Barbenheimer Blockbuster Bonanza

A eulogistic weepfest? A “valediction forbidding mourning”? A conscious unthroupling? All of the above?Believe it or not, the time has come for Steve, Dana, and Julia to convene the Culture Gabfest panel for the very last time. Before saying goodbye, they look back at the very fi ...  Show more

The Gabfest’s end is nigh but we’ve still got a few bits of culture to gab upon. This week, Steve and Dana are joined by longtime Gabfest star pinch hitter Dan Kois. First up for consideration: Pixar’s Toy Story 5. In this fifth installment of the computer animation studio’s flag ...  Show more

Hollywood is still shut down by its historic dual strike, but this weekend the industry saw its most explosive box office numbers of the year. So far, Barbie has made over 200 million domestically and Oppenheimer has surpassed 100 million. So are the movies back in business? Or i ...  Show more

Amy and guest host Jamie Loftus (“Raw Dog,” The Bechdel Cast) detonate this summer’s hot pink double feature phenomenon, Barbenheimer! Starting with Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, they discuss what made them cry, what made them cringe, and what sent them down a rabbit hole about pregnant ...  Show more

It's Barbenheimer week everybody and you know what that means, reviews of both Barbie and Oppenheimer but not in that order. But there's plenty of news to get to before that including updates on the Writers/Actors strike, Aquaman 2 gets a third round of reshoots, He-Man scrap ...

LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE HERE! This week, since everyone else is, we're talking Barbie and Oppenheimer. We talk the role of fantasy in ideology, and the culture war as a distraction from class antagonism. Along the way we chat about Indiana Jones, Paul Verhoeven, and Michael's ...  Show more