Heeeeeeey, how you doin? Bazinga! We're entering through a door to a round of applause... cue the canned laughter! It's the sitcom everybody, that staple of television since it's inception with I Love Lucy all the way to shows that push the definition like Veep and The Good Place.

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This week is rather Lyrical! Guest Alex Smith from the podcast My Songs Suck! joins us to talk about the use of songs in movies and TV, the difference between a music movie and a musical, diegetic and non-diegetic and why Sister Act is the best film ever.

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Things get GORY this week! Charnstar and Josh are away, so guest Sebastian Briguglio and Zane C Weber join us to talk about violence in cinema, it's impacts and how much further can we push it?

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Why should the kids get all the cartoons? From Rick and Morty to Bojack Horseman, the Rangers dive into the world of animation for adults, from it's history, through to the explosion following the rise of The Simpsons.

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 The Night he came home! And we sat through 10 of these damn films!!! That's right, we're taking a trip to Haddonfield to hear a bunch of teenagers scream about the booyman... and then it becomes runes, and people are dead, but then they're not... it's all confusing.

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IT'S A NEW EPISODE BITCH! Time to go to Springwood and fight Freddy! From the 1984 classic to the New Nightmare to the terrible Remake! We look at it, warts, burns and all!

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We're doing this episode for you DAMIEN!!!

This week we look at the demonic child, the antichrist, the 1976 original to the much derided 2006 remake! We get stanic with The Omen franchise.

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Stick Around!... we're Kicking off Octoberlooking at the PREDATOR frnachise, from the jungle to a weird futuristic LA that's not all that futuristic, we take a look at the Ugly Motherfucker who has graced the screen for the last 30 or so years.

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Hey... you there! Filmmaker! Wanna know all the HOT TIPS about film festivals? Well we have a treat for you!

Special Guest Dr Tess Van Hemert with a PhD in Film Festivals to tell you all about it!

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You talkin' to me? Well of course you are! We've had sound in movies since 1927, so how do you craft great dialogue? We dive into that and much more this week!

Links

Hollywood's 100 Favourite Lines of Dialogue

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-movie-quotes-hollywoods-top-867142

William Monahan on Writing Great Dialogue

https://www.fastcompany.com/1682092/oscar-winner-william-monahan-on-how-to-write-unforgettable-dialogue

"He's Right Behind Me" A Supercut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vECzPHbn0Bo

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We're a Plane Podcast now! JK, it's time to talk about TV in more depth, what is a Pilot, what is the creation of a TV show like and what are the writing challenges that come with writing the 1st episode of a show?

LINKS:

How a TV Show is Made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8aW1Ae6gcI

Writing, Selling and Producing a TV PIlot Spec

https://gointothestory.blcklst.com/mickey-fisher-on-writing-selling-and-producing-a-tv-pilot-spec-script-part-1-7d25914b7fc8?gi=bc1852b80044

Good Shows ruined by Bad Pilots

http://www.hollywood.com/tv/good-tv-shows-bad-pilots-57272667/

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It's the SHOWDOWN of the century! We bring a Film Critic on and we duke it out for the championship... well not so much duke it out as have a lively and well-mannered discussion on the relationship of the filmmaker and the film critic.

LINKS:

Peter Gray on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/ratedPDG

David Ehrlich & director of a film he HATED

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/03/anders-walter-i-kill-giants-interview-1201942590/

Scorsese on Rottentomatoes and mother!

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/martin-scorsese-rotten-tomatoes-box-office-obsession-why-mother-was-misjudged-guest-column-1047286

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It's the showdown of the century, Tom Cruise vs Phillip Seymor Hoffman... no it's not Mission Impossible 3, it's a discussion on the movie star vs the actor, what's the difference? can someone be both? What's a character actor? All that and more this week!

LINKS

Rita hayworth and Orson Welles (You Must Remember This)

http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/youmustrememberthispodcastblog/2015/2/3/star-wars-episode-v-rita-hayworth-and-orson-welles-ymrt-31

AFI's 100 Years 100 Stars

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251566/

Character Actors you can't name

https://www.cinemablend.com/new/15-Famous-Character-Actors-We-Bet-You-Can-t-Name-43508.html

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It's an ALL OUT FILM SCHOOL WAR!!!! Not Really, it's a film festival! Brisbane is home to the Simply Shorts Film Festival and this year the theme is Film School Fallout! We had festival Director and Curator Scott Young on to talk to us about the festival and what audiences and filmmakers can expect!

LINKS

Event Tickets

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/film-school-fallout-tickets-48552083589

Festival Submissions

https://filmfreeway.com/SimplyShorts

Simply Shorts on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/simplyshorts/

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Calling all filmmakers! Do you hate sleeping? Do you love racing a clock? Then compete in the 48-hour Film Project! This week we have guest Matt Grehan who runs the Brisbane and Melbourne 48hr Film Project on to talk about the competition, why it's fun and our hosts tell wild stories from their own experiences competing in the competition!

48hr Film Project Brisbane

http://www.48hourfilm.com/brisbane-au

"The Boy next Door" - Audience Choice winner Brisbane 2016

https://vimeo.com/187157457

Debonair Fox on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/user/DebonairFox

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Whether you know her from The Addams Family or Caspar, Christina Ricci is that Big-eyed child actor who's been steadily working for the last 30-odd year, but she doesn't get quite the credit she deserves... what makes an underrated actor?

LINKS

Black Snake Moan Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Z7Cf9IDGw

Christina Ricci Interview (Aged 9)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjfblhaDr5w&t=175s

Christina Ricci on Dealing with Fame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OqSkfp45TQ&

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IN A WORLD... where podcasters talk about movies... two men... will dive deep... into this topic!

We're talking about Movie Trailers this week! Only In theatres!

LINKS

Aliens Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaUXuY3U4Ag

Cloud Atlas Extended Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6be25sIaehM

Bad Times at the El Royale Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQmOaJciI7Q

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Once more out of the coffin, the guys bring you a dive into the world of new horror film! Hereditary is dividing audiences, are we in for a new era of scares? listen to find out!

LINKS:

Filmmaker IQ: History of Movie Blood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izNg7s3vQOE

HEREDITARY, behind the scenes

https://concreteplayground.com/wellington/arts-entertainment/behind-the-scenes-of-2018s-scariest-film-with-hereditary-director-ari-aster/

The Blumhouse Business model

https://deadline.com/2015/05/blumhouse-panel-produced-by-conference-1201435034/

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 This week we get into the think of it as, with Shane still away living his best life, Charnstar, Josh and special guest Zane discuss their favourite action films of the 70's and 80's and why this period is considered the Golden Age of Action Movies.

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