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
Romance, a conversation – “Warm Bodies”
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
This is part of a series about romance in movies.
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Referenced media:
- “28 Days Later” (Danny Boyle, 2002)
- “Shaun of the Dead” (Edgar Wright, 2004)
- “Dawn of the Dead” (Zack Snyder, 2004)
- “Station 11” (Patrick Somerville, 2021-2022)
- “War for the Planet of the Apes” (Matt Reeves, 2017)
Audio quotation:
- “Warm Bodies” (Jonathan Levine, 2013), including music by Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders and the songs “Yamaha” (2012) by Delta Spirit, “Missing You” (1984) by John Waite, and “Midnight City” (2011) by M83, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl-PS1ki3KJhFAu5XY3Aau1Yq3z3VmI3L