{"podcast":{"title":"Magellans at the Movies","slug":"magellans-at-the-movies-5486389","podcast_index_feed_id":5486389,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/magellensmovies/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/magellensmovies","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/magellensmovies/20220819_010834_d2c33ac23745a7b74c755160acd99fd4.jpg","author":"Nathan Magalhaes","episode_count":214,"summary":"Welcome to Magellans at the Movies, the outrageously popular* new podcast about all things movies brought to you by Nathan “I-can’t-believe-I-ate-the-whole-thing” Magalhães and his brother Elliot “Who-on-Earth-is-going-to-listen-to-a-podcast-we-make” Magalhães! (*Outrageous popularity pending) Join the brothers Magalhães (Anglicized as Magellan) as they bicker and banter about movies no one has seen or cares about or that have already been analyzed by far sharper minds than their own every week, along with special guest stars of varying willingness and notoriety! Get ready to laugh along with Nathan’s meandering freshman film student level critiques of movies you’ve never heard of, and enjoy the bored, grumpy-senior-citizen-who-would-rather-be-feeding-pigeons energy that has made Elliot the toast of the greater Indianola area! Come for the lukewarm old-man-yells-at-cloud takes on modern movies, stay because you got distracted and left Spotify running. See you at the cinema! Contact us/Requests/Questions: MagellansMovies@gmail.com Donate: https://paypal.me/magellensmovies?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Check out our blog for more reviews and movie content!!! https://magellansatthemovi…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-27T18:18:21.004734+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/magellans-at-the-movies-5486389"},"episode":{"title":"The Player","slug":"the-player","published_at":"2026-07-31T15:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/magellans-at-the-movies-5486389/the-player","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/magellans-at-the-movies-5486389","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/magellensmovies/3037202","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/132298/3037202/magellensmovies/2026_07_31_11_43_28_7fe06bde-4172-459a-b867-0d3c49656740.mp3","summary":"There’s no business like show business. Actually, I think there’s at least a couple businesses in which clueless narcissists and incompetent money men make fools of themselves both privately and professionally for the viewing pleasure of the masses, but perhaps none in environs so strenuous as Hollywood. Yes, the men and women behind the movies have to kill themselves in cutthroat work so contentious you might even say it’s . . . murder. At least that’s the case for the characters of The Player, a 1992 film directed by Robert Altman and based on the book by Michael Tolkin (no relation). This part noir, part comedy, part satirical sendup of what goes on behind the behind the scenes of moviemaking was a critical hit and awards darling thanks to its slick production and frequent celebrity cameos which haven’t aged poorly in any way whatsoever, and now aims for the most prestigious of awards: a kind word from Magellans at the Movies. But will the movie land a cushy, five picture contract in the hearts of our hosts, or will it receive nothing but a vague gesture towards a followup sometime in the next six months? If you don’t want to find out, keep it to yourself! Contact us/Requests/Questions: MagellansMovies@gmail.com Donate: https://paypal.me/magellensmovies?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Check out our blog for more reviews and movie content!!! https://magellansatthemoviesblog.blogspot.com/","meta_description":"There’s no business like show business. Actually, I think there’s at least a couple businesses in which clueless narcissists and incompetent money men mak…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4245,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/magellans-at-the-movies-5486389/episodes/the-player/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/magellans-at-the-movies-5486389/the-player.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}