Episode 64: Needle in a Timestack

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02/26/22 • 71 min

Welcome to Screen Tea Podcast! This week, Lisha and Jules have a treat for you, in the form of the best-titled film in film history: John Ridley's 2021 romance/sci-fi/fantasy Needle in a Timestack! Yep. Needle. In a Timestack. Don't be too quick to judge; as much crap as your hosts give the title, they heap on the praise in equal measure. Listen up as Lisha dies on a few hills (and has an Orlando Bloom-related epiphany), Jules admires some stellar cinematography, and both of your hosts play spot-the-hidden-JJ Abrams (look, let's just say we found the needle, and it's a LENS FLARE). This one was a roller coaster; a star-studded, beautiful, hot mess of a roller coaster, so enjoy the ride!
Sources for this episode include imdb.com, wikipedia.org, rottentomatoes.com, and metacritic.com. Also, the most perfect article ever written about a movie title and fully read during the episode can be found here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/oct/15/needle-in-a-timestack-film-title (Stuart Heritage is brilliant). Also, you can find Jenny Yang's Twitter thread here: https://twitter.com/jennyyangtv/status/1448470198739111939
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Happy listening!
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Our incredible intro music was composed by Detroit musician Sasha Kashperko!

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Episode 63: Martyrs

*WARNING: The film we cover this week contains extremely violent content that is discussed during the episode. Please listen carefully to the trigger warnings at the top of the episode, and skip it if you need to!*
Welcome to Screen Tea Podcast! Join your hosts this week as they cover the 2008 French Extremism film Martyrs (directed by Pascal Laugier). There's no sugar coating this one, folks; it's brutal, it's violent, it's horrific...but also, as Lisha harps on, it's beautifully written and contains multitudes (including incredible effects, as you'll hear Jules, erm, dissect). Listen as your hosts debate over the meaning of the ending, the big picture of the film, and how they'll never look at staples the same way again (insert grimace here).
Sources for this episode include imdb.com, wikipedia.org, and rottentomatoes.com.
Here's a link to that adorable and perfect TikTok Lisha was talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZGP_vKz2No
Find us on Instagram @ScreenTeaPodcast, Facebook at www.facebook.com/screenteapodcast, hit us up on Twitter @screenteapod, shoot us an e-mail at [email protected], and check out our website at www.screenteapodcast.com!
Happy listening!
Please go check out https://www.watershedvoice.com/, an independent nonprofit news organization based in Three Rivers, Michigan. Watershed Voice, on top of being a new and much needed strong journalistic presence, has also decided to feature Screen Tea Podcast on their digital news site! Support them with a subscription, by sharing their page on social media, and with good old fashioned word of mouth.
(Excellent podcast logo commissioned from the talented Mel. Find Mel on Instagram @javadoodler, website www.javadoodleart.com, or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Javadoodle.Art.
Our incredible intro music was composed by Detroit musician Sasha Kashperko!

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Episode 65: Encanto

Welcome to Screen Tea Podcast! This week, Lisha and Jules do what all y'all have been doing: they talk about Bruno ♥ Prepare to either continue listening to the soundtrack on repeat or start listening to the soundtrack on repeat after your hosts cover Disney's 2021 mega-hit, Encanto! To nobody's shock, this episode is chock-full of Lisha hopped up on caffeine, psychoanalyzing all of the Madrigals and heart-eyeing over Lin-Manuel Miranda, while Jules hates on slow songs, examines diversity and manages to include a mini review of The Adam Project? Somehow? Oh, and both of your hosts REALLY HATE ON ABUELA, butcher the Spanish language (we really suck and we're really sorry), and discuss who has the best/worst powers in the Madrigal casita! This was a really fun one and a really great movie folks, so we hope you come sing along with us this week ♫♪♫
Sources for this episode include imdb.com, wikipedia.org, rottentomatoes.com, and metacritic.com. Also, Lisha lied and hasn't Tweeted Bryan Fuller yet; BUT SHE WILL ONE DAY. SOON.
Find us on Instagram @ScreenTeaPodcast, Facebook at www.facebook.com/screenteapodcast, hit us up on Twitter @screenteapod, shoot us an e-mail at [email protected], and check out our website at www.screenteapodcast.com!
Happy listening!
Please go check out https://www.watershedvoice.com/, an independent nonprofit news organization based in Three Rivers, Michigan. Watershed Voice, on top of being a new and much needed strong journalistic presence, has also decided to feature Screen Tea Podcast on their digital news site! Support them with a subscription, by sharing their page on social media, and with good old fashioned word of mouth.
(Excellent podcast logo commissioned from the talented Mel. Find Mel on Instagram @javadoodler, website www.javadoodleart.com, or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Javadoodle.Art.
Our incredible intro music was composed by Detroit musician Sasha Kashperko!