This week we dig up the bones of Jurassic Park (1993) and Jurassic World (2015) to discuss capitalists' disregard of ethics, sexism in survival situations, gratuitous product placement, and how much we'd stan a baby dinosaur petting zoo.
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This week we ride the waves with the original and remake versions of Point Break (1991 & 2015) and discuss the financial cost of justice, the hero complex of cops, women being reduced to damsels, and how "going off the grid" is every problematic man's wet dream.
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This week we rev our engines with Gone in 60 Seconds (1974 & 2000) and discuss white screenwriters punching down, women being forced to participate in patriarchal violence, young people being made to look incompetent, and how some men definitely want to have sex with cars.
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This week we look to the stars with 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and its sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) and discuss intentional vagueness, the humanity of artificial intelligence, American propaganda in space, and the legalization of drugs for mimes.
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For our first episode of 2021 we head to the sewers to watch two iterations of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990 & 2014) and discuss the gross oversexualization of female characters, the dangers of all binaries, toxic masculinity as the basis of a plot, and not being a jerk to your pizza delivery person.
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This week we get into the holiday spirit with Jingle All The Way (1996) and Jingle All The Way 2 (2014) and discuss strong anti-capitalist messages, fictional characters as stand-ins for tangible relationships, conservatives vilifying poverty, and the problematic antics of Lawrence the Cable Man.
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This week we search for treasure with Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) & Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) and discuss glossing over sexual abuse, the destruction of indigenous cultures in the name of white male glory, fatal consequences of capitalism, and a very phallic use of snakes.
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This week we get creepy and kooky with The Addams Family (1991) and its animated reimagining (2019) and discuss societal fear of individuality, genuine familial love, the dangers of familiarizing children with problematic people, and how we are slowly becoming an Anjelica Huston appreciation podcast.
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This week we summon up The Craft (1996) and its new sequel The Craft: Legacy (2020) to discuss demonizing female empowerment, the patriarchy personified, bisexual erasure, and what it would have been like to visit Fairuza Balk’s occult shop in the ‘90s.
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This week we look at the original 1990 version and brand new 2020 version of The Witches to examine the anti-Semitic history of witches, the stale comedy of fat jokes, unearned emotional payoffs, and how Roald Dahl was a terrible horrible awful person.
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It's our one year podcast anniversary (and Eric's birthday)! We celebrated by watching both versions of Frankenweenie (1984 and 2012) and discussed the paranoia of white suburbanites, adults not believing children, depicting people of color as villains, and Tim Burton being a goth boomer.
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This week we visit provincial France to look at Beauty and the Beast (1991) and its live-action remake (2017) and explore different performances of toxic masculinity, reinforcing gender binaries via anthropomorphic household objects, condescending representations of queerness, and Disney's extremely low bar for feminism.
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This week we make a totally righteous trip to San Dimas to view Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) and Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) and discuss influencing others with kindness, using authentic language in formal situations, fixing the mistakes of previous generations, and being excellent to each other.
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This week we take a look at the slick heists of Ocean's Eleven (2001) and Ocean's 8 (2018) to discuss justifications for revenge, treating women like property, subverting expectations of social performance, and dudes in fedoras.
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This week we are joined by Dr. Amber Jones to embark on an adventure to the land of The Wizard of Oz (1939) and The Wiz (1978) where we discuss strength in vulnerability, the power of empathy, viewing lack of masculinity as a weakness, and flushing capitalism down the toilet.
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This week we examine the French film La Cage aux Folles (1978) and the American remake The Birdcage (1996) and discuss queer joy, people with privilege expecting the world to change for them, using your identity as an excuse not to be critical of your actions, and butts, butts, butts!
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This week we take a look at The Karate Kid (1984) and its most recent retelling (2010) to discuss American appropriation and its erasure of Asian cultures, violence as a problematic coping mechanism, and how white writers are obsessed with fictionalizing and performing the black experience.
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This week we dance over to the city of Bomont to examine Footloose (1984 & 2011) and discuss the slippery slope logic of religious conservatives, men bonding over anti-feminist behavior, using black characters to propagate white narratives, and the most famous angry dance of all time.
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This week we are joined by guest Bob MacPherson and take a look at Dracula (1931) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) to discuss men controlling women under the guise of protection, the inability to reflect on past actions, the normalization of gaslighting, and Keanu Reeves' fantastically bad English accent.
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This week we examine The Incredibles (2004) & Incredibles 2 (2018) and discuss super powers as a metaphor for privilege, unwittingly reinforcing rigid gender stereotypes, the rich believing they are above the law, and Brad Bird's massively self-serving ego.
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