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Gotham City Limit owner Ben Kingsbury is back on the podcast for a Batman-heavy episode celebrating Batman Day 2026!Recorded live inside the shop, Ben breaks down why Absolute Batman continues to bring new readers into comic stores, whether classics like The Dark Knight Returns and The Long Halloween still hold up as essential Batman recommendations, and his personal favorite Batman stories.Then we put his Dark Knight knowledge to the test with a round of Batman trivia, followed by a preview of the upcoming Tyler Kirkham signing experience. We also talk shop-exclusive variant covers, the business of comic collecting, indie publishers, and the current state of comics—including some of the good ideas coming out of Bad Idea Comics.Ben also shares his picks for the best comics of 2026 so far, including Warbird, Ordained, Rook: Exodus, JSA and moreWatch the uncut video version of this episode: HERELINKS: Take your comic shopping experience to the limit, by shopping online at Gotham City Limit!Join our Patreon Community, and get access to bonus episodes, free comics, and other rewards! Try a FREE 7-day trial: HEREThe Schiller Kessler GroupClick here to text us Fan Mail!Proudly sponsored by Gotham City LimitDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showREACH OUT AND FOLLOW FOR MORE

By Matthew Nemeth Back with another Video Game review, this, for Lego Batman: Legacy Of The Dark Knight Click here for the ad-free podcast Click here for a list of our iTunes feeds. Information matthew@entertainmenttalk.org Please rate and review us on iTunes @etalkuk Twitter Patreon matthew@entertainmenttalk.org Facebook Page Matt's Twitch Kualo Domains

En ny säsong av den populära spionserien Slow Horses är här. Och den brittiske skådespelaren Gary Oldman förknippas så mycket med sin skitiga roll att folkundrar om han luktar illa. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. ”Det där är bara smoke and mirrors”, säger Gary Oldman, alltså hårolja och sjaviga kläder.Den Oscarsbelönade brittiske skådespelaren är kanske mest känd från "Dracula", "Leon", ”Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”, ”The Darkest Hour” och återkommande roller i ”Harry Potter”-filmerna och ”The Dark Knight”-trilogin. Nu har han blivit oväntat fäst vid sin första tv-serie-huvudroll – som spionchefen Jackson Lamb, mannen som basar över ett gäng sparkade M15-agenter.P1 Kulturs Björn Jansson fick en pratstund med Gary Oldman inför premiären av den sjätte säsongen.

Vilka blir de stora kulturfrågorna under nästa mandatperiod? Och vem kan bli nästa kulturminister? P1 Kultur samlar kulturcheferna från Sveriges fyra största dagstidningar i svallvågorna efter valet. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Under onsdagen räknas de sista rösterna. Och regeringsbildningen är ett stort frågetecken. Men vad kommer att prägla kulturen under de kommande fyra åren? P1 Kultur tittar in i spåkulan tillsammans med Victor Malm från Expressen, Ida Ölmedal från Svenska Dagbladet, Karin Pettersson från Aftonbladet och Björn Wiman från Dagens Nyheter.PÅ SPANING EFTER NÄSTA KULTURMINISTERHur ser jakten på nästa kulturminister i Sverige ut? P1 Kulturs reporter Max Colliander ringde upp statsvetaren Jenny Madestam som forskar om svenska partier, politiskt ledarskap och ledarrekrytering: Vilken roll har kulturministern egentligen har i regeringen och har haft rent historiskt? Hur tänker man internt när man väljer ut en kulturminister? Och vad är det svåraste med att vara kulturminister i Sverige?GARY OLDMAN: ”FOLK UNDRAR OM JAG LUKTAR ILLA”Den Oscarsbelönade brittiske skådespelaren Gary Oldman är känd från "Dracula", "Leon", ”Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”, ”The Darkest Hour” och återkommande roller i ”Harry Potter”-filmerna och ”The Dark Knight”-trilogin. Nu har han blivit oväntat fäst vid sin första tv-serie-huvudroll – som spionchefen Jackson Lamb i ”Slow Horses”. P1 Kulturs Björn Jansson har fått en pratstund med Gary Oldman inför premiären av den sjätte säsongen.ESSÄ: SLACKERN VS. ÄTA-JOBBA-SOVA-DÖ-SAMHÄLLETSlackerromanen och slackern själv hade sin storhetstid under 1990-talet. Men vad ville denna figur egentligen? Författaren Martin Engberg hittar henne i ny skepnad.Programledare: Lisa BergströmProducent: Henrik Arvidsson

In this episode we discuss; DC Spotlight September 16, 2026: Absolute Green Arrow's Big Twist, End of Life Gets Wilder & Can Superman Save Everyone? The Comic Source   Jace and Rocky break down all 15 DC releases for the week of September 16, 2026. Deathstroke: The Terminator #7 shifts the spotlight to Adeline Kane, using flashbacks to explore the already-dysfunctional foundation of her relationship with Slade while Doctor Ivo offers her a mysterious new power. A new arc kicks off Batman/Superman: World's Finest #55, pairing Poison Ivy with Ra's al Ghul as they assemble a new group of Four Horsemen while Jace praises the cleaner look of Adrián Gutiérrez's art under Vicente Cifuentes' inks. The Bad Seeds crossover disrupts Selina's ongoing story throughout Catwoman #91, though the continued focus on her relationship with Carmine Falcone gives Jace and Rocky something worthwhile to latch onto. Amanda Waller's increasingly brutal power grab drives Dark Knights of Steel II #3, especially the apparent murder of Lara, which provokes one of the strongest reactions of the entire episode. Absolute Cassandra Cain: The Shadow's Hand expands Cassandra's history with Lady Shiva, David Cain and the surviving League of Assassins while revealing a compassion that separates her sharply from her mother. Yara Flor leads the Titans back to the Esquecida for New Titans #39, where Static's unreliable powers and characterization prompt sharply different reactions from Jace and Rocky. Blüdhaven gets dragged into Bad Seeds during Nightwing #142 through the tragedy of a former Gotham resident, even though Jace would rather Dan Watters' regular storyline had continued uninterrupted. Kyle Starks and Steve Pugh keep the absurdity and emotion working side by side throughout End of Life #8, as Eddie's captivity, Little Cock's torture and one very unexpected return make it one of the week's standouts. Lobo's trip back to Czarnia turns into a trap during Lobo #7, launching "The Last Death of Lobo" while Jorge Corona's darker, more visceral artwork earns especially strong praise from Rocky. Joe Kubert: 100 Years — A Life in Covers becomes a celebration of Kubert's ability to tell a complete story through a single image, even as Jace objects to the omission of his beloved Star Spangled War Stories #138. Verity Pennyworth becomes unexpectedly important to Detective Comics #1113 when she uncovers the lethal flaw in Commissioner Savage's planned herbicide, while the backup introduces the new villain Rhetoric. The return to Wonder War gives Wonder Woman #37 a major Diana-and-Steve reunion and gorgeous Daniel Sampere artwork, though Jace feels the emotional payoff is muted and the issue functions mostly as setup. Superman Unlimited #17 pushes Kingdom of Zod closer to its conclusion as Lana Lang helps purge Superman's kryptonite poisoning and he realizes there may be a way to save everyone else as well. Absolute Green Arrow #5 appears to finally answer the book's central mystery before Pornsak Pichetshote delivers another twist that completely reframes what Jace and Rocky thought they understood. Kate Kane answers Batman's call during Batwoman #7, returning to Gotham to deal with Vandal Savage's forces in a Bad Seeds tie-in that Jace thinks is slightly more interesting than the book's ongoing story, though neither host is especially enthusiastic. Jace and Rocky also cover this week's collected editions before ranking all 15 books and revealing their Books of the Week.   Follow The Comic Source on all social media with our Linktree - https://linktr.ee/thecomicsource   00:00 Intro / Week Overview 05:06 Deathstroke: The Terminator #7 13:22 Batman/Superman: World's Finest #55 22:09 Catwoman #91 28:48 Dark Knights of Steel II #3 37:58 Absolute Cassandra Cain: The Shadow's Hand 47:13 New Titans #39 55:58 Nightwing #142 1:03:51 End of Life #8 1:13:48 Lobo #7 1:21:34 Joe Kubert: 100 Years — A Life in Covers 1:28:56 Detective Comics #1113 1:38:20 Wonder Woman #37 1:45:00 Superman Unlimited #17 1:52:04 Absolute Green Arrow #5 2:01:09 Batwoman #7 2:07:01 Batman Day / New Releases & Collections 2:11:03 Rankings & Books of the Week

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Trent Kusters chats with Jonathan Smith, Vice President, Product at TT Games. Together they discuss his path from the LEGO Company to TT Games and helping define the pillars of a LEGO game; the importance of teamwork and consistency towards their continued success; working with DC to bring the entire Batman universe into a definitive experience with LEGO® Batman™: Legacy of The Dark Knight; and how they balanced the grittiness of the Batman IP with the joy and whimsy of the LEGO brand. This episode is supported by Xsolla Episode Host: Trent Kusters Producers: Claudio Tapia and Josh Chu, The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences If you enjoyed this episode, please consider subscribing and leaving us a rating and review. Support the show and get all of our episodes early/ad-free: https://bit.ly/4kU34Lt Follow us: linktr.ee/AIAS Please consider supporting game dev students with: AIAS Foundation

Mike holds down the studio solo this week while EB spends a spontaneous day at Six Flags Great America — but the real story is one nobody saw coming: Six Flags has officially purchased ArieForce One, the beloved RMC that was headed for demolition just weeks after Fun Spot Atlanta announced its closure. Mike breaks down why this genuinely surprised him (the budgeting alone for a chain like Six Flags should have made this financially implausible), walks through everything that has to happen before this ride finds a new home — disassembly, cataloging, transport, an entirely new station to fix its known capacity issues — and floats his own guesses for which park might land it when Six Flags reveals the destination later this year. Meanwhile, EB reports live from the midway all day: riding the new Wrath of Rakshasa dive coaster, revisiting old favorites five years after his first trip to the park, and later checking out the Dark Knight coaster. A listener trip report from opening day of Night Flight Expedition at Dollywood reveals a rocky first outing — a four-hour wait, a failed test, and a mad dash back into line — but genuine excitement for what the ride will become once it's fully worked in. Then Mike covers Six Flags Magic Mountain's announcement of an entirely new roller coaster category: the Thrill Glider, a prone, face-forward "hover cycle" experience blending flying coaster tech with a full sci-fi storyline. Plus, a look at Alton Towers' elaborate new Halloween dinner theater experience, Dine With the Dead, and EB caps off his day with a nightcap at a favorite Chicago tiki bar.

