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_outline"Die Hard is a Xmas movie? You don't say!"
Insert Willy Wonka meme here.
Stevie and Emmet missed the boat on their planned 'unexpected Xmas movie run-down', but no matter! They're going to talk about Die Hard anyway. Because, as Stevie says, it's a good film anyway.
Also she has thoughts about Batman Returns she wants to share.
Emmet also raises examples of Die Hard-likes, such as Dwayne Johnson's Skyscraper (which we reviewed here) and the bloody good fun of Steven Yeun and Samara Weaving going on an office-workplace rampage in Mayhem.
Also mentioned:
- 2020 highlights, Heavn by Jamila Woods and in books, Francesca Wade's excellent history Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars
- Emmet's new comic The Beating of Wings, with Jeferson Sadzinski, Thomas Mauer, Tim Molloy, Laura Renfrew, Aisling King-Macklin and Sarah Winifred Searle is available from Comixology now