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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: HISTORY LESSONS: A Man for All Seasons
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of royal incest, religious zeal, religion, Catholicism, execution, scatological references.
We’re starting a new series of historical films with one of the classics of the genre, long revered as one of the gold standards of historical cinema. Though, to be quite honest, this would be better served as historical fiction, and even then it’s pretty boring. Everything that happens in this movie did happen, to some extent, in real life, but trying to spin a 16th century religious zealot as a...