It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts in a recent release.

I'm Scott Tobias here with...

Genevieve Keevsky.

Tasha Robinson is off somewhere letting cool, crisp lettuce wilt next to hot foodstuffs, but she'll be back again for our next recording.

Here on the next picture show, we believe that no film exists in a vacuum and that all

culture is more interesting in context.

So every other week, we get together to talk over a classic film and consider how it relates

to a current movie.

This week, we're picking out on two whimsical fantasy films about what Homer Simpson

called, quote, the wonderful magical animal responsible

for bacon, ham, and pork chops.

Genevieve, should I fire up the grill?

Eh, not so fast, Scott.

You're going to have to break out the tofu dogs this week because the pigs will be talking

about are special.

They're terrific, radiant, and humble.

They are Babe, the sheepdog pig, and Okhya, the super pig. With Bong Joon

Ho's dark yet sweet satirical fantasy Okja premiering on Netflix to much attention and acclaim,

we wanted to look back on the 1995 family hit Babe, another affects Marvel about a pig

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