The Weekly Stuff #125 - Thanksgiving catch-up and Doctor Who S9E10 & S9E11

On this week’s very busy episode, we spend the first hour playing catch-up from Thanksgiving break; I review The Good Dinosaur and Creed, Sean talks Netflix and Marvel’s Jessica Jones, we give our thoughts on the new Captain America: Civil War trailer, and I wax poetic about The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, which, after many years of trying to play, I finally played and beat on my vacation. But the real meat of the episode is our Doctor Who discussion, as we catch up on the latest two episodes: the exquisite “Face the Raven,” and the all-time great “Heaven Sent.” If you have seen these episodes, you know there’s a lot to talk about. And we talk about all of it, including a really intriguing theory from Sean on where we might be going in next week’s finale. As we say on the show, it is a glorious time to be a Doctor Who fan, and we could not be any happier talking about it at length the way we get to here.

The Weekly Stuff #124 - Jonathan's Top 10 Favorite Bizarre Film School Stories

As you’re reading this, I’m in Arizona on vacation for Thanksgiving, so unfortunately, we weren’t able to talk about this week’s Doctor Who, or anything else that has happened in the past week. But fear not! We will talk about all of that next week, and in the meantime, we banked an extra-special episode just for this occasion. As you probably know, I attend the University of Colorado Boulder, and as a film student there – in an excellent, outstanding film program, I should make clear – I have been exposed to some strange films. Some very strange films. Some films the content of which I cannot discuss in polite conversations. Some films I cannot honestly believe I even saw. And I’ve been entertaining Sean with stories of these films and experiences off the air for years now – so for the Thanksgiving holiday, we thought it appropriate to finally tell those stories on air. I have made a list of my Top 10 Favorite Bizarre Film School Stories, and when I saw ‘bizarre,’ I am probably underselling it. This list gets extreme – from stories of watching films depicting births and autopsies, all the way to a movie about sexual cannibalism. Yeah. We go there. So a brief content warning is in order – this episode contains the usual bad language, in addition to a pretty overwhelming amount of discussion of graphic sexual and violent content. Don’t say you weren’t warned. And don’t blame me, either – I’m only the messenger. The horribly traumatized messenger.

The Weekly Stuff #123 - Nintendo News, Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, & Doctor Who S9E9

It’s a busy week on the show, as we have some major video game news and developments to discuss – including a new interface for the Xbox One and a major Nintendo Direct – in addition to two of the biggest releases of the year in Rise of the Tomb Raider and especially Fallout 4. Sean and I have spent a lot of time with these games so far, and neither disappoints. Alas, this week’s Doctor Who, “Sleep No More,” is the first of the season to feel subpar – although even then, there are lots of interesting things to talk about, rounding an episode filled with meaty discussions.

The Weekly Stuff #122 - Reviewing Spectre, Ranking all the James Bond movies, and Doctor Who S9E8

As if yet another tremendous episode of Doctor Who wasn’t enough to celebrate, this week, we get to rejoice over the release of the latest James Bond movie, Spectre! Well, sort of. The movie wasn’t that good. We talk about it. But, because there’s a new 007 movie, I undertook the insane task of ranking every James Bond movie, from worst to last, and we talk about all of them – all the highs, all the lows, and all the crazy space lazers. And then we do indeed get to talk about “The Zygon Inversion,” a potentially all-time great episode of Doctor Who. It’s a good week indeed.