Nov 9, 2022
This week, we drop an episode that premiered on November 6th, 2016, including d$, Mikey, #TwitterlessDrEarl, and Pinky (!) -- these are the original show notes from that episode, or find it here.
It's
election season here in 'Merica, and to recognize, Mikey, Pinky,
and Dave are talking favorite political films! And who better
to bring in to discuss such movies than the President of the
Pretentious
Corner, the Witt Stillman fan, the Film Historian, the Terence
Malick Apologist himself, the honorable Dr Earl.
First up, a
round of The Ryan Phillippe Game, where you have to name all the
films of a certain actor like Kurt Russell, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Owen Wilson or Charlize Theron and
more.
And then...
fave political movies! People trying to win an
election! Leaders trying to stop a war!
Superheroes trying to stay on the right side of America!
Movies like Lincoln! Argo! Wag the Dog! Captain America
Civil War!
A great
recommendation for the movie "Failsafe" as well, if you can find
it, and for "Eye in the Sky", which is now available on
Netflix.
So enjoy the
list of political movies and tell us your own
faves!
DISCLAIMER: There isn't
any talk of the current political climate, nor it's candidates, its
merely a list of favorite films involving not just government, but
anything where a leadership plays a game of hierarchy for
positioning...