After recovering from a massive flood in our hometown and a trip to the Great Ohio Toy Show, Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast is back and ready to catch up on everything we've missed. This week, that includes an excellent Oscars telecast, some controversial casting news, two superb superhero cartoons, an earthshaking documentary and more!
Length - 01:20:18
Language - PG-13. (Contains mild adult language.)
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0:25:05 - MOVIE NEWS
The 2024 Oscars put on a good show even without many surprises, "Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom" arrives on HBO and wraps up DC's Snyderverse and Julia Garner cast as Silver Surfer in the upcoming "Fantastic Four."
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0:36:58 - TV RECAPS & REVIEWS
Return of the seminal series "X-Men '97" hits the right nostalgic notes, comic adaptation "Invincible" concludes its second season on Prime, Apple TV+ doubles down on shows about rich people with Maya Rudolph in "Loot" and Kristen Wiig in "Palm Royale," historical epic novel "Shogun" turned into another big budget miniseries, "Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV" documentary exposes abuse behind the scenes at Nickelodeon, cartoonist Ed Piskor commits suicide after scandal in his personal life and Ike Perlmutter's latest bid for the Disney board thwarted again.
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