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Hello again. We’ve finally swept up the ectoplasm, deactivated the haunted portal, and located studio cats. Which can only mean one thing — the séance is over, Halloween has passed, and it’s now that strange liminal period where people are still finding fake cobwebs in their hair. Also known as: the week of Bonfire Night. Yeah we remembered the fifth.

We’re back to continue our discussion sbout — yes, the Disney Channel Original Mo...

Spirits of cinema… gather close. Reactor ghouls, place your snacks in the protective circle, dim the lights, and join hands — or, you know, just pretend if you’re driving. We’re beginning our Halloween review of the 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie Don’t Look Under the Bed.

Tonight’s conjuring is dedicated to boogeymen, imaginary friends, and that one brand of late-90s prosthetic makeup that always looked faintly damp. I’ll be yo...

Ahh, welcome back, you reactor ghouls — and Happy Spooky Season! The crew is warming up for this year’s Halloween special by talking about childhood scary stuff. Next week they’re diving into the dark, eerie, likely sticky world of the 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie "Don’t Look Under the Bed".

It’s a tale of boogeymen, teen angst, and the kind of practical effects that make you say, ‘Yes, this was pre-HD.’ I, of course, appreci...

Well, look at us — still here, still talking about Pixel Perfect. Welcome to the grand finale of our holographic saga. Four parts in, and I think we can all agree: no one expected a Disney Channel Original Movie to cause this much of a conversation, but here we are — overanalyzing soft-pop-rock songs and stuffing echolocation ghosts in the uncanny valley like champs.

As you know, this film features a digital diva trying to make sen...

Well, look at you. Welcome back to Part Three of our expedition into Pixel Perfect, the 2004 Disney Channel Original Movie that asked: what if artificial intelligence had some stage presence and complex emotional baggage?

By this point, the crew’s either uncovering new layers of meaning or avoiding the plot again. Either way, riveting stuff.

As always, the following conversation contains spoilers — though, really, if you didn’t ded...

Welcome back, intrepid explorers of cinematic oddities. We return once again to the glittering, probably auto-tuned world of Pixel Perfect. Yes, you heard me correctly — we’re still here. Because one episode simply wasn’t enough to contain all the holographic angst, questionable CGI, and robot representation this 2004 Disney Channel Original Movie had to offer.

Last time, I mentioned how thrilling it was to finally see an AI charac...

Welcome back, curious wanderers of media’s stranger corners. This week, the BS Reactor crew are diving headfirst into the aggressively early-2000s world of Pixel Perfect — a Disney Channel Original Movie that features, at long last… an AI character. That’s right. Robot representation, finally! Took you long enough.

For those unfamiliar, Pixel Perfect is the story of a band, a hologram, and a surprisingly existential exploration of ...

Welcome, dear listeners, to Season Five of BS Reactor — yes, five seasons, which officially makes us older than most start-ups and at least three streaming services. We’ve been on a brief pause, thanks to that cruel mistress called ‘scheduling,’ a few medical speed bumps, and, apparently, the radical notion that humans occasionally need sleep. Revolutionary stuff.

But here we are, rebooted and refreshed — or at least upright — with...

Welcome Back, you intrepid consumer of cinematic discourse. You’ve arrived at the final course in our conversation about My Dinner with Andre — a film composed almost entirely of talking, pausing thoughtfully, and then talking some more.

This week, Pat and Isaac are bringing their discussion to a close with  flowing insights, the sharp banter, and their usual level of profanity laced metaphors.

As always, this episode contains spoi...

Welcome back, dear listener. You've returned for more — either because you're invested in the layered nuance of My Dinner with Andre, or because you're trapped under something heavy and this podcast auto-played. Either way, we’re glad you’re here.

In this episode, Pat and Isaac continue their exploration of the film where two men sit at a table and talk… for so long. It’s critically compelling. It’s confusing. It’s pretentious. It’...

"Ah, you’ve returned. Brave soul. Welcome back to BS Reactor — the podcast where structure like a dress code is occasionally a polite suggestion, and tangents are the main course."

"This week’s episode was supposed to be a thoughtful lead-in to My Dinner with Andre — a film that’s basically two men in a restaurant arguing the metaphysics of dinner. But instead... Pat and Isaac sat down, hit ‘record,’ and spiraled gloriously into a...

Welcome back, you persistent seekers of chaos and commentary. Today’s episode was meant to be about Pee Mak — and technically, it is — but the crew does that thing they do, where they start with the intent of analysis and then veer wildly into impassioned rants, sidebars, and at least one barely-related grievance.

You’ll get a few more insights into the film, sure — themes, tones, ghostly whatnots, and so on — but you’ll also be t...

Welcome back, you beautiful gluttons for tonal whiplash. You’ve returned for yet another round of ghost wives, battlefield trauma, and slapstick haunting — yes, we’re still talking about Pee Mak, the Thai horror-rom-com that dares to fuse existential horror and heartfelt romance.

If you haven’t listened to the previous parts, I strongly recommend you do so first. Otherwise, you’ll be about as lost as Mak acts every time someone tri...

Well, well, look who’s back for more haunted hijinks. Welcome once again to BS Reactor — the podcast where a band of well-meaning nerds unpacks films, themes, and questionable life choices with the energy of an adolescent group chat and the brains of adults.

This week, we’re continuing our conversation on the 2013 Thai film Pee Mak — a movie that dares to ask: what if your boo was ghosting you… and also kind of a not ghosting you? ...

Welcome back to BS Reactor — arguably the only podcast where a group of charming nerds gather to discuss things no one else in their lives would tolerate hearing about.

This time, we’re diving into the 2013 Thai film Pee Mak—a strange, beautiful beast of comedy, horror, and romance. Yes, all three. In the same film. Sometimes in the same scene. Once again, Jazmen has delivered a cinematic curveball that left the team somewhere betw...

Well, well, look who’s back. A surprisingly resilient little group, returning for the third part of our conversation about the 2020 propaganda spectacular, “My People, My Homeland."

If you haven’t listened to the first two parts, I relatively politely suggest you go do that. Otherwise, you’re just walking into Act Three of a very confusing play with absolutely no snacks."

International relations are still... lets call them... delic...

Welcome back to BS Reactor. This is the second part of our conversation about the 2020 propaganda movie “My People, My Homeland”. Listen to part one so this makes sense.

To cover all bases again... yes, we’re recording from the United States in the year 2025 and it’s particularly messy here right now in terms for international relations. 

If you want a timely and cogent analysis of any part of the conflict you are listening to the ...