The politics of living

How do you deal with being too busy - Steph and Candice reflect on the last month’s busy-ness and how they coped.

Books

The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower by Stephen King

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Movies

Inside Out as a touchstone for mental wellness

Land of the Dead - Movie clip showing class divide in the movie (curse words included)

Renfield - Deleted dance scene as teased in the closing credits 

Cocaine Bear - Trailer  (curse words included)

TV Shows

Picard Season 3 - Candice hates it - sorry fans, Star Trek and Star Wars stories can be about more than the original main characters!

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

01:00 On finding time for ourselves

09:00 The Star Trek conversation and fan service

17:00 Politics in shows, movies, books and life

23:00 Land of the Dead and how movies and books bring up current issues

28:00 Renfield

40:00 Cocaine Bear

45:00 Lessons in Chemistry and how marketing books and movies goes wrong

 

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This month's episode of The Village Podcast

Can We Ever Really Know Anything?

Steph and Candice start with a regional conversation about moving around neighbourhoods, but end up bringing it to the esoteric about self and relationships.

They also talk memoirs and horror, more Stephen King, AI, and somehow even Hallmark movies.

Books

The Go Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds by Osman Yousefzada  

Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books and Questions that Grew Me Up by Remica Bingham-Risher  

It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror edited by Joe Vallese 

Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson 

From A Buick 8 by Stephen King 

Autonomy by Victoria Hetherington 

Movies

Manchester By The Sea Trailer

Made for Each Other Trailer - Hallmark Channel 

M3gan - scene of child creating emotional bond with an AI doll - CW terrifying AI, Parent Death

Timestamps

3:00 Catch up with Steph’s move

8:35 Designing cities, urban planning and 15-minute cities

16:00 Steph’s reading memoirs

20:00 Candice is reading about horror

28:00 Stephen King update (From a Buick 8)

36:00 Telling human stories through horror vs drama

38:00 AI an our relationship with it (this is not a ChatGPT conversation)

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This month's episode of The Village Podcast

Women Deserve Oscars too

Steph and Candice did not watch a movie together this month, but still had lots to catch up on, including the upcoming Oscar Awards, the new Grady Hendrix novel, and the many stories by and about women that they are reading or planning to read this month to celebrate Women's History Month.

Books

How To Sell a Haunted House  & The Final Girl Support Group  & other books  by Grady Hendrix

From A Buick 8  by Stephen King

Annie and the Wolves by Andromeda Romano-Lax

Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up   by Remica Bingham-Risher

The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor by Anais Granofsky

Waking Beauty by Rebecca Solnit

The Sleeping Beauty Series  by Anne Rice

Movies

Elvis

Women Talking

The Fablemans

Top Gun Maverick

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Fast and the Furious series

Hudson Hawk 

1408

Links

Read the full Oscars nominee list

What is a Paladin? 

Grady Hendrix Podcast Super Scary Haunted Homeschool 

Timestamps

01:30 Oscars talk

18:00 Oops, Candice disses Paladins

19:00 Recap of Podcamp Toronto (What is it, why do people go to it?)

25:00 Doing the things that bring you joy

28:18 On Hudson Hawk and 1408

34:00 Candice’s reading update and Grady Hendrix chat

44:30 Steph’s reading update

50:00 A short Degrassi side bar

52:00 On reading poetry and fairy tales by women and non-white authors

57:25 We somehow return to Grady Hendrix

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This month's episode of The Village Podcast

Movie Review - Cocaine Bear

This week on End Credits, we’re just saying “yes” to drugs. Well, we’re saying “yes” to movies about animals doing drugs and then attacking people. If you’re unsure based on this complete lack of subtlety, we’re reviewing Cocaine Bear, which may end up one day being a cult classic, but in case it doesn’t, we’ll suggest a few other movies that are already classics.

Read more and listen to the episode at End Credits Radio.

Movie Review: Knock At The Cabin

This week on End Credits, we’re back at the end of the world. Again. Our tour guide is M. Night Shyamalan, a man with many hits and many misses and not much in between. So is Knock at the Cabin one of the hits or is one of the misses? We will make that determination, and we will also talk about other entries from the Shyamalan canon that definitely qualify as hits.

Read more and listen to the episode at End Credits Radio.

It's not all movies... but it's a lot of movies!

Steph recommits herself to skiing, and Candice recommits herself to reading Stephen King novels. And they both get their 3 Laws of Robotics wrong, sorry Isaac Asimov!

Books

The Dark Tower VI - Song of Susannah by Stephen King

Scattered Showers by Rainbow Rowell

After The Flood by Kassandra Montag

All City by Alex DiFrancesco

Movies

Corsage 

M3gan 

California Split - Behind the Scenes short film

Licorice Pizza, The Big Lebowski, Slacker, Go, Kids, Clerks, Clerks III, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Nope 

Links

Some Stephen King podcasts - Kingcast, The Losers Club, Castle Rockettes (a Guelph based podcast!)

Timestamps

00:00 Intro and Stephs skiing adventures

05:00 Candice's Stephen King update

14:00 A quick Star Trek: Discovery side bar conversation

16:15 Thoughts on the film Corsage

21:27 Candice and Steph's M3gan love

28:30 Steph's reading update

32:40 The difference between complex characters in books versus movies or tv.

35:50 The Robert Altman film project

 39:18 Movies about nothing

43:30 Will Steph enjoy the Jordan Peele film Nope?

 

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This month's episode of The Village Podcast

Movie Review: The Menu

This week on End Credits, it’s time to eat! Although our show plays at mid-afternoon every Wednesday, perhaps you might enjoy a small snack while you listen because, this week, we’re going to make you hungry. Along with our review, which is about The Menu now streaming on Disney+, we will talk about some food-based movies to tease the palette.

Read more and listen to the episode at End Credits Radio.