Best Cinematic Flashback Podcasts (2025)

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The Three Musketeers (1973) Richard Lester - Cinematic Flashback Podcast 41:31

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🎙️ The Three Musketeers (1973) – Richard Lester Guest: David Wright (Def Dave – Apples & Oranges Podcast) Grab your sword and step into 1973 as Chuck and guest David Wright revisit Richard Lester’s witty, action-packed take on The Three Musketeers. Michael York, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, and Faye Dunaway headline this playful …

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127 – Volunteers

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Return to the distant year of 1985 which will in turn return you to the distant year of 1962 with a forgotten comedy that finally dares to take the piss out of that sacrosanct topic, the Peace Corps. Naturally, this could only refer to the comedy Volunteers, a movie whose most lasting contribution to modern culture was ensuring the birth of Chet Ha…

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#149 - "Mannequin" (1987) with Bethany Wells 55:56

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Long before Kim Cattrall appeared on HBO as the outspoken, sexually confident, “I’ll try anything once” Samantha Jones in Sex and the City, she played an Egyptian woman under a spell and reincarnated as a shop-window dummy. Inspired by Pygmalion, the tale from Ovid’s Metamorphoses poem which tells the story of a sculptor who fell in love with a sta…

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#148 - "Fright Night" (1985) with Chris Adams 52:01

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This '80s flick is to All Hallows’ Eve what "A Christmas Story" is to Christmas: a true classic deserving a 24-hour marathon and a wild all-night celebration where blood takes the place of alcohol. Director Tom Holland’s heartfelt homage to vampire movies breathed new life into a horror subgenre that was, sadly, starting to fade away, much like an …

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126.5 – Hallmark Halloween Havoc

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It’s Halloweek, and since we already blew our scary podcastical load on The Mummy Returns last week for the spookiest of all holidays (next to Arbor Day), we decided to do a lil Halloween game to celebrate it. Anyway, maybe you haven’t noticed but Hallmark is slightly dipping its white Canadian 90s celebrity toes into making movies for Halloween wi…

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#147 - "Evil Dead 2" with Nicholas Pepin & Laramy Wells 55:32

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Before director Sam Raimi achieved major box office success with the original Spider-Man trilogy, he was primarily recognized as the cult filmmaker behind The Evil Dead series. In 1981, Raimi and star Bruce Campbell created The Evil Dead, offering their humorous and irreverent take on horror, featuring Ash—a clumsy fool—being terrorized by ghouls i…

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The Omen (1976) Richard Donner 43:03

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This week on The Cinematic Flashback Podcast, Chuck and Matt are joined by special guest Jeff Penano to revisit The Omen (1976), directed by Richard Donner and starring Gregory Peck and Lee Remick. A chilling blend of horror and mystery, the film follows an American diplomat who discovers that his adopted son may be the Antichrist himself. What We …

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126 – The Mummy Returns

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It’s our Halloween Spooktacular, baby, and nothing says the spooky season like a limp underbaked sequel to a blockbuster action / horror-adjacent blockbuster based off of a 1932 Universal Studios monster movie. Naturally, we’re talking about 2001’s The Mummy Returns, a movie that proves there’s nothing scarier than a vain attempt to make lightning …

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#146 - "Teen Wolf" (1985) with Gerry D, JB Huffman & Vinnie Brezinsky 1:10:14

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Let's be honest: the '80s were a minefield for horror comedies. But for every Gremlins and Monster Squad, you had to suffer through duds like My Mom's A Werewolf or My Best Friend’s a Vampire. A few films got the formula right, and one, in particular, became a cultural phenomenon. It wasn't about monsters in the closet or clowns from space—it was a…

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The Andromeda Strain (1971) Robert Wise - Cinematic Flashback Podcast 44:25

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Chuck and Matt fire up the Wayback Machine for a trip to 1971 and Robert Wise’s The Andromeda Strain — the calmest outbreak movie ever made. Episode Summary The conversation starts with real-life glitches (football, internet outages) and childhood reading lists, then traces how the film bridges 1950s alien-paranoia vibes and 1970s lab-coat realism.…

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125.5 – Anatomy of a Young Adult Movie

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What started off as a vague idea of making up a YA movie or book molted in discussion to become something else and sometimes that’s okay! Leigh, Brendan, and Chris talk about young adult media, be it books or movies- what they are comprised of, what makes them work, and if we can identify them when we see them. We’ve also got our Halloween Spooktac…

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#145 - "Red Dawn" (1984) with Chris Adams 1:01:03

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For some, the memories of the 1980s feature seeing the cover multiple Time and Newsweek magazines, fearing that America might go to war with Russia. It didn’t help that the Russians were often portrayed as the default villains in movies, TV shows, and even WWF matches. Then, there was this '80s flick. A group of high school students calling themsel…