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In this episode, The Guys take a bite of the big Apple.  Not the city, though.  It's the behemoth that may have invented the phone on which you are reading this, the pods with which you listen to the podcast, and essentially everything in the world that begins with a lower case “i”.   Apple has new leadership, and The Guys go down memory lane to see what the great (not late) Tim Cook came up with during his tenure at the helm, then speculate on what the new guy (whose name is harder to spell than “Cook”) might  see during his Apple watch. Two obits are part of the Geeks of the Weeks, with the voice of Optimus Prime taking his last bow, as well as the Dark Knight's stepmother.  And speaking of Batman, one of his days is coming up and Cinemark is celebrating with special movie showings and the popcorn box of all popcorn boxes.  Road trip!

This week the boys head to 1988 to discuss “Rain Man”, the Barry Levinson film that makes you wonder: is Tom Cruise a better actor than Dustin freaking Hoffman? Is he??? John also discusses “The End of Oak Street” and “Grab a beer, grab your card counter, and let's head to Vegas!  inktr.ee/theloveofcinema - Check out our YouTube page!  Our phone number is 646-484-9298. It accepts texts or voice messages.  0:00 Intro; 7:02 “End of Oak Street” mini-review; 13:07 “By Any Means” mini-review; 18:08 1988 Year in Review; 34:43 “Rain Man”: Films of 1988; 1:15:48 What You Been Watching?; 1:25:44 Next Week's Episode Teaser Additional Cast/Crew: Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman, Bonnie Hunt, Mark Wahlberg, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, David Strathairn, Josh Lucas, Giancarlo Esposito, Ethan Embry, LaChanze, Elegance Bratton, Sascha Penn, David Robert Mitchell, Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, Christian Convery, P.J. Byrne. Hosts: Dave Green, Jeff Ostermueller, John Say Edited & Produced by Dave Green. Beer Sponsor: Carlos Barrozo Music Sponsor: Dasein Dasein on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/77H3GPgYigeKNlZKGx11KZ 
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Idiots director/co-writer Macon Blair breaks down his favorite comfort movies with podcast host Josh Olson! Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode Mission: Impossible — Fallout (2018) Idiots (2026) Straight Outta Compton (2015) State of Grace (1990) Jaws (1975) Goodfellas (1990) Bugsy (1991) The Godfather Part III (1990) Miller's Crossing (1990) Rattle and Hum (1988) Suburbia (1983) Repo Man (1984) Green Room (2016) Trust (1990) Amateur (1994) Simple Men (1992) Boogie Nights (1997) Inherent Vice (2014) Licorice Pizza (2021) The Late Show (1977) The Lost Boys (1987) Near Dark (1987) Dracula (1931) Eddie and the Cruisers (1983) The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) The Taking of Pelham 123 (1998) The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) Sullivan's Travels (1941) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) Batman Returns (1992) The Dark Knight (2008) Heat (1995) Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) Elephant (2020) A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019)  Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas (2021) Highlander (1986) Point Break (1991) Commando (1985) Alien (1979) Aliens (1986) Other Notable Items Our revamped Patreon!  The Hollywood Food Coalition Henry Cavill Dave Franco O'Shea Jackson Jr. Kiernan Shipka Nicholas Braun Peter Dinklage Ice Cube Macon's last podcast episode Phil Joanou The Washington Post Gary Oldman Mickey Rourke Robert Shaw Ed Harris Robin Wright  John C. Reilly Sean Penn Thomas Jane U2 Penelope Spheeris The Vandals T.S.O.L.  D.I. Hal Hartley The Catcher in the Rye novel by J.D. Salinger (1951) Adrienne Shelly Martin Donovan Edie Falco Oz TV series (1997-2003) The Beat TV series (2000) Mark Ruffalo Derek Cecil Gary Shandling Paul Thomas Anderson Art Carney Lily Tomlin Inherent Vice novel by Thomas Pynchon (2009) The Lost Boys musical by David Hornsby and Chris Hoch (2026- ) The Tony Awards Tina Turner Bela Lugosi Kiefer Sutherland Tim Cappello Joel Schumacher Jason Patric Jami Gertz Edward Herrmann Kino Lorber David Shire Walter Matthau Robert Shaw Adam Sandler The Taking of Pelham One Two Three novel by Morton Freedgood (1973) John Travolta Denzel Washington Edward James Olmos Vincent D'Onofrio Lorraine Bracco Preston Sturgess Veronica Lake Joel McCrea William Demarest Our Peter Ramsey podcast episode Boaz Yakin Batman Shaun the Sheep TV series (2007- )  Aardman Animation Wallace and Gromit Walt Disney Pictures Christopher Lambert Sean Connery Clancy Brown Patrick Swayze Keanu Reeves Mark L. Lester Crime and Punishment novel by ​Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866) The Idiot novel by ​Fyodor Dostoevsky (1869) James CameronSpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We're a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests, and persistent passions. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In this week's episode, I take a look back at the movies and streaming shows I watched in Summer 2026 and rate them. This coupon code will get you 25% off the ebooks in the Ghost Armor series at my Payhip store: FALLARMOR The coupon code is valid through September 21, 2026. So if you need a new ebook this fall, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 319 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is September the 4th, 2026, and today I'm looking back at the movies and streaming shows I watched over Summer 2026. We will also have Coupon of the Week and an update on my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. So let's start off with Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon code will get you 25% off the ebooks in the Ghost Armor series at my Payhip store. That coupon code is FALLARMOR. As always, you can get the coupon code and the links to my Payhip store available in the show notes for this episode. This coupon code will be valid through September 21st, 2026, so if you need a new ebook for this fall, we have got you covered. Now an update on my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. I'm pleased to report that the rough draft of Blade of Visions is done. It came to 99,000 words. It'd be kind of cool if it came to 100,000, but as I've learned in the 15 years I've been doing this, it's not a good idea to pad things for length. Editing is underway. I'm about 15% through the first pass of edits. I'm working on the cover design, so I'm on good track to have the book out before the end of the month. I also wrote a tie-in short story called Winter Crown and don't forget that [newsletter] subscribers will get a free ebook copy of that short story when Blade of Visions comes out later this month. So this makes a very excellent time to subscribe to my new release newsletter. I am also 12,000 words into Elven-Warlock, which will be the seventh book in the Half-Elven Thief series. Hopefully that will be out in October, if all goes well. In audiobook news, I think Blade of Thieves (as narrated by Brad Wills) and Cloak of Worlds (as narrated by Hollis McCarthy) are now finally available at all the usual audiobook stores, which includes Audible, Apple, Amazon, Kobo, Google Play, Chirp, and all the others. So if you want to listen to those if you are going on a Labor Day road trip, you can check those out. A reminder that Stealth and Spells Online: The Complete LitRPG trilogy (narrated by C.J. McAllister) is also available on Audible, so check that out. That's 32 hours long and that would also cover all your Labor Day travels. So that is where I'm at with my current writing, publishing and audiobook projects. 00:02:22 Main Topic of the Week: Summer 2026 Movie Roundup So let's move on to our main topic this week. Our main topic this week is the Summer 2026 Movie Roundup and I always enjoy doing those. These episodes are a little less serious than some of the other episodes and it's fun to talk about things I enjoyed and that you might enjoy as well. And I did see a lot of new movies this summer. In fact, I went to the actual theater four times for Masters of the Universe, The Odyssey, Spider-Man, and Coyote vs. Acme, which is probably more than I've gone in a single season since before COVID times. So as usual, here are the movies I saw this summer (rated from least favorite to most favorite). The grades are totally subjective and based on nothing but my own thoughts and opinions. First up is The Breadwinner, which came out in 2026. This is basically standup comedian Nate Bargatze's act come to life as a movie. If you've seen Bargatze's standup, his usual routine is to portray himself as the dumb husband and bumbling Girl Dad, which is actually quite clever from a comedic standpoint since you're unlikely to have outraged mobs calling for your head if all you're doing is making fun of yourself. Anyway, Bargatze portrays Nate Wilcox, the best Toyota salesman in Nashville. (Don't worry, this is the first of only many product placement moments.) He lets his wife Kate manage the household and do the bulk of the work with their three daughters. When Kate's invention takes off on Shark Tank, she has to go to South Korea for two weeks to oversee manufacturing, leaving Nate in charge of the kids. Comedic chaos ensues. On the positive side of this movie, I did approve how this movie showed a married couple trying to work through a rough patch and do what's right for their kids and each other in a semi-productive way rather than blowing up their lives over nonsensical trivialities in the style of Eat, Pray, Love. On the downside, there was a lot of product placement, to the point where it at times felt like an extended commercial with bits of plot jammed in between product endorsement. No doubt most of the production budget came from product placement money. Will Forte was funny as an eccentric roofing contractor and Martin Herlihy as a shifty DoorDash employee. Kumail Nanjiani was funny as Nate's rival salesman at the car dealership. So overall, I would say this was blandly amusing and inoffensive with some funny slapstick moments. Overall grade: C- Next up is Supergirl, which came out in 2026. This movie really was sort of a strange combination of John Wick and the human trafficking subplot from 2020's Black Widow. The end result wasn't quite as good as Superman from 2025, alas. I did like this movie's interpretation of Supergirl. Kara Zor-El's departure from Krypton was way more traumatic than Superman's, so she's dealing with her unresolved emotional issues by traveling from planet to planet with red suns and getting hammered since the same yellow sun that gives Kryptonians their superpowers on Earth also keeps them from getting drunk because their bodies process alcohol too efficiently. However, Kara comes to a planet where a girl named Ruthye lives. Ruthye's family has been slaughtered by ruthless brigands yet led by Krem of the Yellow Hills and she's going on a quest for revenge. When Ruthye tries to recruit Kara for the quest, she's not interested, but then Krem steals Kara's spaceship and poisons her dog Krypto. Krem carries the antidote on his person, so now Kara and Ruthye team up to get vengeance on Krem and to heal Krypto. Krem is a nasty piece of work and he and his space gang travel from planet to planet abducting women to be their wives. I think the problem was that Krem was kind of a boring but nasty villain, but he was still boring. He was basically a space thug with too many piercings. Lex Luthor from 2025 Superman, by contrast, was a really interesting villain, this malignant narcissist who knows that his obsession with Superman is over the top, but he's going to act on it anyway. Additionally, I don't think this version of Supergirl is quite capable of being a lead character on her own. She'd make a superb secondary character, but I don't think she could quite carry a movie on her own. And Jason Momoa was pretty good as Lobo. Overall grade: C- Next up is Troy, which came out in 2004. I wanted to see this either before or after I watched The Odyssey this summer and ended up watching it the day before I went to see The Odyssey. I would say this movie was slow and ponderous, but I did enjoy watching it. This is an adaption of The Iliad and has the sort of slow stateliness of epic films from the '60s. It had good performances and good battle scenes. Brian Cox was enjoyable as a scenery chewing Agamemnon and Brad Pitt worked as Achilles. Interestingly, his version of Achilles reminded me of the interpretation of Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen from Dune 2 as sort of a violent psychopath with his own twisted sense of honor. Oddly, despite the fact that this was rather a long movie, the ending seems a bit rushed, like we needed to hurry up and get to the Trojan Horse. It was amusing how Achilles' relationship with Patroclus was changed to "cousin" for the modern audience, but Greek views on sexuality would definitely be unpalatable with both right-wing and left-wing versions of the modern mind, which is a good thing because while the Greeks contributed a great deal to the development of civilization, they were into a lot of unsavory stuff. So overall, I would say this was a fun, epic movie, but I think this walked so the 2026 version of The Odyssey could run. Amusing fact: Christopher Nolan was apparently supposed to direct this, but the deal fell through and he got Batman Begins as a consolation prize instead. Overall grade: B- Next up is The Dink, which came out in 2026. This is an Apple TV comedy movie about pickleball of all things. I feel like this was made because some Apple executive got made fun of by some tennis players for playing pickleball and then decided to take revenge through media. Jake Johnson plays Dustin Boyd, a washed up former child tennis star who now works at his father's tennis club. The club has difficulties because of a growing influx of pickleball players who the hardcore tennis players hate. Dustin's father decides to use the club's bylaws to force a duel match to decide the issue, in the grand tradition of wacky comedy stakes. Dustin really wants to play the duel match, but his wrist is injured in an accident. To get his wrist mobility back, the doctor suggested he play some pickleball and Dustin views this as beneath him, but he really wants to play again, so he signs up for pickleball. This ends up being a wacky sports company/buddy movie as Dustin gradually befriends an eccentric older pickleball player. Ed Harris should really do more comedic roles. He was great as Dustin's stern, yet unscrupulous father. I do admire Apple TV's dedication to making random stuff. Overall grade: B- Next up is Green and Gold, which came out in 2025, and this is a melodrama about a farmer and his granddaughter dealing with the grim economic realities of farming. This is set in 1992/1993 era Wisconsin. Buck refuses to modernize his dairy farm in Door County, Wisconsin. His granddaughter Jenny is a talented musician and also a skilled farmer, and Buck wants her to take over the farm one day, but Jenny's ambitions are looking elsewhere. Events come to a head when Jenny realizes that Buck is deeply in debt to the bank, which is about to foreclose on the farm. However, Buck and the chief banker have a personal animosity, so they settle on a bet. If the Green Bay Packers win a Super Bowl title in 1993, the banker will give Buck one more year to turn things around on the farm. Meanwhile, Jenny begins to wonder if her music ambitions might generate the money to save the farm. Of course, if you are familiar with the history of the Packers, you know that they won a Super Bowl in 1996, not 1993. The movie has carried on the back of the very strong performances of its actors. It also has an ambiguously happy ending, as is true with so many things in farming. I like this movie because I've spent a lot of my life in the American Midwest, [and] I did appreciate how it shows the difficulties of the farming life. Also, this is important: a fall from a ladder is a plot point. Ladder safety is important, people! If you are going up a ladder, for heaven's sake don't climb the ladder in high heels like the character in question does. Wear sensible, well-fitting shoes with good soles. A very long time ago, I used to work with a guy who would climb extension ladders in cowboy boots. It is nothing short of the mercy of God that he didn't fall off and shatter half the bones in his body. Overall grade: B Next up is Grumpy Old Men, which came out in 1993. Apparently this is set in Wabasha, Minnesota, which is amusing because filming actually took place in several areas in the Twin Cities in Eastern Minnesota, but not actually in Wabasha. I found that personally amusing because I'm quite familiar with the area and so I recognize several filming locations. Anyway, the movie is about two retirees, Max and John, who are enemies and have been enemies for years, but Max is lonely and wants to get married again, and John is about to lose his house to the IRS due to tax problems. Things come to a head when an attractive literature professor moves across the street and both Max and John take an interest in her and start competing for her affections. However, it turns out that Max and John are actually best friends whose love language happens to be hatred and practical jokes, kind of like Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, but more on them below. This was a good character comedy/drama. It was interesting that the professor was an early version of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope, albeit several decades before someone came up with the term. This is worth watching both as a character and comedy drama and a time capsule of the 1990s. Sometimes a movie ages a bit badly (Airplane and the Thomas Crown Affair from the Spring Movie Roundup come to mind), but this didn't. The sequel Grumpier Old Men from 1995 is basically the same movie, but with the characters acting about 20% dumber so a sitcom style plot can happen. Still entertaining, but not as good as the first one, so Grumpier Old Men only gets a B-, but Grumpy Old Men gets a B+. Next up is Masters of the Universe, which came out in 2026. It was amusing to read reviews of this movie because people thought way too hard about a movie that is essentially about battling action figures. Anyway, this was pretty good. It was nice to see a movie about a science fiction property that doesn't actually hate the source material. Basically it's a live action version of the cartoons from the '80s, albeit with somewhat more thoughtful moments. I heard someone suggest that it was close in tone to Thor: Ragnarok, and that seems accurate. The plot is that Skeletor conquers Eternia and 10-year-old Prince Adam is sent with the Sword of Power through a magical portal to Earth to keep him and the sword out of Skeletor's reach. However, Adam loses the sword