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The Incomparable Mothership is the flagship of the Incomparable podcast network. It’s all about geeky media we love, including movies, books, TV, and more, featuring a rotating panel of guests and hosted by Jason Snell and friends.
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2024-12-20 17:00:00
747: Latin Rap Battle (0d49bcc6-0ba9-428b-bc7d-25d3b50a232c.mp3)
For Kilmas this year we travel to 19th century Arizona for “Tombstone,” where Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and their shady pal Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer!) confront a bunch of rotten outlaw thugs and their own mortality. Will our noted hater of westerns, Erika, accept the possibility of a Kilmas miracle? Listen to find out!...
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2024-12-13 17:00:00
746: Ape Mismanagement (73004130-e019-49fc-a6b9-2a3720c3fdb7.mp3)
This year’s Ape Club holiday party is 1972’s “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes,” in which the people of Future 1991 use apes as slaves until there’s an uprising led by a talking ape with a familiar name: Caesar. Were the 1970s ape sequels all as bad as we were led to believe, or is “Conquest”… actually kind of good? Join us and find out!...
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2024-12-06 17:00:00
745: Untitled Gambit Project (5d930b18-391b-4238-ae06-3cbfacf6add0.mp3)
Merry X-Mas, and goodwill to X-Men! Surprisingly holding down the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe for 2024 is “Deadpool & Wolverine,” in which Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman desecrate “Logan” while honoring it, skewer Marvel movies while saving them, and encounter an extremely unlikely collection of Marvel movie cast-offs and has-beens....
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2024-11-29 17:00:00
744: Pineapple of Disappointment (4991fefd-71f7-49f9-a725-7246d1b3c741.mp3)
Miyazaki Club morphs into Ghibli Club as we discuss 1991’s “Only Yesterday,” written and directed by Isao Takahata. It’s a story of one (childless workaholic?) woman’s search for herself in the past and the present, plus, of course, a deep dive into organic farming....
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2024-11-22 17:00:00
743: Doritos and Tequila (8994b77a-6785-4eaa-b120-cbda9c02ce05.mp3)
In honor of Thanksgiving, we review the 1987 classic “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” featuring Steve Martin and John Candy as trapped-together travelers just trying to get home, if there’s even a home to get back to. Jason comes to the realization that this is the Odyssey in the Midwest. Ben Stein has a special sign just to troll pained travelers. And that’s what Thanksgiving is all about, Charlie Brown....
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2024-11-15 17:00:00
742: Hi, Anxiety (4550d46a-de9d-4306-b5f7-c74ef42a46d9.mp3)
Several panelists consider Pixar’s “Inside Out” one of their favorite films. Now it’s time to process “Inside Out 2.” Some struggle with the sequel more than others. But at least Bing Bong makes a tiny cameo....
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2024-11-08 17:00:00
741: Evil Giant Cicadas (36a2ab9b-c4a1-49bd-870f-a249753a8b27.mp3)
Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Keith David, and a lack of bozos… It can only be 2000’s “Pitch Black,” one of the finer entries in the always-popular “Alien” homage movie genre. We enthuse about elevated filmmaking, great decisions, and low-budget effects....
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2024-10-28 23:45:00
740: The Coffin Test (706c797f-3c09-4d77-ba70-b176b8691cce.mp3)
Just in time for Halloween week, Old Spooky Club returns for 1985’s “Fright Night.” It’s an entirely ’80s comedy-horror movie with zero cynicism and only a single layer of meta. Chris Sarandon is the perfect vampire, even when he’s villanously chowin’ down on a topless lady as he exchanges intense stares with the neighbor kid. If you’ve never experienced it, you don’t know what you’re missing....
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2024-10-25 17:00:00
739: Above the Zeppo Level (ef29e92b-1300-48c6-ae81-2c0e83bf8fa5.mp3)
Do you like gladiator movies, Joey? It’s the comedy side of “Zero Hour!”, with serious actors playing ridiculous parts more or less straight. How does the comedy hold up? What’s unique about the approach? Why was it such a huge hit? We put the ZAZ boys under the microscope. Surely we’ll all have a good time! (Don’t call us Shirley.)...
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2024-10-18 17:00:00
738: Condor to the Neck (3f8138af-e72e-4e4f-ae99-5acc9eebff04.mp3)
Don’t order the fish! Old Movie Club celebrates Aviatober with 1939’s “Only Angels Have Wings” and 1957’s “Zero Hour!” One bears a striking resemblance to forgettable 1980s TV series “Tales of the Gold Monkey,” and the other is undeniably the inspiration for the more notable 1980 movie “Airplane!” (That’s foreshadowing.)...
