The Popzara Podcast, the official podcast from Popzara.com.
Episodes
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
It’s The State of Gaming Podcast, Popzara’s in-depth look at what’s shaking up the gaming landscape delivered on a monthly basis. Our hosts Cory Galliher and Nate Evans guide you through the best, worst, and everything else making headlines and headway in the world of interactive entertainment. Plus, it’s the first episode of the new year!
Friday Jan 21, 2022
Friday Jan 21, 2022
It’s Popzara’s Movie Time! Podcast!, where our own movie nerds Ethan Brehm and Nate Evans discuss Drive My Car, the multilingual masterpiece from writer/director Ryusuke Hamaguchi that’s sorta-kinda based on Haruki Murakami’s short story of the same name.
A meditation about love and loss centered around an ambitious adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, what the film lacks in fidelity to the original text is more than made up for in reverence to what makes Murakami intrinsically Murakami.
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Friday Jan 14, 2022
It’s The State of Gaming Podcast…for the year 2021! And what a year it was, especially when it comes to gaming. On this special year-end recap episode our usual hosts Cory Galliher and Nate Evans are joined by special guest Antal Bokor (from 3rd Coast Review) - with assists from your other Popzara Pals - to discuss the best, worst, and everything else that helped make gaming in 2021 the distraction we all desperately needed. Let’s get to it!
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
It’s the world’s biggest technology showcase…back in action! Well, mostly. After taking a year hiatus with a virtual-only presence, CES 2022 was a welcome return to letting humans once again mingle with the future of gizmos, gadgets and doodads, despite having a truncated running time and minus some high-profile players.
Our own Herman Exum and Nate Evans are joined by frequent (and favorite!) guest Ben Crossman from Computer America to talk, discuss, and ponder what fans and consumers alike can expect to see over the upcoming year and beyond.
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
On this episode of the Popzara Podcast our own transcontinental editor-at-large Evelyn "Ev" Wong talks with film-making couple Larissa Lam and Baldwin Chiu, the producing and directing team behind Far East Deep South, a new documentary about the surprises of discovering one’s own heritage and what it truly means to be American.
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Friday Dec 17, 2021
It’s The State of Gaming Podcast, Popzara’s in-depth look at what’s shaking up the gaming landscape featuring hosts Cory Galliher and Nate Evans guide you through the best, worst, and everything else making headlines and headway in the world of interactive entertainment.
While many of the year’s biggest heavy-hitters debuted last month, December is no slouch when it comes to blockbusters either. Chief among them (pun intended) is Microsoft’s Halo Infinite, which unleashes its single-player campaign to help finish the fight the free-to-play multiplayer started.
The hits keep coming as Deep Silver makes space sims fashionable again with their intergalactic shooter Chorus, Square Enix goes triple-dipping with their remake/reimagining of Final Fantasy 7 Remake: Intergrade for the PC, Nintendo wants to train your brain further with Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain. Yacht Club Games brings their adorably pixelated hero to a new dimension with Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon and Ubisoft proves the content will never end for their latest Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla Dawn of Ragnarok.
Friday Dec 03, 2021
Friday Dec 03, 2021
It’s Popzara’s Movie Time! Podcast!, where our own movie nerds Ethan Brehm and Nate Evans take you on an unscripted journey yakking and chatting about some of their favorite movie moments and cinematic scenes, from past and present, presented without snark and snobbery for your listening pleasure.
On tap in this episode are two black ‘n white classics from very different eras in Hollywood that, in their own way, help affirm that humanity comes in many shapes and sizes, and often the real monsters are right in front of us.
The first is 1932’s Freaks. Directed by Tod Browning (Dracula), the film was both incredibly controversial and a box-office disaster upon release until it found an audience decades later on VHS. The second is 1980’s The Elephant Man, directed by David Lynch, produced by Mel Brooks, and featuring one of the finest casts that included John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, and Anne Bancroft, ever assembled in one film.
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
It’s The State of Gaming Podcast, Popzara’s in-depth look at what’s shaking up the gaming landscape delivered on a monthly basis. Our hosts Cory Galliher and Nate Evans guide you through the best, worst, and everything else making headlines and headway in the world of interactive entertainment.
November is typically the biggest month of the year for gaming, and November 2021 didn’t disappoint. Coming off the second year of “pandemic play”, every major platform saw plenty of quality new releases worth your precious time and dollars.
