Hit Factory Presents: SCOTTEMBER!

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Hit Factory Presents: SCOTTEMBER!

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Sep 1, 2021

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Sep 1, 2021

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A podcast about the films and politics of the 1990s. Exploring the output of a seemingly bottomless decade. Hosted by Aaron & Carlee.

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Pump Up the Volume feat. Roxana Hadadi: Pop culture critic Roxana Hadadi joins the Hit Factory crew to discuss the unsung masterpiece of the teen movie genre, 'Pump Up the Volume'. We talk hard about Christian Slater's indelible charm, the triumphs and follies of 90's "fight-the-system" narrati by Hit Factory
78 min listen
Wayne's World *TEASER*: Subscribe today for access to all of our premium episodes and bonus content. www.patreon.com/hitfactorypod by Hit Factory
8 min listen
The Firm: The first episode. Aaron & Carlee break down Sydney Pollack's adaptation of the John Grisham thriller "The Firm" starring Tom Cruise. Rob Jarvilla's Joel Schumacher Obituary from THE RINGER: https://www.theringer.com/movies/2020/6/22/21299608/joel-sch by Hit Factory
80 min listen
Falling Down: We break down Joel Schumacher's critically misunderstood "Falling Down", talk Michael Douglas's hot 90's bod, and get a tad socialist in the process. by Hit Factory
71 min listen
Jurassic Park: We discuss Steven Spielberg's thrilling, technologically groundbreaking, sort-of-narratively-static "Jurassic Park", the underappreciated Bob Peck, and the follies of Disney World's inter-COVID reopening. kaptainkristian's "Jurassic Park - Pushing The Lim by Hit Factory
51 min listen
Starship Troopers *TEASER*: Subscribe today for access to all of our premium episodes and bonus content. www.patreon.com/hitfactorypod by Hit Factory
3 min listen
The Net *TEASER*: Subscribe today for access to all of our premium episodes and bonus content. www.patreon.com/hitfactorypod by Hit Factory
3 min listen
Demolition Man: It's been a while...Sandrapalooza continues into September with Marco Brambilla's dystopian action banger 'Demolition Man'. We talk the film's fetishization of consumption, the liberal tendency towards maintaining hierarchies while sanitizing culture, and by Hit Factory
84 min listen
Introduction to Hotels Not Hospitals feat. Edna Kozikaro: This month, we are donating all of our Patreon proceeds to Hotels Not Hospitals, a project of organizers and activists working for the rights of unhoused people. This is an organization spun out of the DSA SF Homelessness Working Group (Democratic Sociali by Hit Factory
22 min listen
Metropolitan feat. Evan MacDonald: Evan MacDonald from the Kino Lefter Podcast joins Aaron in the Hit Factory to discuss Whit Stillman's 1990 directorial debut 'Metropolitan'. We discuss the recent death knell for the movie theater, the utopian socialism of Charles Fourier, and the profoun by Hit Factory
71 min listen
Sleepy Hollow *TEASER*: Subscribe today for access to all of our premium episodes and bonus content. www.patreon.com/hitfactorypod by Hit Factory
2 min listen
Face/Off *TEASER*: Subscribe today for access to all of our premium episodes and bonus content. www.patreon.com/hitfactorypod by Hit Factory
2 min listen
The Ice Storm: Thanksgiving. 1973. Or 1997. Or 2020. We revisit one of the unsung masterpieces of the decade: Ang Lee's "The Ice Storm". Aaron & Carlee discuss the film's once-in-a-generation cast, Mychael Danna's hauntingly evocative score, and the cyclical nature of o by Hit Factory
54 min listen
UNLOCKED: Bulworth: Election Day is nigh. To commiserate, we revisit Warren Beatty's overlooked, all-too-salient political comedy 'Bulworth'. Aaron & Carlee discuss the necrotic 2020 Presidential race, Jay Billington Bulworth's IRL political counterpart, and survey the 90's by Hit Factory
68 min listen
SAFE feat. Catherine Liu: Catherine Liu is the author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class. She joins us to discuss Todd Hayne's 1995 masterpiece 'SAFE'. Topics include the director's razor-sharp indictment of PMC ambivalence, the dogmatic substit by Hit Factory
