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Ep# 5 - The Hype Machine

Jenna and Veronica (and some technology failure) talk about overhyped movies – including Hereditary, mother!, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – and who gets to decide on what’s overrated or not.

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Essays Carlo Vanstiphout Essays Carlo Vanstiphout

Freddy's Dead. Long Live Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare

Freddy’s Dead is both a deviation from, and constrained by its formula. But I love it because it’s a fascinatingly desperate attempt to re-capture some of the magic that kickstarted Freddy Mania. Join us as we perform a compost-mortem on this universally reviled sequel in the Nightmare on Elm Street series.

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I Watched It So You Don't Have To: Myra Breckinridge

Myra Breckinridge is indeed a failure of an adaptation, yet I suspect the intensity of the vitriol towards this film is about something beyond just the admittedly poor direction; most likely it has more to do with the unconscious biases Vidal set out to skewer to begin with.

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