Episodes

  • 768: Eternal Clockwork Bugs

    768: Eternal Clockwork Bugs
    May 30 2025
    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 mechanical object containing a magical bug that gives him eternal life in the bad way. Meanwhile, young Ron Perlman hates his evil uncle but continues to do his bidding! It’s a fun 1992 throwback that is still recognizeably del Toro.

    Jason Snell with Steve Lutz, Moisés Chiullán and Tony Sindelar.
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • 767: On a Farm Planet Upstate

    767: On a Farm Planet Upstate
    May 23 2025
    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 and leads to the doorstep of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” What makes it special among Star Wars series? Did season two improve on the groundbreaking first season? It’s Star Wars, so we break it down in detail.

    Jason Snell with John Siracusa, Dan Moren, Tony Sindelar and Steven Schapansky.
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    1 hr and 51 mins
  • 766: That's 2K!

    766: That's 2K!
    May 16 2025
    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 cyber but a lot of punk, along with grease and stink.

    Jason Snell with Erika Ensign, Tony Sindelar and Monty Ashley.
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • 765: Precognitive Moon

    765: Precognitive Moon
    May 9 2025
    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 on our oxygen masks and venture out into the moon of Pandora to meet the local Na’vi and the interloper Sky People and discuss why James Cameron’s “Avatar” became an enormous hit and then disappeared entirely (other than the theme-park attactions) until re-emerging with a sequel that was also an enormous hit.

    Jason Snell with Erika Ensign, Brian Warren, Brian Hamilton and Chip Sudderth.
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • 764: Books About Towers

    764: Books About Towers
    May 2 2025
    Our walk through the 10 different novels nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards in 2025 begins! In this episode we discuss “Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory” by Yaroslav Barsukov, “A Sorceress Comes to Call” by T. Kingfisher, and “Someone You Can Build a Nest In” by John Wiswell.

    Jason Snell with Erika Ensign, Aleen Simms, Scott McNulty and Heather Berberet.
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • 763: You're in the Gibson Area Now

    763: You're in the Gibson Area Now
    Apr 25 2025
    The year is 1995. The films: “Hackers” and “The Net,” in which computers are proven to be dangerous for society. One is a ridiculous movie about teen hackers that knows it’s silly, and the other is a ludicrous thriller about adult hackers that doesn’t.

    Jason Snell with Monty Ashley, Shelly Brisbin, Erika Ensign, Joe Rosensteel, Moisés Chiullán and Tony Sindelar.
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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • 762: Wolf in Goat's Clothing

    762: Wolf in Goat's Clothing
    Apr 18 2025
    Huff some ether, dress for an ORTBO, and always keep an eye out for a private place beneath a tarp—we’re here to discuss the second season of “Severance,” a story that goes beyond the first season with some twists and turns that might be Kafkaesque, but are definitely Kafka-ish.

    Jason Snell with Brian Hamilton, Brian Warren, Dan Moren, Glenn Fleishman and Heather Berberet.
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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • 761: Exposition Ant Farm

    761: Exposition Ant Farm
    Apr 11 2025
    Spray on some insect repellant and don your hazmat suit, because Del Toro Club has re-formed to discuss a gigantic layer cake of infinite bugs, 1997’s “Mimic.” Parts of it are very Del Toro indeed, while other parts leave us scratching our heads about why something that had a whole lot of potential ended up playing as a pretty good B (not bee!) Movie instead. Are the Weinsteins to blame? (Yes.)

    Jason Snell with Moisés Chiullán, Steve Lutz and Tony Sindelar.
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    1 hr and 23 mins
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