Kynan Dias returns to defend a movie sitting at twelve percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and he makes a far better case than that number suggests. Seriously. It’s crazy. You might want to watch it again. Mandy brings pink eyeshadow, a jellyfish grievance, and one very good question nobody can answer.
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Sailor Moon was made for five-year-old Japanese girls and somehow became a queer awakening for an entire generation. Jonny Lee Jr. is back to explain why, and Mandy has feelings about Tuxedo Mask that she cannot control.
Mandy finally meets the world where improv, fantasy, and a Goliath with a ginormous hidden heart collide — and it turns out The Legend of Vox Machina was designed exactly for people who need a good fart joke before they’ll commit to an eight-hour campaign. Hem Brewster, lead producer at Blighthouse Studio and D&D lifer, joins from Iceland to explain how a group of voice actors playing in someone’s basement became one of the most successful Kickstarters in history — and why none of that required knowing a single rule.
Plan 9 from Outer Space was declared the worst movie ever made — by people who hadn’t even watched it. Mandy finally does, and walks away utterly charmed.
A 2012 micro-budget alien bluegrass musical starring the lead singer of Twisted Sister somehow became one of the most charming films you’ve never seen. Mandy watched it skeptical, played a drinking game through it, and came out the other side recommending it far and wide.