# Intermission #4: Maclunky, Walkie-Talkies, and the Death of Movies

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Podcast: [Now Playing - The Movie Review Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/now-playing-the-movie-review-podcast-1005138)
Published: 2026-06-01T06:01:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 2553

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The fourth Intermission finds the hosts debating film preservation, 4K restorations, AI upscaling, George Lucas's Star Wars revisions, Spielberg's E.T. walkie-talkies, and whether modern transfers are preserving movies or changing them. Plus, Jason completes a year-and-a-half watch-through of the entire Kristy Swanson filmography, Arnie revisits 1995's Mortal Kombat, listener Tom Ross hosts a trivia challenge, and the conversation wanders through Darth Maul, The Boys, Project Hail Mary, and more.

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