Echorift | Pop Culture Interceptor (yes, A Fast Car From A Dark Future)

Is Minority Report Sci-Fi or Sci-Feck?  Debating Internet Celebrity @slim of Paperkeg, ComiXologist, and #theflap Podcasts Be sure to stop by PipedreamComics.co.uk and read the fantastic interview about Hurry: Adventures of the Rabbitoid Knight today! Subscribe:  iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS The Echo Rift podcast is your resource for comics, movies, TV, and book reviews. This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:24 - Thought Experiments, Arm Waving, Google Glass, Projection TV 07:14 - Visually Stunning Film, War of the Worlds 10:14 - Comparisons to Blade Runner, a more consistent world 13:04 - Third and Fourth biggest Tom Cruise Fans, a Generally Unpleasant Film 15:24 - Crushing Tragedy, Predestination and what would we really do? 20:02 - Does Minority Report have a trick ending? 23:59 - Colin Farrell's Character, Indiana Jones fight scene

McDonald's Mighty Wings vs Burger King Buffalo Chicken + More Insidious Talk! Subscribe:  iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS The Echo Rift Backstage podcast is a weekly episode that contains stuff that just didn't fit in any of the other episodes! This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:14 - Throwdown!  McDonald's Mighty Wings vs. Burger King Buffalo Chicken Tenders 18:52 - More Insidious Talk - Silence, Independent Films Contact Us! Tweet questions and comments to @EchoRift Use EchoRift.com's Contact Submission Form Leave us a voicemail at 856.208.RIFT Send us an email letters@echorift.com Talk to us on Tumblr If you enjoy the Echo Rift podcast, you will also enjoy these other Echo Rift Productions: Kids on Comics Podcast: A fifth grader and his dad talk about comics (every Monday) Music for the Echo Rift podcast is provided by Home at L

Morrison and Quitely's take on Homeward Bound by way of Xbox (with extra entrails) Subscribe:  iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS The Echo Rift podcast is your resource for comics, movies, TV, and book reviews. This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:24 - A quickish story that isn't as simple as it seems - genetically modified animal killers 05:44 - Cool science fiction, Morrison's interpretation of animals 07:58 - Frank Quitely - master of sequential storytelling 12:49 - Dogs with surface to air missiles; severe loss of life 18:01 - Felt good at the end of the story?  Making this into a movie? 21:45 - The way other media handles animals vs. Morrison's approach 24:40 - There either should have been more, or less humans in the story - questions raised that never pay off References We3 is published by Vertigo Comics and is also available from

Two parts to one whole, James Wan and Leigh Whannell's Insidious and Insidious Chapter 2 Subscribe:  iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS The Echo Rift podcast is your resource for comics, movies, TV, and book reviews. This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:24 - Insidious and Insidious Chapter 2 are one big story 04:36 - A supernatural scary adventure that gets under your skin, is it a really horror movie? 09:32 - Insidious (1) - It's not the house that's haunted, Ellie the Paranormal Investigator 16:14 - Afraid for these characters, no victims, serious backstory 19:02 - Insidious (2) - Begins immediately after Insidious, introducing Neil and the contiuing threat 24:18 - Movies about characters in an exciting adventure that is very scary - a quantum leap in expectations 27:15 - The Cast: Patrick Wilson, Rose Bynre, Barbara Hershey References

Echo Rift Comics are now on ComiXology! Plus The Misfits, Paranormal TV, and Doctor Who letters. Subscribe:  iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS The Echo Rift Backstage podcast is a weekly episode that contains stuff that just didn't fit in any of the other episodes! This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:14 - You can now buy Echo Rift comics - Hurry: Adventures of the Rabbitoid Knight #1 10:10 - Mike In Search Of good UFO stories 23:08 - The Misfits are just great 34:28 - Kids on Comics at double speed 35:34 - Letters: Doctor Who in other media Contact Us! Tweet questions and comments to @EchoRift Use EchoRift.com's Contact Submission Form Leave us a voicemail at 856.208.RIFT Send us an email letters@echorift.com Talk to us on Tumblr If you enjoy the Echo Rift podcast, you will also enjoy these other Echo Rift Productions: Kids on Comics P

