Latest Carina magyar Podcast Episodes
Chariots of Fire with Cara McConnell
Thanks, Academy! - November 13, 2018 23:48 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsNormally I write a summary but this movie is so boring it doesn't deserve one. It's about the 1924 Olympics, specifically Great Britain's track team, which did okay. Finland won more track medals that year but sure, let's learn about this team. The movie beat Raiders of the Lost Ark. I'm dead. ...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with Aaron Brooks
Thanks, Academy! - November 06, 2018 11:19 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsEverything about this movie is crazy, and not necessarily in a fun way. Like a lot of '70s movies, it focuses on an oddball group of people just kind of .... hanging out. Aaron and I get frustrated trying to make sense of it, which may be the point, but leads to a very unsatisfying experience, es...
The Apartment with Ella Gale
Thanks, Academy! - October 30, 2018 10:26 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsQuite possibly the perfect movie. A rare comedy winner starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, this screwball-ish comedy with a dramatic heart explores the absurd distance between loneliness and privacy in a world that still maintains a paper-thin Victorian morality atop a fully horny modern r...
Silence of the Lambs with Nikita Redkar
Thanks, Academy! - October 23, 2018 10:12 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis movie didn't just win Best Picture, it won ALL the major Oscars, and it's easy to see why. Tense and gripping throughout, with some of the most incredible acting performances ever. Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins perfectly convey a grounded reality within the high camp of Thomas Harris's sh...
How Green Was My Valley with Nick Saverino
Thanks, Academy! - October 16, 2018 10:52 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis endless dirge of Welsh coal miners singing hymns is a great movie to watch if you want to fall asleep. Plotless and devoid of any tension, the movie feels like a book someone forced you to read in middle school. It's honestly a miracle Nick and I didn't give up halfway through. Featuring "Mi...
American Beauty with Vanessa Gonzalez
Thanks, Academy! - October 09, 2018 10:47 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis movie is something else. It's played as a quirky slice-of-mid-life-crisis with wacky scenarios interspersed between hot-button topics, and I guess that's exactly what it was in the late '90s, but NOW, in 2018, knowing what we know about its star and speaking how we speak about victims of sex...
The Artist with Avery Moore
Thanks, Academy! - September 25, 2018 10:45 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsSay, fellas, I got an idea! What if we take a vaguely creepy story about a vain and jealous man who will destroy himself and everyone around him in a tantrum the minute he's not universally adored, then remove all the dialogue and replace it with sweet music so nobody notices? What's that? We'll ...
Platoon with Duncan Carson
Thanks, Academy! - September 18, 2018 10:58 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsOliver Stone's Mary Sue autobiography about being a rich kid voluntarily joining up to fight in America's Dumbest War. The movie throws 75 characters at the screen, then adds 75,000 explodey noises in for good measure, but somehow Oscar-winning screenwriter Stone still can't cover up the clunkies...
Ben-Hur with Andrew Horneman
Thanks, Academy! - September 11, 2018 10:20 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis movie is EPIC. It defines epic. And it clearly influenced both George Lucas and John Williams, because some of the scenes and score clips are obvious precursors to the Star Wars saga. But is it fun to watch? It was with Andrew, who developed an insta-crush on Charlton Heston's body that sust...
Shakespeare in Love with Brooke Cartus
Thanks, Academy! - September 04, 2018 10:46 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsIf you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, this is the Shakespeare movie for you. Stuffed with super obvious callbacks and sitcom plotting, this soft rock movie somehow captured the Academy's heart in a year stuffed with Big Important Dramas. Gwyneth Paltrow got an award for having ...
Rain Man with Christina Parrish
Thanks, Academy! - August 28, 2018 11:16 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis movie is authenticity-adjacent. A weirdly world-music-infused score backdrops the story of an all-American road trip with a bad car salesman (played by human-adjacent Tom Cruise) and a quirky superhero (Dustin Hoffman doing an SNL sketch character). At times, the script gestures towards mean...
Argo with Leo Garcia
Thanks, Academy! - August 21, 2018 11:29 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis episode comes out all sorts of different for some reason (for one thing, I finally figured out how to optimize sound a little bit). Leo and I dive into the most recent winner featured so far on the podcast, Ben Affleck's "I'm going to direct myself being a hero" movie about one interesting s...
Chicago with Danny Goodwin
Thanks, Academy! - August 14, 2018 09:59 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsDanny and I dive into a winner that was controversial at the time, but honestly looks pretty smart today. (That NEVER happens!) "Chicago" is a stylish, fun, surprisingly deep look at the corrupting power of fame and the desperate violence of proto-feminism America. It's also a movie about impriso...
