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SQUIB SZN: E2: HELL TO ETERNITY 1:02:08

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Send us a text Content Warning: Filmic violence is and will often be celebrated throughout Season 15 – Squib Season. Second in the series and keeping to their unpatented temporal pincer movement, the enlisted four of TGTPTU storm the beachheads of Season 15 this week to liberate Squib Season’s earliest covered picture, the black-and-white WWII movi…

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SQUIB SZN: E1: REVENGE SEASON PREMIERE! 1:07:59

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Send us a text REVENGE Major Content Warning: Plot-related sexual assault is mentioned throughout this episode. Minor Content Warning: Filmic violence is and will often celebrated throughout Season 15. Salut! and welcome to TGTPTU’s long-awaited SQUIB SEASON (Season 15) and a return to the pod’s unpatented temporal pincer movement with the series’ …

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1X1: NUMBER FOUR: MYSTERY ROAD 1:18:42

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Send us a text MYSTERY ROAD It’s the end of the road for Season 14 as TGTPTU’s four White fellas travel across the world to the land down under for host Ken’s 1x1 flick pick and this season’s final film: MYSTERY ROAD (2013), sponsored this week by the Criminal Island’s very own Hoppy Joe Beer (Get Your Hop On!). Directed by (and written by and lens…

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1x1; NUMBER THREE: RISKY BUSINESS 1:15:40

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Send us a text RISKY Sometimes you gotta say, “What the Fuck” to research, make your move. This week Season 14’s penultimate 1x1 is co-host Ryan’s pick: RISKY BUSINESS (1983). His reason: TGTPTU normally pairs filmographies of a single director or actor, and the writer-director on this film was so triggered by the experience of having his written, …

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1X1: NUMBER 2: THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE 1:10:24

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Send us a text Friends of Eddie The second 1x1 feature rounding out Season 14 and, chosen by Jack, the film is THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE (1973). Directed by Peter Yates, whose career TGTPTU is unlikely to cover in a future 4x4 despite having Krull and Bullitt in his credits, TFOEC is an adaptation of George V. Higgins’ inaugural novel and notable …

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1X1: NUMBER 1: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH 1:03:29

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Send us a text HEDWIG Before we say auf wiedersehen to Season 14 with its eight revamps of the previously covered during the show’s first five years, the boys of TGTPTU reveal their unexpected special little packages: 1x1’s, wherein each host shall choose a single film by its merits of discussion and unlikelihood to be exposed on a future 4x4, crea…

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REDUX FINALE: WHITE SNIPER. BLACK HEART PT. 2 1:20:46

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Send us a text AMERICAN SNIPER The once distant end of Season 14’s curated rewatched flicks is now in our sights as the TGTPTU crew pulls the trigger on their final movie of the eight enlisted pairs mustering their Redux Season, taking aim at Clint Eastwood’s highest grossing film: AMERICAN SNIPER (2014). Originally covered early in the pod’s first…

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REDUX: WHITE SNIPER, BLACK HEART PT.1 1:01:39

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Send us a text WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART Episode 7, and you can feel the excitement of the hunt this episode, the first of TGTPTU’s final paired rewatches of the Redux Season (Season 14) and another double Eastwood starting with a bang with WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART (1990, originally covered by TGTPTU during Season 3, Episode 9). As flick curator e…

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REDUX: BAD TRIPS PT. 2: 15:17 TO PARIS 1:10:34

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Send us a text The 15:17 to Paris Episode 6, all aboard! TGTPTU rides the Season 14 train to the end of the line of this third pairing of the season. Another rewatch of an Eastwood-directed film, this car was originally hitched to Season 1, Episode 3’s engine and nearly derailed the podcast as it left the station back in the Year 2020, and that mov…

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REDUX: BAD TRIPS PT. 1: HONKYTONK MAN 1:02:15

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Send us a text HONKYTONK MAN TGTPTU continues to play its old hits with Episode 5 of Season 14, its redux series season celebrating five years and don’t you worry about us, hoss, we’ll get through this pairing of Eastwood flicks starting with HONKYTONK MAN (1982). Originally discussed toward the end of the epic run covering all of Cl…

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REDUX: ANIMAL FARM PT. 2: THE WHALE 53:44

