Grab your Reese's Pieces and your red hoodie because it's E.T. time, baby -- and who better to talk about Spielberg's paean to California families with than Miya's own California family, Kimi Singer! Is E.T. scary? Is E.T. real? Is this the only time someone's called their brother "penis breath" on film? We're covering all our bases!

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Fire up pizza dot net and order your favorite pie: it's time to talk The Net with early internet enthusiast Brian Oliu! Could anyone touch Sandra Bullock on her '90s hot streak? What happened to online culture? Will we ever learn to touch grass again? Be careful who you give your info too - it's Net time!

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Sometimes it seems like you can't walk down the street without coming across a kid whose dad died and was reincarnated as a snowman thanks to a magic harmonica and the snowman didn't look like George Clooney when he was a man but definitely does as a snowman. Today the great Meggie Gates joins us to talk about the most common, everyday movie in the world that's definitely not weird or upsetting at all: Jack Frost!

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Hop on our comically beautiful bicycle and take a ride with us back to a time when Tim Burton was just a weirdo animation school grad with something to prove and an SNL reject named Paul Reubens suddenly had the keys to the Hollywood kingdom. We're talking Large Marge, studio backlots, and Pee-Wee's Big Adventure with critic and playwright Sarah Jae Leiber!

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Barbie, eat your heart out. Nothing says the spirit of Halloween quite like camp queen Jennifer Tilly, except maybe Brad Dourif being a little prick - and guess what? This movie's got both! We're talking all things Chucky with the great Sarah Scannell, sole reason for your copy of Cain's Jawbone still being on back order. What would Martha Stewart say about this podcast??

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In 2002, nothing was scarier than an unmarked VHS, a sickly green filter, and Brian Cox wrapped in extension cords. We're talking all things THE RING with the great Erin O'Brien—from Halloween Horror Nights to flop queen Naomi Watts to the creepiness of dead-eyed children and so much more!

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From the day we arrive on the planet and, blinking, step into the sun, we dream of a podcast brave enough to discuss the movie that defined one billion Millennial childhoods. Well, dream no more: we're talking The Lion King with writer and reporter Joshua Bote! Come for the discovery of why this movie scared Joshua so much (it's not what you think) and be prepared for more Disney deep-dive talk than you ever thought you'd need.

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Get lost with us and our new best friend Hoggle in an impossible maze of imagination and puberty - we're taking on Labyrinth! Polite bescarfed worms, giant gentle beasts, gloved hands with minds of their own...we leave no stone unturned on the way to rescue our baby brother from David Bowie's leotard bulge.

Elena Passarello - author, teacher, actor, Live Wire announcer, and first guest with a Wikipedia page - joins us on our journey through the sweet and terrifying mind of Jim Henson!

Learn more about Elena at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Passarello

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What's that? On the wind? An unfamiliar scent...a nip in the air...the birds are flying in an odd formation...it must be a new FILM FEST!

Our third (!) season, Scaredy Cat Film Fest - movies that kept you up at night - kicks off with a bang and a funny accent as we tackle the scariest movie of all: Steven Spielberg's The Terminal. Is this Stevie's worst movie? Is anyone good in it? Is it even ethical? We're joined by our pal, poet and editor Summer Farah, to ask the big questions and settle some childhood trauma!

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From Robsten to Paunifer (still workshopping), today we're looking back on all of the power couples we were gifted throughout this season of Film Fest. We can't honor them all, but we do our best to award our favorite performances, romantic duos, and much more as this festival comes to an end. Plus, an update on Film Fest season 3!

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