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The loop for me is: watch something, log it here, then go looking for a podcast episode that's actually about it. And every podcast app is useless for this. Search "Sinners" and you get 40 shows that said the word once, ranked by nothing.

So I made impdb.dev. You search a movie, it gives you the episodes where that film is the whole episode or a real segment, not a passing mention. Mentions get thrown out on purpose.

It pulls your Letterboxd diary too (optional), so your recently-watched films show up already matched to episodes.

Fair warning, it's incomplete. It only knows about podcasts that bother to describe their own episodes, and it's biased toward those. If your favorite deep dive is missing it's a backlog, not a snub.

Curious what it does with your weird ones. It found 5 different podcasts that did full episodes on A Trip to the Moon from 1902, which I did not expect.

It is still processing podcasts in the background, so the list is definitely still incomplete.

As a Brit I was super into SCHOOL OF COMEDY, and SON OF RAMBOW would eventually lead to me getting a film degree. Will Poulter is a guy I have been behind for years but how big I expected him to be has never fully emerged. GG 3 is the biggest thing he’s been in and he’s the punchy side character in the third film of a franchise. The rest of his career is mostly side characters in big films and TV or small indies he leads it feels no one has seen. He is very much a favourite of a lot of big stars so I can see him getting a big leading role soon that just has not yet materialised so I’m keeping my eyes peeled

I also put my chips on Aaron Taylor Johnson but his transformation into character actor I feel suits him so no longer counts. Especially as his character is scary men and intense dads and now he’s leading WWERWULF as that makes sense.

How are your guys investments doing

I know most of us have mixed feelings about Greta Gerwig's upcoming The Magician's Nephew. And, famously, friend of the show Chris Weitz wrestled with his adaptation of The Golden Compass (Still, having this review from Ebert must feel good, even if it's one of his most astonishingly hyperbolic). That of course was re-done, and people seem to like the HBO version.

I may be one of very few people who grew up reading Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain (it never made much of a mark in the US, but this Welsh mythology-infused series is so much fun. Oddly enough, Disney adapted the second book only with their famed flop The Black Cauldron). While I'm sure there will never be another crack at it, it's a shame.

As a teacher, a recentish series I love so much, because my students love it as a take-home book and I don't get bored talking about it Jodi Lynn Anderson's May Bird series is my pick. It's a wonderful series, younger-skewing, but not miles away from Coraline meets Alice in Wonderland, about a girl, classic hero's journey, magic powers, evil lurking, fun sidekicks.

How about for you, Blankies?

What movies should include “of Mars”
in their title?

I lowkey think he would have killed it as Lobo

As a Colombian who lives in Canada I have little reason to celebrate about the Fourth of July, but there's an independent theatre that usually shows Jaws every year so every year I go.

My family and I had a fun conversation after. Imagine you're given the keys to Hollywood. You can bring mid-budget movies back. You can stop slop. You can enforce theatrical windows and make physical media big again. You can give as many blank checks to Ryan Coogler and Greta Gerwig and whomever you want.

But there is one price. You must remake Jaws. And you have to do your best to make it good.

Who do you hire to direct the remake? Who do you cast in the main three roles?

Bonus: Who scores it?

Two of my son’s favorites are Lightyear ( his first sci-fi action movie) and Cars 2.

I still won’t say they’re good but also not atrocious like some say.

hello I have seen and enjoyed Clerks and Dogma but I largely know past and future guest Kevin Smith as a nerd culture pundit. what other flicks of his should I check out? for context, I am a stoner comic book enthusiast.