Today on the 5: You may have seen the announcement last week of a new video game centered around Indiana Jones. Strangely, while I have loved this character for almost my entire life, I've never felt the need to play a game as him.

Today on the 5: I'm sure by now you are aware that the Academy Award nominations are out, and you've likely seen many, many opinions on them. I have to ask, possibly as I have before, what purpose do these awards serve anymore?

Today on the 5: As Apple continues to promote their recently released Vision Pro headset, I've noticed something unusual. For the first time in quite a while, they don't seem to have a solid handle on how to market their new product. 

Today on the 5: Social media posts by Alex Winter about the newly released Destroy All Neighbors got me interested enough to watch the trailer. Based on how weird it looked, I decided to see if it could succeed where many horror comedies fail.

This week we're talking about Idris Elba, Rods From God, Snow Crash, The Jurassic League, and Fatal Games. Show music by HeartBeatHero and OGRE. Support the show!

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Today on the 5: Robert Downey Jr recently appeared on Rob Lowe's Literally podcast and made some comments about how he thinks his time as Tony Stark is viewed. While you can certainly debate the quality of many Marvel films, but i'm not sure how you reasonably argue that Iron Man and RDJ's performance aren't pivotal to everything that came after.

Today on the 5: I recently found out that Apple is sponsoring the Super Bowl Halftime Show for at least the next few years. This followed seeing an Apple Vision Pro commercial on TV, and the upcoming launch of that product would seem to make sense with the NFL deal.

Today on the 5: Out of almost literal morbid curiousity, I decided to watch the machine generated special advertising itself as an imitation of George Carlin by something called Dudesy. As you might expect, it's not that great an impersonation and it's not funny at all.

Today on the 5: One of the staples of the slasher trend in the 80s was the "themed" slasher film. One of the many entries of this type was 1984's Fatal Games. This one uses potential Olympic athletes as the potential victims, but it really didn't take advantage of the idea.

This week we're talking about Bose, i/o, virtual sexual assault, and Divinity. Show music by HeartBeatHero and OGRE. Support the show!

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