Rebels and Robots and Etc.

They are the space piiiirates, who don't do anythiiiing. ♫

Space owls, space bad French accents, and space almost murder.

It’s the start of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. Practical creatures. Disaffected suburban pre-teens. 16-year-olds beefing with 11-year-olds. Nice! The ’80s are so back in the galaxy far, far away.

Haters (Rach & Cam) gonna (podcast about) hate (stuff they don’t like).

We've been promising it for 4 months, and we are here to confirm that Avatar: The Last Airbender is a certified banger (except Cameron hates Momo and Rachel hates Jet).

Rach and Cam give their favorite spooky- and autumnal-themed picks for this special time of year (spoiler: there is a lot of animation on here).

It’s animation-mania with a double-header review, both about lifeless manufactured objects that still manage to steal our hearts: Lego and robots.

Transformers One: a movie that simultaneously tries to work for children who’ve never seen a movie before AND adults who want an emotionally complex evolution of Megatron from passive worker to radicalized revolutionary. Let’s just say that there is a lot to podcast about.

Leading up to the release of Transformers One, we look at the satisfying tangibility yet inherent forgettability of Bumblebee (2018) and pitch our own ideas for the ultimate Transformers film.

Join us for a journey to the Castle in the Skycastle where we will meet a thicc grandma airship pirate, curvaceous warbots, and metaphors for the inevitable failing of man's desire to glorify his own kingdom.

More like Princess MonoHMMMke Also this week: Owen and Beru Lars as the Skeleton Crew and Audio Editor Athena as jawa Ukitti!

In our first week of Ghibli Gobblin’ Summer (working title), Rachel raves about “From Up On Poppy Hill”s emotional slice of life depiction of friendship and Cameron puzzles over its jarring tone and intentions.

The end of The Acolyte brings the end of Suns Out, Guns Outs Summer (Brought to you by Darth Qimir “The Gun Show” Teethies

Do you ever look at someone and wonder, "What is going on inside their head?" The answer is anxiety. Whether it is a teenager or space witches: anxiety.

We sink our teeth into some juicy Acolyte action while Darth Teethies sinks his saber into a bunch-a-Jedi chest cavities.

The first three episodes of The Acolyte are a bit rough, but at least it allowed us to talk about terrible beard prosthetics, space cat people, and … modern feminist use of witch symbolism? Meanwhile, Rachel blames Cameron for us not recording last week and Cameron recalls his meeting ... with Godzilla? … in Ghana?

In our review of Star Wars: Tales of the Empire, we have some very important questions about inquisitors: Why do they all have a unique look? Do they get helmet hair? Why did they stop using the sabercopters? Also this week: a look at Transformers G1's geopolitically errant version of Europe.

In our review of the Bad Batch series finale, we have a lot of questions: What was it all about? Did anyone actually plan out this third season? How many one liners can Rachel say in one sitting? Did Gonky survive?

“Bro looks like he is in year 3 of engineering school,” “They got these kids playing Roblox,” “Child riot! Child riot! Child riot.” All these great Rachel quotes and more on R&R&Etc Ep. 53

With Godzilla x Kong get we get to see a really big ape beat up other really big apes with a smaller big ape, Godzilla take three naps on screen, Cameron give blood for a t-shirt, Rachel get picky about lore (AGAIN), and the end of Mon-March Madness.

Godzilla vs Kong. Rachel vs Cameron. Athena vs the sleepies. Bad Batch animators vs hair physics.

In our review of Kung Fu Panda 4 and Bad Batch's latest episodes: emotionally resonate storytelling, funny and fun action set-pieces, and properly continuing an ongoing story (and also we talk about Bad Batch).

Nerd TikToker Bailey (@movie_daddy) joins us to discuss the painterly images of Godzilla: King of the Monsters and the filler-ly plots of Bad Batch S3 Ep 4 and 5.

Join us for week 2 of Mon-March Madness and the first week of Bad Barch Badness with two classic stories of people wandering into and immediately dying in monster-infested jungles - Kong: Skull Island and the Bad Batch season 3 premiere.

We're officially kicking off Monmarch Madness with thicc boi Godzilla 2014.