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Welcome to America's least necessary film criticism podcast. Each week, a guest will join hosts Noah Frank and Will Vitka to discuss a film that is at least 10 years old, that at least one of us hasn't seen in that period of time, and that, hopefully, at least one of us hasn't seen at all. No classics, no bombs. This is about revisiting regular movies that we think we liked when we first saw them, to see how both we and the culture around the film have changed in the intervening years. In contrast to the constant, life-or-death anxiety of the last few years, to the unyielding firehose of news, this podcast aims only to answer a single question with the lowest stakes imaginable: Do you still like this movie?
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Friday Jul 23, 2021
Friday Jul 23, 2021
Shpaysh: The final frontier. This is the story of the Jupiter moon colony Io, the lawless mining colony it supports, and the whiny American child somehow born to two British parents. It’s also a space-set version of the 1952 western “High Noon,” brought to us by this week’s guest and amateur astronomer Greg Redfern.
While some of the effects are obviously dated 40 years later, many of the social themes of exploitative capitalism reverberate just as loudly in 2021.
So come for space studmuffin Sean Connery and stay for a logline comparison you’ll never see coming.
As always, make sure you’re following us on Twitter and on Instagram @LikeThisMovie and jump into the conversation using the hashtag #ITILTM.
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