The Cold Open Podcast

Adventures in popular culture

Author: Whitman College Film & Media Studies

A museum director and a few obsessed college professors discuss all things film, TV, music, comics, and popular culture.
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The Cold Open #60–The Superman 2025 Edition
Thursday, 24 July, 2025

In the Cold Open #60, Robert Sickels and special guests Kalani Buchl and Tallulah Sickels have a spoiler heavy conversation about writer/director James Gunn’s new Superman film, his first as the Co-Chairman and CEO of DC Studios. They discuss his updating of Superman, Lois Lane, and Lex Luthor for our contemporary moment, his characteristic use of humor and color, the fine line he walks between respecting DC’s long history and his desire to do something new, its real life political […]