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A rag tag band of art lovers ride out on the hunt for the shapeshifting monsters of animation and live-action cinema
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Veteran of the force Joseph Wade responds to our call for backup in taking down the notorious criminal enterprise comprised of the many screen incarnations of yellow-coated copper Dick Tracy! For a newspaper comic strip Ol' Dick has quite the heinous rap sheet on the animated side outside of a Daffy Duck short. The live-action cohort exists in the shadow of Warren Beatty's hubristic effort, celebrating its 25th anniversary of biting on the style of Tim Burton's 1989 Batman film. Is there a place in this world anymore for an old-fashioned two-fisted dick and his gallery of gruesome goons? Our investigations uncover a sordid saga of death, money and the bizarre sex games of showbiz royalty, not to mention Joe solving the mystery of a cartoon cameo that's dogged him for years!
The terms "versus" and "Predator" have historically been a volatile combination, comparable in potency to when a popular franchise tosses off a haphazard animated tie-in to gin up interest in its next instalment. However director Dan Trachtenberg, not content with only getting the Predator universe back to fighting form in the celebrated Prey, seeks to do equal justice to the cartoon counterpart with a fatal four-way anthology piece. Besides expanding the scope of the new films' story to the stars above, Killer Of Killers gets Predator back doing what he does best: pitting the gruesome game hunter against the fiercest fighters from across Earth's history in the sort of matchups Deadliest Warrior could only dream of. We push too many pencils weighing its merits against the formidable 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie and more, wondering awhile why such a simple setup is thrown so frequently in the meatgrinder. If it bleeds, we can grill it!
At long last our animation investigations have resumed, and a reintroduction is in order! Niall and Dwayne lay out their bona fides for the task ahead of them before unveiling the patented DOA system for colliding pop culture particles into each other. To calibrate this baby the late 00s self-aware sitcom Community fits the bill, focusing on one of its later form experiments in GI Joe parody and how it fits against the show's regular dalliances with other genres & mediums. Many memories are unearthed, regrets are shared and much excitement builds for what's to come. It can be scary coming back to school after all this time, but being a little older & wiser this go around may make all the difference!
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In this holiest of seasons it is only right to give thanks for those most devout adherents to the creation of totally sick visual spectacles that will shadow our subconscious for the long nights to come. Monster-making-maestro Phil Tippett spills forth with a passion project three decades in the making that pushed him past the brink of sanity, though is the world ready to accept his divine message? The Bible is recited; dreams are interpreted; a video game is shamelessly referenced and swiftly apologised for; and even through all the layers of muck we have the stomach for a Podcast Repaste. We're not mad, we're emotionally interesting!
SOTSM gains access to a tranche of classified cartoons and disseminates then wantonly to the listening public! Award -winning animators lend their talents to the war effort in Private Snafu; the next crop of young recruits show off their skills to recount The Legend Of Pipi; and an unexploded ordinance marked too hot for TV is carefully examined lest we are exposed to The Best Of The Worst Cartoons. It's for your ears only!
Warner Brothers mergers with dire consequences for the animation wing of the company have been making the headlines lately. Making the headlines AGAIN you mean, as this saga has repeated itself in one form or another since at least 1997 when Cats Don't Dance was on the receiving end of such shabby treatment. Even the combined efforts of cartoon project Mr Fixer Mark Dindal, the wisdom of dancing sage Gene Kelly and an Old Hollywood aesthetic sure to please the broken down old bastards on the board weren't enough to stop these cats getting tossed out into the street. It's been taken into the warm homes of a dedicated contingent over the years, though will notorious musical holdout Niall be swayed by its charms? As is often the case with these yokes the answer is obvious: LET'S PUT ON A SHOW!
Everything old is new again! Genndy Tartakovsky is back on a hot streak though the sparks of past ambitions smoulder with the recent divulging of an extensive animatic for his cancelled Popeye film. Here & now the second series of Primal is off to a savagely satisfying start; toyetic tangents on The Animist and Starscream OVA; India/Japan co-pro Ramayana: The Legend Of Prince Rama appears to mortalkind for a commemorative new release; and a more disgusting deity descends after 30 years as renowned stop-motion animator Phil Tippett summons a Mad God.
