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What started as a joke between two friends is now your favorite Laura Dern podcast! Here we celebrating the big Derns, the little Derns, and everything in-between those two Derns.
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Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Back at it again with that hot hot HOT Dern scoop!
This week we take our long awaited delve into The Oscars, as well as delve into a few listener critiques and inquiries. You may also notice our brand spankin' new intro and outro music courtesy of the LA Gay Men's Chorus (as contented to our use by way of a Twitter like).
In the thick of our adventures this week, Nic gives the big bummer recounting of the 1996 film 'Bastard Out of Carolina', the tale of a young girl growing up in an abusive household in the 1950's south and how it affects her life. ([TRIGGER WARNING]) This picture does deal in graphic portrayals of domestic abuse and rape. Between the Derns 'Casablanca' (1942) as well as 'Frances Ha' (2012) are mulled over, as well as a recounting of the rained out 2020 Daytona 500 (and the drinking that ensued). Max closed us out on the 3-hour little Dern 'The Siege at Ruby Ridge', the 1996 two part television film recounting the government kerfuffle and white nationalist Weaver family that led to the infamous 11 day siege. Oh, and Randy Quaid shows up.
The films this week were on the heavier side, but both contain important lessons and stories that need to be shown just as much as the more comfortable and fun rolls we may like Mrs.Dern in more.
That will be all for this week, please follow us, give us your feedback, share us around, and stay tuned for more Dern!
Email: dernafterreading@gmail.com
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Monday Feb 17, 2020
Monday Feb 17, 2020
Welcome back to the Dern files, True Believer!
In this weeks installment of Dern After Reading we discuss award show buzz and the (at the time of recording, upcoming) Oscars! Max fields the Big Dern 'I Am Sam', a 2001 melodrama surrounding Sean Penn as a mentally challenged father fighting the courts for custody of his daughter. In between two Dern's we discuss 'Raven' the John Jacobs and Tim Reiterman retelling of the life of and their time with a Mr.Jim Jones, as well as Please Kill Me, the oral history of punk rock. We wrap out our episode with an attempted little Dern by Nic, of the elusive and currently inaccessible 'Damage Care', a 2002 TV movie of little note or acclaim.
That is just about all we have to say, please subscribe and tell your Dern minded friends about our little show, and feel free to tell up how you feel in the below communication channels. Thank you all for coming along with us on this adventure, we can't wait to continue changing and growing with and for you all.
Email: dernafterreading@gmail.com
Instagram: @dernafterreadingpod
Twitter: @dernafterreadingpod
Monday Feb 10, 2020
Monday Feb 10, 2020
Welcome to the BRAND NEW Dern After Reading Podcast.
This all came to be out of a mutual love of Laura Dern by your charming hosts Max and Nic
Before this inaugural episode, lets set the ground rules of our show-
-One 'Big Dern' (feature length film) and one 'Little Dern' (TV movie/episode) per week
-As well as a nice interstitial to break them up, known as 'Between Two Derns'.
-We will discuss our films at length and decide the level of 'Derness' and what we learned.
In this episode: Nic discusses the 2001 feature film "Novocain", Max and Nic talk about John Waters and a litany of media concerns, and Max closes us out with a scathing review of "More Things That Happened" (a compilation of deleted scenes for the 2006 David Lynch film "Inland Empire", for which Max has never seen). Needless to say not all Dern films are great, and not all directors can please Max (let it be known he really hates David Lynch).
Follow us, give us your feedback, and stick around for more Dern!
Email: dernafterreading@gmail.com
Instagram: @dernafterreadingpod
Twitter: @dernafterreadingpod