while passing through the gate and 15 years later is working in human resources. He's still seeking for the sword despite his therapist trying to convince him that it was a trauma-induced fantasy. However, his persistence pays off and he does find the sword. Teela, who is one of the resistance leaders against Skeletor's rule, comes to Earth to find him and bring him back, but Skeletor's minions arrive to claim the sword as well. Adam and Teela escape back to Eternia and it's up to Adam to find a way to use the Sword of Power to become the hero that Eternia needs. Dolph Lundgren's cameo was great. Overall, I would say this is a fun movie to watch, especially if you're a Millennial or Gen Xer who saw the cartoons or the live action movie back in the '80s. Jared Leto has something of an increasingly questionable reputation these days, but he did a good job as Skeletor, played him halfway between the solemn gravitas of the 1987 version and the malevolent comedic cornball of the cartoons. Of course, in my opinion, the Frank Langella version from 1987 is the best version of Skeletor since he placed it with all the seriousness of a Shakespearean villain monologue at the Royal Shakespeare Company. In hindsight, it wasn't terribly surprising that this underperformed at the box office. It felt like it was made for guys my age, not for kids. I would've been comfortable bringing an eight-year-old to see The Mandalorian and Grogu or Super Mario Galaxy, but I would've been less certain bringing a kid that age to see Masters of the Universe. Additionally, it seemed very Marvel in tone, and I think the overall mood of the US these days is less "Marvel Cinematic Universe quips and banter" and more sort of the grimness of The Odyssey, which we'll talk about shortly. Overall grade: B+ Next up is Young Washington, which came out in 2026, a biopic of the early life of George Washington, covering how he more or less accidentally started the French and Indian War and how he recovered his reputation at the Battle of Braddock's Field. To be fair, the international situation at the time meant that someone was going to start the French and Indian War. It just happened to be Washington, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Overall, I liked this. It was reasonably historically accurate, though some of the emotional and family dialogue at times was a bit clunky. Additionally, Washington was portrayed as having revolutionary leanings much earlier in life than he actually did, since when he was a young man, he had no thoughts of being anything but a British subject and officer. That said, some of the most implausible stuff in the movie actually happened in real life. Like if I were to write in a novel that the future president of the United States personally rallied the army's rear guard to save as many men as possible from an ambush, and in the process had two horses shot out from under him and ended up with bullet holes in his hat and coat (all while fighting continuously), you would probably find that a bit implausible, but it actually happened that way. Washington's daring actions during that battle were one of the reasons he was appointed commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, that and there weren't many other colonials with as much experience of military command as Washington. In that vein, the battle scenes were the best part of the movie. They captured the brutality and messiness of 18th Century warfare without being especially graphic. Anyway, I'm glad this is getting a sequel. Maybe we'll end up with a Young Washington Cinematic Universe. Overall grade: B+ Next up is Meet the Parents, which came out in 2000, and this is probably one of the apex forms of cringe comedy. Ben Stiller plays Greg Focker, a nurse who's in love with schoolteacher Pam Burns. Greg wants to marry Pam, but overhears a phone call with her sister where she says her fiancé asked permission of her traditional father first. Greg decides that he's going to ask Pam's father's permission first to get off on the right foot, and so accompanies Pam to her sister's wedding and her parents' house to, as the title says, Meet the Parents. However, Pam's father is the former CIA counterintelligence officer Jack, and he and Greg immediately get on each other's nerves. To make things worse, the airline has lost Greg's luggage. From these two starting premises follow a cascading series of hilarious disasters that accumulate in a septic tank fire on the lawn. I'm not sure, but I think I saw this one in the theaters when it came out in 2000, and I thought it was funny then. With 26 years of additional life experience under the belt, I still think it's pretty funny, though you could still tell that this movie was filmed before 9/11 because if Greg had his airport meltdown seen today, the consequences would've been much worse. Overall grade: B+ Next up is O Brother Where Art Thou, which came out in 2000. This is a very, very, very specific adaptation of The Odyssey directed by the Coen brothers. George Clooney plays Everett, a convict who escapes from a chain gang in Mississippi during the Great Depression. He wants to find a treasure and he recruits fellow convicts Delmar and Peter to assist him. Along the way, Everett and his team encountered 1930s era versions of the Sirens, the cyclops, the blind prophet Tiresias, and other characters and foes from the original Odyssey myth. Everett and his friends end up running a scam where they pretend to be a Christian music group, but as it turns out, they're actually pretty good at singing, so this leads to unexpected hilarity and opportunities. This was also a very funny movie. Imagine The Odyssey is a comedy with a lot of singing set in the Deep South during the Depression, and you're there. If you're a fan of bluegrass music, this is worth watching. If you've seen Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, it's worth watching this just to ponder how the same source material can produce such wildly divergent interpretations. If you don't care about The Odyssey, then this is still a fun movie to watch. Proof: I mentioned to someone that I had seen this and she responded that she both loved the movie and was surprised to learn that he had in fact been inspired by The Odyssey. Overall grade: A- Next up is Hoppers, which came out in 2026. Like most Pixar movies, this was very high concept. Unlike many recent Pixar movies, it wasn't too depressing and didn't disappear up its own tailpipe. In the city of Beaverton, hot tempered girl Mabel bonds with her grandmother in their favorite place, a woodland grove favored by beavers. Years later, Mabel is a biology student under Dr. Fairfax, but is neglecting her studies to face off against her nemesis, the popular yet sketchy Mayor Jerry of Beaverton. Mayor Jerry wants to build an expressway that will wipe out the woodland grove, and he's perfectly within his rights to do it since no animals have been found living there. Since Mabel's grandmother has died, she's unwilling to give up the grove. However, Dr. Fairfax's research might give her a way. Dr. Fairfax has worked out a way to temporarily transfer human consciousness to a robotic beaver capable of speaking to real beavers, much like the plot of Avatar. In a funny scene, Fairfax angrily denies that it's just like Avatar. Mabel gets the idea to use this to convince real beavers to settle in the grove, thereby thwarting Mayor Jerry's plans. This touches off both a wacky yet poignant adventure. The plot was very well structured and it followed the proper rules of story structure, which I've talked about before. Mabel definitely is a protagonist who takes action, but experiences setbacks and problems of her own creation. It was pretty good. I say it was a return to form for Pixar after some of their weaker movies in the 2020s. Overall grade: A Now it's time for my three favorite movies of summer 2026, all of which I actually saw in the theater. First up is Coyote versus Acme, which came out in 2026. This movie had an extra surge of popularity from the fact that Warner Brothers canceled it as a tax write-off, but distributor Ketchup Entertainment revived it. That makes it a plucky underdog since Warner Brothers senior executives are kind of like the apex version of soulless corporate bug men. Like if I wrote characters in my books who acted like Warner Brothers senior executives, people would think I was being didactic and heavy-handed. Anyway, after decades of failures in efforts to capture the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote decides to sue Acme Corporation for its numerous defective products. Coyote teams up with a lazy strip mall lawyer named Kevin Avery, who specializes in getting small settlements from Acme. However, Avery and Coyote end up filing a massive lawsuit against Acme, which means they'll face the full wrath of Acme Corporation, including its ace lawyer Buddy Crane and its ruthless CEO, Foghorn Leghorn. What follows is a comedic courtroom battle as Coyote and Avery try to defeat Acme Corporation, defeat its sinister plans, and Coyote starts to realize that Road Runner might actually be his best friend. Both quite amusing and touching, and I'm glad this was rescued from the tax write-off vault. Overall grade: A Next up is The Odyssey, which came out in 2026. This wasn't quite as good as Oppenheimer in 2023 in my opinion, but it was still very good and very much worth seeing. It was weird that The Odyssey was briefly a football in the never-ending US culture war scrum because the movie isn't really political and doesn't really have a message beyond "war is destructive and bad", which every sensible person would agree with, and a lesser message of "violating the law of morality has unforeseen cascading bad consequences, including the destruction of civilization", which is also quite true and was one of the themes of Oppenheimer. Nolan himself dismissed the controversies as "irrelevant" and "part of the territory" since no one had actually seen the movie yet, and given that The Odyssey has made a billion and a half dollars as of this recording, I think that may have proved his point. I imagine the scrutiny from Batman fans back in the 2010s was way more intense since in the modern era, many people care more deeply about the accuracy of Batman than The Odyssey. I do think the debate over the historical accuracy in The Odyssey is pointless because the Odyssey is myth, not history. The Iliad and The Odyssey are a lot like Arthurian myth in terms of their actual historicity. Even when Arthurian legend was massively popular with English kings and nobles in the late medieval and early modern period (for example, Henry VIII's older brother was named Arthur in imitation of King Arthur), the version of Arthurian myth they celebrated and wished to emulate had virtually no connection to the reality of Britain in the 500s AD and was instead a sort of fantasy version of their own time in the 14th and 15th centuries. By the time The Odyssey was written down, no doubt a similar process was underway. Both The Iliad and The Odyssey and the Arthurian cycle probably have a kernel of historical truth buried underneath the tales of magic swords, sirens, cyclopses, and vengeful witches with magic islands. There likely was a Romano-British warlord who might have been named Arthur (or possibly Ambrosius Aurelianus) who held off the Saxons for a while before he was overwhelmed and killed. Likewise, Heinrich Schliemann was a highly eccentric and very sketchy crazy rich guy, but he did prove that there really was some version of the city of Troy that was destroyed at the end of the Bronze Age. But everything beyond those basic details came from thousands of years of embellishments and flourishes from later poets and writers. So arguing about the historical accuracy of The Odyssey is a bit like arguing if Star Wars portrays faster than light travel in an accurate way. That kind of argument is just missing the point entirely. It's also interesting to see how modern standards clashed with the ancient mindset. You know how I always say that everywhere in the United States is exactly the same right until it really, really isn't? I think ancient people are just like us until they really, really weren't. Like ancient people would have been superstitious to an extent that even the most credulous crystal and aura influencer on TikTok would find horrifying and frequently violent in a way that the most strident self-defense advocate would find shocking. The Odyssey's version of Odysseus feels guilt and remorse over his actions in a way an actual ancient Greek probably wouldn't have, but so what? This is The Odyssey viewed through the lens of the 21st century, just as those English nobles viewed the myth of King Arthur and his knights through the lens of their time. As I mentioned with Troy above, the ancient Greeks were often quite brutal and would celebrate sacking an enemy city. One side note before we get to the movie, I probably found it funnier than I should have how Nolan favorably cited classicist Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey as a source, and Wilson then had an extended and unintentionally comedic multi-article crashout about how much she hated the movie and of course how much she hated the commemorative Trojan Horse popcorn bucket. Apparently Wilson hated the movie so much she's going to do a new translation of The Odyssey, much to her publisher's baffled dismay. No one does offended huffy petulance quite like an academic. Anyway, back to the movie. It follows the familiar story of Odysseus through Christopher Nolan's preference for non-linear storytelling and practical effects. I did think it was interesting how in this interpretation, Odysseus explicitly connected the ruse of the Trojan Horse with the collapse of the Bronze Age and the rise of the Sea Peoples. It's also probably the most supernatural film Nolan has ever done with actual fantasy and supernatural elements as opposed to science fiction like Inception, Tenant, and Interstellar. Odysseus talks to Athena throughout the movie and it's left up to the viewer's interpretation whether or not he's actually talking to Athena or his own guilt-ridden hallucinations. That said, Odysseus encounters a witch with actual magic powers and travels to the underworld to speak with the shades of the dead, so it's entirely possible he's talking to the actual Athena. In this version, as I mentioned, Odysseus is guilt-ridden over the ruse of the Trojan Horse, which is shown as a violation of the sacred hospitality of Zeus's law and as great a crime as the creation of the atomic bomb in Oppenheimer, which of course is similar to Oppenheimer, where Oppenheimer's creation of the atomic bomb is treated similarly. There are also some genuinely scary sequences in the movie. The bit with the underworld is very spooky, the cyclops is actually quite frightening, and the character of Circe reaches the level of scary previously attained by Heath Ledger's version of The Joker in The Dark Knight. If Nolan ever decides he wants to do a horror movie, it will probably be one of the scariest ones ever made. To sum up, The Odyssey has great performances, great spectacle, great cinematography, and great action sequences. As an interesting interpretation of the original myth, definitely worth seeing. I think you can tell it was a great movie because of all the arguments on the Internet about "what does it really mean?" Great art often has that effect. Overall grade: A The final of my three favorite movies of [Summer] 2026 is Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which came out in 2026. There's a rumor, and I don't know if it's true or not, that Tom Holland found the experience of working with Christopher Nolan on The Odyssey so eye-opening that he insisted that if they made another Spider-Man movie, it had to have a reason for existing other than "make a lot of money". If this story is true, it clearly worked. Previously, I though the two best Spider-Man movies were Spider-Man 2 from 2004 and Spider-Man: No Way Home from 2021. I must now amend that opinion to say that there are three best Spider-Man movies and Spider-Man: Brand New Day is one of the three. It is pretty good. I would've trimmed it here and there, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and is an excellent Spider-Man story that totally captures the essence of the character within a good story. It takes place four years after the events of No Way Home erased everyone's memory that Peter Parker was Spider-Man. Peter has now been crime fighting full time, but it is taking a severe toll on his emotions and personal life that he's deliberately ignoring. Meanwhile, Spider-Man has become the beloved crime fighter of New York, trusted by both the NYPD and the Federal Department of Damage Control, which is a reoccurring frenemy for superheroes from other movies. When someone launches an attack on the headquarters of Damage Control, the director recruits Peter to fight their new enemy, a mysterious figure who uses telepathy to possess people from a distance. Peter is the only one who can sense it thanks to his spider sense, and he's also the only one able to resist the telepath's possession abilities. But despite his resistance to possession, fighting a telepath is a dangerous proposition for someone with as many emotional issues as Peter, and things start to spiral out of control when the telepath starts digging into his life. But there's another lesson Peter has to learn. People (and especially superheroes) who take the federal government at its word tend to regret it. For that matter, ignoring his emotional issues is causing Peter's spider powers to start acting in strange ways. But of course, at the end of the day, Spider-Man always follows his conscience, no matter how high the cost to him personally. Definitely an enjoyable movie. All the scenes with Spider-Man and Punisher were great, and the two of them had a great dynamic together. A few other Marvel Cinematic Universe people show up, but this is probably one of the most standalone movies the MCU has done in a while. Of course, the risk of MCU Continuity Lockout is always there (which is one of the reasons I started writing Half-Eleven Thief in 2023). Overall grade: A So I would say it was a pretty good summer for movies. It's also valuable lessons in not taking the Internet too seriously, which too many people do nowadays. There are all these dedicated analyses on X, Threads, and Reddit in June and May explaining why The Odyssey was going to fail for whatever reason, and instead it made $1.5 billion. So I think that's a good lesson in not taking everything you read on the internet a little too seriously. So that's it for this week. Thanks for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show enjoyable. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes at https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy, and we'll see you all next week.  

