Is This Still Good?

Trevor finally drops by the pod to talk about Gladiators, Director's Cuts, and all things Ridley Scott.

Bay area director AJ Juncker stops by to discuss a bizarre 1985 Wizard of Oz spinoff that could be more worth watching than Wicked.

How can someone both picture and sound edit a movie? Is Sage secretly an Oz-head? Does Gavin hate fantasy children? Find out on a egg-dropping new Is This Still Good?

Check out AJ's latest short "Gorilla Wants Banana" at https://vimeo.com/690352278/ef6b0d85aa

Robert Zemeckis' Here is, uh, here- a movie told from Told via a single static camera angle. In celebration, Sage grabs his old film history professor Dr. Porter to discuss a similar Swedish film he shows in film school. Join us on our film school bullshit for a look at the philosophy behind Deep focus, why on earth anyone would devote their life to telling stories this way, and how sometimes your house is a train. Plus: the difference between Nordic and American Andersons!

Sure, we could have revisited a more obvious, popular movie like Forrest Gump or even Cast away, but its too late now and we didn't.

Dr. Porter is a film history professor at Eastern Washington University and a programmer at Spokane International Film Festival (SPIFF)

The boys bring on a Santa Carla native to revisit a spooky episode from 2020.

Crave more horror content? Go check out other remastered episodes like Lil Shop of Horrors, Freddy vs Jason, and Return of the Living Dead!

Chilean-American Filmmaker Yvan Iturriaga stops by to talk about the difficulty and logistics of filming in South America, why international stories matter, and the literal chemical magic of film. Sage takes you on a tour of a favela and mispronounces a lot of Portuguese names along the way. Gavin is just stoked to be here.

Check out the podcast Yvan produced Friday night Semites on youtube and wherever fine pods are casted and check out his webseries that Sage worked on The North Pole about the intersection of climate change and social inequity in North Oakland. It has Rosario Dawson and a Polar Bear.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTL_XyeFtPIaUGN1aR9YD0Q

Live, from Los Angeles, it's Saturday Night! Jason Reitman's Saturday Night is out in theaters (depending on your location), which chronicles the tumultuous night leading up to the premiere of Saturday night Live in 1975. Steve Morrow (the sound mixer of the film) sits down with to give us a peak ahead at the film and to look back at the first film to spin out of SNL, 1980's Blues Brothers! Join us on a tour through the history of production sound, ballooning budgets, and why no one can replace John Belushi.

They can't stop us, we're on a mission from God.

Steve has an incredible and accoladed career in film sound including, Little Miss Sunshine, A star is Born, La La Land, Babylon, and Crank! (We talk more about Crank than you would expect). His films Saturday Night and Joker 2 are in theaters now, and Clint Eastwood's Juror #2 isn't too far behind.

Live, from Los Angeles, it's Saturday Night! Jason Reitman's Saturday Night is out in theaters (depending on your location), which chronicles the tumultuous night leading up to the premiere of Saturday night Live in 1975. Steve Morrow (the sound mixer of the film) sits down with to give us a peak ahead at the film and to look back at the first film to spin out of SNL, 1980's Blues Brothers! Join us on a tour through the history of production sound, ballooning budgets, and why no one can replace John Belushi.

They can't stop us, we're on a mission from God.

Steve has an incredible and accoladed career in film sound including, Little Miss Sunshine, A star is Born, La La Land, Babylon, and Crank! (We talk more about Crank than you would expect). His films Saturday Night and Joker 2, and Juror are all in theaters.

We did it again! Just like Clone High, the world heard us and made more of the things we love, and Netflix is releasing new episodes of Ranma 1/2 Oct 5! Revisit our original conversation about the bold anime, its pretty decent representation of trans identity, and its pretty terrible representation of China.

Also Sage is much better at editing now, so this is objectively a better episode to both ears and mind. Hear Andrew Callaway in HD! You can still occasionally hear his voice on "Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything", currently doing an excellent series on how "Not All AI is Propoganda"

The Crow Reboot is finally coming out! Our heroes revisit the Original and try not to get too sad at the legacy of Brandon Lee. Plus, Sage takes us down the Crow Hole! By which we mean he gives a history lesson on the many terrible sequels and aborted reboot attempts between 1994 and 2024.

It's a completely unrelated Brandon Lee by the way. Check out his trippy music video for Jenni Rudolph's "Water and Oil" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuyMv_AcKeg

Our heroes look at the weirdest Alien movie to date, and pitch a few of our own.

Did we have Clone Fever in 1997? Is Alien: Romulus going to be any good? How exactly does one fuck a robot? There's literally only way to find out you coward.