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2024-10-11 17:00:00
737: The Bolthole of My Own Self-Referentiality (9be2c3fe-5733-491b-b1eb-20a799e6cd7f.mp3)
It was the late ’80s and comic writer Grant Morrison was fast becoming Grant Morrison. Come back with us to look at his run on Animal Man, issues 1-26, in which a has-been/never-was superhero becomes an outspoken animal rights activist, witnesses the near-undoing of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, and meets his own maker—who looks strangely like Grant Morrison. Before Deadpool and She-Hulk broke the fourth wall, this was Peak Meta....
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2024-10-04 17:00:00
736: I Have Planets for That (f6eecb0c-b09a-4da0-a482-c4b3774ef51f.mp3)
Dan Moren’s “The Armageddon Protocol” is now on sale. He joins Jason to discuss how to wrap up a long-running series (while leaving doors open for future adventures), juggling an increasingly complex home life with a two-book contract, the broader publishing options available to fiction writers, and (of course) sandwiches....
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2024-09-27 17:00:00
735: Who Took My Lady? (cf2446d3-239a-4851-a344-c11c90cba113.mp3)
Miyazaki Club returns to discuss 2010’s “The Secret World of Arrietty,” a Studio Ghibli production with a screenplay by Hayao Miyazaki based on a series of children’s books. Why are we so unnerved by the linear storyline and lack of weirdness? Why does Jason have Bay Leaf head canon? And why is surface tension the true star of the show?...
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2024-09-20 17:00:00
734: Hang a Lantern on a Lantern (f756f188-b000-422b-8aeb-024ed9cebad4.mp3)
“Warner Brothers called and they’re demanding that we do The Matrix IV, with or without you?” So motivated, Lilly Wachowski made a movie that revisits “The Matrix” that’s about revisiting “The Matrix.” Could it be that this 19-years-later sequel… is better than the other sequels?...
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2024-09-13 17:00:00
733: This Could Have Been an Email (bd18b616-22bc-4167-88de-3f039db201c8.mp3)
The Matrix Trilogy ends with “The Matrix Revolutions.” There’s a big fight in Zion, a lot of stuff in the Matrix we didn’t actually remember, everyone becomes Agent Smith, Chip is devoured by thousands of mosquitos, and Kelly resists the bleakness....
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2024-09-06 17:00:00
732: Terrible Clothes, Great Parties (fc0cb16f-ec58-449a-b40c-c6bd10ec6481.mp3)
Whoa. Years later, we’re back in the Matrix as we cover the sequels to the mind-blowing 1999 original. First up is “The Matrix Reloaded,” which features thrills, spills, underground orgies, and long philosophical monologues. How well does it hold up? What surprised us? Were we excited, or terrified, to see Zion and all those mech suits? Take the appropriately colored pill and join us....
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2024-08-30 17:00:00
731: Hate is Good Manure (bbabd2c5-2293-4b0f-bc5b-6b8a5acf6ead.mp3)
We’ve reconvened Mad Max Club to come up with some word burgers about “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” the 2024 prequel to the iconic 2015 film “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Does the prequel match up to the original (aka the fourth) film in the franchise?...
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2024-08-23 17:00:00
730: Tight Five on Gibbons (aa56ac3d-cd1a-494d-87f6-62232a47c228.mp3)
Our Ape Club returns to cover 2024’s “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.” Yes, it’s apes and humans again, but this is a new era with a lot to consider about how history is distorted to serve present-day politics, the value of saving or destroying past knowledge, and the best way to protect an eagle egg....
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2024-08-16 17:00:00
729: A Mean Man Made Me Rank Things (7511405b-3ce3-499d-8618-46dfb5535447.mp3)
Our Book Club wraps up its 2024 walk through nine shortlisted SF/F novels with our overall rankings, some short fiction recommendations, and a quick dip into what we’ve read recently and really enjoyed....
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2024-08-09 17:00:00
728: Golden Age of Quantity (abfd1cb0-a9cf-43b1-adf4-bff49758cf2f.mp3)
We discuss the recently concluded (first?) season of the Star Wars series “The Acolyte.” The show offers a mix of stuff we like about “Star Wars”, but the panel’s split on whether it managed to do a good job executing its ambitious agenda....