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The NeverEnding Movie MarathonNew Mini-Marathon Revealed & Special AnnouncementHey, NEMM fans! We've got two big announcements to share with you today! Check 'em out and see you at the movies real soon.The NeverEnding Movie Marathon is a weekly podcastic celebration of cinema. Dive deep into fan-favorite films (#NoStinkers!), thematically curated to enhance your movie viewing by hosts Matt Detisch, Alex Logan, and Michael Rocco.Find us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or at neverendingmoviemarathon.com2022-08-1000 minThe NeverEnding Movie MarathonSteven Spielberg Almost Made...Alex, Matt, and Rocco each break down a favorite project that Steven Spielberg almost made throughout his long and storied career. An incredibly expensive adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson's Robopocalypse is Alex's pick, since he once got a moment to discuss the project with Michael Bay, who inherited the script (and some leftover sets) from Spielberg. Matt reveals Spielberg's fascination with modern toilet innovator, Thomas Crapper, and a possible film based on the book Flushed with Pride, before diving deep on what SHREK would have looked like if Spielberg made it back in the 1990s with Bill M...2022-08-0333 minThe NeverEnding Movie MarathonMinority Report (2002) - Spielberg Summer Slam!Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise finally team up to pre-cog the future of our real-life surveillance state with this ultra-paranoid sci-fi thriller from the GOAT of that exact sub-sub-genre, Philip K. Dick! Do all of the visual effects and fake-outs still hold up almost 20 years later after MINORITY REPORT blew up the 2002 summer blockbuster? Maybe not, but the ice-cold vision of a tomorrow without social media is fascinating and that murder's row of supporting performances from Max von Sydow, Samantha Morton, Colin Farrell (and his chewing gum), Tim Blake Nelson, Neal McDonough... Not to mention, Lois Smith...2022-07-271h 37The NeverEnding Movie MarathonSaving Private Ryan (1998) Part Two - Spielberg Summer Slam!We pick up the second half of our conversation about SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998) with the incredibly epic and ultra-violent Normandy Beach sequence that saw Steven Spielberg put all of his technical skill and wizardry behind the camera to create the most realistic portrayal of this turning point in World War II and world history. Plus, we finally get to Rocco's Connections Corner that has a couple of surprises from Matt.It's a new mini-marathon, folks! This summer, we're gettin' in the ring with Steven for the SPIELBERG SUMMER SLAM! We're hitting up his incredible run of blockbusters f...2022-07-201h 11The NeverEnding Movie MarathonSaving Private Ryan (1998) Part One - Spielberg Summer Slam!Matt has been preparing for this episode his entire life, so we're dedicating TWO PARTS to cover Steven Spielberg's epic World War II sad-venture film, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998). Alex and Rocco join Matt to discuss how Spielberg and writer Robert Rodat crafted the "documentary realism" approach to the true story of the Niland Brothers, why Tom Hanks decided it was time to take his friendship with Steve to the next level, the trial-by-fire boot camp that the military advisor Dale Dye put Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies, Adam Goldberg, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, and Tom Sizemore through, which...2022-07-131h 33The NeverEnding Movie MarathonJurassic Park (1993) - Spielberg Summer Slam!In 1993 filmmaker Steven Spielberg made dinosaurs walk and the style of blockbuster that he had helped create completely extinct. JURASSIC PARK (1993) is a film that changed it all, including the lives of your hosts, Alex, Matt, and Rocco, especially when it came to the toys and their DINO DAMAGE! We detail how Michael Crichton, David Koepp, Dennis Muren, George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, John Williams, and Stevie Spielberg made it all happen, why we fell in love with Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), and why this might be the worst franchise in history after JURASSIC PARK...2022-07-062h 19The NeverEnding Movie MarathonE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - Spielberg Summer Slam!While Rocco is away, Alex and Matt will play... with their little alien pal from Brodo Asogi! E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial has been delighting adults and terrifying children for 40 years now, becoming an instant