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Episode 31 – The Terminator (1984)

It’s 1984. A glance at the year’s top ten grossing movies shows we’re deep into the blockbuster era. Director James Cameron makes his mark on science fiction with The Terminator, an action-thriller that combines the relentless threat of a horror movie with a time travel backstory–and it captured the culture’s imagination. It’s a film that…

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Episode 53 – You Gotta Kiss the Girl

It doesn’t matter if you’re all bloody. It doesn’t matter if a mad scientist is about to complete his nefarious plot. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know if you really love her or if you love that girl back home instead. Tensions are high. Lives are at st

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Episode 26 – Capers, Chaos, and Pythons…Oh My!

KA-POW! In this episode of Derailed Trains of Thought, Tim and Nick–BAM!–fight their way through the–BANG!–dangerous question of what–RAT-TAT-TAT!–makes action awesome. TICK. And what makes it–SNICK! ARGHHH!–just a mess of dead bodies. TICK. Also,

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