Midnight at the OASIS Edition

Slate Culture

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Dana Stevens, Christina Cauterucci, and Sam Adams discuss the new Steven Spielberg film Ready Player One, HBO's new assassination comedy series Barry, and the Cannes Film Festival's decision to ban Netflix films from competing in the festival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:23.2	I'm Dana Stevens and this is the Slate Culture Gabfest midnight at the Oasis
0:37.4	edition. It's Wednesday April 4th 2018 and on today's show Ready Player 1
0:42.4	is the new Sci-fi fantasy film from Stephen Spielberg
0:44.8	based on an extremely polarizing novel by Ernest Klein.
0:48.5	It dominated the box office this weekend, but how does Spielberg fare in his grand return
0:52.4	to action filmmaking?
0:54.0	Next, Barry is a new half-hour comedy series from HBO.
0:57.0	It stars Bill Hader as a depressed low-level hitman who gets bitten by the acting bug during a mission in LA.
1:03.1	And finally, the Khan Film Festival
1:04.7	has officially banned Netflix movies
1:06.4	from competition at the festival.
1:08.0	What are they so afraid of?
1:09.4	We'll discuss.
1:10.9	Stephen Metcalf and Julia Turner
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