Category: Podcast Rating
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Sometimes a movie just clicks in a way that is totally subjective. Especially comedies.
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The Swimmer (1968)
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Teen Beach Movie (2013)
I’m not sure a film has ever more steadily improved in my estimation than Teen Beach Movie, the Disney Channel musical from 2013.
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The Money Pit (1983)
There’s a 20-minute period towards the middle of the film where The Money Pit lives up to its slapstick potential, and it’s the hardest I’ve laughed in eons.
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The Thirteenth Year (1999)
This Disney Channel Original Movie takes a very intriguing premise — boy begins transforming to merman on his thirteenth birthday and tries to hide it from the world; very clearly a metaphor for coming out as gay in 1999 — and makes it so damn boring.
Bobby is turning four years old. It’s his birthday, and he’s having a party. A clown is coming. It’s 1992.
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Robot (Enthiran) (2010)
Robot (aka Enthiran) is a three-hour Kollywood sci-fi sitcom action musical about AI robots gaining sentience and falling in love with humans.
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The Outsiders (1983)
The Outsiders is Francis Ford Coppola’s epic greasers-vs-socs melodrama — his “teenage Gone With the Wind,” to quote the director’s commentary.
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Read It and Weep (2006)
Here’s a summary of the first few minutes of Read it and Weep:
- Jamie Bartlett (Kay Panabaker) accidentally submits her personal sketchbook for an English class assignment
- Her teacher likes it so much that she submits it to a literary agent
- It is published and nationally distributed
- It become a major bestseller
Totally plausible, right?