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PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 40: Did movies ruin love?
Ah, love. It’ s so different in the real world than in the movies. Or, rather, if you get your relationship information from the movies, you might notice things don’t quite match up to your own life....
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PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 47: Great Films Fail the Bechdel Test
The Bechdel Test came from Alison Bechdel’s comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For,” after one of the characters said she only went to movies that featured at least two women who talked to each other...
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PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 49: All of the Snow Whites
At least two listeners asked us to podcast about this subject, which made it extra serendipitous that we’d had it on our idea board almost since day one. Right now it seems like Snow White is...
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PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 65: Franchise Reboots
Once again, a thing we love: People asked us to talk about something we already want to talk about. This time, franchise reboots. As with comic book movies, these have a pretty bad reputation among...
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The HowStuffWorks Guide to “Prometheus”
Hey there, good looking. (20th Century Fox) See “Prometheus” over the weekend? Aching to learn a bit more about some of the futuristic technology that pops up in the film? Well then allow me to share a...
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PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 77: Pixar’s Lady Business
Let’s make this clear from the get-go: Holly and I love Pixar movies. We truly do. And we think that just because they don’t feature many – or, until “Brave,” any – female characters in starring roles,...
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Blow Your Mind: The Science of “Prometheus”
David guides us. (Kerry Brown/20th century Fox) As the most anticipated sci-fi movie of 2012, “Prometheus” deserves our attention. So in this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Julie and I suit up and...
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Midnight Movie Tips for Thirtysomethings (and Beyond)
I used to go to a lot of midnight movies. One, there were more movies I was that excited to see. Two, the midnight crowd usually keeps its mouth shut and its phones off. And three, I was a lot younger....
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PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 131: Anti-Christmas Movies
You know how sometimes it’s Christmastime, and maybe you don’t celebrate, or maybe you’re just over it, and you want to see something different … but without turning your back completely on the...
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PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 143: PopStuff’s Commentary Bonus Feature
Holly and I do love commentary tracks … Holly loves them in general, and I love them when I also love the movie in question and really want to know all about the production of it. Case in point: “Lord...
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The Very PG-13 Summer of 1984
PG-13 instigators Steven Spielberg, Harrison “Indiana Jones” Ford and George Lucas. (© Stephane Reix/For Picture/Corbis) If you want a film to rake in cash at the box office, here’s a tip: make it...
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Movies vs. Video Games (Or, the Problem with Filming Silent Hill)
A rare sighting of nightmare-world nurses outside of their usual hospital environment. (© Stephane Cardinale/People Avenue/Corbis) We’ve mentioned in the podcast that I’m a big fan of (parts of) the...
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