Tim is an educator, musician, and writer. He teaches high school English including classes in Graphic Novels, Creative Writing, and Cinema Studies. Tim lives near Boston with his cat, Tolkien, who doesn’t really care about anything he’s accomplished.
Tim Tangent has hosted 582 Episodes.
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578: Gumby Face
October 28th, 2026 | 37 mins 59 secs
batman, beer with geeks, clayface, clayface movie, dcu, mike flanagan, movie review, spoiler review, supergirl
Clayface, the DCU's boxed-in horror movie with no Batman, fully spoiled.
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577: Punched A Dinosaur In The Face
October 21st, 2026 | 1 hr 1 min
beer with geeks, star trek strange new worlds, strange new worlds, strange new worlds season four, tv review
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season four: sharp characters, uneven pacing, and a case for silly Trek.
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576: Provasic's Son
October 14th, 2026 | 42 mins 25 secs
Frank and Tim's Superhero Slapback reaches The Punisher (1989), Dolph Lundgren's straight-to-video Frank Castle.
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575: Dangly Bits
October 8th, 2026 | 1 hr 10 mins
beer with geeks, dcu, green lantern, hbo, john stewart, kyle chandler, lanterns, spoiler review
Lanterns (2026)
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146: Quarter-Hearted (Rebroadcast)
September 30th, 2026 | 33 mins 5 secs
george takei, rebroadcast, sci-fi, star trek, star trek 60th anniversary, wrath of khan
George Takei live + Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
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574: A Thin Layer of Cigarette Smoke
September 9th, 2026 | 43 mins 40 secs
batman, batman 1989, michael keaton, movie review, superhero, tim burton
Frank and Tim revisit Batman '89 — darker than you remember, and still the only Gotham worth living in.
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573: His Name Was Literally Gun
September 2nd, 2026 | 37 mins 30 secs
heather locklear, movie review, return of swamp thing, superhero slapback, swamp thing
Frank and Tim return to Superhero Slapback with a 1989 B-movie so bad it looped back around to charming.
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571: A More Handsome De Niro
August 12th, 2026 | 1 hr 13 mins
beer with geeks, christopher nolan, imax, matt damon, movie review, the odyssey, tom holland
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, in 70mm IMAX, fully spoiled.
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570: What's Up 7-Eleven?!
August 5th, 2026 | 1 hr 42 mins
beer with geeks, brand new day, comic book podcast, jean grey, marvel, mcu, movie review, sadie sink, spider-man, tom holland
Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)
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569: I Want My Piggyback
July 29th, 2026 | 36 mins 55 secs
comic-con, dc, lanterns, marvel, mcu
San Diego Comic-Con recap
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568: I'm Cyclopped
July 22nd, 2026 | 48 mins 42 secs
avengers doomsday, beer with geeks, doctor doom, marvel, mcu, movie podcast, x-men
The Avengers: Doomsday teaser tells you almost nothing - so naturally we spent a whole episode on it.
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567: Magic Jungle Potion
July 15th, 2026 | 35 mins 9 secs
comic book podcast, marvel, mcu, movie podcast, spider-man, street level, superheroes
A rogues-gallery tally, a Breaking Bad analogy, and one very unresolved genre argument.
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566: Nobody Wants to See That on Camera
July 8th, 2026 | 35 mins 32 secs
beer with geeks, dcu, green lantern, kyle chandler, lanterns, trailer reaction
Lanterns (2026) trailer
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565: Hop On the Magic Space Bus
July 1st, 2026 | 49 mins 2 secs
dc, dcu, movie review, supergirl, superhero
Frank and Tim review the DCU's Supergirl — earnest, oddly dark, and not quite sure who it's for.
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