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The Big Picture

The Top 10 Junk Sci-Fi Movies, ‘Moonfall,’ and Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari’

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.25.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In 2020, Chris Ryan and Sean identified a key subgenre in American movies—garbage crime—and laid out what makes it great. Today on the show, a sequel of sorts. With the release of Roland Emmerich’s interstellar disaster movie ‘Moonfall’ in theaters and Steven Soderbergh’s techno-anxiety thriller ‘Kimi’ now streaming on HBO Max, we are digging into a beloved sister category: junk sci-fi. Host: Sean Fennessey Guest: Chris Ryan Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Benefer is back, Brad and Jen are friends again, and Perishhilton is somehow still making headlines.

0:07.0

20 years later, we're living in the world that the 2000s tabloids created.

0:12.0

On this series, I'm going to tell you the story of a decade of American life through the trash we love to consume.

0:18.0

From Spotify and the Ringer Podcast Network, I'm Claremalone and this is just like us, the tabloids that change America.

0:26.0

Listen on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:32.0

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses.

0:38.0

I love walking with the dog for long periods of time, hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm.

0:43.0

So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit because your wrap tops so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath

0:49.0

and you get to the top and you're like, oh, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to top.

0:56.0

Joy in every sip with red carp now back at Starbucks.

1:02.0

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1:09.0

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1:15.0

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1:21.0

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1:25.0

Slack, where the future works. Get started at slack.com slash DHQ.

1:37.0

I'm Sean Fennesy and this is the big picture a conversation show about junk.

1:42.0

The CR is here and we are making a sequel to a very important episode of this podcast that we made back in November of 2020.

1:49.0

That episode was about garbage crime.

1:52.0

Today we're doing something a little different, a sequel of sorts with the release of Roland Emrex interstellar disaster movie, Moonfall and theaters.

1:59.0

And then if Steven Soderbergh movie, techno anxiety thriller called Kimmy, now streaming on HBO Max, we're digging into a beloved sister category of movie.

2:09.0

Cixi-fi, garbage sci-fi, sci-fi that isn't very good, but we love it.

2:15.0

See are you excited about this episode?

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