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Pop This! Episode 16 - The Oscars
What fresh hell is this? Given the number of awards shows in your face and in your daily feed, are the Oscars even relevant? The Pop This! team tells the man where he can put his gold statuette...
Featuring Lisa Christiansen and Andrea Warner. And Dorothy Woodend. Produced by Andrea Gin.
A sampling of what you might hear in Episode 16: The Oscars...
Back from Vegas...
Mariah Carey was everything I could have asked for and more… There was an awkward moment where two people came up from the audience to talk with her, Bev and Andy...
Email us and tell us how much you paid for that.
I left $18 at the Paris.
There are more and more awards broadcast... you didn’t have access to the same repetition.
It's just a popularity contest... even at the Vancouver Critics Circle...
You have to think like Bob Hope.
Do the old Academy members need to die?
Your time is done Woody Allen. You can go off and play shuffleboard.
A ...
Star Wars: A Feminist Force Awakens
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens provides a Ton Ton's carcass of content to discuss and, in a pinch, butcher and turn into a sleeping bag in this week's Pop This!
Featuring Lisa Christiansen and Andrea Warner. Produced by Andrea Gin.
A sampling of what you might hear in Episode 11: Star Wars
What would I do with a BB8?
I have never cared about space at all. I can see Star Wars is part of pop culture canon, but it's a conversational understanding of Star Wars.
What you did for me for Real Housewives, I need for you to do me for Star Wars.
I don't think I thought of it as a space movie... It just happens to be set in space.
I was watching the hero's journey: Joseph Campbell figured out we have an innate story we need to experience. I recommend the hero with a thousand faces.
Maybe it's good to watch this movie not stoned out of your gourd.
I feel like this is my literal everyday, I'm invited to save the world and I don't.
It ...
Squeezing Gervais’s not-so Golden Globes
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To toasting and roasting Ricky Gervais as returning host of the Golden Globes, an awards show that makes some viewers walk around the house in high heels with a tall glass of pinot
Featuring Lisa Christiansen and Andrea Warner. Produced by Andrea Gin.
A sampling of what you might hear in Episode 9: Looking at The Golden Globes
I will tell you what I genuinely think of Ricky Gervais: I think he is smug, self-congratulatory, fat-shaming...and he can be incredibly boring.... He has a lot of specific self-hatred...
The only human beings who don't want to be liked are sociopaths.
Mad Max.
Rent is not a comedy?
Empire is not nominated in the musical category?
One of the great loves of my life, Spy Magazine... the monocles reviews, that's who I envision as the Hollywood Foreign Press
I have the feeling they are the kind of people who go to Cannes and don't see movies
I love Veep so much. A rare show without a weak link. It messes you ...
Pop This! Hits, hisses and misses
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Trainwreck chugs toward a cliff of critical revision while Albert Maysles's final piece of non-fiction brings an Apfel for a teacher
Featuring Lisa Christiansen and Andrea Warner. Produced by Andrea Gin.
A sampling of what you might hear Episode 7 as Pop This! breaks down the year in movies*:
“I dream one day of owning a La-Z-Boy"
“What about a La-Z- Girl?”
"Sometimes I love AND hate.. but mostly love..."
"My hate has grown for a few things... A lot of my hate has grown for Trainwreck."
"You have to watch... It Follows."
"I found Iris Apfel…. very inspiring..."
"My grandmother is a huge part of my life... she made me hyperaware that we put seniors to the side…"
"If The Rolling Stones Tour and people buy tickets isn’t that it…?"
"Ex Machina... fantastic."
"I'm playing air theramin..."
"I love watching dudes bond over things that aren’t demeaning to women, The Night Before was... ridiculous and lovely and ...
Love, Actually vs. The Holiday
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Two pop culture experts play amateur marriage counsellors as they dissect the reasons why kindness is so hard to come by, then move straight into a knock-down, drag-out discussion about the merits of Love, Actually and The Holiday.
Featuring Andrea Warner and Lisa Christiansen, Produced by Andrea Gin
Don't say we didn't warn you. This week, the ladies are extra feisty as they weigh the merits of Kate Winslet's response to a question about equal pay, and expand into a larger discussion about the feminist tag -- and how willing, or unwilling, the rich and famous are to wear it. Warner offers surprise thanks to Sarah Palin, then the real battle begins...
It's a smackdown between two favoured Christmas rom-coms: Love, Actually and The Holiday. Lisa refers to Love, Actually as 'Hate, Actually' while Warner calls The Holiday "a cold Journey to Hell."
The gloves are off -- just so they can warm their fingers by the burning yule log. It's another episode of ...
