Beetlejuice

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week Paul & Amy break down the 1988 dark fantasy comedy horror film Beetlejuice starring Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis and Katherine O'Hara. They talk about what a swing it is for Tim Burton's second film, who he originally wanted to play Beetlejuice, how the film depicts death and so much more. Next week...Batman Returns! Beetlejuice is available to rent or stream on multiple platforms but don't forget to check your local library or apps like Hoopla and Kanopy! You can join the Unspooled conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 Follow Paul and Amy on Letterboxd for more of their movie hot takes! https://letterboxd.com/paulscheer/ https://letterboxd.com/theamynicholson/ Paul’s book Joyful Recollections of Trauma is out now! Find it at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/joyful-recollections-of-trauma-paul-scheer Check out more of Paul's writing on his Substack https://substack.com/@paulscheer Episodic Art by Kim Troxall: https://www.unspooledart.com/ Learn more about the show at Unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and on Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	The year is 1988 and Nicholson, Nicholson, Nicholson,
0:05.0	Nicholson,
0:08.0	It's Showtime and the movie is Beatles. Bitlechase. Hello everyone and welcome to Unspoed.
0:35.0	Hey everybody I am Paul Shear joined as always by the fabulously talented Amy Nicholson
0:41.0	Amy been loving your reviews now, especially that you are on Letterbox, but I love what you do on
0:47.6	Instagram where you just kind of highlight what you've seen that week.
0:51.6	It gives me such a pleasure to read you watching things that you make me want to watch things that I didn't even know I wanted to watch like this new Lee Daniels movie you gave some snippets in your review that really have really
1:07.0	peaked my interest, more than any marketing possibly could have.
1:10.0	I mean, I think my burning love for a Lee Daniels movie makes me the
1:13.9	Beatles use of film criticism. Absolutely. I saw Shadowboxer, didn't know anything
1:18.2	about it, and I was like Cuba Gooding Jr. is strip teasing for Helen
1:22.4	Mirren and they're both hitmen?
1:23.7	Absolutely and I'm following this man's entire career.
1:26.7	Now I don't want to go too far back but I will say there's a lot of uproar online that
1:31.1	I dismissed Furiosa and you know honestly after some soul
1:37.1	searching looking back I wanted to rewatch it and I realized I was right. Okay Amy this is a movie that I feel like a lot of people
1:48.4	know. Beetlejuice is a film it's a cartoon show, it is truly, I think, bigger than the movie was when it originally
1:57.8	came out.
1:58.8	I mean, this wasn't like a giant movie, was it?
2:00.8	No, I mean, we should jump back in time you know this movie comes out
2:04.1	1988 three years have passed since Tim Burton made Peeley's big adventure and I'm
2:09.0	stressing that because that was his first film he hasn't made another and we did an episode on Peeby last summer in honor of Paul Rubens,
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