Yesterday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its nominations for this year's Oscars, and the reaction has not been kind. Criticized as one of the least diverse Academy Awards on record, the slate of nominees is notable f

029: Who Runs Bartertown? (Golden Globes Edition)

Jan 12th, 2015 57m

With the Golden Globes now behind us, awards season has officially started. And so it is that Bob and Ross spend a goodly amount of time talking up the event's winners and losers, and trying to determine if anything can be gleaned from it when

028: Happy New Year (Also More On The Sony Hack)

Jan 5th, 2015 51m 20s

Bob and Ross were quite pleased with the lengthy podcast they recorded just before Christmas dealing with the ins and outs of the Sony hack and the resulting hilarity regarding the cancelled release of The Interview. Then, not 24 hours after po

027: Sony Hack 2 - The Sequel

Dec 22nd, 2014 1h 2m

Like a gift from Santa - or maybe you prefer Momus, the god of mockery - we get to end the year with a spectacular controversy full of disagreement and yet that unites everyone behind the idea that something incredibly stupid just happened. I s

026: Bob and Ross' Thanksgiving Holiday Spectacular

Nov 24th, 2014 45m 20s

If you're like us, then come Thanksgiving, there's a strong chance you'll be desperately steering your relatives away from political conversations, failing miserably at that task, and sneaking off as soon as possible to guzzle booze and watch h

025: How Marvel's Agents Of Shield Got Good

Nov 21st, 2014 55m 30s

Bob and Ross had some scheduling and technical difficulties this week, and it prevented them from getting the podcast to you on Monday per usual. So to make up for it, they've put together this bonus pre-Thanksgiving podcast. This week, they ta

024: Just Why Does Interstellar Suck?

Nov 11th, 2014 1h 10m

Interstellar was supposed to be Christopher Nolan's triumphant return to serious filmmaking after the completion of the Dark Knight trilogy. Instead, it's been incredibly divisive and, I'll be honest, the recipient of some rather fun-to-read br

023: This Podcast Lives Life One Quarter Mile At A Time

Nov 4th, 2014 1h 42m

The official trailer for Furious 7, the seventh film in the (hopefully) never-ending Fast and Furious series, finally dropped on Saturday. And to celebrate, Bob and Ross are joined by special guest Fast and Furious fanatic Phil Owen for a lengt

The Podcast Recorded Before Marvel Blew Our Minds

Oct 29th, 2014 57m 40s

It's a funny thing, recording a podcast the day before a massive infodump from Marvel. We talked about Marvel a lot in this Podcast, DC too, but we had no idea what was coming. Even so, it's a super fun conversation that ends on a discussion of

021: This Podcast Is Full Of Spoilers. A TON Of Spoilers.

Oct 21st, 2014 1h 1m

On most days, we talk a lot about rumors, confirmed rumors and just straight up spoilers on the Escapist Movies and TV podcast, but we rarely actually spoil stuff. Today is not most days. Bob and Ross talk Star Wars, Marvel, and DC rumors galor

021: Behold! Left Behind, And The 2nd Coming Of Twin Peaks

Oct 6th, 2014 1h 2m

We discuss the Left Behind series, a lot.Each week, the team behind Escapist Magazine brings you an in-depth discussion of the latest movies and TV shows.

020: No Nonviolence For Old Men

Sep 29th, 2014 1h 17m

The success of The Equalizer - it topped the box office with 35 million+ over the weekend - has us thinking about how, for some reason, right now is the moment that our culture has decided we want lots of movies about retirement-age men kicking

019: The Worst TV Series Endings Of All Time

Sep 22nd, 2014 1h 27m

Recently, a television series we like to call Porno Vampires ended with what has gone down as one of the most legendarily terrible series conclusions of all time. So bad that Ross Lincoln and Heather Barefoot are still sore about it. So this we

018: A Nap Among The Tombstones

Sep 15th, 2014 1h 1m

Movie studios continue to enjoy the post-lunchtime nap otherwise known as the break between blockbuster season and Fall, when we switch gears to award-bait movies. Now is the time when movies of middling-to-terrible quality are quietly snuck in

017: We Come To Bury Summer 2014, Not Praise it

Sep 8th, 2014 57m 20s

As the summer of 2014 winds down, it seems that with a couple of exceptions, it was an underwhelming and financially troubled period for the film industry. Several high profile blockbusters kind of fizzled, films that should have had guaranteed

016: A Dame To Flop For

Aug 25th, 2014 1h 12m

NOTE: This week's podcast is audio only.This week on the Escapist Movies and TV Podcast, we come not to praise Sin City 2, but to bury it. The long past its sell-by date sequel flopped hard over the weekend, bringing a definite end to the fran

015: Ross and Moviebob's Rock And Wrestling

Aug 20th, 2014 1h 5m

WWE Summer Slam happened last weekend, and Moviebob was on the scene for the whole thing. We talk about that at length, plus a brief discussion of pro wrestling terminology and moves, the history of sports entertainment, the weird soap opera aw

014: That One Time TMNT Was A Huge Hit

Aug 11th, 2014 1h 7m

We come not to praise Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but to bury it, except we can't because it was a huge hit and has already been greenlit for a sequel. That, plus the weirdness of the movie business, interspecies romance and the crappiness of

013: Shocker, We Talk About Guardians of the Galaxy A LOT

Aug 4th, 2014 1h 9m

Guardians of the Galaxy just set box office records for an August release, which is awesome, since it's also a very good movie. Yay! So Bob "Moviebob" Chipman, Elizabeth Harper and Ross Lincoln decided to devote a podcast to it. Also, we talk a

The Super Size San Diego Comic-Con Podcast

Jul 30th, 2014 2h 15m

We had a huge week in San Diego, full of weirdness and lines and exhaustion and occasionally, some big (and not so big) news coming out of San Diego Comic-Con. And since we didn't get to record a podcast from the scene, we're making it up to yo

012: Porn Vampires, Boring Vampires, Marvel News

Jul 21st, 2014 47m 10s

With Comic-Con upon us this week, Senior Editor of Comics and Cosplay Ross Lincoln and Senior Editor of Movies and TV Elizabeth Harper enjoy a relaxed podcast focused on the silliness of summer news and summer TV. They talk the recent Marvel Ru

011: Take Yer Stinkin' Paws Off This Planet Of The Apes Podcast

Jul 14th, 2014 1h 24m

This week Ross Lincoln and Bob "MovieBob" Chipman spend more than an hour going supernova obsessive over the Planet of the Apes franchise. Like, the whole thing. We talk the original novel, the film series from the 60s and 70s, Tim Burton's reg

010: In Which We Get Very Patriotic

Jul 8th, 2014 1h 16m

This week Ross Lincoln, Bob "MovieBob" Chipman, and film critic Inkoo Kang talk about whether Earth to Echo is a worth successor to E.T., about Horror films and whether they can be both good and effective, about the increasingly labyrinthine ru

009: Michael Bay- History's Greatest Monster?

Jun 30th, 2014 1h

This podcast is audio only. NOTE: technical issues prevented video, but will be resolved for next week. This week Ross Lincoln, Bob "MovieBob" Chipman and Escapist Senior Editor of Movies and TV Elizabeth Harper talk extensively about Michael B

008: Straight Outta Compton, A Crazy Hackneyed Biopic

Jun 23rd, 2014 48m 28s

This podcast is audio only. NOTE: Next Week The Film and TV Podcast adds video. This week Ross Lincoln, Bob "MovieBob" Chipman, Escapist Senior Editor of Movies and TV Elizabeth Harper, and film critic Inkoo Kang talk about the the casting of t