The Latecomers

Episode 4 brings us our first cliffhanger – what will become of Starbuck and how guilty will Commander Adama feel about it. We zoom through this one because it’s over before it even begins. Watch Battlestar Galactica with us - available on Hulu and Amazon Prime. Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Twitter: @latecomerspod Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com and @AmityArmstrong on Twitter Our Facebook...

Episode 3, Bastille Day brings us t0 a prison set of debatable quality. Poor decisions are made, masturbation jokes are uttered, rape is thwarted and an election is promised. And that’s just the A plot. Watch Battlestar Galactica with us - available on Hulu and Amazon Prime. Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Twitter: @latecomerspod Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com and @AmityArmstrong on Twitter...

Amity and Lemuel get into the what and when of Battlestar as we recap the second episode. Amity is holding firm to her beliefs on the timeline, while Lemuel is perplexed by the what that is happening to Boomer. Both are close to done with Baltar and we’re glad to see a blossoming family between the President and Apollo – Join in the discussion! Watch Battlestar Galactica with us - available on Hul...

Amity and Lemuel watch the first episode of the reimagined BSG. We are happy to see a living Helo and Amity thought everyone was asleep, but we quickly find that that is pretty much the opposite of what is happening. One episode in and the show is already bringing us exactly what we want from a sci fi show. Watch Battlestar Galactica with us - available on Hulu and Amazon Prime. Email us at lateco...

Picking up where we left off, we discuss tough decisions, what’s a reference to something else, the existence of Earth, who or what these “people” are, and are genuinely shocked at the last scene. We also add grades and a who won the episode segment (thanks to Back to the Futurama (http://listen.backtothefuturama.net/) and Dawson’s Speak (https://dawsonsspeak.libsyn.com/) for the ideas – these are...

The fourth season starts strong as we dig into the Battlestar Galactica reimagined miniseries. We look for an analog for Baltar, try to dig into Number Six’s motives and guess who is gonna fight and when (and we learn, too late, that xo is executive officer). Watch Battlestar Galactica with us - available on Hulu and Amazon Prime. Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Twitter: @latecomerspod Find Amity...

Amity and Lemuel bring you a broad discussion of our new season’s subject Battlestar Galactica, including updated casting from 1978. In addition, we take down Star Wars and Aquaman, build up Mortal Engines and Nightflyers, and take down “6 hours/ 12 days/ 27 years earlier.” It’s a packed episode! Watch Battlestar Galactica with us - available on Hulu and Amazon Prime. Email us at latecomers@gmail....

Amity and Lemuel watch Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber and their terrible accents as Belarusian Brothers the Bielskis who saved 1200 Jewish Belarusians from the Nazis during WWII. It’s a heavy movie but a light discussion. We also give a peak to what’s coming in Season 4 in 2019 and what other podcast projects we might have coming down the pipeline. Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Twitter: @latec...

Lemuel and Amity dive into the Old Testament with 1998’s The Prince of Egypt. We are confounded by the choice to release this at Christmas and target it at kids – until we see the box office numbers. Then we talk about our favorite seasonal treats in a segment about Christmas movies (yes, we talk about Die Hard, okay?) Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Twitter: @latecomerspod Find Amity @ www.amity...

True Jackal sounds? Check! Bad Michael Caine impression? Check! Teary muppet remembrance? Check! This week we discuss the bananas concept of women falling for ridiculous man-schemes and using those schemes against the very men who are perpetrating. Come listen as we discuss 1988’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Twitter: @latecomerspod Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com...

This episode starts with more content warnings than we have ever done. We watched 1978's Deer Hunter and got so caught up talking about the plot and the psychological breakdowns we were witnessing that we totally forgot to talk about Christopher Walken's beautiful hair and Robert DeNiro's beautiful beard. We also didn't touch on weather the Russian-ness of the characters played into the games. Hop...

Amity and Lemuel take a break to look back at their first year as podcasters. They pick their favorites – movies, television, and podcasting moments. It’s a spoiler to say that their favorites are actually anyone listening to the show (or reading this) but it’s not untrue. Listen in for some fun! Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Twitter: @latecomerspod Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com and @Amit...

