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Episode 19: The New Mutants

There’s an old Native American proverb that says: inside every person, there are two bears forever locked in combat for your soul. That doesn’t sound very likely, though, so I wouldn’t worry too much about it.

This week on the podcast, Becca Petunia from the Muppet fansite Tough Pigs joins me to talk about The New Mutants, the 2020 haunted hospital pic about five teenage supermutants who find themselves on the wrong end of a horror movie.

Now, making a horror movie about these X-babies is an extremely peculiar thing to do, because the protagonists can teleport, burst into flames, summon a magic sword and turn into a werewolf, which means they’re automatically the scariest thing in the room. But the film tries to make it happen, with spectacularly weird results. Come join me and Becca as we attempt to comprehend this mutant misfire.

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Episode 17: X2: X-Men United

In a world where mainstream superhero movies are less political than films based on fashion dolls, it’s natural to wonder whether the genre has lost its edge. But back in the early 2000s, Fox’s X-Men series struck a blow for freedom, proudly standing up to defend the rights of the most dangerous people on the planet. Whether you can whip up devastating tornadoes, blow up police cars with an unending stream of fire, or suck the life out of everyone you touch — you deserve a place in society, without criticism or complaint.

That’s what we’re talking about this week on the Superheroes Every Day podcast, with the hilarious Stuart Gipp from the retro video games podcast Retronauts talking with me about Fox’s 2003 political thriller, X2: X-Men United! Join us as we discuss evolution, beehives and the importance of caution when you tattoo your own face.

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Episode 13: X-Men

Every few hundred millennia, apparently, evolution leaps forward, and we enter a new stage of human development. This next stage appears to be the one where thirteen-year-olds suddenly manifest the ability to walk through walls or suck the life force out of their boyfriends, and I suppose that makes them the new rulers of the Earth, somehow.

This week on the podcast, Trevor Bolliger and I take on the original uncanny giant-size mutant masterpiece, X-Men, where we try to make sense of these impossibly dangerous creatures, and their lunatic schemes to turn all of the world’s leaders into sticky Jell-O monsters.

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