Screens of the Stone Age

On this special bonus episode, we’re excited to present the other side of our crossover with the Chippin’ Away Podcast:

From the South of Asia to the North of America, we discuss the influence of po…

On this episode we’re spending the Night at the Museum, the 2006 blockbuster where dinosaurs skeletons, historical dioramas, and ancient archaeological artifacts come to life. Josh is frustrated by t…

On this episode we’re joined by Akash Srinivas and Durga Kale of the Chippin’ Away podcast to review Mohenjo Daro (2016), the story of a simple farmboy’s first trip to the big city where he falls in …

The Ugly Little Boy (1977) is an adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s touching short story about a Neanderthal child kidnapped across time by unscrupulous scientists. In this episode we talk about chaos theo…

We’re venturing into the space age again with Prometheus (2012), the Alien prequel in which an archaeologist couple travels to a distant planet in search of humanity’s creators. Our opinions of this …

On this episode, Predrag (Pedja) Radović joins us as we travel back to l’Âge de Pierre in the French movie RRRrrrr!!! (2004), a comedy in which cavemen use shampoo and investigate the world’s first …

We were so preoccupied with whether or not we could we didn’t stop to think if we should! On this episode we’re joined by Dr. Elsa Panciroli to discuss Steven Spielberg’s classic Jurassic Park (1993)…

Happy Anniversary! This episode marks one full year of SotSA, so to celebrate we’re reviewing Encino Woman (1996), the made-for-TV sequel to our favourite movie, Encino Man. It’s really not fair to c…

On this episode we’re joined by Dr. Matt Tocheri to discuss The Cannibal in the Jungle (2015), an Animal Planet mockumentary which blurs the line between fact and fiction. The (fictional) story cent…

Neander-Jin: Return of the Neanderthal Man (2011) is an obscure and inexplicable “romantic comedy” about a Neanderthal who somehow travels trough time and falls in love with a young professional woma…

Regular listeners know how much we love bigfoot, so we’re very excited to be reviewing Harry and the Hendersons (1987), the story of a family of hunters who accidentally befriend a sasquatch and have…

This week we’re taking a look at King Kong (2005), Peter Jackson’s epic three-hour remake of the 1933 classic. We talk about the biology and evolution of island ecosystems, but we should have had a p…

Today we’re reviewing The Land That Time Forgot (1974), the story of a WWI submarine crew who gets stranded on a mysterious island populated by dinosaurs and prehistoric people. It takes itself serio…

We’re on a stop-motion dinosaurs kick! The Valley of Gwangi can best be described as Jurassic Park with cowboys. Neither are really the focus of this podcast, and while the movie hinted at human and…

Caveman is a story about a caveman starring Ringo Starr. Actually, “story” is a bit of a stretch – like many classic caveman movies we’ve reviewed, it’s about a caveman who is banished from his group…

Today we’re reviewing The Croods, the story of a Neanderthal family led by a paranoid patriarch whose authority is threatened by an innovative young modern human. Despite the star-studded cast, Ross…

We’re diving into the classics for this episode! One Million Years B.C. is recognizable for two things: Ray Harryhausen’s groundbreaking dinosaur animations, and Raquel Welch’s fur bikini. What’s not…

What do you get when you cross Wallace and Gromit, 10,000BC, and The Mighty Ducks? Early Man is the story of a bumbling tribe of Stone Age cavemen who challenge the Bronze Age to a football (soccer) …

There’s no other way to say it: this is the worst movie we’ve reviewed so far. If you’ve seen it, you probably know what we’re talking about, and if not, buckle in for a rant. 10,000 BC is the boring…

We have a special holiday episode today! Rare Exports is the crazy story of an illicit archaeological excavation which unearths the frozen remains of Santa Claus, who then goes on a murderous rampage…