Blockbusters and Birdwalks
At Blockbusters and Birdwalks, you’ll listen to reviews and conversations about all kinds of movies, from Academy Award winners to exploitation masterpieces with a mix of commercial hits and obscure favorites thrown in for good measure. The point is recognizing that movies present our culture with the building blocks of social memory, enabling each of us to enjoy ourselves because movies are fun.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 165
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Deliberate Controversy, a conversation – Part 5: “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” (1979)
This is the fifth part of an eight-part series about difficult movies.
Part 1 focused on S. Craig Zahler’s “Dragged Across Concrete”. Part 2 focused on Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris”. Pa…
Film History 1945 to Now- 4. "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953)
In this idiosyncratic history of post-World War II movies, we continue with “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and Fantasy.
Future podcasts in this series:
- “The Seventh Seal” (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
- “North by No…
Film History 1945 to Now- 3. "Rashomon" (1950)
In this idiosyncratic history of post-World War II movies, we continue with “Rashomon” and Experimentation.
Future podcasts in this series:
- “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (Howard Hawks, 1953)
- “The Seventh S…
Deliberate Controversy, a conversation – Part 4: “Basic Instinct” (1992)
This is the fourth part of an eight-part series about difficult movies.
Part 1 focused on S. Craig Zahler’s “Dragged Across Concrete”. Part 2 focused on Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris”. P…
Film History 1945 to Now- 2. "The Killers" (1946)
In this idiosyncratic history of post-World War II movies, we continue with “The Killers” and Ambiguity.
Future podcasts in this series:
- “Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
- “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (How…
Film History 1945 to Now- 1. "Rome, Open City" (1945)
In this idiosyncratic history of post-World War II movies, we begin with “Rome, Open City” and the birth of the Atomic Age.
Future podcasts in this series:
- “The Killers” (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
- “Rashomo…
Deliberate Controversy, a conversation – Part 3: “Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS” (1975)
This is the third part of an eight-part series about difficult movies.
Part 1 focused on S. Craig Zahler’s “Dragged Across Concrete”. Part 2 focused on Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris”. Pa…
Deliberate Controversy, a conversation – Part 2: “Last Tango in Paris” (1972)
This is the second part of an eight-part series about difficult movies.
Part 1 focused on S. Craig Zahler’s “Dragged Across Concrete”. Part 3 will focus on Don Edmonds’s “Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS”. P…
Deliberate Controversy, a conversation – Part 1: “Dragged Across Concrete” (2019)
This is the first part of an eight-part series about difficult movies.
Part 2 will focus on Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris”. Part 3 will focus on Don Edmonds’s “Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS”.…
"Friday Night Lights" (2004)
"Gentlemen, the hopes and dreams of an entire town are riding on your shoulders. You may never matter again in your life as much as you do right now."
"Sideways" (2004)
"Half my life is over and I have nothing to show for it. Nothing. I'm a thumbprint on the window of a skyscraper. I'm a smudge of excrement on a tissue surging out to sea with a million tons of raw s…
1976, a conversation – Part 6: "King Kong" (1976)
This is the sixth part of a six-part series about American movies from 1976.
Part 1 focused on John G. Avildsen’s “Rocky”. Part 2 focused on James Fargo’s “The Enforcer”. Part 3 focused on Michael Ri…
"Shrek 2" (2004)
"It looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick!"
1976, a conversation – Part 5: “Obsession” (1976)
This is the fifth part of a six-part series about American movies from 1976.
Part 1 focused on John G. Avildsen’s “Rocky”. Part 2 focused on James Fargo’s “The Enforcer”. Part 3 focused on Michael Ri…
"The Passion of the Christ" (2004)
"Forgive them, Father. They know not what they do."
"Team America: World Police" (2004)
EXTREMELY PROFANE QUOTATION OF EXTREMELY PROFANE MOVIE AHEAD!
1976, a conversation – Part 4: “The Killing of a Chinese Bookie” (1976 / 1978)
This is the fourth part of a six-part series about American movies from 1976.
Part 1 focused on John G. Avildsen’s “Rocky”. Part 2 focused on James Fargo’s “The Enforcer”. Part 3 focused on Michael R…
"House of Flying Daggers" (2004)
"A rare beauty in the North. She's the finest lady on earth. A glance from her, the whole city goes down. A second glance leaves the nation in ruins. There exists no city or nation that has been more…
"Shaun of the Dead" (2004)
"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation."
1976, a conversation – Part 3: “The Bad News Bears” (1976)
This is the third part of a six-part series about American movies from 1976.
Part 1 focused on John G. Avildsen’s “Rocky”. Part 2 focused on James Fargo’s “The Enforcer”. Part 4 will focus on John Ca…