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Roger and Nick conclude our werewolf mini-season (for now) by jumpingforward another twenty years, to Ginger Snaps(200) and Dog Soldoers (2002).
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Nick and Roger continue our highly selective werewolf season with twofilms from 1981 noted for their transformation sequences: The Howling and An AmericanWerewolf in London.
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Werewolf films arguably began with 1935's Werewolf of London, butRoger and Nick choose to begin our werewolf mini-season a littlelater, with The Wolf Man(1941) and Cat People(1942).
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It was intended as a tax write-off, but ended up winning four AcademyAwards and the first ever Palme d'Or. Nick and Rger look at ErnestBorgnine's big break in Marty(1955).
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The story about the tax write-off isn't well documented, and werelied heavily on the "Lights, Camera, Tax Break"epispde ofTim Harford's Cautionary Tales audio production.
Time to don our red-silk-lined capes and listen to the creatures ofthe night ("meow") as Roger and Nick take a look at the 1980s vampireboom, in particular The Lost Boys(1987) and Near Dark(1987).
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In part two of this double episode, Nick and Rger look at moreparodies of Hitler on film, with Look Who's Back(2015) and Jojo Rabbit(2019).
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In part one of a double episode, Roger and Nick look at parodies ofHitler on film, with The Great Dictator(1940) and The Producers(1967).
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Nick and Roger are glad to be out, er, back, as we drive headlong intoThe Italian Job (1963)with a brief mention of its not-as-bad-as-expected remakeThe Italian Job (20033)
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Roger and Nick look at the state of the art in big-budget SF in theyears just before Star Wars, with the serious doom-mongering ofSilent Running (1972)Soylent Green (1973)andLogan's Run (1976).
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Nick and Roger fire up the old ukuleles and wonder if this willfinally be the comedy Roger likes, with 1959's Some Like ItHot.
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Roger and Nick watch that classic of misdirectionRashomon⦠or do we?
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Nick and Roger get our leather and spikes back on to look at thelatest Mad Max film, 2024'sFuriosa.
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Roger and Nick preen our beards to indulge in Scandi Disaster withThe Wave (Bølgen) and TheQuake (Skjelvet).
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Nick and Roger look at some earlier Hitchcock, with 1951's Strangerson a Train and 1948'sRope.
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Roger and Nick are joined by MichaelCule to consider what OrsonWelles did to Shakespeare in 1965's Chimes atMidnight.
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Nick and Roger, with special guest MaryAnnJohanson, ask whether 2019'sMidsommar is the "smarthorror" we've been waiting for.
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Roger and Nick are invited to get all male-gazey again, in 1960'sPsycho and 1954's RearWindow.
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Nick and Roger cross off the boxes on the family tree as we consider1949's Kind Hearts and Coronets.
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Roger and Nick put on the sunglasses and drink the Flavor Aid, in 1989'sThey Live.
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Nick and Roger, joined once again by special guest MaryAnnJohanson, look at Kieslowski's finaland most successful work: Three ColoursBlue, Three ColoursWhite and Three ColoursRed.
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Roger and Nick know enough to follow the stream downhill, in 1999'sThe Blair Witch Project.
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Nick and Roger get wet and steamy as we consider 1972's The PoseidonAdventure.
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Roger and Nick celebrate our third anniversary doing this podcast.
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Nick and Roger look at the sort of Epic! film that just doesn't getmany any more, 1962's Lawrence ofArabia. (Actual historicaaccuracy can wait by the back door in case we need you.)
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Roger and Nick won't last long enough on the streets to starve, in2002's Cidade de Deus.
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This Orson Welles guy may be fine on the radio, but can he make amovie? Nick and Roger look at his directorial debut, 1941's CitizenKane.
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Roger and Nick get hot in the dust once more in 2007's No Country ForOld Men (2007).
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Nick and Roger continue our efforts to become a John Carpenter podcastwith a look at his second film, 1976's Assault on Precinct13.
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Roger and Nick don our trenchcoats and explore the sewers with TheThird Man (1949).
We also commend to your attention the Orson Welles Findusouttakes.
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Nick and Roger take on our first banned film (not certified in the UKuntil 1954, "X"/"18" certificate until 1987) with 1925's Battleship Potemkin).
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Roger and Nick continue our exploration of the world of finance withThe Big Short(2015).
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Nick and Roger take on our first documentary (arguably, not a film atall) with 2011's All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace).
If you haven't watched it, we recommend the Wikipediasummaryof the subject matter.
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Roger and Nick try not to worry our pretty little heads about theGaslight (1940) and Gaslight(1944).
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Nick and Roger are heading back to the pig farm as we discuss ASimple Plan (1998).
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Roger and Nick are living in faded glory as we invite you to visit usin Sunset Boulevard (1950).
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Nick and Roger hide in the lighthouse and try to stay safe from zombiepirates (or is it ghost pirates?) in The Fog(1980).
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It's a dinosaur movie. We know this. Roger and Nick take a trip toJurassic Park (1993).
