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Season 2 Wrap-up & Epilogue
It’s time to wrap up another season of Let’s Finally Watch This. We start by making a few corrections, filling in a few gaps in this season’s discussion of...
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Episode 22 – The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)
It’s 2013. The top-grossing film of the year is Disney’s Frozen, but that’s not the only important fairy-tale based animated film released this year. In Japan, Studio Ghibli released...
Episode 21 – Elf (2003)
It’s 2003–and it’s the holidays. Many of our standard Christmas movies were released in the 1940s, but since the 1990s, there has been a resurgence of Christmas movies, creating...
Episode 20 – Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
It’s 1993. Multiplexes have arrived, and there are plenty of movies to show—Jurassic Park, Tombstone, Schindler’s List, the original Super Mario Bros. movie…. Okay, not all are great, but...
Episode 19 – The Right Stuff (1983)
It’s 1983. The blockbuster age has started, and the top-grossing movie of the year is The Return of the Jedi. However, another pivotal space movie is also released this...
Episode 18 – The Sting (1973)
It’s 1973. We’re in the middle of the New Hollywood era, when movies tended to be more uncoventional and often darker. However, some movies are still all-around fun. The...
Episode 17 – 8½ (1963)
It’s 1963. We’re crossing the Atlantic to visit Italy, a preeminent filmmaking country. In the 1950s-60s, Italian film was largely known for Commedia all’Italiana (“Comedy in the Italian way”),...
Episode 16 – Shane (1953)
It’s 1953. We’re in the middle of the Golden Age of Hollywood; we’re also in the pinnacle decades of the western, a truly American plot. Westerns have been around...
Episode 15 – Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
It’s 1943. World War 2 is raging, and nearly all the movies are war-related in some way. Into this comes a story of evil visiting idyllic small-town America. The...
Episode 14 – 42nd Street (1933)
It’s 1933. It’s the Depression, and audiences want movies that don’t sugarcoat the truth, but they want escapism too. That means it’s time for a new type of musical....