Gone With the Wind with Eric Nagurney
Thanks, Academy! - August 07, 2018 11:15 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWe knew what we were getting into, kind of, but neither myself nor Eric Nagurney had seen a single frame of Gone with the Wind in our lives, so it was a fresh assault of whitewashed Confederate history, treacly matte paintings, Broadway-style overacting, and whiplashing tonal shifts that lasted F...
On the Waterfront with Pat Dean
Thanks, Academy! - July 31, 2018 10:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsA movie that most people know only as a line -- "I coulda been a contender" -- has surprising twists and wrinkles that make it an unusual watch 50+ years later. Fortunately, I have Pat Dean as a co-pilot, and we dig deep into the subtext and meaning of this labor drama while also taking detours t...
Million Dollar Baby with Pat Sirois
Thanks, Academy! - July 24, 2018 11:32 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis movie goes in fits and starts. The beginning is cartoon-ish and slow, the middle is full of some of the rawest boxing footage I've ever seen in a film, and the last half hour is a torturous drag through depressingville. Pat Sirois and I try to keep our sanity with all the emotional whiplash,...
The Sting with Lisa Friedrich
Thanks, Academy! - July 17, 2018 11:24 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsLisa and I scratch our heads through one of the most complicated con movies I've ever seen, stuffed with ancillary characters and antiquated references. Paul Newman and Robert Redford are both compelling to watch -- and Redford does A LOT of sprinting in this movie if that's your thing -- but the...
The Great Ziegfeld with Rachel Hall
Thanks, Academy! - July 10, 2018 11:04 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsFlorenz Ziegfeld Jr. was still very much a contemporary force in American entertainment when this was made. His late wife Billie Burke even had a hand in the casting of this movie, which was an enormous artistic and financial success for MGM. But what does that all add up to now? This three-hour ...
Rocky with Mike MacRae
Thanks, Academy! - July 03, 2018 11:24 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsUnless you've actually watched it recently, I guarantee this movie is NOT what you think it is. The star-spangled sequels are so ingrained in our minds that it's weird to revisit the grimy impoverished underdog story that kicked off the mega-franchise. Mike MacRae had never seen the movie, and I ...
It Happened One Night with Micheal Foulk
Thanks, Academy! - June 26, 2018 11:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis movie is the origin of every trope in romantic comedies, road trip movies, AND Bugs Bunny cartoons. Micheal Foulk and I spend a lot of time delighting in the silliness of the plot, and puzzling over the manic depression of the film's main pixie dream boy, played by Clark Gable. It's one of o...
West Side Story with Chris Cubas
Thanks, Academy! - June 19, 2018 11:31 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis is easily the most famous and beloved movie we've tackled so far, and it's great! The songs are amazing, the costumes are beautiful, the dancing is quirky and fun, and the plot is ... well. Half of it is great, and surprisingly timely. Chris Cubas (Canceled) and I really enjoyed the Sharks v...
Around the World in 80 Days with Melody Shifflet
Thanks, Academy! - June 12, 2018 11:32 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThe only reason this movie is remembered at all is the Disney remake from 2004 starring Jackie Chan and Steve Coogan -- and that movie was a huge flop. Based on a Jules Verne story, this film is adapted to be 1,000% more British, with a wealthy eccentric and miniature sidekick "racing" around the...
You Can't Take It With You with Ralph Hardesty
Thanks, Academy! - June 05, 2018 11:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsEvery once in a while, the Academy really gets it right. This Frank Capra movie is waaaay less famous than some of his other, schmaltzier efforts like It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and Arsenic and Old Lace, but in my opinion it tops them all with a madcap style that will be...
Out of Africa with Ky Krebs
Thanks, Academy! - May 29, 2018 13:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsKy Krebs and I were all ready to bless the rains down in Africa until this movie bored us nearly to death with its endless picnic sequences and abominably tone-deaf Colonizers. There's simply no way to watch this earnestly in a post-Black Panther world, so we chose to moan and groan and yell at t...
Midnight Cowboy with Katie Pengra
Thanks, Academy! - May 22, 2018 13:31 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsI couldn't have asked for a better / worse choice to start the show with. The illustrious Katie Pengra -- who co-hosts a killer Oscar party every year in Austin at Haymaker with her husband -- graciously agrees to sit her pregnant butt down for this trippy and grim journey through a whole lotta n...
Rebecca, with ... nobody!
Thanks, Academy! - May 08, 2018 04:57 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsA pilot episode in which I ramble a bit about what the podcast will be about, watch one of my favorite old movies while drinking beer and eating potato chips, then try to explain why I always root for the "bad" guys in this one. A great undiscovered treasure of queer cinema (I think), and full of...
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