Nostalgium Arcanum
A Repository For The Pop Culture That Made Us Who We Are
Displaying Episode 11 - 20 of 22 in total of Nostalgium Arcanum with the tag “entertainment”.
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My Best Friend's Wedding
December 11th, 2023 | 1 hr 29 mins
1990s, 90s, cameron diaz, comedy, entertainment, film, julia roberts, movies, rom-com, romantic comedy, romcom
My Best Friend's Wedding is, despite its trappings, not a romantic comedy. The film cleverly subverts expectations by making the villain appear to be the protagonist, making a happily never after the proper ending. We're joined again by Ami Lief and Ryan Merlo to revisit Julie Roberts doing worst what she usually does best.
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Care Bears
December 4th, 2023 | 1 hr 12 mins
1980s, 80s, animation, care bears, caring, cartoon, cartoons, child psychology, dic, empathy, entertainment, movies, television, toys, tv
You stare into the Care Bear and the Care Bear stares back at you. This week guest podcaster Jala Prendes (Jala-Chan's Place, Monster, Dear Monster, The Level) drops in from the clouds to help us revisit the Care Bears franchise and how its tender-hearted worldview taught a generation of children to be empathetic and also buy lots of toys.
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Disney Songs
June 19th, 2023 | 1 hr 40 mins
alan menken, animation, broadway, cartoons, disney, entertainment, film, movies, music, musicals, theater
Hi Ho! On this supersized special episode Ami Lief and Tania Newton join us to reminisce about the soundtrack to all our childhoods - the unmatched songbook that is the soundtrack to Disney's 61 (and counting) animated films. We each presented our top 10, so tell us which ones top your lists.
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Jurassic Park
June 11th, 2023 | 1 hr 28 mins
1990s, 90s, action, adventure, comedy, dinosaurs, entertainment, jeff goldblum, laura dern, movies, paleontology, sam niel, sci-fi, scifi, spielberg, steven spielberg
We spared no expense for Jurassic Park's 30th anniversary. Guests Rich Baker (@richbakercoaching) and clever girl Ami Lief (etsy.com/shop/MomoBunnysmoreCo) hold onto their butts to gush over an adventure 65,000,000 years in the making.
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Superman: The Movie
May 22nd, 2023 | 1 hr 14 mins
action, batman, christopher reeve, comedy, comic books, comics, dc, dc comics, entertainment, gene hackman, marlon brando, movies, scifi, superheroes, superman
It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's special guest Ken Cole (@kenergycole) joining us to discuss the superhero and his movie who set the template for all comic adaptations to come.
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Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead
April 24th, 2023 | 1 hr 6 mins
1990s, 90s, christina applegate, comedy, cult classics, entertainment, movies, slacker
We're right on top of that, Rose, as Ami Lief (etsy.com/shop/momobunnysmoreco) and Rich Baker (@richbakeractor) join us for a wholly unsupervised retrospective on Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead, a 90s cult classic about faking it until you're making it - and by it we mean court jester school uniforms.
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The Beatles
April 17th, 2023 | 1 hr 20 mins
1960s, 60s, beatles, entertainment, george harrison, john lennon, music, paul mccartney, psychedelia, ringo starr, rock, rock and roll
We get by with a little help from our friends Dylan Ris (www.lostmoonradio.com, www.themoonunits.com) and Kyle Lieberman to defend our top ten of the fab four.
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Rugrats
April 10th, 2023 | 1 hr 11 mins
1990s, 90s, animation, cartoon, entertainment, jewish, judaism, nickelodeon, nicktoons, passover, television, tv
Just in time for Passover comedian Andrew Tavin (@andrewrtavin, The House of House podcast) sits down to seder to discuss Rugrats, one of Nickelodeon's most successful properties, as well as its landmark Jewish representation.
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My So-Called Life
April 3rd, 2023 | 1 hr 7 mins
1990s, 90s, claire danes, comedy, drama, entertainment, high school, television, tv
We gathered together a full clique to discuss 90s high school drama My So-Called Life. Ami Lief, Tania Newton, and Kristin Perez revisit this emotionally raw show that still resonates, even though it never even completed its freshman season.
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Fallen Angels
March 27th, 2023 | 1 hr 3 mins
1940s, 1990s, 40s, 90s, chandler, comedy, entertainment, film noir, hammett, mosely, mystery, noir, spillane, television
Tarik Davis (@tarikrdavis) of The Amber Ruffin Show and the Brothers From Another Planet podcast snoops on Fallen Angels. It's a forgotten but star-studded Showtime noir anthology series that adapts the best writers of the genre in an exploration of the dark underbelly of post-WW2 Los Angeles.