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New Podcast! The Escapist Movie Podcast – “Ted Lasso and the Onslaught of Optimism”

The Escapist have launched a movie podcast, and I was thrilled to join Jack Packard and Marty Sliva for the twenty-third episode of the year. Because Ted Lasso seems to be generating a lot of buzz and attention, we thought it might be fun to talk about the show, about optimism in popular culture and about the half-hour comedy format in general.

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New Podcast! The Escapist Movie Podcast – “The Suicide Squad Accomplishes Its Mission”

The Escapist have launched a movie podcast, and I was thrilled to join Jack Packard for the twenty-second episode of the year. With the release of The Suicide Squad on streaming and in cinemas, there was only one movie to discuss. The Suicide Squad was one of my favourite films of the year so far, so I was thrilled to geek out about it.

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New Podcast! The Escapist Movie Podcast – “Will Black Widow Have Us Russian Back to Cinemas?”

The Escapist have launched a movie podcast, and I was thrilled to join Jack Packard and Richard Newby for the twenty-first episode of the year. With the release of Black Widow on streaming and in cinemas, there was only one movie to discuss. So we went for a deep dive into Marvel’s interquel, its character-centric movie for a dead Avenger.

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New Podcast! The Escapist Movie Podcast – “Censor is a Celebration of and Exploration into Classic “Video Nasty” Horror”

The Escapist have launched a movie podcast, and I was thrilled to join Jack Packard for the twentieth episode of the year. We discussed two interesting new horror releases: the restoration of George A. Romero’s long lost The Amusement Park and director Prano Bailey-Bond’s celebration of the “video nasty” era with Censor. We really enjoyed both of them.

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New Podcast! The Escapist Movie Podcast – “Does Army of the Dead Bite Off More Than It Can Chew?”

The Escapist have launched a movie podcast, and I was thrilled to join Jack Packard and Lee Murkey for the eighteenth episode of the year, to discuss Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead and the perennial debate over movie lengths.

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New Podcast! The Escapist Movie Podcast – “TENET and 2020’s Not-busters”

The Escapist have launched a movie podcast, and I was thrilled to join Jack Packard and Lee Murkey for the fifteenth episode of the year, for a discussion looking at the not-busters of the pandemic era, particularly Russell Crowe’s road rage thriller Unhinged and Christopher Nolan’s TENET.

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New Podcast! The Escapist Movie Podcast – “Paddington 2 is Objectively Better Than Citizen Kane”

The Escapist have launched a movie podcast, and I was thrilled to join Jack Packard for the fourteenth episode of the year, for a discussion that covered The Mitchells vs. The Machines, Paddington, Paddington 2, Citizen Kane and the entire point of criticism. So, you know, nothing too big or broad.

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New Podcast! The Escapist Movie Podcast – “Is Mortal Kombat a Knock-Out?”

The Escapist have launched a movie podcast, and I was thrilled to join Jack Packard and Jesse Galena for the thirteenth episode of the year, for a jam-packed discussion that covered Mank, the Oscars and Mortal Kombat.

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New Podcast! The Escapist Movie Podcast – “All Hail Judas and the Black Messiah”

The Escapist have launched a movie podcast, and I was thrilled to join Jack Packard for the twelfth episode of the year, for a jam-packed discussion that covered Chaos Walking, Judas and the Black Messiah and Promising Young Woman.

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New Podcast! The Escapist Movie Podcast – “A Monster of a Godzilla vs. Kong Podcast”

The Escapist have launched a movie podcast, and I was thrilled to join Jack Packard for the eleventh episode of the year, with a special guest Liz Finnegan, for a titanic discussion of Godzilla vs. Kong.

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