Pop and Schlock

A day late but short zero dollars, Pop and Schlock looks at Halloween 2018! We are joined by local performers Amanda Pierson and Britni B as well as illustrator and designer Vincent Kukua to talk about the latest installment of the Michael Myers saga and do a little deep dive into the world of slasher genre tropes. Enjoy!

This week, an adorable child comes on to help us talk about Hotel Transylvania 3. Why is it that this film franchise doesn't seem to feel the love of other animated series? We want to find out. Enjoy!

This week we take an analytical look at the latest from Drew Goddard starring Chris Hemsworth, Jon Hamm, Cynthia Erivo, and Dakota Johnson. We are joined in studio by comic writer Milton Lawson and comedy performer Paul Gallegos.

Travel back to the forgotten era of the nineties as we dive into Sony Pictures presentation of Venom starring Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, and Riz Ahmed!

We are joined by a pair of guests to do a deep dive on the film Searching starring John Cho.

This week Jake’s wife joins us in studio to talk about A Simple Favor starring Blake Lively and (Jake’s perennial crush) Anna Kendrick in a film by Paul Feig. How does it go? Listen to find out!

Sometimes a franchise just won't die. We're in studio with Brian Kondrach and Ryan Terry to discuss the fourth entry in The Predator series and somehow it goes about as well as you would expect.

t’s been one of the most buzzed-about films of the year and this week we’re talking about it On Pop and Schlock LIVE. Crazy Rich Asians starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, Awkwafina, Gemma Chan and more gets the rundown on this week's Pop and Schlock LIVE with guest Oriana Chen.

Who would have thought that a vulgar film noir comedy with puppets wouldn't set the box office on fire? This week we have Jack and Sasha from the Houston Puppetry Guild on the show to discuss The Happytime Murders!

It's a Comicpalooza sequel with participants from the Problematic Media panel coming back to do an update about why thinking critically about what we consume in media is so very important!