Pop This! Podcast Episode 279: Thunder Force

Apr 28, 2021

Summary:

 

"Man-crab." This week we talk about Melissa McCarthy's superhero comedy Thunder Force and discover it may not be the movie we want, but it's the movie we need. Also discussed: snakes in the woods, nature documentaries and Thandiwe Newton's season of Line of Duty. 

 

 

Show notes:

 

Thunder Force Stops The Crab Robbery ft. Melissa McCarthy & Jason Bateman | Netflix (YouTube)

Thunder Force: When a Crab Loves a Woman (YouTube)

Jason Bateman’s Crab Deserves His Own Superhero Movie (ScreenRant)

 

Recommendations:

Andrea W.:  "There Is No After" by Molly Osberg (article on Jezebel) 

Andrea G.:  Line of Duty, Season 4 (Netflix); “I’m Taking Back What’s Mine”: The Many Lives Of Thandiwe Newton" (British Vogue) 

Lisa:  Ted Lasso, Season 2 trailer (YouTube)

 

Music credits:

"Good Times" by Podington Bear
From Free Music Archive 
CC BY 3.0

 

Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod

From Incompetch

CC BY 3.0

Intro bed: "OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst

Courtesy of Free Music Archive

CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

 

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Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist.

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