264 Lust, Caution 2007
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No, that’s not the name Joe has for his dating life. Instead it’s a movie about university students seeking to assassinate the leader of a puppet government in Japanese occupied Hong Kong during WW 2. There is also lots of sex, though, weirdly, not by most of the students.Listen to find out more. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts Creator Accountability Network . Hong Kong leader ‘elected’
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263 Mona Lisa Smile 2003
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We’re not sure what Mona Lisa had to smile about but you can’t have a Julia Roberts’s movie without her flashing one. But, did this movie leave the boys smiling? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts Creator Accountability Network . Wellesley’s Most Famous Grad College Boys and Girls
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262 HOFFA (1992)
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Do the young folks even know who Jimmy Hoffa was? More importantly, would they after seeing this movie? The boys discuss. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts Creator Accountability Network . Teamsters Endorse a Democrat Bureau of Labor Statistics Report on Strikes in 1942 Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management
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261 Hook 1991
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Steven Spielberg, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts and Dustin Hoffman bring us a redux of Peter Pan but who the hell was asking for it? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts Creator Accountability Network . Peter Pan First Appearance The Play Peter Pan Impersonator JM Barrie
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259 FaceOff 1997
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The faces go on and off when John Travolta and Nicolas Cage team up this goofy late 90s action flick. Join the boys as they discuss how workable face transplant surgery and this movie actually are. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts South Africa Ellen Fun Facts about Face/Off
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259 The Avengers 1998
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Yes, it’s the Avengers. No, it’s not that one. Wait, you ask. Isn’t this Avengers the one with Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman that has a 5% rating on Rotten Tomatoes? Why are we covering a movie that everyone knows doesn’t work? Good question, audience. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts CAN History Weather Machine CIA recruitment Israeli Spy scandal
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258 The Bodyguard 1992
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Whitney Houston may always love you but will the boys love this movie? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts Creator Accountability Network . Music video Bodyguard for son
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257 Selma 2014
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Show Notes Before he got turned into a cartoon who dreamed race didn’t matter Martin Luther King was a flesh and blood human being who knew full well race totally mattered. This movie attempts to set the record straight. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts Protest lack of action on Climate Change Protest Police Brutality Solo Gaza Protest? Turnaround Tuesday
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256 Glory 1989
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We continue our black history movie watch with the film that got Denzel Washington his first Oscar win. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts Tanks Invasion
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255 12 Years A Slave 2012
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Show Notes No, it’s not about being a food service worker. 12 Years A Slave is about an actual slave. And, spoiler alert, being a slave is really, really bad. But is the film? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts Slavery By Another Name Modern Day Slavery Louisiana Indians Who Defied Removal: as seen in "12 Years a Slave"
info_outlineWere this a drama, this would be the story of someone suffering from severe psychopathy but it's a comedy so when a kid sets up a blow torch to fry someone’s scalp it becomes a laugh riot.
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High School Break In
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-breese-journal/159599925/
Big bucks
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times/159603091/