The things that divide us are stronger than the things that unite us in Hickman and Dragotta's East of West Subscribe:  iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS The Echo Rift podcast is your resource for comics, movies, TV, and book reviews. This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:53 - Weird, out there, and wholly original 04:30 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Science Fiction 10:15 - Death's mysterious mission, Fighting Death 15:03 - Selecting the new President of the Union, the Chosen 18:05 - Death is a man in love, Major players 22:48 - The past, fully grown versions of the Horsemen 24:54 - Bel Solomon, keeping promises References East of West Vol 1 The Promise is published by Image Comics and is available on ComiXology Written by: Jonathan Hickman Illustrated by: Nick Dragotta Contact Us! Tweet questions and comments to @EchoRift Us

The pivotal Star Trek film, the one with whales! Subscribe:  iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS The Echo Rift podcast is your resource for comics, movies, TV, and book reviews. This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:53 - The pivotal Star Trek movie, a period piece 05:17 - Recap 09:44 - Leonard Nimoy's direction, understanding comedy 14:20 - Scotty and McCoy, Russkies in San Francisco 18:43 - Caper, no villain, race against time 20:13 - Story structure, time travel, the Enterprise 23:34 - Things change after this 27:34 - Echo Rift Comics: Hurry the Rabbitoid Knight available now! References Star Trek IV The Voyage Home is directed by Leonard Nimoy Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForrest Kelly Contact Us! Tweet questions and comments to @EchoRift Use EchoRift.com's Contact Submission Form Leave us a voicemail at 856.208.RIFT

Baltimore Comic Con recap plus a story about a naked man wandering the streets Subscribe:  iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS The Echo Rift Backstage podcast is a weekly episode that contains stuff that just didn't fit in any of the other episodes! This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:10 - The Naked Man on the way to Riddick 09:14 - Baltimore Comic Con Experiences Mike Kunkel of Herobear and the Kid The art of tabling at conventions The Baltimore Convention Center David Petersen of Mouse Guard Charlie Dowd of Lilith Dark Art Baltazar and Franco of Aw Yeah Comics Autographs Contact Us! Tweet questions and comments to @EchoRift Use EchoRift.com's Contact Submission Form Leave us a voicemail at 856.208.RIFT Send us an email letters@echorift.com Talk to us on Tumblr If you enjoy the Echo Rift podcast, you will also enjoy these other Echo Ri

Can Batman and Joker's relationship end without murder? Subscribe:  iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS The Echo Rift podcast is your resource for comics, movies, TV, and book reviews. This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:24 - Listener inspired programming, intro to The Killing Joke.  A very 1988 book. 05:28 - Brian Bolland's art, Batman's realization 08:13 - The Joker's Origin, his horrible plan 15:27 - The Joke, MDOC's Letter - Grant Morrison's interpretation of the end 21:10 - The Story behind Killing Joke - Alan Moore and Brian Bolland 25:25 - Interesting sounding supporting stories - Booster Gold and Wonder Woman References Batman: The Killing Joke is published by DC Comics Written by: Alan Moore Art by: Brian Bolland Contact Us! Tweet questions and comments to @EchoRift Use EchoRift.com's Contact Submission Form Leave us a voice

Everything old is new again as Riddick hits the screens for a third time! Subscribe:  iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS The Echo Rift podcast is your resource for comics, movies, TV, and book reviews. This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:24 - Riddick and Vin Diesel, reflecting on Pitch Black 05:28 - Film within a film, Riddick recouperates and survives 10:05 - The rain is coming, so many mercenaries 15:49 - Riddick leaves the movie 20:01 - Anti-hero stories, Monsters and Tension 25:20 - Proposal for remaking the movie, believable mercenaries  References Riddick is directed by David Twohy Starring: Vin Diesel, Jordi Mollà, Katee Sackhoff Contact Us! Tweet questions and comments to @EchoRift Use EchoRift.com's Contact Submission Form Leave us a voicemail at 856.208.RIFT Send us an email letters@echorift.com Talk to us on Tumblr If yo

