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1999 is regarded as one of the most consequential Hollywood movie years ever - bold films about identity and perception that play with the cinematic form (The Matrix, Being John Malkovich, The Sixth Sense, just to name a few), and many from major studios connecting broadly with audiences. What a time! But a quarter century later, which major releases still hold up and admirably define the year, which get close, and which have aged like milk?

Frightful Femme Kirsten Therkelson and Good Trash Media's Dalton Stuart stop by to look back on a formative year with Dick Sanford - but wait...they've been tasked by the U.S. government to build a MOVIE HALL OF FAME for 1999, or else there will be serious geopolitical consequences! These three podcasters must bravely become arbiters of culture and decide together on the NINE best or most culturally representative films of 1999 in order to save the world! The stakes have never been higher!

There are over thirty films to choose from! How will they ever do it and come out with their sanity intact?!

The Hall of Fame Shortlist

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

The Mummy

American Beauty

Wild Wild West

American Pie

Deep Blue Sea

Jawbreaker

Galaxy Quest

Bowfinger

The Blair Witch Project

Three Kings

Eyes Wide Shut

The Green Mile

Cruel Intentions

Toy Story 2

The Sixth Sense

Girl, Interrupted

The Talented Mr. Ripley

10 Things I Hate About You

Fight Club

Man on the Moon

Lake Placid

The Insider

The Iron Giant

Being John Malkovich

Magnolia

Bringing Out the Dead

Big Daddy

Election

Boys Don’t Cry

Office Space

The Straight Story

The Matrix

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James Oster (Jimmy O from JoBlo.com!) stops by on his spiky dirt bike thing and we ride away from the Podcast of Inaccessibility and across the wastelands of Internet movie discourse to talk George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, and have a wide-ranging conversation of topics including:

How does Anya Taylor-Joy follow in the footsteps of movie stars like Lauren Bacall and Marlene Dietrich? Is Furiosa some sort of bizarrely beautiful hybrid of The Wizard of Oz and For A Few Dollars More? How much does Chris Hemsworth rule as a villain? And what does the perceived box office failure of Furiosa mean for the moviegoing landscape in general - and is it even the movie's fault?

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Marlena Williams (author of Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist) shines in from across the country to talk about Stanley Kubrick's The Shining!

Are the conspiracy theories about the ghastly Overlook saga overblown, or is there any truth to them? Was Stanley Kubrick actually a cinematic puzzle maker, or was he actually more of a "vibes" guy? What's the value of how "boring" the opening of the film is? Was The Shining kind of the first A24 horror film? Did The Shining kind of break film discourse and culture? What does the Tippi Hedren film Roar (you know, the movie where tigers and lions are mauling the cast and crew on film) have to do with any of this bullshit?

All these topics and so many more are delved into, so hang your weird naked lady artwork on the wall and strap in for a conversation about one of the wildest and most totemic horror films in modern Hollywood history!

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