009 - Tom Cruise & Dragons Underperform and 70's Political Paranoia Today

How to Train Your Dragon 2 and Edge of Tomorrow are getting great reviews, (and Loann and Art have each seen one of them.) However, they are not meeting box office projections, so what does that mean for the studios and the stars.  And, 70's movies like The Conversation made audiences feel creeped out about the surveillance state, but where are those stories being told today?





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Episode 8 - Young Adult Lit and Conservative Comedy

Loann and Art, in true young boy and girl detective spirit, track down the arguments for and against grown-ups reading Young Adult literature.  And, where are all the conservative comedians? Is the comedy industry a liberal stronghold?

We also discuss our cultural consumption over the past few weeks.

Reading List:

Against YA; Should Adults Be Embarassed to Read Children's Books by Ruth Graham

Can Conservatives Be Funny? by Frank Rich


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Episode 7 - Trigger Warnings and Spoilers

This week we discuss the controversy over the concept of trigger warnings in academia, spoilers in the age of on-demand and what makes a good season finale.

Also, we give our impressions of two new summer movies: Godzilla and X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Links of Note:
New York Times on Trigger Warnings.
Novelist Jay Caspian Kahn on the effect of trigger warnings on artists.



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WWTNPodcast: Episode 6 - Summer Movies 2014

WWTNPodcast: Episode 6 - Summer Movies 2014: Loann and Art discuss the big summer movies on the slate for 2014, as well as some smaller films that might fly under the radar.
We also t...

Episode 6 - Summer Movies 2014

Loann and Art discuss the big summer movies on the slate for 2014, as well as some smaller films that might fly under the radar.

We also talk about how the summer movie season starts earlier every year. And we recommend some books we've read recently.

Here is a link to the chart of how Godzilla has grown over the years.

 

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What Was That, Now? Episode #5

Loann and Art discuss the big movies coming out during the holiday season, how biopics figure into that list, and how movies are continually focusing on survival.

Music in this episode is from Maeve. 

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Episode #4 Biopics, Literary Adaptations and Summer Show Trials.

Loann and Art discuss the onslaught of biographical movies and how filmmakers adapt literary creations.  

Also, it has been the summer of big show trials around the country, including here in Boston. We discuss some of the bigger ones.

And we talk about what culture we've been consuming.