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Back to SearchPMP#133: Predator (Films) and Prey
Season 3 Episode 133
Thanks to the new film Prey, we now have six films (starting with 1987's Predator) featuring the dreadlocked, camouflaged, infrared-seeing race of al…
3 years, 8 months ago
PMP#132: “Too Soon” in Comedy?
Season 2 Episode 132
To honor the death of Gilbert Gottfried, we discuss jokes like the 9-11 one he was pilloried for. Can comedy really be "too soon" in relation to its …
3 years, 8 months ago
PMP#131: Hope for Jordan Peele’s “Nope”
Season 2 Episode 131
Jordan Peele's launch from a solid comedy base with Key & Peele to the unexpected Get Out was so impressive that he's generated a huge amount of good…
3 years, 9 months ago
PMP#130: CODA and Deaf Culture
Season 2 Episode 130
The 2022 Oscar winner for Best Picture was CODA, a story about a musically inclined girl with a deaf family. Kambri Crews, herself a CODA, joins your…
3 years, 9 months ago
PMP#129: Wherefore the Cover Song?
Season 2 Episode 129
Is re-playing or re-recording a song written and performed by someone else an act of love or predation?
Mark is joined by Too Much Joy's Tim Quirk, t…
3 years, 9 months ago
PMP#128: Jurassic Shlock
Season 2 Episode 128
Mark is joined by NY Time entertainment writer/philosophy prof Lawrence Ware, novelist/ex-actor Sarahlyn Bruck, and filmmaker/Remakes, Reboots, and R…
3 years, 10 months ago
PMP#127: You Down with Downton Abbey?
Season 2 Episode 127
We discuss the appeal of this Julian-Fellowes-penned British historical drama in light of the new film. Is this really "a new era" or just more of th…
3 years, 10 months ago
PMP#126: Political Sci-Fi in “The Expanse”
Season 2 Episode 126
On the novel series and TV show written by James S.A. Corey (aka Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck). Mark is joined by fact-checker Al Baker, educator Sab…
3 years, 11 months ago
PMP#125: The Dramatics of “This Is Us”
Season 2 Episode 125
Mark is joined by rhetorician/educator Michelle Parrinello-Cason, Chris Sunami (The Pop Culture Philosopher), and award-winning former journalist Ker…
3 years, 11 months ago
PMP#124: What Is Batman?
Season 2 Episode 124
In light of the recent release of Matt Reeves' film The Batman, we consider the strange alternation of darkness and camp that is Batman. Is he even a…
3 years, 11 months ago