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On this week?s episode, the gabbers take a look at Guillermo del Toro?s new science-fiction film Pacific Rim. Is it the rare imaginative blockbuster we've been waiting for, or just more of that same old CGI-doused, cash-cow popcorn filmmaking we can?t avoid? Our critics then discuss Drunk History, a new Comedy Central series with a simple premise: Get funny people debilitatingly inebriated, have them attempt to recall an important episode of American history, and get famous actors to perform a reenactment based on the stumbling narrative. The show was born from a 2007 Funny or Die video series of the same name. Finally, a recent New York Times article by journalist John Tierney argued that nostalgia is good for you. Our critics consider the place of nostalgia in pop psychology, how the term has often been misused and simplified, and their own thoughts on nostalgia.
Here are links to some of the things we discussed this week:
Dana: The new film Fruitvale Station.
Julia: The 1999 comedy Dick.
Stephen: The Never List, by Koethi Zan.
Outro: "Don't Look Back" by She & Him.
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