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PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 40: Did movies ruin love?
by Tracy V. Wilson | February 8, 2012
Ah, love. It’ s so different in the real world than in the movies. Or, rather, if you get your relationship information from the movies, you might notice things don’t quite match up to your own life. And that might not be fun. So how much are movies to blame for relationship troubles?
PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 38: Defending Disney Princesses?
by Tracy V. Wilson | February 1, 2012
We recorded this episode shortly after Holly and I returned from a trip to Disney World. While we were there, we ran a bunch of races (she ran more than twice as far as I did) and spent some quality time with some Disney princesses. We have pictures of me and Holly with Belle and of Holly with … just about all of them.
The princesses have stirred up their share of controversy, so we thought we’d talk about where that controversy comes from and whether any of it is short-sighted.
What makes a game replayable or a movie rewatchable? In this episode, Holly and I meander through what gives — or doesn’t give — something replay value and talk about some of our most played, read and watched bits of entertainment.
I’ve lived in the South all my life. Holly has lived all over, but she’s in the South now, too. And we’ve taken this opportunity to get all riled up about how the South and southerners are portrayed in the worlds of television and film. It’s not that no one in the South does the things we’re talking about … it’s that the portrayals stick mostly to the same tropes and traits.
PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 26, PopStuff’s Pop Culture Wish List
by Tracy V. Wilson | December 21, 2011
‘Tis the season for giving, but Holly and I are all about asking, wishing and taking in this episode. It comes down to our wish lists — both physical, tangible consumer goods and more abstract wishes for our own entertainment.
PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 25, PopStuff’s Holiday Favorites
by Tracy V. Wilson | December 19, 2011
Christmas movies, made-for-TV Christmases, Christmas episodes of our favorite shows … there are so many other holidays in December, but Christmas gets the vast majority of entertainment face time. Here’s what we loved, hated or used to love but are now a little over it.
PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 24, December Movie Deluge
by Tracy V. Wilson | December 15, 2011
We’ve reached that time of the year when new moves are hitting theaters faster than most people can keep up. We recorded this episode before a couple of particularly sluggish, headline-making box office weekends, so it remains to be determined whether any of the films we’re excited about will really be successful. But regardless, here’s our run-down of the stuff making its way into theaters that we’d really like to see.
PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 23, Why do we watch what’s hard to watch?
by Tracy V. Wilson | December 12, 2011
Whether they’re just too horrifying to look away from, or they’re somehow good for us, we just can’t seem to keep our eyes off of some things that are truly, truly hard to watch. Why do we watch these things?
Sometimes you watch a movie and you think: This place is pretty. I would like to go there.
In this case I’m speaking of “Melancholia,” a not-at-all hilarious movie, filmed at a gorgeous waterfront property in Sweden called Tjoloholm Castle.
Holly and I got into the studio Tuesday to record a podcast episode about the Muppets. The episode will publish in a couple of weeks, closer to when the movie debuts. The latest trailer just hit today, and when Holly saw it, I heard her cackling from my office.
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