Coming into this week we were fully unexcited for a three-hour movie, but it turns out we were wrong. Discussing Baz Luhrman’s 2008 epic Australia, we address the fan service of Hugh Jackman’s abs, how anyone gets anywhere in westerns, Iago-like baddies and Amity says dick a whole bunch. Happy Thanksgiving! Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Twitter: @latecomerspod Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.co...

Amity and Lemuel watched 1998’s The Siege – a twisty terrorism romp with a dash of martial law thrown in for flavor. Among the devastating explosions and Annette Benning’s several names and motivations, we find a pretty entertaining movie? It’s largely because Denzel is, in fact, the greatest actor of all time. Period. Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Twitter: @latecomerspod Find Amity @ www.amity...

Content Warning: Child Death. We watched A Cry in the Dark and then tried to stay light. We discuss media and the justice system and the condemnation this movie has of both. We both fear the outback and Lemuel vows to never go to Australia, while Amity is still open minded provided she can wear long socks with her shorts so as to combat all the sharp poisons. Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Twitt...

We’re on the November side of Halloween, but there’s some horror left as we watch the dark side of rabbit life in 1978’s Watership Down. Amity is left aggravated by a lack of understanding of linguistics and ladies and Lemuel is just perplexed. Why is this the format? Why is there a music video in the middle? Am I supposed to care about them more or less because they’re rabbits? It’s so confusing....

We rewatched a classic and watched a cult classic and a modern sequel and we discuss those three films along with the other 8 in the franchise. We tackle the entirety of the original(?) slasher franchise in this episode - don’t worry, the episode isn’t 40 years long and we don’t go into spoiler territory for the new one. We do talk about the treatment of women, the treatment of Michael, and why sa...

CW: Sexual assault; mental health issues. We watched 2008’s Changeling and it combined with the current climate led to a perfect storm of discussion. This is a very good movie and the conversation is good – we try to keep it funny, but it’s not light. The plight of women in movies, on tv, and in society is discussed through the lens of this film. Do we solve it? Listen to find out. Email us at lat...

Description: Differing opinions abound in this episode as we tackle Wes Anderson’s sophomore film, Rushmore. Amity wants to know how come all these adults want o be friends with a child so badly – it seems fishy. Lemuel wants to know why Amity doesn’t like whimsy or Bill Murray. Listen along! Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Twitter: @latecomerspod Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com and @AmityArm...

Description: The original Bright and basis for television show, TV movies, novels and comics, we watched Alien Nation and had some questions about the timeline. Lemuel is unimpressed with the makeup and Amity is unimpressed with the callousness and racism. We also give a free warning against a current feature. Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Twitter: @latecomerspod Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong...

Two hours and forty minutes from the inexplicable opening, we get an inexplicable ending with no explication to be found. Amity and Lemuel watch the WWII epic Miracle at St. Anna. Amity wants to know why our hero is strapped at work and Lemuel wants to know how they expected to compress all of this information into a movie length – even an epic one. But really, why was that dude armed at work. And...

Lemuel and Amity watch Amity's "favorite" style of film - a heist movie! What is DeNiro after? A box! What's in the box? It's not Gweneth's head, but beyond that, we couldn't say. Lemuel wishes there were more films by this director and we mock the temerity of asking Mamet for a punch up. Listen along! Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Twitter: @latecomerspod Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com and...

1919 World Series losers, the Chicago White Sox, colloquially known today as the Black Sox, historically threw the series. This is their story. We try to puzzle out who was up to what, but as with any good conspiracy, we are left wondering who was truly at fault. We definitely feel for the players, and do some quick math on what was really at stake, and we talk the problematic nature of profession...

Amity spoiled the end of this historically accurate movie while watching it by going to Wikipedia to try to make sense of the wonky timeline, so this episode starts with a bang. We get to watch a fantastic Sigourney Weaver performance and gorillas – so many beautiful gorillas (and chimpanzees playing gorillas – such range!). Amity wonders when any of this actually is and Lemuel learns us on Leakey...

Amity thought this was Treasure Planet. Or was it Titan AE? It was neither. Instead, Lemuel and Amity watched the 2008 moving picture Babylon AD. We discuss how quickly each actor finished filming their role, the merits of non-fatal bullet placement, and how much of a bad ass Michelle Yeoh is. Also whether or not Vin Diesel is inflatable and what that means for his tattoos. One of us tries to make...