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The Tinsel Factory: A Film History Podcast — 185 episodes
Tell it to Me Crooked: Modern Tabloid Journalism
Tell it to Me Crooked: Fan Magazines and Gossipers of Hollywood's Golden Age
Tell it to Me Crooked: The Birth of Tabloid Journalism
Stuff of Nightmares: The Child's Play Franchise
Stuff of Nightmares: The Hellraiser Franchise
Stuff of Nightmares: The Leprechaun Franchise
Stuff of Nightmares: The Alien Franchise
Back on the Road Again: Australian Cinema
Back on the Road Again: Hong Kong Cinema
Back on the Road Again: Spanish Cinema
Back on the Road Again: Russian Cinema
More Kings of the Silent Age: Lon Chaney
More Kings of the Silent Age: Sessue Hayakawa
More Kings of the Silent Age: John Barrymore
More Kings of the Silent Age: Douglas Fairbanks
The World Turned Upside Down: The Invention of Streaming
The World Turned Upside Down: Home Video
The World Turned Upside Down: Television
The World Turned Upside Down: The Rise of Sound Films
June Gloom: The Titanic Chowder Debacle
June Gloom: The Tragic Death of Rebecca Schaeffer
June Gloom: The Disappearance of Jean Spangler
June Gloom: The Death of Marilyn Monroe
Hollywood's It Girl: The Finale
Hollywood's It Girl: Clara Bow Speaks
Hollywood's It Girl: Clara Bow on the Rise
Hollywood's It Girl: Clara Bow's Early Years
Directed by Alan Smithee: Death to Smithee
Directed by Alan Smithee: The Birds II/Hellraiser: Bloodline
Directed By Alan Smithee: The Twilight Zone: The Movie
Directed By Alan Smithee: Death of a Gunfighter
It Was the Best Year Ever: 1999
It Was the Best Year Ever: 1984
It Was the Best Year Ever: 1962
It Was the Best Year Ever: 1939
Hollywood Cowboys: Clint Eastwood
Hollywood Cowboys: James Stewart
Hollywood Cowboys: Gary Cooper
Hollywood Cowboys: John Wayne
Italian Genres & Movements: Spaghetti Western
Italian Genres & Movements: Giallo
Italian Genres & Movements: Sword and Sandal
Italian Genres & Movements: Italian Neorealism
The 2023 Finale
The Ins and Outs of Film Preservation
Game Changing Child Stars: Mickey Rooney
Game Changing Child Stars: Jackie Coogan
Game Changing Child Stars: Shirley Temple
We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes: Hitchcock’s Height and Final Years
We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes: Hitchcock's Early Hollywood Era
We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes: Hitchcock's UK Films
We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes: The Early Life and Career of Alfred Hitchcock
50's Screen Queens: Audrey Hepburn
50's Screen Queens: Grace Kelly
50's Screen Queens: Jayne Mansfield
50's Screen Queens: Doris Day
Back on the Road: A Brief History of Latinx Hollywood
Back on the Road: A Brief History of Brazilian Cinema
Back on the Road: A Brief History of Canadian Cinema
Back on the Road: A Brief History of Mexican Cinema
Hollywood Myths & Legends: Cursed Films
Hollywood Myths & Legends: Kubrick Moon Landing Conspiracy Theory
Hollywood Myths & Legends: Ghosts of Tinseltown
Hollywood Myths & Legends: Film Urban Legends
Dynamic Duos: Cheech and Chong
Dynamic Duos: Hope and Crosby
Dynamic Duos: Abbott & Costello
Dynamic Duos: Laurel & Hardy
Hollywood on Strike: The '07/'08 Writer's Strike
Hollywood on Strike: Hollywood's Black Friday
Hollywood on Strike: The Disney Animator's Strike of 1941
Hollywood on Strike: A Brief History of Hollywood Unions & Strikes
Rock n' Roll 101: The Runaways
Rock n' Roll 101: Sex Pistols/Sid and Nancy
Rock n' Roll 101: Queen/Bohemian Rhapsody
Rock n' Roll 101: The Doors
The Greatest Films Never Made: Steven Spielberg's Space Epics
The Greatest Films Never Made: Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune
The Greatest Films Never Made: Orson Welles's Heart of Darkness
The Greatest Films Never Made: Superman Lives
I Also Wanna Be: An Actor
I Also Wanna Be: A Hair/Makeup Artist
I Also Wanna Be: A Cinematographer
I Also Wanna Be: A Production Designer
Kings of the Silent Age: Charlie Chaplin
Kings of the Silent Age: Buster Keaton
Kings of the Silent Age: Rudolph Valentino
Kings of the Silent Age: Harold Lloyd
The 2022 Finale
A Brief History of Summer Blockbusters
The Little Three: United Artists
The Little Three: Columbia Pictures
The Little Three: Universal Pictures
Based on a True Scary Story: Ed and Lorraine Warren
Based on a True Scary Story: Ship Wrecks & Shark Attacks
Based on a True Scary Story: The Exorcism of Roland Doe
Based on a True Scary Story: The Plainfield Butcher
Into the Genre-verse: Horror
Into the Genre-verse: American Comedy
Into the Genre-verse: Drama
Into the Genre-verse: Intro to Genre Theory
On the Road Again: British Cinema
On the Road Again: Italian Cinema
On the Road Again: German Cinema
On the Road Again: French Cinema
Hell Shoots: Fitzcarraldo
Hell Shoots: Ishtar
Hell Shoots: Heaven's Gate
Hell Shoots: The Man Who Killed Who Don Quixote
Tales From the Blacklist: Aftermath
Tales From the Blacklist: The Hollywood Ten and the Blacklist
Tales From the Blacklist: The Friendlies
Tales From the Blacklist: The HUAC Hearings
Hollywood Mysteries: Was There a Lee Family Curse?
