Laser Focus

Laser Focus

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Laser Focus episodes

  • 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.

    1 hr 11 min
  • 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.


    44 min
  • 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 it could
    influence the MCU.

    1 hr 35 min
  • 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 to your letters.)


    1 hr 43 min
  • 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.


    1 hr 29 min
  • 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 Little Pony, Robotech, and more!


    1 hr 26 min
  • Lord of the Rings Trilogy 20th Anniversary

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King turned 20 last month so Kyle and Nerdist Editor-in-Chief Amy Ratcliffe decided to have a chill vibes love fest about the trilogy, what those movies mean to them, to Tolkien heads, and to the movies in general, and try their darnedest not to say bad things about the later Hobbit trilogy. TRY.


    1 hr 26 min
  • Doctor Who Specials

    Happy New Year, faithful listeners! Kyle is back after

    the holidays to talk to returning champion Tai Gooden about the recent Doctor Who specials, featuring David Tennant, Catherine Tate, and Ncuti Gatwa. They discuss righting the wrongs of 2008, Neil Patrick Harris’ outrageous German accent, and whether you’d know you saw a TARDIS if you saw it.

    1 hr 40 min
  • Best Movies of 2023

    If you’re a movie fan, while some of your bigger franchises had duds and flops, you still got loads and loads of great cinema to choose from. Kyle and Michael Walsh discuss their top 11 movies of the year, including Barbenheimer, Godzilla, and Guardians 3. Happy New Year!

    1 hr 51 min

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Watched the latest big movie, binged a whole TV season, or read comics from 25 years ago and want more? Need to hear people go very, very deep on the dorkiest things we all love? Then Laser Focus, the…