Strangers and Aliens: Science Fiction & Fantasy from a Christian Perspective
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Disney’s 2020 Corporate Announcements – SA353
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSJust before we started recording about another topic, we became aware of some HUGE announcements Disney had made about upcoming Disney Plus series and also some movies and some interesting Hulu series. So we called an audible and switched our plans . . . to talk about Marvel…
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Watching THE THING (from Another World) Franchise with John Harju – SA352
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSBen is joined by John Hart for their semi-annual Halloween exploration of some classic horror movies! This time: THE THING. Starting with THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD and then going into the remake THE THING from 1982 (the most famous in the franchise) and the prequel THE THING…
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TOP FIVE THEME SONGS (from Science Fiction/Fantasy TV Shows’ Opening Credits with Lyrics that Are in English) OF ALL TIME – SA351
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA good theme song may not save a TV show from being bad, but it definitely makes it more memorable. For this episode, we nominate our favorite themes songs and bring in some listener nominations, and we tally the votes to come up with the official Strangers and…
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TENET – SA350
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSBen and Evan ventured to the theaters to see Tenet, the movie they THOUGHT would be the first movie back in theaters. Instead, Ben had already seen a few movies and Evan went to a movie theater on the east coast . . . so Tenet was not…
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BILL AND TED FACE THE MUSIC: Ben’s Road Trip Trilogy Part Two – SA349
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSBen heads out on what could be an excellent adventure . . . or a bonus journey. This road trip has almost as many twists and turns as the movie he’s seeing, from the question of if he will even GET to the movie to the possibility of…
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NEW MUTANTS: Ben’s Road Trip Trilogy Part Two – SA348
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSBen heads out to the first new release movie he’s seen in theaters since the beginning of the shut down for the pandemic. After seeing The Empire Strikes Back (and The Greatest Showman), he gets to see a new movie that has been waiting for release for a…
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THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: Ben’s Road Trip Trilogy Part One – SA347
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSBen heads out to his first movie in theaters since the beginning of the shut down for the pandemic. It’s a different experience, with the masks requirements and the like, but it’s also a familiar experience, being a movie he’s seen many, many times . . . THE…
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Stuff We Consumed During the Pandemic – SA346
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFor some, the pandemic has given the opportunity to read and watch more things than usual. In this episode, we discuss some of the new (to us) media we have read, watched, and listened to.
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EARTH ABIDES by Escape! (OTR) – SA345
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSStrangers and Aliens returns to old time radio with this presentation of Earth Abides, a classic novel turned into a classic episode of the radio series Escape. This episode features an Old Time Radio show that adapts a classic novel, Earth Abides. And then, Ben and Steve talk…
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OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET (C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy Part 1) – SA344
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSBen and Steve explore Mars via C.S. Lewis’ science fiction novel, the first book in his celebrated “Space Trilogy”, Out of the Silent Planet. Published in 1938, Out of the Silent Planet is the story of a man, Ransom, who is kidnapped and taken to Mars and thrust…
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KING KONG (1933) Road Trip – SA343
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS“From the vault,” so to speak, this episode is actually a couple months old and was the last movie Ben saw before theaters closed down. King Kong (1933) was a movie that changed everything and the results are still being felt today. It’s been seen on TV and…
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THE STARLOST, LOST IN SPACE, and SWORD ART ONLINE (Pilot Season Series) – SA342
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPilot Season – when studios create the first episode of a new show and shop it around in hopes that a network will pick up the series for a full season . . . For us, it’s a fun exercise in checking out a new series and exposing…
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Hobbit Tales from the Green Dragon Inn Live Play – SA341
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSBen, Steve, and Evan play Hobbit Tales from the Green Dragon Inn, a game by Marco Maggi and Francesco Nepitello and published by Cubicle 7 Games. Join Benbo Baggins, Korg, and Mr. Dark . . . Black(?) . . . Dark(?) . . . Somethingwater as they gather…
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Superman v Kaiju (with Nathan Marchand) – SA340
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSBen, Evan, and guest host Nathan Marchand take on some appearances of Superman in comics and animation, wherein HE takes on some giant monsters. From the comics of the 90s to the cartoons of the 40s to the animated series of the 90s, Superman took on some interesting…
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Watching COLOR OUT OF SPACE with John Harju – SA339
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSBen is joined by horror aficionado and frequent guest host, John Harju, to take about the new HP Lovecraft adaptation, COLOR OUT OF SPACE. Is Nicholas Cage bonkers in the GOOD sense? Is the movie good sci-fi horror, or cheesy b-movie stuff? Has someone finally gotten HP Lovecraft…
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CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS Pt. 2 – SA338
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSRecorded a while ago and lost in the shuffle, this episode completes the CW’s Crisis on Infinite Earths mega-crossover. It’s a game changer in many ways, and not just how the plot affects the CW’s series. There’s more cameos and more surprises and more plot twists. But is…
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THE FROZEN FRANCHISE – SA337
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWith Frozen II being released early to Disney+, Evan, Ben, and Steve decided that this was as good a time as any to check out the franchise . . . especially since Evan has been wanting to do a Frozen episode for a long time and Ben was…
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SONIC THE HEDGEHOG Roadtrip – SA336
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSBen, Evan, and Doug (Ben’s youngest) head out on a roadtrip to see SONIC THE HEDGEHOG the movie . . . Is it as bad as so many videogame movies tend to be? Does it rise above? Is Sonic able to outrun the bad press that came with…
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2019 and the ENDING Effect – SA335
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAnd so the day has come to talk of LAST year. From 1979 to 2019, we’ve taken a look at sci-fi and fantasy cinema over the decades and while we didn’t know the focus or the title of this episode until it developed in our conversation, last year…
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THE MANDALORIAN series review – SA334
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe promised follow up to episode 328 – when we talked about just the first episode of The Mandalorian. It’s thumbs up all around, but some are more enthusiastic than others as Ben, Evan, and Steve discuss the merits of this western in space . . . and…
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