Blockbusters and Birdwalks
At Blockbusters and Birdwalks, you’ll listen to reviews and conversations about all kinds of movies, from Academy Award winners to exploitation masterpieces with a mix of commercial hits and obscure favorites thrown in for good measure. The point is recognizing that movies present our culture with the building blocks of social memory, enabling each of us to enjoy ourselves because movies are fun.
Blockbusters and Birdwalks
Latest Episodes
1999 Best. Movie. Year. Ever., a conversation – Episode 8: “Eyes Wide Shut”
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa talk through divergent feelings about a master’s lasterpiece.This is part of a series that overlaps with, and extends, Brian Raftery’s 2020 book “Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Scree...
1999 Best. Movie. Year. Ever., a conversation – Addendum 1: “Arlington Road”
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Chris Metzler think fondly about late 1990s movie experimentation that formed the basis for streaming procedurals.This is part of a series that overlaps with, and extends, Brian Raftery’s 2020 book “Best. Movie...
1999 Best. Movie. Year. Ever., a conversation – Episode 7: “Free Enterprise”
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa sing hosannas to a preferred religious devotion than the Big 3 of Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. This is part of a series that overlaps with, and extends, Brian Raftery’s 2020 book “Best. Movie. ...
1999 Best. Movie. Year. Ever., a conversation – Episode 6: “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut”
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa embrace four letter curse words to review how one vulgar movie musical changed entertainment history.This is part of a series that overlaps with, and extends, Brian Raftery’s 2020 book “Best. Movie. Yea...
1999 Best. Movie. Year. Ever., a conversation – Episode 5: “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace”
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa negotiate a key boyhood memory that spawned too many sequels and spin-offs.This is part of a series that overlaps with, and extends, Brian Raftery’s 2020 book “Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up...
