Podside Picnic

A bit more chatting about this and that. We even try to keep it vaguely SFF-related!

Ready to . . . fall into what appears to have been Tarsem Singh's passion project? That's right, we discuss The Fall (2006) and how beautiful a man Lee Pace is

Join us for Robot and Frank (2012), a charming little film about loneliness, aging, and getting the robot gang together for one last job

We talk about The Truman Show (1998) this time, and Peter Weir's amazing filmography and how Thomas Kincaid wished he'd grown up in Seahaven

This time, we discuss the Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz collaboration, Elektra: Assassin. It really does end up feeling like Fear and Loathing in the MCU.

We got together to talk about Ryan Coogler's blockbuster hit, Sinners (2025) before it got a billion nominations at the Oscars

We return to the works of John Carpenter with Starman (1984), where an alien visitor incarnates as a pre-Dude Jeff Bridges for recently widowed Karen Allen and they go on a road trip

Enjoy your Sunday as we talk about The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

You will be visited by three versions of the Dickens classic. Spoiler: A Muppet Christmas Carol is not one of them, but it haunts the ones we talk about like a lonely old miser on Xmas Eve

This time we talk about Sneakers (1992), an odd bookend to our previous episode, Hackers. Our world-weary team of cybersneaks and ne'er do wells don't want to hack the planet at all