Media Morsels

Media Morsels

By Goblin Booth Productions, LLCTV & FilmLeisureHobbies
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Media Morsels episodes

  • City Slickers (1991)

    This week for Buckaroo June/July, we saddle up and ride off with City Slickers, starring Billy Crystal, to avoid having to actually go to therapy. Help yourself to some (more) coffee and baked beans while we talk about baseball as metaphor, American masculinity, and the power of friendship in this surprisingly deep offering from 1991!


    NOTE: City Slickers is 10 years Before Shrek, NOT 20 as we erroneously stated in this episode. We continue to be bad at math!

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    1 hr 44 min
  • Quigley Down Under (1990)
    Howdy, partner! Welcome to Buckaroo June, where we gather 'round the campfire and swap stories of our favorite cowpokes. This week, we'll be discussing Quigley Down Under, a western that takes place in the global south. Grab some beans and coffee, find yourself a nice log to sit on, and listen to us chat about nice guns, colonialism, and Tom Selleck's shapely derriere.

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    1 hr 51 min
  • Half-Baked: Jupiter Ascending (2015)
    Welcome to our first actual recording of the 2024 calendar year! And welcome to our first ever "Half-Baked" episode, where we take media with decent ideas but flawed execution and try to imagine how we would tweak the recipe to make it work. In honor of Alien Mayhem May (Part Two), we watched Jupiter Ascending, a space opera starring Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum and written and directed by the Wachowski sisters. We take what ultimately amounts to an elaborate spin on Mario and Princess Peach and imagine ways it could have lived up to its promising dramatic potential.

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    1 hr 51 min
  • Forbidden Planet (1956)

    Quick! Break out the whiskey and hop aboard our flying saucer, because this ship is about to whiz off to the distant planet of Altair-4. For this table-turner, Jamie shows us one of his favorite, if flawed, classic sci-fi movies: the ground-breaking, genre-defining film Forbidden Planet. Grab a glass and listen to us gab about ray-gun gothic robots, brain embiggening, and highly questionable forms of speed-dating.


    CONTENT WARNING: Mid-century typical sexism, misogyny, utter lack of diversity, and near sexual assault. YIKES.

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    1 hr 49 min
  • Mars Attacks! (1996)
    After a bit of a hiatus, we're back--just in time for Alien Mayhem May (Part 2)! We watched this little gem, directed by Tim Burton, last May but didn't get around to editing it until recently. It's a long-time favorite of ours, a delightful love letter to mid-century schlocky sci-fi movies that is absolutely packed with 90s Hollywood darlings like Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jack Nicholson, and Danny DeVito (along with up-and-comers like Jack Black and Natalie Portman). So come on down, grab yourself a plate, and listen to us gab about aliens, aesthetics, and cinematic tomfoolery. Also, we fail a lot at basic math.

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    1 hr 47 min
  • The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

    Returning from our impromptu hiatus, we dive into the holiday season with this action-packed offering from 1996. If you like Die Hard, you'll love this movie starring the incomparable Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson. Listen as we digest this morsel and discuss the wild west of doll-making in the 1990s, the various meanings behind a kiss, and Geena Davis' guns (both literal and figurative).


    Production note: Please excuse the less-than-stellar audio quality, we are trying out various new equipment configurations and have yet to optimize. Thank you for your patience!


    Find out more about MEDIA MORSELS and its parent company, Goblin Booth Productions, on Instagram! Follow us at @goblinboothproductions and @mediamorsels to keep up-to-date on the media we'll be consuming and other exciting announcements!

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    1 hr 56 min
  • Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)
    Do you like 'em big and stupid? Do you like 'em big and real dumb? This delectable morsel is chock full of beautiful, not-terribly-bright but well-meaning hotties, some of which are aliens. Starring Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, and Damon Wayans, this wacky sex comedy set in late 80s L.A. is, in our humble opinion, a truly underappreciated classic. Join us at the table for some of this cheesy sci-fi rom-com goodness as we discuss 80s/90s aesthetics, the Chucky Cheeses of yesteryear, and the peculiar kind of sex-positivity that makes this movie stand out.

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    1 hr 58 min
  • Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

    Cowboys & Aliens, aka Why It's Important To Never Let The Aliens You're Stealing From Accidentally Get Their Grubby Human Hands On Your Advanced Technology, serves up a fine dish for both the belated second entry to Amnesia Boy April and our first serving of Alien Mayhem May. As we sit in the saloon, knocking back beers and chewing on jerky, join us as we talk about ensemble casts, Daniel Craig's booty, and designing the perfect alien.


    Read about the 2023 WGA Strike here. You can find the union's proposals and the studios' response as of the May 1 deadline linked in their statement.


    We support the Writer's Guild of America!

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    2 hr 27 min
  • X2 (2003)
    Truly getting into the spirit of Amnesia Boy April, we got amnesia and missed several episodes! But we've finally regained our memories just in time to drop one (maybe two!) episodes before the end of the month. This week's feast is X2, the sequel to X-Men, featuring one of Jess' favorite Amnesia Boys ever: Wolverine. An excellent superhero film that holds up incredibly well even twenty years later, our conversation runs the gamut from the more typical plot and character analysis to gay beams, tired dads, and rite-of-passage self-insert teen fanfic. Tangents abound!

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    2 hr 12 min
  • Ladyhawke (1985)
    Our last medieval feast before launching into our next theme, we sup upon the somewhat mixed offerings of Ladyhawke (1985), starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, and Michelle Pfeiffer. Fairy tale simplicity, character development (or lack thereof), and how not to use synthwave are a few of the topics we discuss as we consider the flawed beauty of Ladyhawke.

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    1 hr 43 min

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A podcast about creativity and the media that feeds it! Join our team of creatives at the table as we dig into the media that feeds our imaginations and fuels our work.

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