It’s been a year since the last time we sat down for a pod but this one is least recorded within the last month - we’re making progress!
Joe hosts JT, Sam, and Jono to talk all things games, TV (except this episode), and film.
Games
* Joe starts the show discussing Death Stranding, Hideo Kojima's unique open-world action game where you play a courier trying to reconnect a post-apocalyptic United States.
* Sam heads to Steam Deck Corner to check out the wacky physics-based comedy of What the Golf? (a game that makes fun of golf) and the digitally adapted classic board game, Carcassonne (where players build a medieval French landscape one tile at a time).
* JT and Jono give their first impressions after picking up the brand-new Switch 2 console.
Film
* Jono and JT review two major new films: the sleek sci-fi sequel Tron: Ares (about a highly advanced program crossing into the real world) and the gritty biographical sports drama The Smashing Machine (starring Dwayne Johnson as legendary MMA pioneer Mark Kerr).
* Sam took inspiration from Ed Gein to watch the 1960 horror classic Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
* Joe wraps up the reviews with two genre films: Weapons: A new supernatural mystery-horror film about a group of children who all vanish at the same time and Arrival: Denis Villeneuve’s thoughtful sci-fi drama about a linguist (Amy Adams) trying to communicate with aliens who have landed on Earth.
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00:00:00 - Intro
Games
00:04:53 - Death Stranding
00:19:33 - Steam Deck Corner > What the Golf? > Carcassonne
00:25:12 - Battlefield 6
00:29:40 - Switch 2 > Pokemon
Film
00:43:59 - Tron: Ares > Jared Leto
00:48:46 - The Smashing Machine
01:03:00 - Psycho
01:17:37 - Weapons
01:39:40 - Arrival
01:45:41 - Outro
