The Brilliant Stupidity of “This is Spinal Tap” and “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping”
We love pop music and heavy metal in spite of–and because of–their excesses and their stupidity.
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Episode 409: Full On Point Break Terminal Velocity Maximum Overdrive
The Overthinkers tackle the urgent “Purple Rain Cover” situation and take stock of Key & Peele’s new movie.
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Think Tank: How Do We Categorize Deadpool?
Is it a parody? A satire? A standard superhero movie with lots of bells and whistles? Or something completely different?
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Episode 398: Deadpool: Superhero Joint Custody
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we listen to and discuss the Deadpool movie starring Ryan Reynolds.
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Episode 112: The Novelty Industrial Complex
Ryan and Matt listen to and discuss Chromeo’s “White Women.”
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Breaking Bad: Albuquerque City
Heading into the last half-season of Breaking Bad, we present a song about Heisenberg by way of The Boss. (BREAKING BAD SPOILERS)
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“Remember Bane” – “The Dark Knight Rises” Parody of “November Rain”
The sentiments of nitpickers, haters, and disgruntled fanboys leading up to “The Dark Knight Rises” as expressed through the music of Guns ‘n’ Roses.
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Silent Star, Surfer, Spy: Jean Dujardin and Characters About Characters
This Sunday, Jean Dujardin won the Best Actor Oscar for the role of Georg Valentin in The Artist, playing a charismatic silent movie actor incapable of coping with the world of sound. Intellectually motivated movies about movies tend to punch … Continued
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Hitler’s XBox: How Copyright Laws Threaten Our Mashup Culture
The company that owns Downfall is pulling all of the “Hitler Finds Out About…” videos off of YouTube. Constantin Films: you’re despoiling our culture’s future.
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The Simpsons and Musical Parody
Stokes uses the Simpsons as a convenient pretext for talking about styles of musical parody.