Red Team Reviews

We all need a little wholesome in our lives right about now! Welcome to week two of our Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month coverage as we treat ourselves to the wonderful world of Studio Ghibli, in what will certainly not be the last time we take a bite out of Hayao Miyazaki's monumental contribution to cinema. We will take many bites. We will turn into pigs. Our selection this time around features an OG (though debatably not Ghibli) Miyazaki film with Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, along with the award winning Spirited Away, and the questionable follow up of Howl's Moving Castle. Join us as we gawk over food that should not look that good animated, gush over cute a.f. spirit creatures, and try to stop all wars and heal that planet. That's the POWER of Miyazaki bay-bee!

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We're back! Welcome to our coverage for Asian America and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, because a) it's more than well earned, and b) fuck the people who inflict pain in this world. We're kicking this month off ~kind of~ with our auteur series, featuring our first ever analysis of an Academy Award winning Best Picture film in our pod history: Bong Joon-ho's Parasite. Oh, and also Snowpiercer. Which was definitely not in the running for any awards but hey, Cap gets to use an axe, so technically this is foreshadowing Stormbreaker. Kind of. At least we're not watching Okja. Join us as we rehash the class warfare allegories that moderate voters always seem to miss, reference Vines worse than Shuri in Black Panther, and prepare a CEO's liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

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Hi everyone, thank you so much for listening the past few months! We're pooped, so we're going to be taking the month of April off to recuperate and give TJ a break from editing massive tournaments that he brought upon himself. We're excited for you all to see what we have planned for the rest of the year, namely an AAPI centered month of May featuring major contributions from Korean, Japanese, and Chinese filmmakers. Can't wait to get back at it, but we really need to sleep! 

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It's a three-peat, and we're not sure if that's a good thing! After a rollicking good time this month, from arguing about Pixar to arguing about Disney songs, we're back to our old format with yet ANOTHER Reject or Renew of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Join us as we get in one solid ode to women's history month before this Mega March ends. As the title suggests, these women (and really all women) deserve better. 

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Peace be with you! But NOT WITH US. We're gonna change it, to BEAT TREVOR. Welcome to part 2 of our March Music Madness tourney where treasured Disney songs duke it out in a smackdown for the ages. The full Red Team are back to finish out the finalists in each of our song categories. Let no tear go unshed, no heart go unbroken, as we declare a champion in each category, and by the end of this episode, one song will stand tall! There must be a winner! We WILL have a Champion! What will emerge as the undisputed, BEST Disney song of all time?

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RED TEAM: ASSEMBLE! The whole crew from when we all worked at [redacted] and became THE Red Team is here: Cat Patterson (featured in our Disney Remakes episode), Anna Gundersen, and Alison Campbell join us for our version of March Madness. TJ has created a tournament pitting iconic, obscure, and overall beloved Disney songs against each other in order to determine the “objective” best of them all. He’s been working so hard to make this tournament, partially because it’s an interesting idea, but really it’s because he just wants to watch the world burn. Check out part one where we go through the qualifier rounds and the early stages of the bracket! Hearts are broken, rivalries are formed, and TJ tries unsuccessfully to get these peaky millennials to check their nostalgic biases at the door.

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Check out Cat @the.cat.pat, Alison @_alisoncampbell_, and Anna @_anna_gundersen.

It's March and we didn't think we'd get this far either! Check out this week's episode, part one of our Pixar rankings, and the oldest audio we ever recorded for this podcast nearly a year ago. TJ and Trevor give their preliminary takes on every Pixar movie made before next week's episode, where we re-rank after watching every single one again. Join us as we discuss the massive legacy of this studio, more emotions than you can fit in Inside Out, and exchange various blasphemes that threaten to rip the very fabric of the podcast apart.

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You know how some people think everything would have been better if we hadn’t killed Harambe? That's how we feel about [spoiler]. In a special Reject or Renew to close out Black History Month, we talk about the new show on the block, Lovecraft Country. We're joined this week by fellow Journalists member and man about town Khari Walser to discuss the television show equivalent of waiting so long for your entree that you eat way too much of the appetizer, so that by the time the server brings out your curiously cold meal you go, "Wait, why didn't this come out sooner I would have loved this but now I'm too full.” You'll get it. Join us as we discuss the ethics of fictionalizing moments from Black history, the litany of characters on our shit list, and why Ji-Ah deserves better. So much better.

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Despite certain... *Things* happening, or more specifically NOT happening this month, we assure you it is, in fact, Black History Month! Much like we did in November with Edgar Wright, we thought it only natural to jump on the opportunity to analyze and discuss a giant in black cinema, Spike Lee. We're looking at three major career films: '89s Do The Right Thing, '92s Malcolm X, and '18s BlacKkKlansman. Join us for excessive Dutch angles, questionable caricatures, kick ass title sequences, and TJ's immense pleasure in the pronunciation Giancarlo.

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