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Nick and Roger strap on our pairs of pistols and embrace each other ina brotherly (and manly) manner as we consider John Woo's breakout filmA Better Tomorrow (1986).
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Roger and Nick have twenty seconds to comply with RoboCop(1987).
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Nick and Roger discuss Halloween(1978): another Carpentermasterpiece, or the opening of the floodgates of cheap spam-in-a-canslasher horror?
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Roger and Nick grunt in a manly and honourable way as we look back at The Seven Samurai (1954),The Magnificent Seven (1970) andBattle Beyond the Stars (1980).
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Roger and Nick discuss The Craft.
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Roger and Nick don our tights and feathered hats to considerDouglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood (1922),The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938),Robin Hood (1973),Robin and Marian (1976),Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) andRobin Hood: Men in Tights (1993).
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Nick and Roger discuss Miracle on 34thStreet (1947) and It's a WonderfulLife (1946).
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Roger and Nick pick two foreign-language fruits from the zombie tree,with [â¢REC] and Train toBusan. Featuring Roger'sRailway Corner!
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Nick and Roger get distorted with our earliest film yet, 1920's TheCabinet of Dr Caligari.
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Roger and Nick confront questions of their own identity in Moon(2009).
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Nick and Roger get into cool crime and smooth jazz with The ThomasCrown Affair (1968) and itsremake The Thomas Crown Affair(1999).
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Roger and Nick attempt to avoid time paradoxes as we look at 1962'sLa Jetée and the film it inspired, 1995's 12 Monkeys
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Nick and Roger practice their truck drivin' songs for 1953's TheWages of Fear.
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By request of listener Aqi Draco, Roger and Nick get all Dark Ages,and ask: was 1999's The 13thWarrior John McTiernan's lastgreat film?
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By request of listener Gus, Nick and Roger dive back into noir andcome out dirty, in 1957's Sweet Smell ofSuccess.
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Roger and Nick visit possibly one of the most widely remade andimitated films: The Most Dangerous Game(1932).
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Nick and Roger go back to the Nic Cage wellâbut will it be one timetoo many, as he plays Dracula to Nicholas Hoult'sRenfield?
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Roger and Nick go back to the glorious seven months between the end ofProhibition and the enforcement of the Production Code, with The Thin Man(1934).
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Nick and Roger rewatch the film that could have been Crouching Tiger,Hidden Dragon fourteen years early: Big Trouble in LittleChina.
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Nick and Roger watch the first James Bond film, or at least the onethat gave them most of their ideas: North by Northwest(1959).
Roger and Nick watch a film that's gradually come to be regarded as the Best Ever: Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958).
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Nick and Roger watch another Huston/Bogart collaboration: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
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Roger and Nick watch a couple of films derided as ripoffs of Raiders of the Lost Ark: High Road to China (1983) and Romancing the Stone (1984).
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Nick and Roger discuss three classics (?) of Arnold Schwarzenegger's early career: Commando (1985), Predator (1987) and The Running Man (1987).
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Roger and Nick return to our spiritual noir homes with Double Indemnity (1944).
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Nick and Roger indulge in a second slate of Lovecraft adaptations, with The Call of Cthulhu, Die Farbe, The Whisperer in Darkness and Color Out of Space.
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Roger and Nick look back on our second year of podcasting. We made it to the present day! How did we get here and what will we do next?
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Nick and Roger delve into murder mystery with Rian Johnson's Knives Out and Glass Onion.
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Roger and Nick discuss all four Matrix films: The Matrix, Reloaded, Revolutions and Resurrections.
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Nick and Roger discuss the Nic Cage revenge drama Pig.
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Roger and Nick discussToy Story,Toy Story 2,Toy Story 3,Toy Story 4, and (briefly)Lightyear.
Roger and Nick contemplate the nature of humanity, again, whilelooking at Blade Runner 2049.
Nick and Roger consider character arcs and vengeance films as we lookat 2017's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Nick and Roger are joined by special guest Shim as we step up severallevels of film quality to discuss those modern masterpieces Mad Heidi(2022) and The VelociPastor(2018).
Roger and Nick don our spiked leather and considerMad Max (1979),Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981),Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) andMad Max: Fury Road (2015).
(Recorded face to face in an acoustically bright room, apologies for that.)
Nick and Roger put on our green eyeshades and ecclesiastical rings todiscuss Spotlight (2015).
(Recorded face to face in an acoustically bright room, apologies for that.)
All in one take, Nick and Roger discussBirdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014).
Nick and Roger discussBefore Sunrise (1995),Before Sunset (2004), andBefore Midnight (2013).
Roger and Nick discuss the end of the world, in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World(2012) and The Cabin in the Woods(2012).
Roger and Nick discuss Inglourious Basterds(2009).
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Nick and Roger discuss Red Cliff (2008 (and part 2).
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Roger and Nick discuss The Hurt Locker (2008).
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Nick and Roger discuss 28 Days Later (2002) and 28 Weeks Later (2007).
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Roger and Nick discuss There Will Be Blood (2007).
