Best Timemachine Podcasts (2025)

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view - Diana Wynyard – Part 4: ONE MORE RIVER (1934) and ON THE NIGHT OF THE FIRE (1940) 1:24:16

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In this Diana Wynyard Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode we finally come to the source, James Whale's One More River (1934), the movie that inspired Dave to schedule this series, and don't worry, we still think it's a masterpiece. We recap how we've watched the Wynyard onscreen persona evolve and how Whale's new context for it gives it an unforgettable …

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Billy Madison, Hitch, Fifty Shades of Grey: Thirty Twenty Ten - Feb 7-13 2:52:09

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Will Smith get's Hitched, Breaking Saul, Dawn of the Sandman, sexy sex on the bigscreen, Sam Raimi's forgotten western, the best comic book movie with no comic book and MOAR POOH! All that and more, this week 30, 20, and 10 years ago. https://www.patreon.com/c/lasertime

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Warner Brothers – 1930: A NOTORIOUS AFFAIR & THE DOORWAY TO HELL 1:08:44

13d ago1:08:44

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For the first episode of our second round of Warner Brothers 1930, we've got a thoughtful, ambitious gangster movie from the mind of little-known auteur Rowland Brown, The Doorway to Hell (directed by Archie Mayo), and a truly dismal melodrama, A Notorious Affair (directed by Lloyd Bacon), rescued from total worthlessness by Kay Francis's turn as a…

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Spongebob, Rwanda, Jupiter (they're all ascending): Thirty Twenty Ten - Jan 31-Feb 6 2:33:19

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Happy Groundhog Day! You don't get the movie, but Hollywood tackles genocide, Spongebob sells out, Bart sees a comet, and the Wachowskis tackle Jupiter! All that and more this week 30, 20, and 10 years ago! https://www.patreon.com/c/lasertime

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Valentine’s Day 2025 – My Conceptual Valentine - HER (2013) and I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (2020) 1:36:46

20d ago1:36:46

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For our Valentine's Day 2025 episode, we plunge deep into the nature of relationships by discussing two films whose romantic pairings are arguably not relationships at all: Spike Jonze's Her (2013) and his sometime collaborator, Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020). Isolation, loss, misogyny, male fantasies, hope and despair: we'v…

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Before Sunrise, Million Dollar Baby, Highlander 3: Thirty Twenty Ten - Jan 24-30 1:39:42

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The Before trilogy begins and Highlander's trilogy concludes, Robert De Niro does something different, say goodbye to SNICK, and Clint Eastwood's very costly baby. https://www.patreon.com/c/lasertime

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Rumble in the Bronx, Assault on Precinct 13, Mortdecai: Thirty Twenty Ten - Jan 17-23 2:42:38

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Lucasfilm's final fumble, Jackie Chan conquers the West, a culty Gen X classic, one last massive morsel of Venture Bros for the year(s), and Johnny Depp is trying too hard. All that an more on our journey back 30, 20, and 10 years ago! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/lasertime

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year - MGM – 1930: THE FLORODORA GIRL & MADAM SATAN 1:07:16

27d ago1:07:16

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We start off our second round of MGM Studio Year by Year episodes with these 1930 films: the Marion Davies comedy vehicle The Florodora Girl (directed by Harry Beaumount) and Cecil B. DeMille's Madam Satan, which Elise decides is something like Eyes Wide Shut if it was made by James Cameron (but, alas, not as interesting as that sounds). (It's stil…

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view - Diana Wynyard – Part 3 WHERE SINNERS MEET (1934) and THE MARRIAGE SYMPHONY (1934) 1:03:59

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For this episode of our Diana Wynyard Acteurist Oeuvre-view series, our featured acteur plays a disillusioned modern woman in two 1934 movies, Where Sinners Meet and Let's Try Again, that are cynical about marriage in a way that (we argue) screwball comedy would soon render archaic. And in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto we give our impressions of t…

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Paddington, Elektra, Tales from the Crypt: The Movie: Thirty Twenty Ten - Jan 10-16 2:43:02

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Michigan J Frog becomes infinitely more famous, Resident Evil changes the game, Paul Newman is old and wonderful, and the worst Marvel movie?! All that and more 30, 20 and 10 years ago! https://www.patreon.com/c/lasertime

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Special Subject - Farrow vs. Allen – Part 1: MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SEX COMEDY (1982); ZELIG (1983); BROADWAY DANNY ROSE (1984) 1:06:38

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Our Special Subject this month is the start of a series on the cinematic collaboration of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen. In this first episode we look at A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982), Zelig (1983), and Broadway Danny Rose (1984), paying particular attention to the relationship between the Allen and Farrow characters and to the question of wha…

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Shallow Grave, Taken 3, Selma: Thirty Twenty Ten - Jan 3-9 2:54:24

