Stretch your calf muscles and get your power loader suits ready, because we’re going to the alien finals! It’s game over, man, for this week’s episode, in which we cross over rom/fam/sports-com Bend It Like Beckham and sci-fi/action adventure Aliens. Head to iTunes, Soundcloud, and Stitcher for our conversation about how community helps us succeed, great 90s boy band names, Helen Hunt’s autobiography, and whether the ghost from Three Men and a Baby carried a cardboard cut out of Ted Danson through an airport.
Where you can find this pop culture (as of show date):
- Bend It Like Beckham is currently streaming on HBOGo, and available to rent/buy on platforms like Amazon or iTunes.
- Aliens is available to rent/buy on platforms like Amazon or iTunes.
Readers’ advisory, aka other stuff we like that we think you’ll like, too:
- Love & Basketball
- The Dairy Queen series
- Friday Night Lights
- The Namesake
- Born Confused
- Written in the Stars
- When Dimple Met Rishi
- Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding
- Alien
- Alien 3, Alien: Resurrection, Prometheus, Alien: Covenant
- Starship Troopers
- Battlestar Galactica
- The Terminator and Terminator 2
- The Thing
- Predator
- Aliens vs. Predator video game
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