Host Anthony Desiato and guest Shawn Hendricks (Fat Moose Comics) shine a light on Frank Miller's seminal Batman story THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS in its 40th anniversary year. They consider the book's legacy, impact on their personal fandoms, sociopolitical commentary, Rocky parallels, place within the wider Dark Knight Saga, and more.Anthony & Shawn also discuss the two-part animated film adaptation (released in 2012 and 2013) directed by Jay Oliva & starring Peter Weller as Bruce Wayne.Keep tuning in throughout the month of September as the podcast's coverage of The Dark Knight Saga continues!Support the show and receive exclusive podcast content at Patreon.com/AnthonyDesiato!Visit BCW Supplies and use promo code FSP to save 10% on your next order of comics supplies.Join the conversation on the social media channels for parent podcast Digging for Kryptonite:FACEBOOK GROUP: Digging for Kryptonite: A Superman Fan GroupFACEBOOK PAGE: @diggingforkryptonitepodINSTAGRAM: @diggingforkryptonitepodTWITTER: @diggingforkrpodBLUESKY: @diggingforkrpod.bsky.socialEMAIL: flatsquirrelproductions@gmail.comWEBSITE: FlatSquirrelProductions.comLighting the Bat-Signal is a Flat Squirrel Production. Key art by Isaiah Simmons. Theme music by Kill Me Kate.Mentioned in this episode:Rick ReasonAw Yeah ComicsPop BreakAlways Hold On To Smallville

