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FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS Aug 19, 2025

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Dan and Ana are back! Perhaps you've heard a little something about the (latest) movie intended to relaunch the Marvel brand. It's worked out so well that three weeks after its release, you may have already decided not to see it! (As many people have.)

Apologies for the delay—late capitalism, travel, heat death of the universe, etc.

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ENCORE ENCORE: EVENT HORIZON Aug 16, 2025

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We've released this a couple of times; it's one of our favorite episodes about one of our favorite movies. It is now not just old enough to drink, but also to have regrets about their first serious relationship and realize they'll never be able to buy a house. Welcome to hell!

(Sam Neill, Laurence Fishburne, Jason Isaacs, and one of the wildest deleted scene stories you will hear your entire life.)

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FANTASTIC FOUR Jul 30, 2025

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Ana and Dan are into Peak Mid-Aughts: Spoon, the early seasons of the Office, books that are histories of a single consumer product, political blogs, and this version of the Fantastic Four. This single movie proves that history is not over, culture keeps changing, Chris's keep evolving.

There is IR in this movie and no critique of capitalism.

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SUPERMAN (2025) Jul 17, 2025

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Ana and Dan are the real punk rock. We talk Space Lex mugs, corporate hero squads, the carceral logic of pocket universes, and why showing people evacuating with their pets could be James Gunn's greatest contribution to the genre. There is IR in this movie.

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SUPERMAN (1978) Jul 17, 2025

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Ana and Dan will never ask you to guess what color underwear they have on. We talk about Marlon Brando’s floating green bagel, the moral clarity of a Kansas upbringing, Lex Luthor as the über–rentier class supervillain, and why 1970s journalism might’ve been the last honest institution in cinema. Also: Is this Superman the least traumatized superhero in the American metahuman pantheon? There is IR in this movie.

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28 YEARS LATER Jul 01, 2025

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Ana and Dan will not rescue you if you're not back by high tide. This is not the economical, revolutionary filmmaking of 28 Days Later; it is also not the clumsy genre exercise of 28 Weeks Later. Unlike 28 Months Later, it does exist. The politics are a little confused, the performances are excellent, and we disagreed about the overall quality. There's most definitely IR in this movie.

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ENCORE: 28 DAYS LATER Jun 23, 2025

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In this re-release of a patron episode for all listeners, Ana and Dan introduce their infamous 28 Days Later recording with a surprisingly lighthearted (and at times weirdly funny) conversation about personal triggers they’ve encountered while making this podcast—especially in relation to 28 Days Later—and how those flashpoints have, somehow, deepened their friendship.

Content warning: Discussion includes sexual assault and, in a way, antisemitism.

Original description:

Ana and Dan scrutinize Danny Boyle’s art-house zombie movie—one Dan could lecture on blindfolded with his hands tied behind his back. A debate: Is twenty-eight days long enough for society to give up hope and revert to a pure state of nature? How long do you have to be fighting zombies before you become like them? There is IR in this movie.

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28 WEEKS LATER Jun 23, 2025

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An arthouse hit gets a safer sequel

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THUNDERBOLTS* Jun 12, 2025

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Ana and Dan and Bob find their shame rooms and do the podcast from there. We liked this movie! All superhero movies are about trauma, but this one is about Trauma—a darkness leavened by the charm of its stars. There is a bit of IR in this movie.

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SINNERS Jun 02, 2025

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Ana and Dan will have the pickled garlic, thank you. A wildly inventive and expertly made popcorn movie, with sympathies for a few devils and more lore than you can shake a guitar at. There is IR and an implicit critique of a particular form of capitalism in this movie.

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