
Minute 50 – We Put Clay Pots, Cream Cheese, No Cows On A Bagel!
Scattered, smothered and covered, and make it Christmas! – What’s YOUR villain origin story? – Pigeons are born, not made – The VILLAIN’S Journey? …and more!
Kynan Dias is an actor and award-winning screenwriter, born in Honolulu and raised in Las Vegas. Inspired at an early age by great American playwrights such as Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Edward Albee, Kynan taught himself to write feature-length screenplays as a 14-year-old high school student. He earned a B.A. in film from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he pursued acting, screenwriting, and directing. Later, Kynan earned his MFA in screenwriting from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he developed a love for writing TV sitcoms that were further nurtured during his time studying improv comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade.
As a writer, Kynan’s films tend to live within the thin space between the humorous and the tragic, in sarcastic dramas and in comedies that hurt. As an actor, he is often hired to cry in comedies. With Lester Ryan Clark, Kynan co-hosts a series of film history podcasts on the TruStory.FM network that are meticulously researched yet lean heavily on improvised comedy.
Teaching at UNLV FILM since 2008, Kynan has developed a wide variety of courses in film production, directing, acting, screenwriting, and film studies, being especially proud of building classes such as Women in Comedy and Queer Cinema. His research interests include animation history, studio system economics, queer coding in classic film, and foregrounding previously unsung collaborators within major film authors’ historiographies.
Scattered, smothered and covered, and make it Christmas! – What’s YOUR villain origin story? – Pigeons are born, not made – The VILLAIN’S Journey? …and more!
Our minute begins with a meeting, and it ends with some eating! * In the future, meetings will be shorter * You need that balance, that little bit of half n’ half * These show notes are borked!…and more!
On this episode: Deirdre came in like a WRECKING BALL! * If you die in the Alphaverse, do you die for real? * How did we get to NIPPLE LASERS? * Verse jumping is a helluva drug….and more!
On this episode: Shake your haymaker! * Memory montage! * Red Leather, Yellow Plaid * Michiko is everywhere all at once! * Is that JOY in the mirror?! ….and more!
We’re taking a trip to Japan for this month’s member bonus episode to check out Michelle Yeoh in Memoirs of a Geisha! Even in a supporting role, she steals every scene she’s in.
On this episode: You only dropkick the ones you love * Love and hate are two sides of the same cookie * Cocky, brazen fools! * Return of the unseen choir! * …and more!
Kyle Olson assembles the “fang gang” to explore three cinematic incarnations of Dracula—each swinging for the gothic fences in dramatically different ways. From Coppola’s horny opulence to Butler’s biblical bite and Evans’ brooding bat-clouds, the panel sinks their teeth into what makes a Dracula truly Dracula.
On this episode: What’s that movie….it’s a story about toys…. New Waymond! on Nick at Nite! Can’t even read the winnebago! We do math poorly. Gorilla Deirdre?…and more!
On this episode: It’s the Tarantino Minute! Don’t send foot pics! Which is more expensive – the chicken or the egg? It’s the children who are wrong. “Story of a Gal.” …and more!
On this episode: Our season finale! These characters have FIVE fingers? Favorite character? Smeck! Least favorite character? Bob. We rant about boomers…like boomers….and more!