Monthly comics vs Trades, Tumblr, the Mysterious Case of Marcia Lucas Subscribe:  iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS The Echo Rift Backstage podcast is a weekly episode that contains stuff that just didn't fit in any of the other episodes! This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:12 - Floppies vs. Trades 05:17 - Aliens, Tumblr, and Photoshop 07:52 - The Mysterious Case of Marcia Lucas Contact Us! Tweet questions and comments to @EchoRift Use EchoRift.com's Contact Submission Form Leave us a voicemail at 856.208.RIFT Send us an email letters@echorift.com Talk to us on Tumblr If you enjoy the Echo Rift podcast, you will also enjoy these other Echo Rift Productions: Kids on Comics Podcast: A fifth grader and his dad talk about comics (every Monday) Music for the Echo Rift podcast is provided by Home at Last

Three Thors battle through the end of time - it doesn't get much better than this! Subscribe:  iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS The Echo Rift podcast is your resource for comics, movies, TV, and book reviews. This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:45 - The Godbomb, Epic Storytelling. Vol 1 Recap 06:22 - Thor the Viking, Thor the Avenger, Thor the All-Father 13:02 - Viking Thor, the god-slave and his granddaughters 15:19 - The Origin of Gorr 18:55 - Dealing with Dieties, Prayer 22:20 - An Opus, Fight Scenes 26:17 - Storybook/Mythological Ending References Thor: God of Thunder Volume 2: Godbomb is published by Marvel Comics and is also available from ComiXology (link sponsor The Comic Book Shop) Written by: Jason Aaron Art by: Esad Ribic, Butch Guice Contact Us! Tweet questions and comments to @EchoRift Use EchoRift.com's Contact Submi

2001 has a crystal clear story - read the novel to complete the Odyssey! Subscribe:  iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS The Echo Rift podcast is your resource for comics, movies, TV, and book reviews. This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:24 - Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke Unite 06:45 - The Monolith on Earth 3 million B.C. 11:37 - The Future and Heywood Floyd, TMA-1 and the Moon 20:02 - Poole, Bowman, and HAL 9000 24:00 - Climax differences between Book and Film, The Meaning References 2001 A Space Odyssey (film) is directed by Stanley Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) is written by Arthur C. Clarke Contact Us! Tweet questions and comments to @EchoRift Use EchoRift.com's Contact Submission Form Leave us a voicemail at 856.208.RIFT Send us an email letters@echorift.com Talk to us on Tumblr If you enjoy the Echo Rift podcast,

Mike saw Upstream Color and You're Next, we read Knuckleheads from Monkeybrain Comics Subscribe:  iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS The Echo Rift Backstage podcast is a weekly episode that contains stuff that just didn't fit in any of the other episodes! This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:11 - Upstream Color (SPOILERS) 11:18 - Knuckleheads from Monkeybrain Comics 19:28 - You're Next Contact Us! Tweet questions and comments to @EchoRift Use EchoRift.com's Contact Submission Form Leave us a voicemail at 856.208.RIFT Send us an email letters@echorift.com Talk to us on Tumblr If you enjoy the Echo Rift podcast, you will also enjoy these other Echo Rift Productions: Kids on Comics Podcast: A fifth grader and his dad talk about comics (every Monday) Music for the Echo Rift podcast is provided by Home at Last

The super in super-hero doesn't just apply to the powers of the individual in Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier Subscribe:  iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS The Echo Rift podcast is your resource for comics, movies, TV, and book reviews. This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:24 - Intro to The New Frontier.  Green Lantern 05:12 - Wonder Woman, New Frontier reads like a Novel, Martian Manhunter 10:25 - A response to the edginess of comics at the time 16:27 - The Art and the Coloring 19:37 - The Final Battle/Climax, Incredible Dialog 25:30 - Letters: Vertigo comics References DC: The New Frontier is published by DC Comics and is also available from ComiXology Written and Illustrated by: Darwyn Cooke Colors by: Dave Stewart Contact Us! Tweet questions and comments to @EchoRift Use EchoRift.com's Contact Submission Form Leave us a voicemail at

