Episodes
Monday Mar 22, 2021
#32: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) with Geordan Tilley
Monday Mar 22, 2021
Monday Mar 22, 2021
The portal to the multiverse has opened, and gigantic Liev Schreiber is coming for us all! This week we're joined by the incomparable Geordan Tilley (@GeordanATilley) in our very first guest episode. Together we tackle Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) in all its glory, from the animation to the score to the characters to everything that makes it great. Spoiler alert: we love this movie a lot!! We go beyond the movie and chat about its place within the superhero genre, why it didn't perform as well as it might've, and what it is about this film and others like it that bring us (and Geordan) so close to this art form.
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Sunday Mar 07, 2021
#31: Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)
Sunday Mar 07, 2021
Sunday Mar 07, 2021
Raya and the Last Dragon dropped this past Friday (March 7th) on Disney+ and in theaters around the world where they are open! Eric and Shaleila review the movie for you and tackle the beautiful animation, cultural depiction, issues with pacing, wishes for Disney World, the game Journey, the traditional nitpicks, and how it's absolutely for the lesbians.
Some wonderful words from Kelly Marie Tran, the voice of Raya, and more on the fight for good WLW representation in animated children's media: Raya and the Last Dragon’s Kelly Marie Tran Thinks Her Disney Princess Is Gay (Vanity Fair)
Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
#30: The Great Martin Scorsese "Cinema" Debate
Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
Martin Scorsese's been in the news recently for speaking about Marvel movies and other blockbusters films not being "cinema", and for critiquing algorithmically-driven streaming services for treating film as "content". We think he's got a point! But what do his words really mean? What made everyone so upset? What does it take to be a "real" film fan? Do you need to watch old movies and foreign films to qualify? We go deep.
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