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
"Nomadland", a conversation (2020)
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa interpret the 2020 Academy Award winner.
"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (2007)
Pitt and Affleck nursemaid the modern celebrity and nearly fall in love.
"The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976)
Mid-career Eastwood trying to overcome racism in the Western as bicentennial entertainment.
"Stop Making Sense" (1984)
Home is where I want to be, but I guess I'm already there.
"Desert Hearts" (1985)
Imagine a young Queer person who has never seen a version of themselves on-screen beyond monstrosity. Then imagine seeing how another Queer person made a place in the world through friendship and sel…
"Blade Runner" (1982 / 1992 / 2007)
Anticipating our worries about A.I., the surveillance state, and how to make human connections on spaceship Earth, Blade Runner is a work of genius .
"Conan the Barbarian" (1982)
Arnold is the basis for a certain kind of masculine expression that I once saw as desirable.
"Black Hawk Down" (2001)
Soldiers fight for one another, the moral complexities of why be damned.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (2018)
Did Freddie Mercury and the members of Queen lead messy, complicated, R-rated lives?
