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OpKino Classic: Family Interview Full Quell (Feb 8th, 2013)
| 2. June, 2014

Guess what? TOMORROW is our first Fighting In The War Room Quarter Quell!

What is a Quarter Quell?

A podcast Quarter Quell represents a break in our usual format. Every 25 episodes, Katey, Patches, David and Da7e stop talking about current pop culture and cover a topic/movie that let’s you know a bit more about the four of them as people.

It’s humanizing, like naming a cow before the slaughter. Especially this Family Interveiw Quarter Quell, which is pretty humanizing, parents and siblings wise.

Leading up to Fighting In The War Room 25 (June 3rd!), we’ll be seeding our previous Quarter Quells under that other podcast name.

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This week, we are amazed and delighted to be celebrating our 100th episode! As we have for every 25th episode– or “Quarter Quell”– we’ve changed up the format, and this time we’ve each brought in one of our family members for a discussion about… well, ourselves. In each of the four segments one of the usual podcasters is replaced by a family member, who is forced to answer questions about how in the world we turned out his way. Katey’s sister reveals how their entire family got obsessed with Titanic, Patches’ father admits he doesn’t share his son’s enthusiasm for The Smurfs, Da7e’s mom shares some of the slightly too explicit home movies he made as a child, and David’s brother-in-law– who likes even more obscure movies than David does!– calls David the most knowledgeable film lover he knows.

You can click here to watch one of the home movies that Da7e made, starting with an appearance by his mom and ending with a brotherly wrestling match. The thumbnail image for this post is Matt Patches as a young child.

OpKino Classic: Storytelling Quarter Quell (Aug 10th 2012)
| 1. June, 2014

Guess what? We’re coming up on our first Fighting In The War Room Quarter Quell!

What is a Quarter Quell?

For fans of The Hunger Games book series, a Quarter Quell takes place every 25 years and something about those Hunger Games is different. In Catching Fire, the movie and the book, the Quarter Quell features a culling from the surviving tributes and…now this has nothing to do with the podcast.

A podcast Quarter Quell represents a break in our usual format. Every 25 episodes, Katey, Patches, David and Da7e stop talking about current pop culture and cover a topic/movie that let’s you know a bit more about the four of them as people.

It’s humanizing, like naming a cow before the slaughter. Especially this Storytelling Quarter Quell, which might be our best. You decide!

Leading up to Fighting In The War Room 25 (June 3rd!), we’ll be seeding our previous Quarter Quells under that other podcast name.

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This week, we’re changing up the format for our third Quarter Quell, celebrating our 75th episode by revisiting movies from our past that come with a particularly good story attached. No tidbits this week, no dessert, just a lightning round then storytelling, in which Katey revisits a rainy night in Amsterdam spent watching Charade, Da7e recounts multiple trips to see South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, Patches has a particularly strong memory attached to X2: X-Men United, and David is inspired to conduct his own secret tour of Tokyo based on Lost in Translation.

Format

00:00-00:44 Lightning Round

01:07 – 3:05 Introductions and Quarter Quell explained

4:47 – 12:38 Charade and a rainstorm in Amsterdam, by Katey

14:28 – 25:23 South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut and growing up in Colorado, by Da7e

26:31 – 36:14 X2: X-Men United and high school memories, by Patches

37:42 – 52:30 Lost in Translation and a secret tour of Tokyo, by David

52:30 – 55:18 Farewells

OpKino Classic: The 2nd Quarter Quell (Feb. 22nd 2012)
| 31. May, 2014

Guess what? We’re coming up on our first Fighting In The War Room Quarter Quell!

What is a Quarter Quell?

For fans of The Hunger Games book series, a Quarter Quell takes place every 25 years and something about those Hunger Games is different. In Catching Fire, the movie and the book, the Quarter Quell features a culling from the surviving tributes and…now this has nothing to do with the podcast.

A podcast Quarter Quell represents a break in our usual format. Every 25 episodes, Katey, Patches, David and Da7e stop talking about current pop culture and cover a topic/movie that let’s you know a bit more about the four of them as people.

It’s humanizing, like naming a cow before the slaughter.

Leading up to Fighting In The War Room 25 (June 3rd!), we’ll be seeding our previous Quarter Quells under that other podcast name.
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This week on Operation Kino, we’re throwing out the usual format and celebrating our 50th episode with our second Quarter Quell. Last time each of us brought in a movie that represented how we thought about film, but this time we’re getting nostalgic, with each podcaster revisiting the first movie that ever got them really into film. We kick things off with Da7e, who fell in love with monster movies at an early age thanks to this obscure foreign monster Gojira– or, Godzilla to us Americans. Then Patches recalls how exciting it was, as a sheltered youth, to come across the comedic insanity of The Blues Brothers. David takes us back to his film school days with the experimental travelogue Sans Soleil, from the same director who brought you La Jetee. And Katey wraps things up by reviving her pretentious 15-year-old self who thought she was really, really smart when she first saw American Beauty. We do have a lightning round in this episode, so we end, as always, with your lightning round answers for dessert.

Format

00:00-01:08 Lightning Round

1:28 – 2:43 Introductions and explanation of the Quarter Quell

3:23 – 17:20 Da7e’s tribute: Gojira

18:03 – 32:28 Patches’s tribute: The Blues Brothers

33:05 – 49:54 David’s tribute: Sans Soleil

50:28 – 1:06:20 Katey’s tribute: American Beauty

1:06:20 – 1:12:34 Dessert!

Review: Maleficent Knows It’s True That Visions Are Seldom All They Seem
| 30. May, 2014

REVIEW_GRAPHIC

With Nathaniel Rogers of The Film Experience!

This week, Katey, Patches, and Nathaniel Rogers of The Film Experience are cursed with the burden of watching another “dark and gritty” fairy tale movie. Or has the spell been broken by Disney’s Maleficent? Can Angelina Jolie deliver one true kiss of leading lady gravitas? This definitely isn’t the Sleeping Beauty you knew from once upon a dream. On top of that, Nathaniel and our listeners admit what movies they’re embarrassed to laugh at, all on this week’s Fighting in the War Room review.

Take a listen, embed and/or download below; for more from all of us: follow the show (@FITWR), Katey (@KateyRich) Patches (@misterpatches) and special guest Nathaniel Rogers (@nathanielr) on Twitter!

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This week’s music:

“Once Upon a Dream” by Lana del Rey
“Who’s That Girl” by Madonna
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