Commando Prompt

*FULL STORY SPOILERS THROUGHOUT* Choo, choo! It's the podcast train barreling into the station to tell you that this is a very special episode! Today we are so lucky to have with us our #1 fan, Nobel prize winner, 4 time Olympic gold medal winner, holder of 5 doctorate degrees, Emi Freakin' Laufer, baby! She's here today to provide thoughtful insight on the hottest tra

*FULL STORY SPOILERS THROUGHOUT* Bob Nanna (Braid, Hey Mercedes, The City on Film, Lifted Bells) joins Andy and Ethan today to talk Tony Scott's extremely stylized and incredibly phosphorescent Man on Fire. We got to ask Bob all about his writing process, what it was like for Braid to come off hiatus in 2011, and how Best Friends Fest will be the greatest music festival of all

*FULL STORY SPOILERS THROUGHOUT* Evan Lescallette (sp?) joins the Commando Prompt crew to talk about the Marietta days, whether or not there will be a Marietta tour footage documentary one day, and to just generally keep the podcast on track. Evan also is here to shake things up by *spoiler alert* not enjoying the movie we forced him to watch! We don't know about you, but we di

*FULL STORY SPOILERS THROUGHOUT* I feel like I've started the intro to these descriptions the same way for the last 4 episodes, but here we go again -- hooooooooooooooo weeeeeeeeeeeee! Boy freakin' howdy is this episode a packed one. We have the wonderful Adrian Selkowitz on the pod today, and gosh, what a pleasure. Adrian is a cinematographer, producer, and director who ha

*FULL STORY SPOILERS THROUGHOUT* Welcome to the Bruce Willis zone, a safe space where all of us do our very best Bruce Willis impressions. Listen, if you think about it hard enough, aren't we all just trying to emulate Bruce Willis? That's what our good boy, Joseph Gordon Levitt, is doing in 2012's Looper. This movie has some really cool sci-fi visuals and an extremely

*FULL SPOILERS THROUGHOUT* Hooooooooooooooooooooo, boy, do we have another banger for you! Not only are we talking about the incredible Edge of Tomorrow, but we have author J.S. Dewes to help us talk through it (pronounced "Dew-ess", not "Dews" like how I pronounced it on the show and then couldn't figure out how to record over my mistake.... don't be li

*FULL STORY SPOILERS THROUGHOUT* The prodigal podcasting boy returns! We are so happy to have with us Johnny Gainer on this here podcast, and what a great episode for him to come on. Ad Astra is an extremely underrated movie that more people should watch, and it's a terrific movie to close down our A JOURNEY THROUGH SPACE month. Buckle up! Intro Song: "The Welcoming"

*FULL STORY SPOILERS THROUGHOUT* Hoooooo, baby, if this isn't another spectacular episode of Commando Prompt. This episode is even better because we have author Justin Lee Anderson with us to talk all about his fantastic Eidyn series and the wonderful Serenity. Strap in for a conversation about politics, Scottish lore, imposter syndrome, and why it's a god damn crime that *

I am not gonna even go through the effort of pointing out where spoilers are for this episode but I think it's at the 30 minute mark. It's 10 o'clock, I'm getting over COVID, just watch this incredible film. We are wrapping up our MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX month strong with perhaps the finest film we've ever talked about on this show, The Thin Red Line. We do

*Full story spoilers start around the 31:00 mark* WE'RE UNDER ATTACK IT'S THE BUGS I SWEAR TO GOD IT'S THE BUGS THE BUGS ARE BACK PLEASE HELP ME JOHNNY RICO EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE THE INFERIOR SOLDIER TO DIZZY. Welcome to 2024, or, as Andy likes to call it, the Year of the Bug. We got an infestation, folks, and there's only one way to fix it -- blind faith in the mi