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Mitch Schmidt, Rose Schmidt, and Tracy Tindle lead a team of adventurers into the dangerous waters of 1990's teen drama as they discuss the classic Beverly Hills, 90210. Catch up with old friends like BAG, Minnesota Jesus, J-Potts, Harry Potter, Prenda, BAGDAD, and of course, Billy Idol.
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Criterion Creeps

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Welcome to the Criterion Creeps podcast. A podcast hosted by Jarrett and RJ where they talk about the Criterion Collection spine by spine in order of release every Wednesday.
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Fantasy/Animation

Fantasy/Animation

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Christopher Holliday researches animation history and digital media at King’s College London (UK). Alexander Sergeant is a Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at University of Portsmouth (UK), specialising in the history and theory of fantasy cinema. Each episode, they look in detail at a film or television show, taking listeners on a journey through the intersection between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation.
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We suck at doing the West Australian's West Quiz. Love/hate relationship with Roy O'Reilly - mostly hate. Play along to make yourself feel smart! Dodgy recordings with lots of background noise, love Jay and Erica.
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Ryan and Katrina have always wondered about Nature vs Nurture and what goes into making a person successful. They both had unconventional and tumultuous childhoods which made them ask the question: How do you raise a good human? Like all parents, they want to give their child the best chance to succeed and hope that sharing their journey will help other parents.
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Another trip through the Fantasy/Animation archive lands on this very early episode from February 2019 that focuses on Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988). Chris and Alex take the opportunity to reminisce about when fantasy and animation first met, and whether Alex has ‘clicked’ with the film since the original episode was rec…
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Is it loud enough for you?Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' performed by Souless AI Software SUNO, written by Ugly Cry Club.Like us on Facebook!www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/Follow us on that Twitter!twitter.com/criterioncreepsFollow us on Instagram!instagram.com/criterioncreepsWe've got a Patreon too, if you are so inclined to see thi…
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Chris and Alex welcomed Oscar-winning visual effects artist Andrew Whitehurst to the Fantasy/Animation podcast back in November 2019 for this reflection on the posthumanism of science-fiction parable Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014). Andrew kindly spoke with us about his role as Visual Effects Supervisor on the film (for which he received an Academy…
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The latest archive instalment takes Chris and Alex back to January 2020, and their first live episode recorded in front of an audience of animated fantasy fans in attendance at the Fantasy/Animation screening series in collaboration with the Cinema Museum in Kennington, London. Joining the Q&A to discuss The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reini…
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Flour!Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' performed by Souless AI Software SUNO, written by Ugly Cry Club.Like us on Facebook!www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/Follow us on that Twitter!twitter.com/criterioncreepsFollow us on Instagram!instagram.com/criterioncreepsWe've got a Patreon too, if you are so inclined to see this podcast continue t…
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For this third archive episode, Chris and Alex revisit a real bucket list moment by journeying back to July 2021 and the episode on Treasure Planet (Ron Clements & John Musker, 2002), which featured as its very special guests the film’s directors Ron Clements and John Musker. Faced with a host of technical issues (alongside barely-concealed disbeli…
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For cat lovers.Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' performed by Souless AI Software SUNO, written by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releasesLike us on Facebook!www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/Follow us on that Twitter!twitter.com/criterioncreepsFollow us on Instagram!instagram.co…
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Chris and Alex continue their journey back through the Fantasy/Animation podcast with this reminder of an early episode looking at the Disney animated musical Aladdin (Ron Clements & John Musker, 1992), which featured as its special guest Steve Henderson - Editor of the Skwigly Online Animation Magazine and Director of the Manchester Animation Fest…
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Chris and Alex kick off the first in a series of episodes that give listeners a chance to revisit and review some earlier podcasts, or perhaps hear one or two instalments they might have missed first time around. For this inaugural delve back into the Fantasy/Animation archive, they look back at their conversation with Professor Richard Dyer (Emeri…
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More like borestern.Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' performed by Souless AI Software SUNO, written by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releasesLike us on Facebook!www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/Follow us on that Twitter!twitter.com/criterioncreepsFollow us on Instagram!instagr…
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The Fantasy/Animation podcast is soon to break for the summer, but not before a few more episodes to round off the series - this time, it is the “Arabian fantasy” The Thief of Bagdad (Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger & Tim Whelan, 1940) that provides the focus for Episode 142, as Chris and Alex try to make sense of its story and style drawn from the “…
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Ah, the French.Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' performed by Souless AI Software SUNO, written by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releasesLike us on Facebook!www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/Follow us on that Twitter!twitter.com/criterioncreepsFollow us on Instagram!instagram.co…
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The Fantasy/Animation Footnotes reach their half-century as Chris and Alex are once again joined by Dr Eve Benhamou, teaching fellow in Film Studies at the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France to examine the contradictory cultural and political space of postfeminism. A much-debated topic, postfeminism typically pivots on gendered discourses…