Christopher Nolan hat sich mit Filmen wie «Oppenheimer», «Dunkirk» oder «The Dark Knight» in den vergangenen Jahren als Starregisseur etabliert. Auch «The Odyssey» ist jetzt schon einer der erfolgreichsten Filme des Jahres – und er sorgt für gesellschaftliche Diskussionen. Wem gehört die Antike eigentlich politisch? Darf Helena von Troja von einer dunkelhäutigen Schauspielerin gespielt werden? Und wie selbstverständlich ist es, wenn eine trans Person einen griechischen Krieger verkörpert? Dass solche Debatten durch ein Stück Kultur ausgelöst werden, ist heute selten. Warum gelingt es ausgerechnet Nolan, mit einem Kinofilm solche Fragen aufzuwerfen? Und was sagt die Faszination für seine Filme über unsere Gesellschaft aus? Darüber spricht Film- und Serienredaktor Pascal Blum in einer neuen Folge von «Apropos». Er erklärt, was Christopher Nolan zu einer Marke macht – und inwiefern man im Kinosaal «eine Art kleine Offenbarung hat». Host: Philipp Loser Produzentin: Valeria Mazzeo Mehr zu Christopher Nolan Filmkritik: Darum ist Christopher Nolans Epos «The Odyssey» ein Meisterwerk Nolans «The Odyssey»: Basler Homer-Experte ist begeistert Warum Christopher Nolans Film eine politische Debatte auslöst Unser Tagi-Spezialangebot für Podcast-Hörer:innen: tagiabo.chHabt ihr Feedback, Ideen oder Kritik zu «Apropos»? Schreibt uns an podcasts@tamedia.ch Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The New York Giants enter the 2026/27 season with hope as their young QB gets a well-respected head coach in John Harbaugh. The Giants should be an improved team from last season, but how much so? I break down the roster, schedule, and lay out the potential ways this season can go.Thank you all for listening, and I hope you enjoy the episode!

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THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full podcast review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Our 2008 retrospective has officially come to an end with our final podcast review for Danny Boyle's Oscar-winning film for Best Picture, "Slumdog Millionaire," starring Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal, Anil Kapoor, and Irrfan Khan. Loosely based on the novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author Vikas Swarup, the independent Searchlight film was a sensation in 2008 as it built up momentum through the fall film festivals and then exploded in cinemas through word of mouth and all through awards season, making it, to this day, the film with the most Academy Award wins since it won 8 at the 2009 ceremony. How has the film held up, though, after all this time, nearly twenty years later? Please tune in as Josh Parham, Dan Bayer, and I talk about the film's screenplay, the performances, the craftsmanship, its awards season run, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Please check out our past reviews for "Frost/Nixon," "Doubt," "Changeling," "Revolutionary Road," "WALL-E, "Milk," "The Dark Knight," "The Reader," and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." We appreciate your support and hope you enjoy our review! https://youtu.be/fUZ9JDLdFy8 Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We give our full thoughts on the Grand Theft Auto VI Extended Look and jump on board the hype train plus we also discuss Star Wars: Zero Company, Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, Isle of Reveries, Blood Dungeon, Schrodinger's Call, Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, Lovish and more.

Tyler and Konnery try to fight against anarchy as the Jokerfied Jared Padilla and shining Gotham DA Jacob Padilla join the pod to cover the culturally momentous, "The Dark Knight"! Together they discuss Heath Ledger's monumental performance, how much more of a crime film it is over a superhero movie,, the film's beautiful construction and massive explosions, poetic script and philosophical quandaries, hockey pads,, learning that some men just want to watch the world burn, and so much more on this chaotic crime caper (get it because Batman has a cape?!) episode of The Friendchise Podcast!   TikTok Threads Instagram What's New: Kon: The Devil's Plan (Netflix) Tyler: X-Men '97 Season 2 (Disney+) Jacob: Widow's Bay (Apple TV+), Aztec Batman (HBOMax), Lanterns (HBOMax) Jared: All The President's Men, LCD Soundsystem

Hello and welcome to Redshirt Cinema Club, a weekly podcast Bat-transmitting from the Batcave.That's right, a few short episodes after our trip to Christopher Nolan's Gotham City, we're back with the Dark Knight thanks to Rob's choice for pre-MCU superhero viewing. Which is… Tim Burton's Batman Returns, featuring a rogue's gallery of Catwoman, The Penguin, and some guy making a reverse power station? How dare they?Join the Redshirt Cinema Club! Support us at patreon.com/redshirtcinemaclub to receive two bonus episodes every month as well as our newsletter, The Civilian Observer.You can also follow us at x.com/redshirtcinema and get in touch at redshirtcinemaclub@gmail.com.Here's the schedule for our superhero season, leading to the first phase of the MCU...Superman (1978) - 24/8/26Batman Returns (1992) - 31/8/26BONUS - Pre-MCU Superhero Captains choice - 2/9/26Constantine (2005) - 7/9/26Iron Man (2008) -14/9/26BONUS - 16/9/26The Incredible Hulk (2008) - 21/9/26Iron Man 2 (2010) - 28/9/26BONUS - 30/9/26Thor (2011) - 5/10/26Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) - 12/10/26BONUS - 14/10/26The Avengers - 19/10/26 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Celebrating the 100th episode of Drunk Cinema, Charles Skaggs and Xan Sprouse watch The Dark Knight, the 2008 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan, featuring Christian Bale as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Heath Ledger as The Joker, Gary Oldman as James Gordon, and Aaron Eckhart as Two-Face/Harvey Dent! Find us here:X/Twitter:  @DrunkCinemaCast, @CharlesSkaggs, @udanax19 Facebook:  @DrunkCinema Bluesky:  @charlesskaggs.bsky.social, @udanax19.bsky.social Email:  DrunkCinemaPodcast@gmail.com Listen and subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!

Join the Conversation at 303-477-5600 or text to 307-200-8222 Monday-Friday, 3 pm-6 pm MT. https://RushToReason.com HOUR 1 John Rush and Andy Peth kick off the show with wild Colorado storms and a captivating warning about roof-damage scams. Don't get fooled by fake inspection photos! Then, the energy skyrockets as they dive into Colorado's political drama: explosive reactions to Greg Lopez's debate, bold takes on party loyalty, and the mysterious vanishing act of the RINO Watch newsletter. What's next for the movement backing Lopez, and will political outcasts make a comeback? Next up, it's movie showdown time. John and Andy debate whether Hollywood can still deliver true romance or Looney Tunes mayhem. Finding Emily offers a nostalgic rom-com twist on modern dating, while Coyote vs. Acme hurls Wile E. Coyote into a wild courtroom battle. Which film survives Andy Peth's famously tough 5-Star Movie Review system? Tune in for the verdict and discover if the critics got it right. Find the complete breakdown of Andy's Movie Reviews ➡️https://www.rushtoreason.com/movie-reviews-2/ Timestamps Finding Emily — Review begins at 11:45 Coyote vs. Acme — Review begins at 30:37 HOUR 2 John Rush, Andy Peth, and Richard Rush shift gears with a fast-paced, no-holds-barred countdown of the greatest Warner Bros. movies ever made. From iconic classics like Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon to modern legends The Matrix, The Dark Knight, Dune, and The Lord of the Rings, the conversation races through generations of unforgettable cinema. Along the way, the trio relives powerhouse performances from Heath Ledger, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood, while passionately debating underrated gems like Edge of Tomorrow and Gran Torino. Comedy classics get their moment in the spotlight too—Blazing Saddles, The Hangover, Vacation, We're the Millers, and Rush Hour spark bold questions about whether Hollywood has lost its comedic edge. The hour ends in a rapid-fire lightning round, packed with audience favorites, cult hits, and blockbuster surprises. Who will come out on top—and which picks cause the biggest debates?

Join the Conversation at 303-477-5600 or text to 307-200-8222 Monday-Friday, 3 pm-6 pm MT. https://RushToReason.com HOUR 1 John Rush and Andy Peth kick off the show with wild Colorado storms and a captivating warning about roof-damage scams. Don't get fooled by fake inspection photos! Then, the energy skyrockets as they dive into Colorado's political drama: explosive reactions to Greg Lopez's debate, bold takes on party loyalty, and the mysterious vanishing act of the RINO Watch newsletter. What's next for the movement backing Lopez, and will political outcasts make a comeback? Next up, it's movie showdown time. John and Andy debate whether Hollywood can still deliver true romance or Looney Tunes mayhem. Finding Emily offers a nostalgic rom-com twist on modern dating, while Coyote vs. Acme hurls Wile E. Coyote into a wild courtroom battle. Which film survives Andy Peth's famously tough 5-Star Movie Review system? Tune in for the verdict and discover if the critics got it right. Find the complete breakdown of Andy's Movie Reviews ➡️https://www.rushtoreason.com/movie-reviews-2/ Timestamps Finding Emily — Review begins at 11:45 Coyote vs. Acme — Review begins at 30:37 HOUR 2 John Rush, Andy Peth, and Richard Rush shift gears with a fast-paced, no-holds-barred countdown of the greatest Warner Bros. movies ever made. From iconic classics like Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon to modern legends The Matrix, The Dark Knight, Dune, and The Lord of the Rings, the conversation races through generations of unforgettable cinema. Along the way, the trio relives powerhouse performances from Heath Ledger, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood, while passionately debating underrated gems like Edge of Tomorrow and Gran Torino. Comedy classics get their moment in the spotlight too—Blazing Saddles, The Hangover, Vacation, We're the Millers, and Rush Hour spark bold questions about whether Hollywood has lost its comedic edge. The hour ends in a rapid-fire lightning round, packed with audience favorites, cult hits, and blockbuster surprises. Who will come out on top—and which picks cause the biggest debates?

