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 through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to the next picture show, a movie The Week podcast devoted to a classic film

and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Scott Tobias here with...

Tosha Robinson, Genevieve Koski, and Keith Phipps.

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

Today, we're flashing back to those awkward early days of boyhood adolescents when you're not a kid

anymore, but you're not in high school yet either, and you cannot fathom the mysteries of adulthood.

Keith, I can say without hesitation that those were the worst years of my life.

How were they for you?

Let me think back.

I'm talking about 13 and 14.

Yeah. It's probably when I got

deep into the work of Isaac Asimov and played a lot of computer role-playing games on my Apple 2E

and became the film critic for my junior high school newspaper panning popular movies like

Teen Wolf. And I heard about that

you know reader feedback he was a little more direct in junior high than it is even now with the

internet so you're coming into your own in other words I guess so I'd say there were years of

transition I was I was very busy being ostracized in those years.

By the time Penny Marshall's Big came along in 1988,

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