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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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Spielberg’s own childhood memory of being awakened by his father to watch the Leonid meteor shower shaped his sense that the night sky was romantic rather than threatening. Spielberg told Women’s World in 2024 that his early experience help...
DIE HARD 2: DIE HARDER
Everything you see in Die Hard 2 the airport, the planes, the snow is fake. The chaos making it was completely real. This week’s guest, Jorma Taccone (The Lonely Island), breaks it down with us.
Rolling The Dice with Mclane
Die Hard...
Josie and the Pussycats
Josie and the Pussycats is a satire about corporate manipulation and consumer brainwashing that people saw as corporate manipulation and consumer brainwashing. Thankfully, Joanna Robinson and I got it as we sat down to chat all things Josie...
The Babysitters Club
The Babysitters Club (1995) is dated and ahead of its time: like a Richard Linklater film mixed with the soapy sincerity of the best episode of Dawson’s Creek. It’s a film for kids that treats friendship, dating, and even entrepreneurship w...
Top Secret!
Top Secret! is the second film from Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker (ZAZ), the team that gave you Airplane! And when it came out in 1984, it was a bomb.
But to be fair, it had so much stiff competition. On its opening weekend...
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