Six Degrees of Star Wars

6 Degrees of Star Wars marks the 250th birthday of the United States by discussing a movie about the people who the United States has historically excluded, starring the incomparable Nicole Beharie, whom Hollywood tried to exclude. This is Miss Juneteenth. The Sojourner Truth Project: https://www.thesojournertruthproject.com/the-readings PLUGGABLES:  Ellie: @elessar42 on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and M...

We decided to celebrate pride by putting a bunch of queer women enjoyers into a room to talk about the first cinematic reluctant vampire who is also giving so much lesbian. The results are exactly what you think. PLUGGABLES: Gillian: @cutiepuppyfire on the socials B: @dropsofjupiter92 on BlueSky; @bdaae on tumblr, @btargaryen on Letterboxd Shami: @theonlinemuse on tumblr Mutual Aid: The Queer Libe...

It's the movie that could never be made today... I hate that cliché! Pluggables: Leif: @leifbradshawsings on instagram, @leifbradshawmusic on Facebook, linktr.ee/disneyoutlands Jas: @FaeRiviera on all socials, host of In Each Retelling Grady: @snakebitcat on the socials The Marsha P Johnson Institute's PAY IT campaign: https://givebutter.com/MPJI-pride Support the show Sam: @DemiSemme on...

We close out AAPI month by taking a look at the modern classic class-satire brought to you by Director Bong Joon-Ho - PARASITE. I'm deadly serious. PLUGGABLES: Ellie: @elessar42 on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and Medium; @football-in-tuxedos on Tumblr, Podcasting's Biggest Night available wherever Pods are Cast. Leif: @leifbradshawsings on instagram, @leifbradshawmusic on Facebook, linktr.ee/di...

We are joined by special guest Agatha Vile for an oceanic adventure of super proportions, taking us back to 2018, when we had no idea how much worse superhero fatigue could get and we were just happy to have a DCEU movie that was willing to have fun and be bright and colorful. Pluggables:  Seducing Scylla: https://www.lexloganauthor.com/products/seducing-scylla Jas: @FaeRiviera on all socials, hos...

Gillian and Bradley are subjected to the experience of trying to make Sam and River shut up about the 2008 animated film STAR WARS: The Clone Wars, wandering through the foibles of Dave Filoni, the introduction of Rotta the Hutt aka Stinky (soon to appear in the Mandalorian and Grogu), and lies about how we are NOT talking about the tv series this is technically a pilot for. Pluggables: Gillian: @...

Two years after covering the sequel series, we're talking about the original Willow, the star-making turn by Warwick Davis in the title role, the pure chaos of Val Kilmer as Madmartigan, and the world's BEST baby, Elora Danan. Pluggables: Conor: @youngmrduffy on the socials, TTRPGs at third-country-press.itch.io, and https://bff.fm/shows/third-country-radio Jen: Jen: @TheITinFIT on YouTu...

Six Degrees of Star Wars finds religion with the 2024 Oscar-winning movie, CONCLAVE, featuring tangents about statues of Pope John Paul II, dramatic readings of the screenplay directions, and bemoaning the lack of people willing to destroy their own careers for the sake of their morals. Pluggables: Gillian: @cutiepuppyfire on the socials Meredith: @merthenerd on Letterboxd Brie: https://linktr.ee/...

Ah, Jupiter Ascending, the Wachowskis' movie about an ordinary person suddenly being awakened into the reality of an urban fantasy and learning that they are the most specialest person in said reality, except this time the protagonist is a woman and also bees can detect royalty and the love interest is a wolf-hybrid cyborg... okay, do you think if we remind Paramount this movie exists, they&a...

6 Degrees of Star Wars dips its toe into the MCU with a look at what should have been a fun project for Nia DaCosta, Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, and Iman Vellani, but instead got mired up in studio interference, misogyny, racism, Hollywood guild strikes, and overall exhaustion.  Woo. Pluggables: River: @dreamsrebel on BlueSky, @punk_skeleton on Letterboxd, blog.filmlion.online, and host of The St...

It's a southern Gothic-vampire-horror-musical. It's a box office smash that grew from word of mouth. It's the most Oscar-nominated film of all time. It's Ryan Coogler's masterpiece. It's SINNERS. What else needs to be said? Producer's note: this episode aired before the 98th Academy Awards on March 15, 2026, so we had to record with no idea of whether or not anyo...

Get in the Valentine's Day spirit with a movie that will raise your standards for romance, starring a post-first-Oscar Denzel Washington and the film debut of Sarita Choudhury, in a beautifully crafted story directed by Mira Nair. Six Degrees of Star Wars is not responsible for any relationships that end as a result of someone watching this movie and realizing that they deserve better than th...

