Alright. Full disclosure, I'm the editor and I'm the guest in this episode. Weird right? What's important is that this week we watched Princess Mononoke to close out the summer of animation and it's just a top tier movie. If you haven't seen it then you have probably heard about it so don't hesitate to dive in. It's a fantastic movie and a fun episode. What's not important is I had to make some hacker music in this episode and I'll tell you right now it's not great. It's more owl city than 90s hacker. And then later Kaz tells me to edit in a keyboard cat noise and so I edited in the keyboard cat music (you know the song), but turns out Kaz meant something else, like a keyboard that makes cat noises, and I didn't know how to find that. So I kept the keyboard cat meme cause it's thursday night and it's too late for me to message them. What a wild ride. Anyway how are all?

In the 14th century, the harmony that humans, animals and gods have enjoyed begins to crumble. The protagonist, young Ashitaka - infected by an animal attack, seeks a cure from the deer-like god Shishigami. In his travels, he sees humans ravaging the earth, bringing down the wrath of wolf god Moro and his human companion Princess Mononoke. Hiskattempts to broker peace between her and the humans brings only conflict.

This is a wild one yall. We have discovered a hidden gem with Spine of Night. We highly recommend you give this film a watch if you haven't before listening. It's new and catching some buzz. Or, if you prefer, cozy up and get this violent and magical scifi told to you through the smooth and smokey vocals of Squarin and Kaz.

When ancient, dark magic falls into sinister hands, a group of heroes from different eras and cultures must band together to defeat it at all costs.

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This week we continue our adventure into the summer of animation and check out The Animatrix, which is a series of short films that blends together different forms of animation to add depth and build out the lore for the Matrix. Not only is this film praised by die-hards for the Matrix, but it's darn pretty to look at too. We get into the highs and lows of these shorts and dive into where some of these animation styles may have come from.

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This episode gets a trigger warning. Perfect Blue is contains depictions of sexual assault and mental instability in a raw and real way (despite being an animated movie). We discuss some of these scenes in this episode so if you want to avoid hearing about that, then skip this one and we'll catch ya next week!

Perfect Blue is the story of a retired pop singer-turned-actress, Mima, as her sense of reality starts to shake. She is stalked by an obsessed fan while being haunted from reflections of her past. Perfect Blue is the first film directed by Satoshi Kon, an animated psychological thriller often compared to the suspense-ridden works of Alfred Hitchcock.

PumpkinPanic joins Kaz and Squarin this week to discuss a very goofy yet also very adult Batman movie which goes into one of the lesser known but more interesting Batman villain, Phantasm. Is this movie the best Christmas movie of all time? I mean surely not but POINTS WILL BE MADE TO THE ARGUMENT THAT IT IS.

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In this animated feature set in the 1940s, the troubled yet heroic Batman (Kevin Conroy) is pitted against a mysterious figure who is rubbing out Gotham City's most dangerous criminals, and who many believe is the caped crusader himself. Batman's alter ego, millionaire Bruce Wayne, is about to get married to the lovely Andrea Beaumont (Dana Delany), who helps him recover from his need to avenge his parents' murder -- meaning that his crime-fighting days may be numbered.

Were the swashbuckling heroes of this film actually gods? Does gold have more value than sex or apples? Exactly how horny were these writers??? This and much much more on this week's episode!

Two con-men (Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh) get hold of a map to the lost City of Gold, El Dorado. After stowing away onto one of the ships of the Spanish explorer Cortez, the pair escapes and eventually do find the city. There, a priest (Armand Assante) proclaims them to be gods in a scheme to win control of the city for himself. Meanwhile, they meet a beautiful girl (Rosie Perez) who helps them in their ruse.

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This week Squarin and Kaz talk about 2021's Encanto! Are families really held together via the perfect balance of our individual gifts? Why exactly DON'T we talk about Bruno? And most importantly, can this podcast survive its most heated debate about cereal and McDonalds so far? Only one way to find out!

The Madrigals are an extraordinary family who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia in a charmed place called the Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift -- every child except Mirabel. However, she soon may be the Madrigals last hope when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is now in danger.

This week we talk Power Ballads, Dusty Unicrons, and bad subs go to the prison shaft...

This week we talk an amazing shoe rack, an unsavory plot, and how they are just too damn cute together....

This movie exists and we had to talk about it with the amazing Sarahpocalypse_. We are sorry.