In this episode of Heads Down Two Thumbs Up, Bill and Carla discuss School of Rock. This iconic movie features Jack Black as a slacker musician who, in a moment of desperation, lies to get a substitut

In this episode of Heads Down Two Thumbs Up, Bill and Carla discuss Almost Famous. Written and directed by Cameron Crowe, this semi-autobiographical story is NOT set in a school, but it is about learn

episode transcript (click to read) In this special edition episode, we focus exclusively on the music of movies. The soundtrack. The score. We love this quote from Underground Press: As music can t

Travel back to 1988 with Bill and . . . Carla, as we have a MOST excellent adventure together taking about another favorite movie that talks about school. When two disengaged high school students, The

You watched the movie, you listened to the podcast, and now its time to listen to the B-Side from The Karate Kid. Bill sits down with Jesse Lubinsky for an extended interview. If youre completely lo

This month, Bill and Carla talk Karate Kid, the iconic 1984 movie staring Ralph Macchio as the young Karate student of Mr. Miyagi played by Pat Morita. We discuss the relationship between master teac

Its our first episode of the 2021-22 season. Were talking about Stand and Deliver, the true story of high school teacher Jaime Escalante who finds himself teaching math in East LA. He finds a group

Were back! After our pandemic hiatus, it felt great to be back in the studio to record Episode Six. Coming off of one of the craziest elections seasons in American history, we made the obvious choic

You watched the movie, you listened to the podcast, and now its time to listen to the B-Side from Rushmore. Carla sits down with Greg Bamford for an extended interview. If youre completely lost, go

If there is one thing Max Fischer loves, its his prep school Rushmore. I guess youve just gotta find something you love to do and then do it for the rest of your life. For me, its going to Rushm