Before You Watch
Paul ScheerYour weekly guide to watching the best movies with fresh eyes. The context, history, and hidden details that make great movies even greater. A new film every week. From the Unspooled Podcast
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O Brother Where Art Thou?
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Homer, I barely Knew Her?
While the credits state the film is “based upon The Odyssey by Homer,” apparently Joel and Ethan Coen have never read it. They did say they read the classic comic version and even joke...
DRIVE
Fast & Furious w/ Ryan Gosling
Drive was conceived as a straightforward action film. Producers Marc Platt and Adam Siegel optioned James Sallis’s 2005 novel Drive after spotting a review in Publishers Weekly. Check out this excerpt from...
An American Tale
This week on Unspooled we tackled a film that Amy love, Don Bluth’s An American Tale
Spielberg’s Grandfather
Producer David Kirschner conceived the original concept, but the emotional core, a Russian-Jewish immigrant mouse family fleei...
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Amy and I have been playing with a format for a video show. We wanted to make something unique but also in the vein of the show we love to do and the Substack we love to write.
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Gremlins
Don’t get them wet.
Keep out of bright light.
Never feed after midnight.
One of the most original things I’ve come across in many years. — Steven Spielberg, on why he bought the script for Gremlins
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