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New Year, new years. Welcome to the FIVES as we explore Danny Boyle's first movie, the debut of Agent Carter, Liam Neeson screwing everything, and a Springfield conspiracy EXPOSED! All that and more, this week 30, 20 and 10 years ago. https://www.patreon.com/c/lasertime

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Paramount – 1930: THE LOVE PARADE & THE VAGABOND KING 1:08:04

2M ago1:08:04

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It's time for another round of Studios Year by Year, starting over with Paramount 1930! And this time Dave has brought even more nostalgic reading material to give some context for this studio content. We also launch another new series feature: a review of our favourite movies from the previous 1930-1948 round. Turning to the Paramount movies we wa…

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view - Diana Wynyard – Part 2: MEN MUST FIGHT (1933) and REUNION IN VIENNA (1933) 53:39

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Our second Diana Wynyard Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode brought two real oddball pre-Codes to our attention: Men Must Fight (1933), a hardcore pacifist film that predicts the upcoming world war in certain ways, in which Wynyard more or less reprises her Cavalcade role; and Reunion in Vienna (1933), based on a Robert E. Sherwood play, which could hav…

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Universal – 1948: A WOMAN’S VENGEANCE & LARCENY 46:57

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Our first round of Studios Year by Year comes to an end with these Universal 1948 movies: A Woman's Vengeance (directed by Zoltan Korda with a screenplay by Aldous Huxley, based on his short story "The Gioconda Smile") and Larceny (directed by George Sherman). Huxley's philosophical concerns add unexpected dimensions to familiar Gothic tropes and g…

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New Year, New Words, and Our Annual Mega Movie Showdown 2:47:32

2M ago2:47:32

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Dec. 27-Jan. 2: Picking our favorites of the year, plus Robert Altman gets fashionable, King George gets mad, Kevin Spacey sings and dances, Sean Penn plots, a ski trip goes downhill. All that and more from 30, 20, and 10 years ago!

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Leo Takes Flight, Raul Julia is Street Fighting, and Seth Rogan Goes to North Korea 2:46:58

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Dec. 20-26: Steve Martin’s nuts, Macaulay Culkin’s rich, Walter Matthau is Einstein; Jodie Foster is babbling, Winona Ryder is little, Bill Murray is underwater, the Fockers are met, Amy Adams has big eyes, Benedict Cumberbatch invents computers, Meryl Streep heads into the woods. All that are more, 30, 20, and 10 years ago!…

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Jim Carrey’s Olaf, Harry and Llyod’s Debut, and the End of the Hobbit 2:45:58

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Dec. 13-19: A political rom-com, Jet Li’s punchy, the worst MST3K, Marcel the monkey, Adam Sandler speaks Spanglish, Johnny Depp finds Neverland, Jamie Foxx has warbucks, the museum finally closes at night, Craig Ferguson wraps up, and the Venture Bros. fight Krampus. All that and more, 30, 20, and 10 years ago!…

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Christmas 2024 - The Festive Bergman – FANNY & ALEXANDER (1982) 1:01:01

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Our 2024 Christmas episode is devoted to all 312 minutes of Ingmar Bergman's late masterpiece Fanny and Alexander (1982); a phantasmagorical smorgasbord of genres and summary of the writer-director's obsessions. We explore the film's Keatsian and Kierkegaardian implications, its relationship to the Modernist moment, and its oneiric inquiry into the…

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Demi Moore Discloses, Danny Ocean’s +1, and Chris Rock's Five Count 2:18:17

2M ago2:18:17

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Dec. 6-12: Wesley Snipes drops twice, Australian family drama, Christian Bale celebrates Passover, the Maltese Falcon is lost, Christmas comes to Family Guy and Baywatch, and the end of the NES. All this and more 30, 20, and 10 years ago!

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Trapped in Paradise, Godzilla Final Wars, Closer: Thirty Twenty Ten - Nov 29-Dec 5 2:23:28

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Nic Cage steals Christmas, Natalie Portman strips, Reese Witherspoon goes wild, and Godzilla wraps it up. https://www.patreon.com/c/lasertime

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view - Diana Wynyard – Part 1: RASPUTIN AND THE EMPRESS (1932) & CAVALCADE (1933) 53:22

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Our first Diana Wynyard Acteurist Oeuvre-view presents us with a couple of politically reactionary pre-Codes: Wynyard's Hollywood debut, Rasputin and the Empress (1932), which is mostly Rasputin (a very freaky Lionel Barrymore), not much Empress (Ethel B), and almost no Wynyard; and her Hollywood triumph, Cavalcade (1933), Noël Coward's version of …

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Arnold's Pregnant, Oliver Stone's Alexander, and Madagascar's Penguins of... IT!: Thirty Twenty Ten - Nov 22-28 2:40:32

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Arnold's best worst movie, more horribe bosses, the best Madagascar isn't Madagascar, Ollie Stone's historical waste of time, the worst Xmas movie, and so muc more. Help, ya'll https://www.patreon.com/c/lasertime

