Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
Popcorn Counter: Gods Among Us
Two Reel Cinema Club
The screenwriting podcast that looks at movies from a writer’s point of view. Two screenwriters compare new movies with old ones, delve into the finer points of the craft, and occasionally go entirely off the rails.
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Everything is connected
Join screenwriters James Ruzicka and Andres Llorente as they watch the latest movie releases through the lenses of film history and their own lives, looking for the connections between old and new.
Episodes
Episodes
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
Ancient gods meet the Marvel Cinematic Universe in this episode, as Thor: Love and Thunder clashes with 1963’s Jason and the Argonauts. Join us for epic tales of the Quest for the Three S’s: swords, sandals and semi-naked men. But it turns out there’s more than just escapism on screen, as the two films also tell a parallel story about how ideas of empowerment and responsibility have changed over the last sixty years…
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Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
After sneaking a musical instrument into the popcorn counter, we prove once and for all that neither of us is Bob Dylan, but we have seen some kick ass concert movies. Which ones stand out and is the live music feature film due a comeback?
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Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
We’re All Shook Up this episode by the frenetic gyrations of Baz Luhrmann’s new biopic Elvis, another example of style trumping substance. But it’s hardly the first Hollywood film about white people making money out of black music - that might be The Jazz Singer, famously the first talkie (except it isn’t…) from 1927. Has cinema or the world changed as much as we hope in the last 95 years?
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Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
Don’t believe what your parents told you, monsters are definitely real. After watching Godzilla and Jurassic World, we talk at the Popcorn Counter about a few of our favourite monster pictures, explain why we’re wary of swimming in three feet of water and lament the end of the broadcast television late night scare movie.
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Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
We’ve been to see Jurassic World Dominion for this episode, the sixth movie in a franchise that now feels a little like it dates back 65 million years. There’s a lot of stuff on fire in this film, but can it hold a candle to 1954’s Godzilla, the original Jurassic monster movie that stamped out the template for resurrected dinosaur flicks with its enormous, three toed foot?
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Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Forty years into his career Tom Cruise has his biggest opening ever. Has any actor ever had a career like that before? Join us at the popcorn counter for a quick Cruise-a-thon, followed by an even quicker exit when we figure out who we should be careful of.
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Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
This episode we feel the need… the need for a broad reassessment of cinema’s portrayal of the military industrial complex. Top Gun: Maverick sees Tom Cruise return to flight school after 36 years, but can it fly higher and faster than John Ford’s 1945 John Wayne picture They Were Expendable? And has the way cinema views militarism changed since World War 2?
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Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
Join us at the Popcorn Counter, where this episode we’re shooting the breeze about Martial Arts Cinema. Warning: may contain scenes of two men talking about something they know nothing about.
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