Monday, December 22, 2025

LNChristmas Carols

Hey Friends! We chatted about geeky songs last week, and a few of you shared your faves as well! So here's a holiday playlist of all of them!  WARNING: You WILL get Whammed





Friday, December 12, 2025

LNC Tries On Some Capes For Christmas

Ariel and Jonathan talk about Christmas songs, how Paramount is trying to pull a hostile takeover on Warner Bros, and more superhero content than you can shake a super stick at!









30 Seconds or Less

Game Awards super fast recap
Paramount launches hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery
Lots of genre films/shows nominated in Golden Globes
Avengers: Endgame getting a re-release to theaters in 2026
Original Star Wars film will get a re-release in 2027
Fallout getting hands dirty with monsters (or puppetry trumps cgi)
Fallout hopes to shoot season 3 next year
Netflix making a Cinderella Stepsister movie "Steps"
Faith is one character who will not return for the Buffy reboot
Sigourney Weaver in talks to join Tomb Raider series on Amazon
Stranger Things' Hawkins inserted into Microsoft Flight Simulator
Disney signs licensing deal with OpenAI for Sora video platform
Want to get a head start on Nolan's Odyssey? You can do it this weekend.
Fallout Yule Log

Stuff That Doesn't Fit


Show Notes


Monday, December 8, 2025

LNC is Visited by Three Spirits

In this Jumbo Edition of our show, Ariel and Jonathan talk about their favorite version of A Christmas Carol, the bombshell news that Netflix is set to acquire Warner Bros Discovery (and how that could have a big impact on pop culture), and more horror news than you can shake a stick at!

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Netflix wins bidding war for Warner Bros Discovery
Zootopia 2 largest animated opening ever
Yes, Universal is exploring more Wicked sequels/spinoffs
Sony acquires movie rights to fantasy series by James Islington
Mike Flanagan will write & direct, ScarJo will appear in - new Exorcist movie
Also, ScarJo close to signing a deal to be in sequel to The Batman
FX orders a TV series adaptation of Far Cry video game franchise
Casting news for Tomb Raider TV series
TMNT film and Sonic sequel both slated for 2028
Sydney Sweeney and Noah Centineo may star in live-action Gundam movie
More Activity to become Paranormal with James Wan as Producer
James Cameron joins that anti AI actor group
A movie about Sammy Davis Jr. and the Church of Satan? And WHO is in it?
Netflix introduces new themed Yule log videos
Late breaking - Sony has hired Chris Bremner to write a new Men in Black film

Stuff That Doesn't Fit


Jonathan's Horror Hutch


Show Notes


Friday, December 5, 2025

LNC Wears Prada Too

 

Ariel and Jonathan chat about Turkey Day recipes, weird sandwiches, more live action adaptations, and the differences between cannibal movies and zombie movies.

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We may get another live action TMNT film
Well, of course there's a Labubu movie in development
Everyone wants to buy Warner Bros. Discovery
Jumanji 3 - The Rock wearing a necklace w/the dice from the original film
Vue cinema CEO warns that IMAX exclusivity will harm movie theater biz
Ryan Coogler confirms Black Panther 3 is still on the way
Could Doctor Fate transition to the new DC cinematic universe?
Release date for new Sense and Sensibility movie
Glen Powell film "Huntington" gets a new name, February release date
First look pics for Zelda movie
Superman No. 1 comic book sells for 9 million smackers
New Stargate series ordered for Amazon

Stuff That Doesn't Fit

Missed last week Devil Wears Prada 2 teaser
Trailer for "Is This Thing On"
Trailer for "Down River"

Jonathan's Horror Hutch


Show Notes


Sunday, November 16, 2025

LNC Just Wants You To Be Happy

Jonathan and Ariel talk about Pluribus and how impressed they are with it. Plus we chat about adapting properties into musicals, whether or not Wuthering Heights should be a bodice-ripping romance, and the joy of monsters.

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Peacock cancels Poker Face, but it might come back with a new lead?
Things to get weird at Disney+ as Death Stranding animation goes into development
Colin Farrell to bless people (with his fists) as the "Ordained"
Better late than never: there's a sequel to Werewolf by Night in the works
Ryan Reynolds remaking 1970s action comedy Thunderbolt & Lightfoot
Superman sequel targeting a summer 2027 release
Siberian folk horror movie "Thaw" lands a development deal
George Lucas's Museum of Narrative Art to open in 2026
Eli Roth "Ice Cream Man" coming out in 2026
Adele to star in adaptation of Anne Rice's "Cry to Heaven

Stuff That Doesn't Fit

Trailer for Merv
Trailer for Marty Supreme
Trailer for season 2 of "The Night Manager"
Trailer for "Man vs Baby"
Wuthering Heights Official Trailer

Jonathan's Horror Hutch


Show Notes


LNC Takes the Fidelity Test

Ariel and Jonathan talk about scary movies, the use of storytelling as protection, and share our love for the current horror renaissance.


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Conjuring Prequel in the works
Disney dropping Dr. Who
Rocky Horror Comic
Adam West's Bat-pants sell for big bucks at auction
Keanu Reeves will be caught in a time loop in sci-fi film "Shiver"
Paramount plans new Star Trek film, but it won't be in the Kelvin universe
Grim horror comic "Something is Killing the Children" getting a movie and series
Austin Butler and Michael B. Jordan in talks to star in Miami Vice film adaptation
Gremlins 3 heading to theaters in November 2027
Kpop Demonhunters 2 aims for 2029 release
Miss Piggy movie in development
Scrubs Reboot first look dropped

Stuff That Doesn't Fit

trailer for Fackham Hall
Dead Mans Wire
Trailer for "Tinsel Town"
Trailer for "100 Nights of Hero"
Trailer for "Atropia"
Trailer for "Oh. What. Fun."
Trailer for "The Testament of Ann Lee"
Trailer for Frontier Crucible (trigger warnings, Ariel - spider cruelty, violence)

Jonathan's Horror Hutch


Show Notes


LNC Does Some Dangerous Time Traveling

From popcorn bucket time machines to a list of Halloween movie recommendations a mile long, Ariel and Jonathan chat about all things geeky.

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Writers Guild of America hopes to block Paramount-WB merger
No strike on Broadway
"The Karate Kid" musical to sand the floor on tour in the UK
Colman Domingo is getting Cowardly (Lion....in Wicked)
Back to the Future popcorn bucket -- do it in style
Johnny Depp gets totally Scrooged in A Christmas Carol adaptation
British sci-fi comedy "Time Travel is Dangerous" gets Nov 21 release date in US
The Australian Office cancelled after 1 season
Gen X horror comedy "The Big Kill" in production
Stranger Things finale will get a limited theatrical release
Elizbeth Olsen prefers theatrical releases and would love to be Wanda again

Stuff That Doesn't Fit


Jonathan's Horror Hutch


Show Notes