The Hopscotch Friday Podcast
Every year it's the same tired meme - Die Hard is actually a Xmas movie! Stevie and Emmet discuss.
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Emmet discusses issues #1 and #2 of Jeff Smith's Bone with Anthony Castle.
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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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Stevie and Emmet discuss HBO's Lovecraft Country.
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Stevie and Emmet review the Mark Patton documentary 'Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street'
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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...
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We follow up on the Emmy-nominated HBO series Bad Education and revisit Battlestar Galactica.
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We talk about Schitt's Creek, Succession and Watchmen, all up for Emmy awards.
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Aimee Hart from Gayming Magazine joins Emmet to discuss all things Dragon Age
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Stevie and Emmet review the latest Will Ferrell vehicle Eurovision Song Contest: The story of Fire Saga
info_outlineHandily collected on Netflix, the Jurassic Park franchise has been a blockbuster staple for almost thirty years.
Stevie and Emmet discuss the first, third and most recent 'Jurassic' flicks, the underrated Jurassic Park III, the overall theme of capitalism and science being turned to deadly or humanist ends - and just how creepy was Jeff Goldblum's Dr Ian Malcolm?
Also in this episode:
- those annoying Zach Braff podcast promos
- Finna by Nino Cipri
- Ghil Dirthalen, a Dragon Age Youtube channel's review of Blue Wraith (and a nod to Emmet's interview with Christina Weir/Nunzio DeFilipis)
- making a Dolly Varden cake
- Tiny Tim's The Ice Caps Are Melting
- the origins of Alien Versus Predator
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often being in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
Ursula K. Le Guin