This week, Justin and Ryan dig into 'A Night at the Opera' (1935) and talk about...

• The Marx Bros. as 'living cartoons'
• a multi-talented act
• masterful set-piece comedy
• integrating just enough story to connect the bits
• timing, timing, timing
• the natural human-ness of the Marx Brothers
• Our Verdict
• Next week's film: 'Tarzan the Fearless' (1933)

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This week, Justin and Ryan dig into 'Intermezzo' (1939) and talk about...

• how this film's portrayal of infidelity could have been handled better
• the problems of cutting a romantic drama down to just over an hour of film time
• important scenes left out as 'implied' scenes
• the competition for worst-spouse award is neck-and-neck
• looking at the 'groomer' aspect
• hellllooo substitute family!
• a remake with Willie Nelson? Wut?
• how it should have ended
• Our Verdict
• Next week's film: 'A Night at the Opera' (1935)

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This week, Justin and Ryan dig into 'The White Reindeer' (1952) and talk about...

• Not the culturally inspired horror one might expect
• Superimposing stock Hollywood horror structures onto Lap culture
• What was the lesson supposed to be here exactly?
• What if there was "X" except "X" is incredibly evil?
• Unclear what curse does psychologically
• But the costumes were good...
• We experience technical difficulties...
• Our Verdict
• Next week's film: 'Intermezzo' (1939)

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This week, Justin and Ryan dig into 'How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying' (1967) and talk about...

• The narrator as the 'voice of the book'
• Second-person POV For the WIN!
• "You're gonna like me" - energy
• Reservations? Don't worry. Robert Morse will get you past those.
• Why haven't we seen more of this guy?!?
• The romance getting a bit shorted
• Chef's kiss - breaking the fourth wall
• Our Verdict
• Next week's film: 'The Little Shop of Horrors' (1960)

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This week, Justin and Ryan dig into 'Ball of Fire' (1941) and talk about...

• Snow White and the Seven Profs
• Simple storytelling cause-and-effect courtesy Billy Wilder
• Making the oddness of an arrangement - work
• Quirkiness saves the day!
• Barbara Stanwyck shows her chops
• Gary Cooper vs. Cary Grant
• The nexus of all film connections makes another appearance
• Our Verdict
• Next week's film: 'How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying' (1967)

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This week, Justin and Ryan dig into 'Sorry Wrong Number' (1948) and talk about...

• The perils of adapting a radio play to film length
• Mixing genres - awkwardly
• Fulfilling promises in the most boring way possible
• Acting to a phone - like acting to green screen or puppets
• All the things we thought would happen, but didn't
• Our Verdict
• Next week's film: 'The Little Shop of Horrors' (1960)

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This week, Justin and Ryan dig into 'The Amazing Quest of Earnest Bliss' (1936) and talk about...

• Beware of movies with "Amazing" in the title
• Rich, bored white-guy problems of the Great Depression - Intrigued yet?
• "Brewster's Millions" done wrong
• Mr. Loophole
• In the end, everyone gets the mammon they want. Yay?
• Somehow "Talladega Nights" comes up
• "You mean I get to be rich and marry Carey Grant? - Lemmie think about it..."
• Soft-peddling the difficulties of finding work - again - during the Depression
• Wipes, wipes, and more wipes...
• The "Beyond Christmas" conspiracy theory continues to manifest itself
• Our Verdict
• Next week's film: 'Sorry Wrong Number' (1948)

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This week, Justin and Ryan dig into 'On the Beach' (1959) and talk about...

• When the world ends and you're just waiting for your turn in it
• Details without perspective
• What if... the end of the movie led into Mad Max?
• The irony of Australia becoming the most habitable place on Earth.
• A film set in Australia bereft of Aussie accents.
• Some of our favorite cold war films
• Our Verdict
• Next week's film: 'The Amazing Adventure' (1936)

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