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The Worst Part of My Favorite Movie

Jonathan Foster and Tripp von Weeks

Tv & Film

Frequency: 1 episode/60d. Total Eps: 19

"Great movies are rarely perfect movies." — Pauline Kael

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🇨🇦 Canada - Film History
08/08/2026
#99
🇺🇸 USA - Film History
21/04/2026
#97
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16/04/2026
#99
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15/04/2026
#66
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12/04/2026
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05/01/2026
#96
🇨🇦 Canada - Film History
01/01/2026
#99
🇨🇦 Canada - Film History
31/12/2025
#82
🇺🇸 USA - Film History
12/12/2025
#88
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Film History
09/12/2025
#82

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1989 - Batman (with Will Sloan)

Season 2 · Episode 10

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 • Duration 57:00

For the season finale, we're joined by author Will Sloan (Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA) to discuss his great new book about the so-called "Worst Director of All Time," how to approach cinematic reclamation, and the movie he's seen possibly more than any other: Tim Burton's "Batman." You wanna get nuts? C'mon! Let's get nuts!

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1988 - Die Hard (with Matt "Smokey" Cloud)

Season 2 · Episode 9

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 • Duration 52:19

Award-winning sound and sound-effects artist Matt "Smokey" Cloud (Stranger Things, Predator: Badlands, The Naked Gun, many other titles) stops by to talk about "Die Hard." We discuss producer Joel Silver's infamous "Whammo Chart," director John McTiernan's efforts to infuse a little Shakespeare into the material, and what creative choices set the film apart from other '80s action movies. Oh, and there's also an "Airheads" clip for all of the "Airheads" Heads out there.

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1987 - RoboCop (with Justin LaLiberty)

Season 2 · Episode 8

Wednesday, October 15, 2025 • Duration 58:50

We're joined today by Justin LaLiberty (curator and producer at Cinématographe) to talk about the world of boutique Blu-ray labels, the films of Paul Verhoeven, and the continuing relevance and endurance of "RoboCop." Is it Verhoeven's most wide-eyed look at America? How did his outsider's perspective help shape the material? Would the film have lost its edge had it looked like "Blade Runner," as Verhoeven originally wanted? Your prime directive... is to listen to this episode.

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1986 - Aliens (with Katie Walsh)

Season 2 · Episode 7

Wednesday, June 25, 2025 • Duration 54:59

Film critic Katie Walsh (Tribune News Service, Los Angeles Times) braves facehuggers, chestbursters, and hordes of xenomorphs to talk about James Cameron's "Aliens." We discuss the evolution of Cameron's storytelling as his movies have become more ambitious, examine producer Gale Anne Hurd's role as "Cameron Whisperer" during the early phase of his directing career, and reflect on what makes "Aliens" such a satisfying sequel. Plus, we debut a brand new segment called Good Movie/Bad Movie! (Special thanks to the Weyland-Yutani Corporation for sponsoring this episode.)

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1985 - After Hours (with Roxana Hadadi)

Season 2 · Episode 6

Wednesday, March 5, 2025 • Duration 01:04:18

Vulture critic Roxana Hadadi joins the podcast to discuss Martin Scorsese's "After Hours," and helps us trace the film's journey from once being considered a minor effort to now being viewed as one of the most pivotal movies in Scorsese's career. She also names the Scorsese film she'd most like to see added to the Criterion Collection, and offers her theory as to why Scorsese's work is often more fully appreciated a decade after the fact.

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1984 - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (with Bilge Ebiri)

Season 2 · Episode 5

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 • Duration 01:06:48

New York Magazine and Vulture film critic Bilge Ebiri offers wide-ranging insights into the career of Steven Spielberg, helps put American cinema of the 1980s into proper perspective, and discusses why he thinks "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" might be Spielberg's best-directed film. Truly, anything goes!

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1983 - Terms of Endearment (with Chris Feil)

Season 2 · Episode 4

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 • Duration 59:47

Film journalist and podcaster Chris Feil (This Had Oscar Buzz) discusses the Best Picture winner of 1983 — James L. Brooks' "Terms of Endearment." Is it a comedy that makes people cry or a drama with some amusing bits? Is emotional manipulation in movies something to be feared? Is the book always better than the movie? Should the fictional Aurora Greenway be an EGOT winner? These are exactly the kinds of questions you want Chris Feil to answer on your podcast!

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1982 - The Thing (with Matt Singer)

Season 2 · Episode 3

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 • Duration 58:21

Author Matt Singer (Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever) stops by to discuss the 1982 sci-fi horror classic "The Thing," as well as John Carpenter's status as a pantheon filmmaker. Plus, a new world record is set for how many times the words "gloopy" and "gloppy" are said in a single podcast recording!

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1981 - Reds (with Isaac Butler)

Season 2 · Episode 2

Wednesday, June 26, 2024 • Duration 54:43

Author Isaac Butler (The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act) discusses "Reds," his favorite movie of 1981. Must a director be as obsessed and relentless as Warren Beatty? Does on-set friction result in better movies? Is "Ishtar" deserving of its reappraisal? Isaac has all of the answers and more! Would you believe the Architect from "The Matrix Reloaded" also shows up at one point? It's all true!

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1980 - The Empire Strikes Back (with Christopher Schneider)

Season 2 · Episode 1

Wednesday, May 15, 2024 • Duration 01:00:00

Cinematographer Christopher Schneider (The Volunteer, Love Type D, Lost Colony) discusses his favorite movie of 1980, The Empire Strikes Back. Along the way, we reminisce about freezing our action figures, recommend a few unheralded gems from director Irvin Kershner, and offer up dueling pronunciations of actor George Segal's last name. Oh, and if you thought Barbara Walters wouldn't make an appearance in this episode, you were dead wrong.

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