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
CENSORSHIP, a conversation - Part 2: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966)
This is the second part of an eight-part series about American movie ratings.
Part 1 focused on Prano Baily-Bond’s "Censor".
Future episodes will focus on Brian DePalma’s "Greetings" (1968), Gordon F…
CENSORSHIP, a conversation - Part 1: "Censor" (2021)
This is the first part of an eight-part series about American movie ratings.
Part 1 focuses on Prano Bailey-Bond’s 2021 slasher movie "Censor", as an introduction to censorship, generally.
Future epi…
"Caligula" (1979)
"Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men as I am no man and therefore I am a God."
"Joker" (2019), a conversation
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa catch up to the zeitgeisty hit of 2019 and reel-in a real whopper.
"Dolemite Is My Name" (2019), a conversation
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa celebrate Eddie Murphy, a stand-up genius, playing Rudy Ray Moore, another stand-up genius, who invented Dolemite, a Hip Hop God.
"God's Not Dead" (2014), a conversation
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa get Churched?
"Minari" (2020), a conversation
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa lament overdone spectacle in movies versus the too-rare peculiarity of wonderfully humane stories.
"Pig" (2021), a conversation
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa get a grip on porcine friendship, the influence of Bruce Springsteen, and the odd brilliance of Nicolas Cage.
"Red Rocket" (2021), a conversation
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa reflect on the male member.
"The Last Duel" (2021), a conversation
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa think about Ridley Scott's Late Middle Ages story about a woman seeking justice after surviving rape.
"Hobo with a Shotgun" (2011), a conversation
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa agree that bad can mean good, and good can mean good, but sometimes bad means bad and not good.
"A Clockwork Orange" (1971), a conversation
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray said, "It was gorgeousness," and Ed Rosa replied, "And gorgeousity made flesh."
"Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" (1971)
"Come on feet, cruise for me."
"Titanic" (1997)
"She hits the berg on the starboard side, right? She kind of bumps along, punching holes like Morse code, dit dit dit, along the side, below the water line. Then the forward compartments start to flo…
"Bless the Beasts and Children" (1971), a conversation
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa agree that awkward boys become awkward men.
"The Thing" (1982), a conversation
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa found a movement: Make Antarctica Great Again!
"The Thing from Another World" (1951), a conversation
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa eat their vegetables while interpreting a Cold War classic.
"Promising Young Woman" (2020), a conversation
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa discuss the limits of an Oscar-winning screenplay.
"Straw Dogs" (1971), a conversation
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa wonder if Bloody Sam Peckinpah is a closeted feminist.
Meryl Streep Double Feature: "Mama Mia!" (2008) and "The Iron Lady" (2011), a conversation
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Sheila Chaffin reflect on Peak Streep, or a mother/son study of womanhood.