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Aidan and Adam

An hour-long chat about science fiction television and movies.

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DAC Episode 392 - Road House (1989)

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2025/10/05

you know what, pain actually does hurt. Unless you’re dalton.Never mind the remakes, here’s the original in all its

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DAC Episode 391 - Purple Rain (1984)

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2025/10/05

dig if you will this picture. Prince Rogers Nelson was a brilliant musician, a stylish-as-hell dresser and a singular

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DAC Episode 390 - Willow (1988)

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2025/09/16

If you sit down and watch a run of Val Kilmer movies, eventually you will discover a sub-sub-genre that I call In It for the Val - that is, functional and mediocre movies that are only elevated by the presence of a Val Kilmer performance. Is Willow one of those movies?Ha ha, yes. Despite the craft (especially the Phil Tippett creature animations), George Lucas’ script feels like a light scrubbing of Star Wars for a fresh fantasy setting. The best non-animated thing in the movie is Val Kilmer as

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DAC Episode 389 - Real Genius (1985)

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2025/08/24

ADAM: Is there a movie more important to the history of cinema and my psyche than Real Genius?AIDAN: Real Genius is a hall of mirrors in which a Conradian secret sharer may

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DAC Episode 388 - Top Secret! (1984)

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2025/08/03

This is the first installment of our series of episodes on the films of Val Kilmer. In accordance with Mr. Kilmer’s final wishes, we are calling the series Valapalooza.In the wake of World War II, George Orwell wrote a searing novel of government repression and propaganda called Nineteen Eighty Four, in which the ideological polarity of the post-war order was satirized and refigured as a world of constant surveillance and terrible entertainment. Orwell was spot-on in some of his predictions - but

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DAC Episode 387 - Superman (1978)

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2025/07/08

proof that superman has a special interest in railroads.Dah-da-da-dah, Su-per-manDah-da-da-dah, SUPERMAN

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DAC Episode 386 - At Close Range (1986)

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2025/07/07

a dead lion who has a tale to tell. If you threw James Foley’s At Close Range into a centrifuge, its constituent parts

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DAC Episode 385 - Weird Science (1985)

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2025/07/07

John Hughes famously wrote the script for Weird Science in only two days, but it’s likely that he was carrying around this particular fantasy in his head for at least a

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DAC Episode 384 - Rocky Balboa (2006)

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2025/06/15

somehow, still, a live dog.Before Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan rebirthed the Rocky franchise with Creed, but

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DAC Episode 383 - My Blue Heaven (1990)

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2025/05/11

now there’s a live dog.Did you watch Goodfellas back in 1990 and think “Hey, this should be a wacky comedy with Rick

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DAC Episode 382 - Midnight Run (1988)

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2025/05/04

True facts about Joe Pantoliano:He fought and defeated the last living dragon of the moorlands, but showed mercy at the last minute and spared its life. They’re now good

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DAC Episode 381 - Footloose (1984)

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2025/04/19

everybody cut, everybody cut.What if normal, but dancing? What if dancing, but really bad dancing? What if James

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DAC Episode 380 - A League of Their Own (1992)

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2025/04/06

one dead lion, one live dog.There used to be a sports leagueThe A-A-G-B-P-G-L They used to play some baseballThey’d

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DAC Episode 379 - Legend (1986)

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2025/03/30

now there’s a live dog (whoops, it’s a dead lion) Filmmaker and YouTuber Patrick Willems once attempted to define what

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DAC Episode 378 - Ladyhawke (1985)

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2025/03/16

better to be a live knight than a dead hawk.DRAFT #1You know what they say: sometimes you hawke the lady, sometimes

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DAC Episode 377 - John Carter (2012)

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2025/03/10

did we learn nothing from zardoz? I don’t know where to start with 2012’s John Carter. Andrew Stanton’s first foray

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DAC Episode 376 - Flash Gordon (1980)

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2025/03/02

a live woodbeast.Every so often, Adam and Aidan watch a movie that feels like the equivalent of someone trying to

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DAC Episode 375 - Barbarella (1968)

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2025/02/09

In 1968, fans of science fiction movies had two options (please don’t fact check this, there’s no need): 2001: A Space Odyssey or Roger Vadim’s Barbarella. Which movie was

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DAC Episode 374 - The Silent Partner (1978)

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2025/01/26

a live dog pretending to be a canadian.Quick: who’s the least Canadian man ever to walk this Earth? Who resolutely

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DAC Episode 373 - The Warriors (1979)

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2025/01/19

once a live dog, always a live dogThe Warriors! The million-meme spawning, reality-adjacent adaptation of a 2,400

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