Story Screen Presents

Mike Burdge is joined by Diana DiMuro to cover the five films currently in the Insidious franchise, including the most recent return to the Lambert family, Insidious: The Red Door. Topics covered include the loops and connections between the five films, Leigh Whannell's directorial debut and Patrick Wilson's strange career.

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Robby Anderson and Mike Burdge talk about the main four film entires in the franchise of Shrek. Things get out of hand quickly.

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Robby Anderson and Mike Burdge take a look at the Final Fantasy video game series, its impact on turn based RPG storytelling, as well as its multiple film inspirations, adaptations and sequels.

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Story Screen Reports is our team REACTING to the top 5 film, television and entertainment news stories of the month. Join us as we dissect and comb through everything from upcoming releases to studio drama.

On this episode, Mike Burdge hops on to get absolutely pissed off about the current WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Seriously. They both get very, very mad. You can find those stories, and the sourced articles, linked below. Eat the rich.

1. Hollywood Studios’ WGA Strike Endgame Is To Let Writers Go Broke Before Resuming Talks In Fall

Written by Dominic Patten at Deadline

https://deadline.com/2023/07/writers-strike-hollywood-studios-deal-fight-wga-actors-1235434335/

2. Disney CEO Bob Iger Says Writers and Actors Are Not Being ‘Realistic’ With Strikes: “It’s Very Disturbing to me”

Written by Ellise Shafer at Variety

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/bob-iger-writers-actors-strike-disney-ceo-1235669169/

3. The Top Hollywood Exec Made $498 Million in The Last 5 Years- 384 Times as Much as The Average Writer

Written by Jennifer Liu at CNBC

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/01/top-hollywood-exec-made-498-million-in-5-years-while-writer-pay-fell.html

4. A writer for FX's 'The Bear' went to the Writers Guild of America Awards with a negative bank account balance and won for Best Comedy Series. He's now applying for jobs at movie theaters as writers prepare to go on strike.

Written by Lloyd Lee at Insider on April 29th 2023

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-bear-writer-wga-awards-writers-guild-of-america-strike-2023-4#:~:text=A%20showrunner%20told%20Insider%20that,the%20experience%20has%20been%20disillusioning.

5. Mattel Execs on Next Hollywood Moves: ‘Barney’, ‘Polly Pocket’ and ‘Barbie Sequels’

Written by Elizabeth Wagmeister at Variety

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/barbie-sequel-mattel-films-barney-hot-wheels-1235680302/

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Bernadette is joined by Sophia Acquisto to say, "Hi Barbie!!" Throughout the ep, they discuss their own personal Barbie histories, the genius marketing of the Barbie team, the cultural touchstone that is Barbenheimer, and (of course) what they thought of the actual movie.

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Mike Burdge and Diana DiMuro chat all about the biggest movie of the summer. Along the way they discuss things they liked and didn't, the Part One of it all, how cool Pom Klementieff is, and Mike drops his whacky theory on what's up with THAT controversial moment in the film.

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On this episode of Cathode Ray Cast, Bernadette is joined by the enigmatic and charismatic, Scotty Arnold, to discuss the long anticipated second season of Yellowjackets. Topics include the wilderness' motives, whether or not season 2 was what they expected, what could possibly lie ahead in the seasons to come, and Radiohead.

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Bernadette Gorman-White and Mike Burdge venture into the mid-to-late aughts on their continued quest through the filmography of the great Toni Collette. This time up, a major spotlight on Little Miss Sunshine, while also discussing The Hours, Japanese Story, Connie and Carla, The Last Shot, In Her Shoes, The Night Listener, Like Minds (Murderous Intent), The Dead Girl, and a blast from the past: the much anticipated Diana & Me.

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Diana and Mike are joined again by the malicious Tim Irwin to chat about the second series in director Mike Flanagan's Netflix run: The Haunting of Bly Manor. Topics covered include similarities and differences to the first series, The Haunting of Hill House, as well as the thematic overtones of death, love, loss, possession and memories. And Mike unveils his Bly Manor Carla Gugino impression to the world.

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Robby Anderson and Mike Burdge return to that whacky spider-verse for another masterful ride from the folks at Sony: Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse.

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