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A Tribute to Robert Redford

January 13, 2026·1 hr 45 min·6 clips

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Tim Brayton opens the show by noting that January is the month when moviegoing gets thin. That leads into Sundance, and then into Robert Redford, who died on September 16, 2025. Caleb Wimble and Zev Burrows join him for the tribute. They talk about Redford as a star, as a director, and as the kind of presence that can still shape a whole conversation decades later. The tone stays loose, which gives the trio room for memories, corrections, and the sort of side jokes that show up when three people are already on the same wavelength. The episode does not pretend Redford’s later years were invisible. They note his final motion-picture cameo in *Avengers: Endgame*, but quickly decide that, fair enough, the old man still counts as a legend. The Marvel detour is not random. It becomes a handy way to talk about how *Captain America: The Winter Soldier* borrows Redford’s aura to make the movie feel like a Robert Redford conspiracy thriller in reverse. From there the conversation slides back into the 1970s. *Three Days of the Condor* becomes the main touchstone, with *The Parallax View* and *All the President’s Men* close by as the obvious other landmarks. The panel keeps sorting out which paranoid political thriller belongs where. That kind of ranking talk is basically the show doing its job. It is affectionate, but it is not shy about being blunt. The guests sound like people who have actually seen the movies, argued about them, and then decided to keep arguing on mic. Brayton keeps the tribute moving without sanding off the digressions. That gives the episode a conversational rhythm instead of a polished memorial shape. At the end, he signs off, points listeners to next week’s *Bride of AE*, and reminds the crew about the January 31, 2026 trivia night. The whole thing lands as a tribute that prefers film talk, memory, and a little irreverence to any tidy career summary package.

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A Redford tribute that treats aura and craft as equal parts of the same legacy.

The piece uses Sundance's arrival to look back at Robert Redford, who died on September 16, 2025, and it does so with real affection. It moves from the force of his star image to his work as a director, then settles on later roles that still seem to carry weight, with Captain…

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A January Redford tribute that moves from Sundance to political thrillers.

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