Nostalgium Arcanum
A Repository For The Pop Culture That Made Us Who We Are
Displaying 6 items of Nostalgium Arcanum with the tag "danny elfman".
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Spider-Man
July 27th, 2026 | 2 hrs 47 mins
comic book, comic books, comics, danny elfman, geek, kirsten dunst, marvel, mcu, sam raimi, spider man, spider-man, spiderman, stan lee, superhero, superheroes, tobey maguire, willem dafoe
Thwip! Our summer of Sam Raimi continues as we revisit Spider-Man's first outing with Toby Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, and Willem DaFoe bringing the storied web-slinger to high-flying death-defying action. Borrowing lessons learned from Darkman, Sam Raimi's vision for Peter Parker took Marvel's premiere teen crime fighter out of development hell and into franchise heaven. We're joined by podcaster Matt Storm aka Stormageddon ("Fun" and Games, Reignite) to revisit when Spider-Man's appearance truly was a brand new day.
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Darkman
July 20th, 2026 | 2 hrs 19 mins
1990s, 90s, action, coen brothers, comic book, comic books, comics, cult classic, cult classics, cult film, cult films, cult movie, cult movies, danny elfman, film, films, frances mcdormand, horror, liam neeson, movie, movies, phantom of the opera, sam raimi, the coen brothers, the phantom of the opera
Who is Darkman? That question, posed by the film's marketing, is answered with a laundry list including creator Sam Raimi, actor Liam Neeson, and a slough of influences from The Shadow, to The Phantom of the Opera, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Batman, and many more. A true Frankenstein of a film lurching wildly from comic book action, to horror, to tragedy, to manic comedy, the movie walks a hard-to-resist tightrope that only Sam Raimi can pull off. We're joined by guest filmmaker Alex Sosin ("The Canyon") to peel back Darkman's many faces to explore what lies underneath.
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Edward Scissorhands
December 30th, 2024 | 2 hrs 3 mins
1990s, 90s, alan arkin, anthony michael hall, christmas, danny elfman, diane weist, edward scissorhands, fairy tale, goth, gothic, johnny depp, tim burton, vincent price, winona ryder, xmas
For our final Christmas episode of the season we give Tim Burton's haunting answer to the question "Where does snow come from?" This soulful personal tale of loneliness and longing is arguably Burton's finest, and our guest filmmaker Alex Sosin ("The Canyon") is here to discuss why Edward Scissorhands still makes the cut.
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Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
October 28th, 2024 | 2 hrs 4 mins
1990s, 90s, animated, animation, catherine o'hara, christmas, cinema, danny elfman, disney, film, films, halloween, horror, movie, movies, musical, musicals, puppet, puppets, stop motion, theater, tim burton, x-mas, xmas
This is Halloween! This is Halloween! For our final mainline October episode guest Matt Storm aka Stormageddon of the "Fun" and Games, and Reignite podcasts tricks and treats with us to revisit this masterclass in stop-motion animation that lets us celebrate two holidays for the price of one.
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Batman Returns
December 25th, 2023 | 2 hrs 30 mins
1990s, batman, christmas, christopher walken, comic book, comic books, comics, danny devito, danny elfman, dc comics, freaks, gothic, horror, michael keaton, michelle pfeiffer, superhero, tim burton, xmas
It's Christmas in Gotham and writer/director of horror short "The Canyon" Alex Sosin joins to once again delve into Tim Burton's gothic nightmare vision of the Bat, the Cat, and the Penguin in a supersized present of an episode. It's bigger and more unwieldy than its predecessor, but no less compelling and terrifying.
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Beetlejuice
October 3rd, 2022 | 34 mins 59 secs
beetlejuice, comedy, danny elfman, ghosts, halloween, movies, nostalgia, tim burton
Our first entry to the Nostalgium Arcanum is the ghost with the most.