Latest Davidcronenberg Podcast Episodes
Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: The Kindly Ones
Xtinction Agenda - May 12, 2023 12:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt's all coming together now. The fates have activated the fates. The tragedy is in place, the gun aimed. A blackpowder dream. "I wish I could remember what you smell like."
Ruben Östlund - Triangle of Sadness
Xtinction Agenda - May 12, 2023 12:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhat do the rich care, alive on their boats and up in the air, in the clouds, breathing the atmosphere of capital? We hold their trays for them and watch them feast, anxious for scraps, praying for a high pressure front to overturn their olympian existence, to turn the world inside out. The o...
The Menu
Xtinction Agenda - April 28, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe poor, struggling artist is trapped in the guilded cage by his own obsession. Blessed with every material he could ever want, staffed by the greatest assistants on spaceship earth, he nonetheless laments his life, fixating on past trauma. And the devil gnashed: how awful it is to be success...
Garth Ennis - The Lion and the Eagle
Xtinction Agenda - April 21, 2023 11:49 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHere is what we shall do. We shall take hundreds of our soldiers, most of them borrowed from a smash and grab that occurred hundreds of years ago. We will paint them as True Warriors. We shall put them behind enemy lines and ask them to help conquer themselves. We shall call this Valour. Then, w...
Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: World's End
Xtinction Agenda - April 14, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDid you feel that? Reality Storm. Always happens this time of year. Thunder. Lightning. Twenty centimetres of allegory expected. Chance of simile. Like a young girl hiding among men in a universe of No Girls Allowed, it's best to stay Inn. Find your stories there. If you have any. "That's your...
Operation: Galactic Storm - Parts 15-19
Xtinction Agenda - April 07, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCaptain America #400 "Murder by Decree!" Written by Mark Gruenwald, pencilled by Rik Levins, inked by Danny Bulanadi, coloured by Christie Scheele, and lettered by Joe Rosen. Avengers West Coast Vol. 2#82 "Shi'ar Hatred!" Written by Roy and Dann Thomas, pencilled by Dave Ross, inked by Tim Dzo...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
Xtinction Agenda - March 31, 2023 09:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWarning: This episode has some terrible audio. We didn't realize it was recording so badly. Now we can't fix it. Sorry. Also, we try not to swear in this one. That doesn't go well either. Fortunately, we do have other attributes... "Okay, they're stupid infants."
Amalgam Comics
Xtinction Agenda - March 25, 2023 19:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAnd there came a day when the chips were down and the deck was stacked and the rain fell and fell. Widows wept and pulled their hair, wailing. We waited for the dust to settle. We waited for a champion to emerge. They never arrived. They never even wrote to say they'd be late. All we got wer...
Kate Beaton - Ducks
Xtinction Agenda - March 17, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt's like a toilet plunger, isn't it? That suck suck sludging noise following you around. Like pulling your feet up from the mud. Or the oil sands. Black crude leaving marks behind you for the rest of your life. All for the slim hope of one day being an artist. Or at least human. Kate Beaton -...
Operation: Galactic Storm - Parts 12-14
Xtinction Agenda - March 09, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating"Assassination" Written by Bob Harras, pencilled by Steve Epting, inked and coloured by Tom Palmer, and lettered by Bill Oakley. "Bad Judgement" Written by Len Kaminski, pencilled by Paul Ryan, inked by Bob Wiacek and Keith Williams, coloured by Mike Rockwitz, and lettered by Michael Heisler. ...
Timecop (1994)
Xtinction Agenda - March 03, 2023 01:11 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt is a truism that one never has enough time to pleasure a woman. Walker knows well this ancient truth. He learned it the hard way, splitting himself between ages like a muscular Belgian splits his legs. A man out of time, forever separated from himself. Halt! Put down the gold bullion! It's...
Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: Brief Lives
Xtinction Agenda - February 23, 2023 21:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTo walk the realm of mortals and feel the dirty air, risking death, bringing destruction in your wake. We all want this. Even the ones who cannot die. Them most especially. They look up to the ones below, secretly desiring their own inevitable loss. And then kill their children to bring it about...
Brad Meltzer - Identity Crisis
Xtinction Agenda - February 16, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThese primary colour flatland print objects are growing up. They have kids now. Responsibilities lacking in youth. Time slips away from them, leaving past triumphs in the past. Tradition spurs them forward. Tradition and the perpetual threat that one day the status quo will no longer suffice to ...
Frank Miller and Steve Gerber
Xtinction Agenda - February 09, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBorn from the murky river of tarnished America, the trundling beast sat at its typewriter. One claw tick tack tick. Ding. Another sentence. Nixon is in the white room waiting with Kissinger. I will never forget this moment, the beast writes, not even in the dreamless sleep of the plaza strip. No...
No Country for Old Men
Xtinction Agenda - February 02, 2023 11:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe horse walks slowly atop the dusty rough, carrying the man wearing a star. The man reads the signs left in the night, sees the swollen bodies and the blood. 9mm rounds, .45 ACPs. Knows that something larger is at play. And that someone needs his help. The man thinks it's all waiting on him....
Operation: Galactic Storm - Parts 9-11
Xtinction Agenda - January 30, 2023 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating"They Also Serve..." Written by Roy and Dann Thomas, pencilled by Dave Ross, inked by Tim Dzon, coloured by Bob Sharen, and lettered by Joe Rosen. "Spatial Deliveries" Written by Marc Gruenwald, pencilled by Rurik Tyler, inked by Fred Fredericks, coloured by Paul Becton, and lettered by Janice...
