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The House That Jack Built

2022-04-29

Become a Now Playing Patron this October and step inside The House That Jack Built. Wannabe architect Matt Dillon wants to make you feel cozy inside his lair, so ignore the bodies and bad pizza piled up in the freezer, and consider how all the blood on the walls is just another form of art. Is bad boy director Lars Von Trier going to Hell for making crude jokes about the suffering he’s caused women, children, and small animals throughout his controversial career? Stuart, Jakob, and Arnie are ready to pass judgement when you Donate Now.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 51 MB - Duration: 1:36:16m (708 kbps 44100 Hz)
JFK

2022-04-29

It’s been nearly 60 years since JFK was assassinated in a Dallas motorcade, and yet many of the questions asked by Oliver Stone’s 1991 Oscar-winning docudrama remain unanswered. Kevin Costner stars as New Orleans DA Jim Garrison - the only man to publicly prosecute someone for the 35th President’s murder. Was Lee Harvey Oswald (Gary Oldman) made a patsy for crimes actually engineered by Tommy Lee Jones and Joe Pesci? Become a Now Playing Patron this November, as Stuart, Jakob, and Arnie reopen this controversial case file.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 76 MB - Duration: 2:20:50m (706 kbps 44100 Hz)
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?

2022-04-29

Guess Who’s Coming To Now Playing? Spencer Tracey and Katharine Hepburn host a hilarious lesson in civility and true love with their Oscar-winning 1967 comedy. How does a liberal White couple explain their angry reaction when their free-spirited daughter returns from Hawaiian vacation engaged to Black doctor Sidney Poitier? Are the racial politics of Stanley Kramer’s message movie the perfect antacid for film lovers struggling to digest Thanksgiving conversation in culturally divided America? Dinner is served when you become a November Patron!

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 49 MB - Duration: 1:30:43m (710 kbps 44100 Hz)
Trading Places

2022-04-29

Scrooge Dan Aykroyd learns something about Christmas (and frozen orange juice commodities) after Trading Places with street beggar Eddie Murphy in Now Playing’s holiday gift to December Patrons. Is this 1983 blockbuster uproarious because of the funny nature of these SNL stars? Or did director John Landis nurture the comedy by turning the decade’s obsession with yuppies and wealth into satirical targets? And how well did Jamie Lee Curtis shed her Scream Queen image to make audiences howl with laughter? Spend a little coin to help our show and find out.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 48 MB - Duration: 1:29:01m (721 kbps 44100 Hz)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2022-04-29

Brad Pitt may be the outlaw with the target on his back, but the real tragedy about The Assassination of Jesse James is what happened to The Coward that shot him. Casey Affleck co-stars as Robert Ford, the teenage fanboy who joins his idol on a train robbery that goes so badly it dooms both men to violent ends. Does this poetic Western deserve more fame and respect than it got from common folk in 2007? Join Arnie, Stuart, and Jakob as they take May Patrons back to 1881 to learn how America creates legends and losers. Donate Today!

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 127 MB - Duration: 1:35:55m (175 kbps 44100 Hz)
Pumping Iron

2022-04-29

Now Playing wants to get you pumped for another year of Patron exclusives by kicking off 2021 with a look back at the bodybuilding documentary that turned Arnold Schwarzenegger into a movie star. Will Jakob and Stuart be rooting for the Austrian Oak, future Incredible Hulk Lou Ferrigno, or one of the other colorful contestants vying to be Mr. Universe? And does our Arnie agree that Pumping Iron feels as fantastic as having sex with a beautiful woman? Find out by be-cuming a January Patron, and helping us carry some of the financial weight of the show.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 52 MB - Duration: 1:33:50m (740 kbps 44100 Hz)
The Manitou

2022-04-29

Is that a lump in your throat, or are you just excited to talk about The Manitou - the craziest Omen wannabe of the 1970s? Find out what happens when swingin’ bachelor and clairvoyant con artist Tony Curtis learns a 400 year old Native American has beaten him inside the body of girlfriend Susan Strasberg. Can bookish Burgess Meredith, medicine man Michael Ansara, and one giant mainframe computer exorcise the ancient spirit before it sends her and all of White Man America into outer space? Become a February Patron and join this magic circle now!

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 43 MB - Duration: 1:17:58m (725 kbps 44100 Hz)
Titanic

2022-04-29

85 years after hitting an iceberg and sinking into the Atlantic, writer/director James Cameron resurrects the legendary ship Titanic as a 1997 cinematic spectacle. Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio are two of the 2,200 passengers trying to stay afloat after greed, arrogance, and bad luck doom the luxury liner on its maiden voyage. Are the hosts a wreck too after re-experiencing the 1912 disaster? Or would they prefer to chuck this three-hour melodrama into the ocean? Find out when you set a course to become a Now Playing Patron this April.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 138 MB - Duration: 2:48:52m (107 kbps 44100 Hz)
Dragon Ball Super: Broly

2022-04-29

The epic quest to obtain seven wish-granting Dragon Ball talismans has spanned time and space and every kind of media imaginable - comic books, cartoons, video games, and now a 2018 blockbuster movie. Is the latest chapter of the saga Super for resurrecting Broly, the musclebound menace of Goku and his extended family? And how much of the franchise’s dense mythology is comprehensible to viewers who didn’t catch ‘em all in the last 35 years? Become a March Patron and help Stuart, Justin, and Arnie take up this fight!

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 51 MB - Duration: 1:32:29m (720 kbps 44100 Hz)
The Vanishing (1988)

2022-04-29

The Vanishing of a woman making a quick pit stop during a road trip through France causes her boyfriend to spiral into an obsessive quest for truth in this acclaimed 1988 Dutch thriller. Can an eccentric chemistry teacher who was conducting a social experiment at the same gas station provide closure three years later? And why did critics who loved this existential mystery make the 1993 Hollywood remake with Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock disappear? The only way you’ll know is by becoming a Now Playing Patron, and taking the ride with us this June.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 97 MB - Duration: 1:16:31m (166 kbps 44100 Hz)

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