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The Super 70 Podcast
by Dylan Davis
The Super 70 Podcast is a commentary you play along with the film for scene by scene analysis, or you can just listen in your car. Dylan Davis is the author of "FLYNN!", Dating Virginia, Buffalo Seine, and Threshold. He is a reader, listener, and appreciator of culture. Find him at www.thatdylandavis.com and on Twitter @thatdylandavis #super70podcast
Episodes
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39.3 Kino Day 2026
If you keep up with the pod you’ll know my son Luke moved to Portland and has started a new chapter in his life that we’re all very excited about. Before he left, I took a day off work and we ran through as many movies as we could in the Kino Room. This is his experience. Thanks for listening to...
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39.2 One Conversation After Another
Dave Anderson and I had three or four conversations about Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another which took the cinemas by storm last fall and the awards season this spring. One Battle After Another was a juggernaut. It garnered 506 nominations this year, it won 287 awards including…
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39.1 Our 4K Projections
Dave A and I have not zoomed in a while. I reminisce about watching Turner Classic movies during a hospital visit. We ramble on about Badlands, Dogma, and One Battle After Another. After we’ve had our coffee, we take on Netflix and Reifenstahl’s Berg films. If it seems all over the place, that’s...
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39 Ms. .45 (1981)
Abel Ferrara shocked the exploitation world with his feminist statement Ms. .45 (1981). Starring the incomparable Zoe Lund as a mute, submissive fashion designer in New York City, Ms. .45 exposes the everyday experience of women as a slugfest of misogyny and non-stop harassment. Lund’s role as...
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38.11 The Best Needle Drops
We try to keep the Tarantino and Scorsese mentions at a minimum in this episode. The Super 70 Podcast is wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my books, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com. I am @thatdylandavis on Letterbxd, Threads, and Blusky. You can find Rozalind MacPhail’s music on...
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38.10 The Redfordcast
What else can you say but that the man was great. He was great with Jane Fonda. He was great with Faye Dunaway. He was great with Debra Winger and Demi Moore. He was even great with guys like Sidney Poitier and of course his long friendship with Paul Newman. Dave bowed out this time, but Luke...
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38.9 Assassination Cinema
Hey, folks, things got a bit serious in the States lately. We’ve had a spate of assassinations and assassination attempts the past few years. Trump’s been shot at twice. He's been hit once. Josh Shapiro’s governor’s mansion was burnt down. Melissa and Mark Hortman were murdered in their home. And...
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38.8 The Multiverse Conversation
Luke fled, as Will Patton said in the Fishbourne movie. Wren stayed to list praises and grievances with the MCU, specifically the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy. The conversation is a keen eye into the target demographic of the Disney / Marvel Studios franchise, as GenZ continues to dominate...
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38.7 The MCU Conversation
Well, we had to get to it sooner or later, and since the Fantastic Four: First Steps was released, I guess now was a good time as any. I asked my Gen Z kids Luke and Wren to come onto the pod to talk about what it was like to grow up with the MCU as the defining cultural shift from cinema in…
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38.6 Interview with Danny Gaylord with Film is Lit Podcast
Danny Gaylord from Film is Lit came on the pod a few weeks ago to talk about Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning. I had so much material on that I decided to cut some out and present it here. Literature and film go together, and Film is Lit is catered to that idea. Much like David Fincher’s…
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38.5 Mission Implausible
What can we say that hasn’t already been said about the last Mission Impossible film? And why can’t we just go through it all again? Just because we love cinema, love Tom Cruise, and every tangent in between. Danny Gaylord joins us from the Film is Lit Podcast as we fawn over and shake our head…
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38.4 80's Movie Weekends
It started on our first Kino Day of 2025. I slipped in an 80’s movie while we camped out and did fuck all but watch films for as long as we could. That movie was Turk182!, and it led to us watching an 80’s movie every weekend. Luke sat down with me the weekend before he flew to Berlin to talk…
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38.3 Tightwad Tuesday
I don’t know what you savages do in the rest of the world, but here in the fourth largest city in America, most theatres discount movie tickets on Tuesday night. The result, the Davis family has butts in seats, usually by five thirty, watching whatever it is we didn’t see the previous Friday....
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38.2 Sinners is so Good
My friend and frequent guest on the show, Dave Anderson, went to go see Sinners opening weekend. I saw it that following Tightwad Tuesday. Dave messaged me and it read ‘let’s try that zoom thing because Sinners is so good.’ And that’s what this is. On the backside we discuss the recent Academy…
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38.1 Dice, Dice, Baby
After recording the Adventures of Ford Fairlane Commentary, Paul Emig, Warren Hayes, and myself discussed misogyny, jingoism, comedy, cinema, and the comedian trends in Hollywood.
