500 Genre Films

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Season two is now available. Come along for the journey!

500 FILMS: A JOURNEY THROUGH GENRE CINEMA is a new podcast taking a spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes look at movies from the 1950s to the 1990s.

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Episode 045: Home Alone (1990, Chris Columbus)

Kevin’s know-how is adaptable,
His booby traps are admirable,
He wants to eat a,
Delicious pizza,
Keep the change ya filthy animal!

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Episode 044: Superman II (1980, Richard Lester & Richard Donner)

In search of a Kryptonion God,
Along come the supervillain squad,
Lois and Clark,
Develop a spark,
But he won’t kneel before General Zod.

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Episode 043: Play Misty For Me (1971, Clint Eastwood)

In terms of radio prevelance,
The choice of music is Evelyn’s,
A first for Clint,
Wind, reel and print,
Piano jazz is malevolence.

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Episode 042: Spartacus (1960, Stanley Kubrick)

Roman gladiators startle us,
With battles that are so marvellous,
Approaching Rome,
Without a home,
Always remember: “I’m Spartacus!”

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Episode 041: The Man In The White Suit (1951, Alexander Mackendrick)

There’s a magical new pattern,
Capital and Labour will flatten,
A white so brill,
Trouble at t’Mill
All because of Sidney Stratton.

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Episode 040: Miller’s Crossing (1990, Joel Coen)

Against Leo, Caspar goes to bat,
But his plans to overthrow fall flat,
But ignore the brawl,
Because after all,
Tom Reagan keeps losing his hat.

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Episode 039: Airplane! (1980, David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, & Jerry Zucker)

It’s all a bit mysterious,
Food makes people delirious,
From fish abstain,
To fly this plane,
Surely you can’t be serious?

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Episode 038: The French Connection (1971, William Friedkin)

Frog One’s shipment will make you tipsy,
As you’d expect from a French gypsy,
Aside from the blow,
Popeye wants to know,
Ever picked your feet in Poughkeepsie?

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Episode 037: The Time Machine (1960, George Pal)

H.G. Welles knew a thing or two,
About travel and time-in-lieu,
Advancing the clocks,
And meeting Morlocks,
He’ll help the Eloi stage a coup.

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Episode 036: Strangers On A Train (1951, Alfred Hitchcock)

A tennis player without a loss,
Meets a bachelor with too much gloss,
Politeness can drain,
Riding on the train,
As Bruno suggests to Guy, Criss Cross!

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Episode 035: Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese)

Henry and Tommy bleed Brooklyn dry,
With their fingers in every pie,
But Henry flays,
When Tommy says,
“What do you mean, ‘I’m a funny guy’”?

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Episode 034: The Blues Brothers (1980, John Landis)

Though the brothers couldn’t be whiter,
For a band they couldn’t be tighter,
In a car ex-police,
Says Jake post-release,
‘Elwood, fix the cigarette lighter’.

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Episode 033: Wake In Fright (1971, Ted Kotcheff)

Joining Doc and Jock for a blabber,
Daughter Janette wants you to grab her,
At this time of year,
Don’t have too much beer,
You’ll never escape from the Yabba.

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Episode 032: Ocean’s Eleven (1960, Lewis Milestone)

Frank Sinatra, Sammy and Deano,
Want more from Las Vegas than Keno,
In a town full of sights,
They turn out the lights,
And steal the cash from the casino.

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Episode 031: The Lavender Hill Mob (1951, Charles Crichton)

All Henry wants is some more power,
As talk of heists begin to flower,
The plan is bold,
Steal all the gold,
Smuggle it out to the Eiffel Tower.

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Episode 030: Men At Work (1990, Emilio Estevez)

A councilman becomes too brash
In Las Playas he make a splash,
At the end of the day,
As James and Carl say,
This is the last year we throw trash.

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