Nobody is that fast but beneath the surface they are plenty furious. Join the boys as they explore the world of overachieving high school students who graduate from petty crime to straight up murder. That’s got to still work, right? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id1492570867 ERIC https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED462510.pdf Frank Wu Interview https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/02/authors/author_wu0206.htm 

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095 Better Luck Tomorrow 2002

Medium Popcorn’s Brandon Collins sits in with heavyweights Joe and George to discuss this mid-90s film about a bunch of chunky kids sent to Summer camp. Does this still work? Depends, how many fat jokes do you enjoy?  Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id1492570867 Brandon Collins’ Links: https://www.mediumpopcorn.com/ https://www.caveat.nyc/series/drunk-black-history Thai Summer Camp https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7561546/

094 Heavyweights (Guest: Brandon Collins) 1995

 Oompa loompa doompety doo, we’ve got a perfect puzzle for you. What do you get when you have a grown man abuse children for an hour and a half? Yep, thanks to the votes of their Patrons, Joe and George go Willie Wonka.   Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id1492570867 

093 Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory 1971

It’s NYC life among upper class gays in Ronald Reagan’s America during the height of the AIDS crisis, And two straight guys 35 years later  in Joe Biden’s America are going to judge it. What could be more fun? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id1492570867 Things George Read or Used for the Summary: Nancy Reagan’s Real Role in the AIDS Crisis https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/04/full-story-nancy-reagan-and-aids-crisis/618552/ SCREEN: A COUPLE'S 'PARTING GLANCES' https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1986/02/19/986086.html?pageNumber=72 MOVIE REVIEW : WIT AND COMPASSION OF ‘PARTING GLANCES’ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-03-06-ca-16049-story.html Film / Parting Glances https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/PartingGlances Parting Glances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parting_Glances Parting Glances https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091725/ PARTING GLANCES (1986) - FULL TRANSCRIPT https://subslikescript.com/movie/Parting_Glances-91725

092 Parting Glances 1986

Joe visits Dead John Hughes in Hell to find out why he wrote/produced Flubber then Joe and George discuss this Robin Williams masterpiece. Calling it a masterpiece is sarcasm, people.  Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id1492570867 Seaborgium info: https://periodictable.com/Isotopes/106.266/index.full.dm.html https://ptable.com/?lang=en#Properties

091 Flubber 1997

Film critics bent over backwards to avoid revealing what was the twist of this film. But what might have been daring movie making yesterday may very well be downright offensive today. Is it? ElI Bosnick of God Awful Movies is our guest. You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id1492570867   Things George read to try getting a handle on this film: How we made The Crying Game https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/21/how-we-made-the-crying-game-neil-jordan-stephen-rea-miranda-richardson Review/Film Festival; An Irish Terrorist in Human Terms https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/26/movies/review-film-festival-an-irish-terrorist-in-human-terms.html ‘The Crying Game’: ‘They wanted me to cast a woman that was pretending to be a man’ https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/the-crying-game-they-wanted-me-to-cast-a-woman-that-was-pretending-to-be-a-man-1.3167472 On The Crying Game and That Scene https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2017/11/24/crying-game-scene/ Gender Troubles in The Crying Game https://thesundae.net/2020/01/06/gender-troubles-the-crying-game/ The Crying Game https://deepfocusreview.com/definitives/the-crying-game/ Secret's out -- but the biggest surprise in 'Crying Game' is not what you think https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1993-02-28-1993059251-story.html The Last Taboo: Stephen Rea talks The Crying Game https://tiff.net/the-review/stephen-rea-talks-the-crying-game 

090 The Crying Game (Guest: Eli Bosnick) 1992

Is motherhood hell? Well, it sure is for Rosemary. Is this movie hell? That’s what Joe and George are going to find out.      Links   You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id1492570867   Religion 1968 https://www.abc.net.au/religion/the-religious-world-changed-in-1968-but-not-in-the-ways-we-think/10214328   Hays Code https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93301189&utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social   Bleak Outlook For Religion https://www.nytimes.com/1968/02/25/archives/a-bleak-outlook-is-seen-for-religion.html?smid=tw-share   Patron Script Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bXhGZNTiFVsFJbgFUMitlWnZ5Jozu0GD3CgB3M_enl4/edit?usp=sharing

089 Rosemary's Baby 1968

Just another pregnant girl in a George and Joe movie. That’s right, the boys take another trip down teen pregnancy lane with this film about a young lady who finds herself knocked up.  Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id1492570867 Teen Pregnancy 1993 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-14-vw-680-story.html https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/02/garden/pregnant-teen-agers-are-outcasts-no-longer.html

088 Just Another Girl On The IRT 1992

Joe & former Navy boy George look back at this story of a Marine during the Gulf War. You remember the Gulf War. It was the prequel to the Iraq War. But that’s not the point. Does this film still work? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id1492570867 Marines 2005 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna8797271 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna8822384 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4646406 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-08-fg-security8-story.html https://www.forbes.com/2005/08/02/iraq-war-infection-bacteria-cx_mh_0802iraqinfect.html?sh=569726ac22bb https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2005-02-02-0502020337-story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2005/02/02/va-marine-killed-in-iraq/8bef0bbf-8f1e-44fd-a6b1-a6485cfd7f6e/ https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna9772398 What’s a Jody? https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/jody?rq=jody

087 Jarhead 2005

Joe got abducted by comedians. George grabbed the nearest human that lives with him, is funny, and can represent Earth Girls. Kit Nowokunski sits in to see if this primary colorful fuzzy film still works. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id1492570867

086 Earth Girls are Easy (Guest: Kit Nowokunski) 1989

It may seem like there is a theme here but honest, the boys aren’t running some sort of film noir or crime drama festival. It just turns out, Hollywood makes a lot of these movies! But anyway, does anyone remember this film? Should you? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id1492570867 Brain https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2000-09-19-0009190082-story.html 

085 Memento (Guest: Kraig Beaudoin ) 2000

What? Woody Allen again!? That’s right, George is forced to endure another picture from this possible pedo. But Joe can’t help himself. He likes these movies. Or he did anyway, has that changed? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id1492570867 Crimes https://www.wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/summer-2014-1989-and-the-making-of-our-modern-world/lovehate-new-york-race-and-1989/ Misdemeanors https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/06/21/Arrest-made-in-Regents-exam-theft/8550614404800/ Mauthausen concentration camp quote https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/18913/did-a-jewish-prisoner-write-this-quote-about-god-and-forgiveness

The Murphy Monday Podcast host, Nigel A. Fullerton, joins Joe and George as they shoot up to 2007 and check out this Denzel Washington/Russell Crowe movie. Is this picture still gangster?  Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id1492570867 Soldiers Scoring Heroin in Afghanistan https://www.salon.com/2007/08/07/afghan_heroin/   1 NAVSO https://www.navso.org/news/afghanistan-and-iraq-veterans-were-ground-zero-opioid-crisis-study 2 Richard Nixon Drug War Announcement Transcript https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/medical-magazines/president-nixon-declares-war-drugs Article this movie is based on: "The Return of Superfly"

083 American Gangster (Guest: Nigel Fullerton) 2007

Will the boys wish they weren’t there as they take a look back at this Coen brother’s film? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id1492570867

082 The Man Who Wasn't There 2001

The boys take a look at John Sayles’ Oscar nominated film and there is controversy! Was Lone Star the Crash (2004) of the 1990s? Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id1492570867 1996 Racism study https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/spotlight-on-research-is-racism-on-the-decline-in-america Jimmy Benett https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/jimmy-bennett-gives-first-tv-interview-asia-argento-accusation-1146589/

081 Lone Star 1996

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