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Nick and Roger discuss Pan's Labyrinth (2006).
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Roger and Nick discuss Children of Men (2006).
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Nick and Roger discuss Walk the Line (2005).
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Roger and Nick discuss A History of Violence (2005).
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Nick and Roger discuss Vera Drake (2004). (Note that while this is already tagged "explicit", like every episode, we do go into a bit of detail about the mechanics of abortion as depicted here, so you may not want to listen to this where people can overhear you.)
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Roger and Nick discuss Primer (2004).
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Nick and Roger discuss Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003).
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Roger and Nick discuss Lost in Translation (2003) and wonder: are we the baddies?
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Nick and Roger discuss Minority Report (2002).
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Roger and Nick discuss The Pianist (2002).
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Nick and Roger discuss the widely-hated Ghosts of Mars (2001). Spoiler: we didn't hate it.
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Roger and Nick discuss Mulholland Drive (2001). Is it a cinematic soliloquy of citrus significance? Or a film-noir fruit cocktail of fair-dinkum fantasmagoria?
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Nick and Roger discuss Traffic (2000).
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Roger and Nick discuss Nosferatu (1922) and Shadow of the Vampire (2000).
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Nick and Roger discuss Dogma (1999).
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Roger and Nick discuss Magnolia (1999).
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Nick and Roger look back on our first year of podcasting.
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Roger and Nick discuss Dark City (1998).
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The best Chandler parody ever, or just some dude? Nick and Roger discuss The Big Lebowski (1998).
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Roger and Nick discuss Grosse Pointe Blank (1997).
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Noir of a kind, and incompetent criminals galore, as Nick and Roger discuss L.A. Confidential (1997).
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Roger and Nick discuss the much-derided Mary Reilly (1996).
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Noir of a kind, and incompetent criminals galore, as Nick and Roger discuss Fargo (1996).
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Roger and Nick discuss The English Patient (1996).
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A sideways return to noir, as Nick and Roger discuss Strange Days (1995).
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Roger and Nick discuss Apollo 13 (1995).
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In our first (but probably not last) Lovecraft-a-Thon, Nick and Roger discuss Re-Animator (1985) and Dagon (2001).
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Roger and Nick discuss In the Mouth of Madness (1994).
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Nick and Roger discuss the notorious bomb Last Action Hero (1993).
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Roger and Nick discuss Schindler's List (1993).
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Nick and Roger (face to face again) discuss Point Blank (1967) and Reservoir Dogs (1992).
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Roger and Nick discuss a Western that maybe isn't as subversive as it wants you to think it is, Unforgiven (1992).
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Nick and Roger discuss The Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).
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Roger and Nick discuss our second Ridley Scott film, Thelma & Louise (1991).
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Nick and Roger discuss Back to the Future (1985), Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Back to the Future Part III (1990).
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Roger and Nick return to Scorsese and de Niro to discuss Goodfellas (1990).
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Nick and Roger discuss Heathers (1989).
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Roger and Nick (face to face!) discuss Do The Right Thing (1989).
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Nick and Roger discuss Die Hard (1988).
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Nick and Roger with special guest MaryAnn Johanson discuss Cinema Paradiso.
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Particularly after Aliens, a consideration of Vietnam films seemed inevitable, so Nick and Roger discuss Platoon (1986), Full Metal Jacket (1987 and Good Morning, Vietnam (1987.
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We're taking a bit of a break for health and family reasons, but we hope to be back later in January.
Nick and Roger discuss The Dead.
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Roger and Nick discuss Alien and Aliens.
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Nick and Roger discuss Stand By Me.
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Roger and Nick discuss The Breakfast Club.
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Nick and Roger discuss Dance With a Stranger.
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Roger and Nick discuss Blood Simple.
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Nick and Roger with special guest MaryAnn Johanson discuss Paris, Texas.
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Roger and Nick discuss Local Hero.
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Nick and Roger discuss The Right Stuff.
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Roger and Nick discuss The Thing From Another World and The Thing.
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Nick and Roger discuss Diner.
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Roger and Nick discuss Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Nick and Roger discuss Das Boot.
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Roger, Nick and Jon discuss Zero Hour! and Airplane!.
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Roger and Nick discuss Raging Bull.
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Nick and Roger discuss Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead.
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Roger and Nick discuss Apocalypse Now.
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Nick, Roger and Shawna discuss The Day the Earth Stood Still and Plan 9 From Outer Space.
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Roger and Nick discuss Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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Roger and Nick discuss Network.
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Roger and Nick discuss The Man Who Would Be King.
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Nick and Roger discuss Jaws.
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In our first (official) Noir-a-Thon, Roger and Nick discuss The Maltese Falcon (1941), with inevitable references to The Maltese Falcon (1931), Satan Met a Lady (1936), The Big Sleep (1946) and The Long Goodbye (1973)
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Roger and Nick discuss Chinatown.
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Nick and Roger jump back in time to discuss Bonnie and Clyde.
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In our inaugural episode, Roger and Nick discuss Badlands.
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