Six Degrees of Star Wars
Even before it became the property of a monstrously big corporation that started putting it everywhere, Star Wars was everywhere. Join us on a journey as we take the hyperspace lanes out of a galaxy far, far away and into other movies, finding all the ways George Lucas' flagship franchise surrounds us, binds us, and penetrates us.
Six Degrees of Star Wars
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Ep. 87: Sending Us Back to The Land Before Time (1988)
The gang gets a blast of childhood trauma in the form of the Lucasfilm-produced Don Bluth-directed original, THE LAND BEFORE TIME. Join us for discussions of protecting the babiest of babies, the beauty of hand drawn animation, and why birds ar...
Ep: 86: WHY is Howard the Duck (1986)?
Join us this Halloween to witness the horrors of... Howard the Duck! The first Marvel movie, which explains.... so much. But did it really have to be this horny???PLUGGABLES: Rhaps: @RhapsodyBlueVA on Twitter, BlueSky, and Le...
Ep. 85: Captain EO... Oh No.....
We are gathered here today to perform a spooky season autopsy on the 17 minute short film created for Disney with some of the most gifted people of the 1980s.... what HAPPENED????Content warning for Michael Jackson.Meredith: @mert...
Ep. 84: Craving the Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025)
Sam and Jas observe Hispanic Heritage Month by talking about KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, a movie that is so many things... an adaptation of the Tony-winning Kander and Ebb musical based on the Manuel Puig novel, J-Lo's most obvious attempt at an ...
Episode 83: Here There Be Peter Pan (1953)
We observe Talk Like a Pirate Day by talking in a not-very-pirate-y way about the animated Disney adaption of JM Barrie's classic story, including the parentification of Wendy Darling, racist depictions of Natives, and the homoerotic barely-sub...
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