A lifetime after the best night of his life, Gary King is getting the band back together... Subscribe:  iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS The Echo Rift podcast is your resource for comics, movies, TV, and book reviews. This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:24 - Fantastic conclusion to the Cornetto Trilogy 04:49 - Nostalgia and capturing a moment gone by, English pubs, Corporatization 10:00 - Doing five shots, good old fashioned fights  15:20 - Distinctly masculine aspects of the movie, vicariously wanting to be with these guys 19:58 - A ton of heart, and a lot of really intelligent things to say, fun plot flaws 23:38 - SPOILERS Two things about the end 26:10 - Simon Pegg is cool in these movies References The World's End is directed by Edgar Wright Written by: Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman

Despicable Me 2, Letters, Blade's place in comic movie history, Evangelion Subscribe:  iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS The Echo Rift Backstage podcast is a weekly episode that contains stuff that just didn't fit in any of the other episodes! This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:16 - Despicable Me, CGI Animated Films 08:26 - Letters!  Star Trek III, X-Men 15:53 - Blade and it's place in Superhero Movie history 22:29 - Hayao Miyazaki movies, Evangelion 27:39 - Mike's encounter with a bear, True Blood Contact Us! Tweet questions and comments to @EchoRift Use EchoRift.com's Contact Submission Form Leave us a voicemail at 856.208.RIFT Send us an email letters@echorift.com Talk to us on Tumblr If you enjoy the Echo Rift podcast, you will also enjoy these other Echo Rift Productions: Kids on Comics Podcast: A fifth grader and his dad talk ab

Extra-large extra-special episode: Sweet Tooth volumes 1 and 2 Subscribe:  iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS The Echo Rift podcast is your resource for comics, movies, TV, and book reviews. This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:24 - Strongest reaction to this than any narrative 06:10 - We're talking about a little child, he only knows the world according to what he saw 11:53 - Father protecting him, Jepperd: "I'm not going to hurt you" 16:58 - Jepperd deals justice, "You're a good man" 19:58 - Despite having seen stories like this before, the setting isn't the story, Jeff Lemire 25:48 - Vol 1 ends - Everything turns, Worst case scenario  30:24 - History of the world explained, Central mysteries of the series revealed 35:17 - Jepperd is a man who keeps his promises 39:26 - Great stories feature characters who make decisions 43:18 - No throwaw

Talking Europa Report, Found Footage Movies, and 2001: A Space Odyssey Subscribe:  iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS The Echo Rift podcast is your resource for comics, movies, TV, and book reviews. This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:24 - Released simultaneously in Theaters and Digital Streaming 04:04 - Approaching found footage genre of movies - Blair Witch and Chronicle 07:43 - Too many dares, falls flat in a few places 14:01 - Moon and Solaris - Bear McCreary - should a found footage movie have a score 19:07 - Someone should remake 2001: A Space Odyssey 26:10 - Letters!  Event Comics, iTunes Review References Europa Report is directed by Sebastián Cordero Written by: Philip Gelatt Starring: Christian Camargo, Embeth Davidtz, Anamaria Marinca Contact Us! Tweet questions and comments to @EchoRift Use EchoRift.com's Contact Submiss

X-Men movie talk contniues, Batman Casting, Spider-Man Subscribe:  iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS The Echo Rift Backstage podcast is a weekly episode that contains stuff that just didn't fit in any of the other episodes! This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:05 - More X-Men talk, Joss Whedon, Significance to Comics 05:53 - Our story of seeing X-Men for the first time 15:51 - Discussing Hollywood Reporter's list of Actors for Batman 23:48 - BEST OF ECHO RIFT: Seeing Amazing Spider-Man Contact Us! Tweet questions and comments to @EchoRift Use EchoRift.com's Contact Submission Form Leave us a voicemail at 856.208.RIFT Send us an email letters@echorift.com Talk to us on Tumblr If you enjoy the Echo Rift podcast, you will also enjoy these other Echo Rift Productions: Kids on Comics Podcast: A fifth grader and his dad talk about comics (eve