Six Degrees of Star Wars
Even before it became the property of a monstrously big corporation that started putting it everywhere, Star Wars was everywhere. Join us on a journey as we take the hyperspace lanes out of a galaxy far, far away and into other movies, finding all the ways George Lucas' flagship franchise surrounds us, binds us, and penetrates us.
Episodes
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: @dreamsrebel on BlueSky, @punk_skeleton on Letterbo...
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-tuxedos on Tumblr, Podcasting's Bigge...
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: @dreamsrebel on BlueSky, @punk_skeleton on ...
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 third-country-press.itch.io, and http...
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 Hope (https://desertbus.org/2025/), curr...
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: @theonlinemuse on Tumblr
Todd: http://theguyint...
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 according to your needs and comfort...
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 movie that depicts various forms of r...
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 depictions of sex, violence, profanity, smok...
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 time periods.
PLUGGABLES:
Gillian: @c...
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 Letterboxd, blog.filmlion.online, and ho...
We start off our "Oops! All TV" episodes with a look at that time George Lucas made a prequel to one of his beloved franchises with a child actor yelling things like "yippee" and a lot of really racist stereotypes that were bad even in the 90s. No, not Phantom Menace, we already did that one! This is Young Indiana Jones.
The subject of this episode contains depictions of racist caricatures of Middle Eastern and A...
Let's take a look at an Oscar winning movie that involves a famous instance of an actor being dubbed when they weren't expecting to be... only let's make it extra ironic because we're doing an entire movie about language and speech. It's the romantic (against the wishes of George Bernard Shaw) comedy classic, MY FAIR LADY!
Pluggables:
MUTUAL AID SPOTLIGHT Poor People's Human Economic Rights Campaign http...
We return to your regularly scheduled program with American Pyscho. Before this bloody satire of the ideal man of the 1980s gets its inevitable remake, let's remember our roots... (puts on a raincoat and grabs an axe) and that it is hip to be square.
American Psycho is rated R for graphic depictions of Language, Sex, and Violence, and this episode will cover such depictions. please proceed according to your needs and comfort. A...
In honor of the 50th episode of 6 Degrees of Star Wars, we cracked open William Shakespeare's Star Wars and bring you selection from all nine installments of the Skywalker Saga.
Our players are Jasmine Garcia (In Each Retelling), Kyle Kallgren (Brows Held High), River Lane (The Straights Aren't Alright), Ellie McConnaughy (The Biggest Night in Podcasting), Jacob Brode (Let's Be Superheroes & Database Ranger's...
It's very timely, but it's also badly aged. It's been adapted for the film and for the stage. And now we're looking at this tentpole of queer cinema, La Cage Aux Folles!
Happy Pride.
Pluggables:
Émile: Stay tuned for the Not Even Podcast and for Malaika at Hear Me Out Productions (https://www.hearmeoutproductions.com/)
River: @dreamsrebel on BlueSky, @punk_skeleton on Letterboxd, blog.filmlion.online, and host of T...
From Academy Award winner Domee Shi comes Turning Red a beautifully personal and messy coming of age story that will bring you to tears. Or at least send some grown neurodivergent queer adults into an impromptu therapy session.
PLUGGABLES
River: @dreamsrebel on BlueSky, @punk_skeleton on Letterboxd, blog.filmlion.online, and host of The Straights Aren't Alright
Jordan: Requesting good vibes for a masters' thesis.
Shami: @theo...
Truth can be stranger than fiction as we dive into the Lucasfilm co-production directed by Paul Schrader (yes, Martin Scorsese's Paul Schrader) covering a uniquely important figure in Japanese history, Yukio Mishima.
CONTENT WARNING FOR DEPICTIONS AND DISCUSSIONS OF SUICIDE.
Jas: @FaeRiviera on the socials, host of In Each Retelling
Grady: @snakebitcat on the socials, recommending that you see this movie
Shami: @theonlinemuse on T...
We celebrate May The Fourth 2025 with the most appropriate prequel possible -- Attack of the Clones! [Cricket noises] Okay, look, you'll get your Revenge of the Sith in December, you have to practice patience, our young Padawans!
Anakin Skywalker's voice for the script section provided by Billy Roddie (source script here: http://sellascript.com/Source/resources/screenplays/attackoftheclones.htm)
Pluggables:
Ella: @drawnwith...
Ah, the animated Disney classic of the new millennium that should not be getting left behind just because a certain studio wants to keep doing what they've been doing for the last ten years. Nobody gets left behind or forgotten.
Matt: @4urconsderation on Letterboxd; Dear Natty fundraiser (https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-dear-natty-a-comedydrama-web-series)
River: @dreamsrebel on BlueSky, @punk_skeleton on Letterboxd, blog.fi...
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