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47 – “The Big Wave and The Sadness”
| 4. November, 2014

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Featuring Katey Rich and Elizabeth Taylor’s Corpse In Space

This week, Joanna Robinson takes the reigns to bring her residency to a climactic happy ending, much like romantic comedies. That’s right, Manhattan Love Story and A to Z failed at bringing serialized rom-com to the TV screen so it’s time to examine this genre: can it be drawn out and still be satisfying? Did the genre grind to a halt after the execution of Love Actually? IMPORTANT THINGS! Also discussed: The theater critic in Birdman has us thinking about professions portrayed on film and John Wick has each host picking a favorite dumbly plotted movie.

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FORMAT

00:00 – Lightning Round: Oscar Winners In Space!

01:47 –   Intro: Welcome To Episode 47! REVIEW! 

4:11 – Joanna’s Tidbit: Professions on Screen

18:3 – Mini-Segment: Awesomely dumb plots

26:40 – Segment 3 – State Of the Rom Com 2014

51:30:  Outro

 

This week’s music:

“The Simple Plot of Final Fantasy 7” by Starbomb

“Blank Space ” by Taylor Swift

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REVIEW – The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance (or Our Birdman Review)
| 24. October, 2014

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Plus John Wick, The Heart Machine and CITIZENFOUR

This week, Patches and David wander in one continuous take around the animated, existentially empowered Birdman. The new comedy from 21 Grams and Biutiful director Alejandro González Iñárritu has a lot on its mind — or does it? — and the Fighting in the War Room guys suit up in this action packed sequel to last week’s episode. Coming next week: Birdman 4 (we’re skipping 3). It’s that and mentions on John Wick, The Heart Machine, and Citizenfour on this week’s review episode.

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:

“Internal War” by Antonio Sanchez (from the Birdman soundtrack)
“Think” by Kaleida
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