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The next episode of Beyond The Mouse is one for the history books...... but which history are we talking about exactly? We're jumping through time and timelines to talk to the Head Writer for the hit Marvel Cinematic Universe series Loki on Disney+, Eric Martin. Martin is known as a fantastic writer on Heels and fellow time travel adventure Rick and Morty.

In this interview we talk all things Loki Season 2. We ask the burning questions like how in the name of Miss Minutes is Loki time-traveling INSIDE the TVA? How did an Oscar-winner find his way into the cast and all of our hearts? Why are we designated the sacred and branch timelines? And MUCH MUCH MORE! This is a fantastic conversation with the man behind the story we're all obsessed with. Pull up some key-lime pie and enjoy this conversation with Eric Martin.

LOKI is available NOW on Disney+.

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Front Row Classics is celebrating Veterans Day with one of the greatest home front dramas of Word War II. We're taking a look at Since You Went Away from 1944. This stellar production from David O. Selznick is a warm and sentimental story of a family's struggle to keep the home fires burning. Jessica Pickens joins Brandon to discuss this landmark film which features an all-star cast including Claudette Colbert, Joseph Cotten, Jennifer Jones, Shirley Temple, Monty Wooley, Hattie McDaniel and Agnes Moorehead.

Jessica's website and blog, "Comet Over Hollywood" can be found at https://cometoverhollywood.com/.

We're closing in on the holiday season, which means it will soon be time to enjoy our favorite Christmas movies once again. Brandon is thrilled to welcome back, author/film historian, Jeremy Arnold. Jeremy recently penned "Christmas in the Movies (Revised & Expanded Edition) : 35 Classics to Celebrate the Season". The book offers more than 70 pages of new content to Jeremy's previous 'Christmas Movies' book. Brandon and Jeremy discuss the new titles added as well as the special features of the book. Topics include: Christmas & Film Noir, Christmas Cartoons and the importance of the year 1947 in Christmas movies. We also discuss how Christmas movies have been important cultural touchstones in times of national trauma.

"Christmas in the Movies (Revised & Expanded Edition) : 35 Classics to Celebrate the Season" is available wherever books are sold from TCM and Running Press.

Jeremy Arnold is a film historian, commentator, and author of Turner Classic Movies' The Essentials and The Essentials: Vol. 2. His writing has appeared in Variety, the Hollywood Reporter, Moviemaker, and the Directors Guild of America magazine, and he has recorded audio commentaries for the Blu-ray or DVD releases of numerous vintage films. He lives in Los Angeles.

Our last pod of #MonsterCast is a doozy and we've been anxiously awaiting releasing it. What better time than Halloween to bring back the creepiest show on the Network! Don't call it comeback....... except it IS! You've been asking and Sara and Jeremy RETURN with a brand new episode of #AreYouAfraidOfThePodcast.

For the comeback episode they're picking up right where they left off in Season 4 of the series and taking a look at perhaps the biggest overreaction to noise of all time in The Tale of the Quiet Librarian. A library is haunted by the ghost of a former librarian who dislikes noisy children. This pod wrestles with big questions like is starving children to death a reasonable response to them making noise? What is in that notebook that makes you risk life and limb? When did sleevless mock turtlenecks become acceptable fashion? AND SO MUCH MORE! It's good to be back. Let's get spooky!

THE TALE OF THE QUIET LIBRARIAN is available NOW on Paramount+.

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We're nearing the end of #MonsterCast and as such HAVE to give you the definite rankings of ALL 21 FILMS in Hulu's #BiteSizeHalloween short film festival. The season 3 crop of films has some truly creepy and some incredibly unique and striking films and Sara and Jeremy take the time to give you the rundown on every single one of them. Enjoy!

BITE SIZE HALLOWEEN is available NOW on Hulu.

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We're continuing MonsterCast with another director interview of last year's Huluween Horror Short Film Festival entries. Today we're concluding our series by talking with director Zoey Martinson about her film #Incomplete. This film is near the top of our list for the entire festival. It's creepy, well-executed and has a deeper meaning that you can really dive into. HIGH RECOMMEND. A man under house arrest is haunted by a faceless spirit tied to the breathalyzer machine keeping tabs on his every move. INCOMPLETE is available NOW on Hulu.

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#MonsterCast rolls right along towards it's conclusion but not before getting one more offering from the crazy folks over at #Flashback. For their final offering of the creepy season, they're taking a look at a true gem of the late 80s, #TheGate.

Two young boys accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the two kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that literally begins to take over the Earth.

THE GATE is available NOW on Amazon Prime Video.

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We're continuing MonsterCast with another director interview of last year's Huluween Horror Short Film Festival entries. Today we're talking with director Brandon Espy about his film #MrCrocket. This is one of our top picks from the festival and has the extra creepy factor of redefining something from our childhoods for terror. A hyperactive young boy pushes his mom over the edge by continuously playing an old VHS tape of children's television host Mr. Crocket. MR. CROCKET is available NOW on Hulu.

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#MonsterCast continues with a truly fantastic offering from the crew over at Super GG Radio. For their 2023 #SpookySession, they're taking a look at Telltale Games' innovative take on the "choose your own adventure" style of gaming with their adaptation of the graphic novel and TV hit The Walking Dead. This game has a style all its own not only in animation but in the way it lays out its decision-making structure putting you truly in control of your own fate in a world of flesh-eating zombies.

TELLTALE'S THE WALKING DEAD: SEASON 1 is available NOW on all gaming platforms.

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We're continuing MonsterCast with another director interview of last year's Huluween Horror Short Film Festival entries. Today we're talking with directors Minsun Park & Teddy Tenenbaum about their film Ride or Die. This one is a truly original concept that is execture to perfection. It's literally "ride-or-die" for newly licensed teen driver Jemma and her friends. RIDE OR DIE is available NOW on Hulu.

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