The Napa Boys Movie poster
Out on streaming this 4/20 is The Napa Boys, a film with a very high concept to match its micro budget. A surprising satire for the age of endless franchises—mocking of American Pie spinoffs, Lord of the Rings, and much more. As the Napa Boys would say, “To The Grape!”
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TalKing of the Hill this month covers "Movin' on Up"—Luanne gets her own place but ends up with worse roommates than herself! Hear all our fun chat here: www.patreon.com/posts/talkin...
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cover art by Nick Daniel: Mario looks up at Rosalina & StarFox on the big screen and WEEPS
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Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices
Booker is complaining about people who didn’t support Harris enough just because they disagree on 10% of the issues (the issues includes genocide and the mass murder of children). Ironically, Booker’s long support for Israel’s apartheid government is in disagreement with about 90% of Dem voters
The Israeli concentration camps are turning into extermination camps.
Disney’s official art for World Simpsons
We’ve covered all the classic episodes and the shorts on @talksimpsonspod.bsky.social, finding new facts on the show every week with lots of cool guests. Catch up on all 39 years of it with us! If you start listening now, you might get caught up in time for the 40th anniversary!
Today marks 39 years since the first Simpsons short debuted on The Tracy Ullman Show! This year it seems like Disney is now turning April 19 into an Official Day for it (probably warming up for the 40th next year), but you know the real place to learn everything about Simpsons: TalkingSimpsons.com
hey, it’s the 30th anniversary of MST3K the Movie absolutely not coming to a theater near me
The reason you don’t have nostalgia for a cool indie rental place that stocked interesting foreign films or Criterion discs was because Blockbuster spent billions sabotaging all the cool places all across America. They were a hideous dragon eventually eaten by a newer, bigger dragon named Netflix
No blame to anyone unfortunately grew up in one of the many American towns that only had Blockbuster and not even a competing corporate chain like Hollywood Video. When Blockbuster is all you know, it’s your nostalgia without knowing how much was denied to you by that truly awful corporation
By the time I started at Blockbuster in 2004, it had shut down every competitor in my suburban Florida town. When I moved to Berkeley, CA in 2006, I finally lived where a couple places survived Blockbuster’s war on independent rental places. Of course, that was when Netflix was killing the industry
Video Rental Store Nostalgia = Generally Good
Specifically Blockbuster Nostalgia = Terribly Misplaced If Not Entirely Bad
I worked for years at both a Blockbuster and a mom & pop local rental place. Blockbuster was the devil that killed every cool video store it could via monopolistic practices
Before Simpsons, a Fox sitcom family made the network famous—we’re talking Married… with Children!
Our live action What A Cartoon tradition continues with a history on MWC, and the ep “Married… with Aliens!” Out now on @talksimpsonspod.bsky.social feeds: whatacartoonfeed.libsyn.com/what-a-carto...
Our podcast image for Talking Futurama “All the Presidents’ Heads”.
Each month we do a subscriber-exclusive Talking Futurama on @talksimpsonspod.bsky.social Patreon. In April, we’re chatting about the colonial time travel epic “All the Presidents’ Heads!”
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Our newest @talksimpsonspod.bsky.social welcomes on @jessefarrar.com from @yourkickstartersucks.com & @gooffkings.bsky.social!
We chat “Lisa on Ice,” with tons of behind the scenes secrets—plus tips on how to best hack the bone!
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We’ve got @nextlander.com’s @alexnavarro.bsky.social back for an @talksimpsonspod.bsky.social all about the 2005 Super Bowl!
We chat the post-game ep “Homer and Ned’s Hail Mary Pass”—a parody of Passion of the Christ/Wardrobe Malfunctions!
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I saw that one back in 2007, but the rest were only seen theatrically this time around. Still got to see Tokyo Godfathers and Memories in theaters to complete the filmography
Me in front of the poster for Perfect Blue
Had a night of Popcorn Classics with a triple feature of Satoshi Kon films. SIFF Downtown only had a poster up for Perfect Blue, but before that I saw Millennium Actress and Paprika with pretty full audiences
That Snoopy Sno-Cone was a real workout
Reese Witherspoon? The NFT evangelist?
Every day a different billionaire says the most horrific movie villain thing you've ever heard but this guy and a grandpa from Vermont are the scary ones because they want to tax them