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Send us a text THE WHALE It’s the fourth episode of Season 14, and our hungry boys are still going for seconds with their rewatch of the recently covered THE WHALE (2022), original episode from TGTPTU’s initial pairing that started the epic scarf/Darren Aronofsky season (S11, E2, Airdate 2/17/24). Jack sits out this first of host Ryan’s two redux p…

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REDUX: ANIMAL FARM PT. 1 PIG 50:37

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Send us a text PIG Season 14 continues serving up second helpings of movies previously covered on TGTPTU with PIG (2021). Jack’s flick picked this week pulls from his, Ken’s, and then recently added host Thomas’s post-Eastwood season CAGE UNCAGED (S4, air date 7/23/21). As established in the original episode, the Nicolas Cage movie is set and shot …

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REDUX SZN: DEATH BECOMES HIM PT. 2: HOLY ZEMECKIS 59:53

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Send us a text DEATH BECOMES HER (1992) For the second episode in TGTPTU’s Season 14 redux series, the film choice was Thomas’s. As he explains at the top of the ep, he wanted to do a Streep rewatch with recent co-host Ryan, specifically and especially a comedy. His first choice of Adaptation got nixed as it had previously been covered twice, first…

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“REDUX” SEASON PREMIERE! DEATH BECOMES HIM WITH “HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER” 59:54

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Send us a text High Plains Drifter (1973) TRIGGER WARNING: HPD features sexual assault as a plot point. Season 14, a new season with a hefty helping of old, comes to town as the TGTPTU hosts return to movies they undervalued and/or missed over the thirteen seasons, beginning with Jack’s pick to rewatch HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (1973). In that original e…

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LARS VON TRIER #4: THE GANG SELLS THE COMPANY, "THE BOSS OF IT ALL" 57:49

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Send us a text BOSS OF IT ALL (2006) Well, as the famous playwright Antonio Gambini once wrote: All good things (and Season 13 of TGTPTU) must come to a close. And what better stage for which our four hosts to give their final thoughts and review of the four directors covered this 4x4 season, as well as their general opinions of Lars von Trier, tha…

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LARS VON TRIER #3: NATURE SPURTS WITH "ANTICHRIST" 1:04:43

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Send us a text 4X4: Lars von Trier #3 Breaking our own arbitrary rules just like Lars von Trier, the enfant terrible final director of Season 13’s 4x4, the TGTPTU crew for our final pairing breaks with release date order to review the later paired film earlier, giving you this week ANTICHRIST (2009). From the throes of depression, LVT emerg…

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LARS VON TRIER #2: GETTING FUZZY WITH DANCER IN THE DARK 1:03:02

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Send us a text DANCER IN THE DARK (2000) Broadcasting live from 1964, and entirely in song, this week’s very special episode of TGTPTU covers Lars von Trier’s sixth film (but only our second of his covered this 4x4): DANCER IN THE DARK (2000). It’s been over a hundred episodes, since Season 1’s Paint Yer Hereafter ep during our Clint Eastwood cover…

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4X4: LARS VON TRIER #1: GET WET 1:07:15

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Send us a text ELEMENT Welcome to a new year and a new director as TGTPTU’s latest 4x4 reaches its fourth of four directors: Lars Von Trier. We start with his first wide-release feature THE ELEMENT OF CRIME (1984). And so begins our wrap-up of Season 13 with water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink… Set in a post-catastrophe Europe (as will…

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MERRY CLINTMAS! JUROR #2 AND 2024 WRAP-UP 1:37:12

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Send us a text JUROR #2 It’s late-December and, foregoing our usual Christmas-adjacent movie watch, this year TGTPTU has a very special treat for the holidays. That’s right, listener, we bring to you our hot takes on what may prove to be Clint Eastwood’s final film--and even more likely his final theatrically-released film--JUROR #2 (2024) in time …

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BIG WILLIE #4: THE COLLECTOR (OR HOW ELON AND GRIMES MET) 1:04:41

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Send us a text 4X4X3: WILLIAM WYLER CONCLUSION: THE COLLECTOR TGTPTU wraps its third director of Season 13’s 4x4 with a discussion of a fourth and final William Wyler film THE COLLECTOR (1965). Like The Big Country, its paired film from last week, The Collector began as a book, this one penned by John Fowles, author whose adapted novel The French L…

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BIG WILLIE #3: THE BIG COUNTRY 1:08:47

