Show #64 - The Liefeld Foot

So! The co-perpetrator of Lost was given the directing gig on the new new Star Wars movie. Here's hoping Episode VII turns out more like the first two seasons of that show and nothing at all like any of the other seasons. The 'Lith and the Trap get into that news item and a bunch of other geek-chat standbys in this episode of A Little Snack. Discussed: JJ Abrams or The Only Man Who Can Direct Films for Culturally Important SciFi Properties, what Abrams' selection as the director of Episode VII implies about the current state of Hollywood, Abrams' unforgettable turn as maybe the pizza guy in a movie you saw once, why young people aren't as into Star Trek as they are in Star Wars, comic book artists, the Liefeld foot and where the Liefeld foot might have originated, how Bear Trap got swindled in a comic book trade and which books were involved, what a guy in his mid-thirties is supposed to do with his stash of early-90's comics, which comic Monolith would like to have framed, Die Hard as a franchise, the mistakes studios made when thinking about how to make Die Hard-like movies, how Monolith would resurrect the Die Hard franchise if someone gave him $50 million dollars to do the job, who Die Hard Five was made for, why The Shining continues to hold legions of movie geeks under its spell, how The Shining builds horror, why the casting was so important to its success, and a call for a deconstruction of The Shining to be written by a listener and submitted for the podcasters' review. You got out of this one with no Apple News. Enjoy it.

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Show #63 - The Relative Scariness of Cubes versus Suh-fears

Is there any month worse than January? The Christmas lights have all come down, 'Jingle Bell Rock''s not playing on the radio anymore, the lazy excuses to overeat have expired, and it's cold and bleak outside. (Well, bleak anyway. Global warming and all). And now the Trap and 'Lith have gone and recorded another aimless, mostly content-free podcast. Whether that makes your worst month of the year a bit better or a lot worse is for you to decide. Happy new year, Snackers! (Yeah, we're calling you that.) Discussed: Monolith's second viewing of 'The Avengers', which moment of brutal violence in that movie gets the biggest laugh, "the only director who writes women well", Monolith and Bear Trap disagree whether any of the uninitiated should subject themselves to the movie "Sphere", Lance Armstrong's doping and the question no one's asking (but Bear Trap is), the many reasons Lance is probably just an unredeemable skeez, Jodie Foster's unusual Golden Globes speech and the variety of reactions to it, Monolith's correct answer to the question "Who's the hottest actress in Hollywood right now?", the most exciting directors working, muscle injuries and the benefits of rehab, Bear Trap's sad, self-inflicted exercise-related injury, and those moments when your podcasters feel particularly old. Click and listen. Remember why you fell in ambivalence with this podcast in the first place.

Show #63