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875. Norman’s Awesome Experience (1988; dir. Paul Donovan) — Torture Cinema #166

https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-875-normans-awesome-experience/SandF_875_NormansAwesomeExperience.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSBalloons, confused Romans, and Omni, oh my! Shaun Duke, Paul Weimer, and Trish Matson join forces to talk about 1988’s Norman’s Awesome Experience. Together, they try to make sense of its plot, rip it apart for its treatment of the Romans, tear apart its ridiculous view of science, and much more! Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy the episode!

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874. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Eastman + Laird) — Reading Rangers

https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-874-tmnt/SandF_874_TMNT.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSMutants, benign aliens, and feet clans, oh my! Shaun Duke, Stephen Geigen-Miller, and Daniel Haeusser join forces to talk about the first compendium of Eastman and Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Together, they talk about the history of TMNT, how to read action comics, TMNT’s themes and its connections of the comics to its adaptations, and much more! Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy the episode!

Movie poster for Electric Meat (2026), directed by Dan Schaffer, featuring a bound body, a woman's face mostly covered in blood, a face with very intense eyes staring at the viewer, and a wall covered with photographs.
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Electric Meat (2026), directed by Dan Schaffer

Just making its world premiere at Tubi FrightFest 2026, Dan Schaffer’s directorial debut Electric M eat will likely polarize viewers with its experimental minimalist form and its psychosexual and artistic themes. Jarring throughout, the film opens with its high contrast black & white image and relatively quick cuts on scenes of abstract expressionism that immediately convey violence, hysteria, and insanity. And after what might be considered a brief prologue, the film continues in the same fashion, without dialogue beyond ethereal whispers barely detectable and a soundtrack of industrial or discordant intrusions. The latter fit not just with the atmosphere of madness in Electric Meat, but also its urban setting amid smokestack-saturated industrial wasteland.

Cover of A House Between Sea and Sky, by Beth Cato, featuring a small house in a natural setting with a few pine trees.
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Book Review: A House Between Sea and Sky, by Beth Cato

After the self-assigned inundation of reading to vote in the Hugo Awards this summer, I took a break and read A House Between Sea and Sky, by Beth Cato. This semi-urban fantasy turned out to be a perfect recovery book for me, a little bit mysterious, creepy, and suspenseful, but ultimately quite cozy and comforting.

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873. Soldier (1998; dir. Paul W.S. Anderson) — Torture Cinema #165

https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-873-soldier/SandF_873_Soldier.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSSpace snakes, genetic imperialism, and baby Wyatt, oh my! Shaun Duke, Dan Hansen, and special guest Elizabeth Parmeter (a.k.a. Sol Adustus) join forces to talk about 1998’s Soldier. Together, they make sense of the film’s history and worldbuilding, talk about snakes and empire, have a few laughs about plot absurdities and other shenanigans, and much more! Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy the episode!

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872. Deb Olin Unferth (a.k.a. The Dust of Stars) — Earth 7

https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-872-deb-olin-unferth/SandF_872_DebOlinUnferth.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSSweeping philosophies, dusty apocalypses, and hope, oh my! Shaun Duke and Daniel Hauesser interview Deb Olin Unferth about Earth 7! Together, they explore Unferth’s approach to writing about possible futures, the novel’s philosophical underpinnings, tension and futurity, and much more! Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy the episode!

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