Six Degrees of Star Wars

Send us a Text Message.Since 1982, The Color Purple has gotten a Pulitzer Prize, put on banned book lists, adapted and revived for the stage, and now it's on its second visit to the big screen, courtesy of Blitz the Ambassador. But is the Force with it?Content warning for discussions of racism and sexual assault.Pluggables:Syd says Free Palestine, Free Sudan, Free Congo, Free Haiti

Send us a Text Message.Happy Pride! Let's celebrate with the directorial debut of the Wachowski Sisters... this better not awaken anything in EVERYONE WHO HAS LIKED GIRLS EVER.PLUGGABLESGrady: @snakebitcat on all socialsEllie: @elessar42 on Twitter and Medium and @football-in-tuxedos on Tumblr, Podcasting's Biggest Night available wherever Pods are Cast.Shami: @theonlinemuse on Tum

Send us a Text Message.THX 1138 is the overlooked eldest child, Star Wars is the attention-stealing youngest child, and today, we examine George Lucas' middle-child thinly-veiled memoir/coming-of-age movie, American Graffiti.PLUGGABLESEllie: @elessar42 on Twitter and Medium and @football-in-tuxedos on Tumblr, Podcasting's Biggest Night now available wherever Pods are Cast.Support t

Send us a Text Message.No new episode this week, so instead, enjoy this collection of outtakes!Support the Show.Visit our blog at sixdegreesofstarwars.tumblr.com and ier-6d.tumblr.com6DOSW is a Pro-Union podcast. Please support artists by contributing to the Entertainment Community Fund if you can: https://entertainmentcommunity.org/how-get-help-and-give-help-during-work-stoppageE-

Send us a Text Message.May the Fourth Be With You! We're finishing out the Original Trilogy with Addie Greenberg-Sud and Michelle Turner, so strap into your speeder bikes, pop a squat by the Sarlaac pit, and let's get into it!Star Wars Minus Star Wars, by Kyle Kallgren: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gUKYBs6T8c&pp=ygUbc3RhciB3YXJzIHdpdGhvdXQgc3RhciB3YXJzThe context for the La

Send us a Text Message.We celebrate 4/20 with the least out-there stoner movie option on our roster, Paul Thomas Anderson's INHERENT VICE. That said, there were jokes about bananas, calls to dismantle the current sociopolitical system, complaints about Ronald Reagan, and a dead Nazi, so, hey, not a bad showing.PLUGGABLES:If you want more of our chaos, Musica Universalis Book 2 stre

Send us a Text Message.Grab your sword, guitar, or adorable pig, we're taking a look at The Book of Life, a passion project for Jorge R. Gutierrez. We are not responsible for any deals you made with aesthetically cool psychopomps.Pluggables: River: River: @dreamsrebel on Twitter, filmlion.wordpress.comMatt: Matt the Movie Guy (letterboxd.com/4urconsderation/) and @themovieguymatt o

Send us a Text Message.From the acclaimed writer/director of WE ARE LADY PARTS, comes POLITE SOCIETY, a movie with martial arts, pretty dresses, commentary on social hierarchy and pressures to conform to norms, girl bosses, girl failures, and girl feels. So we got 4 of one of those things to talk about it!This movie and podcast contain discussions of racism, sexism, and reproductiv

Send us a Text Message.Happy Women's History Month (brought to you by a very meme-able "sponsor"*)! We crossed the galaxy to revisit A Wrinkle In Time, the 2018 movie directed by Ava DuVernay, and try to untangle all the mess around the movie, including Wife Guys, the quirks of adaptation, and the Brie Larson of it all.Brie Larson's full remarks, which WERE NOT THAT BAD: https://ww

Send us a Text Message.Who's up for fighting Nazis and fighting systemic racism this Black History Month? Back in 2012, Lucasfilm brought us RED TAILS, a fictionalized action-adventure with the Tuskegee Airmen. Does the movie earn a Presidential Unit Citation like the Airmen did (three times over)?Amber's Minute of Fury: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIAwPuZx2H0&pp=ygUVYW1iZX