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Later this month, Paul and AJ will begin a new Four-Color Flashback series exploring Matt Wagner's Grendel . Before they do, though, they're making a return trip to the Dreaming for another look at Neil Gaiman's The Sandman , which they pored over in 2014. Their The Deli Counter of Justice collaborator Eric Sipple joins the boys to discuss The Sandman: Overture , which takes place both before and...

Paul and AJ take one final plunge into Hitchcock Month for a look at 1945's Spellbound , in which Ingrid Bergman falls in love with Gregory Peck on the way to psychoanalyzing him; and 1958's Vertigo , wherein James Stewart becomes obsessed with Kim Novak, or at least his (and Hitchcock's) icy blonde ideal of her. Joining them on this downhill drive is Broken Magic author and The Deli Counter of Ju...

How many walls does a podcast have? Can we break them? Because movies have four, and Deadpool takes a wrecking ball to the fourth one. In the midst of Hitchcock Month, Paul and AJ are rolling out a bonus episode about the Merc with a Mouth's meta movie. Neither one of them are particularly enamored with the Deadpool of comics fame, but how does that affect their view of Ryan Reynolds' passion proj...

For the penultimate installment of Hitchcock Month, Paul and AJ continue their tour of Hitch's limited-setting films with a look at 1944's Lifeboat , wherein a group including Tallulah Bankhead's socialite reporter winds up sailing under Walter Slezak's Nazi; and 1954's Dial M for Murder , in which the dashing Ray Milland conspires to murder the unfaithful Grace Kelly. Joining them is Ensley F. Gu...

Three men. One room. Now the fun begins. (Feel free to interpret that any way you wish.) Hitchcock Month continues, as A/V writer-director Joseph Lewis drops by to discuss 1948's Rope , wherein John Dall and Farley Granger's perfect murder is in danger of being unraveled by Jimmy Stewart; and 1954's Rear Window , in which Stewart's busted-up photographer spies on his neighbors, including a potenti...

In years past, Paul and AJ have devoted month-long chunks of the show to Quentin Tarantino, modern film's remix master; and Hayao Miyazaki, Japan's animation master. For 2016, the boys are devoting February to another cinematic maestro: Alfred Hitchcock, the Master of Suspense. The first pair of films under discussion are 1943's Shadow of a Doubt , wherein Joseph Cotten's killer misanthrope shares...

As 2016 begins, it is more apparent than ever that Americans are badly in need of enlightenment. Paul and AJ have chosen the form of the Enlightener, and he is none other than everyone's favorite wacky British neighbor, Wesley "Wezzo" Mead. Wezzo enlightens the boys' American ears with talk of how his own country has fallen apart following last summer's Labour election, the documentary series I'll...

Don your dead general's coat and strap on those snowshoes; for the Gobbledygeek  season 7 premiere, we're taking the last stage to Red Rock for a discussion of Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight . Bringing Paul and AJ up to a Somewhat Disgruntled Four are Wanna Cook?  author Ensley F. Guffey and A/V  writer-director Joseph Lewis. Ensley, a bonafide historian, teaches us how Tarantino plays with...

For the season finale of Gobbledygeek, Paul and AJ turn to a little-seen, rarely discussed art film:  Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens . Joining them are Kenn Edwards of So Let's Get to the Point , Broken Magic author and The Deli Counter of Justice co-editor Eric Sipple, and  Star Wars superfan Andrew Allen, scum and villains all.  The Force Awakens  is strong with nostalgia for the ori...

When the world was new, and dreams had not yet receded from the waking day...Paul and AJ had begun reading Jeff Smith's cartoonish magnum opus Bone . Well, it hasn't been quite that long, but the boys have been analyzing Bone all year long for 2015's Four-Color Flashback series, and their journey has finally come to an end. After admitting frustration with the endless infodumps and constant mythol...

The lost and lonely are looking for a place to belong. Powerful men are looking to keep their darkest secrets hidden. Robert Downey, Jr. isn't looking at all, and that's why he peed on the corpse. It must be Christmas in L.A., Shane Black style. For this year's Twisted Christmas entry, Paul and AJ are joined by So Lets Get to the Point 's Kenn Edwards to rap about the 2005 noir comedy Kiss Kiss Ba...

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a filmmaker named George Lucas accidentally created a pop culture empire. Over the years, the Star Wars saga has gotten away from the man who conceived them, both figuratively and literally; the prequel trilogy is a classic example of an artist's reach exceeding their grasp, and Disney is now making a new series without his involvement. Kenn Edwards of So...

