It's everyone's favorite time of year... the time where we celebrate that birth of... Cheesy Christmas movies! I mean, I'm sure there's probably some other significance to this time of year too, but round these parts, we know that the December Holiday Season is all about the seasonal Christmas movie rom coms. And so, it's time for our annual Christmas movie special. This year, Hannah and Mav are joined by retuning guest Jackie Johnson and Sandy Eckard to talk all about this years — actually somewhat limited — crop of new streaming Christmas movie options. Or at least, there seem like there were fewer on the major services than there have in the past. BUT, what's the quality like? Join us on this week's episode to see what we thought...
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Excalibur #84: “Dark Adapted Eye”
Excalibur #84 “Dark Adapted Eye” Writers: Warren Ellis & Scott Lobdell Pencils: Daerick Gross Inks: Bill Anderson Colours: Joe Rosas Letters: Jon Babcock Editors: Suzanne Gaffney & Bob Harras Original publication date: December 1994 We’re still adapting to this brand-new era in which Excalibur sucks less. But supernatural transformations are better with great company, and we’ve…
e249. The Media Guilt Pile
You know that book everyone tells you is great and you’ve been meaning to read it for literally years and haven’t gotten to it? What about that game that all your friends are playing and you want to as well, but you haven’t had the time to sit down and learn it so it’s just…
Excalibur #83: “Bend Sinister”
Excalibur #83 “Bend Sinister” Writers: Warren Ellis & Scott Lobdell Pencils: Terry Dodson Inks: W.C. Carani Colours: Joe Rosas Letters: Jon Babcock Editors: Suzanne Gaffney & Bob Harras Original publication date: November 1994 We’re (still) back from the winter break and reeling from term prep, but that doesn’t mean we’re not excited (positively possessed!) by…
e248. 2023 Box Office Draft
It’s that time again! if you’ve been listening for a while you know that every year the hosts of Voxpopcast play a fantasy box office game! The BEST fantasy game. Each host will draft 15 movies in a 15 round snake draft and compete to see who can have the highest combination of box office…
Excalibur #82: “Life Signs (Part 3): The Light of a Tainted Dawn”
Excalibur #82 “Life Signs (Part 3): The Light of a Tainted Dawn” Writers: Scott Lobdell & Todd DeZago Pencils: Ken Lashley & Steve Epting Inks: Philip Moy, Harry Candelario, W.C. Carani, John Floyd & John Livesay Colours: Chris Matthys Letters: Dave Sharpe Editors: Suzanne Gaffney & Bob Harras Original publication date: October 1994 We’re back from the holidays and…
e247. 36-ish Things You Missed in 2022
Another year is in the books. 2022 has come and gone. Welcome to 2023. But, there’s one last piece of business to finish from yesteryear. Welcome to the annual VoxPopcast Year in Review show. If you’re new to our year in review, we don’t really do a best of show… we did 52 episodes last…
Call For Comments: So what did we miss in 2022?
From Mav: It’s the end of yet another year in pop culture and we want to close out 2022 in the same way we do every year on VoxPopcast. Every year, rather than closing out with a best of the year episode we record one talking about our favorite things in pop culture that we…
e246. a Very Star Wars Andor Holiday Special
And now for something a little different to close out this Christmas season. A couple of weeks ago on Twitter, we had a request from listener Jim Roberts to discuss Andor, the latest Star Wars series on Disney+. Only at the time, we were kind of packed with some other shows that we had been…
Call For Comments: Pouring some “edgy” on it
January 21, 2023
From Mav: Last year, we did an episode that I called “pour some gritty on it” which was all about the recent trend of doing gritty reboots of classic media IP. The obvious example there was shows on the CW like Riverdale and Nancy Drew. Shows where the idea is that it takes place in…