Episode 61: Turtles All the Way Down: Part 1

, with special guest:

0061 Meta 1This week, dear listeners, Tonya Wershow joins us for an in-depth discussion about meta movies! We got so deep into our discussion, in fact, that we had to split it into two halves! (We hereby deny implications that we were too drunk to watch the time while recording.)

(…but if we were in such a state, we’d certainly achieve it by drinking something like Trapiche Malbec. Or tiny bottles of Jameson.)

Show notes behind the cut!

Movies mentioned:
Cabin in the Woods
Purple Rose of Cairo
The Last Action Hero
Stranger than Fiction
Seven Psychopaths
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Adaptation.
F for Fake
Being John Malkovich
Synecdoche, New York
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Literature mentioned:
Umney’s Last Case by Stephen King

People mentioned:
Jeff Daniels
Mia Farrow
Woody Allen
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Will Ferrell
Christopher Walken
Charlie Kaufman
Meryl Streep
Orson Welles
John Malkovich
Andy Kaufman
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Tom Stoppard

1 comment

  1. I enjoyed the heck out of “Last Action Hero” when it came out. Even if they had marketed it properly, though, I’m not sure it would’ve done all that well. It’s a very specific kind of thing they’re doing and it’s not what one would call widely appealing. Points to Arnie for playing the straight-up action-hero part as well as the kind of meta angle very well, though.

    R&GAD hit all of us at a particular age in one rather predictable way: We all started playing Questions. This went on for MONTHS. Everyone around us got so very very tired of it, I assure you… 🙂

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