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The Nightmare Before Christmas

2022-04-29

By 1993 audiences had become accustomed to Tim Burton’s dark, gothic style. We also had seen him depict goth, cold, snowy Christmases in both Batman Returns and Edward Scissorhands. Those two live-action films seem like a build-up to Burton’s now-classic The Nightmare Before Christmas. Though he handed the directing reigns to Henry Selick, Burton’s fingerprints are all over this stop-motion fairy tale he wrote and produced. Now celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Now Playing hosts join Jack Skellington and Sandy Claws in Christmas Town. Is the film a great present, or a lump of coal in our hosts’ stockings? Become a Now Playing patron now to find out!

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 81 MB - Duration: 1:24:31m (128 kbps 44100 Hz)
Body Heat

2022-04-29

Kathleen Turner and William Hurt burned up the screen playing adulterers plotting to blow up husband Richard Crenna in the steamy 1981 thriller Body Heat. Does writer-director Lawrence Kasdan recapture the feel of classic 1940s mysteries with the same success his Raiders of the Lost Ark screenplay duplicated the thrill of old-fashioned movie serials? Or does Cheers star Ted Danson turn the whole affair into a lavish musical with his breakout turn as a hot-stepping lawyer? You’ll find out when you do what’s necessary, and become a Now Playing Patron.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 75 MB - Duration: 1:18:30m (128 kbps 44100 Hz)
Super

2022-04-29

Come to the rescue of independent podcasting this January when you sign up to be a Now Playing Patron! It’s a Super way of getting exclusive content, like this bonus review of the first comic book movie by James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy). Can nerdy crimefighter Rainn Wilson put a wrench in Kevin Bacon’s plans to hook wife Liv Tyler on drugs? And did Kick Ass steal Crimson Bolt’s thunder by beating him and ward Bolty (Ellen Page) to theaters? Find out when you suit up for another gangbuster Patron show with Jakob, Stuart, and Arnie.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 72 MB - Duration: 1:14:58m (128 kbps 44100 Hz)
Forbidden Planet

2022-04-29

Moviegoers eager to join Captain Marvel in space this March are first encouraged to blast off to a Forbidden Planet. Jakob, Stuart, and Arnie are heading back in time to explore a highly influential science fiction classic. Will the hosts be over the moon for this Freudian take on future peril as Leslie Nielsen - trading his “Naked Gun” for a laser ray - fights off an invisible Id Monster? And does Robbie The Robot come off as C-3PO’s cool older brother, or the prototype for the Terminator? Enlist to become a Now Playing Patron and find out!

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 76 MB - Duration: 1:19:44m (128 kbps 44100 Hz)
Big

2022-04-29

Arnie, Stuart, and Jakob are taking April Patrons back to their childhood as they revisit BIG - the ultimate coming-of-age comedy. Tom Hanks earned his first Oscar nomination playing a pint-sized 12-year-old boy, who makes a careless wish on a carnival fortune-telling machine, and wakes up in the body of a 30-year-old man. Does Penny Marshall’s fable still play for a grown up audience? And how has parenting changed in the decades since this classic opened? A small contribution is all that’s required to become a Now Playing Patron and Find Out!

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 99 MB - Duration: 1:42:22m (128 kbps 44100 Hz)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

2022-04-29

Justin, Stuart, and Arnie aim to p-p-please this May with a p-p-podcast review of Who Framed Roger Rabbit - the most celebrated marriage of live action and cel drawn animation ever! Bob Hoskins is the cartoon-hating gumshoe helping an anxious animated hare beat a murder rap. Will the real killer turn out to be Roger’s femme fatale wife Jessica Rabbit? And is Toontown big enough to house both Walt Disney and Warner Bros characters harmoniously? Your dreams come true not when you wish upon a star, but become a Now Playing Patron!

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 93 MB - Duration: 1:35:59m (128 kbps 44100 Hz)
Akira

2022-04-29

Stuart, Jakob, and Arnie are headed to Neo-Tokyo this June for a much-anticipated review of Akira. Japan’s answer to the X-Men pits telekinetic mutants against a fascist Colonel, and pill-popping bikers, in a post-apocalyptic city scarred by nuclear war. Will tyrant Tetsuo succeed in locating the mythical title character beneath an Olympic stadium? Or will phantom limb pain, and friction with former best friend Kaneda, undo his dreams of earning a gold medal in evil? Absorb everything about cinema’s most celebrated anime by becoming a Now Playing Patron.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 99 MB - Duration: 1:42:05m (128 kbps 44100 Hz)
Eyes Wide Shut

2022-04-29

Everyone knows infidelity broke up Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, but did their marital problems begin after legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick was invited into their bedroom for the longest film shoot in history? Eyes Wide Shut peels back the curtain on the superstar couple as it sends Tom off on an all-night cruise for sex - climaxing in a masked orgy and a dead supermodel. (But don’t all couples go through this?) Use the password “Patron” to access this exclusive July 2019 show, and get busy with Arnie, Jakob, Stuart, and Kubrick.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 137 MB - Duration: 2:22:35m (128 kbps 44100 Hz)
Boogie Nights

2022-04-29

Now Playing Patrons get lucky this August, as the zipper comes down on a super-sized review of Boogie Nights! Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson hit the big time with this unconventional portrait of pornographers living and working in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley, as seen through the eyes of well-endowed adult film star Mark Wahlberg. Is something wonderful waiting to burst forth from this ensemble of Hollywood wannabes? Or do the good vibes of the 1970s disappear with the arrival of the coke-fueled ‘80s? Be a Patron and Find Out!

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 113 MB - Duration: 1:56:42m (128 kbps 44100 Hz)
Miami Vice

2022-04-29

Over 30 years after debuting on NBC television, Miami Vice is reinvented by co-creator Michael Mann as a splashy 2006 summer movie starring Oscar winner Jamie Foxx and mustachioed Colin Farrell. The fashions may have changed, but can Crockett and Tubbs preserve the series’ distinctive sense of cool as they go undercover, and infiltrate a smuggling ring that takes them far beyond city limits to Haiti, Cuba, and Columbia? Join your pals Jakob, Arnie, and Stuart in the speedboat this September when you become a Now Playing Patron!

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 103 MB - Duration: 1:46:17m (128 kbps 44100 Hz)

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