Selma / Top 5 Historic Event Movies

Selma / Top 5 Historic Event Movies

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With the future of humanity depending on them, Josh and Adam recorded this episode from inside a time-traveling telephone booth in order to compile their Top 5 Historic Event Movies. Plus, your hosts have a dream of a biopic that doesn’t worshipfully lionize its central character. Does SELMA deliver?

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:00-3:04 - Billboard / Audible-Mubi

3:04-30:20 - Review: “Selma”

D’Angelo, “The Door”

31:14-33:51 - Audible

33:51-51:10 - Notes / Polls

51:10-58:29 - Adam Recs: “Most Violent Year”

D’Angelo, “Back to the Future”

59:24-1:01:59 - Donations / Nerdette

1:01:59-1:34:32 - Top 5: Historic Events

1:34:32-1:37:38 - Close

BONUS

- Films of the Decade So Far

MUSIC

- D’Angelo

NOTES

- Audible rec: Matthew Modine’s “Full Metal Jacket Diary”

LINKS

- Josh’s review of “Selma”

- Max O’Connell’s rules

- Best Films of the Decade So Far

- More on Best of the Decade