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Episode 42 of Hydrate Level Four - Raising Victor Vargas

Peter is joined by guest Karly of the That Pop This Life and Talking Shondaland Popcasts. We review a must-see independent film of 2002 by Peter Sollett starring Victor Rasuk and Judy Marte. We first take a trip to 2002 and take a look at the movies and music of that year! You can also find Karly's podcasts at coretemparts.com Click to listen on iTunes. Click to listen on Stitcher.

Episode 134 of War Machine vs. War Horse: God Help The Girl (That Thing You Do vs. Not Fade Away)

On this episode we are inspired by new video release GOD HELP THE GIRL to program our own music themed podcast. We have a battle of the bands with two older films facing off in Tom Hanks' THAT THING YOU DO vs. David Chase's NOT FADE AWAY, with the added bonus of a look back into the past with our first ever podcast recording on this James Gandolfini starring film. We were also lucky enough to get to speak with filmmaker Raf Moscatel about his Kickstarter project THE LITTLE GIRL WITH THE BIG VOICE which you can support here:

Some images from Aloft a new film starring Cillian Murphy and Jennifer Connelly

Cillian Murphy as Ivan Photo by Allen Fraser, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Jennifer Connelly as Nana Photo by Jose Haro, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics This is how Variety critic  Peter Debruge descibes the film Claudia Llosa expands her preoccupations with mysticism and superstition in the modern world, working her way up from a medieval-minded Andean village in “Madeinusa” to faith healing at the frigid far reaches of the Arctic Circle with “Aloft.” But this time, instead of seeming plugged into some primitive native religion, the Peruvian helmer invents a rickety belief system as a pretext for tearing it all down, botching the telling of a more satisfying character-based story in the process. Replacing melancholy muse Magaly Solier with an equally forlorn-looking international cast led by a courageous Jennifer Connelly, Llosa stands to baffle more than her usual circle of arthouse adherents with this doleful downer, snapped up by Sony ...