Mission Creep

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Mission Creep

A movies podcast that wanders

  1. DEC 12

    52. Joyride (2001), with Annie Schultz and Susan Haarman

    Paul Walker, Steve Zahn, Leelee Sobieski, a cross-country road trip, and a CB-radio prank. What could go wrong? This movie attempts to answer that question. Or perhaps, this movie IS an answer to that question. I guess it depends on whether we know what a movie is.

    1h 3m

  2. NOV 27

    51. Back to the Future, Part III (1990), with Winston Thompson and Andy Karlson

    On third thought, do we even like Robert Zemeckis movies?

    1h 16m

  3. NOV 1

    50. Back to the Future, Part II (1989), with Winston Thompson and Andy Karlson

    Get in, loser. We're going to the future, and then the past, and then the nightmare bizarro present, and then the past again, and then -- if all goes well -- the present we can truly desire.

    1h 26m

  4. OCT 16

    49. Back to the Future (1985), with Andy Karlson and Winston Thompson

    What does it mean to be tardy when you've got a time machine? What does it say about the nature of time and human life that the unfolding of future events really only seems to depend on a couple key moments? What kind of recursive weirdness is involved in Marty parenting his own parents?

    1h 17m

  5. OCT 4

    48. The Craft (1996), with Annie Schultz and Susan Haarman

    It is a whole different kind of nostalgia at work here, and no one says it better than Annie: "1996: when racism is casual and suicide attempts are punk rock." Do we accidentally deviate for a moment and discuss Catholic high schools, nuns-as-teachers, underpaid and unrecognized women's labor, and school vouchers? We sure do!

    1h 2m

  6. AUG 27

    47. Top Gun (1986) and Top Gun: Maverick (2022), with Stephen Dyson and Jeff Dudas

    Stephen Dyson and Jeff Dudas, hosts of the UConn Popcast, join us to talk about whether there is any redemption (in all the senses) for Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, whether Glen Powell's "Hangman" is supposed to be a reincarnation of Iceman or of Maverick, what Jennifer Connolly's Penny Benjamin has to teach Maverick, and -- ultimately -- whether it's possible to defeat two 5th-Gen enemy fighters in an F-14 the characters describe as "so old," a "bag of ass," and a "museum piece."

    1h 12m

  7. AUG 2

    46. Hit Man (2024), with Andy Karlson and Winston Thompson

    When a new Linklater comes out, we obviously have to drop everything and talk about it. The question that really kicks off this conversation comes from Andy: Is this a Richard Linklater movie?

    1h 30m

  8. JUL 13

    45. Rocky (1976) and Rambo (1982), with Andy Smarick

    In the first installment of a short miniseries within the pod, Andy Smarick helps us think through what the original Rocky and Rambo have in common as future icons of 80s American cinema (and beyond). Both of the titular characters are symbolic of lives irresponsibly wasted -- but by different forces, and in different ways, and with different possibilities for redemption.

    1h 40m
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A movies podcast that wanders

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  • Creator
    The distractables
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2024
  • Episodes
    51
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © The distractables
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    Mission Creep

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