65 min listen
DOUBLE FEATURE: HOT ROCKS (Armageddon v. Deep Impact): It's the summer of 1998, and a celestial rock is on a collision course for planet Earth. Our first ever double-feature episode explores the right-wing, explosive preposterousness of Michael Bay's 'Armageddon' alongside the competent, neoliberal eulogy tha by Hit Factory
101 min listen
The Blair Witch Project: We kept all the lights on and watched the scariest film of the 1990's, "The Blair Witch Project". Aaron & Carlee discuss the film's legacy as a vanguard of viral marketing and found-footage cinema, its appeal to a greater sense of pre-millennium malaise, by Hit Factory
60 min listen
While You Were Sleeping: Sandrapalooza kicks off with John Turteltaub's 1995 romantic comedy "While You Were Sleeping". We talk the film's underlying classism, Sandra Bullock's indefatigable charm, and the 90's tendency to treat generation-crippling medical debt with a profound by Hit Factory
64 min listen
UNLOCKED: Good Burger feat. Taylor Grimes & Travis Snyder: Our April Fool's Day episode. Friends of the pod Taylor Grimes and Travis Snyder join Hit Factory to discuss Good Burger starring the consummate Nickelodeon comedic duo Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell (not The Shawshank Redemption). We discuss the inheren by Hit Factory
73 min listen
The Craft: It's officially Spooky Season! We kick it off (and go a little long) with the rebellious-older-sister of 90's Witch Cinema™: 'The Craft'. Aaron & Carlee gush over the peerless Fairuza Balk, extol the combination of plaid skirts with chunky boots, and diss by Hit Factory
80 min listen
UNLOCKED: The Edge feat. Zach Vasquez: Film writer Zach Vasquez joins Hit Factory to discuss the David Mamet-penned wilderness survival thriller 'The Edge' starring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin. Topics include the film's relationship to classic mythology, the frustrating politics of one of by Hit Factory
77 min listen
Speed feat. Taylor Grimes *TEASER*: Subscribe today for access to all of our premium episodes and bonus content. www.patreon.com/hitfactorypod by Hit Factory
4 min listen
The Muppet Christmas Carol *TEASER*: Subscribe today for access to all of our premium episodes and bonus content. www.patreon.com/hitfactorypod by Hit Factory
3 min listen
UNLOCKED: Jumanji: Into the jungle we both wade // Another film from a bygone decade // First - Dr. discourse of a sort // is granted some undue import // For movie talk you'll have to wait // Until we cover the M4A debate // On to Jumanji: the game, the status quo // And w by Hit Factory
68 min listen
Men In Black *TEASER*: Subscribe today for access to all of our premium episodes and bonus content. www.patreon.com/hitfactorypod by Hit Factory
5 min listen
You've Got Mail feat. Meagan Day: Meagan Day is a staff writer at Jacobin and the coauthor of 'Bigger than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism'. Meagan joins Aaron & Carlee in the Hit Factory to discuss the anti-politics of Nora Ephron's 1998 romantic-comed by Hit Factory
54 min listen
Dark City: We close out 2020 with the cult favorite 'Dark City' - a film that definitely didn't influence The Wachowski's 'Matrix' films in any way whatsoever. Aaron & Carlee break down the film's genre-bending aesthetic charms, its relation to the late-90s trend of by Hit Factory
68 min listen
Cool Runnings *TEASER*: Subscribe today for access to all of our premium episodes and bonus content. www.patreon.com/hitfactorypod by Hit Factory
4 min listen
Terminator 2: Judgement Day feat. Brendan Fay *TEASER*: Subscribe today for access to all of our premium episodes and bonus content. www.patreon.com/hitfactorypod by Hit Factory
2 min listen
True Romance feat. Rich Pierceall *TEASER*: Subscribe today for access to all of our premium episodes and bonus content. www.patreon.com/hitfactorypod by Hit Factory
3 min listen

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