Sam talks annoying dogs and unemployed friends this week.
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Hey! It’s been a long winter vacation, but I’m back this week with French director Mati Diop’s supernatural indie drama ATLANTICS, now available on Netflix.
On New Year’s Day, for some reason, my partner put TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON on the TV first thing in the morning. That night, we decided to watch 6 UNDERGROUND, completely not intending to make it a full circle Michel Bay kind of day. And if there’s one thing I learned from that experience, it’s that if you’ve ever wondered what the opposite of a Michael Bay movie is, it’s ATLANTICS.
ATLANTICS tells the story of a young Senegalese woman, Ada, who despite being engaged to a rich asshole, is in love with a construction worker named Souleiman, who, along with his coworkers, is not paid his promised salary for 4 months of work on a huge tower that looms over the town of Dakar. In order to find work, the men all hop on a boat and try to cross the sea to Spain, leaving their women behind. The men don’t reach their destination, and that’s when weird shit starts happening.
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Emily Blake writes screenplays with lots of fight scenes. She is a vocal advocate for feminism, polyamory, kink, and sex positivity. She makes most of her money as a script supervisor for film and television, but she also makes cosplays for clients out of her little apartment in Los Angeles.
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! Venture Bros returns from a cursed hiatus to see out the rest of the series. Bryan Dressel, Graham “Dr. Girlfriend” Mason, & Matt “Wandering Spider” Dykes come together to discuss the second episode of the “latest” season as well as drop hints at what’s in store for the show. Are you ready for Part 2 of the Morphic Trilogy? Hell yeah you are.
In today’s episode, Nickwit joins us to talk about the long-running video game sports franchise John Madden Football. We reflect on a time when EA put effort into the game and grow angry when we realize it is now a large pile of garbage.
Special thanks to NFL 2K5 for still being the best football game ever made.
New Year’s resolutions and some decent skin care advice arrive by way of Middle Earth in this first Sam Wise of the year.
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In 2009 the Sci-Fi Channel re-branded itself to SyFy to shift emphasis from harder science fiction series like Battlestar Galactica and the Stargate franchise. Along with the re-branding, a new series began that had a science fiction edge- mixing supernatural elements with comedy and a quirky feel that explored history in an interesting and unique way. This was not time travel (although time travel would feature in the series at one point); it was a modern day set series about agents whose sole mission was to retrieve items that were imbued with powers. These artifacts were things that ranged from the irritating to a world-ending weapon of mass destruction-but even the lesser powered artifacts had downsides to using them.
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Matt is a huge film and TV buff who studied film and moving image production at university. In his spare time he enjoys reading comics and books, the occasional gaming session and writing novels.
On today’s adventure we are joined by reoccurring guest Sam “Dpadgamer”. We attempt to talk Pokemon Sword and Shield. It’s an very okay game that could of been so much more. Join us in not being mad, just disappointed.
Special thanks to the Pokemon games that actually gave us a challenge.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…
It is a time of great rejoicing as we’ve made it to the last and best episode of the prequel trilogy, and as such have ended our journey through all the Star Wars films. How does this one hold up compared to the others? Well, it looks great, and has one of the best lightsaber fights of the saga. Does it break our heart in other areas? Absolutely.
In the Nine Hells, everything has its place in the grand, infernal hierarchy. Those who work outside of these confines suffer dire consequences. That is, if they get caught. The party discovers that there’s more to the history of this tower than just Modron art and bags of holding, and that some of that history is absolutely terrible.
The holidays are tough, but you don’t have to be as long as you show yourself compassion, per Sam’s advice this episode.
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