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
"Sound of Freedom” (2023), a conversation about a Blockbuster
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa analyze the sleeper hit of summer 2023.
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Referenced media:
- “The Passion of the Christ” (Mel Gibson, 2004)
- “Law & Order: SVU” (Dick Wolf, 1999-now)
- “God’s Not Dead” (Harold Cronk, 2014)
- “First Blood” (Ted Kotcheff, 1982)
- “Columbiana” (Olivier Megaton, 2011)
- “The Equalizer” (Antoine Fuqua, 2014)
- “Survivor” (Charlie Parsons, 2000-now)
- “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, 2023)
- “The Flash” (Andy Muschietti, 2023)
- “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (James Mangold, 2023)
- “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” (Christopher McQuarrie, 2023)
- “Barbie” (Greta Gerwig, 2023)
- “Oppenheimer” (Christopher Nolan, 2023)
Audio quotation:
- “Sound of Freedom” (Alejandro Monteverde, 2023)
- Theme for “Survivor” (Charlie Parsons, 2000-now), written by Russ Landau