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Logan's Run (1974) Michael Anderson - The Cinematic Flashback Podcast 49:19

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This week, we’re stepping into the Dome City where freedom has an expiration date. This week on The Cinematic Flashback Podcast, Chuck is joined by co-host Matt Sargent to revisit Logan’s Run (1976), directed by Michael Anderson and starring Michael York, Jenny Agutter, and Richard Jordan. A sci-fi landmark of the pre-Star Wars era, the film imagin…

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125 – I Am Number Four

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It’s back to school season, and what better way for us to reminisce about our distant high school memories than through the lens of a failed young adult sci-fi franchise? Return to your own far-flung youth with 2011’s I Am Number Four, one of many attempts to make “Twilight but for boys” that simply didn’t take. Listen in with Leigh, Brendan, and C…

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#144 - "Clue" (1985) with Gerry D, Chris McMichen & Laramy Wells 1:13:35

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The board game “Clue” originated in the 1940s as “Cluedo” overseas and was later brought to the U.S. by Parker Brothers. Now owned by Hasbro, it has inspired many spin-offs, including a TV show, themed editions like the “Simpsons” version, and a VCR game. Alongside classics like “Monopoly,” “Cranium,” “The Game of Life,” “Sorry!,” and “Mouse Trap,”…

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - Miloš Forman - Cinematic Flashback 53:53

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This week, we’re checking into the ward where chaos meets control. This week on The Cinematic Flashback Podcast, Chuck is joined by longtime friend Alan Green to revisit One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), directed by Miloš Forman and starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher in their Oscar-winning roles. Based on Ken Kesey’s novel, the film …

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124.5 – Fiction Flashbacks

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Summer, alas, is over (even though it’ll still be like 80 degrees for a while but now with the added fun of 7:00 pm sunsets, such fun) and with it our unhinged musicals miniseries. So long, Something Like Summer! Hello, customary teen movie to kick off the school year! As we briefly discuss the teen sci-fi adaptation we’ll be covering two weeks fro…

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#143 - "Rocky III" (1982) with Chris Adams & JB Huffman 1:06:07

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Since the Italian Stallion first appeared on screen in 1976, Rocky Balboa’s cinematic story has become a staple of pop culture, not just in America but around the world. The tropes from the film have been emulated and parodied many times over the years in other movies, TV shows, and media. It’s well known for its theme music, training montage, and …

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Deliverance (1972) - John Boorman - Cinematic Flashback 49:30

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This week, we take a trip downriver that we’ll never forget. This week on The Cinematic Flashback Podcast, Chuck is joined by guest host Jay Kirk to explore Deliverance (1972), directed by John Boorman and starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronnie Cox. A harrowing tale of survival and violence in the Georgia wilderness, the film re…

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Jaws The Musical - Cinematic Flashback Lobby Card Edition 16:30

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This week on the Cinematic Flashback Podcast: Lobby Card Edition, we return to Amity Island, but not the way you remember it. In our last full episode, we had a playful dive into Jaws and imagined it as a Broadway musical. Now, this Lobby Card Edition expands on that idea with a parody with original songs inspired by our discussion. The Songs Jeff’…

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124 – The Apple

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Hey, hey, hey! BIM’s on the way! BIM’s the only way! BIM’s all the way! (?) Look, any way you may hear it, our Summer of Unhinged Musicals has reached its natural endpoint, with a movie that is unquestionably a musical. And boy, what a nonsense of a musical it is! Join Leigh, Brendan, and Chris as they attempt to make sense of 1980’s The Apple, dir…

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#142 - "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors" (1987) with Nicholas Pepin & Laramy Wells 1:02:21

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The “Nightmare on Elm Street” series had a reputation in the movie business as sort of a high-rent answer to the "Friday the 13th” saga, and this third entry of the franchise lives up to the billing. It’s slick, with impressive production values, and the acting is well-suited to the material. This 80s Flick focuses on a teenager experiencing vivid …

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Jaws (1975) - Steven Spielberg - Cinematic Flashback Podcast 1:12:43

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This week on The Cinematic Flashback Podcast, Chuck and Matt are joined by an all-star lineup of guests— Dee Graves and Jason Colvin from The Surely You Can’t Be Serious Podcast, plus Jeff Johnson and David Burns from A Film By Podcast—to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jaws (1975). Directed by a young Steven Spielberg and starring Roy Scheider, …

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123.5 – Something Like Summer Movies

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What would summer be without summer movies to accompany it? Well, probably just insufferably hot. Thankfully, we have summer movies to distract us from (insert horrific woe here)! Leigh, Brendan, and Chris have a nice li’l chat about some of this season’s big blockbuster-y movies (and one smaller, more intimate one). From superheroes to dinosaurs t…

