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🐢 Join the Turtle Club: patreon.com/themovielist Speed (1994) starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, and Dennis Hopper is one of the greatest action movies of the ’90s—but the story behind its insane practical stunts might be even crazier than the movie itself.
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🐢 Join the Turtle Club: https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheMovieList Jon and Matt review the horror modern classic movie, The Ring (2002), Gore Verbinski’s American remake of the Japanese horror classic Ringu, exploring the cursed videotape, Samara Morgan, hidden ring imagery, bizarre behind-the-scenes stories, and the film’s unforgettable ending. We break down The Ring’s hidden details, marketing campaign, alternate endings, Poltergeist connections, cinematography, deleted scenes, and whether the movie is still scary almost 25 years later.
🐢 Join the Turtle Club: https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheMovieList BASEketball is the kind of movie that sounds incredibly stupid on paper… and somehow that might be exactly why it works.This week, we’re diving into the 1998 cult comedy BASEketball, starring South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and directed by Airplane! and The Naked Gun co-creator David Zucker. This episode was selected by David (the Handsome) and the Turtle Club.
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🐢 Join the Turtle Club: https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheMovieList This week on The Movie List Podcast, Matt watches Alfonso Cuarón’s dystopian masterpiece Children of Men. We break down the insane filmmaking behind its seemingly impossible long takes, the accidental blood splatter that became one of the movie’s most iconic shots, the tiny details hidden throughout its version of 2027, and the deeper story of Theo learning to become a father again.