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Get Me Pictures of Seven Spider-Men!
Get your college applications ready and prepare to gross out about organic web shooters—it's time for us to discuss "Spider-Man: No Way Home," the conclusion of Tom Holland's origin trilogy as the web-slinging hero… and a surprisingly substantial follow-up to five other Spider-Man movies, too. It's "Spider-Man: Endgame," and with great podcasts, there must also come great responsibility… to talk about Spider-Man.
January 15, 2022 • 1 hour, 6 minutes • Jason Snell with Dan Moren, Chip Sudderth and Kelly Guimont
Wix: Create a website you're proud of.
Tom Bombadilification
More than three decades since the Wheel of Time book series began, it's arrived as a TV series on Prime Video. We discuss the first season with the help of our resident Wheel of Time book expert and three non-book-readers. How much is or isn't it the "next Game of Thrones?" Why would it need to be be? And how does a book series that was wildly progressive for the 1990s approach a modern audience?
January 8, 2022 • 1 hour, 31 minutes • "The Wheel of Time" (season 1) • Moisés Chiullan with Glenn Fleishman, John Siracusa and Kathy Campbell
I Didn't Have a Tab - The Best of 2021
Hot dog! It's time for our annual look back at the year gone by. And it was certainly a year! Some of us caught up on stuff, while others who usually abandon their lists as winter turns to spring decided not to bother making lists at all! As is traditional, our panelists and listeners pick favorite Incomparable episodes and moments in this episode. Did the best moment of the year happen in last year's clip show? Are there multiple clip loops running now? Has The Incomparable finally ground Jason down into mush? The answers are within!
January 1, 2022 • 1 hour, 54 minutes • 2021 year in review and clip show • Jason Snell with Steve Lutz, Erika Ensign, Jean MacDonald, Dan Moren, David J. Loehr, Monty Ashley and Moisés Chiullan
Money in His Underwear
Merry Kilmas to all who celebrate the works of Val Kilmer! This year, our Kilmas selection is "The Saint," a very 90s spy movie featuring surprise sweater reveals, tension-free water pipe escapes, and a wide collection of accents, wigs, and pseudonyms—all from Val Kilmer, of course.
December 24, 2021 • 1 hour, 7 minutes • Jason Snell with Aleen Simms, Dan Moren, David J. Loehr, Jean MacDonald and Moisés Chiullan
The Beatles Need Me!
We watched all eight hours of the Disney+ documentary "The Beatles: Get Back" and now we're going to talk about it. Toast, vests, London Bobbies sucking on their chin straps, Debbie the receptionist, Paul as "second boss", Yoko's knitting, George Harrison's pinstripes, and most importantly, the amazing view of a bunch of musical geniuses having a very difficult time creating anything at all.
December 18, 2021 • 1 hour, 33 minutes • "The Beatles: Get Back" • Jason Snell with Steven Schapansky, Monty Ashley, Guy English and Amy Gruber
A Glorious Mess
Grab your Tamagotchi Baby Monitor, because it's time to discuss "Doctor Who: Flux," a six-episode season that had a lot of plot, a lot of characters, and a lot of questions, many of them unanswered! We discuss what worked this season and what didn't, anticipate the 2022 run of specials to end Jodie Whitaker's era, and ponder what Modern Doctor Who looks like when Russell T Davies takes over the show (again) in 2023.
December 11, 2021 • 1 hour, 34 minutes • "Doctor Who: Flux" • Jason Snell with Steven Schapansky, Erika Ensign, James Thomson and Antony Johnston
That Poor Pie
We discuss Marvel's weird and epic "Eternals," which breaks a lot of Marvel-movie conventions while attempting to tell a different kind of story with a whole lot of new characters. It's full of interesting choices, some of which pay off, while others end up amounting to not very much.
December 4, 2021 • 1 hour, 19 minutes • "Eternals" • Jason Snell with Moisés Chiullan, Quinn Rose and Chip Sudderth
The Car Explodes In Midair
We've gathered the family around the table to celebrate F'sgiving, a thing we just made up in which we care enough to watch a film featuring F. Murray Abraham. In this case it's "Last Action Hero," a movie that Wikipedia claims is a cult classic. We don't know about that, but it certainly is unjustly maligned. This is a big, loud action movie that is also a parody and celebration of big, loud action movies. Sure, it's got its flaws—we're looking at you, kid—but there's a whole lot to like.
November 21, 2021 • 58 minutes • "Last Action Hero" • Jason Snell with Moisés Chiullan, Erika Ensign, Steve Lutz and David J. Loehr
Sometimes Beige Is Beautiful
Put on your stillsuit and prepare your sand compactor. We're venturing out into the uncharted deserts of Arrakis with "Dune," Denis Villeneuve's cinematic take on the oft-filmed Frank Herbert novel. We do some comparing and contrasting with David Lynch's version, question whether this adaptation is for fans for for people who know nothing about "Dune", and basically stare at a bunch of big spaceships hanging in the air. Denis Villeneuve knows what we like.
November 14, 2021 • 1 hour, 27 minutes • "Dune" (2021) • Jason Snell with John Siracusa, Jean MacDonald and Joe Rosensteel
All These Different Jackets
Buy those bongos and make it a 30-piece drum set, because legendary one-season wonder "Freaks and Geeks" is finally available to stream. This is an amazing show with a fantastic cast about a bunch of geeks and burnouts in Michigan in the early 1980s. It's a sweet and funny and awkward and painful story about growing up and trying to figure out who you are, while everyone else in the world wants to label you and make sure you never forget your label. We discuss our favorite ancillary characters, the richness of the world of "Freaks and Geeks", and how upon rewatching the show 20 years later, we have gained even more appreciation for Mr. and Mrs. Weir.
November 7, 2021 • 1 hour, 27 minutes • "Freaks and Geeks" • Jason Snell with Tiff Arment, Steve Lutz, Annette Wierstra and Marco Arment
Is Dracula the Frankenstein?
Just in time for Halloween, our mega-sized Old Movie Club meets up in a spooky haunted house to discuss two horror-comedies that honor their source material more than you might think — it's 1948's "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" and 1974's "Young Frankenstein." We learn that werewolves can fly, quoting film dialogue on the playground can be cruel, and in the end it turns out that none of us are the doctor—we're the monster.
October 31, 2021 • 1 hour, 18 minutes • "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" and "Young Frankenstein" • Jason Snell with Philip Michaels, Monty Ashley, Steve Lutz, Shelly Brisbin, Moisés Chiullan, Dr. Drang and David J. Loehr
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