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Have you ever wandered into a strange space where everything seems a little off, like the furniture is wonky and strangely oriented, the lighting is disconcerting, there are people you sort of half-recognise and a tall, blurry presence off in the corner who seems to be in command of the weirdly liminal environs, and then everyone starts kissing as ABBA starts playing, and someone hands you a cup of something purple and you say, "I ...

Why do we Pal? So we can learn to throw ourselves back into podcasting! This modern comic book classic shifted the paradigm, lifting this bat who crime fights to the heights of an all-knew manner of acclaim with a brand new grand design, not Banner but a Bruce of a different hue, a Wayne whose world wasn't big enough for both him and you-know-who, a Ghul of a different shape, a cruel kinda cityscape, a brooding Bale with a tooled-u...

Thor: Ragnarök is the story of a man attempting to come to terms with his dormant potential, when he has been doubted for so long by so many, coming as he does from a far away land where people dress and speak funny, abiding by odd customs and always seeming to stand out from the crowd, yet determined as ever to fight for the recognition he believes he is owed. His name is Taika Waititi, and this is the tale of the last time people...

People are always talking about how good urns are in the east (they won't shup up about it!), but have you ever stopped to consider: what's the best west urn? And if you're thinking '70s urns, '80s urns or - God help you - '90s urns, we'd all like to know what Marty McFly's like in person, cos you livin' in the past, sucka, and gotta come back to nowadays and think about the Best West Urns of the 21st Century. What do you think hap...

The fact of the matter is The Faculty Is the narrative we're chatting 'bout as Pals Full of splatters and a characteristic tendency For embattled adolescents in a grapple with a parasitic entity To enact their personas through apparel that apparently embellishes their evident identity While they barricade their perils to their detrimental mental states, attempting to ameliorate their differences to neutralise their enmity And Josh ...

Do you have 2020 vision? Not like these Pals! All they see is 2020 everywhere they look. It's a problem; someone call a doctor! Or, wait, maybe a... director? Oh, now you're cooking with gas. Wait, what's that smell? A new Short and Sweet discussing the Best Directors of the 2020s so far? And also gas?! Jackpot.

Featuring:

Emma Seligman - Shiva Baby + Bottoms Zach Cregger - Barbarian + Weapons Sean Baker - Red Rocket + Anora The Dani...

If you think it's hard to find a way in to understanding legendary entertainment-based families, let us weigh in with our SnS discussion this episode, where we get to weighin' the way in which this particular family left a big impact. No, it's not the Muffets, sitting on their tuffets with their curds and whey in front of their faces, or one of the legendary families of the Three Kingdoms Era in China, when Cao Cao was leading Wei ...

Isn't it what we all crave? A glamorous gal, a stunning seniorita, an unparalleled Persephonic partner of pulchritudinous personage?

Well you'd best get set for this episode all about a Pretty Woman, and the pretty cool men (who aren't afraid to show off their sensitive side) who might just be head-over-heels or hawk-over-tuah for this happy go lucky hullabaloo of a motion picture. Get yourself into gear and rub yourself til it hurt...

Are you a horror icon? Here's a checklist to find out:

- Are you now or have you ever worn a mask made of your victims' skin?

- Do teenagers having intercourse near moonlit lakes make you murderous with rage?

- Has the queer community inexplicably claimed you as an aspirational figure?

- Have you recently begun to suspect that you are essentially immortal?

- Does blood make you climax?

If the answer to all of these is yes, you're e...

As Pals, a feeling has become clear to us. Movies do not hate the audience; the audience does not hate filmmakers. But podcasting feels inevitable between them. Perhaps, we think, this is the way of the world: it will hunt you down and throw you in just for being who you are. And so, this week, join Marcenstein, Tomenstein and Frank as they discuss the revivification of a shambling beast that has laid dormant for many years, with t...

Some say life is just a series of near-disasters, averted invisibly but always coiled in the shadows, awaiting their next opportunity. Some say the fact that 'podcaster' rhymes with 'disaster' is a little on the nose. Some say that using "some say" as the launching pad for any type of writing is pretentious, but those people are the wrong kind of "some sayers" and they can eat a butt. Sum 41 say some say we're never meant to grow u...