Nostalgium Arcanum
A Repository For Pop Culture Ephemera
We found 10 episodes of Nostalgium Arcanum with the tag “1990s”.
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The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
June 24th, 2024 | 1 hr 40 mins
007, 1990s, 90s, art, brosnan, caper, denis leary, faye dunaway, film, heist, impressionism, james bond, magritte, monet, movie, movies, nina simone, painting, pierce brosnan, rene russo, romance, steve mcqueen
Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel, 1999's remake of The Thomas Crown Affair twists and turns as Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo twist and turn around each other. Guests Tania Newton and Ryan Merlo join us to discuss high class art thievery, thrill seeking, and Pepsi guzzling.
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3 Ninjas
June 17th, 2024 | 1 hr 41 mins
1990s, 90s, cinema, colt, comedy, entertainment, kids, martial arts, movie, movies, ninjas, rocky, teenage mutant ninja turtles, tmnt, tum-tum
Hi-ya! We kick back with Josh Covel of the Still Loading podcast to knuckle up with Rocky, Colt, and Tum-Tum on their first adventure. The film hit hard in the early 90s with its blend of kid power, high kicks, and hijinks.
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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
June 10th, 2024 | 2 hrs 14 mins
1990s, 90s, animation, broadway, cartoon, cartoons, cinema, colorado, comedy, film, matt stone, movies, musical, musical theater, musicals, satan, satire, south park, trey parker
South Park, CO may be a quiet mountain town but decades on it remains the locus for satire, profanity, and the occasional doomsday prophesy. Friendly faces Dave Jackson (the Tales From the Backlog podcast) and comedians Rich Baker (@richbakercoaching) and Rolland Lopez (@rollandlopezvoiceactor) join us to go down to South Park and have ourselves a time with their 1999 musical feature outing that fully let Trey Parker and Matt Stone off the leash of basic cable.
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90s Movies - Part 2
June 3rd, 2024 | 2 hrs 50 mins
1990s, 90s, action, cinema, clueless, comedy, david fincher, disney, fight club, film, high school, horror, jim carrey, matrix, movie, movies, scifi, teen
We conclude our survey course of 90s movies by revisiting the late teens of our crew of guests (Ami Lief, Tania Newton, and Ryan Merlo) for those films that challenged us and shaped us into who we are. Once again, our lists feature fan favorites and hidden gems alike.
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90s Movies - Part 1
May 27th, 2024 | 2 hrs 40 mins
1990s, 90s, action, cinema, comedy, disney, film, forrest gump, fugitive, horror, jurassic park, movie, movies, pulp fiction, schwarzenegger, scifi, shawshank, spielberg, tarantino, terminator
On this episode our crew (Ami Lief, Tania Newton, and Ryan Merlo) join us for the first of a two-part roundtable of our top ten 90s films. This part focuses on movies released from 1990 to 1994. See if your favorites line up with ours, and perhaps you'll find a few hidden gems you may have missed.
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A League of Their Own
March 18th, 2024 | 2 hrs 4 mins
1990s, 90s, aagpbl, athletics, baseball, entertainment, film, geena davis, madonna, movies, penny marshall, racine, rockford, rosie o'donnell, softball, sports, tom hanks, world series
Batter up, hear that call. The time has come for one and all... To play ball. We load the bases with guests Ami Lief, Ryan Merlo, and Tania Newton to revisit "A League of Their Own", a seminal sports movie that's still in a league of its own.
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Happy Gilmore
March 11th, 2024 | 1 hr 51 mins
1990s, 90s, adam sandler, carl weathers, comedy, entertainment, film, golf, julie bowen, movies, sandler, saturday night live, snl, sports
The price is right for this classic golf comedy in which Adam Sadler tees off on everyone and everything in his path. Guest Dave Jackson (Tales From The Backlog) joins us to revisit a movie that never fails to take us to our happy place.
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Matchbox Twenty
January 15th, 2024 | 1 hr 35 mins
1990s, 90s, concert, entertainment, mainstream, matchbox 20, matchbox twenty, mb20, music, rob thomas, rock
Let's see how far we've come. Since the late 1990s Matchbox Twenty has been entertaining audiences with mass appeal and mass success. This week guests Ami Lief, Betsy Allen, and Kyle Lieberman join us to roundtable their top ten MB20 songs.
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Independence Day
January 8th, 2024 | 1 hr 56 mins
1990s, alien, aliens, area 51, bill pullman, conspiracy theories, extraterrestrial, extraterrestrials, id4, invasion, jeff goldblum, martian, martians, randy quaid, roswell, scifi, war of the worlds, will smith, x-files
Welcome to Earth. This week guest Matt Powers joins us to revisit a 1990s disaster classic that, like its extraterrestrial scourge, loomed large over the action blockbusters of the era.
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Batman Returns
December 25th, 2023 | 2 hrs 30 mins
1990s, batman, christmas, christopher walken, comic book, comic books, comics, danny devito, danny elfman, dc comics, freaks, gothic, horror, michael keaton, michelle pfeiffer, superhero, tim burton, xmas
It's Christmas in Gotham and writer/director of horror short "The Canyon" Alex Sosin joins to once again delve into Tim Burton's gothic nightmare vision of the Bat, the Cat, and the Penguin in a supersized present of an episode. It's bigger and more unwieldy than its predecessor, but no less compelling and terrifying.