It's September 1, so you know what that means: time to board the Hogwarts Express!

Today we’re discussing HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE and, given the weight and volume of all there is to discuss, we welcomed two guests for the first time. Hadley Balser is a journalist and recent college grad, and TheSecondBatgirl is a podcaster and general expert on all things fandom (she also once was a moderator for a Harry Potter fan site — remember those?!)

Yes, we talk about J.K. Rowling’s bigotry against transgender people, and the impact that’s had on how folks engage with Harry Potter. If you don’t want to hear that, grow up. (Or, IDK, skip around I guess, but I’m not gonna hold your hand to the time stamps.)

This week’s bonus feature is all about fandom and “nerd” culture: the history, the hijinks and the hysteria that probably has done more harm than good to society.

Usually we ponder, “Does this movie matter?” but this week it takes on a different form, naturally, given the subject at hand. So grab a wand and hold on tight.

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SHOW NOTES (very useful this week): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lPlrgBNEBydPzhaQYcR7AB9PsAbhHPyDEsuS40QCvLQ/edit?usp=sharing

NOT ANOTHER 2001 MOVIE PODCAST is a limited series exploring movies released in the first year of a chaotic century.

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P.S.: Our audio listeners got about 10 minutes of extra “content” this week. If you want to hear a post-script to the episode, check us out wherever you listen to podcasts that isn’t YouTube.

What do you get when you mix several of the biggest actor in Hollywood, a filmmaker with distinct vision and commercial sensibilities, and a hair-brained scheme? One of the finest blockbusters ever screened at multiplexes (well, at least according to the host writing this description).

OCEAN’S ELEVEN stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Julia Roberts among several other well-known faces (including future Captain America Don Cheadle). It’s actually a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack flick of the same name but has very little in common with it beyond that. Here, the target is absurd — not one, but three casino cash reserves housed in an underground vault — and, often, so too are the motivations. It’s a crystallization of the phrase, “They don’t make ’em like that anymore.”

Allison, a true appreciator of sin, becomes a tour guide in this week’s bonus feature segment dedicated to the city that capitalism demanded exist: Las Vegas!

Finally, we put our chips on the table and ask, “Does this movie matter?” One of us might lose their shirt!

SHOW NOTES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dMYepM8YQoBs5wxaM_JwU4m-Ec25gC6G8dIycVJnT0E/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.e32fsjx5hwrr

NOT ANOTHER 2001 MOVIE PODCAST is a limited series exploring movies released in the first year of a chaotic century.

Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NotAnother2001MoviePodcast

Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notanother2001moviepodcast/

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Get out your carving knives, cause we’re headed to the mean streets of London in FROM HELL.

Johnny Depp and Heather Graham star in the Hughes brothers’ adaptation of the quintessential Alan Moore comic FROM HELL, which was inspired by the 1988 BBC miniseries JACK THE RIPPER, which was influenced by the 1978 film MURDER BY DECREE, which followed Stephen Knight’s bestselling 1976 book JACK THE RIPPER: THE FINAL SOLUTION. No idea is original!

It all, of course, stems from a series of murders that occurred in London’s East End from April 1988 to February 1891. Many of those killings were eventually prescribed to “Jack the Ripper,” a serial killer who to this day remains unidentified. Fittingly for our goofy show, our final movie from the “That Really Happened” segment of our draft aligns with a subject about whom we really don’t know much.

Naturally, we dive into societal fascination with true crime in the bonus feature. Then, as always, we ponder “Does this movie matter?” Jack may not like where we arrive.

SHOW NOTES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E4gmKuJwqKoaOK4EWmzxkocoAx-6fT2QpDIW2DBngbM/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.54kz1oojh3oi

NOT ANOTHER 2001 MOVIE PODCAST is a limited series exploring movies released in the first year of a chaotic century.

Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NotAnother2001MoviePodcast

Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notanother2001moviepodcast/

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