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    The Last Jedi – The Cinematic Schematic Star Wars Special

    December 18, 2017
    The Last Jedi
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    2:28 – Star Wars: The Last Jedi Review

    20:41 – The Last Jedi Spoilers and analysis discussion

    Welcome to this special Star Wars edition of The Cinematic Schematic, the official podcast of The Cinematropolis! In this episode, Caleb sits down with The Cinematropolis co-founders Jacob and Zachary Burns to discuss the highly…

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    Swamp Thing: When Filmmakers Misunderstand Meaningful Movie Monsters

    December 18, 2017
    Swamp Thing

    Dr. Alec Holland is a brilliant altruist with hopes of creating a serum that will feed the growing population of the world. An equally brilliant egotist, Dr. Anton Arcane, is bent on stealing the serum to extend his life into immortality. An explosion in the midst of the theft…

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    Spielberg’s The Post Declares Journalism A Hero in the Era of “Fake News”

    December 12, 2017
    The Post

    It was the summer of 1971 when the leak of top-secret US government documents occurred, sending the President of the United States and the rest of the nation into two different types of outrage. A Washington insider had decided the horrific truth was too much to hide before finally blowing…

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    Monsters or Just Misunderstood? 

    December 6, 2017
    Monsters

    When I think about Freddy Krueger, the iconic villain of Wes Craven’s Nightmare on Elm Street, I’m haunted by the gleeful grin on his face as he lures children to their doom. When I think about Frankenstein’s Monster, the first image that springs to mind is a lonely disfigured…

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    Saying Thanks to our Sacred Deer, A24 – The Cinematic Schematic #2

    November 29, 2017
    Sacred Deer
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    The Killing of a Sacred Deer spoiler-free review with Laron Chapman- 1:51

    The Killing of a Sacred Deer spoiler-filled analysis – 8:20

    “Sound Trek” with Alexandra Bohannon- 34:14

    “The Essayist” interview with Bobby Griffith – 128:50

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    Welcome to the November 2017 edition of The Cinematic Schematic, the official podcast of The Cinematropolis! In this…

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    Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Charlie, and Me

    November 22, 2017
    Wrath of Khan

    My first Star Trek experience came in a little shack in a run-down neighborhood off Northwest 10th street in Oklahoma City during the early 1980s. We visited my elderly great-grandpa, Charlie, a chain-smoking ne’er do well, who lived on Social Security payments and pain medications. I remember…

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    Clash of the Titans: The Teacher of My 1981 Classical Education

    November 20, 2017
    Clash of the Titans

    Normally, when I talk about the fiction that I’m most thankful for, I wind up telling people about how a Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot loving 8th grade Josh discovered Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep and how its poetic grit utterly changed my…

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    But I’m a Cheerleader: Coming Out of the “Celluloid” Closet

    November 13, 2017
    But I'm a Cheerleader

    “In a hundred years of movies, homosexuality has only rarely been depicted on the screen. When it did appear, it was there as something to laugh at, or something to pity, or even something to fear. Hollywood, that great maker of myths, taught straight people…

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    The Innocent and Unlikely Little Shop of Horrors

    November 7, 2017
    Little Shop of Horrors

    The Cinematropolis cofounder, Jacob Leighton Burns kicks off our November theme by reflecting on the film experience he’s most thankful for this season, Little Shop of Horrors.

    A sea of stars fades into view, a drum roll leads us to the first familiar orchestral hits, and then, “On the twenty-third…

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    Do Podcasts Dream of Electric Sheep? – The Cinematic Schematic #1

    October 30, 2017
    Electric Sheep
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    Welcome to the debut episode of The Cinematic Schematic, the official podcast of The Cinematropolis. Each month, The Cinematic Schematic will deliver a multi-segment show covering different aspects of our monthly theme. As the title of the episode “Do Podcasts Dream of Electric Sheep,” hints, October 2017’s theme was…

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