This week we're talking about Sauron, Wolverine, This Is How The World Ends, The Host (2006), and Colossal. Show music by HeartBeatHero and OGRE. Support the show!

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Today on the 5: The most recent Red Letter Media episode is covering the recently released Masters Of The Universe movie. Before talking about the film itself, the hosts discuss whether the movie was timed correctly to capitalize on MOTU nostalgia. I wonder if He-Man as a property really requires nostlagia or name recognition to perform well.

Today on the 5: Apple made a whole avalanche of announcements during the keynote of this year's WWDC conference, almost all revolving around AI and Siri. They showed off a lot of fancy things, but I've got a very simple baseline test for whether any of this matters to me.

Today on the 5: We followed up our underwhelming experience with The Host by watching 2016's Colossal. Neither of us knew anything about this one, so we weren't sure what to expect. What we got was a movie that wasn't really about giant monsters, and also was so bad we didn't really finish it.

Today on the 5: As part of "Kai-June", Lando and I watched the 2066 Korean film The Host. The movie has one of the more impressive opening segments you could hope for in a monster movie, but unfortunately the rest of the film never quite returned to that level of quality.

This week we're talking about Bone Smashing, Star Wars: Outlaws, Roger Dean, Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla, and Godzilla Minus One. Show music by HeartBeatHero and OGRE. Support the show!

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Today on the 5: After Google's I/O conference and the announcement of changes coming to the search engine, DuckDuckGo saw a rise in the installs of the iPhone app and the usage of their search engine. Most outlets see this as an anti-AI response, but I tyhink that's only part of the reason.

Today on the 5: For the first film in our "Kai-June" marathon, we watched 1994's Godzilla vs Spacegodzilla. This movie is often seen as a lesser entry is the classic Godzilla film series, but I find it one of the peak example of a great villain and absolutely spectaular miniature work. Also, psychics!

Today on the 5: If you listen to a lot of tech shows today, many of them present AI as the next great tech innovation that could change the landscape of technology as an industry. I wonder if there might be another disruption coming, and AI would only be a part of it.

This week I'm joined by guest Stacey Higginbotham from Consumer Reports as we talk about alcohol, bioengineering, art, pilates, and The Banshees Of Inisherin.

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