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_outlineFirst off, we open the episode with the ambition of reviewing The Queen's Gambit. That did not happen. We had too much to say about Lovecraft Country. So check back in with us next episode for that!
Instead Stevie and Emmet get stuck into a discussion of Misha Green's Lovecraft Country. Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Wunmi Mosaku and Michael K. Williams are among the excellent cast-members of this horror series that centres the genre legacy of Lovecraft against the lived experience of Black Americans.
Also mentioned:
- Josephine Tay's novel The Daughter of Time
- How Lovecraft Country exemplifies the critical approach to the author H.P. Lovecraft the genre needs.
- 'Blank spots' in how history is taught in the US and Australia.
- Emmet's piece on Michael Shea.