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Episode 974: Bond, James Bond: The Fleming Era

• September 20, 2021
• Tagged as: A View To A Kill, casino royale, Diamonds Are Forever, Doctor No, For Your Eyes Only, Francisco Scaramanga, From a View to Kill, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, James Bond, james bond jr., Live and Let Die, mission: impossible, mission: impossible 7, Moonraker, No Time To Die, Octopussy, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Quantum of Solace, s.p.e.c.t.r.e, spectre, star wars, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Hildebrand Rarity, The Living Daylights, The Man With the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono It’s the fifth episode of our series on the entire James Bond franchise, this time with a focus on the Ian Fleming-written books.

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Episode 967: Fun with Foundation: Part 1

• September 4, 2021
• Tagged as: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Apple TV+, Caves of Steel, Dune, Endymion, Forward the Foundation, foundation, Foundation and Earth, Foundation and Empire, Foundation's Edge, Hari Seldon, Hyperion, i robot, Pebble in the Sky, Prelude to Foundation, Psychohistory, Robots and Empire, Second Foundation, Seldon Crisis, Ted Lasso, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Complete Robot, The Currents of Space, The Fall of Hyperion, The Golden Path, The Naked Sun, The Rise of Endymion, The Robots of Dawn, The Stars Like Dust, The Three Laws, The Three Laws of Robotics, Time Vault

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono We’ve just started working our way through Isaac Asimov’s works, and in this episode we cover “Foundation” and “Foundation and Empire.”

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Episode 965: Unweaving The Wheel of Time: Books 9 and 10

• August 30, 2021
• Tagged as: Aiel, Aviendha, Crossroads of Twilight, Daughter of the Nine Moons, Egwene al'Vere, Elayne Trakand, Elijah, Elisha, Knife of Dreams, Lan, Mat, Matrim Cauthon, Min, New Spring, Nynaeve al'Meara, Perrin, Perrin Aybara, Queen Morgase, Rand, Rand al'Thor, Seanchan, the Daughter of the Nine Moons, The Wheel of Time, unweaving the wheel of time, Winter's Heart

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono In the ninth episode of our “Wheel of Time” series, we discuss the books, “Winter’s Heart” and “Crossroads of Twilight.”

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Episode 961: Climbing The Tree of Life

• August 17, 2021
• Tagged as: 2001: A Space Odyssey, a clockwork orange, A Hidden Life, Andrei Rublev, Badlands, Barry Lyndon, Days of Heaven, Eyes Wide Shut, Fanny and Alexander, Job, Knight of Cups, Lawrence of Arabia, Ordet, Persona, Seven Samurai, Song to Song, Stalker, The New World, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Sacrifice, the shining, The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life, The Way of the Wind, To the Wonder, Voyage of Time

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Matt finally watched one of Ben’s favorite films, “The Tree of Life.”

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Episode 949: Ten Years Later: The Lord of the Rings Watch-a-thon Report

• July 13, 2021
• Tagged as: Battle of Helm's Deep, frodo, Frodo Baggins, Gandalf, Gollum, Helm's Deep, Middle-earth, Mordor, Sam, Samwise Gamgee, The Battle of Helm's Deep, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Return of the King, The Two Towers

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono On July 2nd, 2011 Ben and Matt watched all three “Lord of the Rings” films back to back to back.

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Episode 948: Playing Chess With Death: The Seventh Seal Movie Review

• July 11, 2021
• Tagged as: Cries and Whispers, Dies irae, Marian apparition, Persona, The Seventh Seal, the shining, the witch, Whiplash, Winter Light

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Matt finally watched one of Ben’s favorites, Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 film, “The Seventh Seal.”

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Episode 945: In the Mix With Moby Dick (1956)

• July 6, 2021
• Tagged as: Big Country, Captain Ahab, Moby Dick, North by Northwest, Roman Holiday, The Grapes of Wrath, To Kill A Mockingbird

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono We loved the book, but what did we think of this film from 1956?

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Episode 942: Yoo-hoo, Nosferatu: Our Movie Review

• July 1, 2021
• Tagged as: batman returns, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Count Dracula, Count Orlok, Dracula, marvel, Nosferatu, Professor Abraham Van Helsing, van helsing

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono In this episode we review the unauthorized “Dracula” film, the 1922 “Nosferatu.”

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Episode 936: Our Favorite Episodes: The Lost World of Genesis One

• June 17, 2021
• Tagged as: Adam, Bible, Eve, Genesis, lost world of adam and eve, The Best of the Best, The Bible, The Fall, The Flood, The Lost World of Genesis One, The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate, Time Loop

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Ben and Matt discuss their views on the Story of Creation.

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Episode 935: A Peek At Poirot

• June 14, 2021
• Tagged as: Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, Benoit Blanc, Captain Arthur J. M. Hastings, Death on the Nile, Detective Benoit Blanc, Dr. John Watson, Hastings, Hercule Poirot, Holmes, Knives Out, Murder on the Orient Express, Mystery, Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, The ABC Murders, The Big Four, The Da Vinci Code, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Watson

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono In this episode, Ben walks us through an introduction to Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot series.

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