Only 3 weeks into the Tower of Babble Podcast and we already have a host that's gone MIA. Its just Julian and Daniel on this episode as we discuss a little more Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the Daytime Emmy's, Marvel news from all the studios, the marriage between EA Star and Star Wars and lastly we give our impressions on Iron Man 3 in the Topic of the Week.

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars gets nominated for Daytime Emmy's

Outstanding Special Class Animated Program - George Lucas, Cary Silver and Athena Portillo
Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program - Jim Cummings as Hondo Onaka, David Tennant as Huyang and Sam Witwer as Darth Maul
Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program - Dave Filoni, Kyle Dunlevy, Brian Kalin O'Connell, Steward Lee and Bosco Ng
Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition - Kevin Kiner
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing (Animation) - David Acord and Cameron Davis

TMNT also recieved a few nominations

Young Justice received a nod as well - Sound Mixing

Dave Filoni talks about drawing Tie fighters. Possibly points towards the direction of the next Star Wars animated series

Movies

Touching on what we spoke about last week - Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are confirmed for Marvel's The Avengers 2

Doctor Strange Movie in the works for Phase 3, says Feige

Feige Downplays Daredevil Reboot

Falcon seen in set photos from Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Fox's Fantastic Four reboot casting buzz:

Chronicle's Michael B. Jordan for the Human Torch
Girls' Allison Williams for Sue Storm

First photos of Rhino from the set of Amazing Spider-man 2

Star Wars Episode VII set to start filming in 2014

Abrams wants John Williams back

New The Wolverine poster with Silver Samurai - Japanese style painting.

The Wolverine CinemaCon Trailer

Kitty Pride photo from Bryan Singer

Jurassic Park 4 Returns to Isla Nublar

New Men in Black and 21 Jump Street

Tom Cruise Returns for Mission: Impossible 5

Hans Zimmer's Man of Steel Theme. Available on SoundCloud

Games

EA announces exclusive deal to develop Star Wars games. First Games to appear no sooner then April 2014

DICE, Visceral Games and BioWare are said to be working on titles

Madden NFL 25 not coming to Wii U

Sony teases new game announcements

Battlefield 3's Premium service earns $120 million

MGS4 was too big fit on XBOX 360

Nintendo announces its plans for E3

Injustice DLC confirmed: Batgirl (Dans not happy about it)

Comics

Talking about House of M

Topic of the Week

Iron Man 3 impressions

Nov 28, 2025

Bonus Episode - ToB Film Club - Dark City (1998)

The term often used to describe the 1998 Alex Proyas film, 'Dark City' is "Proto-Matrix" given the many similarities between the two movies. Fair or not, they do have a lot in common but I think the comparison does a disservice to what is still a very clever and well made genre-film that largely holds up today (minus some questionable early CG effects). The 4K re-release gives it a fresh coat of paint, looking extremely sharp on modern televisions, accentuating the mostly dark and moody imagery of this sci-fi film noir, and given it's title this is all very fitting. Alex Proyas has some bid ideas here; what is the human soul? Are we the sum of our memories? Can memories be distilled into chemistry? Is love transcendent? Many of these themes are explored with depth, with answers to many of the films mysteries being laid bare in mostly satisfying way. Performances are strong, with everyone seemingly understanding the assignment, though there isn't much for the female characters to do here. Which is unfortunate as what we do get from Jennifer Connelly is intriguing, if lacking depth. On the whole, despite being pretty weird, this is still a very fun movie, if a bit silly at times, that was unfortunately overshadowed by the phenomenon that was 'The Matrix' dropping the following year.

Nov 17, 2025

Episode 201 - Bond Turmoil and Goldeneye Retrospective

Julian and Matt start getting into the swing of thigs as they tackle the latest in film and TV news, with the hot story being about the turmoil surrounding the new Bond film. Fortunately, 'Goldeneye' turns 30, providing a positive 007 topic to dig into in an effort to balance things out. A new 'The Mummy' starring Brendan Fraser is in the works with Rachel Weis also set to return. To Matt's chagrin, more 'Jurassic World' is on the way as well with the 5th film in the franchise in development with Gareth Edwards looking to return to direct (say what you will but 'Jurassic World: Rebirth' was pretty fun). Lastly, the guys dive into what they've been watching, including 'Predator: Badlands', 'One Battle After Another', 'Pluribus' and for some reason, 'Dexter'. All that and so much more on this week's Tower of Babble Podcast!

Oct 19, 2025

Bonus Episode - ToB Film Club - Kingpin (1996)

Before Matt officially joined the show as a co-host he was invited on as guest to talk about one of his favourite movies of all time, ‘Swingers’. Now returning in an official capacity to the ToB Film Club, he brings with him another film from his top-3, another comedy, ‘Kingpin’. A Farrelly brothers film that followed up their smash hit breakout, ‘Dumb and Dumber’, and you can see the through lines. Like ‘Dumb and Dumber’ we follow two guys who are down on their luck as they head out on the road where chaos and hilarity ensue. Unfortunately it wasn’t the hit they hoped despite a killer cast, including legends Bill Murray, Randy Quaid and Woody Harrelson and as a result it didn't leave as large of a cultural footprint as some of the other Farrelly brothers films from this era. It's been nearly 30 years so now seems as good a time as any to revisit this sleeper and see what everyone was missing back then.

Oct 9, 2025

Episode 200 - Meet Matt!

After an extended hiatus, ToB returns with a fresh voice on the second chair. Julian is joined by long-time friend of the show, Matt Tworek. We spend this first episode of the "new" ToB getting to know him and setting up what else is to come.

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