Open World Chat
Discussing all "genre" media and geek culture.
Podcasting since 2021 • 106 episodes
Open World Chat
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Movies that don't know they're horror movies
Mark and John look at what makes a movie a horror movie (surprisingly complicated!) and apply that to movies that aren't generally considered to be horror. What movies pass the test of horror-that-doesn't-know-it's-horror?
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Science as the Bad Guy - When sci-fi hates science
There are mad scientists aplenty in science fiction, but somethimes - perhaps ironically - it's the science itself that science fiction is demonizing. Mark and John look at the science that sci-fi hates and wind through some examples that you a...
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"Look at Us Now: A Comic Book Movie" Filmmaker Vee Rodriguez on what comics mean to us
"Look at Us Now: A Comic Book Movie" Filmmaker Vee Rodriguez has a conversation with Mark and John about what comics mean to readers and how they've shaped us over the years. As per imdb: "Based on the poem by VRO, The Poet, LOOK AT US NOW: A C...
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Villains who make a good point
Baddies are a dime a dozen, but the really good ones are the ones that have a point and demand you listen. Mark and John discuss them (and go off on a couple tangents, but that happens...).
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TV themes! Mark and John Share Their Top 10s!
There are way too many TV themes to call Mark's list and John's lists definitive, but they've got some good ones (and just to make the point, there was no overlap between the lists). That adds up to 20 awesome things ranging from the 1960s to t...
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