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Available now on the Patreon bonus podcast feed; we're talking retrospectively about Loki: Season 2. The change of pace, tone and scope and the ending that is both frustrating and magnificent!
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Tonight on School of Movies, one of the most innovative indies of the past decade. We talk about Searching (2018) which takes place entirely on a computer screen and is utterly captivating. See the film first because it's a tense masterpiece!
schoolofmovies.podbean.com/e/searching/

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Today on the School of Movies Patreon bonus feed we are talking about how you can reconnect to music by changing what you listen to it on, in our show about the Apple iPod
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RRR: Rise, Roar, Revolt [School of Movies 2025] One of the most astonishing action epics in cinema history, and almost nobody who saw it managed to do so in the cinema! At least in the West. This historical epic, popularised...

Was lucky enough to join @alexandershaw.bsky.social on the "School of Movies" pod discussing one of my favorite films of the decade, S.S. Rajamouli's historical epic spectacular RRR!
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Tonight on the School of Movies podcast; A blistering firestorm of a movie that puts most Hollywood blockbusters to shame with its jaw-dropping action and electric physicality. We also delve into the real history. It's RRR: Rise, Roar, Revolt
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On the Patreon bonus podcast feed for those at the $5 tier or higher, we talk about the baffling, dazzling, clumsily, slow and blindingly flashy Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
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Tonight we are talking The Super Mario Bros. Movie and A Minecraft Movie, both of which lay down a hellishly effective formula for success in the 2020s: Give the audiences a metric ton of what they superficially want!
#supermariobrosmovie #MinecraftMovie
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Tonight School of Movies is covering Mario and goddamn Minecraft! Two major trendsetting smash-hit blockbusters of the 2020s. Do you like watching a parade of familiar things from your favourite video games?
#supermariobrosmovie #MinecraftMovie
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Podcasters, your expert advice would be much appreciated. My new office has a pronounced echo effect, so I need to get a microphone isolation shield to record weekly shows and my audio-dramas. Have you have good or bad experiences with the following two shield types? A and B

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Yesssss. I find this show to be beautiful both visually and a lot of its themes, and while I'm sad y'all didn't gel with it, I understand and appreciate your guys' perspective on it. Great listen, as always.

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On the School of Movies podcast feed tonight: Following on from our Delicious in Dungeon discussion, we talk about the OTHER of the two most warmly-regarded fantasy anime series' of recent years; It's Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
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On the School of Movies podcast feed tonight; We're talking about a story that could ONLY have been a video game. There is something that happens in Act 3 that demands not to be passively watched. It's 1000xRESIST @sunsetvisitor.studio
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On the School of Movies Patreon Bonus Feed right now, two Hitchcock classics talked up a storm by us!
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This was immediately followed by us watching a beloved modern classic (Frieren) and being totally nonplussed! We have to now find guests who DO love that show in order to do it justice!

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Thank fuck for this podcast, because one, it's great, and two, it finally gave me something to listen to while vacuuming the house.

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On the School of Movies podcast feed tonight; We're talking Delicious in Dungeon, a superb anime about facing down monsters... then lightly sautéing them in garlic butter and eating the FUCK out of them!
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This was a pleasure to listen to. It's always great to hear Laura's voice, and I especially connected with the anecdotes of all the call-in contributors.

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Recent podcast episodes on the School of Movies Patreon bonus feed (for those at the $5 tier or higher) include Captain America; Brave New World, Companion, Better Man and tonight's classic; North by Northwest!
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My first ever RPG experience. I absolutely love this game... but it also kind of drives me crazy. It's Secret of Mana on the Super Nintendo, and it's tonight's show for you.
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This week... we're talking Secret of Mana

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Now available for your ears: Our oops-all-trans-guests podcast episode on The People's Joker by @veradrew22.bsky.social The saga of one woman's journey from Smallville misery to Gotham infamy. Special thanks to @laurakbuzz.bsky.social Signal-boost this one!
schoolofmovies.podbean.com/e/the-people...

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Huge thanks to @laurakbuzz.bsky.social who returned after far too many years to guest on our show and talk about this extraordinary movie.

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Tonight on the School of Movies podcast feed; we bring in an all-trans guest list and shut our cis mouths while they delve deeply into the subtexts of unsettling analogue horror 'I Saw the TV Glow'. We're being told this is one of our best shows.
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This game hit me so hard that I commissioned a show about it.
And, in turn, they addressed its hurdles and shortcomings. But, most of all, they saw the core of the story that rang so true to me.

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Tonight on School of Movies; The best intergalactic wrestling comic miniseries you've never heard of! Do a Powerbomb will rock your world!
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On tonight's School of Movies podcast we have a cult favourite from the secret John Hughes of the 1990s; Allan Moyle, director of Pump Up the Volume. A bunch of teenage misfits working in a music store and not selling out. Damn The Man! #RexManningDay
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Most influential? Silksong!

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On this week's episode of the School of Movies podcast we are talking about this charming, nostalgic, dreamy, heart-breaking/warming indie video game; A Space for the Unbound
@asftugame.bsky.social
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Me in safety vest taking a pic in bathroom mirror

Me in safety vest taking a pic in bathroom mirror

Happy trans day of HIGH visibility

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