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Unless you've been bat-living under a bat-rock, you've heard the news that Steven Soderbergh is stepping in to help Matt Reeves finish principal photography on THE BATMAN: PART II - which makes 2022's THE BATMAN an essential text for our podcast project! We talk about this very unexpected development before confronting the famous Batman himself. What did we expect from this Batman film? What did we end up getting? Are we too old for this sort of thing? Why is the movie three hours long? Will anyone still listen to the show after this? Tune in to find out, bat-listeners!
Further Reading:
Batman: Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli
Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
Further Viewing:
The other BATMAN movies, obviously
KLUTE (Pakula, 1971)
CHINATOWN (Polanski, 1974)
TAXI DRIVER (Scorsese, 1976)
BLADE RUNNER (Scott, 1982)
SE7EN (Fincher, 1995)
ZODIAC (Fincher, 2007)
THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE (McKay, 2017)
PRIMETIME (Oppenheim, 2026)
 
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Hey check it out, it's the movie several people thought we were covering when we did OPEN RANGE! But instead of Costner and Duvall making a stand against cattle barons, it's Roseanne and Judi Dench and Jennifer Tilly as animated cows...taking a stand against a cattle baron! We look at yet another animated film for children (always goes well) and interrogate the idea that it "killed" hand-drawn animation at Disney. Plus, how can one even say which Disney movies are "the good ones," anyway? (Ian feels he can, easily.) Wacky ep, we hope you enjoy!
As always, thank you to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork.
Produced by Ian Rhine & Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

They say Soderbergh's prolific, listener, but did you realize he released TWO television shows in the same WEEK in 2023? OK, sure, one of them is more like a series of webisodes that add up to about 90 minutes. But a couple of them have Liev Schreiber! He's a real guy! We did our due diligence and watched both FULL CIRCLE, Sodey and Ed Solomon's hyperlink TRAFFIC-meets-HIGH AND LOW miniseries, and COMMAND Z, his weird self-hosted miniseries about preventing the apocalypse through incremental change. It's all pretty standard stuff for us: Guyanese diaspora gangs, the correct left position on nuclear energy, arguing about whether a joke is funny. Check it out!
Further Reading:
"Steven Soderbergh on the Real Heroes of 'Full Circle' "
King's Ransom by Ed McBain
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History by Kurt Andersen
Further Viewing:
HIGH AND LOW (Kurosawa, 1963)
BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (Jonze, 1999)
BEYOND THE PALE (Gaffigan, 2006)
DÉJÀ VU (Scott, 2006)
HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE (Goldhaber, 2022)
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Live (to tape) from México! The "chicos" sit down fresh from their travels in the Yucatán to talk Mel Gibson's Mayan language survival epic APOCALYPTO, widely held up as proof that he isn't just an insane racist weirdo. You're never going to believe this...we found some Historical Context. Apologies in advance if you're a big 'PTO fan, but we suspect you may not have rewatched it in a while. Plus, some chat about our experiences in Celestún, Mérida, cenotes - damn, is there any experience these guys won't "Mayan" for content?!
As always, thanks to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork.
Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional Production by Ryan Torgeson.

What if you made a movie that was really successful and then your friend directed a sequel people liked even better and THEN the star turned it into a live show with his name on it? You'd want to...let's see here...make a movie sort of imagining what if the character was actually the one who made the live show? Sure, why not! One thing's for sure, though - it better have Salma Hayek in it playing a rich woman named "Maxandra." We bid a fond "cheerio" to male entertainer Mike Lane in MAGIC MIKE'S LAST DANCE, Steven Soderbergh's conclusion to his unexpected trilogy, and we're joined by our very smart friends Aaron and Carlee from Hit Factory! As always with these two, our conversational cup runneth over with discussions of eroticism (and its absence), life after sex work, class, and ottoman humping. Terrific ep, we hope you enjoy!
Further Reading:
"Salma Hayek Pinault Says Lap Dance Scene in 'Magic Mike's Last Dance' Was 'Very Physically Challenging'" by Carly Thomas https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/salma-hayek-pinault-channing-tatum-lap-dance-magic-mikes-last-dance-physically-challenging-1235284152/
Further Viewing:
SHOWGIRLS (Verhoeven, 1995)
STEP UP (Fletcher, 2006)
KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (Vaughn, 2014)
Ottoman Humpers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEk2qMKysf4
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