About this episode

Mariana and Gus discuss two movies featuring sentient cars, exploring their themes and cultural significance.

Mariana and Gus watched two movies about a sentient car. Sentient cars?! What will they think of next? Sentient toys? Sentient bugs? Sentient fish? Sentient robots? Come on, Disney, that’d be pretty silly. Support us! Follow us! IG TikTok Bluesky Once More With Feeling is a podcast about great original movies and their often not-so-great remakes. Join film critic and YouTuber Mariana Colín (The Morbid Zoo) and screenwriter and comedian Gus Schiff as they explore the history, culture, and politics of some of Hollywood's favorite films to make over and over and over and over and over… Music by: Isaiah Evans (@the_viennese_school) Singing by: Sierra Lancaster (@_sierralancaster_) Email: withfeelingpod@gmail.com

People in this episode

Hosts: Mariana Colín, Gus Schiff

Topics covered

• sentient cars
• film critique
• remakes
• Disney movies
• pop culture

Keywords

• sentient cars
• The Love Bug
• Herbie: Fully Loaded
• Disney
• film critique

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Disney

Books & works: The Love Bug, Herbie: Fully Loaded

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