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Blockbusters and Birdwalks

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray•blockbustersandbirdwalks.buzzsprout.com

Society & Culture

At Blockbusters and Birdwalks, you’ll listen to reviews and conversations about all kinds of movies, from Academy Award winners to exploitation masterpieces with a mix of commercial hits and obscure favorites thrown in for good measure. The point is recognizing that movies present our culture with the building blocks of social memory, enabling each of us to enjoy ourselves because movies are fun.

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Episodes

"Red Rocket" (2021), a conversation

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa reflect on the male member.

Mar 11, 2022•28 min

"The Last Duel" (2021), a conversation

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa think about Ridley Scott's Late Middle Ages story about a woman seeking justice after surviving rape.

Feb 04, 2022•38 min

"Hobo with a Shotgun" (2011), a conversation

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa agree that bad can mean good, and good can mean good, but sometimes bad means bad and not good.

Jan 23, 2022•17 min

"A Clockwork Orange" (1971), a conversation

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray said, "It was gorgeousness," and Ed Rosa replied, "And gorgeousity made flesh."

Jan 11, 2022•37 min

"Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" (1971)

"Come on feet, cruise for me."

Jan 10, 2022•12 min

"Titanic" (1997)

"She hits the berg on the starboard side, right? She kind of bumps along, punching holes like Morse code, dit dit dit, along the side, below the water line. Then the forward compartments start to flood."

Dec 06, 2021•9 min

"Bless the Beasts and Children" (1971), a conversation

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa agree that awkward boys become awkward men.

Dec 05, 2021•24 min

"The Thing" (1982), a conversation

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa found a movement: Make Antarctica Great Again!

Nov 12, 2021•27 min

"The Thing from Another World" (1951), a conversation

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa eat their vegetables while interpreting a Cold War classic.

Oct 31, 2021•24 min

"Promising Young Woman" (2020), a conversation

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa discuss the limits of an Oscar-winning screenplay.

Oct 09, 2021•29 min

"Straw Dogs" (1971), a conversation

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa wonder if Bloody Sam Peckinpah is a closeted feminist.

Sep 28, 2021•26 min

Meryl Streep Double Feature: "Mama Mia!" (2008) and "The Iron Lady" (2011), a conversation

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Sheila Chaffin reflect on Peak Streep, or a mother/son study of womanhood.

Sep 20, 2021•29 min

"Nomadland", a conversation (2020)

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa interpret the 2020 Academy Award winner.

Sep 11, 2021•37 min

"The Rescuers" (1977)

Not as good as you might remember.

Sep 11, 2021•10 min

"Love Story" (1970)

Sorry optional.

Aug 29, 2021•7 min

"The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)

Beauty meets Beast.

Aug 29, 2021•16 min

"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974)

Saw is family.

Jun 11, 2021•12 min

"Army of the Dead" (2021)

Viva Las Vegas?

Jun 11, 2021•12 min

"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (2007)

Pitt and Affleck nursemaid the modern celebrity and nearly fall in love.

Apr 18, 2021•12 min

"The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976)

Mid-career Eastwood trying to overcome racism in the Western as bicentennial entertainment.

Apr 17, 2021•12 min

"Stop Making Sense" (1984)

Home is where I want to be, but I guess I'm already there.

Mar 04, 2021•16 min

"Desert Hearts" (1985)

Imagine a young Queer person who has never seen a version of themselves on-screen beyond monstrosity. Then imagine seeing how another Queer person made a place in the world through friendship and self-discovery.

Mar 04, 2021•12 min

"Blade Runner" (1982 / 1992 / 2007)

Anticipating our worries about A.I., the surveillance state, and how to make human connections on spaceship Earth, Blade Runner is a work of genius .

Feb 04, 2021•13 min

"Conan the Barbarian" (1982)

Arnold is the basis for a certain kind of masculine expression that I once saw as desirable.

Feb 04, 2021•13 min

"Platoon" (1986)

An Oscar winner and exhibition of Classical Style.

Feb 04, 2021•13 min

"Yentl" (1983)

God is present in this movie.

Feb 04, 2021•17 min

"Slap Shot" (1977)

The greatest sports movie ever?

Feb 04, 2021•13 min

"Bohemian Rhapsody" (2018)

Did Freddie Mercury and the members of Queen lead messy, complicated, R-rated lives?

Feb 04, 2021•20 min

"Moulin Rouge!" (2001)

You’ll be dumb with wonderment!

Feb 04, 2021•9 min

"Black Hawk Down" (2001)

Soldiers fight for one another, the moral complexities of why be damned.

Feb 04, 2021•11 min

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