Today we have a special episode, inspired by an internet post claiming that The Towering Inferno is the greatest disaster movie of all times, we test that hypothesis by watching and discussing the three greatest of the genre from the same period, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno and Earthquake. Join us as we spoil our way through action, adventure, romance, fire, foods, crumbling buildings, tidal waves and every A list actor of the era!

The movies:

The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

The Towering Inferno (1974)

Earthquake (1974)

And the Incidentals…

Escape from the Planet of The Apes

Cutting Class

Taking of Pelham 123

The Odd Couple

Die Hard

There Italian Job

Glass Onion

Knives Out

Momento

Volcano

Fall

Other Stuff… Airplane Censorship and Love Actually

How the SVB Crisis reflects Human Nature in a crisis

Wokeness, Blazing Saddles, All in the Family, The Jeffersons and the work of Norman Lear

Cocaine Bear

And Movies we didn’t like:

Licorice Pizza

Dead Ringers

Popeye

The following music was used for this media project:

Music: JSearching by Faith Yasar

Free download: https://snapmuse.com/track/searching-1909772

License By Snapmuse.com

While Curtis is away, I continue to play! Join me, Nina Levinson and Jason Rochlin as we talk about movies we’ve already talked about but with different people!

Spoilers happen, so you’ve been warned!

We discuss:

• 3000 Years of Longing
• Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
• Black Panther-Wakanda Forever
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Star Trek Picard
• Taylor Sheridan’s Universe
• 1883
• 1923
• Yellowstone

The following music was used for this media project:

Music: Jazzi 3 by Frank Schroeter Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8069-jazzi-3 License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frank.schroeter.52

It’s Lucky 13 where our heroes Spoil Menus, Whales, Banshees, Women Kings, Glass Onions and 1883. It’s Life, The Universe and Everything plus Expensive Vacations, all the things that entertain us!

Spoilers happen…. You have been warned!

We discuss:

Alec Baldwin gets charged with involuntary manslaughter for the Rust shooting

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/opinion/alec-baldwin-rust-5th-amendment.html

Oscar Nomination Scandal

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/business/media/andrea-riseborough-oscars-campaign.html

And the movies/shows:

• Amsterdam
• Glass Onion
• RRR
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• The Menu
• The Woman King / Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• The Whale
• Ghosts
• Jack Ryan
• The Last of Us and
• 1883

The following music was used for this media project:

Music: Jazzi 3 by Frank Schroeter

Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8069-jazzi-3

License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Artist on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frank.schroeter.52