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...
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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.
info_outlineThis episode is a real sink and swim effort for any listener who hasn't played the Dragon Age video game series. Emmet reached out to Aimee Hart from Gayming Magazine after reading her article Here's Why You Should Play Dragon Age 2, Like, Right Now.
Following up on Aimee's piece, which identifies a number of ambitious themes featured in the writing for this much maligned game, this episode also touches on the gameplay, choosing the personality for main character Hawke, criticisms of Dragon Age 2, and how it sits with other entries in the franchise Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age: Inquisition.
On and Dragon Age 2 came out 9 years ago, so there are spoilers aplenty in this discussion.
And for fans of the series, here's Emmet's interview with Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir the writing team behind Dragon Age: Blue Wraith, over on Deconstructing Comics.