Best of the Year: 2021 – Century of the Year

Best of the Year: 2021 2021 Century of the Year Are you prepared for the madness of Century of the Year? People ask us all the time: What is Century of the Year? And that is a really good question. Century of the Year is where we take the 100 biggest pop-culture stories of the…

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Working Through the (Back) Issues: Modern Shang-Chi

Working Through the (Back) Issues: Modern Shang-Chi     It’s 2021 and after two long years, the MCU is back!  Once the initial excitement wore off, it became real clear that the post-Endgame world of Phase 4 is setting up to be a different place.  After a decade plus of primarily focusing on Iron Man,…

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The Superhero Show Show #363: Snowpiercer Weathers the Storm

The Superhero Show Show #363 Snowpiercer Weathers the Storm The Snowpiercer weather balloon is launched on an all-new Superhero Show Show! On an all-new The Superhero Show Show, Cassie and the Boyz are discussing this week’s episode of Snowpiercer! We finally get a chance to check in with the show now that there’s a second train! Who is this Wilford guy,…

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The Superhero Show Show #353: Disney Investor Announcement Was More Marvel 616?

The Superhero Show Show #353 Disney Investor Announcement Was More Marvel 616? The Taste Buds review the third and fourth episodes of Marvel 616! On a very special episode of The Superhero Show Show, Cassie leads her seventh and twenty-fourth best friends through an excavation about what Marvel thinks about Marvel. They’ve covered Japanese Spider-Men, and women,…

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The Superhero Show Show #350: Super Sloppy Walking Dead Double Dare

The Superhero Show Show #350 Super Sloppy Walking Dead Double Dare The Taste Buds review this week’s episode of The Walking Dead: The World Beyond! On a very special episode of The Superhero Show Show, Cassie looks around for her co-hosts, but can only find Ryan! That simply won’t stand, as Ryan is a handful, and is always…

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Movie of the Year: 2019 – State of the Franchise

Movie of the Year: 2019 State of the Franchise The Tastebuds set off on an epic quest to judge the health and money-makedness of many of the franchises of 2019. I am not going to stand here and tell you that we talk about every single one because seriously every movie is part of a…

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Movie of the Year: 1988 – My Neighbor Totoro

Movie of the Year 1988: My Neighbor Totoro The Taste Buds are discussin’ yet another hard-hitting, pull-no-punches drama with 1988’s Oscar-worthy My Neighbor Totoro, the movie that taught us that horrible forest monsters can be cute if they are furry and go into fugue states in between baring their oddly human teeth and bellowing in…

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Movie of the Year 2018–Black Panther

Movie of the Year 2018: Black Panther The Taste Buds review the 2018 movie Black Panther! Join your host Greg as he welcomes this week’s contestants Mike, Ryan, and Lyandre! Join the foursome as they try to sink their teeth into every aspect of this amazing comic book movie directed by Ryan Coogler! Is Killmonger right? Is…

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Movie of the Year: 2004- The Incredibles

Movie of the Year 2004: The Incredibles The Taste Buds discuss the 2004 film The Incredibles! Special guest star Books from the Unnatural 20s joins Ryan and host Mike (what??) to review and revere the 2004 Pixar masterpiece, which they all thought was good or whatever, no big deal. Maybe more than good. OK, maybe they went…

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Popfilter’s Foriegn Flick of the Week

In  which Stephanie Reviews a Film from Notmerica Japan’s My Neighbor Totoro or “The Anti Disney-Princess Fantasy Movie somehow still brought to you by Disney”   Okay, that retitle is a little misleading. My Neighbor Totoro is a film by legendary animator and director Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away) and released in 1988. It…

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