With the EARTHCORE paperback finally in stores (boom!), I thought I’d celebrate by reading some reviews from the eBook and audiobook versions. It seems some people did not enjoy some of the more colorful EARTHCORE language and they weren’t shy about letting me know …
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THE LAST JEDI has come under fire for nonsensical plot elements and characters making LOST-esque idiotic decisions, but if we jump in the WayBack Machine™ and take a look at RETURN OF THE JEDI, we find that nonsensical might be endemic to all STAR WARS movies — read also, if there was a “plan” to rescue Han, what the hell was it, and how did it go so wrong?
This episode was inspired by Mike Ryan’s article at Uproxx on the same topic.
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Scott interviews #1 New York Times bestseller Pierce Brown as Pierce kicked off his world tour for IRON GOLD, volume IV in the Red Rising saga. Recorded live at Mysterious Galaxy Books in San Diego, the exact site of Pierce’s very first appearance as an unknown author in 2014. Pierce talks about his new work, his struggles to get published, and the intense pressure that comes with following up a literary juggernaut.
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Story Smack is a podcast about storytelling, but I must admit we talk quite a bit about movies. Today, however, we’re going to talk about a movie maker. In fact, the most Oscar-nominated movie maker on Earth. Actor? Director? Nope — orchestrator and conductor John Williams.
I know you love John Williams’ work. I know I love the Star Wars score, and the Indiana Jones score. Those are both his. But so many others you know and love are also John Williams’ work. You’ll be amazed at how much of the score to your own life is lifted from work he’s done.
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If John Williams’ movie scores move you with all the grand and sweeping sound, trust me when I tell you that you will totally love GALACTIC FOOTBALL LEAGUE the series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Sigler. It’s got everything: humor, tragedy, galactic politics, criminal intrigue and hard-hitting alien American Football action all come together in a series described as STAR WARS meets THE GODFATHER meets THE BLINDSIDE. Start your grand adventure with THE ROOKIE, Book One.
Hard to believe it’s been twenty years since Good Will Hunting was released! Hard to remember a time when Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were small time enough to be caught in development hell trying to get this movie made. Back before they were Oscar winners.
Thankfully they got through all of that, and Good Will Hunting stands the test of time! Join us while we discuss the good, the bad and the legend that is Good Will Hunting.
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Scifi classic, or classic trash? You have your opinion, we have ours, which we share in this lovely recap of an extremely fun and slightly polarizing movie that came out twenty years ago.
So come on, you apes — do you wanna live forever? Dive into this delightful cheese-fest with us. Would you like to know more?
BEST SHOT OF THE MOVIE:
“Damn, Carmen, when you said big bugs might splatter our windshield I had no idea!”
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If you like the football scenes in STARSHIP TROOPERS, you will love GALACTIC FOOTBALL LEAGUE the series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Sigler. Humor, tragedy, galactic politics, criminal intrigue and hard-hitting alien American Football action all come together in a series described as STAR WARS meets THE GODFATHER meets THE BLINDSIDE. Book one, THE ROOKIE, is the perfect book-report project for your high school or junior high athlete.
In this week’s episode Scott and I discuss the storied screenplay for Chinatown. The movie came out in 1974, and the screenplay has been heralded as near-perfect since then. There is a lot to unpack and discuss about the movie, the script, the crew and the era of American filmmaking, so jump right in!
It’s a lovely movie. A throw-back noir, featuring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, is based on an original screenplay written by Robert Towne. Towne won the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for his effort.
LINK TO THE SCREENPLAY PDF:
• Get it here, sucka.
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We’ve heard so many lovely comments about Story Smack. I’m thrilled you’re digging our discussions, and especially excited that some folks are delving into movies they’ve never seen before. If you should find yourself wanting to blog about it, you should check out our “GoDaddy Coupon” CJCSIGLERC, which gets you a brand-new dot-com domain for just 99 cents.
We recorded our coverage of this cult classic live at SiglerFest2k17 in Las Vegas. Junkies (the fans of Scott Sigler’s books) got to ask us questions. Also, there were many White Russians, so don’t count on Scott or ARealGirl to be all that sharp in their responses. Drunken StorySmack is the 300 game of podcasting!
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We’re finally back from Las Vegas and getting to work. Pretty much everything is put away until next year. Focusing back on our websites, and considering a StorySmack site! Like me, you should check out our “GoDaddy Coupon” CJCSIGLERC, which will score you a brand-new dot-com domain for just 99 cents. Maybe for when you start your own podcast, or website, or blog!
Jerry Before Seinfeld is a look back by one of the most successful comedians in the world. We starting watching thinking it would be an hour of comedy, only to find an origin story instead. Scott and A discuss this surprising and charming special.
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With 25 episodes under our belt, we dive into the listener mail bag (awwwww yeah) to look at y’all’s suggestions for future installments. We also talk about the difficulty of reviewing books, TV series, why movies are the low-hanging grapes (awwwww yeah) and why Hollywood keeps remaking the same schlock over and over again.
AMAZING SKIT ABOUT GREMLINS
• Key & Peele’s take on Gremlins 2 If you are a child of the 80s and had your comedy/horror dreams crushed by the sequel to one of the great flick of all time, watch this skit.
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An episode about high school awkwardness, losing virginity, fake IDs, the cops we all wish were real, and drawing dicks.
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SUPERBAD: THE DRAWINGS: A coffee table book of all the penis drawings in the movie.
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A DRAWING OF SCOTT’S HIGH SCHOOL SUPERHERO:
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Straight outta the 80s, ladies & gents. This schloctastic smörgåsbord of a flick sends us in the wayback machine to bad FX, worse hair, even worse plot holes, and pounds and pounds of glorious, tasty cheese.
If you’ve seen this gem, listen in to learn some things that you might not know. Gracias to our sponsor “GoDaddy Coupon” who keeps this show free as a bird. Or a warlock.
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You’ve never seen American Football like this! The NFL combines with STAR WARS and THE GODFATHER to give you a sprawling scifi/crime mashup of universal proportions in the Galactic Football League. Check out this series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Sigler.
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So we’re a few weeks early on this celebration. Sue us. Keep in mind that I’m just a small-town pizza lawyer, but I know how to defend against egregious lawsuits.
This movie stars three-time oscar winner Daniel Day Lewis and Madeleine Stowe, but the show is completely stolen by Wes Studi. Studi’s portrayal of Magwa is one of my favorite roles of all-time — positively bad-ass. And this flick? Yeah, it’s got lots (and lots) of violence.
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This week we have a guest! Author Rob Reid joins us on the release day of his new book After On, to discuss one of his favorite movies — Shallow Grave.
First, a bit about Rob’s new title: The definitive novel of today’s Silicon Valley, After On flash-captures our cultural and technological moment with up-to-the-instant savvy. Matters of privacy and government intrusion, post-Tinder romance, nihilistic terrorism, artificial consciousness, synthetic biology, and much more are tackled with authority and brash playfulness by New York Times bestselling author Rob Reid.
Rob came to the office to discuss this awesome 1994 black comedy starring Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor & Kerry Fox. If you haven’t seen it yourself, watch before you listen to us!
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The first episode of this ground-breaking series aired on July 19, 2007. A decade later, the FDØ and the Director of Døøm sit down to discuss the cultural impact it had on television and on long-form storytelling.
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Hey you mandible-toothed ugly motherfuckers, can you believe it’s been three frickin’ decades since PREDATOR opened up a can of painless on movie audiences? Well, it has, and your erstwhile journalist tag-team champs have jumped straight off the top rope and dropped the elbow on this bad boy. Come groove with us as we rock out with Ah-Nold and his amazing cast.
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