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REVIEW – Selma
| 9. January, 2015

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Plus Taken 3 and Predestination!

This week, Patches, David, and Katey look at Ava DuVernay’s Selma, a docudrama portrayal of the protests that helped enact the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The film is anything but a striaghtforward Dr. Martin Luther King biopic, making for a complicated and entertaining film to grapple with. After that, short reviews of Taken 3 and Predestination, plus answers to this week’s lightning round questions.

Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us on Twitter: follow the show (@FITWR), Katey (@kateyrich), Patches (@misterpatches) and David (@davidehrlich or @CriterionCorner).

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This week’s music:

“Been in the Storm” by Bernice Johnson Reagon
“Back in Time” by Huey Lewis & The News
“Loquasto Interational Film Festival” by Mark Mothersbaugh
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53 – Nostalgia Is Killing Us and 2015 isn’t like Back To The Future Part II
| 6. January, 2015

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Plus what we watched over break!

This week, Katey, Patches David and Da7e are in 2015, the Year of our Time Lord Doctor Emmett Brown and where the **** are our hoverboards and self-fitting jackets in Thriller-ready red? This year there’s an unusual amount of movies coming up designed to pull on the old nostalgia heart-strings (otherwise how do you justify a Point Break remake?). The gang tackles this while also applying fast-acting nostalgia to the things they watched at the tail end of 2014. Some of them deserve your consideration!

Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us on Twitter: follow the show (@FITWR), Katey (@KateyRich),  Patches (@misterpatches), Da7e (@da7e) and David (@davidehrlich or @CriterionCorner).

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FORMAT

00:00 – Lightning Round: Americans Abroad

01:23 –   Intro: Welcome To Episode 53! REVIEW!

3:28 – Katey’s Tidbit: What You Watched Over Break

16:25 – Mini-Segment: Must Revisit From 2014

23:27 – Segment 3 – Nostalgia is Killing Us

47:02:  Outro

 

This week’s music:

“Not a Robot, but a Ghost” by Andrew Bird

“Doubleback” by ZZ top

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Top Tens 2014
| 23. December, 2014

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The Fifth Annual Top Ten Show!

It’s that time of year again: time to make a list! Katey, Patches and David all have their top ten films of the year and Da7e will host a countdown episode while throwing in his list of “2014 movies that I will pay money to rewatch multiple times.”

We’ve previously mentioned or reviewed most of these films and they’ve all been tagged at our website as Top Ten 2014 episodes!

CLICK HERE or point your browser to http://fightinginthewarroom.com/tag/top-ten-2014/ for those episodes.

Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us on Twitter: follow the show (@FITWR), Katey (@KateyRich),  Patches (@misterpatches), Da7e (@da7e) and David (@davidehrlich or @CriterionCorner).

CALL IN and leave us a voicemail! You could be part of the show!  (914) 410-6450

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FORMAT

00:00 – Introduction and Format

2:11 – #10s

14:12 – #9s

28:18 – #8s

38:14 – #7s

54:16 – #6s

1:05:56 – #5s

1:17:50 – #4s

1:29:46 – #3s

1:41:00 – #2s

1:54:24 – #1s

Lists

 

KATEY

1. Foxcatcher
2. Boyhood
3. Wild
4. Selma
5. Two Days, One Night
6. Obvious Child
7. The Babadook
8. Citizenfour
9. We are the Best!
10. Under the Skin

PATCHES

1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. The Tale of Princess Kaguya
3. Obvious Child
4. Inherent Vice
5. The River of Fundament
6. Locke
7. Ida
8. Citizenfour
9. Snowpiercer
10. Still Alice

DAVID

1. Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Inherent Vice
3. Under The Skin
4. Nymphomaniac parts 1&2
5. Gone Girl
6. Only Lovers Left Alive
7. The Double
8. God Help the Girl
9. Force Majore
10. The Tale Princess Kaguya

REVIEW – The Interview – because America.
| 18. December, 2014

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With Returning Guest Jordan Hoffman!

This week, Katey, Patches, David, and The Guardian’s Jordan Hoffman defy North Korea and the bigwigs at Sony by reviewing The Interview, a movie that will never see the light of day. Drowned in controversy over its depiction of Kim Jong-un, Sony buried the latest from Seth Rogen and This Is the End co-director Evan Goldberg after hacker terrorists threatened to attack theaters showing the picture. Which is too bad… because the movie is pretty damn funny. Hoping that one day, listeners will be able to this lowbrow-highbrow gem, the FITWR crew decided a review was still in order. A brief mention of Sony truly offensive holiday offering, Annie, and answers to this week’s lightning round question rounds out this week’s review episode.

Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us on Twitter: follow Jordan Hoffman (@jhoffman), the show (@FITWR), Katey (@kateyrich), Patches (@misterpatches) and David (@davidehrlich or @CriterionCorner).

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This week’s music:

“Firework” by Katy Perry
“Tomorrow” by Quvenzhané Wallis
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