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This year marks the 25th anniversary of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. At the time of it's release, it was met with significant criticism, and one of the issues raised by some fans was the "boring politics" of the film. In our modern day, those "boring politics" have become more relevant and many fans now understand what George Lucas was warning us about. Joining...

Wednesday has come again, and with it has come the latest episode of The Bad Batch. In this week's adventure, Crosshair and Omega must use their street smarts to evade the Empire on an occupied world. Join me as I share my thoughts...

On this week's episode of our show, Captain Ingle and I are joined by returning guest and friend of the show Justin Toner to discuss the groundbreaking 1956 science fiction classic Forbidden Planet. In this loose adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, astronauts from Earth travel to the planet Altair IV to investigate a starship that crashed there 20 years before. What they disco...

I love film music! I have loved it ever since I was too young to understand what I was feeling when I was listening. Joining me to discuss our favorite film scores is composer, DJ, and host Dorina Arellano AKA DJ Bruja. Join us as we dive into the world of movie music!

The long awaited return of our favorite band of misfits has finally come, and boy did it deliver! Join me as I share my thoughts on what might possibly be the best opening episodes of an animated Star Wars series!

Tomorrow we'll see the release of the 3rd and final season of Star Wars: The Bad Batch. I'm very excited and also rather sad; excited to learn where the story will take us, and sad this is the end of a wonderful show. Join me as I share my anticipation for the final bow of our beloved cast of characters.

On this week's episode of our show, Captain Ingle and I set a course for the 24th century and the continuing adventures of the USS Enterprise-D. On this two-parter installment, Captain Picard is relieved of command of his ship and sent on a covert mission behind enemy lines to determine if a biological weapon is being developed. In his absence, the Enterprise is placed under the temporary comm...

Next Wednesday will see the debut of the third and final season of Star Wars: The Bad Batch. As we have seen in the trailer, Emperor Palpatine is up to something at his secret research facility on the planet Wayland. What sneaky plans does he have up his sleeve? Join me as I speculate responsibly.

The legendary Samuel L. Jackson has said that he wants to return as Jedi Master Mace Windu in some way. I personally would not want him to have survived his final fight with Palpatine. Why? Because I do not like Mace Windu. I'm not talking about acting, directing, and writing. I'm talking about a character so bound up in dogma that he has forgotten what the doctrine of the Jedi was all abo...

On this week's episode of Random Trek, Captain Ingle and I set a course for the 23rd century and the adventures of the USS Enterprise. On this installment of The Original Series, Captain James T. Kirk goes on the warpath after a Federation outpost on Cestus III is destroyed by a species known as the Gorn. While in pursuit of the latter, Kirk is whisked off the bridge of the Enterprise and depo...

*SPOILERS AHEAD* In The Book of Boba Fett and The Mandalorian Season 3 we see flashbacks of Grogu's time at the Jedi Temple during the massacre that is Palpatine's Order 66. In Chapter 20 of The Mandalorian, entitled "The Foundling" (directed by the late Carl Weathers), Grogu is rescued from the violence by Jedi Master Kelleran Beq and brought to safety aboard a Naboo starship. W...

There was a report (which may or may not be true) that the Mandalorian & Grogu movie which was announced a few weeks ago may start filming on June 17. As always, we must take these things with a grain of salt, but if this report is true, we could be seeing Star Wars' triumphant return to movie theaters sooner than later. Join me as I explore the possibility of what the future holds for tha...

With the 96th Academy Awards a month away, I thought I would bring in an Oscar expert to discuss the nominees. Joining me today to examine this year's most decorated films is the co-host of the YouTube movie show Oscar Buzz, my friend Trevor Matteson.

This week on our show, Captain Ingle and I set a course for the mid-23rd century and the continuing voyages of the USS Enterprise under the command of the intrepid Captain Christopher Pike. On this particular adventure, the crew of the USS Cayuga as well as the Enterprise's own Nurse Christine Chapel are trapped on the planet Parnassus Beta when the insidious Gorn invade, and it's up to ou...

I was about to discuss a different topic this morning when I was blindsided by the sad news of the passing of legendary action star and Greef Karga himself, Carl Weathers, who died on Tuesday at the age of 76. When he was announced as a member of the cast of The Mandalorian in 2019, it seemed so strange that we had gone so long without Apollo Creed as a part of the Star Wars saga, as it seemed suc...

Strange as it may sound, we are coming up on the 10 year anniversary of The Force Awakens. One of the best-remembered moments in the film is the murder of Han Solo by his son Ben AKA Kylo Ren. Join with me as I discuss why this very sad moment works so well for the stories and character journeys of Ben, Han, and the Sequel Trilogy as a whole.

Once upon a time a galaxy very, very near, a young filmmaker wanted to make a feature film version of the classic Flash Gordon comics and movie serials. His inability to secure the rights, while disappointing, caused the young filmmaker to instead create a story of his own. And the rest, as they say, is history!

We are a month into the new year, and we are coming ever closer to the Star Wars shows promised to us by Lucasfilm. The third and final season of The Bad Batch begins in less than a month, and the mystery-thriller The Acolyte and the Amblin-esque Skeleton Crew are supposedly coming later in the year. Join me as I discuss my anticipation for further stories in that galaxy far, far away...

On today's episode of our show, Captain Ingle and I set a course for the near-future and the struggling survival of a stranded astronaut on the barren sands of the Red Planet. That's right: we are exploring Ridley Scott's 2015 science fiction classic The Martian. With some of the most accurate depictions of science ever put on film and featuring an incredible all-star cast including su...

The other day the trailer for the 3rd and final season of Star Wars The Bad Batch was released. Many people were wondering when we would get our first look at this most highly-anticipated season. Now that it's here, allow me to share a few thoughts!

Harrison Ford has given us a plethora of great performances over the years. From Indiana Jones to Han Solo, from Jack Ryan to John Book, the list goes on and on. Joining me today to discuss the career of everyone's favorite grumbler are The Movie Guys, Paul Preston and Adam Witt. Join us!

The trailer for The Bad Batch Season 3 dropped on Monday and was pretty awesome! At the very end of this exciting teaser, a certain character we have not seen in many years appeared and lit the internet on fire (at least until the Oscar Nominations came out the next day...). Join me as I discuss some of the questions raised by this revelation.

Earlier this morning, the 96th Academy Award nominations were announced! Were there some curveballs or did everything go as expected? Join me as I react to reading the nominations for the first time!

On this week's episode of our show, Captain Ingle and I set a course for the 32nd century and the further adventures of the USS Discovery. In this installment, Captain Burnham and crew are called upon to rescue an alien colony from the devastation of a space anomaly known as the DMA. However, the chief magistrate of the colony does not wish the Discovery to rescue a group of condemned prisoner...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. One of the more controversial aspects of the film was the introduction of Midichlorians, microscopic life-forms that reside in all living cells that communicate the will and power of the Force. Join me as I share what I've learned in the years since.