• TEASER: A Very Special Episode
    Dec 20 2024

    Remember that lady who didn't show her face and made the Dance Moms kid do interpretive dance to her songs who also happened to be one of the biggest pop stars of the 2010s? Well she made a movie about how autism is just seeing the world like a Christmas commercial for Target.

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    10 mins
  • Shang-Chi, or the Castle of Simu Liu (feat. Seqarts)
    Dec 13 2024

    Friend of the show/Discord moderator of the year/Asian correspondent Seqarts returns to guide us through a discussion of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings that takes us on a journey through Marvel's orientalist source material, American liberal understandings of Asian identity, the limits of representation politics, and Simu Liu's sordid internet history. Shockingly woke discussion.

    Thank you to our $10 Executive Producers: Isaac, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Kevin Feige doing the Shmurda Dance, Jim (shout out to Jim!), jprestonpoole, Sam, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2.

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    2 hrs and 12 mins
  • TEASER: Cat People
    Dec 6 2024

    The Jellicle Moon is shining bright Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball Jellicle cats are black and white Jellicle cats are rather small Jellicle cats are merry and bright And pleasant to hear when we caterwaul Jellicle cats have cheerful faces Jellicle cats have bright black eyes We like to practice our airs and graces And wait for the Jellicle Moon to rise Jellicle cats develop slowly Jellicle cats are not too big Jellicle cats are roly poly We know how to dance a gavotte and a jig Until the Jellicle Moon appears We make our toilet and take our repose Jellicles wash behind their ears Jellicles dry between their toes Jellicle cats are black and white Jellicle cats are of moderate size Jellicles jump like a jumping jack Jellicle cats have moonlit eyes We're quiet enough in the morning hours We're quiet enough in the afternoon Reserving our Terpsichorean powers To dance by the light of the Jellicle Moon Jellicle cats are black and white Jellicle cats (as we said) are small If it happens to be a stormy night We will practice a caper or two in the hall If it happens the sun is shining bright You would say we have nothing to do at all We are resting and saving ourselves to be bright For the Jellicle Moon and Jellicle Ball Jellicle cats come out tonight Jellicle cats come one come all The Jellicle Moon is shining bright Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball

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    10 mins
  • Free Guy, or NPC Home Cinema
    Nov 29 2024

    Ryan and Reynolds and Taika Waitit? In a Shawn Levy movie? How could we lose! Easily, it turns out. Join us on a journey with the least imaginative minds into the least interesting virtual world since Zuckerberg's Metaverse. Are you an NPC? Listen and find out!

    Thank you to our $10 Executive Producers: Isaac, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Kevin Feige doing the Shmurda Dance, Jim (shout out to Jim!), jprestonpoole, Sam, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2.

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    1 hr and 41 mins
  • TEASER: Animation IS Cinema!!!!!
    Nov 22 2024

    We take a brave stance on our Patreon Raffle episode for the 2009 CGI Astro Boy that bankrupted a studio that animated movies for children should be good, or even cinema.

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    4 mins
  • Black Widow, or Red (Ledger) Scare
    Nov 15 2024

    We return to our regularly scheduled timeline and the MCU with one of COVID's most high profile release victims: Black Widow. It's a movie at least five years too late to be of any value and literally ends with Natasha saving ALL women. You probably know about the lawsuit between Scarlett Johansson and Disney about how co-releasing the movie on Disney+ fucked her bag up, but did you also know Disney was going to pay the original creators of Yelena Belova/White Widow a few thousand dollars as compensation for Florence Pugh playing their character? Just business as usual.

    Thank you to our $10 Executive Producers: Isaac, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Kevin Feige doing the Shmurda Dance, Jim (shout out to Jim!), jprestonpoole, Sam, Lohik, bernventers, and Owen2.

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    1 hr and 57 mins
  • Halloween Special: Creepshow, or the (Stephen) King of Comedy
    Nov 1 2024

    It's a very special Halloween episode as the gang covers the classic EC-comics inspired 1982 George Romero/Stephen King anthology film Creepshow. Our conversation includes: The strengths of the anthology format, the history of moral panics, how much creatively minded boomers hated their dads, EC comics and the comics code, scary Leslie Neilson, and King's memorable turn as doomed simpleton farmer Jordy Verrill.

    Special thanks to our Executive Producer tier Patrons: Isaac, Walt Lewellyn of The Black Casebook, Kevin Feige doing the Shmurda Dance, Owen2, bernventers, Lohik, Jim (shout out to Jim!), jprestonpoole, Sam, Porridge Fist and Ronnie Gardocki

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    1 hr and 56 mins
  • X-Men: Days of Future Past, or Magneto Bullet Theory
    Oct 18 2024

    X-Men: Days of Future Past is notable for three things. The first is that it splits the timeline continuity between the old X-Men movies directed by (allegedly) sex pests towards underage boys or adult women with the new ones that will eventually bring us to Dark Phoenix and New Mutants taking Fox's outing with Marvel off a cliff, and in doing so innovates the now lucrative concept of the "multiverse." The second is that aforementioned sex pest towards underage boys (allegedly) is back to directing an X-Men movie and now we have to talk about him. The third is that JFK is a mutant.

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    1 hr and 56 mins