024. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

01/17/20 • 37 min

The Star Wars saga began over 40 years ago with the release of Star Wars (later re-titled A New Hope) in 1977. Now, decades later, Star Wars has spanned nine films in the main storyline, multiple spin offs and countless TV shows, video games, books, and comics. Rise of Skywalker certainly represents a technical and cultural achievement, but is it any good? Join us as we try to parse out the end of the Skywalker saga and decipher what exactly has made Star Wars such an unstoppable juggernaut of pop culture.

Music is by Free Rap Beats.

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Topics for this episode include Rise of Skywalker, The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and Star Wars: Clone Wars.

Music is by Free Rap Beats.

Find us on Twitter at @armyofcrime and @dustin44444 and on the web at armyofcrime.com.

Topics for this episode include Rise of Skywalker, The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and Star Wars: Clone Wars.

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023. Mort Cinder + The Terrorizers

This episode we look at the black and white historical fantasy comic book Mort Cinder and the Taiwanese New Wave film The Terrorizers. These works together show a variety of people's lives subject to the invisible gears of historical and social processes, as well as pirates, jail breaks and even the Battle of Thermopylae.

Music is by Free Rap Beats.

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Topics for this episode include Mort Cinder, The Terrorizers and Frank Miller's Sin City.

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025. Unconquered + Nat Turner

This episode we look at two starkly different takes on historical fiction. Unconquered is a Technicolor epic from 1947 directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard. This film represents an extremely Anglo-centric history of the United States, ostensibly telling the story of Pontiac's War from the perspective of a frontiersman and an indentured servant. Nat Turner is a four issue mini series written and drawn by Professor Kyle Baker about a violent slave uprising led by the titular enslaved man turned violent revolutionary and messiah. Nat Turner is both historically accurate and emotionally searing on a technical and thematic level.

Music is by Free Rap Beats.

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Topics for this episode include Unconquered, Nat Turner, Sign of the Cross and The Nightingale.