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38 The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
Mega-controversial comedian Andrew Clay Silverstein got his big break on Rodney Dangerfield’s 1988 HBO special and soon thereafter was playing arenas. His comedy album The Diceman Cometh went gold and following a live set on MTV, he was banned from that network. His next album, The Day the…
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37.2 Kino in Deutschland
If any of you have been following along then you know that my son Luke spent his fall semester in Berlin. In between trips to European capitals, taste testing the continent’s best beer, and understanding the dangers of the AfD, he also took a German Film Class that spanned the 20th Century. He…
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37.1 Hitch And 2024
After Rear Window, Dave and I decided to find out how long into the night we could go drinking beer, talking about Hitchcock, and discussing his 2024 Letterbxd, David Lynch, Beavers, the nature of God, the duality of man. The meaning of life. Is wrestling fixed? What is Martinizing and why does…
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37 Rear Window (1954)
In one of the most magnificent careers in cinema history, Alfred Hitchcock outdid himself with a run from 1951 to 1960 that encapsulated not only some of the best Hollywood films of the decade, but of all time. In the middle of this impressive flex is Hitch’s complex ode to gender roles, gender...
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36.4 Don't Google "Roy Cohn's Bedroom"
Luke and I start off by discussing Ali Abbassi’s controversial biopic “The Apprentice.” We try to talk about the President Elect’s record as a rapist, his friendship with Roy Cohn, and well... at least we tried. Meander we did through our cinema experiences while Luke is in Deutschland. We…
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36.3 Beetlejuice Squared
We’re running a few weeks late due to the release schedule in Deutchland, but here is Luke and I talking about experiencing Tim Burton’s latest big hit and how it played out down in the Potsdammer Platz. Find Rozalind MacPhail’s music at www.rozalindmacphail.com . You can find me, my books and my...
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36.2 Joker 2- Wahnsinn Für Zwei
Luke is going to school in Berlin this semester and there’s no good reason why he can’t keep up with the release schedule. In between Brewmaster classes, history classes, and yes, a true to form Deutch Kino Class, Luke has been streaming Prime and heading down to you guessed it, Berlin...
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36.1 Batman Schmatman
Once again we are faced with the fact that sometimes the best conversations are the meandering ones we have after the commentary is over. I asked Warren Hayes and Paul Emig to stay over a little loner, have a couple of beers, and talk about our favorite caped crusader, why comic book films are...
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36 Batman (1989)
In one of the bravest acts of Cinema History, Warner Brothers decided to give Tim Burton, a former Disney animator with a whopping two directing credits to his name, the keys to the Batcave. One of Burton’s most controversial decisions, casting comedic actor Michael Keaton as the brooding...
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35.1 The Phantom Bonus
After we recorded The Phantom Menace Commentary, Warren and Paul and I pontificated on the many reasons the film did not succeed even though it had tons of pluses to it. We discuss the action figure market, the genius of Carrie Fisher, and that thing we all hate with a passion: sand.
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35 The Phantom Menace (1999)
After sixteen years of a fanbase growing into adulthood, George Lucas dropped fifty millon dollars of Lucasfilm Limited’s money into the surest bet in Hollywood history: The first film in a new trilogy of Star Wars films. Though distributed by Fox and produced by Rick McCallum, Star Wars, Episode...
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34.12 Hannibal And Hannibal
As will be explained in the subsequent conversation, Luke and I came across two very different films called Hannibal and decided to do a double feature in a day. The result... was very dour.
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34.11 Wild Movie Weekend
We had a helluva weekend folks. Friday night, the boy and an caught The Phantom Menace for the 25th anniversary re-release. Saturday, we caught Jeanne du Barry with Johnny Depp. Starring Johnny Depp, I mean we didn’t go see the movie with him. And Sunday we woke up and caught the first screening…
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34.10 The James Bond Theme Song Bracket
Just after we finished the bracket for the best James Bond film, Luke and I kept on going, using the same bracket and the same faulty feeders to determine the best James Bond theme song. Just like the film bracket, the results here might surprise you. Jack White and Alicia Keyes made cinema…
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34.9 The James Bond Bracket
A couple of months ago, Luke and I had a short discussion on March Madness. I showed him an NCAA bracket and he instantly said, ‘we should do one for James Bond.’ I duly put one together, grouping the bonds together and facing them off basically using Connery, Dalton, and Brosnan on one side and...
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34.8 You Did NAZI This Episode Coming
My son took a course in Fascist Cinema in college. I was aware of his workload since that was an area of my study in grad school. Join us as we talked about the fucked-up values of National Socialist films and why their beauty makes them so dangerous. Be prepared for an opening statement with a…
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34.7 King Kahn And Bollywood In 2023
One year ago, I saw a trailer on YouTube, showed it to my son, and he said hell yes! Let’s see Pathaan! We were blown away by this action powerhouse with Hindustan’s most famous actor Shah Ruh Khan and Deepika Padukone. Since then we’ve seen a handful of Bollywood films, all from 2023, and we…
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34.6 2023 Year In Review
Dave and I go over the biggest releases in 2023 and hit our letterbxd to see what worked, what didn’t, and why we keep going back to the theatre. We also discuss the most important topics of the day, such as watching Fincher’s The Killer with no sound, the merits of Friedkin, and who’s Letterbxd…
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34.5 Godzilla And Trauma
Takeshi Yamazaki shook the American movie market last month when Godzilla Minus One became the highest earning Japanese film in history. The lizard has always been popular but placed against the backdrop of the tragedy of the Second World War and entwined with the lives of survivors Noriko and...
