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...
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Episode 105: Bad Education and Battlestar Galactica
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We follow up on the Emmy-nominated HBO series Bad Education and revisit Battlestar Galactica.
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Episode 104: Talking about The Emmys
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We talk about Schitt's Creek, Succession and Watchmen, all up for Emmy awards.
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Episode 103: Dragon Age 2 w/ Aimee Hart
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Aimee Hart from Gayming Magazine joins Emmet to discuss all things Dragon Age
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Episode 102: Fire Saga and Eurovision
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Stevie and Emmet review the latest Will Ferrell vehicle Eurovision Song Contest: The story of Fire Saga
info_outlineEmmet interviews Craig Cormick and Harold Ludwick on their book On A Barbarous Coast. A reimagining of the HMB Endeavour's arrival - it sinks - Cormick and Ludwick discuss how this fork in the accounting of Australia's history allowed them to reflect on how indigenous Australians have been excluded from the colonial record.
The authors also discuss:
- how their collaboration came about
- how their book treats of Captain Cook
- the use of language
- and the relevance of BLM protests to their account.