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Is This Is Spinal Tap the Best Comedy Movie Ever?
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Is This Is Spinal Tap the Best Comedy Movie Ever?
This week, Kyle and returning champ Michael Walsh discuss the 40th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap and count down their top 10 personal favorite comedy movies ever made to determine which is the very best.
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Why Is It Hard to Adapt Superman?
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Why Is It Hard to Adapt Superman?
In the wake of a ton of news regarding James Gunn’s highly anticipated Superman movie, and the new DCU in general, Eric Diaz joins Kyle to talk about the character, why so many other movies have gotten him wrong, and why they’re incredibly hopeful Gunn gets it exactly right.
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Avatar: The Live-Action Airbender
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Avatar: The Live-Action Airbender
This week, Ro Rusak returns to talk to Kyle about the recent Netflix series, Avatar: The Last Airbender. They discuss how well it adapts the animation to live-action, whether it’s better to stay true or blaze your own trail in adaptation, and how old the child actors will be by time the series wraps up.
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Action Figure Collecting and Nostalgia w/ Dan Larson of Secret Galaxy
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Action Figure Collecting and Nostalgia w/ Dan Larson of Secret Galaxy
This week, Kyle sits down with YouTube creator and action figure aficionado Dan Larson of the channel Secret Galaxy to discuss the action dolly market in the year 2024. Is it going to last, or will it die with ‘80s and ‘90s nostalgia?
Episode #40
Dune Books
Episode #40
Dune Books
This week, Kyle talks with Nerdist’s resident Dune-atic, Matt Caron, about Frank Herbert’s Dune book saga and its various adaptations. Additionally, they get into what new readers could gain from reading this 60-year franchise.
Episode #39
Milestone Comics w/ Micheline Hess
Episode #39
Milestone Comics w/ Micheline Hess
This week, Kyle cedes hosting duties to frequent guest Tai Gooden so she can interview creator of the comics Malice in Ovenland and Diary of a Mad, Black Werewolf, Micheline Hess. Together they talk about Micheline’s early comics career working for Milestone Comics and what it’s like being a Black woman working in the comic book industry.
Episode #38
Junji Ito Manga w/Patrick H. Willems
Episode #38
Junji Ito Manga w/Patrick H. Willems
This week, Kyle gets into the creepy, cosmic nightmares of manga writer and artist Junji Ito, author of Uzumaki and Tomie. Joining to discuss this singular artist and his work is video essayist and comic book fanatic Patrick H. Willems. In addition to Ito, they also talk about the current run of X-Men and how
Episode #37
Franchises with Only One Good Movie
Episode #37
Franchises with Only One Good Movie
We love movies here at Laser Focus, and we love blockbuster franchise movies. But let’s be honest, not all of them are good. This week, Mikey Walsh joins Kyle to talk about long-running movie franchises that, if push came to shove, you’d have to admit only have one good movie in them. (We look forward
Episode #36
Stephen King Adaptations
Episode #36
Stephen King Adaptations
This week, Kyle welcomes back Alison Mattingly to discuss arguably the most influential author working today, Stephen King, and the many, many, MANY film and television adaptations of his works. Seriously, it’s like so many.
Episode #35
Cartoons and Toys
Episode #35
Cartoons and Toys
This week, Kyle and returning champ Eric Diaz discuss the heyday of cartoons, toys, and governmental deregulation. That’s right, it’s all about how President Reagan’s new FCC policy made it so companies could market directly to children. The upside is it gave us some of the best cartoons and toys ever made. Transformers, TMNT, My
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