A Cosmic Void

A Cosmic Void is back for a third season! Biggs lets you know what to expect from the updated show. Then he breaks down the themes of Barbie and Oppenheimer. Buckle up, we’re taking a pink C1 Corvette to Los Alamos! Support the show through ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ Send an ⁠ ⁠email⁠ ⁠ or find the show on ⁠ ⁠Facebook⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ Find short movie reviews by Biggs at ⁠⁠Letterboxd

Welcome to the final episode of A Cosmic Void. Biggs wraps up the show by letting you in behind the scenes of how the show was created, rifts, reconciliations, memories of guests, and a whole lot more. Bring up the house lights. https://open.spotify.com/show/4uDdQrjtmgBN0wRIeFIDQW Follow our network on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/redwood_sound_labs or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/R...

This week for A Cosmic Void Jeremiah returns to do a commentary that you don’t need to watch the movie to enjoy. We break down Alien Covenant as well as the Alien franchise as a whole. Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, or where you get your podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/4uDdQrjtmgBN0wRIeFIDQW Send us an email acosmicvoid@gmail.com Follow the podcast and our network on Instagram h...

This episode of A Cosmic Void Jeremiah is back (on a previously recorded episode) to talk about The Matrix franchise, with a spotlight on The Matrix Resurrections. We discuss how the first movie was game changing and altered Keanu Reeves’ perception to the movie going public. We also discuss the immediate sequels, and how we feel about the newest film. Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, or...

This week on A Cosmic Void Amanda Pirre sits in to break down Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. We discuss how Tim Burton’s career evolved (and devolved), how this movie laid the groundwork for Paul Reubens to change children’s television, whether Pee Wee is secretly a serial killer, and so much more! Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, or where you get your podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/4u...

This episode of A Cosmic Void Aaron Donaldson from the Reel War Project comes on to discuss the podcast’s first sports movie: Moneyball. In addition to breaking the movie down we examine how sabermetrics has transformed all of sports, how sports movies occupy a similar space with war movies, what a Stanley Kubrick Disney film would look like, and so much more! Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stit...

This week on A Cosmic Void Biggs breaks down an influential movie you may not have heard of: De Cierta Manera (One Way or Another). This movie is a blend of documentary and drama. It was directed by an Afro-Cuban woman in Cuba in the seventies and was one of the first films to truly achieve intersectionality. There are themes of feminism, racism, and classism all throughout. And it was the feature...

This episode of A Cosmic Void has Bigg’s friend Allen joining in to talk about Wayne’s World. They discuss its influence on pop culture at large, the context of joke that can’t possibly hit anymore, battles while making the movie, and a whole lot more! Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, or where you get your podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/4uDdQrjtmgBN0wRIeFIDQW Send us an email aco...

This week on A Cosmic Void Karl Borneman of Not Safe for Network guests on the show to cover Wishmaster! Find out what happens when a Djinn grants people wishes when they don’t actually wish. Yes we’re deep diving into the movie made by Wes Craven (not really), and starring Freddie Krueger (sort of), Jason Voorhees (kind of), Candyman (no bees), and Henriette from Evil Dead 2 (you must understand...

This episode of A Cosmic Void Alexsa Prince and Alex Wolfe join Biggs to discuss the 1980 cult classic: Flash Gordon! We cover the history of the franchise from it’s comic strip beginnings, why the movie is an undeniable (but watchable) train wreck, and the Queen of it all! Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, or where you get your podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/4uDdQrjtmgBN0wRIeFIDQ...

This week on A Cosmic Void Sarah Lynn from the Dipperz podcast joins Biggs to discuss the eighties cult classic that doesn’t get any respect, but doesn’t feature Rodney Dangerfield: Better Off Dead. We break down beat for beat why this movie is amazing, but could never be made today. We deep dive into John Cusack’s hatred and supposed softening of the film. And of course we traverse all the surrea...

This week on A Cosmic Void Lauren O’Neil from the Dipperz podcast returns to talk about the Errol Morris documentary: The Thin Blue Line. This is one of the most influential docs out there…and it helped free an innocent man. We get into the weeds on the details of the case, how policing worked then and now, the death penalty, and many more subjects. You won’t want to miss this one! Follow on Amazo...

