Shazam! The MacGuffin Report is back for another season of takes on American TV, movies and pop culture.
This time, co-hosts Walter Hong, Raechel Wong and Os Davis reach back into Hollywoods’s past, to days before the expression “pop culture” was in common parlance; the MacGuffins take a look at 1934’s “It Happened One Night”, the Hollywood standard starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert which was released just seven years after the first full-length talkie.
A viewing (and reviewing) of the film leads to a deep-dive into the nature and essence of Hollywood rom-coms in general, happily name-dropping lots of more modern favorites such as “When Harry Met Sally” and “Love Actually.”
Also, answers to a question evermore relevant for us all: How much respect do you lose for someone who recommends bad TV/movies?
MGR Quarantine Movies epilogue: Listener comments/questions & trivia
MGR Quarantine Movies #6 – Cloud Atlas and Tom Hanks movies
MGR Quarantine Movies #5 – Ghostbusters plus Bill Murray and/or Wes Anderson films
MGR Quarantine Movies #4 – Casablanca, Audrey Hepburn, Marx Brothers & classic films
MGR Quarantine Movies #3 – Four weddings... & Richard Curtis movies
MGR Quarantine Movies #2 – Rob Reiner and Jack Nicholson movies
s03e03: What we're watching during the pandemic
MGR Quarantine Movies #1: Indiana Jones and trilogies
s03e02: (Re)watching 1917, Parasite
s03e01: What should have won at the Oscars?
s02e08. Doctor Who and science-fiction movies
s02e07. Documentaries including Knock Down the House, Free Solo
s02e06. Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood and *that* scene
s02e05. Toy Story 4, The Umbrella Academy and streaming recommendations
s02e04. Talking Fleabag & Britcoms; Deadwood & Westerns
s02e03. Asian-American cinema/tv including Always Be My Maybe, Kim’s Convenience
s02e02. John Wick vs Keanuphobia vs action movies
s01e10. Horror Film Trauma, Irresponsible Movies, Us Review
e01s09. Happy 80th Birthday, Batman!
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