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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 the week podcast about it to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent

release i'm scott obias here with tasha robinson keiths and jennabyvskine fos Ten years ago, in early July 2015, our beloved

movie site The Dissolve was shuttered after two years under the pitchfork umbrella. It was a site

that was simply too beautiful for our blighted digital media world. But we were not ready to scatter

to the winds, not after working so closely together for so many years at the Dissolve and the AV club.

So we conceived one group project no one could fire us from, a self-produced niche movie podcast called The Next Picture Show.

And now we have reached 500 episodes, which to me is kind of a miracle because it took us

an eternity just to figure out when we could all get together for episode one.

Gang, what do you all remember about this formative time in our lives?

I mean, I remember it being easier to get together because I was a semi-employed at that point in time. I think I was like doing some

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