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Pantheon Plus – Autumn Apocalypse: Snowpiercer & Train to Busan

It’s a doubleheader this week as Jerome and Brian spend a lot of time on trains. They try to wade through issues of class, protein bars made out of bugs, and worst of all, zombies as they discuss Snowpiercer (the movie, not the TNT show) and Train to Busan (the original, not the sequel)

Jerome’s 100 Favorite Movies Ever: The Wizard of Oz

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The Movie: The Wizard of Oz (1939)

One Sentence Plot Summary: A white girl from Kansa goes to a foreign country and gets away with committing double manslaughter in a foreign country with a scarecrow, tin man, lion, and a bunch of little people as accomplices.

Ranking the Seasons of The Wire

Self-explanatory article! (For real this time!)

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There Will Be Movies – Episode 40: Get Out

Ben Phillips & Matt Waters continue to present 25 of their favourite movies from a given decade, this time with 2010 – 2019.

While there was never really any doubt that we’d be covering one of the absolute best debut movies of all time, there’s still plenty up in the air when it comes to how two painfully white dudes manage to cover such a racially driven movie. Wish Ben & Matt luck!

The Matt Signal – Episode 30: Perchance to Dream

Plot summary: Bruce finds himself confronted with the notion that he is not Batman, his parents are alive and he’s engaged to Selina Kyle. Surely everything can’t be as it seems…

The Matt Signal – Episode 29: Eternal Youth

Plot summary: A luxury spa seems a little too good to be true… likely because it’s secretly run by Poison Ivy who wants to turn anti-environmentalists into trees!

Jerome’s 100 Favorite Movies Ever: The Martian

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The Movie: The Martian (2015)

One Sentence Plot Summary: Mark Watney sciences his way out of multiple problems as earth hems and haws because of bureaucracy.

Flooping the Pig – Episode 80: “Hugo”

The HBO Max streaming service launched in May of 2020. It was announced that the service would revive Adventure Time as a new series called “Distant Lands”, which as of now is set to contain four forty minute-ish stand-alone episodes. The first of those four episodes, titled “BMO”, dropped in June 2020, which Brad, JUSTIN, and Kevin review in today’s episode. They discuss the episode itself, including their likes and dislikes, their thoughts on doing a prequel, and the possibilities of what the events in this episode could have on the remaining Distant Lands episodes. They also talk about how it does or doesn’t correlate to the Cartoon Network show.

The gang then discusses Pendleton Ward’s Netflix animated series “The Midnight Gospel.” The hosts have some conflicting thoughts on this very bizarre show, easily the most adult and difficult piece to be featured on FTP.

Flooping the Pig is going on hiatus until the second Distant Lands episode, “Obsidian”, is released, and at this time has no release date. Thanks for your patronage, and we’ll see you again for Episode 81!

Jerome’s 100 Favorite Movies Ever: Mad Max: Fury Road

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The Movie: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

One Sentence Plot Summary: What starts as another adventure in the Mad Max franchise becomes a stealth story about a new female protagonist and the importance of fighting for your own place and not running away.

Jerome’s 100 Favorite Movies Ever: The Incredibles

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The Movie: The Incredibles (2004)

One Sentence Plot Summary: In a version of the Fantastic Four that’s Actually Good, the Parr family negotiates being a family, living in the world, and being superheroes.