Operation: Galactic Storm - Parts 9, 10, and 11
Xtinction Agenda - January 30, 2023 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating"They Also Serve..." Written by Roy and Dann Thomas, pencilled by Dave Ross, inked by Tim Dzon, coloured by Bob Sharen, and lettered by Joe Rosen. "Spatial Deliveries" Written by Marc Gruenwald, pencilled by Rurik Tyler, inked by Fred Fredericks, coloured by Paul Becton, and lettered by Janice...
Heavy Metal (1981)
Xtinction Agenda - January 26, 2023 11:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWell, we finally watched it: animated cult classic Heavy Metal (1981). Although none of us are really pleased with ourselves, we like to think that we got something out of it. Something important. Like we put our finger on the pulse of a dying god and felt with our own flesh its final expiration...
The Death of Stalin
Xtinction Agenda - January 19, 2023 11:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhen you go into the circle and it gets tighter and tighter and you realize that something is around your neck and know that if you don't smile in just the right way you are dead. That's life in the Big Leagues. Where the Grand Ones live and dine. Where Stalin lived and died. And where you and I...
Operation: Galactic Storm - Parts 7-8
Xtinction Agenda - January 12, 2023 11:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating"The War and the Warrior" Written by Tom DeFalco, pencilled by Pat Olliffe, inked by Al Milgrom, coloured by Mick Rockwitz, and lettered by Michael Heisler. March 1992 "Twenty Million Light Years From Earth" Written by Mark Gruenwald, pencilled by Rik Levins, inked by Danny Bulanadi, coloure...
Operation: Galactic Storm Part 7 and 8
Xtinction Agenda - January 12, 2023 11:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating"The War and the Warrior" Written by Tom DeFalco, pencilled by Pat Olliffe, inked by Al Milgrom, coloured by Mick Rockwitz, and lettered by Michael Heisler. March 1992 "Twenty Million Light Years From Earth" Written by Mark Gruenwald, pencilled by Rik Levins, inked by Danny Bulanadi, coloure...
Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: Fables and Reflections
Xtinction Agenda - January 05, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGod this collection of stories sucks. Somehow though, because Chris, James, and James are True Professionals, they still manage to talk for nearly two hours. This is the nature of the beast that is The Sandman: Fables and Reflections. Like this podcast, it is a great yawning chasm of words that ...
Violent Night / Fatman
Xtinction Agenda - December 31, 2022 04:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSpoiled western rat children are run amok. A psycho has seized Santa's village. The Federal government has activated the contract. James and James are on the scene. Santa is here to clean house. And clean house he does. Christmas is back everyone. No worries. "Fentanyl. Yeah. That'll get t...
Junji Ito - Tomie
Xtinction Agenda - December 24, 2022 13:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDeck the halls with gore and monsters, fa la la la la, lalala. 'Tis the season to be sorry, fa la la la la, lalala. Don we now our dreadful horror, fa la la la la, lalala. Christ Mass time is Junji Ito time. Your time to connect with the one you love. Tomie. The only one you love. The one who'...
Eli Roth - Green Inferno
Xtinction Agenda - December 16, 2022 04:35 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis December, Chris, James, and James celebrate the Mass of Christ. And what better way to celebrate the flesh and the blood than a cannibal flick? Eli Roth had a beautiful experience deep in the forest of Peru. He shows us how beautiful. We gaze into the crimson mirror of gore. We are the en...
Operation: Galactic Storm - Parts 5 and 6
Xtinction Agenda - December 10, 2022 03:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating"Storm Gathering" Written by Bob Harras, pencilled by Steve Epting, inked and coloured by Tom Palmer, and lettered by Bill Oakley. "Decision in a Vacuum" Written by Len Kaminski, pencilled by Paul Ryan, inked by Bob Wiacek, coloured by Mike Rockwitz, and lettered by Michael Heisler.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Xtinction Agenda - December 04, 2022 14:20 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChris, James, and James sit down to a banquet of authentic Indian cuisine, including snake surprise and chilled monkey brains. The child ruler assures us that the Thugee are no more. We rest comfortably, fattened in our ignorance. All is well until an interloping grave robber sees fit to insult ...
Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: A Game of You
Xtinction Agenda - November 28, 2022 19:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChris, James, and James, like a myriad of eyes winking across the desert floor, squat firmly among the blackness of sleep. We pull back the curtain of self-deception and insecurity to reveal the final drama of a forgotten land. The Cuckoo is our mistress. We obey. We give all to obey. "Um. Are...
Operation: Galactic Storm - Parts 3 and 4
Xtinction Agenda - November 17, 2022 11:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating"The Tomb of Mar-Vell" Written by Marc Gruenwald, pencilled by Greg Capullo, inked by Henry Candelario, coloured by Joe Rosas, and lettered by Janice Chiang. "Shared Space" Written by Gerard Jones, pencilled by Jeff Johnson, inked by Dan Panosian, coloured by Joe Rosas, and lettered by Pat Bro...
Stephen King - Misery
Xtinction Agenda - November 12, 2022 14:47 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChris, James, and James discuss Misery. Not the book though, none of us had ever read that. In fact, of the three of us, only one soldier had ever read a Stephen King novel before. Mind you, that one soldier read, like, a lot of Stephen King novels so we felt sufficiently qualified to tackle the...
Related Davidcronenberg Topics