1984’s Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eight Dimension was a fun, pulpy mess of a sci-fi adventure, which promised us a sequel… which we never got. Nearly 40 years later, screenwriter Earl Mac Rauch wrangled the rights to the character away […]
We take a break from the usual format this week to present the Snubby Awards, given to the best films and performance that were not nominated for an Oscar. Douglas Laman, film critic from The Spool, joins me to present and discuss […]
It would be ignorant to begin an article about the 2022 Academy Awards and not immediately address the elephant in the room; Will Smith got on stage and assaulted Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife to the […]
In the 1890s, a British shipping clerk named Edmund Morel noticed the Belgians were shipping vast quantities of rubber from the Congo, then a Belgian colony, but the only thing they were sending in return were guns, explosives, and chains. […]
Another year of the COVID-19 pandemic meant another year of films (and filmmakers) barely scraping the barrel in terms of recognition and financial success at the box office. Theaters slowly started to open, but with new variants of the virus […]
Legendary Old West lawman Wyatt Earp fought at the O.K. Corral, and then rode off into the sunset… but the story doesn’t end there. Scott Bunn, who co-hosts the podcast Run That Back, and authors the Bob Dylan blog ReclinerNotes.com, […]
Secrets are seldom kept in today’s digital, social media-centralized world. Information can be accessed at the tap of a finger (some truthful, some less so) and the news cycle rotates throughout our screens each hour of the day. As with […]
In the 1870s, traveling by train through Palisade, Nevada was a heart-stopping experience. It was a Wild West hive of scum and villainy, with a constant tumult of fistfights, gunfights, and robberies in broad daylight. Except it was all fake […]
DC Comics has had a mixed record at the movies, but Boston Globe writer Nick Zaino, host of the podcast Department of Tangents, Subject Radio DJ, and first-ever WITNAM guest, returns to tell us why long-running, lesser-known DC title The […]
In 2020, a local TV host from Nebraska gained internet fame for a montage of her hilariously blunt interviews with A-list actors from the ’70s and ’80s. But her story goes far beyond one viral clip, as Drake burst into […]
