It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to The Next Picture Show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Tasha Robinson, here with...

Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias.

Genevieve is currently fleeing the coastline due to an unexpected wave of Lake Kaiju hitting the shores of Chicago, but she'll be back on future episodes, broadcasting from a safer, undisclosed location.

Every week, we get together to talk over a classic film and consider how it relates to a current movie.

This week, we're looking at the bookends of a film series that made the Guinness Book of World Records

as the longest-running film franchise in history.

Normally, this is where we would put an elaborate little playlet leading up to introducing this week's films,

but this week we're far too grim and serious about facing our choices and the heavy responsibilities they

bring with them. So we're just going to dive straight in. Keith?

What? No, no. I told you I was never going to release my thoughts on these movies to the world.

They're too dangerous. I swear you to secrecy. What if they fall into the wrong hands i broke my promise

because it was too important keith someone has to discuss these movies for the betterment of all humanity

okay but just as once and i'm burning my notes afterward who knows what dark purposes they could be put to

otherwise this is just a movie podcast people talk about movies all the time Who knows what dark purposes these film opinions could be put to otherwise.

For the good of humanity, I'm burning my notes.

They're on your computer.

I won't need them where I'm going from here.

Let this be the last time anyone ever talks about Godzilla's.

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