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Send us a text 4X4: WILLIAM WYLER. #3: THE BIG COUNTRY (Note: Don't skip the theme song this week) TGTPTU Host Ryan’s Willie gets a glow-up with THE BIG COUNTRY (1958), the third in our cultivated William Wyler collection. Shot in glorious Technicolor on large-format Technorama to set it apart from the glut of midcentury black-and-white television …

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WILLIAM WYLER #2: LIKE SAND THROUGH AN HOUR GLASS... SO ARE OUR DESPERATE HOURS 1:08:38

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Send us a text WILLIAM WYLER: PART 2 OF 4: THE DESPERATE HOURS Paired with last week’s Detective Story, TGTPTU’s Big Willie Winter continues with THE DESPERATE HOURS (1955), another black-and-white film adaptation by William Wyler and a rare feature from the director to not earn a single Academy Award nomination. Perhaps first home invasion picture…

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WILLIAM WYLER #1: DON'T SAY THE A WORD, DETECTIVE STORY 1:08:52

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Send us a text DETECTIVE STORY Season 13’s 4x4 has reached its 1/2way point with our 9th of 16 movies and a new director, provisional co-host Ryan’s pick of the 15-time Academy Award-nominated, 3-time Oscar-winning director William Wyler. This week, we cover the first of Ryan’s four curated Wyler flicks DETECTIVE STORY (1951). Up for four Academy A…

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TSAI MING-LIANG: MAMA SAID THERE'D BE DAYS LIKE THIS 1:00:37

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Send us a text 4X4 III: TSAI MING-LIANG 4: DAYS TGTPTU’s back to finish (cough) the job handily (cough) with a happy ending (oh boy) for our coverage of director Tsai Ming-liang, coming together (really, dude?) to get every ounce our four gents have to offer, pulling and tugging (grow up) on each’s points and hot takes for this fourth and final 4x4…

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Halloween: Then And Now 45:27

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Send us a text A look back at how Halloween used to be, how it is now, and some of the reasons things have changed. Happy spooky season to you all!By Gunnar Clifton

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HaLLoWeEn SPECIAL: JEREMY SAULNIER'S GREEN ROOM 1:27:07

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Send us a text 2024 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL! NOTE: Approximately 35 punk rock band names are concealed in these show notes. Play along! It’s the end of October, which means the four misfits of TGTPTU are back with a special Birth-/ Halloween/Election Day episode, interrupting their regular Season 13 4x4 programming to bring you a tale fitting this celebr…

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TSAI MING-LIANG III: GOODBYE MOVIES 1:15:39

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Send us a text This week’s Season 13 4x4 entry is GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (2003), the third of four films curated by guest host Jack to represent the filmography of director Tsai Ming-liang. The original TPTGTU boys are reunited this ep with the return of host Thomas but divided in their appreciation for what is billed as Tsai Ming-liang’s comedy-drama…

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TSAI MING-LIANG'S EMPATHY MACHINE: "STRAY DOGS" 59:35

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Send us a text 4X4 2: TSAI MING-LIANG and "STRAY DOGS" Our four film investigation into slow cinema master Tsai Miang-liang tackles his 2013 masterpiece STRAY DOGS. If you can vibe to a five minute opening static shot of a woman brushing her hair while her children sleep beside her in a charred husk of as bedroom where even the sheets on the bed lo…

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4X4: Tsai Ming-liang Pt. 1: Smoking and Scooting 1:04:29

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Send us a text 4X4 III: TSAI MING-LIANG: REBELS OF THE NEON GOD It's the beginning of our four film dive into Queer Asian New Wave master Tsai Ming-liang. Released in 1992 and made shortly after Taiwan's "quiet revolution" from a dictatorship to democracy, Rebels of the Neon God stars the director's muse, Lee Kang-sheng (who would go onto being in …

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ROBERT ALDRICH IV: 4TH AND THE LONGEST YARD 1:20:33

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Send us a text THE LONGEST YARD This week, the TGTPTU boys return to prison for more fun and games, this time stopping this 4x4 season’s first round drafted director Robert Aldrich’s run with inches to go. For the final film of the first four and to cap the Aldrich coverage, Ken drafted THE LONGEST YARD (1974). Following Ryan’s fumbling the intro a…

