The VoxPopcast

Chances are if you listen to this show you consider yourself a geek about some pop culture media or another. In fact there’s a good chance that you geek out… The post e42. Diss Continuity appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

You turn on the internet and you see that everyone on social media is talking about a new Netflix Original film. You know what’s coming next. Sometimes a piece of… The post e41. Snatching Banders? appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

In an interesting and rare moment, two period dramas about European royalty, The Favourite and Mary Queen of Scots, are at the top of the US box office right now. Well, maybe not the… The post e40. Favourite RoyalTV (and movies) appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

Once any TV show is on the air for long enough, a curious thing happens. It amasses enough devoted fans that watch it every week that they begin to turn… The post e39. Media Addiction appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

Do you think we can review every movie coming out next year… before we’ve seen any of them… with no real knowledge…. in one hour? Well, just you wait! Welcome… The post e38. 2019 Box Office Draft appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

It’s that time of year when everyone gets together and does the most Christmasy thing ever. They complain about stuff. Specifically, for the last few years we’ve had people complaining… The post e37. Problematic Christmas Songs appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

If you’re Hannah, Christmas means one thing… watching cheesy Christmas romantic movies. She’s not alone. Hallmark Channel, Lifetime, and now Netflix have carved out a niche for themselves producing dozens… The post e36. Cheesey Christmas Movies appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

Ever since the rise of the Internet we have all lived in constant fear of all of our favorite movies, books, TV shows and every other media being spoiled by… The post e35. SPOILERS! (and Mystery Boxes) appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

When we recorded the following podcast, or rather the bulk of it, we were avoiding work, sitting in front of a computer, several feet any roommate, in homes we rented,… The post e34. FarmSims: Digital Transcendentalism appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

If you live in the United States, it was Thanksgiving last week, and that means spending time with family. And lately, it seems that a big part of spending time… The post e33. Thanksgiving Politics appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

Albert Einstein once said, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Well, honestly he probably never said that… or at least… The post e32. Reboots, Remakes, Revivals appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

The antihero… just like the hero… except he can kill. Wait… heroes kill too now. In fact they always have. Well maybe it’s that the antihero swears… Actually, heroes swear… The post e31. Heroes, Villains & Antiheroes appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

Way back in August we recorded our first Monster Mash episode where we discussed the place of the Monster and the Monster Hunter in popular culture. That was a great… The post e30. Monster Mash 2: Breaking Twilight appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

“In the regular world, Halloween is when children dress up in costumes and beg for candy. In Girl World, Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can… The post Episode 29: Sexy Halloween appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

What’s your favorite scary movie, listener? Well, chances are if the answer isn’t something super obvious and popular, Mav probably hasn’t seen it. That said, he’s fascinated with the basic… The post Episode 28: Slashers and Final Girls appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

In 1967, literary critic and semiotician Roland Barthes wrote an essay called “La mort de l’auteur” that is in many ways foundational for the field of literary studies. It describes… The post Episode 27: La Mort de l’Auteur appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

Last week David Reddish, a former writer for Sesame Street, announced that he’d always thought of Bert and Ernie as gay… and the internet exploded. Some people were happy… some people… The post Episode 26: The Secret Lives of Puppets appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

Just about any parent in American who has a five year old girl knows about the Disney Princesses. Between Frozen, Tangled, Moana, and the others, the “House of Mouse” has… The post Episode 25: Sex and the Disney Princess appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

At best, “genre fiction” often seems to be taken as synonymous with “popular” or “exciting”. At worse, it is often used a pejorative meaning “low brow” or “garbage”. But what… The post Episode 24: Genre in General appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

When everyone knows that you are a comics geek, it turns out people ask you quite often “so what should I be reading?” When your job is literally “be a… The post Episode 23: Comic Studies-301: Course Syllabus appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

A couple of weeks ago, a protest at the University of North Carolina resulted in the toppling of “Silent Sam” a statue that stands at the university to commemorate Civil… The post Episode 22: Monuments and Memories appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

If you live in the United States, then it’s almost football season. Even if you’re the kind of non-fan that likes to unaffectionately refer to it as “sports ball” you’re… The post Episode 21: Sports, Patriotism, and Social Justice appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

“The Monster” and “The Monster Hunter” may be among the oldest figures in popular culture. It is the most basic of stories. Some great evil is threatening the community. Someone… The post Episode 20: Monster Mash appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

It’s pretty well accepted in contemporary geek culture that “representation matters.” At least, it’s accepted by everyone except for the evil corners of the internet that we don’t really care… The post Episode 19: Cosplayers of Color appeared first on The VoxPopcast .

If you happened to see a mid-tier 1980s cartoon superheroine get a costume update that was less objectifyingly sexy for a modern day reboot of the series in the last… The post Episode 18: She-Ra and the Male Gaze appeared first on The VoxPopcast .