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Charlie Chaplin's Life in Exile
This week, I’m rejoined by Scott Eyman, author of Charlie Chaplin Vs.
Nov 25, 2023
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Why You Can Finally Watch 'Moonlighting' on Streaming
This week I’m joined by Glenn Gordon Caron, the creator and showrunner of Moonlighting, to talk about that series’s long-awaited arrival on streaming.
Nov 18, 2023
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Stopping Piracy Before It Starts
This week I’m joined by Terri Davies.
Nov 11, 2023
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46:53
How What We Watch Defines Us
This week I’m joined by Walt Hickey, the author of You Are What You Watch: How Movies and TV Affect Everything. Among the many topics discussed on this…
Nov 4, 2023
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51:58
Zoey Ashe's Life in the (Future) Panopticon
This week I’m rejoined by Jason Pargin to discuss his new novel, Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia, and the ways in which the futuristic panopticon he…
Oct 28, 2023
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40:29
How Siskel and Ebert Changed Hollywood
Author Matt Singer has written a new history of the antagonist critics
Oct 21, 2023
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57:55
Streaming's Next 'Tooth and Nail' Fight
The pivot into advertising is off to a rough start: Journalist Sahil Patel on the shuffle inside Netflix as it misses first-year ad goals by half
Oct 20, 2023
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'A Culture of Dystopia and Nihilism'
USC's Jonathan Taplin on how Silicon Valley's top four billionaires took over Hollywood's 'escapism' business
Oct 13, 2023
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