Friday Oct 29, 2021
Friday Oct 29, 2021
It’s Popzara’s Movie Time! Podcast!, where our own movie nerds Ethan Brehm and Nate Evans take you on an unscripted journey yakking and chatting about some of their favorite movie moments and cinematic scenes, from past and present, presented without snark and snobbery for your listening pleasure.
It’s the spookiest time of the year! And that means a double-dose of especially creepy movie mayhem. Joining our regular hosts to get a handle on all the horror are fellow Popzara editors Christian Stirling and Senior Games editor Cory Galliher to help bring a more interactive look at what’s in store for our unsuspecting listeners.
In Part 1 we explored the best horror remakes of the 1980s, and in Part 2 our motley crew each share their personal picks that every serious Halloween and horror fan should seek out, some more (and some less) familiar than others. Either way, you’re bound to find something diabolically delightful to tide you over until the witching hour is over.
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
It’s Popzara’s Movie Time! Podcast!, where our own movie nerds Ethan Brehm and Nate Evans take you on an unscripted journey yakking and chatting about some of their favorite movie moments and cinematic scenes, from past and present, presented without snark and snobbery for your listening pleasure.
It’s the spookiest time of the year! And that means a double-dose of especially creepy movie mayhem. Joining our regular hosts to get a handle on all the horror are fellow Popzara editors Christian Stirling and Senior Games editor Cory Galliher to help bring a more interactive look at what’s in store for our unsuspecting listeners.
For a bonus triple treat be sure to also check out our interview with the Maestro of Makeup himself, Tom Savini. You probably won't survive, but you'll be having too much fun to care!
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
On this ghoulish episode of the Popzara Podcast legendary actor, stuntman, director, makeup artist and monster molder, Tom Savini. The Maestro of Makeup joins our own Nathan Evans to talk about the new documentary Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini, about and starring the one and only Sex Machine himself.
Jason Baker’s years-in-the-making documentary is similar to Roy Frumkes' The Definitive Document of the Dead, using decades of private and public footage, interviews, and scenes of some of the best, most inventive, and gruesome movie magic ever created to tell the story of the man who helped establish an entire industry.
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
It’s The State of Gaming Podcast, Popzara’s in-depth look at what’s shaking up the gaming landscape delivered on a monthly basis. Our hosts Cory Galliher and Nate Evans guide you through the best, worst, and everything else making headlines and headway in the world of interactive entertainment.
Despite showing up in the month of spookiness and Halloween there’s still plenty of chills and thrills awaiting gamers for the month. Ubisoft’s Far Cry 6 proves even t-shirt wearing crocodiles can be amigos, Nintendo’s Metroid Dread closes the near 20 year-gap between sequels, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is hopefully better than The Avengers (it wouldn’t be hard), Warner Bros’ Back 4 Blood brings Left 4 Dead back 2 life, and Microsoft’s Age of Empires IV wants to merge real-time strategy with history once again.
Bandai Namco’s The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes keeps the horror franchise going and Nintendo’s Mario Party Superstars brings the 64-bit party to the Switch. Have you heard of Devolver Digital’s Inscryption? You probably should.
Monday Oct 11, 2021
Monday Oct 11, 2021
When going through life constantly searching for an identity, many of us tend to allow other voices inside our head. Some invite them in. What if it wasn’t just other people’s voices, but the great works of Western literature? In this studious episode of the Popzara Podcast our own bookish Evelyn Wong talks with best-selling author, podcaster, and food enthusiast Mark Scarbrough about his first memoir, Bookmarked: How the Great Works of Western Literature F*cked Me Up.
Thursday Oct 07, 2021
Thursday Oct 07, 2021
It’s Popzara’s Movie Time! Podcast!, where our own movie nerds Ethan Brehm and Nate Evans take you on an unscripted journey yakking and chatting about some of their favorite movie moments and cinematic scenes, from past and present, presented without snark and snobbery for your listening pleasure.
On deck for this episode is a trilogy of films that need no introduction - but they'll get one anyway: we're talking about the groundbreaking, crowd-pleasing, genre-defining (and genre-defying) Back to the Future Trilogy of blockbuster movie magic.
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
On this honorable episode of the Popzara Podcast game developer Matt Canei from +Mpact Games meets the challenge of our own noble samurai Cory Galliher (with words) to discuss Hanako: Honor and Blade, a multiplayer-only arena fighter initially conceived by Canei as a tribute to his deceased mother. After a protracted 14-year development cycle, the game is finally available on Steam for your hacking and slashing enjoyment.