Sword & Podcast

Friend of the show (and sometimes editor) Lucas Brown of the Math of You podcast is here to talk about “The Warrior and the Sorceress,” a grimy grindhouse sword and sorcery movie from 1984, in which David Carradine plays a grim swordsman on an apocalyptic planet who does a full Yojimbo on some local warlords with the help of a topless Argentinian model with magical powers. All this and puppets too.

We’re back! And we’ve got Stella Cheeks, of the podcasts X-Treks and Not Your Demographic, here to talk about the 1981 Sword and Sorcery classic, Clash of the Titans! This episodic Greek mythology mash-up stars Ray Harryhausen’s puppets, Maggie Smith as a goddess you’ve never heard of, and Harry Hamlin’s himbo energy.

Writer and gay historian Brett White is here to talk about an almost-forgotten classic of mythology and male bodies on display: Hercules. Directed by Pietro Francisci and starring American bodybuilder Steve Reeves, this movie squeezes in a surprising amount of almost-accurate Greek mythology and even more male thighs.

For our first episode, it only makes sense to talk about the 1982 John Milius classic Conan the Barbarian, a movie starring a bodybuilder, a dancer, and a surfer. David Wynne, the artist behind our gorgeous cover image, is our guest.

Brett White, host of the Must Have Seen TV podcast, returns to INTO IT to discuss Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi. A spoiler-filled discussion of why we both loved the movie, and what some viewers seem to have missed about it.

Katie and Elle discuss the "Stranded" two-parter: Space Captain Larslock, the importance of Stevonnie's facial hair, and some Pink Diamond theories.

Happy Holidays! Crystal Clods cohost Katie Schenkel joins in for an in-depth episode about one of the best Christmas movies of all time, 1954's White Christmas. Danny Kaye's comedic genius, Vera-Ellen's unmatched dancing, everybody Rosemary Clooney's related to, plus Edith Head and Bob Fosse. And yes, we talk about whether or not Bing Crosby's hot.

In part two of two, Katie and Elle discuss "Back to the Kindergarten," "Sadie Killer," and "Kevin Party."

In the first of two editions of Crystal Clods covering the episodes of Steven Universe that just dropped on the Cartoon Network app, Elle and Katie discuss "Dewey Wins," "Gemcation," and "Raise the Barn."

It's Halloween! And that means JoJo Seames and Andrew Ihla are here once again, to talk about James Whale's 1933 classic The Invisible Man, based on the H.G. Wells novel and starring Claude Rains. There is a whole lot of running around naked in this movie, plus amazing special effects, comedic cops, and Una O'Connor.

Jeff Lester of the Wait, What? podcast is on the show to talk about Steven Spielberg's 1975 classic, Jaws. A groundbreaking horror film, the first summer action blockbuster, or a jaunty adventure of three men at sea? It's all that and more.

JoJo Seames is here to talk about Casablanca! We come at it from every angle, from the refugee cast to the queer subtext to the use of light and shadow. Plus, why Conrad Veidt is the best.

Stella Cheeks, co-host of Not Your Demographic, is on the show to talk about all three Blade movies. We talk about whether or not this vampire hunter manages to be as cool as the vampires, but we know he's at least cooler than Donal Logue, Triple H, and those ugly guys with the Alien tongues.

Elle is joined by comics artist Traci Shepard, who's here to talk about her favorite comic book character Man-Thing! We have a whole conversation about Marvel's shambling monstrosity from the '70s. Why the comics are good, why the movie was terrible, and what all these wizards are doing here.

It's time once again for Crystal Clods, a bonus podcast on the Into It Network, in which Elle Collins and Katie Schenkel recap the most recent episodes of Steven Universe, just like they used to do in prose form in the Together Breakfast column at the sadly defunct ComicsAlliance. We're back for our second episode to discuss (and spoil) the hour long, four-part Wanted event.

Welcome to Crystal Clods, a bonus podcast on the Into It Network, in which Elle Collins and Katie Schenkel recap the most recent episodes of Steven Universe, just like they used to do in prose form in the Together Breakfast column at the sadly defunct ComicsAlliance. We've got a long episode to kick things off, since there were five Steven Universe episodes this week. Don't worry, we discuss (and spoil) all of them.

INTO IT returns, bringing along returning guest Matt D. Wilson to talk about film noir, parodies of noir, detective fiction, and all of that stuff with the moody shadows, the femme fatales, and the guns.

Whitney Holmes is back for a Thanksgiving episode that was also therapeutic after recent national events, in which we talk about Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

It's Halloween, and Jojo Seames and Andrew Ihla are back to talk about Dracula, the 1931 Tod Browning film starring Bela Lugosi. There's also some love for Spanish Dracula and Dracula's Daughter along the way.

Amanda Phillips Chapman is back to record an episode we attempted and failed at last October, about that witchy '90s classic, The Craft.