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34.4 The Holdovers Holiday Special Part Deux
My good friend Dave Anderson went to go see the Holdovers on my recommendation and he listened to my last podcast episode with great envy. Jealous that he could not participate, he texted me, begged me, pleaded with me, to come back into the Hacienda to discuss what must be the first Christmas...
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34.3 The Holdovers Holiday Special
Alexander Payne had not made a single film that I like until I went to see The Holdovers for Tightwad Tuesday. Masked by the period piece setting, the story is more about how broken people find peace than it’s outward image as a Christmas film. Teaming up with Paul Giamatti and using David...
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34.2 Ridley And Napoleon
My son Luke and I saw Napoleon the day after Thanksgiving and we came back immediately and turned the mikes on to talk about Ridley Scott’s latest epic. We run through the scenes, the history behind the great man (Napoleon, not Ridley) and we contrast this epic from the others it deserves to be...
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34.1 Freakin' Friedkin!
After wrapping up the Sorcerer commentary, Dave and I sat around, consumed mass quantities, and as much as we tried to focus on Hurricane Billy Friedkin and his work, we quickly descended into how we consume cinema, soundtracks, and Friedkin’s fellow auteurs. We go all over the place but you can...
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34 Sorcerer (1977)
Hot off the success of the ninth highest grossing movie of all time, William Friedkin abandoned a film about the Bermuda Triangle to focus on a re-interpretation of the George Arnaud novel “The Wages of Fear.” Every possible thing went wrong during every stage of production. Stars dropped out.…
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33.2 The Specialist, Hannah Arendt And The Banality Of Evil
I sent my friend Dave Kinnaman Hanna Arendt’s famous book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Study in the Banality of Evil. Dave became so engrossed in Arendt’s history of the Holocaust and her philosophy of murder that I then sent him an Israeli documentary of the Eichmann’s trial called The Specialist by...
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33.1 ANZAC Cinema
A few months ago I asked a friend of mine, Paul Emig to pick a movie, any movie, for the Super 70 Podcast. He chose Peter Jackson’s Braindead and needless to say this was not my cup of tea. But we don’t care about bad taste at the Super 70 Podcast. We don’t care if it has a budget of twenty...
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33 Braindead (1987)
Peter Jackson had already spent most of his own money developing his third film Braindead when his producer closed a deal to bring in a quarter million dollars to finish the project. Avalon Studios of Wellington, New Zealand had to spend thousands of dollars of unforeseen expenses to clean the...
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32.1 Film, Literature, And Kinnaman
I keep in touch with my friend Dave Kinnaman over Zoom. We talk carpentry, history, and literature. Things got pretty wild when I dove in deep discussing two famous documentaries: Ken Burns’ Vietnam and The Last Days of Vietnam on PBS. Both of these documentaries were outstanding efforts to...
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32 Pathaan (2023)
Shah Rukh Kahn was already one of the biggest stars in the world when he returned after a four-year hiatus to take the lead in Pathaan, the fourth film in Yash Raj Films’s Spy Universe. Ostensibly about a retired Indian Intelligence agent teaming up with a Pakistani spy to stop a rogue group from...
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31.1 All Quiet With Dave Kinnaman
Dave Kinnaman and I used to teach across the hall from one another. He taught American History, which I thought was boring. I taught World History, which he really never gave a shit about. I was a conservative Republican. He was a liberal Democrat. We were fast friends. We believed in our…
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31 Code 46 (2003)
Michael Winterbottom might be the Rainer Werner Fassbinder of the UK with a shocking 48 directing credits, both in film and television, since 1988. Known for jumping from genre to genre, he landed in Science Fiction in 2003 when he directed Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton in Code 46. In a future…
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Special Edition - Sight And Sound 100 With Dave Anderson
Dave Anderson sat down with me after FURY ROAD and we discussed the future, fascism, and femininity. Then we went through the Sight and Sound 100 list to sort out what was interesting, what was surprising, and what was a tall, stinking pile of Jeanne Dielman You can find me at...
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EP30 Mad Max - Fury Road
Australian Auteur George Miller, MD, had already cranked out ten films and earned the top golden man for animation when Warner Brothers finally approved his 3,500 storyboarded idea for a fourth Mad Max Franchise installment. At the age of 70, Miller took almost a thousand cast and crew members to...
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Special Report - Bruce Willis Celebration
The last forty years of Hollywood has been dominated by a handful of stars that stayed in the A List. Join us as we go through the impressive career of Bruce Willis, American Wunderkind who managed to turn his television career into an impressive melee into action, comedy, and dare I say…art?...
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The Super 70 Podcast is a commentary you play along with the film for scene by scene analysis, or you can just listen in your car. Dylan Davis is the author of "FLYNN!", Dating Virginia, Buffalo Seine, and Threshold. He is a reader, listener, and appreciator of culture. Find him at www.thatdylandavis.com and on Twitter @thatdylandavis #super70podcast
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