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Episode 141 returns to the contemporary era of Disney Feature Animation with this discussion of the computer-animated musical blockbuster Frozen (Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee, 2013), a fairytale film of female empowerment that is widely credited with ushering in Disney’s Third Golden Age of animated features after the ‘Classic’ Disney period and earli…
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Footnote 49 looks at the fascinating figure of the cyborg as an embodiment of hybridity, resistance, and rebellion, interrogating the role of cyborgs as surrogate figurations that representing disparate forms of identity within both popular media culture and social reality. Chris and Alex begin by discussing the cyborg as the provocative integratio…
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What's a Patriotism?Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' performed by Souless AI Software SUNO, written by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releasesLike us on Facebook!www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/Follow us on that Twitter!twitter.com/criterioncreepsFollow us on Instagram!instagr…
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Professor Yvonne Tasker is the very special guest for Episode 140 of the podcast, joining Chris and Alex for this discussion of action spectacle and the gendered body in science-fiction sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron, 1991). Across several foundational publications that have interrogated the intersections between genre and gender,…
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Fake ass ears.Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' performed by Souless AI Software SUNO, written by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releasesLike us on Facebook!www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/Follow us on that Twitter!twitter.com/criterioncreepsFollow us on Instagram!instagram.com…
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Having already tackled the topic of special effects in an earlier Footnote, this latest episode instead focuses on visual effects (VFX) as a way to think through the practical/digital distinction that has come to culturally and industrially define the specificity and spectacle of VFX imagery. Topics include the rise of digital technologies and thei…
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Who fucking caaaaaaaares!Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' performed by Souless AI Software SUNO, written by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releasesLike us on Facebook!www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/Follow us on that Twitter!twitter.com/criterioncreepsFollow us on Instagram!in…
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Episode 139 marks something of a first as Chris and Alex play ‘The Fantasy Adventure Board Game’ Dungeons & Dragons originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson in 1974, taking on its array of characters, weapons, and quests live during the podcast with special guest (and Dungeon Master) Dr Cat Mahoney, Derby Fellow in Communicati…
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Art’s relationship to the auratic is the focus of Footnote #47, which engages cinema’s historical relation to ‘aura’ via the foundational work of Walter Benjamin who argued for technology’s “withering” of art’s uniqueness of space and time thanks to the potential for the creation of a “plurality of copies” that shift art’s “unique existence.” Topic…
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New Face for the Mt. CreepmorePodcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' performed by Souless AI Software SUNO, written by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releasesLike us on Facebook!www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/Follow us on that Twitter!twitter.com/criterioncreepsFollow us on Instagr…
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The Fantasy/Animation podcast finally tackles the seminal Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995), with Episode 138 looking at Pixar’s computer-animated feature and the film that transformed animation in Hollywood - and beyond - into a digital medium. Joining Chris and Alex to examine Toy Story’s computerised production and the pleasures of its pristine vi…
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Your ears do not deceive you. That is the sound of the future.Yes, ennui!Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' performed by Souless AI Software SUNO, written by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releasesLike us on Facebook!www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/Follow us on that Twitter!twit…
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Footnote #46 responds to a listener email by focusing on the speeds and spaces of the “multiplanar” image, a term theorised in Thomas Lamarre’s writing on anime and its techniques which looks at how motion is able to divide animated landscapes into different planes of action. In this episode, Chris treats Alex to a rundown of Lamarre’s work on mult…
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LISTEN TO THIS ONE, EARLY DOWNLOADERS!Ennui!Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releasesLike us on Facebook!www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/Follow us on that Twitter!twitter.com/criterioncreepsFollow us on Instagram!instagram.com/criterioncreepsW…
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Episode 137 appropriately begins at the end of the commercially and critically successful Indiana Jones franchise with this discussion of the fifth and final feature Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (James Mangold, 2023) featuring special guest Dr Sarah Thomas. Sarah is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media in the School of Arts, whose re…
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Chris and Alex once again draw on the expertise of Dr Peter Kunze (Tulane University) for this discussion of the form and function of the period critically and culturally known as the Disney Renaissance. Listen as they reflect on the complex and often contradictory place of the Renaissance as a crucial phase of renewal within Disney’s own internal …
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Laserdisc is back!Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releasesLike us on Facebook!www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/Follow us on that Twitter!twitter.com/criterioncreepsFollow us on Instagram!instagram.com/criterioncreepsWe've got a Patreon too, if…
