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Episode 4 – Tolkien + WonderCon 2019
On this podcast, we breakdown all the events and panels we attended at last week’s WonderCon in Anaheim. We talk about Batman‘s 80th birthday, exclusive footage of the upcoming Dark Phoenix, and at the end of the program, we review the indie biopic Tolkien, which…
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Episode 3 – Us and Wonder Park
On this week’s podcast, we dig deep into the hidden meanings behind Jordan Peele’s new horror film Us. Cassidy gives his thoughts on the animated movie Wonder Park and we also play a game of “Don’t Call it a Comeback,” where we give career advice to…
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Episode 2 – Captive State
On this week’s podcast, we review the sci-fi thriller Captive State and for our Netflix Homework, we revisit the 2009 Steven Soderbergh comedy The Informant! We also discuss James Gunn‘s return to Marvel Studios and we survey our listeners to find out the comedy’s that…
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Episode 1 – Captain Marvel and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Welcome to the first episode of the MacGuffin Podcast relaunch. The new hosts Cassidy and Keith spend this episode reviewing Captain Marvel, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, and at the end of the podcast they discuss the 2017 documentary Abducted in Plain…
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Film Review – Slave to the Grind
Toronto-based filmmaker Doug Robert Brown set out to make the most comprehensive film he could about the extreme heavy metal sub-genre known as grindcore. Given that grindcore, the speedy, more aggressive cousin of death metal and hardcore punk, has always been the red-headed stepchild of…
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Film Review – My Friend Dahmer
Derf Backderf’s graphic novel My Friend Dahmer is an honest character study of a person who lacks so much basic humanity that he was barely able to function beyond whatever role society wanted to project onto him. Jeffery Dahmer was a real life monster; a…
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Film Review – Raw
Julia Ducournau’s French/Belgian horror film Raw reinterprets the emotional and physical strains of post-adolescents into a grisly genre masterwork. Within her gory exploration of common coming-of-age tropes, such as peer group hierarchies, the awkward discovery of sexuality and the love/hate whirlwind of sibling rivalry, Ducournau…
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Film Review – Goat
Andrew Neel’s latest feature Goat is an archetypically American film that explores the psychology of toxic masculinity. This dark indie debuted at Sundance, where it was met with some early buzz for its lead performances by the up and coming Ben Schnetzer (Warcraft, Punk’s Dead: SLC…
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