In this episode of WVIA Pop Shop, Allan Austin and Patrick Hamilton dive into The End of Oak Street, a sci-fi adventure that sends an ordinary 1980s suburban neighborhood into a prehistoric world filled with dinosaurs.
The guys discuss the film's surprisingly convincing '80s nostalgia, its debt to Steven Spielberg-era adventure movies and why its picture-perfect suburban setting may not be quite as idyllic as it first appears.
Then it's time to overthink the dinosaur movie.
In the spoiler-filled second half, Allan and Patrick dig into the film's surprisingly complicated moral questions: What do we owe our neighbors in a crisis? Who gets to decide who deserves to survive? And does the movie's supposedly happy ending actually hold up if you think about it for more than a few minutes?
⚠️ Spoilers begin at 17:35.
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