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Now Playing - The Movie Review Podcast

Intermission #4: Maclunky, Walkie-Talkies, and the Death of Movies

Now Playing - The Movie Review Podcast

Venganza Media, Inc.

Tv & Film, Film History, Tv & Film:film Reviews, Film Reviews, Film Interviews

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The fourth Intermission finds the hosts debating film preservation, 4K restorations, AI upscaling, George Lucas's Star Wars revisions, Spielberg's E.T. walkie-talkies, and whether modern transfers are preserving movies or changing them. Plus, Jason completes a year-and-a-half watch-through of the entire Kristy Swanson filmography, Arnie revisits 1995's Mortal Kombat, listener Tom Ross hosts a trivia challenge, and the conversation wanders through Darth Maul, The Boys, Project Hail Mary, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We go watch a movie,

0:05.8

Lights camera explosion

0:07.3

Get ready for the real.

0:09.0

Now I'm playing podcast in motion.

0:11.0

Yeah.

0:14.1

Hello and welcome to Now Playing's fourth intermission.

0:19.2

Thank you for downloading us.

0:24.0

I'm Arnie and Stuart. Marjorie. And I'm Jason. And this is Justin. So guys, what have you been up to? Justin, what about you? What are you been

0:29.6

listening to, reading, watching, doing hockey again? It's still hockey. Other than that, you know,

0:37.1

I mentioned before, I've been watching the Darth Mall show that wrapped up.

0:41.0

What's the premise?

0:42.6

Darth Mall, what era of his life?

0:45.1

What's he doing?

0:46.0

Darth Mall pretty much directly after Revenge of the Sith.

0:50.5

So he's already gone through the spider legs.

0:53.8

Messing around with Crimson Dawn a little bit.

0:56.3

So this is almost like a prequel to the solo movie where we see Dark Mall at the very end

1:01.7

and a hologram. But this is more of like a crime drama. We're dealing with the local police force

1:07.6

and Darth Mall is on this planet. Are you rooting for Darth Mall? Is he like the hero? Kind of. Okay. He's a bad guy still, but like, yeah, that's what makes us interesting, is he's kind of an anti-hero type of thing. They wrap up the first season. They did pretty good. I'm looking forward to the second season. And as we record right now, we are in the final week of the final episode of the boys.

1:28.5

So by the time most people are hearing this, they may think, oh, wow, they really shit the bed.

1:32.8

And Justin is an idiot for looking forward to this.

1:35.0

But right now, I'm pretty hyped.

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