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Mousterpiece Cinema, Lucasfilm Bonus Episode Seven: “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”
In this bonus episode of Mousterpiece Cinema, Josh and Gabe sit down in person to talk about the 2008 animated film "Star Wars: The Clone Wars."
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“Chi-Raq” Is A Glorious Provocation
Spike Lee doesn’t always make it easy for us fans. His restless, prolific output can often swerve from brilliant to asinine, sometimes within the space of a single movie, sometimes within the space of a single scene. But stick with the guy long enough and ever...
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“Big Game”
With nostalgia currently holding the box office in a raptor claw, it's amusing to discover that this summer's most purely enjoyable throwback to those 1980s Steven Spielberg-produced Amblin entertainments is not, in fact, the Steven Spielberg-produced Amblin e...
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“Barely Lethal”
In her breakthrough performance as Mattie Ross in the Coen Brothers’ 2010 adaptation of True Grit, Hailee Steinfeld wowed audiences with a steely reserve far beyond her then-13 years of age. For maintaining her character’s composure in a frontier crawling with...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Lucasfilm Bonus Episode Four: The “Star Wars” Prequels
Grab your cloaks and lightsabers, folks, because the Force is strong with this special bonus episode of Mousterpiece Cinema. After months of waiting and hoping and plugging our Facebook page, we've finally reached the point where we can talk about--yes, really...
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“Kingsman: The Secret Service”
The mission of Kingsman: The Secret Service is to make the James Bond movie that has not been, to treat the earlier painfully-British entries from Sean Connery’s trilby-hat-wearing days with hyper action, while subsequently defying the broodiness of the Daniel...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 171: “The Incredibles”
We hope you're bursting with confidence this week, listeners. You should be brimming with courage and energy and flexibility! In short, you better be feeling incredible because that's the tone of this week's Mousterpiece Cinema, wherein Josh and Gabe talk abou...
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The Eyes Behind the Mask: “Pulp Fiction” and Postmodernity 20 Years Later
“I’m American, honey. Our names don’t mean shit.”---Butch Coolidge, Pulp Fiction
In his essay “Postmodernism and Consumer Society,” Marxist critic Frederic Jameson argues that the concept of postmodernism is primarily a product of the social and economic or...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 164: “Unbreakable”
Friends, it's that time of year again: time for some scarifying movie talk on Mousterpiece Cinema! Yes, it's Shock-tober, so you better boo-lieve that Josh and Gabe are back at it with some Halloween-appropriate movies. First up, it's M. Night Shyamalan's foll...
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“Kingsman: The Secret Service” Trailer: Manners Maketh Man Kick Ass
One of the lowest moments for me personally this year was when the release date for this film was moved from Oct. 24th to Feb. 13th of next year, citing the need for extra time on visual effects. They've ramped the marketing campaign back up though, with anoth...
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