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A Very Photogenic Submarine
Episode 774
The Summer of Submarines joins forces with Old Movie Club to take on 1958’s “Run Silent, Run Deep,” starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster. It’s a t…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
One Dog Is Too Many
Episode 773
The summer of submarines kicks off with 1995’s “Crimson Tide,” a taut character drama that pits a captain (Gene Hackman) against his XO (Denzel Washi…
1 year ago
The Compulsion of Art
Episode 772
With the guiding hand of Prof. Siracusa choosing the curriculum, we watch select animated shorts from the Netflix series “Love, Death + Robots.” John…
1 year ago
Nothing Can Kill Doctor Who
Episode 771
The second (and final?) season of the BBC/Disney+ collaboration era of “Doctor Who” is at an end, and so our crew of fans is here to pick up the piec…
1 year ago
At the Time It Was Written
Episode 770
We conclude (for now?) our coverage of the TV adaptation of The Wheel of Time, which was just canceled by Amazon. Three seasons in, we cover whether …
1 year ago
Wrestle a Book
Episode 769
Our Awards Book Club continues its run through the roses with a tougher than expected review of Vajra Chandrasekera’s “Rakesfall,” Adrian Tchaikovsky…
1 year ago
Eternal Clockwork Bugs
Episode 768
Guillermo del Toro’s career started small, with the small-scale vampire (sort of) horror (sort of?) movie “Cronos,” in which an old man finds a mecha…
1 year, 1 month ago
On a Farm Planet Upstate
Episode 767
From the skyscrapers of Coruscant to the pyramids of Yavin and with numerous stops in between, season two of “Andor” covers the rise of the rebellion…
1 year, 1 month ago
That's 2K!
Episode 766
We return once more to 1995, this time for a movie set at the turn of the century! It’s “Strange Days,” a cyberpunk movie with only a little bit of c…
1 year, 1 month ago
Precognitive Moon
Episode 765
The highest-grossing film of all time is straight-up sci-fi and yet in 15 years at this place we’ve never talked about it. That ends now, as we put o…
1 year, 1 month ago