Did You Do Your Homework? | A Pop Culture Podcast publiczne
[search 0]
Więcej
Download the App!
show episodes
 
Loading …
show series
 
Did that really just happen? We come out of our hiatus (still maintaining that it's temporary) to bring you a movie that does not fit within our normal parameters at all, but that we're desperate to talk about. Martha and Maren go deep on their personal histories with WICKED and their feelings about part 1 of John M. Chu's fantasy epic.…
  continue reading
 
It's the most wonderful time of the year - our annual crossover event with Catching Up David! We're taking a deep dive into two popular prequels and asking ourselves...do we need this? DHomework for the episode: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023, dir. Francis Lawrence) and The First Purge (2018, dir. Gerard McMurray).…
  continue reading
 
What does it mean to make your setting a starring player in your story? Pete and Martha talk it out, through a cinematic master and a science fiction virtuoso author.Homework for the episode: Collateral (2004, dir. Michael Mann), The City & The City (2009, auth. China Mieville)Autor: Did You Do Your Homework? | A Pop Culture Podcast
  continue reading
 
Today we turn our eye to that most iconic of sad street-level heroes, your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Starting with Tobey McGuire in 2002, Pete and Martha dig into the screen iterations of Spidey, and discuss what makes one successful.Homework for the episode: look, it's a whole lot of Spider-Man, but we dig in deep on Spider-Man (2002, dir.…
  continue reading
 
It's happening - we're talking about Martha's hyperfixation and special interest, Godzilla! (Mothra makes an appearance, natch). We discuss the old, the new, the good, the bad, the Japanese and the American. Homework for the episode: Godzilla (1954, dir. Ishirô Honda), Godzilla (2014, dir. Gareth Edwards), Shin Godzilla (2016, dir. Hideaki Anno); G…
  continue reading
 
What exactly IS a heist movie? It is impossible to say, but Pete and Martha take a crack at it (it's not impossible, Martha is correct and since Pete doesn't write these descriptions, I get to say whatever I want).Homework for the episode: Ocean's 11 (2001, dir. Steven Soderbergh); Inside Man (2006, dir. Spike Lee); Inception (2010, dir. Christophe…
  continue reading
 
Pete and Martha stay up too late talking about Concert Films! In this once in a lifetime episode, they take on the weight of nearly 50 years of cinematic concert experiences. 2023 was a banner year for concert films, and your intrepid hosts set out to figure out why, while talking about two of the best ever made, and a new contender for that title.…
  continue reading
 
Objection! Drop what you're listening to and check this out instead! Pete and Martha look at legal thrillers and courtroom dramas, and ask the question: are they back? Why did they leave? Why are production companies cowards about mid-budget adult dramas?Homework for the episode: My Cousin Vinny (1992, dir. Jonathan Lynn); Runaway Jury (2003, dir. …
  continue reading
 
Will we ever run out of excuses to talk about Dune? Not likely! Pete and Martha take a deep dive into the oeuvre of Denis Villeneuve, including his early English-language works, and discuss what excites us about his future.Discussed on this episode: Enemy (2013), Sicario (2015), Arrival (2016), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Dune Part 2 (2024). For a de…
  continue reading
 
Our previous episode is lost to the editing gods, but we're here on the last day of 2023 to give to you our Christmas episode! Maren and Martha celebrate the season with the Amazon Freevee original EXMAS (2023, dir. Jonah Feingold) starring the wonderful Leighton Meester and the totally fine Robbie Amell. Who wins when exes go head to head on Chris…
  continue reading
 
And we're just living in it, baby! The only way to adequately discuss the grandmaster of animation is with a double-stuffed episode, and to help us out we're joined by our friends at Catching Up David! The crossover event of the season goes over the career of Hayao Miyazaki, how his works have shaped and affected us, and how we feel about his newes…
  continue reading
 
It's here! One of Martha's highly anticipated movies of the year. Does the 2023 Amazon adaptation Red, White and Royal Blue (dir. Matthew López) live up to expectations? What is Uma Thurman up to as the president? What even IS a rom com?For next time: Love Again (2023, dir. Jim Strouse)Autor: Did You Do Your Homework? | A Pop Culture Podcast
  continue reading
 
It's a DYDYH/Love YA crossover! Maren and Martha have referenced Richard Linklater's BEFORE movies about 800 times, so we decided it was time to do a deep dive. Pete, Martha and Maren get together to share their experiences and relationships to this trilogy, and how that may have evolved the same way that Jesse and Celine have.For next time: a Poe …
  continue reading
 
We've got a brand new one for you! Maren and Martha dig into the 2023 Netflix adaptation Happiness for Beginners (dir. Vicky Wight). Listen to find out how we feel about Ellie Kemper's foray into being a (semi) dramatic lead, her chemistry (??) with co-star Luke Grimes, and all the Patagonia advertising you could ask for.…
  continue reading
 