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The author of Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance (Rutgers University Press, 2023), Dr Peter Kunze (Tulane University), is the special guest for Episode 136 of the podcast which looks at the impact of Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise, 1991) and both the industrial and stylistic stakes of…
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...uh... architecture!Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releasesLike us on Facebook!www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/Follow us on that Twitter!twitter.com/criterioncreepsFollow us on Instagram!instagram.com/criterioncreepsWe've got a Patreon too…
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A deep dive into the U.S. animation studio Hanna-Barbera provides the focus of Footnote #44, as Chris and Alex are once again joined by Dr Jared Bahir Browsh to discuss the origins of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera’s influential and prolific production company that strengthened the cartoon’s move from theatrical exhibition to television. Topics i…
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Chris and Alex are delighted to welcome Dr. Jared Bahir Browsh (Assistant Teaching Professor, University of Colorado Boulder) to the podcast to discuss William Hanna and Joseph Barbera’s landmark animated sitcom The Flintstones (1960-1966), the first cartoon series to occupy a prime time slot on U.S. television. Listen as they discuss Jared’s resea…
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And you thought you would never hear a word about Stark Trek: Voyager.Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releasesLike us on Facebook!www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/Follow us on that Twitter!twitter.com/criterioncreepsFollow us on Instagram!inst…
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Fresh from their discussion of Wish (Chris Buck & Fawn Veerasunthorn, 2023), Chris and Alex are once again joined by Dr Robyn Muir, Lecturer in Media and Communication (University of Surrey), author of The Disney Princess Phenomenon: A Feminist Analysis (2023), and founder and director of the Disney, Culture and Society Research Network to discuss …
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*flatuence*Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releasesLike us on Facebook!www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/Follow us on that Twitter!twitter.com/criterioncreepsFollow us on Instagram!instagram.com/criterioncreepsWe've got a Patreon too, if you ar…
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To celebrate Disney’s computer-animated film musical Wish (Chris Buck & Fawn Veerasunthorn, 2023) and the company’s recent centenary year, Chris and Alex are joined by Dr Robyn Muir, Lecturer in Media and Communication in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey. Robyn’s research is interested in how identity is constructed and inter…
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Good riddance!Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releasesLike us on Facebook!www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/Follow us on that Twitter!twitter.com/criterioncreepsFollow us on Instagram!instagram.com/criterioncreepsWe've got a Patreon too, if you…
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Following up last week’s feature-length episode on The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, 2003), the latest Footnote looks at J.R.R. Tolkien’s seminal essay “On Fairy Stories” that engages the definitions, origins, and applications of the fairy story; the fairy vs. faerie distinction and questions of magic and imagination; su…
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This is the Mortal Kombat of films.Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releasesLike us on Facebook!www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/Follow us on that Twitter!twitter.com/criterioncreepsFollow us on Instagram!instagram.com/criterioncreepsWe've got …
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Chris and Alex conclude their journey through Middle-earth with this episode on the third and final entry into Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy - The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, 2003) - where they reflect on the stylistic influence and cultural legacy of the franchise since its culmination over twenty years ago. Listen as they discu…
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Apples and suicide.Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releasesLike us on Facebook!www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/Follow us on that Twitter!twitter.com/criterioncreepsFollow us on Instagram!instagram.com/criterioncreepsWe've got a Patreon too, i…
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Footnote #41 looks at canon formation and value judgments in relation to the selection and privilege of art and culture’s masterworks, with Chris and Alex tackling the relationship between canons and consensus. Topics include canonisation as a political process of inclusion and exclusion; core-periphery models of how so-called untouchable art secur…
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Cats and shellfish.Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releasesLike us on Facebook!www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/Follow us on that Twitter!twitter.com/criterioncreepsFollow us on Instagram!instagram.com/criterioncreepsWe've got a Patreon too, i…
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Special guest Janet Harbord, Professor of Film Studies at Queen Mary, joins Chris and Alex to discuss the intersections between fantasy, animation, and autism in this examination of documentary Life, Animated (Roger Ross Williams, 2016), a film that reflects on the value and fantasies of animated media at the same time as it navigates and represent…
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Rugby and spiders.Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releasesLike us on Facebook!www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/Follow us on that Twitter!twitter.com/criterioncreepsFollow us on Instagram!instagram.com/criterioncreepsWe've got a Patreon too, if…
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What is puppet animation, and are puppets a form of animation? The historical and theoretical implications of fantasy and animation’s relationship to puppet performance are the focus of Footnote #40, with Chris and Alex looking at the defining role of puppets in fantasy’s fête and carnival culture origins; the phantasmagoria of the puppet and the d…
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It's back!Podcast's intro song 'Here Come the Creeps' by Ugly Cry Club. You can check out her blossoming body of work here: uglycryclub.bandcamp.com/releasesLike us on Facebook!www.facebook.com/criterioncreeps/Follow us on that Twitter!twitter.com/criterioncreepsFollow us on Instagram!instagram.com/criterioncreepsWe've got a Patreon too, if you are…
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