Castuner

Open World Chat

John Odum and Mark Card

Discussing all "genre" media and geek culture.

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117 episodes

  1. Manic Pixie Dream Girls 1:20:24
  2. Patriarchy in the Movies pt 1: Fridging 54:08
  3. Recasting pt 2: Jaws, A Clockwork Orange, This is Spinal Tap, The Thing 52:11
  4. Recasting movies pt 1!!! The Princess Bride and Blade Runner 51:10
  5. Absolutely Perfect TV episodes 1:24:04
  6. The Odyssey and beyond: Greek myths onscreen 1:26:29
  7. Roles that Can't be Recast (just pack 'em up and put 'em away) 1:11:44
  8. When Star Trek Has Failed Itself 1:19:51
  9. When We Make Contact Part 3: The International System 1:18:58
  10. When We Make Contact Part 2: Religion and Culture 59:01
  11. When We Make Contact Part 1: Economy and Politics 1:12:56
  12. Our Favorite Fictional Sociopaths 1:33:52
  13. The Cli-Fi Episode! Climate and Environmental Destruction in Sci-Fi 55:34
  14. Our favorite death scenes 1:37:31
  15. Our Favorite Parasites 1:12:34
  16. A look at spoiled characters 1:07:50
  17. Sci-fi Bracketology 2026!!! 1:21:20
  18. Star Trek: State of the Franchise 56:58
  19. Resistance Movements in TV and Movies 1:30:24
  20. Movies you wish you could see for the 1st time again 1:05:44
  21. Sci-fi that will make aliens laugh their asses off at us 1:08:14
  22. Movies that don't know they're horror movies 1:22:26
  23. Science as the Bad Guy - When sci-fi hates science 1:21:19
  24. "Look at Us Now: A Comic Book Movie" Filmmaker Vee Rodriguez on what comics mean to us 1:17:28
  25. Villains who make a good point 1:05:27
  26. TV themes! Mark and John Share Their Top 10s! 1:11:12
  27. Movie and TV apocalypses - what makes a good one and some examples 1:20:43
  28. Genre Swapping! Movies that flip genre in mid-viewing 1:25:47
  29. Fascism in Sci-Fi 1:22:55
  30. Time Travel in Film and TV (and what a mess it is) 1:05:53
  31. Utopian fiction (and is anybody buying in?) 1:08:02
  32. Our Favorite Fight Scenes 1:25:52
  33. Why does the Right hate Superman (the movie AND the character)? 1:07:42
  34. 20 Films to get you through the Trump Era 1:26:30
  35. The Sounds of the Movies 49:07
  36. Jim Shooter: Superhero or Supervillain? 45:16
  37. Identity in Sci Fi: Who Am I Really? 1:04:54
  38. The best bits from film soundtracks 1:10:13
  39. Cursed productions: figuratively and..... literally? 1:04:10
  40. The scariest moments in film and TV 1:17:46
  41. Hidden gems from legendary directors 52:12
  42. The REAL masterpieces of legendary directors 55:13
  43. The Democracy Episode! Policy, Cybersecurity and more! 58:10
  44. Christ figures in sci-fi and fantasy 44:39
  45. How will DEI pushback affect geek media? 50:35
  46. Movies that Shouldn't be Remade (plus a few stinker remakes) 1:01:12
  47. Movies that should be remade, and a few already remade well 45:02
  48. Franchise fatigue - is it a thing? 44:51
  49. Underappreciated good stuff 49:01
  50. Dumb sci fi 50:11