Spotlight #8: Wrestling and Anime with Daryl Surat

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Daryl Surat from the essential Anime World Order podcast joins Grant for a chat about wrestling, anime, the surprising connections between the two fandoms, and your twitter questions.

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#43: Gintama (2017)

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We review Gintama (2017) the live action film based on the popular, long-running, gag manga by Hideaki Sorachi.

• What We’ve Been Watching + News (00:00)
• Review (34:40)
• Twitter Questions (1:38:50)

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#42: King Kong vs Godzilla

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In 1962, before Alien vs Predator, before Freddy vs Jason, before the inevitable Goku vs Superman of future year 2032, Toho studios released the mega-sized, trans pacific, crossover event to crush them all: King Kong vs Godzilla!

• What We’ve Been Watching + News (00:00)
• Review (40:40)
• Twitter Questions (1:28:32)

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#41: Face/Off

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Here it is.  Because you, the people, demanded it, we review Face/Off (1997) — John Woo’s absurdly over-the-top American thriller featuring off-the-charts Cage-factor, hundreds of avian extras, and a dual wielding John Travolta in slow-motion.

• What We’ve Been Watching + News (00:00)
• Review (28:24)
• Twitter Questions (1:22:05)

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Spotlight #7: Gundam Build Fighters with Dawn and PatzPrime

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Dawn from the Anime Nostalgia podcast and PatzPrime from The Cockpit podcast join Grant for a talk about Gundam Build Fighters + nearly an hour and a half of your Gundam related twitter questions!

• Introductions + each host’s history with Gundam (00:00)
• Gundam Build Fighters talk (17:05)
• Twitter questions galore (36:38)

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#40: Harakiri

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The orderly, rigid code of bushido smashes up against human feeling in Masaki Kobayashi’s Harakiri (1962), a stunningly trenchant piece of subversive film-making — written by Rashoman and Seven Samurai scribe Shinobu Hashimoto, and starring the great Tatsuya Nakadai — that threatens to demolish the foundational ethos all of samurai cinema is built upon.

• What We’ve Been Watching + News (00:00)
• Review (31:25)
• Twitter Questions (1:46:05)

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#39: Hard Boiled

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There’s action-packed.  And then there’s Hard Boiled (1992) — John Woo’s final spectacular outing with superstar Chow Yun-Fat in which gun-toting, rough and tumble detective, Tequila (Yun-Fat) partners with undercover officer Alan (Tony Leung) to take on a villainous gang of gun-running triads.

• What We’ve Been Watching + News (00:00)
• Review (33:45)
• Twitter Questions (1:59:52)

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