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Category Archives: Family Pictures Podcast
Family Pictures Podcast: Taken (2008)
For episode 19 we went full throttle into Taken (2008), a hyper-efficient father-daughter revenge fantasy that launched Liam Neeson into late-career action-hero orbit.* You know the line. You probably heard it quoted before, or even quoted it yourself after watching … Continue reading
Family Pictures Podcast: Not Without My Orientalist Captivity Narrative (1991)
N.B: Ongoing experiments with AI-enhanced posts for my Family Pictures Podcast summaries. I think this will be one of the last. Although I do really get a kick out of how ChatGPT understands how I write, and what it fashions … Continue reading
Family Pictures Podcast: “TV Made Me Do It” – The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993)
N.B.: Another cyborg post: half-bava, half-ChatGPT, and all right! I am now officially using ChatGPT to push out these Family Pictures Podcast posts, sue me! Which part is bava, which ChatGPT? Can you guess? Are you even reading, my big, … Continue reading
Family Pictures Podcast: “Pretty Pretty?” – Female Trouble (1974)
N.B: The following post summary is predominantly written by ChatGPT 4.0. I couldn’t help but experiment with taking the extensive notes Michael Branson Smith and I wrote-up for this episode and feeding them into the machine. I asked it to … Continue reading
Paper Moon
I know you’ve been drumming your fingers impatiently for my next blog post highlighting episode 15 of THE Family Pictures Podcast, but I’VE BEEN BUSY! Nonetheless, it’s time to dig into one of my favorite episodes that’s all about the … Continue reading
Vengeance is Mine
While it’s been two months since I’ve blogged about our weekly episodes of the Family Pictures Podcast, don’t you think we haven’t been continually putting out the hits. In fact, just yesterday we wrapped up episode number 22 and it … Continue reading
Breaking Away
Working through the Family Pictures Podcast backlog of posts with lucky episode number 13 featuring the film that brought the joy cycling to a whole generation of Americans: Breaking Away (1979). I don’t necessarily like cycling and all its lycra … Continue reading
Amarcord: Dio, Patria, Famiglia
After watching Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (Michael’s brilliant choice for the Family Pictures Podcast) it was my turn to come back with a follow-up.* While watching the classroom scene at the start of The 400 Blows, Antonella suggested Federico Fellini’s … Continue reading
Family Pictures Podcast takes on 400 Blows
For episode 11 of the Family Pictures Podcast MBS and I finally take on a heavy weight of world cinema with François Truffaut’s French New Wave masterpiece 400 Blows (1959). This was Michael’s pick, and I was thrilled because I … Continue reading
Who am I Here?
If you didn’t know any better you might think this post was shaping about to be a deep rumination about the nature of this blog, as Martin Weller did so well the other day. But, alas, no need for that … Continue reading