You may be wondering, haven't our very good friends Pete and Martha discussed summer blockbusters before? And the answer is yes, but it's been a while, and now Martha has actually seen JAWS and is ready to talk about it. Call this our Barbenheimer episode!Autor: Did You Do Your Homework? | A Pop Culture Podcast
  continue reading
 
It's the middle of summer, so we're going to camp! Pete and Martha talk about summer camp, what the appeal is, and why it's become a mainstay of American pop culture. Homework for the episode: Friday the 13th (1980, dir. Sean Cunningham) and Wet Hot American Summer (2001, dir. David Wain).Autor: Did You Do Your Homework? | A Pop Culture Podcast
  continue reading
 
Martha and Maren are joined by a very special guest today: you may know him from Did You Do Your Homework, it's Pete! We're here to talk all about the 2022 Netflix original DO REVENGE (dir. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson). Hear us talk about this candy colored teen revenge flick, and all the other teen revenge flicks we thought of while watching it.…
  continue reading
 
François Truffaut famously said in an interview with Gene Siskel that "I don't think I've really seen an antiwar film. Every film about war ends up being pro-war." What does it mean for a film to be "anti-war?" Is it true that to enshrine something to film is to ennoble it? We dig into the idea of anti-war cinema with the new adaptation of All Quie…
  continue reading
 
Sometimes our work lives impact our fun lives! That is certainly the case, as a "request" from Martha's boss triggers a rabbit hole about how we fear - and love - robots and AI in all their creepy forms.Homework for the episode: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001, dir. Steven Spielberg) and M3GAN (2023, dir. Gerard Johnstone)…
  continue reading
 
We're returning to our roots - a good old fashioned streaming original based on a YA novel. And it's a fun one! Martha and Maren take a look at the 2022 Netflix original, Hello, Goodbye and Everything In Between (dir. Michael Lewen) based on the book of the same name by Jennifer E. Smith.For next time: the 2023 Hulu original Rye Lane (dir. Raine Al…
  continue reading
 
In honor of the fourth entry into one of the best gun-based action series in the last twenty years, Martha and Pete are diving into the John Wick franchise. Do we have anything new to say that hasn't already been closely examined elsewhere? Maybe! These movies sure are fun!Here is the article Martha quotes in the episode: https://www.looper.com/120…
  continue reading
 
It's another crossover event with our very good friends, Catching Up David! We sit down to survey Dracula in his many forms, going back to his roots with DRACULA (1931, dir. Tod Browning) and continuing through to DRACULA: UNTOLD (2014, dir. Gary Shore). Also discussed: DRACULA (1958, dir. Terence Fisher) and BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (192, dir. Franci…
  continue reading
 
In the year 2023, two millennials decided that what the internet really needed was yet another episode about STAR WARS. Come along with us and hear our hot takes, our histories, and our experiences with the STAR WARS universe and what it means to us as two nerds growing up in the early aughts.Autor: Did You Do Your Homework? | A Pop Culture Podcast
  continue reading
 
Look, we said we were taking a summer break, and sometimes summer breaks become accidental hiatuses. We're sorry! But much like the dinosaurs in the 1991 animated classic, WE'RE BACK!Pete, Maren and Martha sit down together to hash out the best of 2022. Not everyone agrees, and that's okay! What made your best of the year awards?Find us on social m…
  continue reading
 
Somewhere in another universe, you got this episode sooner. In this universe, it's here now! Pete and Martha breakdown the concept of the multiverse and it's application in media, inspired by the recent spat of multiverse movies. Homework for the episode: Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022, dir. Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert); Spider-Man: Into…
  continue reading
 
Today we're discussing a pop culture icon, the one, the only...Hannibal Lecter. We take time for all of his incarnations, touching on the source material as well as the myriad of adaptations, and bring it all back to: why do we love Hannibal the Cannibal so dang much?Homework for the episode: Manhunter (1986, dir. Michael Mann), Silence of the Lamb…
  continue reading
 
Pete and Martha sure did read a book for this episode. We take a dip back into the early aughts, when conspiracy theories were fun and fake news was about the Illuminati hiding treasure in tombs and not about lizard people sex traffickers.Homework for the episode: The Da Vinci Code (2003, auth. Dan Brown) and National Treasure (2004, dir. Jon Turte…
  continue reading
 
The world sucks, but maybe it can get better? Pete and Martha attempt to dispel some of the soul-sucking pessimism by looking at media that is inherently optimistic and forward thinking. Also there are giant robots involved.Homework for the episode: Pacific Rim (2013, dir. Guillermo del Toro) and The Ministry for the Future (2020, Kim Stanley Robin…
  continue reading
 
Don't think of the episode as late, think of it as getting two episodes of content this week! (We're sorry!) Martha and Maren return to the deep well of teen summer romance movies, with the Kaitlyn Deaver vehicle from 2017, All Summers End (Tye Sheridan who?) Directed by Kyle Wilamowski.Autor: Did You Do Your Homework? | A Pop Culture Podcast
  continue reading
 
Loading …

Skrócona instrukcja obsługi