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#141 - "Halloween III: Season of the Witch" (1982) with Nicholas Pepin 46:54

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For years, the absence of Michael Myers, Laurie Strode, and Dr. Loomis caused many fans of the Halloween movies to feel confused, reject the film, or even become angry. However, as time has passed, those feelings have softened, and the film has been reevaluated on its own merits. While John Carpenter’s original masterpiece is widely regarded as the…

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Dirty Harry (1971) - Don Siegal - Best of Cinematic Flashback Podcast 46:03

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Best of Cinematic Flashback: Revisiting Dirty Harry (1971) You're listening to a Best Of episode of The Cinematic Flashback Podcast. While Matt and I wrap up our summer break, we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes of the year: Dirty Harry (1971), starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Don Siegel. We’ll be back with a brand new episode on A…

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123 – Something Like Summer

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The Summer of Unhinged Musicals continues with perhaps one of the most unhinged movies we have ever covered, period. For your pleasure (?), we present 2017’s Something Like Summer, an adaptation of a self-published absurdly long young adult novel that was for some improbable reason turned into an absurdly long movie musical. Blurbs really can’t do …

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#140 - "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989) with Gerry D, Nicholas Pepin & Chad Sheppard 56:39

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1989 was what some might call a good year for movies. The top-grossing films could easily be mistaken for anyone's favorite 80s movies list: Batman, Lethal Weapon 2, Rain Man, Ghostbusters II. You might even consider including Tango & Cash. But only one 1989 release brought back the iconic bullwhip and fedora. Indiana Jones returned to the big scre…

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The French Connection (1974) - William Friedkin - Best Of Cinematic Flashback Podcast 41:26

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This week, we’re tailing Popeye Doyle through the gritty streets of 1970s New York. It’s a Best Of Episode while Chuck and Matt take a quick summer vacation. This week on The Cinematic Flashback Podcast, we rewind all the way back to our very first episode—The French Connection (1971), directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman and Roy …

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122.5 – Jukebox Musical Jumble

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As the year rolls swelteringly along, so does our Summer of Unhinged Musicals, and what better way commemorate this year’s miniseries than with yet another game (but one that relates to the theme)? Brendan dusts off an old chestnut from a while back where he posits a musical title and description and Leigh and Chris have to determine whether said m…

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#139 - "Rambo III" (1988) with Chris Adams & JB Huffman 45:58

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On this episode of 80s Flick Flashback, we're diving into a film that followed a surprising stumble for one of the biggest action stars of the decade: Sylvester Stallone's Rambo III. In 1987, Sylvester Stallone seemed invincible. After dominating the box office in 1985 with Rocky IV and Rambo: First Blood Part II, and cementing his action hero stat…

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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) - Joseph Sargent - Cinematic Flashback Podcast 39:01

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This week, it’s a hijacking, a countdown, and a whole lotta attitude. On The Cinematic Flashback Podcast, Chuck is finally back in the studio with co-host Matt to ride the rails through one of the tightest thrillers of the decade: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974). Directed by Joseph Sargent and starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, and a w…

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122 – The Singing Detective

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Another summer has begun, and with it, another miniseries. This year, we’re kicking off our Summer of Unhinged Musicals with a movie that… might be arguably a musical, but kind of probably isn’t. As you might be able to guess, it’s 2003’s The Singing Detective, a not-very-acclaimed movie adaptation of a very-acclaimed British series. Please know th…

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#138 - "The Karate Kid Part III" (1989) with JB Huffman 44:57

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In this episode of the 80s Flick Flashback podcast, hosts Tim Williams and JB Huffman dive into the nostalgic world of "The Karate Kid Part III". They explore the film's plot, character development, and the challenges faced during production. The conversation highlights the film's place within the franchise, its memorable scenes, and the overall im…

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Super Fly (1972) - Gordon Parks Jr - Cinematic Flashback Podcast 40:37

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This week, we’re rolling with Priest and his final score. This week on The Cinematic Flashback Podcast, Chuck is joined by guest host Erin Mullinax to explore Super Fly (1972), directed by Gordon Parks Jr. and starring Ron O’Neal. A landmark of 1970s street-level style and social commentary, the film follows a Harlem drug dealer trying to leave the…

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BONUS - "Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood" (1988) with Charlie Cotter & Laramy Wells 52:56

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Summary In this episode of the 80s Flick Flashback Podcast, Tim Williams and co-hosts Charlie Cotter and Laramy Wells delve into the seventh installment of the Friday the 13th franchise, 'The New Blood.' They discuss the film's profitability, its origins, casting choices, iconic scenes, and the reception of its ending. The conversation also touches…