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ROBERT ALDRICH III: WE SOME KINDA DIRTY DOZEN? 1:09:45

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Send us a text THE DIRTY DOZEN Season 13’s 4x4 marches on with the most ill-mannered, ill-disciplined hosts that it’s ever been you’re your displeasure to meet, sergeant. That’s right, the dirtiest voices in the TGTPTU’s army are getting filthier covering Robert Aldrich’s THE DIRTY DOZEN (1967). It’s a story of twelve convicted army men, who don’t …

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ROBERT ALDRICH II: WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH BABY JANE, ANYWAY? 1:10:37

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Send us a text What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? TGTPTU Season 13’s 4x4 continues with the second half of its first Robert Aldrich pairing, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962). Like last week’s entry, WEH2BJ is another black-and-white film adaptation of a novel, this one truer to the source material, at least to cohost Thomas who read Henry Farr…

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SEASON PREMIERE: ROBERT ALDRICH and THE CIRCLE OF ANNIHILATION 1:23:32

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Send us a text Kiss Me Deadly Welcome back to TGTPTU, and welcome back in Season 13 to both former cohost Jack and to the 4x4, the latter making its third season appearance! For TGTPTU stans reading this, able to recite the following explanation by heart, go ahead and save yourself half-a-minute and skip the rest of this paragraph. But for you sad …

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NOLAN VOID FINALE: A PINCH OF PAPRIKA 1:48:11

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Send us a text PAPRIKA For the final episode of Season 12 Nolan Void, the TGTPTU gents get timey-wimy as they repeat last season finale with another film from anime director Satoshi Kon also allegedly plagiarized by the season’s director, this time Kon’s final flick PAPRIKA (2006) and Nolan’s Inception rather than Black Swan stealing from Perfect B…

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NOLAN VOID 6.5: INCEPTED 1:12:53

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Send us a text The One With The Dream Stuff Inside Oppenheimer INCEPTION This week TGTPTU reaches the timey-wimey center of Season 12 as the Nolan Void temporal pincer pairing movement ends with INCEPTION (2010), Sir Chris’s studio-backed super-successful non-supes cinema experience and his first Oscar nom for Best Picture--and finally winning pod-…

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NOLAN VOID: WATCH THE WORLD BURN 1:21:56

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Send us a text TGTPTU reaches the beginning of the end of Season 12 as the team covers THE DARK KNIGHT (2008), the penultimate NOLAN VOID film in our temporal pincer pairing movement. Rebounding from the only moderate success of The Prestige, Sir Chris creates a mega-blockbuster with The Dark Knight, his follow-up to Batman Begins and a film that c…

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NOLAN VOID 5.5: BANE BREAKIN’ 1:34:46

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Send us a text This week, the TGTPTU’s untrademarked “temporal pincer movement” catches up with the boys as THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012), Sir Christopher Nolan’s conclusion to his Batman trilogy, gets covered before his penultimate The Dark Knight. Sir Chris has been quoted as saying, “There are no good third sequels, basically—Rocky III maybe,” an…

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NOLAN VOID 5.0 BATMAN V. WOLVERINE in THE PRESTIGE! 1:20:39

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Send us a text TGTPTU Book Club returns this week with Sir Christopher Nolan’s first and only adaption, i.e., THE PRESTIGE (2006), with bookworm and repeat guest Shannon joining from The Bunker. Post-Batman Begins, Sir Nolan returned to his love of puzzle-box stories to bring to life the work of another Chris (Christopher Priest) while casting a th…

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NOLAN VOID 4.5: INTERSTELLA DA-VIDA 1:30:11

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Send us a text INTERSTELLAR In this week’s episode of TGTPTU, director-writer-producer Sir Christopher Nolan adds space to his repertoire of time-bending narratives as we venture deeper into The Nolan Void with INTERSTELLAR (2014). The Nolan brothers return with cowriting credits, Nathan Crowley on production design, and Lee Smith as editor on this…

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Nolan Void 4.0: Batman Baggins 1:27:10

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Send us a text BATMAN BEGINS Cast aside your Batnipples! As a certain Patrick Bateman lookalike once said, “Well, a guy who dresses up like a bat clearly has issues,” and this week, TGTPTU tackles these issues in Sir Christopher Nolan’s entry into the franchise that would define his middle career with BATMAN BEGINS (2005). Former cohost Jack return…

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NOLAN VOID 3.5: DUNKIRK STARRING HARRY STYLES 1:04:38