The cultural phenomenon they called the Dinosaur Renaissance found many modes of expression for making ancient giant lizards cool again. The trouble lay in precisely -who- was deciding what made them cool to begin with; Steven Spielberg certainly contributed his fair share to the craze with Jurassic Park and The Land Before Time preceding it, though tapping the screenwriter of Moonstruck to adapt a twenty page picture storybook for a cinema feature was perhaps a touch hubristic. Four directors; an expensive voice cast; the baffling resurgence of Bing Crosby impressions in the early 90s; they were so caught up in thinking whether they COULD they didn't stop to think about whether they SHOULD!
Like a pharaoh of antiquity a great man departs our mortal plane before his time, yet leaves behind a magnificent legacy that will endure for generations. Niall and Dwayne bid farewell to Yu-Gi-Oh creator Kazuki Takahashi, a key player in getting this friendship together and ergo without whom this show might never have happened! A sci-fi survival short is embiggened as the forthcoming Scavengers Reign; a-questing we will go into the unhinged fantasy world of Tigtone; and surprising nobody Dwayne watches new cartoons about old Star Trek rendered in an even older style. A curse upon all who break the seal of the following download link!
There's nothing like a bit of violent release to get the creative juices flowing again, not to to mention the torrent of blood, guts and sorrowful tears brought forth by SOTSM patron saint Genndy Tartakovsky's foray into a wild & fantastic prehistory. Besides ceaseless Conan allusions and running a body count on exploded ape men it gets us thinking about a few other cartoons whose violent reputations belie a heart of gold, the catharsis we sorely yearn for in our actual savage world. So actually it IS big and it IS clever, saying so much while barely needing intelligible language itself.
An ancient beast from podcasts past reawakens to a savage new age, but has this world evolved to match? Cadillacs & Dinosaurs is just as much pulpy fun as when we last looked at it a decade ago; less fun is the real ecological catastrophe that has only intensified since then (STILL without giant lizards) and the ever-tightening chokehold the Jurassic Park franchise seems to have on what can be done with dinosaurs in popular media. How can we learn from these past mistakes and avoid our cruel fate? Would the message of environmentalism be better received in the form of two-fisted pulp adventure? And what is a "quahoon" anyway? This show ain't prehistoric! It's classic~.
Tragedy strikes SOTSM as voice of a generation Gilbert Gottfried departs our mortal plane and thus much time is spent on defining roles and bad impressions. Niall relates his hunt for Bruce Lee impersonators in the world of anime and tracks down his man with some help from Brave Police J Decker, while Dwayne ponders the whereabouts of obscure animators and finds the message of hope that's eluded Star Trek in recent years in the Lower Decks of all places. Listen up!
Overflowing with enthusiasm/lacking in focus as we are wont to be, an outlet is needed to digress on those many compact cartoon curios that may not make their way to a full bore recording. Thus our Sublimations to that effect, including a catch-up with the cunning Kaguya-sama: Love Is War ahead of its third series; the rising fortunes of Youtube satirist Joel Haver; M.O.D.O.K. is A-OK; and a perilous journey over to The Far Side. My my, isn't that cute?
Who would live in a house like this? An international team of talented stop-motion animators of course, bringing their skills to bear in a macabre anthology piece about the home renovation from hell. Laborious, time-consuming and requiring considerable skill & patience, this naturally prompts a discussion about the surprisingly healthy state of stop-motion animation in a modern industry where shortcuts are relentlessly sought out. It's busted; it's dangerous; but it's ours! Come on in, take off your shoes, put your feet up and let your soul reside here forever!
The world's most well-known cartoon comedy family have borne witness to much in their seemingly everlasting tenure on television, and within those annals are writ many a gag that then eerily manifested into our own reality some years later. From murder hornets to presidential elections to scientific wonders, could The Simpsons be a codex that predicts the fortunes of our civilisation? Or do such respected major publications as Time Magazine, Gentleman's Quarterly and that one dude you know off Twitter really gotta drum up some traffic? We'll sort the cromulent truths from the entertaining lies and peer within the Springfield scrying glass to make a few prophecies of our own as The Secret Of The Sailor Madness is preached unto the world anew!
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