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Oct 2024
1h 16m

Pulp Fiction: 30th Anniversary

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson | Realm
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For the 30th Anniversary of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, we're re-releasing our episode discussing it back from 2019! Paul and Amy boogie through 1994’s Quentin Tarantino indie breakout Pulp Fiction! They revisit the moment Pulp Fiction won at Cannes, ask what this film did right that so many imitators did wrong, and try to figure out what’s in the brie ... Show More
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