HeyJaredSchool of Movies
Super in-depth analysis of movies (and occasionally TV, and video games). Hosted by veteran podcasters Alex & Sharon Shaw with different guests for round-table chats every week.
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Romeo + Juliet (opens the original)
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[School of Movies 2026] For the second week of Shakestember, now having talked about a dozen cinematic adaptations we look at his most widely-recognised gateway movie for teenagers. Thirty years old this year, Baz Luhrman's hyperkinetic modern reimagining for the MTV generation garnered sniffy responses from the critics, but this 1996 film has stood the test of time and remains memorable and most of all useful, long after the more critically lauded and financially successful Shakespeare in Love
William Shakespeare on Film (opens the original)
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[School of Movies 2026] Possibly the greatest playwright the world will ever see, creator of countless clever words and idioms, '"Heart of gold", "Wild goose chase", "Good riddance!" all gifts to the English language. He was also a man whose private life was shrouded in mystery, and for the average person our familiarity with him begins and ends in the one or two plays we are forced to study at school, along with The Lion King and an awareness of crackpot theories surrounding all of these plays
Mortal Kombat II (opens the original)
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[School of Movies 2026] Back in 2021, after a surprising 24-year absence of Mortal Kombat live action movie adaptations while several really great cinematic story modes played out on the past four entries of the video game series, a movie finally emerged. It wasn't very good. But since we were all on lockdown and starved for entertainment many of us chomped it down like Baraka at a buffet. Then, five whole years later a sequel emerged that actually delivered on the basic, underachieving proof-of
Own Your Stuff (opens the original)
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[School of Everything Else 2026] This is one of the most significant shows we have ever recorded and took an immense amount of research, preparation and editing. It has been a very long time coming, as the landscape of how we watch, play, read and listen to things changed. In the wake of Sony's announcement that they are ending production on physical discs for the PlayStation, coupled with the culling of hundreds of movies, TV shows and documentaries that customers purchased legally and now no l
Spider-Man: Brand New Day (opens the original)
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[School of Movies 2026] After an extruciatingly long five years away from this version of Peter Parker we rejoin his sad, thrilling saga. This is in fact his seventh appearance in the MCU, and it is one of the best of that entire series, rocketing to a billion dollars in less than a week, and signifying just how many people love this particular Spider-Man. What we have here are the devastating long-term consequences of trying to undo the cruel outing of his secret identity by the spiteful dickwe
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