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Alex Shaw
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Available now on the Patreon bonus podcast feed; we're talking retrospectively about Loki: Season 2. The change of pace, tone and scope and the ending that is both frustrating and magnificent!
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June 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Tonight on School of Movies, one of the most innovative indies of the past decade. We talk about Searching (2018) which takes place entirely on a computer screen and is utterly captivating. See the film first because it's a tense masterpiece!
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June 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Today on the School of Movies Patreon bonus feed we are talking about how you can reconnect to music by changing what you listen to it on, in our show about the Apple iPod
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June 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Tonight on the School of Movies podcast; A blistering firestorm of a movie that puts most Hollywood blockbusters to shame with its jaw-dropping action and electric physicality. We also delve into the real history. It's RRR: Rise, Roar, Revolt
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June 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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On the Patreon bonus podcast feed for those at the $5 tier or higher, we talk about the baffling, dazzling, clumsily, slow and blindingly flashy Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
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May 31, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Tonight we are talking The Super Mario Bros. Movie and A Minecraft Movie, both of which lay down a hellishly effective formula for success in the 2020s: Give the audiences a metric ton of what they superficially want!
#supermariobrosmovie #MinecraftMovie
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May 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Tonight School of Movies is covering Mario and goddamn Minecraft! Two major trendsetting smash-hit blockbusters of the 2020s. Do you like watching a parade of familiar things from your favourite video games?
#supermariobrosmovie #MinecraftMovie
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May 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Podcasters, your expert advice would be much appreciated. My new office has a pronounced echo effect, so I need to get a microphone isolation shield to record weekly shows and my audio-dramas. Have you have good or bad experiences with the following two shield types? A and B
May 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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On the School of Movies podcast feed tonight: Following on from our Delicious in Dungeon discussion, we talk about the OTHER of the two most warmly-regarded fantasy anime series' of recent years; It's Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
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May 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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On the School of Movies podcast feed tonight; We're talking about a story that could ONLY have been a video game. There is something that happens in Act 3 that demands not to be passively watched. It's 1000xRESIST @sunsetvisitor.studio
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May 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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On the School of Movies Patreon Bonus Feed right now, two Hitchcock classics talked up a storm by us!
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May 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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This was immediately followed by us watching a beloved modern classic (Frieren) and being totally nonplussed! We have to now find guests who DO love that show in order to do it justice!
May 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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On the School of Movies podcast feed tonight; We're talking Delicious in Dungeon, a superb anime about facing down monsters... then lightly sautéing them in garlic butter and eating the FUCK out of them!
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May 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Recent podcast episodes on the School of Movies Patreon bonus feed (for those at the $5 tier or higher) include Captain America; Brave New World, Companion, Better Man and tonight's classic; North by Northwest!
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May 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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My first ever RPG experience. I absolutely love this game... but it also kind of drives me crazy. It's Secret of Mana on the Super Nintendo, and it's tonight's show for you.
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May 3, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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This week... we're talking Secret of Mana
April 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Now available for your ears: Our oops-all-trans-guests podcast episode on The People's Joker by @veradrew22.bsky.social The saga of one woman's journey from Smallville misery to Gotham infamy. Special thanks to @laurakbuzz.bsky.social Signal-boost this one!
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April 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Huge thanks to @laurakbuzz.bsky.social who returned after far too many years to guest on our show and talk about this extraordinary movie.
April 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Tonight on the School of Movies podcast feed; we bring in an all-trans guest list and shut our cis mouths while they delve deeply into the subtexts of unsettling analogue horror 'I Saw the TV Glow'. We're being told this is one of our best shows.
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April 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Tonight on School of Movies; The best intergalactic wrestling comic miniseries you've never heard of! Do a Powerbomb will rock your world!
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April 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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On tonight's School of Movies podcast we have a cult favourite from the secret John Hughes of the 1990s; Allan Moyle, director of Pump Up the Volume. A bunch of teenage misfits working in a music store and not selling out. Damn The Man! #RexManningDay
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April 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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On this week's episode of the School of Movies podcast we are talking about this charming, nostalgic, dreamy, heart-breaking/warming indie video game; A Space for the Unbound
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March 31, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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If you're one of the people who supports us for five bucks or more per month then right now on our Patreon bonus feed you can listen to us talk about Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island!
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March 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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On the podcast feed tonight: A modern survival horror that bewitchingly recreates the 1990s PlayStation era with the more contemporary setting of a creepy amusement parks, it's the excellent indie Crow Country
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March 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Chewie of @themanapool.bsky.social is now streaming his achievement-hunting for the next three days in aid of Trans Lifeline. Come see him play and give generously. Every ten bucks gets you a game code from his massive list!
www.twitch.tv/themanapool
March 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM