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Totally Pretentious: A Podcast About Great Movies — 16 episodes
Episode 16. Into the Wardrobe with The Last Unicorn (1982; Dir. Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr.): Fairytales and the Natural World
Episode 15. High Noon (1952): Masculine Heroes, the Old West, American “Values,” and Late Oscars
Episode 14. The 2016 Oscars Nominees (a.k.a. GripeFest 2016)
Episode 13. Near Dark (1987; dir. Kathryn Bigelow): The Vampire, the Western, and the Setting Sun
Episode 12. A Christmas Carol (1951; dir. Brian Desmond Hurst): The Terrors of the Past, Present, and Future
Episode 11. The People Under the Stairs (1991; dir. Wes Craven): Craven’s Legacy and an Unusual Mythic Terror
Episode 10. Into the Wardrobe with The Goonies (1985; dir. Richard Donner): The 80s Child (or, How I Learned to Find a Pirate Ship on a Weekend)
Episode 9. Last Night (1998): Finding the Self in the Canadian Apocalypse
Episode 8. Marvel’s Cinematic Universe and The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) — the Pastoral and the Child
Episode 7. Jurassic Park (1993) and Jurassic World (2015): Blockbuster Spectacle and Reconstituting the Family
Episode 6. The Wicker Man (1973) — On Christopher Lee’s Legacy and the Trials of Religion
Episode 5. The Swimmer (1968): The Surreality and Collapse of WASP Culture
Episode 4. The Shop Around the Corner (1940): Romantic Fantasies, Cults of Personality, and the Chaos of Capital
Episode 3. It Follows (2014): Teenage Body Horror, Modern Decay, and It
Episode 2. The Wages of Fear (1953): Playing Genre, Masculinity, and the Post-War World
Episode 1. Dirty Harry (1971): The Vigilante, the History, and Beginnings