Episodes
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
NOT YOUR GRANDFATHER‘S COURTROOM DRAMAS: 12 Angry Men (1957)
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
FEATURED GUEST: LETTENEY
Introducing our new series: Not Your Grandfather's Courtroom Dramas!
In the next few episodes, we tackle three classic courtroom dramas from our grandparent's era, and the first one is 12 Angry Men. This film is influential for many reasons, whether it is the taut writing, the claustrophobic direction, or the impeccable production design, and we attempt to discuss as much as we can.
The first issue we tackle is the casting of the film, the characters, and we attempt to do our own fantasy casting. This was really fun for us, and a treat to talk about, because it also got us discussing what makes these individual jurors tick: whether it be justice, or fairness, or prejudice, or simply wanting to get to a ball game.
After a quick break, we dive headlong into the meat of the movie and its legacy. We discuss how the racial ideas at the heart of the movie, revolutionary for its time, inform us today, in the light of the recent protests and conversations about race writ large in America, and the world. As three dads, and our special guest, we do our best to highlight that conversation and contribute to it in some small way.
As always, we hope to entertain and inform you, our listeners. Our desire with this new series is to show the depth and range of our interests, and always strive to find another movie to add to the Hall of Fame! Keep writing us at notyourfathersmovies@gmail.com and visit our links here: http://linktr.ee/NYFM
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
AFTERMATH: Disney Classics & Their Remakes
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Welcome to our first AFTERMATH episode, where we take our previous series as a whole, and share a few last thoughts, opinions, and observations before we put it to bed.
This AFTERMATH episode is on Disney animated classics and their remakes! We covered The Lion King, Cinderella, and 101 Dalmatians over the past few weeks, and while we had a blast talking about them, we had a few last thoughts. Thanks for listening to this episode, and we hope if you are joining us for the first time, it might pique your interest for the series that we just completed. And if you followed along episode by episode, thanks! We hope you want to hear us shoot the breeze for a few minutes.
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Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
DISNEY CLASSICS & REMAKES: 101 Dalmatians (1961 & 1996)
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Wrapping up our trilogy of Disney animated classics and their live action remakes, we have selected this perennial favorite (well...Vito's favorite) 101 Dalmatians! While older, we wanted to trace the history of these remakes back a little further than most people would have, and maybe shine a light on an almost forgotten, John Hughes-written remake that we might remember from our childhoods.
How good is Glenn Close? How many Dalmatians were there exactly? Do our children have a future reviewing movies? All this, and more, is discussed, bickered, and laughed over.
While this episode concludes our trilogy of Disney movies, we look forward to revisiting this topic at some point, as we are sure Disney is not done remaking our childhood favorites.
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Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
DISNEY CLASSICS & REMAKES: Cinderella (1950 & 2015)
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
We are back on the trail of our Disney animated classics and their live-action remakes, after a two week, two episode break. It was fun to break out and do something different, but we have a series to finish. For our second entry, we have a slight curveball: Cinderella.
I say it's a slight curveball because, while the animated classic is always honored among the Disney greats, the live-action remake seems almost forgotten. Strange, as it is only five years old, and stranger still because in many ways, it is an exciting (superior???) update to a time-honored story. We wanted to highlight something old, some new, and something that could bridge every generation from our grandparents, to our kids.
Do both movies end up Dad movies? Or just one?
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