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Category Archives: Family Pictures Podcast
Couch to Family Pictures Podcasts
I don’t know if you know this about me, but I am a content producer! So much so I can’t even keep up with it on this blog. It is serious. Michael Branson Smith and I are approaching our 80th … Continue reading
Family and the State: That’s a Wrap
We finished our six-film tour of 1990s international independent cinema on the Family Pictures Podcast with Gianni Amelio‘s Il ladro di bambini (1992), and I’m not sure we could have picked a better film to put an exclamation point on … Continue reading
State of the Family
I’m using Blaugust as an excuse to push myself to write more regularly about my film podcasting, so far so good. Got one post out over each of the last four days, and this one will make five. I still … Continue reading
It’s 10PM: Do You Know Where Your Children Are?
In a meeting today I ended by referencing the public service announcement (PSA) “It’s 10 PM: Do You Know Where Your Children Are?”. No one got the reference—except maybe by way of The Simpsons. Here’s the actual PSA I remember: … Continue reading
Raise the Red Lantern
With this episode, number 72, Michael Branson Smith and I are 4 films deep into our series on international independent films from the 90s. We started down under with Muriel’s Wedding (1994), then we headed up to Tehran for The … Continue reading
A Movie Filled Blaugust
I literally have scores of blog posts about my film podcasting adventures that I’ve yet to publish. For nearly two years now, I have been co-hosting the Family Pictures Podcast, and we’re closing fast on 80 episodes. This spring I … Continue reading
Weapons Reloaded
The Family Pictures Podcast can’t stop, won’t stop. At this point we’re well over 50 episodes, and lord knows the bava has some blogging to do to catch-up. After our unique awards ceremony, MBS and I decided to re-do one … Continue reading
2025 Family Pictures Podcasts Awards
About a month ago now Michael Branson Smith (MBS) and I did a special episode of the Family Pictures Podcast in order to look back on all the films we had discussed up and until that point (there were 48). … Continue reading
Shane Is Fight Club in Reverse
One of the things that emerged in our discussion of Shane (1953) in episode 44 of the Family Pictures Podcast is just how explicitly the film is rooted in real labor history, specifically the Johnson County War of the late … Continue reading
Thresholds of Violence in The Searchers (1956)
After re-watching The Searchers (1956) for episode 43 of the Family Pictures Podcast, I was struck by the way director John Ford constantly uses thresholds or portals to visualize the moral structure of the film. It isn’t so much about … Continue reading