This episode A Cosmic Void is covering a beloved classic, or wretched propaganda depending on your opinion. Brandon Beardslee from the Not Safe for Network podcast joins Biggs to talk about the original 1984 movie: Red Dawn ! Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, or where you get your podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/4uDdQrjtmgBN0wRIeFIDQW Send us an email acosmicvoid@gmail.com Follow t...

This week A Cosmic Void concludes it’s influential zombie block with punk infused, jiggly, not to mention wild sort of sequel to Night of the Living Dead: Return of the Living Dead ! We talk about how it finished the template for zombies that George Romero began. We look at it’s influence with punk rock in the mainstream. But most of all, we…want…YOUR BRAINS! Follow on Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitc...

This week A Cosmic Void continues it’s three zombie movie block with the most influential entry of the genre: Dawn of the Dead . We discuss how the film was mired in social commentary by it’s depictions of racism, the patriarchy, the media, and of course the theme that rules them all: commercialism. We spotlight Tom Savini in his big break as a makeup artist and an actor. We compare the constructi...

This episode of A Cosmic Void Jeremiah, Biggs, and Janalee Minton tackle the zombie movie that started a genre: Night of the Living Dead ! We examine the racial message of this movie…even if Romero didn’t intentionally insert it. We talk about what the modern movies grabbed from this, and what they discarded. We note that this movie was the most gory horror movie of the time because for five month...

This week A Cosmic Void talks about the best picture win that was the best moment of 2020…in the before times. We’re covering, of course, the Bong Joon-Ho instant classic Parasite. We pull apart the metaphor of the movie and notice how it resonates from the story all the way down to production design. We also talk about how it’s already hugely influential and so many other things! Follow on Amazon...

This episode of A Cosmic Void we discuss the seminal Vietnam movie: Apocalypse Now. We discuss the disasters awaiting Francis Ford Coppola in the making of the movie, as well as the perils of his career following it. We dive into exactly how difficult Marlon Brando was (spoiler alert..very difficult). And we hash through what to expect with all the different cuts out there. Listen to us on Spotify...

This week A Cosmic Void changes up the formula for an episode. Karl Borneman from Not Safe for Network comes on to chat with Biggs about what the auteur theory is, and who our favorite auteur directors are. Check out Not Safe for Network https://open.spotify.com/show/4m7ivFPjSfqP1t6jeNV7n2 Listen to A Cosmic Void on Spotify or where you get your podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/4uDdQrjtmgBN0...

A Cosmic Void closes out it’s holiday block and celebrates the new year with a movie internalizing all your bad feelings, and expressing the good ones (I’m sure that’s healthy). It’s a movie about busting ghosts. But most of all, it’s a movie that we selected not just because it takes place at New Years Eve, but also is synergistic with what’s at the theaters right now. Because that’s what sequels...

Just in time for your hangover after Christmas, A Cosmic Void brings you our breakdown of Bad Santa. We examine the messed up story of an alcoholic safecracker who dresses as Santa and swears at kids. The level of aggression in this movie is off the charts, but Jeremiah and Biggs do their best to chart it anyway. https://open.spotify.com/show/4uDdQrjtmgBN0wRIeFIDQW

This week on A Cosmic Void Jeremiah and Biggs are joined by Lauren O'Neil of the Dipperz podcast to discuss a deeply problematic holiday film: Love Actually. I could tell you what's coming, but it's best to experience it for yourself. To me, episode 48, you are perfect. https://open.spotify.com/show/4uDdQrjtmgBN0wRIeFIDQW

This week on A Cosmic Void Jeremiah and Biggs talk about the summer drop that became a Christmas classic (in some circles): Gremlins! We wonder about the minutiae of the rules. We discuss the knockoffs that kept respawning in the eighties. And we talk about the battle to include the Santa Claus speech, and so much more! https://open.spotify.com/show/4uDdQrjtmgBN0wRIeFIDQ

 This week on A Cosmic Void Jeremiah and Biggs cover the most influential sequel ever made: The Godfather Part II. They discuss all the subtle machinations of the plot, which movie of the trilogy is their favorite, whether this was Pacino's greatest performance and so much more...

 This episode of A Cosmic Void Jeremiah and Biggs discuss one of the greatest films ever made: The Godfather. We talk about the significance of the oranges. Where fact and fiction were blurred in the story. How the real life mob intertwined with the making of the movie. Marlon Brando's historic Oscar moment. And by the end of the podcast we don't just leave the gun. We take the cannoli.