Tag: cult classic
101: “Would You Please Check My Head For Signs of Spoiling?” – Return To Oz
As we discussed in our 100th episode, L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz delighted generation after generation of children, and MGM’s 1939 musical adaptation became one of the most popular and cherished motion pictures of all time. So it’s only natural that in the ’80s, Disney decided to pay tribute to these Oz…
71: “I Am Jack’s Medulla Oblongata” – Fight Club
Shirts and shoes are forbidden in the latest episode of the When We Were Young podcast — and the fight will go on as long as it has to. It’s been 20 years since David Fincher’s savagely funny and brutally violent satire of Gen X male angst debuted in theaters, so we’re breaking Rule #1…
53: “My Complication Had A Little Complication” – 80s Dystopias Part 1
The 1980s may not have been quite as bleak as 1984 predicted, but the Reagan era did see plenty of doom and gloom in entertainment, from Mad Max and Blade Runner to The Terminator and RoboCop. In When We Were Young’s latest episodes, Reel Gents podcast host Travis Dukelow joins us to dissect a cornucopia…
36: “You’re a Lebowski, I’m a Lebowski” – The Big Lebowski
THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) A rug that really tied the room together until it got peed on. A hippie burnout who kept burning. A Vietnam vet who drags everyone else into his world of pain. Add to this a case of mistaken identity, the kidnapping of a trophy wife (in the parlance of our times),…