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Episode 066: Sneakers and Baby Driver
It's a double feature of offbeat heists! Heist movies are a staple of the MG diet - and tonight we have a double-feature of offbeat...
Erick Schiele
May 12, 20211 min read
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Episode 065: Paris, Texas & Blood Simple
It's a Texan double feature this time on MG - First is the Coen Brothers’ debut film Blood Simple, a seething neo-noir that rocked the...

TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Apr 28, 20211 min read
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Episode 064: Tenet & Primer
For the third in our Time Travel series, we present two strangely similar films that were made at opposite ends of the budget spectrum,...

TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Apr 15, 20211 min read
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Episode 063: Get Carter & The Limey
MG takes on a cockney-crime double feature with two of our favorite tough guys! First on the list is Mike Hodges' grim gangster...

TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Apr 1, 20211 min read
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Episode 062: The Big Short
MG takes some inspiration from recent events - in this case, Reddit vs. the 1% - and looks back at Adam McKay's hilarious (read: wildly...

TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Mar 18, 20211 min read
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Episode 061: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
This week we take on a french classic - and one of Chris' favorite movies - Bertrand Blier's bizarre, hilarious, and ever-more...

TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Mar 4, 20211 min read
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Episode 060: Blow-Up & The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Join us for a double feature of generation-centric murder mysteries: David Fincher's big-budget, dark-n-kinky version ofThe Girl With the...

TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Feb 18, 20211 min read
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Episode 059: Rollerball
James Caan has had an incredibly varied career, from mobster classics likeThe Godfather and Thief, to light-hearted comedies like Wes...

TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Feb 4, 20211 min read
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Episode 058: Citizen Kane & Mank
No film in the history of American cinema casts as long a shadow as Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane- but was the magic really all...

TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Jan 21, 20211 min read
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Episode 057: Parasite & The Servant
Parasite's win for Best Picture in 2020 was a major breakthrough, representing a huge shift at all levels of the film industry. Audiences...

TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Jan 7, 20211 min read
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Episode 056: It's a Wonderful Life & The Family Man
Break out the eggnog and wrap tinsel 'round your headphones as we bring you an MG Yuletide double feature! And between these two...

TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Dec 24, 20201 min read
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Episode 055: All the President’s Men & Idiocracy
After a long four years and a nightmarish 2020, we still didn't know which path the country would take in November - so we picked movies...

TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Dec 10, 20201 min read
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Episode 054: Invasion of the Body Snatchers & Beetlejuice
MG features a father-daughter team-up today as we are joined by Erick's daughter (and contributing website artist) Olivia Schiele!...

TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Nov 26, 20201 min read
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Episode 053: The Keep & Legend
Directors Michael Mann and Ridley Scott have each developed a strong brand for themselves, so when you see their name on the marquee, you...

TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Nov 12, 20201 min read
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Episode 052: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Join MG for a Halloween treat as we take on our first Twitch-based episode! Classic films always set a standard, but few movies are so...

TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Oct 29, 20201 min read
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Episode 051: Akira & The Promised Neverland
Chris' daughter Lily is with us tonight to talk about the current state of anime! The iconic Japanese style of animation and storytelling...

TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Oct 15, 20201 min read
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Episode 050: Masculin Féminin & Hairspray
At first glance, Chris' pairing of Godard's New Wave groundbreaker Masculin Féminin with John Water's mainstream crossover Hairspray...

TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Oct 1, 20201 min read
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Episode 049: The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
When Julian Schnabel decided to make a film out of of Jean-Dominique Bauby's autobiographyThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly, he was...

TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Sep 17, 20201 min read
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Episode 048: I Shot Jesse James & The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
MG takes on a double dose of Jesse James! First up: Samuel Fuller'sI Shot Jesse James from 1949, a film that many regard as the most...

TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Sep 2, 20201 min read
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Episode 047: Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Seymour: an Introduction
Steven Spielberg's masterpiece Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a deeply personal film - it's one of the few screenplays he wrote...

TEAM MARTINI GIANT
Aug 20, 20201 min read
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