Shallow & Pedantic

We're back, and we are once more talking about Dune. In this case, the most recent Denis de Villeneuve adaptation, Dune Part 2. We have opinions.

For this episode, the nexus of Ralph Bakshi's rotoscoped animation and Frank Frazetta's musclepulp art: the 1983 animated cult classic Fire and Ice. Ready your axe, flee the glaciers, and dig the ride.

This episode covers what's in UJ 34, and also includes advice on how to submit to Unnamed Journal. Thanks to author Annalise Grey, whose poem "True Story" appears in this issue.

Quick discussion of the New issue of Unnamed Journal, the cover, the stories, and everything else that pertains.Subscribe to our Patreon to read the issue.Or check out our Gumroad.Also available on Amazon.

Part 2 of our discussion of The Last Unicorn. Includes some inside dope on the next issue of Unnamed Journal, and upcoming podcasts.

Wade with us through the glory years of Rankin-Bass animation with this roundtable discussion of The Last Unicorn. Part 1 of 2.

What makes a bad story? What makes a bad story comedy gold? And should we grade on a curve? Listen as we challenge the status of "Eye of Argon" as the Worst Fantasy Story Ever, mostly by looking at the backstory of its creation, and how it got passed around the sci-fi community.

Lo! We brave band of threesome plumb the fetid depths of the most deeping, dreadful tale of Fantasy Fiction? Join our savage spelunking of this gruesome grimoire, The Eye of Argon!

The continuation of our Transformers discussion and some shameless shilling of the Latest edition of Unnamed Journal. Of course, if you're a Patron, you already have that.

A bifurcated episode! We start talking about The Transformers, and at some point during the discussion, something got bumped and the recording stopped. This is the part before the bump. Part 2 coming soon!

We sat down to discuss fantasy author Neil Gaiman, and we recorded nearly two hours worth of material. This bit here is the part about Neil Gaiman. The rest of the madness will become a bonus episode, here shortly. Enjoy!

We chatter like a bunch of fanboys about Mel Brooks, talking about all the movies of his we've seen, which is almost all of them. In the process, we discover the difference between what's brilliant and what's mediocre.

Cannon Films, the Art-House of Schlock. The Criterion of Cult. A stew of memorable entertainments, actual cinema, and complete garbage. We wander through the canon of Cannon, and like a forbidden encyclopedia it breaks our recording. It's DOOMED!

Denis de Villneuve's Dune has exploded in our minds, and we have opinions about it. We compare it to David Lynch's film, Jodowrosky's unmade film, and go off on a few mild tangents. Duke, duke, duke!It's not an April Fool's Joke this time.

We have a series of agreements about film adaptations of Arthurian Legend, beginning with The Green Knight and ending with John Boorman's Excalibur, which is objectively the best King Arthur movie. You can disagree, but you're wrong.

It was suggested that we do a 101 on RPG's (not MMORPG's), so we did. And not only did we cram Dune in there, we discovered it was actually relevant.If you like this kind of thing, we have more of the kind of thing that you like. Support us on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/shallowpedantic, and by new issues of Unnamed Journal at https://app.gumroad.com/shallowpedantic

What is Punk? How important are the Stooges to Punk? Is Punk dead? Listen to us almost discuss these questions in between geeking out about our favorite bands. We conclude with sage advice about making mixtapes for people you want to date.

Lucky 13! We have a serious discussion of the filmography of Kevin Smith, comparing him to Quentin Tarantino, Charles Bukowski, and Henry Rollins. We mostly focus on Smith's "classic run" of View Askew films from 1993 to 2001.

A planned conversation about vampire comedy rapidly morphs into reminisences of the Goth scene, the spontaneous MST3Kness of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Where Horror Is Now, and the decline of Mel Brooks. Also features some preview info on the next issue of UJ. Fans of What We Do In Shadows welcome.

The long-promised episode, finally a reality.

An encompassing extrapolation from the plot structures and themes of "The Venture Brothers" and "Archer" to the general cultural-aesthetic vibe of Generation X and a lot of windy references to Greek Philosophy.

Are you prepared for two solid hours of chatter about Anime? Get comfy as we set to discussing: What Anime is, When it started, What is good/bad Anime for noobs?, Why it looks like that, Why Cowboy Bebop is a really good show, and Various asides on tangential mattersShare and enjoy!

What if they gave a Podcast and no one introduced it? Enjoy as we meander through a series of topics almost entirely unintended: crazy cat dudes, ice hoes, werewolf romance, Doctor Sleep, The Pie Theory of Popular Entertainment, and the vast oeuvres of comic writers Alan Moore and Grant Morrison.

Listen to us not shut up about Westerns, Samurai movies, Sturgill Simpson, The Mandalorian, Pie, and how all of these things go together. Dune gets mentioned, because of course it does.

The gang (we're a gang now) discuss H.R. Gieger's particular brand of accessible horror-art, its origins, meaning, and influence, and about ten other subjects as our flow (and pronounciation of the man's name) keeps tacking back and forth like a whirligig in a hurricane. Good times.

We indulge in some Edmund Fitzgerald Porter and wax on about two creative fantasy authors that we've introduced each other two: Stephen Brust and Fritz Leiber. In the process, we hit upon why Andrew doesn't like cross-world fantasy, whether sci-fi and fantasy should be distinct, and stumble upon the Universal Field Theory of Creative Decline. A long and ramshackle episode, but fun.

A discussion of the bifurcation of The Shining into the King novel and the Kubrick film, both of which work despite the intentional differences between them. Ongoing discussion of the needs of literature vs. the needs of film.We also chat a bit about new things for Unnamed Journal and Shallow & Pedantic in general.

A podcast of changes here at Shallow & Pedantic. We break out new audio equipment, discuss big changes coming for Unnamed Journal and the whole S & P Universe (namely, that there will be one), and argue about whether fantasy is inherently atavistic.

It's Halloween, so we must do the thing that Halloween Podcasts do: confront the terror of the season. No, not inappropriately-timed store displays, just a cliff-dive into the ontology of horror. What is it? Why do we make it? Is it tragedy or comedy? Is it didactic, or merely sublime? Do we have to talk about IT?

For our inaugural episode, we drink a growler of pale ale and make a bunch of wildly inflated statements about various graphic novels and their terrible movie adaptations. We're not talking about you, Marvelfans, so locate and obtain your chill.