blockbuster, then an icon for Spielberg's company Amblin, an Easter egg in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, and eventually a punchline in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers. But we think this lil guy deserves so much more! After all, E.T. is quite possibly Steven Spielberg's best and most personal work to date.It's a new mini-marathon, folks! This summer, we...2022-06-291h 38The NeverEnding Movie MarathonRaiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Spielberg Summer Slam!Matt returns to talk about DAUGHTER OF THE SEA, the short film he made with his wife, and to discuss that artifact-lovin', Nazi-punchin', fedora-doffin', bullwhip-snappin' daddy, Harrison Ford! Steven Spielberg and George Lucas joined forces for RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, the first Indiana Jones movie in the five film franchise, an American James Bond romp that definitely belongs in a museum... of Cinema! Plus, Rocco and Alex are here to talk about the making of the film and the Disneyland ride, which they both love dearly. It's a new mini-marathon, folks! This summer, we're gettin' in t...2022-06-222h 26The NeverEnding Movie MarathonJaws (1975) with Adam Aresty - Spielberg Summer Slam!"We're gonna need a bigger podcast!" So, Alex and Rocco invite on STUNG (2015) screenwriter and expert in all things shark, Adam Aresty, to discuss Spielberg's first blockbuster, the one that changed it all, and made everyone afraid of the water... JAWS (1975)!It's a new mini-marathon, folks! This summer, we're gettin' in the ring with Steven for the SPIELBERG SUMMER SLAM! We're hitting up his incredible run of blockbusters from the genre-defining JAWS (1975) up through his hand-wave screen technology-introducing MINORITY REPORT (2002)!The NeverEnding Movie Marathon is a weekly podcastic celebration of cinema. Dive deep into fan-favorite...2022-06-152h 17The NeverEnding Movie MarathonThe Spielberg Summer Slam!It's a new mini-marathon, folks! This summer, we're gettin' in the ring with Steven for the SPIELBERG SUMMER SLAM! We're hitting up his incredible run of blockbusters from the genre-defining JAWS (1975) up through his hand-wave screen technology-introducing MINORITY REPORT (2002)! But first, Rocco and Alex give you some context on the Hollywood Blockbuster, how Steven Spielberg rose from nowhere to the savior of the film industry in an uncertain time, our theories about his upcoming semi-auto-biopic THE FABELMANS, and how Amblin Entertainment dropping the G has confused us our entire lives.The NeverEnding Movie Marathon is...2022-06-0840 minThe NeverEnding Movie MarathonTop Gun: Maverick (2022) - Tom Cruisin' USAWe've come to the end of our Tom Cruise mini-marathon, but honestly, folks, what a way to go out! Most of us doubted that 'Top Gun: Maverick' was going to be good, but no one (seriously, NO ONE) predicted that it was going to be GREAT! And perhaps even better than the original...?Rocco and Alex start off with their opening thoughts on the new film before sounding the spoiler alarm to go deep on Cruise's latest masterpiece. We debate the strange career of former architect and current "legacyquel master builder" Joseph Kosinski, if Glen Powell's Hangman...2022-06-011h 47The NeverEnding Movie MarathonTop Gun (1986) with Gina Ippolito - Tom Cruisin' USATV writer and our own Tom Cruise correspondent, Gina Ippolito, returns to the NeverEnding Movie Marathon to talk TOP GUN... and a million other things, since she, Alex, and Rocco keep getting derailed to discuss which state has the best rollercoasters, if you can wipe down another man's cat, and Marlon Brando's food pranks on Frank Sinatra.On topic, they debate the future of Cruise's career and whether he can keep up the stunt game for much longer, if Kelly McGillis's Charlie actually has enough going on to consider her a "good" character (and her real-life inspiration), a...2022-05-251h 44The NeverEnding Movie MarathonMINI: The Battle of the Great ScottsThis week on the NeverEnding Movie Marathon, Alex and Rocco are pitting brother against brother in the Battle of the Great Scotts! Tony versus Ridley in Three Rounds!Two Scotts enter the ring, but only one Scott will be crowned King of Movies!Rocco represents Ridley Scott with three films that he loves: ALIEN (1979), BLADE RUNNER (1982), and MATCHSTICK MEN (2003), while Alex toasts Tony Scott with a trio of absolute bangers: THE HUNGER (1983), ENEMY OF THE STATE (1998), and TRUE ROMANCE (1993), in three themed rounds of ridiculous debate!The NeverEnding Movie Marathon is a weekly...2022-05-1831 min