Ah, yes, the medieval coming of age film starring future Oscar Winner Heath Ledger (RIP), directed by Oscar Winner Brian Helgeland, adapted from the works of Geoffrey Chaucer! Surely, this will be a very dignified and romantic adventure that will take itself completely seriously! Pluggables: Mikey: LeagueOfSwords. Com and twitch.tv/VengeanceGod Émile: The Not Even Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/...

Opening the year with a three-way podcast crossover, and one of the most celebrated movie musicals of all time, we're taking a trip to Chicago, with skidoo, hotcha, whoopee, and all that jazz! Also, we did nothing wrong, your honor, the only thing we're guilty of is being theatre kids. Pluggables: Nick: The Chicago Foundation for Women (https://www.cfw.org/);  https://linktr.ee/reallynic...

It's time to bring 2025 to a close with our holiday episode — and what are the holidays without a healthy helping of chaos? Featuring the 6D Glee Club: Gillian Quigley, Shamila Karunakaran and Harley Quinn (Jasmine Garcia) PLUGGABLES:  Grady: @snakebitcat on the socials, recommending Mask of the Phantasm Gillian: @cutiepuppyfire on the socials Shami: @theonlinemuse on Tumblr River: @dreamsreb...

The schedule didn't shake out quite the way we wanted, but we weren't going to let the 10th anniversary of THE FORCE AWAKENS pass by without any acknowledgment! So, a few of us gathered for a very giggly and surprisingly thirsty celebration of the actors who joined the Galaxy Far Far Away one decade ago. PLUGGABLES: Ellie: @elessar42 on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and Medium; @football-in-tuxed...

Aka, we are NOT talking about The Clone Wars! Happy 20th year of existing, Revenge of the Sith, final installment of the prequel trilogy. To celebrate, have a voice actor, a swordsman, a gremlin, and a scholar all losing their minds over you in different ways. Featuring Grady Smithey as the voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi. PLUGGABLES: Rhaps: @RhapsodyBlueVA on Twitter, BlueSky, and Letterboxd. River: @dre...

Join us for a movie that will definitely mess up your algorithms and most likely put you on a watch list if you search it online without including the words "movie" or "in fiction" afterwards. Look, the Swedish journalist who wrote the original book named it, if you've got a problem with that, take it up with him. Pluggables: Conor: @youngmrduffy on the socials, TTRPGs at...

Stealing a page out of the book belonging to In Each Retelling, we mark the release of Wicked For Good by doing the closest thing Lucasfilm ever made to The Wizard of Oz  -- a coming of age fantasy musical that features a singularly famous pop star in as one of the two leads in a very... intense relationship. Maybe there's more to this than we realized. MUTUAL AID SPOTLIGHT: Desert Bus for Ho...

We channel the power of the very first Simpsons Halloween Special, TREEHOUSE OF HORROR, to stave off the onset of a different holiday season for just a little bit longer... Happy Halloween/All Saints' Day, everyone! PLUGGABLES: Ellie: @elessar42 on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and Medium; @football-in-tuxedos on Tumblr, Podcasting's Biggest Night available wherever Pods are Cast. Shami: @theonli...

It codified the tropes while subverting the tropes, spawned a legion of sequels while mocking endless sequels, and gave a lot of my friends the answer to a very important question. But as a SCREAM neophyte, am I going to end up the final girl, or the first victim? Scream is rated R for strong graphic horror violence and gore, and for language, with mild depictions of sex and nudity. Please proceed...

Is it ever really worth remaking a movie that's generally considered a classic? Most people would say no, but most people are not Steven Spielberg deciding he wants to bring the musical New York street gang Romeo and Juliet better known as West Side Story to the big screen again, sixty years after the original. Who's going to say no to STEVEN SPIELBERG? The subject of this episode is a m...

Hey, kids, want to see what kind of movie gets made when the entire cast and crew has access to a lot of schedule II narcotics, some of the greatest musicians of the 20th century, and a script that was originally the size of the yellow pages? You're in luck, because this puppy (slaps the Bluesmobile) has it al! The subject of this episode is a movie from the 1980s that is rated R for depictio...

Whodunnit? Was it the 80s comedy icon? The maid? The other 80s comedy icon? The singer trying to act? The OTHER 80s comedy icon? The cook? The all around icon? One of three more 80s comedy icons? I haven't got a Clue (1985)! The subject of this episode is a movie from the 1980s depicting the 1950s and includes comedic material surrounding sexuality and non-white cultures typical of both those...

We finish out OOPS ALL TV Month by looking at the Phineas and Ferb Star Wars episode that features such delightful moments as Perry the Rebel-pus making a birthday cake for a Tusken Raider, Isabella Garcia-Shapiro beefing with Han Solo, and Candace Flynn singing imperial propaganda that's way too much of a bop for its own good. PLUGGABLES: River: @dreamsrebel on BlueSky, @punk_skeleton on Let...