Friday, December 19, 2014

Media Montage Podcast 83: 2014 Year in Review




2014 was another huge media year with big movies, big TV shows and more. Antonio Sanciolo stops by and shares his favorite items of the year with Bruce and Larry.

What did we love? What did we hate? Marvel Movies and DC TV Shows, Underground Comix,  reprint material, and more Guardians of the Galaxy talk.

What are we looking forward to in 2015? All that an more in episode 83 of the Media Montage Podcast!


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Friday, December 12, 2014

Media Montage Podcast 82: Censorship



You can't say that! Bruce and Larry take a look at censorship in media. They examine the spectrum of censorship from outright government oppression to defacto censorship by corporations, to chilling effects to self-censorship. 

They visit self policing censorship by media in the forms of the Comics Code, movie and TV ratings and the ill-advised Parental Advisory stickers of the 1980s.

What effects do these various censorship methods have on content? Is censorship ever advisable? Why does Bruce want to be censored? Were the Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television really that bad?  We use those seven dirty words and a few others, so be warned. Sensitive material in episode 81 of the Media Montage Podcast!


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Friday, December 5, 2014

Media Montage Podcast 81: Willow (1988)



The 1980s saw a number of fantasy films released, and the genre culminated in 1988's Willow, starring Warwick Davis and Val Kilmer from the minds of George Lucas and Ron Howard. 

It was a highly anticipated effects filled movie that represented the advent of some new filmmaking techniques.  

Bruce and Larry have some differing opinions on this film. Does it hold up? How does it compare to modern fantasy films, and the other fantasy releases of its era?  Where does it fit between Star Wars and the Lord of the Rings?

Bruce and Larry discuss story, effects and the broader 80s fantasy genre in Episode 81 of the Media Montage Podcast!


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