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – RKO - 1948: BERLIN EXPRESS & THE BOY WITH GREEN HAIR 50:20

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In this 1948 Studios Year by Year episode, we look at two artefacts from Dore Schary's brief tenure as Head of Production at RKO, Berlin Express (directed by Jacques Tourneur), an early Cold War curiosity in which Robert Young and Merle Oberon try to save Paul Lukas from the clutches of Nazis in war-torn Frankfurt, and The Boy with Green Hair (dire…

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Paul Robeson – Part 6: NATIVE LAND (1942), TALES OF MANHATTAN (1942) and SONG OF THE RIVERS (1954) 1:18:09

3M ago1:18:09

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Sadly, it's time to say goodbye to another acteur after an all-too-short time. For our final Paul Robeson episode, we watched Julien Duvivier's Tales of Manhattan (1942), which notoriously brought an end to Robeson's career as a film actor, and two extraordinary socialist documentaries to which he contributed his voice, Leo Hurwitz's Native Land (1…

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Star Trek: Generations, The Spongebob Movie, Mockingjay - Part 1: Thirty Twenty Ten - Nov 15-21 3:06:58

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An exploration of 30, 20 and 10 years ago! https://www.patreon.com/c/lasertime

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The Santa Clause, Interview with a Vampire, Dumb and Dumber 2: Thirty Twenty Ten - Nov 8-14 2:23:38

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Tim Allen grunts over Christmas, while Tom Hanks celebrates the Holiday in the uncanny valley. The best Farrelly Bros movie returns, Michael Keaton reckons with superheroism, and the best vampire movie of the last century?! All that and more this week, 30, 20, and 10 years ago. https://www.patreon.com/c/lasertime…

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – 20th Century Fox - 1948: ROAD HOUSE & UNFAITHFULLY YOURS 1:15:54

3M ago1:15:54

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This 1948 20th Century Fox Studios Year by Year episode is a doozy, a doubleheader of psychotic lovelorn men with bad ideas in their heads. First, in Jean Negulesco's rural noir Road House, Richard Widmark's spoiled road house owner selects Ida Lupino's unlikely and unforgettable femme fatale as his reluctant assassin, and then, in Preston Sturges'…

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Special Subject - Supported By Oscar Levant – the 1940s - RHAPSODY IN BLUE (1945); HUMORESQUE (1946); ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS (1948) and THE BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY (1949) 1:21:10

3M ago1:21:10

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Part 1 of our Oscar Levant Special Subject sees us explain our very personal relationship with this singular figure of 1940s/50s Hollywood in preparation to discuss Gershwin biopic Rhapsody in Blue (1945), great Warner Bros. woman's picture/noir Humoresque (1946), Doris Day debut Romance on the High Seas (1948), and accidental Fred and Ginger reuni…

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The Incredibles, Interstellar, De Niro's Frankenstein: Thirty Twenty Ten - Nov 1-7 2:59:55

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The best super hero movie ever made? The best Pixar movie ever made? WHAT IF THEY'RE THE SAME MOVIE?! Plus the most misguided remake of a classic movie ever, a video game adaptation worse than the Mario Bros movie, Star Wars chess, and more.

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Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Paul Robeson – Part 5: JERICHO (1937) and THE PROUD VALLEY (1940) 1:00:45

4M ago1:00:45

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For our penultimate Paul Robeson Acteurist Oeuvre-view episode we watched Thornton Freeland's Jericho (1937), in which Robeson plays a court-martialed WWI officer who takes up a new life as the leader of a group of Saharan herders and traders, and Pen Tennyson's The Proud Valley (1940), often cited as the film Robeson was proudest of, about the str…

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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Warner Brothers - 1948: THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE & JOHNNY BELINDA 1:25:37

4M ago1:25:37

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For this 1948 Warner Bros Studios Year by Year episode, we watched a couple of the studio's most prestigious releases for the year, John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Jean Negulesco's Johnny Belinda. We explore some extraordinary performances by Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, and Jane Wyman in these tales of capitalist nihilism and…

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Halloween 2024 Special Subject: With Mad Love from Peter Lorre - M (1931) and MAD LOVE (1935) 1:18:21

4M ago1:18:21

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For our 2024 Halloween Special Subject we watched two films in the German Expressionist tradition starring one of the greatest actors to be relegated to Hollywood character actor status, Peter Lorre: Fritz Lang's masterpiece M (1931), through which Lorre came to international recognition playing a child murderer, and Lorre's first Hollywood film, K…

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Nightcrawler, Ray, Saw, Stargate: Thirty Twenty Ten - Oct 25-31 2:48:46

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Please enjoy one of the weirdest sci-fi franchises of the last 30 yers, the viopic to rule them all, a defiant Skinemax, Nickelodeon Monsters, and more!

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