The Style Guide

Episode 49, ‘RoboCop is a great film’, on Starship Troopers This week, following both the American election and Remembrance Day, Dave and Steve stumble into a topic that is oddly fitting: the novel and film Starship Troopers. Come for the discussion of a classic sci-fi book, stay for Steve’s attempt to defend a bad movie....Continue reading »

Episode 48, ‘Look at me. I exist.’, on Political Advertising This week, Dave and Steve say farewell — and good riddance — to the American presidential election by talking about the last couple years of political advertising. Spoiler alert: there are no spoilers in this episode. Expect maybe existential spoilers. Intro Clip: I Like Ike....Continue reading »

Naturally following upon their pre-Halloween Spooktacular, this week Dave and Steve do an on-Halloween Spooktacular. This time they explore John Carpenter's Halloween franchise and the twists the series takes before finally arriving at the two recent Rob Zombie remakes. Keep in mind that Dave feels the need to vividly describe some of the scenes, in case you wanted to be horrified without ever seeing the films. It's fun for the whole family absolutely no families whatsoever.

Episode 46, ‘It’s good when it works’, on Edgar Allan Poe Once upon a Monday mellow, as I podcast, young and yellow About an author and his life’s work fine and fair While I Skyped, tamely talking, saying nothing that was shocking I found myself gently rocking, rocking in my office chair “Tis my way,”...Continue reading »

Episode 45, ‘There’s no Iron Man for Jodie Foster’, on Jodie Foster This week, follow along with the hard to identify noises of construction happening as if it were just down the street from you. Wonder if you’re going crazy or if there is a rhythmic metal thumping (?) of some sort that is almost...Continue reading »

Episode 44, ‘Technically Canadian’, on The 90s This week, Dave and Steve take a journey through their awkward pre-teen and teenage years which is known more widely as “the 1990s”. While they don’t cover everything that went on in the decade, they do cover some of its more important films. Like Biodome with Pauly Shore....Continue reading »

Episode 43, ‘It’s Dumb to Say, But The Magic Isn’t Here’, on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child In this episode, Dave and Steve hate-read the latest offering in the Harry Potter universe. Intro Clip: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Steve has a terrible confession that is going to shock everyone. Dave and...Continue reading »

Episode 42, ‘Tatooine doesn’t have any beaches’, on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story In this episode, which was recorded and released in late June and anyone who says otherwise a liar, Dave and Steve go pretty far down the rabbit hole of nerdy analyses. Abandon all hope ye who enter here, because Dave and...Continue reading »

Episode 41, ‘Everyone in France seems pretty terrible’, on Perfume: The Story of a Murderer This week, Dave and Steve take on the rough and tumble world of fragrant essential oils, aroma compounds, fixatives, and solvents. That’s right, they watched and read Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind. You’ll pay for the...Continue reading »

Episode 40, ‘I will never speak to you again. I hate you.’, on Canons In this week’s episode, Dave and Steve get into what it means for a work to be ‘canonical’ and why it even matters. Intro Clip: Canon in D – Johann Pachelbel. Spelling is hard. Dave and Steve bring their C-Game to...Continue reading »