This week in our month of horror Bryan takes us back to Camp Crystal Lake to hang out, go for a swim, and get slammed against a tree while hiding in a sleeping bag. That’s right, we’re talking the super fun Friday the 13th: Part 7: The New Blood and pointing out all the things that make this such a delightful watch. While it may not have the most imaginative kills, its costumes and special effects are on a whole other level.
Taslinn makes her decision after a conversation with Fetter and the party begins their preparations for the journey ahead by making their way to the prominent mercantile of the city – The Misty Step. Turns out there’s a lot of prep when it comes to epic journeys.
This week, Sam digs deep into the life of Aragorn to help listeners who feel jaded by their government and another who wants to come out.
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I had no idea what THE BABADOOK would be about when I put it on. The impression I had from the Internet was that it was about a gay dinner guest in a jaunty hat. This was definitely a film where that lack of knowledge was helpful in making me very scared.
THE BABADOOK, an Australian film by Jennifer Kent, is about grief. It’s pretty easy to suss that out, which I like, because I can get really annoyed at films that have this allegory so complex that you need a PhD in Pre-post-colonial literature (an actual class I took in grad school) in order to understand them. Yes, I have a graduate degree in English. I have studied literature. I have been an academic. And I really hate having to use my degree to understand shit. Make your story deep and beautiful and artsy, sure, but make sure that at the end of the day, I can see what the central argument or point of the film actually is. Otherwise, what are we doing here.
Continue reading The Other Voices: The BabadookThis week on the podcast Bryan Dressel, Chewie “The Yogi Bear Show” Darsow, and Matt “The Pink Panther” Dykes talk “Rapacity in Blue,” the mid-season episode of season six with all the problems mentioned last week with its serialized storytelling. Lot of details to juggle and sometimes it gets fuzzy what happens where and when. But hey, we get more Blue Morpho so that’s awesome!
This week we take on the world’s worst video game filmmaker of all time, Uwe Boll. Bryan Dressel from After the Hype and The Venture Bros podcast joins us on the hate train.
Special thanks to everyone who is boycotting Blizzard.
Due to the success of the original film, there was intention for Stargate to continue, the original creators of the film envisioned a trilogy of films-whilst others had a different idea. Producers Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner had been working on The Outer Limits together and both of them, independently from each other, approached MGM with the same idea: a TV series based on the Stargate film. Upon realising they had the same idea, they decided to work together on the project. They spent three months studying the original film to learn the mechanics of the Stargate and came to a conclusion: there was no way that the Stargate would only go to one place. From the idea that the gate requires 6 symbols and the point of origin to establish a connection (and there are 38 symbols on the gate itself, not including the point of origin), you can deduce that there are 1,987,690,320 different permutations of gate addresses possible. That’s a lot of potential addresses to go to. So, it makes sense that there are Stargates all over the galaxy rather than just two.
Continue reading Stepping Through the Wormhole: 25 Years of Stargate: Part 2And now for something completely unexpected: a rape revenge film that is good, actually, and that turns all its tropes on its head. I know, right? We’re talking about the 2017 film Revenge, from writer/director Coralie Fargeat. She brings a master filmmaker’s touch to an otherwise played out genre and asks us to take a hard look at ourselves. It’s quite the film and we do the best we can breaking down everything about it.
Hey guys! Jonathan here. Due to a variety of reasons I have to push Chapter 24 of Demon Dayz back to next week. In the meantime I thought it would be fun to showcase the Warcraft episode from After the Hype, the OG podcast that started our entire network. It was a super fun episode, even if the movie itself was only so-so. Thank you so much for your patience and see you next week as our tiefling heroes make their way to the Tower of All.
Sam talks about good-byes and good-riddances as her letter writers try to move forth in life in various ways.
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