets and rubber cod pieces along with some of the flashiest & campiest outfits…
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Episode 31: Winona Ryder
It’s not often an actor can carry a dark aura in the majority of their roles as they lead mainstream hits and stay a beloved star. But whether she is hanging with ghosts, killing her classmates, or using Christmas lights to communicate with her son in another dimension Winona Ryder has remained...
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Office Hours: TV Adaptations
Making the jump from small screen to big screen is difficult for actors but even harder for series. Turning the winning formula behind sixty hilarious sketches or ten successful television seasons could still result in CHiPs. Dax Sheppard, you were Frito; how could you? Here at Office Hours we...
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Episode 30: Eddie Murphy
Axl Foley. Prince Akeem. Donkey. Let’s cut to the chase: Eddie Murphy is a comedy icon. His popularity as a stand up made red leather suits fashionable, his films grossed a combined six billion dollars at the box office, and his laugh is one of the most recognizable sounds in Earth. No one’s…
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Episode 29: Joel Silver
When it comes to large egos, flamboyant lifestyles, and spending habits worse than Nic Cage no one in Hollywood compares to producer Joel Silver. He is the man behind some of the most influential action films of the last thirty years. The only thing he does better than filmmaking is piss people...
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Welcome to the world of higher film education where two former Blockbuster Video employees, film school sorta graduates, and filmmakers take deep dives on different film topics from across the movie universe every week. Taught exclusively by Alex Bonner and Nicholas Souder: This is the world's greatest and cheapest free film school. You'll laugh, cry mascara tears, and possibly if the movie magic kicks in at just the right moment, accidentally get you to learn something. Take drugs and have a good time!(episodes are produced & recorded by Brian Tepps)
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