Episode 114: The Snyder Cut
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Returning guest, filmmaker Tanzeal Rahim joins Emmet to discuss 'The Snyder Cut'.
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Episode 113: Wandavision
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Emmet and Stevie watch Wandavision.
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Episode 112: Save Yourselves!
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Is Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson film *the* pandemic film we need? Stevie and Emmet discuss.
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Episode 111: Saved by the Bell 2020
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Emmet and Stevie are surprised by this thoughtful - and satirically witty - return to Bayside.
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Episode 110: Die, Hard, 2020
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Every year it's the same tired meme - Die Hard is actually a Xmas movie! Stevie and Emmet discuss.
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Stupid Stupid Rat Creatures #1 with Anthony Castle
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Emmet discusses issues #1 and #2 of Jeff Smith's Bone with Anthony Castle.
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Episode 109: The Queen's Gambit
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Stevie and Emmet belatedly - we promised we'd do it last episode - review The Queen's Gambit from Netflix.
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Episode 108: Lovecraft Country
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Stevie and Emmet discuss HBO's Lovecraft Country.
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Episode 107: Scream Queen
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Stevie and Emmet review the Mark Patton documentary 'Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street'
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Episode 106: Faster, more Furious
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So as it becoming custom, we open this episode with an apology for the delay in posting! 2020 has been...eventful. And we are now living in country Victoria after escaping Melbourne's COVID-lockdown. In a funk of post-move fatigue, we binged five Fast & Furious movies. Turns out we have a lot to say about these films, from Vin Diesel's self-insert fantasy of an indomitable and virile hero-figure, to Lucas Black aging ten years in a scene, James Wan's prominence in Australian cinema and that bloody plane runway in Fast & Furious 6. , featuring a story by Emmet O'Cuana and...
info_outlineTwin Peaks The Return on Showtime inspired a resurgence of interest in the cult 90's classic television show. Finally fans would get answers to questions like "Where's Annie?" and what happened to "the good Cooper"....or maybe not.
This week's interviewee, writer Maura McHugh, has a new book out on the film prequel Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me. Famously booed after its premiere at Cannes, the story of Laura Palmer's last days has become an unexpected cornerstone of the overall series - and The Return.
In this episode Maura McHugh discusses her interest in Fire Walk With Me, the highs and lows of the new season - including controversial casting choices and Kyle MacLachlan's performance as Dougie Jones - David Lynch's fascination with what lies beneath the surface of polite society - and what does it all mean in the end.