There's arguably no superhero in existence that has been reimagined, redefined, or reinterpreted more than Batman.  No matter how many times he's been rebooted, audiences are always willing to come back to Gotham City's greatest defender.  With so much Bat content out there, there's plenty to dissect, analyze, and of course, rank!  This podcast is dedicated to a surgical evaluation of Batman's history, with a focus on ranking several topics in the world of Batman, among other classic Bat themes and characters.Join hosts Daniel Cohen, Pop Break's former Film Editor, and Kris Ingersoll, co-host of the Media/Lit podcast, as they bring on several guests every month to share their passion for the one and only Dark Knight.  From Adam West to Robert Pattinson, no bat stone will be left unturned.  Bottom-line: If you're a Batman fan, this is required listening.It's just Daniel and Kris in the Batcave this month, and it's all about TV.  One live action.  One animated.  Lanterns and Batman: Caped Crusader Season 2.  One of these we were very positive on.  The other one…not as much.First, we dive into the pilot episode of Lanterns.  And yes, SPOILERS abound.  We've been building up to this one for a while.  Did it live up to expectations?  We heavily discuss the two leads, as we break down how Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre fare as Hal Jordan and John Stewart.  We discuss that BIG ending, and what it may mean for the DCU going forward.  And we reflect on the good and potentially bad when it comes to the Damon Lindelof of it all.Next up, it's a full-on SPOILER breakdown of all 10 episodes of Season 2 for Batman: Caped Crusader.  We compare it to Season 1, focusing heavily on how they handle new versions of classic villains.  Did Daniel like this Riddler interpretation!!!???  We also get into A LOT of Joker talk.  Did they nail the most important conflict in the Batman mythos?  We also discuss what we liked, and didn't like regarding Batman himself, and the two delve into their favorite, and least favorite episodes of the season.Also, if you like Daniel getting things wrong, he does so with one of the villains this season, so that's reason enough to listen!Enjoy this JAM-PACKED TV focused episode!

Anthony Michael Hall rose to fame as a teenage star in iconic 1980s films like Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Weird Science. He later transitioned into more mature roles, including Edward Scissorhands, The Dark Knight, and the TV series The Dead Zone, establishing a long-running career across film and television. Check out his series S.W.A.T. Exiles which premieres on STARZ September 25th and stay tuned for Halloween Store out this fall. IN THE NEWS: U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico blasts Amazon over allegations that workers were told to keep working after a co-worker died in a warehouse, Tim Curry passes away at 80, a Los Angeles City Council public commenter proposes taxpayer-funded “sexual relief clinics” for homeless people, and Iranian state media airs a disturbing video targeting Barron Trump while reporting a $10 million bounty on his head.FOR MORE WITH ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL:TV SHOW: SWAT Exiles (S.W.A.T Spinoff)Premieres on STARZ September 25thMOVIE: Halloween Store (Horror Comedy) Set To Release This FallFOR MORE WITH ANDREW HOBSON:INSTAGRAM & YOUTUBE: @andrewfhobsonLIVE SHOWS: August 28 - Tampa, FLAugust 30 - Point Pleasant Beach, NJSeptember 11 - Las Vegas, NV (2 Shows)September 12 - Las Vegas, NV (2 Shows)Thank you for supporting our sponsors:BetOnlineFor a limited time, our listeners get 50% off FOR LIFE, Free Shipping, AND 3 Free Gifts at Mars Men at Mengotomars.com. oreillyauto.com/adam Pluto.tvSimpliSafe.com/ADAMSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hop into the Way Back Machine as this week on GENZ/X™, JM & Braxton go first to 1989 for the Tim Burton classic BATMAN! Starring Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, and Kim Basinger! Then we jump forward to 2008 for Christopher Nolan‘s The Dark Knight! Starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, and SO MANY MORE! […] The post 021 GENZ/X | Batman, The Dark Knight, and Dr. Frank-N-Furter appeared first on The LEFT Show.

In this ScreenFish 1on1 Interview, executive producer Geoffrey Thorne discusses BATMAN: CAPED CRUSADER Season 2, its connection to Batman's animated legacy, and the evolution of this particular Dark Knight. He explores what makes Matthew Needham's Joker unique and why Batman and Joker remain connected. Thorne also discusses Carrie Kelly, what Batman still needs to learn about himself, and whether Gotham's vigilante can evolve beyond vengeance to become a genuine symbol of hope for a broken city.BATMAN: CAPED CRUSADER S2 is now streaming on  @PrimeVideoCA .#batman #capedcrusader #animation #interview #joker #podcast #streaming #primevideo

Aug-Heist comes to a close with this 1995 Michael Mann film starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, sharing screen time for the first time in their careers. Mann already made this movie once, in 1989 as a made-for-TV movie called L.A. Takedown. In this iteration, De Niro plays the leader of a sophisticated band of thieves while Pacino plays the hardboiled detective obsessed with taking them down. The film features an all-star ensemble including Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Ashley Judd, Amy Brenneman, Diane Venora, Wes Studi, Dennis Haysbert, Jon Voight, and a young Natalie Portman. Critics praised the film, yet it opened behind family-friendly fare like Jumanji and Toy Story. Retrospective reviews have named it one of the most influential crime films of all time, inspiring works as diverse as The Dark Knight and Grand Theft Auto, there is a sequel/prequel, Heat 2, is due out next year. Now Aug-Heist calls in our last score for this year with Heat!   For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com    You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please subscribe and give us a positive review. You can also follow us on Twitter @LegendsPodcast or even better, send us an e-mail: LegendsPodcastS@gmail.com    You can write to Rum Daddy directly: rumdaddylegends@gmail.com    You can find all our contact information here on the Network page of GonnaGeek.com Our complete archive is always available at www.legendspodcast.com, www.legendspodcast.libsyn.com    Show Music:Danger Storm by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/  

Is DC's Batman in Trouble?! Brave and the Bold Reportedly ON HOLD Kristian Harloff breaks down some potentially massive **DCU Batman** news as a new report claims **Batman: The Brave and the Bold** has been put "on hold" while Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount work through their potential merger. What does this mean for **James Gunn's Batman**, and could DC Studios introduce its new Dark Knight in another project before his solo movie? Adding even more fuel to the speculation, a new rumor may reveal **where the DCU's Batman will make his official debut**. Kristian discusses the report, how Batman could fit into the current DCU slate, and what all of this means for **The Brave and the Bold**, especially with Matt Reeves' **The Batman Part II** also on the horizon. Plus, we're diving back into **Lanterns Episode 2** for a **SPOILER REVIEW**. DC fans believe "Trust Fall" may have already dropped a massive clue about **Hal Jordan's future**, and we'll break down the episode, the theories, and what it could mean for the larger DC Universe. **⚠️ SPOILER WARNING: The Lanterns discussion will contain Episode 2 spoilers.** Stories For Today: * Batman: The Brave And The Bold Reportedly "On Hold" Until The WBD/Paramount Merger Is Settled * Rumor: We May Know Which Project The DCU's New Batman Will Make His Official Debut In * **Lanterns Episode 2 Spoiler Review** * Lanterns: DC Fans Are Convinced Episode 2 Just Explained Hal Jordan's 2026 [Spoiler] * The People v. Gorilla Grodd Comedy TV Series Announced By DC Studios * Marvel Studios Expected To Seed X-Men Characters Through Multiple MCU Projects; Cast Contract Details Revealed Today's show has a heavy **DC Studios** focus as we discuss the uncertain future of **The Brave and the Bold**, where fans could actually meet the DCU's Batman for the first time, and the latest major developments from **Lanterns**. We also dive into the newly announced **Gorilla Grodd** series and Marvel Studios' plans to spread its new **X-Men** characters throughout multiple MCU movies and shows instead of waiting for the X-Men reboot. If you're a fan of **Batman, The Brave and the Bold, DC Studios, James Gunn, Lanterns, Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, Gorilla Grodd, Marvel Studios, X-Men**, or the latest movie and TV news, this episode is for you! #Batman #TheBraveAndTheBold #DCU #DCStudios #JamesGunn #Lanterns #GreenLantern #HalJordan #GorillaGrodd #TheBatman #Marvel #MarvelStudios #MCU #XMen #MovieNews #KristianHarloffShow COME JOIN HARLOFF, ELLIS AND STERGER FOR A NIGHT OF COMEDY - THURSDAY, 10/8 @ 7:30PM SHOW HOSTED BY:  KYLE LEWIS  https://brokerage.govs.com/shows/376674 SPONSOR:  HIMS: Ready to reach your goals? Visit https://www.hims.com/kristian to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you.

Katie sits down with the Westworld showrunner, Jonah Nolan for a wide ranging conversation about what keeps him coming back to sci-fi storytelling about technology and human nature. After decades of writing about Ai, Nolan explains why Ai may be good for burgeoning filmmakers, but won't replace Hollywood as we know it. Nolan's past work includes Memento, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Interstellar and Westworld.  This is a summer re-air! We are on a short vacation but back with fresh episodes very soon. Join WIRED's best and brightest on Uncanny Valley as they dissect the collision of tech, politics, finance, and business, from Alexis Ohanian's newest tech venture to the effects of inaccurate information from artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots on social protests. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

‘LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight’ takes another bat-swing at the Caped Crusader’s mythology—this time covering all the Batman movies. Read the full review. PluggedIn Facebook Page If you've enjoyed listening to Plugged In Reviews, please give us your feedback.

The best boys are back again - Django, Jeff, and Roman are all here to sing their sweet hearts out about last week's comic books. Polybagged covers, fast cars, war comics - we've got some oddities this week, but trust me, they're fun. Just hit play already!0:05:28 - Well Welcome Wellmer!0:13:20 - Bug Wars: The Coming of the Wardoom #10:24:44 - The Last Driver #10:36:14 - Shellshock #10:44:44 - Dark Knights of Steel 2 #20:53:52 - Avengers: Armageddon #31:01:46 - Absolute Green Arrow #41:05:05 - Thor #8001:10:47 - Dispatch #21:17:15 - Spider-Man / Hulk: Fire and Brimstone #11:23:45 - Invincible Universe: Battle Beast #121:25:06 - Redcoat #19SPOILERS! Tread carefully dear listener, because we're going to talk about what happened in these books. So definitely pause this, read your comics, and come back. We'll still be here!And an enormous thank you, as always, to Andrew Carlson for editing this mess into something listenable.Subscribe to us on Apple, Spotify or wherever you like to get your podcasts.Email us at jeff@thecomicsplace.com! We love hearing from you and there's a good chance we will read it on air!Cover art by Mahmud AsrarVisit us at The Comics Place next time you're in Bellingham, Washington!Comics Place Book Club - second Thursday of every month. Check the shop for details!