Why talk about a mega-blockbuster sure to be seen by every casual movie fan in the planet when you can talk about a Sam Raimi deep cut from a quarter-century ago? In belated celebration of the 25th anniversary of Raimi's first superhero movie, 1990's Liam Neeson-starring Darkman , Paul and AJ take the fucking elephant, getting down and dirty with the film's idiosyncrasies. Including the question:...

Penultimate installments are tricky. They need to deliver on longstanding character arcs and plot threads while at the same time ensuring everything is in place for the finale just so. As tricky a balance as the one between life and death, one might say. Is it possible that Paul, AJ, and The Debatable Podcast 's Greg Sahadachny manage that balance with the penultimate installment of their Four-Col...

This week, Paul and AJ enter into their very first three-way with none other than Greg Sahadachny of The Debatable Podcast and All the Pieces Matter . That's right, it's a veritable ménage à geek, as the gang undergoes a tri-part Geek Challenge featuring as much paranoia as they could cram into one podcast. In reverse chronological order, we've got Guy Hamilton's 1985 cult movie (does this thing h...

There's a starman waiting in the sky, and his name is Mark Watney. Back in February, we talked a whole bunch (some would argue too much) about the Red Planet's greatest botanist when we hosted a Gobbledy-Book Club discussion of Andy Weir's The Martian . Now, Paul and AJ have reconvened the Book Club-- Wanna Cook? author Ensley F. Guffey, So Let's Get to the Point 's Kenn Edwards, and the all-aroun...

It's the final episode of Gobbledyween 2015, kids, so bust out your Ouija--remember, it's Wee-JUH, not Wee-JEE--boards and prepare to get possessed by 1986's Witchboard . Joining Paul and AJ is first-time guest and hardcore horror fan Aundria; all three of them are baffled by this film, its intentions, and its extensive use of magic as metaphor. Some questions to which they seek answers: Can an at...

The guest host with the most, Nowheresville and A/V writer-director Joseph Lewis, joins Paul and AJ to continue Gobbledyween 2015 with a discussion of Tim Burton's 1988 classic Beetlejuice . The three heathens agree that the movie is great--it's wacky, it's funny, it's morbid--but when they stop and think about it, they have some questions. As brilliant as Michael Keaton is, would the film work be...

If it's in a word or it's in a look, you can't get rid of...Gobbledyween. Why would you want to? Especially when Paul and AJ are joined by such enlightening guests as K. Dale Koontz and Ensley F. Guffey, authors of Wanna Cook? The Complete, Unofficial Companion to Breaking Bad . Dale and Ensley help the boys crack open Jennifer Kent's feature debut The Babadook , which has been called one of the m...

Fall is in the air, leaves are on the ground, blood is on the silver screen. Welcome to Gobbledyween 2015, ladies and germs. Here to help kick off this year's frightening festivities is none other than Greg Sahadachny of The Debatable Podcast  and All the Pieces Matter . With nary a pair of sunglasses around, Paul and AJ are helpless but to obey Mr. Sahadachny's command to watch John Carpenter's 1...

Great darkness falls across our podcast. May Paul, AJ, and Greg Sahadachny of The Debatable Podcast and All the Pieces Matter be equal to the burden as they continue their year-long Four-Color Flashback series on Jeff Smith's Bone . This time, the gang turns to Vol. VII: Ghost Circles ; if they thought everything happened last volume, even more everything happens this volume. Which begs the questi...

This week on Gobbledygeek , there's been a rage reversal: Paul, the Enormous Green Rage Monster of the podcast, is unusually calm and placid; meanwhile, AJ is filled with anger, much of it directed toward the fast food chain Wendy's. What are a couple geeks to do? Find something, anything to distract them from this cosmic imbalance, such as Paul's recent trip to Disney World and brief return to th...

Gobbledyween comes early with the one-two zombie punch (right through some poor lady's skull) of Peter Jackson's 1992 gorefest Dead Alive AKA Braindead , one of several gonzo films which made the New Zealander perhaps the least likely contender to ever helm The Lord of the Rings ; and 1984's cult classic Night of the Comet , wherein the world ends and the burden of society is placed upon two teen...

Once and future Koko the Showfucker (and, one supposes, veteran pop culture writer/editor) Jason Tabrys is once again spreading his distinct brand of cheer to Gobbledygeek like so much plague. When he's not hawking Jason Juice, M. Tabrys talks with Paul and AJ about fall TV, including accusations of Muppety ignorance; the Dear Fat People video and whether or not YouTube flashes-in-the-pan like it...

Paul, AJ, and special guest Greg Sahadachny of The Debatable Podcast are each a small concentrated bit of dream carried along in the currents of Jeff Smith's Bone , which they return to once more in another Four-Color Flashback installment. This time, the gang enters Vol. VI: Old Man's Cave , in which...well, in which everything happens. Questions that have hung over the series from the first volu...