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When We Were Young: What’s The Best Piece Of Pop Culture From The 80s & 90s?
Hello, friends! We’ve now aired three episodes of the When We Were Young podcast, which means it’s officially time to start uselessly ranking things. That’s right — because I am a millennial (barely),...
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Harmonious And Productive (When We Were Young, Episode 3)
A competent, ambitious, and some-might-say-chilly blonde who thinks she’s got this election in the bag goes up against unlikely opponents who are unqualified and uninformed, but hold an anarchic appeal...
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Black, White & Wed: A Difficult Year Gets Some Much-Needed ‘Loving’
It’s impossible to ignore the year 2016 when talking about Loving, a film that takes place between 1958 and 1967 and depicts the lives of the titular couple at the center of one of the Supreme Court’s...
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Monsters In Moonlight: The Year’s Best Dramas Come Out To Play
The “coming out” film has been the cornerstone of queer cinema for at least a couple of decades. For all the progress the LGB… (sorry, I’ve lost track of how many letters are supposed to be attached to...
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Welcome To Being Dead (When We Were Young, Episode 5)
“But there are no cats in America And the streets are paved with cheese. Oh, there are no cats in America So set your mind at ease…” Hey, kids! Do you like cartoon mice? Catchy songs? And lots and...
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Love In A Hopeless Place: ‘Jackie’ Is A Requiem For The American Dream
She remembers how hot the sun was in Dallas, and the crowds — greater and wilder than the crowds in Mexico or in Vienna. The sun was blinding, streaming down; yet she could not put on sunglasses for...
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Some Wes Carpenter Flick (When We Were Young, Episode 7)
Hello, Sidney. Do you like scary movies? What’s your favorite scary movie? If you grew up in the 90s, there’s a good chance your answer to that question is Scream. In Episode 7, we plunge bone-deep...
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Trauma Queen: Isabelle Huppert Leads The Rest Of The Best Actresses
In the movies, if not so much in life, 2016 has turned out to be a very good year for the ladies. While the Best Actor race is suffering from a dearth of truly exciting performances in 2016, the Best...
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I Gave My Panties To A Geek (When We Were Young, Episode 8)
Your first crush. Detention. The prom. That time your entire extended family was horrendously racist toward a foreign exchange student. In Episode 8, When We Were Young takes you back to simpler times...
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Who Needs Reasons When You’ve Got Heroin? (When We Were Young, Episode 9)
In the mid 1990s, Hollywood was inundated with an exciting new class of independent filmmakers who would change the movie business as we knew it. People were really paying attention to films with low...
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Twentieth Century Women: Luminous Ladies Bring Life To Stories Of The 1900s
“The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the...
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The Tens: Best Of Film 2016
Another year, another awards season. But this was no ordinary year. Where to begin, when we speak of 2016? Most years, I just pick my favorite films, and that’s it. But this year, it felt important to...
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Now I’ll Never Be A Teen Model! (When We Were Young, Episode 11)
“Think I’ll go for a walk outside now, The summer sun’s calling my name…” Take Our PollPreviously on the When We Were Young podcast, Becky revealed that she used to serenade her entire middle school...
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The Not-Oscars 2016
It’s just about Oscar time again — though for once, the Best Picture race isn’t exactly the most disappointing contest I’ll witness over the past year. At times like these, the Academy Awards feel...
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We Won Best Picture.
What a night! Leave it to a telecast celebrating the films of 2016 to have a shocking surprise in store at the end. Last year, the modest Spotlight bested the bombastic The Revenant in the Best Picture...
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I’m Not Bad, I’m Just Drawn That Way (When We Were Young, Episode 14)
“Is there nothing that can permeate that impervious puss?” Just in time for Easter, we’re taking a trip back to visit every kid’s second (or third, or fourth…) favorite bunny! Robert Zemeckis’ Who...
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Businesswoman’s Special (When We Were Young, Episode 15)
“Hey, everyone — Sandy Frink just landed in a helicopter!” Is that an earthquake? In honor of the 20th anniversary of their 10 year reunion, we join the Madonna twins and a big giant girl who smokes...
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Game Over, Man! (When We Were Young, Episode 17)
“We’d better get back, ’cause it’ll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night… mostly.” Encounter the xenomorph in our ickiest episode yet! First, the gang discusses their own personal experiences...
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Amazon Prime: ‘Wonder Woman’&‘City Of Z’ Explore Uncharted Territory
This just in: WOMEN can direct MOVIES. Despite their menstruation and inability to lift heavy things, females are either as capable or even more capable than men at making films that involve punching...
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Your Mother’s A Tracer (When We Were Young, Episode 18)
“It was a mistake. I didn’t hate her. I wasn’t disgusted with her. I was afraid. At that moment, I felt small, like… like I’d lacked experience, like I’d never be on her level, like I’d never be enough...
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