¡Esta semana en Crossover nos metemos de lleno en Avengers: Armageddon #3, el debut de The Last Driver de Sean Gordon Murphy y el cierre de Mumm-Ra the Ever-Living!Hoy hablamos de- Avengers Armaggedon #3- Mumm-Ra the Ever-Living #5- Dark Knights of Steel II #2- Avengers: Armageddon #3- Punisher vs. Spider-Man #2- Killer Influences #2- The Last Driver #1- The Dirt Beneath the Devil #1

A three-and-a-half-hour epic can be gorgeous and still leave you arguing in the parking lot. That's exactly what happened after we watched Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, so we sat down for a full roundtable review with Jeremy, Michael, Mario Andrew, and James St. Simon to sort out what we loved, what we questioned, and what the film might be saying underneath the spectacle.[CONTAINS SPOILERS]• quick ratings and first reactions from readers and non-readers of Homer• whether an adaptation can be judged apart from its source material• why characterization matters more than plot changes• casting choices that distract from ancient Greece and break suspension of disbelief• the medium problem of turning an oral epic into a nonlinear film narrative• pacing, structure, and why a trilogy might help or hurt• the removal of the gods and the shift toward a secular psychological journey• an Orthodox Christian way to “take the nectar” from Greek myth• virtue themes, fidelity, and why the love story feels cleaner on screen• standout scenes like the sirens motif, the dog recognition, the Trojan horse claustrophobia, and “people from the sea”• Athena's beheading image, war guilt, justice, and the Dark Knight question of who carries the costWe start with honest first impressions from both Odyssey readers and people seeing the story fresh. Then we dig into the hardest question any film adaptation faces: can you evaluate it as a stand-alone movie when the source material is one of the pillars of Western literature? Along the way, we compare what works in beloved adaptations like The Lord of the Rings with what fails when writing and characterization drift too far. We also talk about pacing, Nolan's nonlinear storytelling, and why some viewers feel the film is rushed while others feel locked in the whole time.The biggest friction point is authenticity and immersion. We debate casting choices, modern cultural incentives, and why even a strong performance can break the spell when you keep noticing the actor instead of the character. From there we move into the deeper critique: the film's largely secular approach. Homer's Odyssey is infused with the gods, cosmic order, and reverence, but Nolan's version leans toward psychological guilt, war scars, and the modern theme that “the enemy is us.” As a Christian podcast, we ask what that shift costs, and how an Orthodox Christian approach can still “take the nectar” from Greek literature, pulling out virtue while leaving the rest.If you care about Christopher Nolan films, Homer's Odyssey, Greek mythology, or the moral questions around war, justice, and homecoming, this conversation is for you. Subscribe, share this with a friend who loves epics, and leave a review with your take: faithful retelling or powerful remix?Questions about Orthodoxy? Please check out our friends at Ghost of Byzantium Discord server: https://discord.gg/jRXxRaqK9Please prayerfully consider supporting Cloud of Witnesses: https://www.patreon.com/c/CloudofWitnessesFind Cloud of Witnesses on Instagram, X.com, Facebook, and TikTok.Audio: https://cloudofwitnessesradio.buzzsprout.comPlease leave a comment with your thoughts!

We turned The Dark Knight into a full-on rescore experiment and honestly... it worked way better than it should have.

EVERYTHING MUST GO! Has Batman gone crazy, auctioning off his elite crime-fighting equipment to the highest bidder? Sure seems so - what he needs is a good home-cooked meal - but with Alfred missing, who's going to do the cooking?!? Find out right here in Batman #191! Chapters (00:00:00) - Oh, My!(00:00:17) - Checkered Past: Batman(00:01:00) - What They Don't Know About An Auction(00:05:21) - Firemen on a mattress fire(00:06:03) - Part-Time Faculty on School Activities(00:06:55) - Lanterns(00:07:23) - The Manhunters Episode 3(00:09:34) - No More Naps For Me(00:10:46) - The Auction of Batman's Uniform(00:11:46) - Batman to Auction Off Everything(00:12:39) - The Batman vs Criminal Ira Radon(00:17:18) - Batman's Retirement Announcement(00:18:35) - Robin the Batman's Secret Retirement(00:20:11) - The Auction of Batman's Costume(00:21:48) - No More Batman(00:22:46) - Batman vs Ira Radon(00:28:11) - Batman vs Clay Giant(00:31:06) - Batman Admits To Confessing To Robin(00:34:13) - Alfred the Butler in Batman & Robin(00:35:03) - Batman vs. Alfred in Ormond Beach(00:38:24) - Alfred the Butler vs Batman(00:42:08) - The Dark Knight's Private Food Storage(00:47:13) - Batman: The Anatomy of An Appetizer(00:47:56) - The clues to Alfred's whereabouts(00:52:13) - Doom Patrol: Oysters Duchess

With The Odyssey still in theaters and Christopher Nolan in the public consciousness once again, Tyler and Konnery finally dive in to The Dark Knight trilogy, starting with this ep on "Batman Begins"! Together they discuss their love for this first installment that would become overshadowed by its world-changing sequel, the public doubt in the franchise after Batman & Robin (which IS good), the difference between Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark, a more-than stacked cast (Rob Roy! Oppenheimer! Roy Batty! Alfred! Katie Holmes!), overcoming fear, lots and lots of bats, and so much more on this fear toxin-huffing episode of the Friendchise Podcast!   TikTok Threads Instagram What's New: D23 talk!

Welcome to Comics From The Multiverse, our DC comics podcast! Discussed this week: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:07:46 - ComiXology Top 10 0:12:49 - November SOLICITS 0:52:53 - Absolute Flash #18 (Jeff Lemire and Nick Robles)  1:11:28 - Absolute Green Arrow #4 (Pornsak Pichetshote and Rafael Albuquerque)  1:26:16 - Superman Unlimited #16 (Dan Slott and Rachel Stott)   1:50:19 - Wonder Woman #36 (LGY #836) (Stephanie Williams and Clayton Henry)  2:01:07 - Nightwing #141 (LGY #328) (Dan Watters and Denys Cowan)  2:25:36 - Batwoman #6 (Greck Rucka and Jeffrey Spokes)  2:41:11 - Deathstroke: The Terminator #6 (Tony Fleecs and Carmine Di Giandomenico)  2:50:35 - Dark Knights of Steel II #2 (Tom Taylor and Otto Schmidt)   3:06:37 - PATREON: Green Arrow #30  3:18:27 - PATREON: Gideon Falls #18  3:33:31 - Picks of the Week patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: @DCComicsPodcast discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy Audio: https://comicsfromthemultiverse.podbean.com/ Other Links: https://linktr.ee/mildfuzz

It's time for Top of the Stack, where we go through our recent comic book reads, including Skybound's big new launch, Terminal, by Robert Kirkman, Joe Casey, Andy Kubert, David Finch, and Art Adams.Books include Gotham Central, the Ghost Machine SDCC Ashcan, Trillion Dollar Kid, The Twilight Zone, Fort Psycho, Is Ted OK?, Moon Knight, Innards, Dark Knights of Steel, and many more from Image Comics, Ignition Press, IDW, Mad Cave, Oni, and Dark Horse. Oh, yeah and a few books from little known publishers like DC Comics and Marvel.You can follow us on Instagram, Threads, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Bluesky, & X https://linktr.ee/comicsdiscourse114Also, please leave us a 5-star review at your favorite podcast platforms.

Batman-On-Film.com's Peter Verra and Micah Ramey break down and discuss LEGO BATMAN: LEGACY OF THE DARK KNIGHT video game!

We're back from our late summer vacation and we're joined by the CEO of Particle News, Sara Beykpour. We catch up on the last 2 weeks with updates on the Democratic Civil War, dispatches from the AI wilds, and why these insufferable tech bros won't stop being so insufferable. Then, the SUMMER OF JASON continues with Christopher Nolan's 2008 superhero epic, The Dark Knight.Chapters Introduction (00:00:00) Hatch News (00:26:06) The Dark Knight Roundtable (00:37:57) Your Letters (01:25:50) Notes and Links Check out Escape Hatch Merch! Our all new collection of swag is available now and every order includes a free Cameo style shoutout from Haitch or Jason. Browse our collection now. Join the Escape Hatch Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here. Escape Hatch is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Escape Hatch is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, alongside: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), The Letterboxd Show (Official Podcast from Letterboxd), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers, wrestling, and more), and Will Run For (obsessed with running). Check these pods out!. See the movies we've watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd Escape Hatch's Breaking Dune News Twitter list Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at letters@escapehatchpod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211. Follow @escapehatchpod on Bluesky,Instagram, and TikTok. Music by Scott Fritz and Who'z the Boss Music. Cover art by ctcher. Edited and produced by Haitch. Escape Hatch is a production of Haitch Industries.

Jeff and Roman are without Django this time, so it just means we'll get a little bit more emotional than normal! Well, maybe. We still talk about bananas, but also a whole lot more Marvel than usual. We even take a quick dive into ONE OF the oldest stories out there - The Odyssey! So hit play already!0:04:45 - The Odyssey (movie, light spoilers for a thousand-plus-year-old story)0:13:30 - Well Welcome Wellmer!!!0:19:21 - Banana #10:27:48 - Three Worlds/Three Moons: Foundations0:41:31 - Avengers: Armageddon #20:53:06 - Assorted Crisis Events #90:58:56 - Spider-Man / Punisher #11:02:48 - Dark Knights of Steel 2 #1SPOILERS! Tread carefully dear listener, because we're going to talk about what happened in these books. So definitely pause this, read your comics, and come back. We'll still be here!And an enormous thank you, as always, to Andrew Carlson for editing this mess into something listenable.Subscribe to us on Apple, Spotify or wherever you like to get your podcasts.Email us at jeff@thecomicsplace.com! We love hearing from you and there's a good chance we will read it on air!Cover art by Dike RuanVisit us at The Comics Place next time you're in Bellingham, Washington!Comics Place Book Club - second Thursday of every month. Check the shop for details!

THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full podcast review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Our 2008 retrospective is coming to an end this month, and our second-to-last podcast review is for David Fincher's epic romantic fantasy drama, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas, Mahershala Ali, Jared Harris & Tilda Swinton. A more sentimental and whimsical film for Fincher than what we're usually used to seeing from him (mostly in part due to Eric Roth's adaptation of the 1922 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald) it's another wonderful collaboration between Pitt and Fincher (Who we will see reunite later this year in the "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" standalone sequel, "The Adventures of Cliff Booth") on love, destiny, death and finding an appreciation for life in the brief time we have here. Featuring state-of-the-art visual effects for its time and other dazzling technical elements, the film led the 81st Academy Awards with 13 nominations, winning three for its crafts. How do they hold up? What did we think of the story? Please tune in as Ema Sasic, Josh Parham, Lauren LaMagna, and I talk about the film's screenplay, the performances, the craftsmanship, its awards season run, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Please check out our past reviews for "Frost/Nixon," "Doubt," "Changeling," "Revolutionary Road," "WALL-E, "Milk," "The Dark Knight," and "The Reader." We appreciate your support and hope you enjoy our review! https://youtu.be/sj_JcZkXdaQ Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our friend, comedian, musician, and actor Whitmer Thomas returns to the pod. His new HBO special, Terminal Crew of Dudes, drops this week. We chat with him from his home in L.A. about Brad Pitt drinking again, Homer Gere emerging, eating on camera, Tim Robinson and John Mulaney, getting COVID at Hooters, sweetening up the comedy "in post," a hotel throwing all his clothes away, getting scammed on Depop trying to buy a shirt from The Dark Knight, his robust shrimp hat business, turning down a Sydney Sweeney commercial, and how he likes to gamble. instagram.com/whitmerthomas twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rizz shows up sporting a mysterious bandage under his eye, so naturally Lern, Moon and Rafe respond with compassion, maturity and absolutely none of the above. After theories involving shaving accidents, discount Nelly cosplay and possible violence, Rizz reveals what actually happened: he went to the dermatologist expecting to have a skin tag removed. Instead, the doctor took one look under magnification, decided it needed a closer look, removed it and sent it off for a biopsy.So obviously the show handles this delicate situation with dignity.Just kidding. Within minutes we're discussing solidarity Band-Aids, ribbons, Aquaphor, garlic carcinoma and whether Rizz can technically start calling himself a survivor. Nothing brings friends together quite like an unexpected medical procedure and the immediate weaponization of it for content.King Scott sends us into CPR, new-parent panic and the revelation that properly installing a child car seat apparently requires more training than anyone in the room expected. A firefighter calls in, King Scott gets some actual useful information, and Rizz remembers the time his son started choking on bacon — prompting Dad Instinct Rizz to spring into action before apparently returning to his omelet like he'd just completed a minor household chore.Lern has also researched emergency procedures for cats, because of course she has.Then Lern returns from Table Rock Lake and the crew settles an important semantic argument: was this a “vacation” or merely a “trip”? Her family getaway included Table Rock, Top of the Rock, an expensive golf-cart cave tour, fake rocks, Branson energy, a canned cave cocktail and enough nickel-and-diming to make you wonder if the scenery charges a convenience fee.The review? Roughly three out of five stars. Nature: beautiful. Family bonding: great. Branson sneaking into the cave like it owns the place: inevitable.That leads perfectly into “popcorn brain,” the term for what happens when our attention starts bouncing between notifications, videos, headlines and entertainment like somebody dumped a bucket of mental popcorn into our skulls. Rizz has watched it happen with his kids, Rafe admits it happens to him during the show, and suddenly everybody realizes this isn't just a teenager problem. We're all cooked.Rafe also celebrates his 3,000th comedy set, which is legitimately impressive and therefore cannot be discussed for long without everyone confusing Mr. 3000 with Mr. Baseball. Congratulations, Rafe. Three thousand performances and you're still voluntarily sitting in this studio. Incredible commitment. Questionable judgment.A St. Louis story that's bizarre for all the wrong reasons: a regional Amber Alert, a supposedly stolen Dodge Charger and a missing child who investigators ultimately determined had never been inside the vehicle. The crew gets into the false report, the massive police response it triggered and the uncomfortable fact that this wasn't the first high-profile false child-abduction report the area has dealt with recently.You'd think we'd stay serious after that. You must be new here.Moon finally saw The Odyssey in IMAX, which means it's time for a completely reasonable film review that immediately becomes a referendum on whether human beings still know how to behave inside a movie theater. Talking, climbing over people, premium ticket prices and seats close enough to the screen to personally inspect Tom Holland's pores—moviegoing truly is magical.Then comes an argument guaranteed to make somebody angrily talk to their dashboard: which bands followed a killer debut album with a disappointing sophomore effort? Guns N' Roses, Garbage, Weezer, Bush, Hootie and the Blowfish, Boston, The Darkness, The Strokes, Meat Loaf and Vanilla Ice all enter the conversation, and not everybody leaves with their dignity. Moon also brings an actual musician's perspective to why that second album can be such a nightmare when your first record becomes a hit. Welcome to our funny podcast, where suddenly we're discussing artistic pressure like responsible adults before immediately ruining it.Crap on Celebrities arrives carrying the usual bag of entertainment nonsense. Geddy Lee has a strange encounter with a bird that raises questions about Neil Peart and spiritual visits. Josh Homme reportedly gets expensive while looking irritatingly cool doing it. The crew digs into the renewed conversation surrounding Hilary Duff's teenage relationship with Joel Madden, along with other music and celebrity stories.Then things somehow expand to burglary, stolen treasure and grudges.There's celebrity break-in news, plus Rizz's firsthand visit to the Louvre room connected to an enormous jewel heist—which naturally leads to the discovery that museum security apparently has some surprisingly Walgreens-adjacent rules about chasing people. The show also gets into Jon Hamm, Matthew Lillard facing a fan who held onto a grievance for years, Hollywood's biggest directors and a debate over the greatest movie sequels ever made. Terminator 2, Aliens, The Empire Strikes Back, The Dark Knight, The Godfather Part II and even Paddington 2 get dragged into the arena because this funny podcast respects cinema almost as much as it respects wasting everyone's time.And then suburbia gets interesting.Emily and Nathan from Double Lives of Suburban Wives join The Rizzuto Show to talk about the St. Louis-based reality series centered on women balancing suburban family life with major success creating digital adult content. It's the kind of premise that makes you realize the person standing next to you at soccer practice may have a considerably more interesting LinkedIn than you do.They were looking for an extra $150–$300 a month for groceries… and somehow that turned into hundreds of thousands of dollars, reality TV, and a conversation about monster toys before most people finished their morning coffee.Emily and Nathan from TLC's Double Lives of Suburban Wives join The Rizzuto Show, and we have approximately 47 questions — several of which probably should not be asked before lunch.Emily's story starts in a place a lot of families know all too well: trying to make the bills work. She and Nathan were working opposite shifts to avoid daycare costs, running a woodworking business, and looking for a way to bring in an extra $150–$300 a month.Nothing crazy. Just grocery money.Then Nathan floated the idea of Emily making adult content.Fast-forward four years, and “grocery money” has become a full-blown business spread across multiple platforms. Emily explains how she started cautiously, why showing a real body with stretch marks and cellulite mattered to her, and how one of her earliest subscribers turned out to be what the industry calls a “whale.”Emily and Nathan also explain why they decided to put their lives on TLC's Double Lives of Suburban Wives, what it's like having cameras follow them around the St. Louis area, and why they haven't experienced the massive hometown backlash some people might expect.The conversation gets more serious as Emily discusses body positivity, the stigma surrounding mothers who create adult content, and how she and Nathan have handled conversations about their work with their family. Their position is pretty simple: they're happy, safe, providing for their family, and not particularly interested in living according to somebody else's expectations.Which is probably healthier than reading the comments section. Nobody has ever emerged from there improved.Then we get into the reality-TV side of things.Emily admits the women featured on Double Lives of Suburban Wives aren't necessarily one giant happy friend group. Different personalities, different levels of success, different struggles and — because television producers enjoy remaining employed — plenty of drama.Is some of it ego-driven? Is there competition? What happens when someone enters an already selective group? And could a second season crank things up even further?Emily gives us a glimpse without spoiling the show, while Nathan delivers perhaps the most efficient response to critics imaginable: if people don't approve of the business, maybe they should tell their husbands to stop subscribing.The conversation also covers how creating content changed Emily and Nathan's relationship, whether their views on monogamy have evolved, the truly astonishing variety of things people will pay to see online, and whether Rafe or Lern could theoretically find their own bizarre niche.From woodworking and reptile shows to reality television, body positivity, internet entrepreneurship, suburban gossip and some VERY specific customer requests, this funny podcast is essentially the American dream after somebody accidentally left the parental controls off.And underneath all the jokes is a surprisingly interesting conversation about money, marriage, judgment, family and what “normal” actually looks like when your side hustle becomes more successful than anybody expected.Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show.Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow.Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A St. Louis story that's bizarre for all the wrong reasons: a regional Amber Alert, a supposedly stolen Dodge Charger and a missing child who investigators ultimately determined had never been inside the vehicle. The crew gets into the false report, the massive police response it triggered and the uncomfortable fact that this wasn't the first high-profile false child-abduction report the area has dealt with recently.You'd think we'd stay serious after that. You must be new here.Moon finally saw The Odyssey in IMAX, which means it's time for a completely reasonable film review that immediately becomes a referendum on whether human beings still know how to behave inside a movie theater. Talking, climbing over people, premium ticket prices and seats close enough to the screen to personally inspect Tom Holland's pores—moviegoing truly is magical.Then comes an argument guaranteed to make somebody angrily talk to their dashboard: which bands followed a killer debut album with a disappointing sophomore effort? Guns N' Roses, Garbage, Weezer, Bush, Hootie and the Blowfish, Boston, The Darkness, The Strokes, Meat Loaf and Vanilla Ice all enter the conversation, and not everybody leaves with their dignity. Moon also brings an actual musician's perspective to why that second album can be such a nightmare when your first record becomes a hit. Welcome to our funny podcast, where suddenly we're discussing artistic pressure like responsible adults before immediately ruining it.Crap on Celebrities arrives carrying the usual bag of entertainment nonsense. Geddy Lee has a strange encounter with a bird that raises questions about Neil Peart and spiritual visits. Josh Homme reportedly gets expensive while looking irritatingly cool doing it. The crew digs into the renewed conversation surrounding Hilary Duff's teenage relationship with Joel Madden, along with other music and celebrity stories.Then things somehow expand to burglary, stolen treasure and grudges.There's celebrity break-in news, plus Rizz's firsthand visit to the Louvre room connected to an enormous jewel heist—which naturally leads to the discovery that museum security apparently has some surprisingly Walgreens-adjacent rules about chasing people. The show also gets into Jon Hamm, Matthew Lillard facing a fan who held onto a grievance for years, Hollywood's biggest directors and a debate over the greatest movie sequels ever made. Terminator 2, Aliens, The Empire Strikes Back, The Dark Knight, The Godfather Part II and even Paddington 2 get dragged into the arena because this funny podcast respects cinema almost as much as it respects wasting everyone's time.And then suburbia gets interesting.Emily and Nathan from Double Lives of Suburban Wives join The Rizzuto Show to talk about the St. Louis-based reality series centered on women balancing suburban family life with major success creating digital adult content. It's the kind of premise that makes you realize the person standing next to you at soccer practice may have a considerably more interesting LinkedIn than you do.The conversation brings the show's unusual collision of ordinary suburban routines, relationships, reality television and decidedly less-ordinary careers straight into the studio. Because apparently picking up the kids, maintaining a marriage and appearing on television wasn't enough scheduling difficulty.It's St. Louis news, entertainment gossip, music arguments, movie complaints, celebrity chaos and suburban secrets packed into one funny podcast from Rizz, Lern, Moon, Rafe, King Scott and the gang.Basically, another normal day at The Rizzuto Show—assuming your definition of normal desperately needs professional evaluation.Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show.Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow.Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.