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📽️ “We didn’t need dialogue. We had faces.” 🎥

We wrap up our Platinum Performances: The 1950 Best Actress Oscar Race series with another big one, Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd., with a meta and timeless performance from Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond. #filmsky

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November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
📽️ This month's Cinema Scope ep is live! 🎥

Film scholars Luka Arsenjuk and Tim Palmer join Andy to explore heist films, from noir-influenced classics of the 1950s to modern masterpieces of meticulous criminal planning. #filmsky

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November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
📽️ “What I’d give for a sink full of dirty dishes.” 🎥

We continue our Platinum Performances: The 1950 Best Actress Oscar Race series, celebrating the five great actresses nominated this year. We’re digging into John Cromwell’s Caged, starring Eleanor Parker. #filmsky

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November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
📽️ “How come I've got to run into a squirt like you nearly every place I go these days? What are you trying to do? Show off for your friends?”
Our members voted and this month, we’re heading to the Old West Henry King’s The Gunfighter, starring Gregory Peck. #filmsky
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October 31, 2025 at 9:51 PM
📽️ “A world full of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.” 🎥

We kick off our Platinum Performances: The 1950 Best Actress Oscar Race series with the film that took home the Oscar, George Cukor’s Born Yesterday with the hilarious and perfect Judy Holliday. #filmsky

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October 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
📽️ This month's Movies We Like ep is live! 🎥

Cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth joins us to discuss his career and projects he’s worked on, including “Tron: Ares” now in theatres. We also discuss “Blade Runner,” one of his favorite movies. #filmsky
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October 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
📽️ “I tell you something, man, I’d really love to get my hands on that sleepy-eyed bastard.” 🎥
We wrap up our return to our Seven Samurai Family series with a B-movie that’s bad but still entertaining. It’s one of Jean Negulesco’s final films, The Invincible Six. #filmsky
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October 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
📽️“Live fast, fight well, and have a beautiful ending.”🎥
We continue our Seven Samurai Family series with a Roger Corman-produced sci-fi that fits the Seven Samurai bill while also cashing in on the Star Wars fever—it’s Jimmy T. Murakami’s Battle Beyond the Stars. #filmsky
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October 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This month's Cinema Scope episode is live!

📽️ Andy and film archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur explore India’s Angry Young Man movement, examining how Amitabh Bachchan’s powerful performances in the 1970s gave voice to a generation’s frustrations and hopes. 🎥

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October 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
📽️ “They’re bad, but there’s a good side to them as well.”

We wrap up our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series with a crossover into our next series—the Seven Samurai Family—with a wildly fun and exuberant film, Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay.
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October 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
“Listen, human beings. I’m Princess Elzebub. I’ve conquered the Earth. I’m your new master now.”
📽️ For our monthly member bonus ep, we backflip into Hua Shan’s crazy tokusatsu movie The Super Inframan. It’s frenetic. Non-stop. And we had a blast. Check it out! 🎥

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September 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
📽️ The Film Board's September ep is live! 🎥
What happens when Paul Thomas Anderson makes a $175 million action epic about fascism, family, and a stoner dad in a bathrobe? We spoil One Battle After Another rotten—DiCaprio, Penn, secret cabals, and all.
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September 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
📽️ Movies We Like is back from hiatus, and this month's ep is live! 🎥

Andrew McAlpine, production designer on films like The Piano, Clockers, Home for the Holidays, and Sid & Nancy, joins us to discuss Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, a movie he likes! #filmsky

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September 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
📽️ This month's Sitting in the Dark is live! 🎥
The Final Destination movies don’t just kill their characters—they make us terrified of ceiling fans, traffic jams, and more. We celebrate the franchise’s blend of paranoia, spectacle, and sheer sadistic fun. #filmsky
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September 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
📽️ “He needed the money for the operation for you?” 🎥
We continue our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series with Sidney Lumet’s fantastic bank heist gone wrong, Dog Day Afternoon, starring Al Pacino and John Cazale. #filmsky
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September 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
📽️ “You have killed and you will kill again!” 🎥

We continue our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series with Dario Argento’s Deep Red, aka Profondo Rosso, our first dip into Italian Giallo films.

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September 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Sitting in the Dark bonus!
Guest host @sodacreekfilm.com joins the panel with a trio of horror films that turn belief itself into a source of terror. From cursed villages to hostile gods, we explore what happens when bedtime stories are true—and angry.
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September 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
“I could have made mashed potatoes, but we’re having that tomorrow.”
We continue our Golden Jubilee series exploring 1975’s global cinema with Jeanne Dielman, debating how three hours of domestic routine builds to cinema’s most earned ending.

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September 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Cinema Scope is back from hiatus and kicking off the new season with an ep about J-horror!

@newsfromnihon.bsky.social and Colette Balmain join Andy to unravel the eerie world of J-horror, exploring its origins, evolution, and global impact on horror cinema. #filmsky 📽️🎥

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September 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
We kick off our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series, celebrating 50 years of incredible, groundbreaking films. We start things off with Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon. #filmsky 📽️🎥
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September 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
“C’mon! Take a swing at me the way Sam Spade would!”
Join us for this member bonus episode, part of our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series, discussing Arthur Penn’s neo-noir film Night Moves, starring Gene Hackman. #filmsky 📽️🎥
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September 3, 2025 at 1:03 AM
A charming cast, a light mystery, and a lot of feelings about Netflix’s lighting presets. The Thursday Murder Club has been adapted for the screen—and The Film Board is here to investigate who did it, why it happened, and whether the cast deserves a heart. #filmsky 📽️ 🎥
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September 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
📽️ This month's SITD is live!
Some horror films twist; these three commit identity theft halfway through. Chelsea Stardust joins us to dig into Ghostwatch, Barbarian, and Strange Darling—movies that pull the rug so hard you’ll hit the floor laughing and screaming. #filmsky trustory.fm/sittinginthe...
August 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
We wrap up our Silver Screams: 25 Years of Ju-on series with the fourth feature entry in the franchise, Takashi Shimizu’s 2003 film Ju-on: The Grudge 2, in which Shimizu does an able job of changing things up and advancing the concept.
📽️ #filmsky 🎥
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August 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
📽️ “Please stop tormenting me!” 🎥
We continue our Silver Screams: 25 Years of Ju-on series with the big one, the one that most people probably started with because it was the move to theatrical, it’s Takashi Shimizu’s 2002 film “Ju-on: The Grudge.” #filmsky
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August 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM