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Since starting this You Love to See It spinoff (focussing on weirder or more niche horror), we’ve been enamored with movies that blend drama and horror. Belzebuth used terrifying real-life imagery (depicting too-real scenes of violence) before the statue scene, and here, in Andrzej Żuławski’s only english-language film, we see much ado about personal drama and a marriage falling apart alongside all the gory, gruesome stuff. But there is plenty of both, and today’s trio of merritt, Collin, and Danielle all grappled with their own interpretations of this beautifully-shot, gut-wrenching movie.

Since actor and activist John Boyega (perhaps best known as Finn from the latest Star Wars trilogy) has been making a stir lately with awesome speeches, we thought we’d revisit the movie that landed him his first starring Role. Attack the Block is a small-scale alien invasion movie, with a lot of heart, a ton of energy, and some interesting messages. Focusing on a group of inner-city kids who get involved in a bizarre alien menace, encounter a bunch of white people who maybe learn a thing or two, and, for a brief moment, Pogo the dog, it’s a compact, breezy, funny thriller.

Join Niki, Ren, John, and Danielle on an afternoon chat about the things we have on our minds today. We have a few games we’re into, including Sludge Life, Valorant, and Umurangi Generation. We’ve got a lot of music, including… our most embarrassing secrets on Spotify. And we have a few things to get out into the world, including Niki’s advice on what — and what not — to do in the current climate. Be safe, be angry, and take the action you can.

We watched 1997’s grooviest movie — beloved spy spoof Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery — this week, and we brought along a special friend to help us! Pat Gill of Polygon fame is here to deconstruct this Mike Meyers vehicle about a super-spy transported from the 60s to the 90s, complete with looks at deleted scenes, very special stories about teen viewings of the film, and some groovy voices.

This week on Fandwidth, episode 65, merritt returns with a very special... guest? But a brief delay doesn't stop the rest of the crew from continuing to talk about several different kinds of Muppets. Video games do come up eventually, however, as merritt has played quite a few all in one sitting! Learn more than you ever wanted to know about all kinds of sci-fi series on another episode of the flagship Fanbyte podcast.

On this special double feature review podcast, Social Editor Nicholas Grayson and Guides Writer Collin MacGregor take a look at Deep Silver's remaster of Saints Row: The Third, and Microsoft/Mojang's brand new crawler Minecraft Dungeons.

We watch 2020's animated comedy Scoob! and go to hell with the Mystery Machine!

A smaller, tighter crew convenes to dive surprisingly deep this week! Danielle, John, and Steven discuss everything from Animal Crossing to video games criticism at large. Not to mention Danielle played a new survival game that just went into beta (spoilers: it's Drake Hollow). Things close out with yet more in-depth conversation about Final Fantasy; it turns out Steven just can't get enough of the long-running series after beating Final Fantasy VII Remake, and John is just the person to talk about it. Get ready for a good one!

So, get this… if you die in the game, you die in REAL LIFE. That’s not the entire premise of Stay Alive, a delightfully goofy 2006 thriller starring beloved character actors like Jimmi Simpson, Frankie Muniz, and Adam Goldberg. But it is… a lot of it. Combining surprisingly good pulls from the annals of gaming (one of the screenwriters knew about Fatal Frame!) just as often as wildly (wonderfully) corny lines, and some of the best/worst death scenes this side of a Roger Corman special, Stay Alive was a real treat for today’s crew of Danielle, merritt, Elby, and John.

It's a shorter episode this week, but starts off strong with pea talk and nicknames. Don't believe us? Just strap in for a wild ride down memory lane with sitcom mainstay Seinfeld (and its many great gags) that cause your Fanwidth hosts to recollect their own childhoods. You ever had a nickname? Well, these folks have, and they're not afraid to share every embarrassing detail about their origins. Eventually the banter gives way to some light video game discussion before we close up shop and leave you with a useful piece of wisdom... Enjoy!