Hollywood Mysteries: Did Lana Turner Get Away With Murder?
Hollywood Mysteries: Did Natalie Wood Actually Drown?
Hollywood Mysteries: Did Someone Murder Thelma Todd?
An Offer You Can't Refuse: The Making of Bram Stoker's Dracula
An Offer You Can't Refuse: The Making of Apocalypse Now
An Offer You Can't Refuse: The Making of The Godfather
An Offer You Can't Refuse: Francis Ford Coppola
Queens of the Silent Age: Lillian Gish
Queens of the Silent Age: Mary Pickford
Queens of the Silent Age: Clara Bow
Queens of the Silent Age: Theda Bara
Black History Month: A Brief History of Blaxploitation
Black History Month: Sidney Poitier
Black History Month: Hattie McDaniel
Black History Month: Oscar Micheaux
Cinema Pioneers: The Lumières
Cinema Pioneers: Thomas Edison
Cinema Pioneers: George Eastman
Cinema Pioneers: Eadweard Muybridge
The 2021 Finale Special
Olivia & Scarlett Go to Hollywood
History 101: Abraham Lincoln
History 101: Cleopatra
Monster Slash: Ghostface
Monster Slash: Freddy Krueger
Monster Slash: Jason Voorhees
Monster Slash: Michael Meyers
Cult Classics: Donnie Darko
Cult Classics: The Craft
Cult Classics: The Room
Cult Classics: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
On the Road: Chinese Cinema
Hollywood Fight Club: Orson Welles vs. William Randolph Hearst
Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Short Life of River Phoenix
Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Forgotten Life of Jonathan Brandis
Illusions of Life: The History of Dreamworks Animation
Illusions of Life: The History of Pixar
Illusions of Life: The History of Studio Ghibli
Illusions of Life: A Brief History of Animation
I'd Like to Thank the Academy: Memorable Moments in Oscar History
I'd Like to Thank The Academy: The 93rd Academy Awards
I'd Like to Thank the Academy: The Road to Oscar Glory
I'd Like to Thank the Academy: The Birth of the AMPAS & The Oscars
March Murder Madness: The Fatty Arbuckle Scandal & The Murder of William Desmond Taylor
March Murder Madness: The Life and Death of Sal Mineo
March Murder Madness: The Manson Family Murders
Love is Dead: Jennifer Anniston, Brad Pitt and the Celebrity Tabloid Machine
Love is Dead: The Life and Loves of Clark Gable
Love is Dead: The Life and Loves of Marilyn Monroe
Love is Dead: The Life and Loves of Elizabeth Taylor
I Wanna Be: In Sound
I Wanna Be: An Editor
I Wanna Be: A Screenwriter
I Wanna Be: A Director
The 2020 Finale Special
Pandemic Hollywood
The Man & His Mouse: Walt's Disneyland
The Man & His Mouse: Disney after Walt
The Man & His Mouse: Walt Disney
Universal Monster Mash: The Wolf Man & Creature From the Black Lagoon
Universal Monster Mash: The Mummy & The Invisible Man
Universal Monster Mash: Frankenstein
Universal Monster Mash: Dracula
The Big 5: RKO
The Big 5: Warner Bro’s.
The Big 5: 20th Century-Fox
The Big 5: MGM Studios
The Big 5: Paramount Pictures
An Even Briefer History of International Film
A Brief History of Film: Part Two
A Brief History of Film: Part One