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Episode 10: Green Lantern

You think you’ve got work troubles? In the 2011 high-flying trash fire Green Lantern, Hal Jordan — who already has a perfectly good job as a test pilot who crashes planes — is suddenly kidnapped out of his life and forced to join a cult of alien bully space cops. On his first day, his new co-workers don’t explain his job description; they just throw rocks at him, and tell him that he’s worthless. Then the stupid science council refuses to help him save his planet from their greatest enemy, even though that’s specifically the thing that they hired him to do.

Luckily, this week on the podcast, I’m joined by Joe Hennes of ToughPigs.com to help me make sense of this utterly senseless film.

The podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, YouTube, Overcast, Audible, Stitcher and lots of other places. Come check it out!

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Superman 1.37: The Invention of Lois Lane

Okay, listen up, everybody, because we’ve got a lot to do today, and we don’t have time for side chatter.

We’ve reached the Metropolis section of Superman: The Movie, so that means we’ve got a live Lois Lane on our hands, and for the rest of this week, we’re going to drill down into who this captivating and terrifying woman is, how she works, and what we’re going to do about her.

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