The MacGuffin

Another Top 5 segment from The MacGuffin. This time Allen and Brandi share their top 5 anti-heroes.

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No other genre evokes a sense of place better than the western. You have vast rolling hills, expansive barren deserts, horses, hats and pistols, and sleepy towns where sheriffs and robbers shoot it out to the death. It’s a world long since passed, where those with gold and guns dictated the law. What I find so fascinating about westerns is that they are a representation of a place that once was—with people who perhaps lived lives that were similar to the ones we read about in folk stories, or watch in the movies. Survival and the hope of prosperity drove people toward these places, and motivated those who wanted to steal their way to a better life. There are a handful of great movies set in the Wild West, but very few have reached the plateau of Sergio Leone’s epic, (1966).

Another Top 5 segment from The MacGuffin. This time Allen and Brandi share their top 5 cliched but awesome moments.

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Another Top 5 segment on The MacGuffin. Inspired by the film J. Edgar, Brandi and Ed share their top 5 Clint Eastwood directed films.

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Trying to figure out the Best Picture Oscars is based on looking at many things, including: what actors are in it, what director is making the film, whether it’s the kind of film the Academy has responded to in the past, and just plain old guesswork. Also, I am not saying these will be the best movies of the year, just the ones that could strike the Academy’s taste. Keeping that in mind, here are a list of seven more movies that I think have potential to be Best Picture contenders.

Another Top 5 segment from The MacGuffin. This time Ben and Ed share their top 5 westerns.

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Another MacGuffin Film Podcast Top 5′s segment. This time Brandi and Allen share their top 5 films in need of another chapter.

Another MacGuffin Film Podcast Top 5′s segment. This time Brandi and Allen share their top 5 films the other person hasn’t seen, but should watch.

A look back at the history of Harry Potter in advance of the release of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part I, a discussion of Paul Haggis’ career before the release of The Next Three Days, and the episode closes out with the DVD picks of the week.