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Movies We Dig The podcast about films, Antiquity, and everything in-between!

(And we mean everything!)
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Each episode, hosts and scholars Colin, Elijah, and Christie break down media about ancient Greece, Rome or the wider ancient world.

02/08/2026

What's more Homeric than ending up right back where you started? Or wandering an endless sea of textual criticism? Or your co-hosts and guests fighting you every step of the way as you struggle to bring the ship to port? (Sorry Christie!)

We reconvene our Homeric council (see our episode on The Return) for the first part of our great debate of this summer/year/decade/Age of Bronze: Do We Dig Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey (2026)? Listen now at movieswedig.com or wherever you get your podcasts!

You can find more thoughts from Amy Pistone and Joel Christensen on Homer and other subjects at amypistone.com and Sententiae Antiquae, and Joe Goodkin's music and merch at Joe Goodkin's Odyssey and The Blues of Achilles.

24/07/2026

Listen, we're just looking for a little more heroic nudity in our Greek myth retellings!

What can be said about Nolan's Odyssey that hasn't already been said? Well hopefully a few things! The MWD crew gives their initial impressions on the biggest thing to hit the world of film and Classical studies since probably Gladiator. The main question on our mind: What version of Odysseus ended up coming home? Just beware of any sirens (spoilers) you may run into along the way if you have not had a chance to see the film yet!

Listen now at https://shows.acast.com/movies-we-dig/episodes/the-odyssey-2026 or wherever you get your podcasts!


As always, if you like what you hear, please be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to the show! Stay up-to-date on all the Movies We Dig news by visiting movieswedig.com or checking out our socials.

10/07/2026

It's more podcast for your buck! That's right, in anticipation of a certain small-budget indie film coming out this month, we're not talking about one movie, but five! We quest out in search of Matt Damon as he appears in Good Will Hunting (1997), Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Bourne Identity (2002), Interstellar (2014) and The Martian (2015), all in service of the great question: "Do We Dig Odysseus?"


Listen now at movieswedig.com or wherever you like to get your podcasts!

27/06/2026

Hop on board listeners as we take a look at another early 2000s animated film that maybe should have just fallen off the edge of the world. Helping us to discuss yet another problematic man lost at sea is none other than , the host of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! () and founding member of Mnemosyne: The Memory Collective (). If, like us, you missed this swashbuckling-adventure in favor of another pirate film, than hold on to your harem pants! This film's got it all: blatant misogyny, erasure of Arabic culture, and a lovable crew! But hey, you can't get much more epic than Eris, Goddess of Discord. Listen now at movieswedig.com or wherever you get your podcasts!

If you want to learn more about Liv and her work, be sure to visit her website at mythsbaby.com. And if you would like to get your hands on her brand new book, The Odyssey: A Modern Retelling, you can order it at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/815774/the-odyssey-by-liv-albert/ or find it wherever books are sold!

29/05/2026

From ambitious ancient architects to sexy evil priestesses, we've seen the "Mummy" take many forms, but none quite as horrifying as a modern teenage girl. Join us in unwrapping the latest reincarnation of this monster franchise with Lee Cronin's The Mummy. Helping us to investigate yet another creepy pyramid and it's resident demonic entity is special return guest and Egyptologist, Dr. Briana Jackson (). While some might question if this film even has a real Mummy, there is no doubt Cronin drew inspiration from from all the previous lives/films to explore fears that feel more modern than ancient. Let's just say, we'll never look at a pedicure in the same way.

Listen now at movieswedig.com or wherever you like to get your podcasts!

You can read, hear and see more from Briana at her website brianacjackson.com as well as on her YouTube channel .

15/05/2026

Men will rob ancient tombs with no qualms, but the second a woman starts accessing ancient magical powers then they start caring about morality. Yes, we watching Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, the 1971 Hammer horror about an ancient sorceress possessing a modern London woman. Joining us to discuss this cult classic are our good friends, the Ancient History Fangirls, Genn McMenemy and Jenny Williamson. We talk Bram Stoker, Egyptology, the anxieties over female liberation throughout the 20th century and why Freud might have really vibed with this movie. Also, if a co**se bleeds continuously from a severed hand for over 3,000 years, how much blood would it produce?

Listen now at movieswedig.com or wherever you like to get your podcasts!

You can read and hear more from Genn and Jenny over on Ancient History Fangirl at www.ancienthistoryfangirl.com as well as on Instagram ( and ).

01/05/2026

It's May, so you know what that means? It's time to celebrate all those wonderful Mummies in film! With the help of return guest and Egyptologist, Dr. Julia Troche, we travel back in time to unravel the humble beginnings of the entire Mummy movie franchise. For a film nearing 100 years old, it has some surprisingly progressive takes on archaeology, colonialism, and female sexuality. It's a dangerous venture, and not all of us will make it to the end (of the podcast). But since when has that ever stopped a curious archaeologist/librarian?

Listen now at movieswedig.com or wherever you like to get your podcasts!

To learn more about Julia's work with The American Research Center in Egypt Missouri Chapter visit ARCEMO.org. You can also stay up-to-date with her research by following on Instagram.

And if you interested in the topic of Egyptomania, check out the webpage for the International Society for the Study of Egyptomania at www.issegyptomania.com. To check out the Michelle Keeley-Adamson's article on Omm Sety referenced in the episode, visit victoriansinegypt.substack.com.

As always, if you like what you hear, please be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to the show! Stay up-to-date on all the Movies We Dig news by visiting movieswedig.com or checking out our socials at linktr.ee/movieswedig.

Movies We Dig is also part of Mnemosyne: The Memory Collective, a podcast network and creator collective for historians, archaeologists, artists, and other creators and educators dedicated to sharing content about and featuring the ancient world that is accurate, accessible, and inclusive. To learn more about the collective and its contributors, check out collectivemem.com.

17/04/2026

We wish we had our own magic time-traveling sands as we review 2010's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Is it a creative re-imagining of a popular game? No. Is it a fun action-adventure with comedic tones? Also no. Does Alfred Molina run an illegal ostrich-racing circuit? Yes he does.

We could have been watching Prince of Egypt...

Listen now at movieswedig.com or wherever you like to get your podcasts!

03/04/2026

It's been well over a year (and season) since we last checked in on Wiros and Yemos (AKA Romulus and Remus) to see how their little city of Rome is managing. While both brothers are still alive, they are definitely not prepared to handle the wildcard that is Titus Tatius, King of the Sabines and Son of Sancus. Helping us to separate the original founding myth from an imaginative modern retelling are The Partial Historians, Dr. Rad and Dr. G! We discuss the Sabine Women, masculinity in the ancient world, and just how seriously everyone takes religion in this series. Come for the archaic Latin, stay for the great honey bath debate!

Listen now at movieswedig.com or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like this episode and want to listen to the Movies We Dig and The Partial Historians react to the first episode of Romulus Season 2, check out our YouTube Channel and look for our Romulus Watch Party at https://www.youtube.com/live/RElKNLr2HXQ?si=VwSncWI-At-V8-nu!

To learn more about The Partial Historians, be sure to visit their website at partialhistorians.com for podcast episodes and books on ancient Rome, or check out their socials at Instagram () or Bluesky (.bsky.social). And if you like what you hear and want to support their work, check out their Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/cw/partialhistorians!

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