The MacGuffin

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 from The MacGuffin. This time Brandi and John share their top 5 films that shouldn’t happen.

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Another MacGuffin Film Podcast Top 5′s segment. Inspired by the film The Hangover Part II, Brandi and John share their top 5 films that take place over one crazy night.

Spencer and John are joined by special guests for the MacGuffin’s second anniversary. They look back at the evolution of the podcast and the website.

Another MacGuffin Film Podcast Top 5′s segment. This time Ben and John share their top 5 teen comedies.

As the old saying goes, “What once was old is new again.” So it has become for 80s nostalgia, which, to me, seems to be an ongoing nostalgia. One that reaches back to 1998, when Adam Sandler reintroduced the 80s to the world with The Wedding Singer. Presented as a parody, The Wedding Singer was more of a time-capsule, embracing the entire generation as whole, pulling references from moments and ideas that had not even happened in the film’s own time frame. The TV show That 70s Show, which started the same year The Wedding Singer was released, approached its nostalgia in a similar fashion, encapsulating its pop-culture references from throughout the entire decade. It seems, though, that since The Wedding Singer that nostalgic feeling for the 80s has yet to dissipate. The debate on whether or not this is a good thing is a topic for another article.

A look back on the sometimes tumultuous career of Nicolas Cage in honor of the release of Season of the Witch, a discussion of some of the best DVD commentaries, and DVD picks of the week.

Spencer is joined by John Portanova, one of the stars of online series Adler and Zenith. In this episode they pay their tributes to John Hughes in the wake of his death. Next they tackle the monsterous task of covering horror films from the 1980′s. Finally, they conclude with a discussion about the career of Judd Apatow, and consider if he is a modern John Hughes.