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Send us a text NOLAN VOID 3.5: WET 'N WILD WWII Join TGTPTU for an hour, a day, a week—the approximate runtime of, how long it feels listening to us talk for, and the delay in releasing the episode due to internet issues, respectively—as we respectfully cover Sir Christopher Nolan’s DUNKIRK (2017) as part two of our third pairing in our NOLAN VOID …

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NOLAN VOID 5: CAN’T SLEEP? MORK WON’T HELP 1:04:52

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Send us a text NOLANVOID FIVE! For the first in our third set of NOLAN VOID pairings this week, TGTPTU hosts Ken and Thomas take on the surprisingly linear INSOMNIA (2002) with newly appointed co-host Ryan to introduce a new drinking game guaranteed to kill any participant: take a dose of an alcohol every time Kenneth says something about not wanti…

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NOLAN VOID 2.5: TENET 1:21:09

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Send us a text This week TGTPTU goes deeper into Season 12’s NOLAN VOID with TENET (2020), a title spelled the same forward and backward, and the progenitor of TGTPTU’s “temporal pincer movement” description of our podcast’s episode pairing methodology. Instead of spoiling the episode with notes, here’s a transcript spoiling cohost Thomas’ plot sum…

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NOLAN VOID 2.0: MEMENTOS: THE FRESHMAKER 1:09:39

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Send us a text MEMENTO Our Nolan Void Season continues with the first of our second pairing MEMENTO (2000). Many of you might suspect we would try writing these show notes in reverse, but, as that’d be too meta for us, we’ll leave that to some other aspiring writer with memory problems we know. Speaking of self-referential memory problems, Memento …

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NOLAN VOID 1.5: OPPENHEIMER 1:25:11

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Send us a text Season 12, Episode 2 continues TGTPTU’s paired exploration of the films of Sir Christopher Nolan with his most recent film OPPENHEIMER (2023). Running the risk of being considered by critics a “bomb,” Sir Nolan boldly moves away from genre pictures for his first biopic of a man who’ll/’d (pardon the time-wimey-ness) get mention in Si…

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NOLAN VOID 1.0: FOLLOWING SEASON PREMIERE 53:41

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Send us a text CHRISTOPHER NOLAN SZN! FOLLOWING *SEASON PREMIERE* For Season 12 *Nolan Void*, TGTPTU continues its iconic practice of pairing bookended movies from a director’s filmography, first and last until we pair the middlemost. This season we cover the twelve movies of the granddaddy/infant son of the temporal pincer movement himself Christo…

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ARONOFSKY FINALE! SEASON FINALE! 1:23:41

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Send us a text Our Darren Ssarfinale! Season 11 of The Good, The Pod, and The Ugly concludes on an odd note, both mathematically and colloquially, as the boys wrap up their Darren Aronofsky season with Episode 9 covering PERFECT BLUE (1997), joined by frequent guest Ryan. The debut film of famed anime and short-lived director Satoshi Kon released o…

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ARONOFSKY 8: BLACK SWAN 59:20

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Send us a text DARREN ARONOFSKY CH. 4 E2: THERE'S A LITTLE BLACK SWAN ON THE SUN TODAY Season 11’s temporal pincer movement by The Good, The Pod, and The Ugly draws to a close with tricky reflections on BLACK SWAN (2010). Listen to our opinions double, pirouette, and morph during Chapter 4, Episode 2, covering our final Darren Aronofsky movie but n…

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ARONOFSKY: CH 4 PT 1: THE WRESTLER 1:03:40

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Send us a text SCARF SEASON: ARONOFSKY 7 Alright, brother. It’s the smackdown, drag-out matchup you’ve been waiting for all season long as THE WRESTLER (2008) jumps into the ring with The Good, The Pod, and the Ugly for Chapter 4, Episode 1. In this final chapter, we watch with teeth and sphincters clenched tight on the edge of our folding chair se…

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ARONOFSKY 6: I NOAH LOT 1:07:36

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Send us a text ARONOFSKY SEASON! NOAH Chapter 3, Episode 2: So the Voice of Kenneth spake unto The Good, The Pod, and the Ugly, and it sayeth: Let there be NOAH (2014); and all the peoples then of the world rejoiced for Darren Aronofsky for his blockbuster that bringeth forth He of the Scarf his firsteth and onlyeth picture to be No. 1 opening week…

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