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121.5 – Round Robin Recs

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Look, sometimes it’s very hard to come up with discussion topics and sometimes people are feeling sick so sometimes mini episodes just end up being a round table discussion of “what’s some interesting media you consumed lately?” This is one of those times. Listen in as Leigh, Brendan (partly), and Chris talk about some of these things, ranging from…

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Episode 7: From a Different Perspective 1:14:00

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In the season finale of The Last of Us Season 2, the script gets flipped and sets us up for season three that looks like it will be in a different persepctive. Join Ethan and Bo as they talk all things TLOU Season 2!By Ethan Schmidt

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#137 - "Superman III" (1983) with Laramy Wells 1:11:29

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's... Richard Pryor with a supercomputer? On this episode of the 80s Flick Flashback, Tim Williams is joined by guest co-host Laramy Wells to discuss the 80s Flick sequel that nearly torpedoed the Superman franchise with its emphasis on silly sight-gags instead of the Man of Steel mythos. Will they defend the deci…

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Chinatown (1974) - Roman Polanski - Cinematic Flashback Podcast 43:24

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🎙️ Forget it, Jake. It’s a podcast. This week on The Cinematic Flashback Podcast, Chuck and Matt investigate one of the most haunting and influential films of the 1970s: Chinatown (1974). Directed by Roman Polanski and written by Robert Towne, the film stars Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston in a mystery steeped in corruption, secrets, …

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121 – It Could Happen to You

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Could it, though? Could it indeed happen to you? Well, yes, it could, if by “it” you mean “watching a mid-tier 90s romantic comedy that sort of holds up.” If you mean “have a rando split a multi-million dollar lottery ticket with you,” then sadly the answer is no, it’s probably pretty unlikely to happen to you. Listen in with Leigh, Brendan, and Ch…

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#136 - "Good Morning Vietnam" (1987) with Nicholas Pepin & Chad Sheppard 1:03:30

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This episode of 80s Flick Flashback revisits the 1987 hit "Good Morning, Vietnam." The film marked a pivotal moment for Robin Williams, showcasing his dramatic range beyond his established comedic persona from "Mork & Mindy" and "Popeye." Loosely based on the true story of Armed Forces Radio DJ Adrian Cronauer, the movie is set in 1965 Saigon as th…

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Episode 6: Flashbacks 1:10:46

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The episode of nothing but flashbacks finally hit in season 2. Ethan and Bo discuss the series of flashbacks and how they can compare to the game.By Ethan Schmidt

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MASH (1970) - Robert Altman - Cinematic Flashback Podcast 37:37

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M*A*S*H (1970) – The Cinematic Flashback Podcast Hosted by: Chuck and Matt Sargent In this episode of The Cinematic Flashback Podcast, Chuck and co-host Matt Sargent head into the chaos and dark comedy of M*A*S*H (1970), directed by Robert Altman and starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, and Tom Skerritt. Set against the backdrop of the Korean…

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Episode 5: Stalkers Have Us Freaking Out 1:04:33

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Ellie and Dina get caught in a situation with multiple stalkers. Ethan and Bo discuss the latest episode titled "Feel Her Love".By Ethan Schmidt

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120.5 – Culinary Crossover Conundrums

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We’ve got a movie coming up next week that focuses pretty heavily on a diner, so why not do a food-centric mini episode accordingly? Except it’s not really about diners or coffee shops, it’s about chain restaurants, so things kinda fall apart from there but hey it’s hard coming up with mini topics so pipe down maybe! We do another one of our li’l g…

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Episode 4: Not the TV Station I'm Working at 1:19:08

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The beauty of the game and the show come together in this episode; however, a couple of changes also add to it. Hear from Ethan and Bo as they take a deep dive into the latest episode of the The Last of Us 2 and hear how Ethan is struggling to match game speed to show speed.By Ethan Schmidt

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#135 - "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988) with Nicholas Pepin, Laramy & Bethany Wells 1:21:28

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Ever wonder where the magic started for animated characters stepping into the live-action world? While it's practically a genre of its own today, one groundbreaking '80s flick truly pioneered the concept as a full-length feature film. Get ready to dive into the toon-tastic world of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" from 1988! From the visionary minds of pr…

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McCabe And Mrs Miller (1971) - Robert Altman - Cinematic Flashback Podcast 45:21

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In this episode of the Cinematic Flashback Podcast, Chuck and co-host Matt Sargent journey into the misty frontier of McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), directed by Robert Altman and starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie. Far from your typical gunslinging western, Altman’s revisionist take paints a haunting portrait of ambition, capitalism, and isola…

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Episode 3: Coffee Beans in Seattle 40:31

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After the heart break that was episode 2 of season 2 of The Last Of Us, Ethan and Bo look at episode 3 as Ellie and Dina make their way to Seattle. What were some of the changes from the game? Who are the new groups being introduced? Will justice be served? We kind of answer that in this episode!By Ethan Schmidt