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by Jeff Sweeney & Stuart Elmore

A weekly investigation into the strange filmographies of cinemas most fascinating careers.

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Podcast episodes

  • Season 3

  • The Last Word

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    The Last Word

    S03 E37
    40:10
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    Continuing down Winona's popularity collapse, The Last Word is a movie about a man named Evan who gets hired to write people's suicide notes. We thought about reaching out to him after we made it through watching this movie.

  • Sex and Death 101

    Sex and Death 101

    S03 E36
    01:18:34

    Alright class settle down! Time for our very first instructional episode on Sex and Death 101, starring... Winona Ryder as Professor Death Nell who will be your instructor for today. Our first lesson... this movie sucks.

  • The Ten

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    The Ten

    S03 E35
    59:20
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    Paul Rudd teaches us a lesson. Actually... TEN LESSONS! And they are all based on the ten commandments. Before you think this is going to be some "God's Not Dead" level religious film, we regret to inform you that it could not be further from the truth.

  • A Scanner Darkly

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    A Scanner Darkly

    S03 E34
    02:28:39
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    Another early post-sabbatical takes Winona to Richard Linklater in A Scanner Darkly. A Phillip K Dick novel adaptation about the a not-to-distant future where America has lost the war on drugs and the police surveillance state goes to a whole new "almost Minority Report" level. Winona is in another small role along side Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr, and Woody Harrelson.

  • The Darwin Awards

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    The Darwin Awards

    S03 E33
    28:29
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    This quasi-student film is one of Winona's first movies after her shoplifting scandal and it's probably for the best that you've never heard of it.