D+Cast

This week on the Grand Stream of Things we break down whether or not the Emmys still matter, what it means when Netflix threatens to end binge watching, and why you should avoid She-Hulk episode 4 if you haven't watched all of The Sopranos. 

This week in the Grand Stream of Things, we talk the first episode of She-Hulk, whether or not David Zaslav is a batman villain, and Garytt goes in on the Disney parks annual pass system. 

On this week, The Grand Stream of Things focuses on Hulu's surprise hit in Prey, the chaos Ezra Miller has brought to a struggling DC, and Disney becoming the king of the stremers. 

DplusCAST is now The Grand Stream of Things! On the heels of news around the HBO Max brand, potential shake ups coming between HBO and Discovery, and questions around when 90 Day Fiance will get it's own video game, we finally decide maybe our Disney Plus slant isn't what our show is about anymore. Join us on the Grand Stream of Things to keep the conversation going around the streaming wars - and find out which host secretly hates the new name.

On this weeks episode, we break down the biggest announcements from Comic-Con, and talk through the ones that left us underwhelmed. We even butt heads on a few! All that, and updates on what we've been up to, including exciting news from Greg and where you will be able to find him, soon.

On this episode we take a step away from streaming and pick the next IP's we want to see broadway tackle. From horror filled shows, to old classics, to interactive game shows, we're pretty sure at least one of our ideas is good. Probably. 

What does it mean for Disney when their executive office resembles a Game of Thrones episode? Or is it more Succession? The fallout from the Rice firing has yet to be fully realized, but the falling stock certainly doesn't help. Then the boys dive into a surprise Netflix delight in Adam Sandler's new basketball movie, Hustle.

On this episode of the DplusCAST we talk through the first two episodes of Obi Wan, whether the Star Wars universe needs this kind of story, and what it means about the future for [REDACTED].

This week on DplusCAST we take a look at the most legally impressive piece of art in the past 20 years - Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers! How did they get so many other IP's involved? Are references considered jokes? And is it any good? Listen now, and some of your questions will be answered!

This week, we talk through what it might take to course correct for the once unstoppable streaming service, Netflix. But not before going on some social media rants, and diagnosing what Disney+ has, that Netflix can't seem to compete with. 

We talk through Netflix's new best comedy and drama Old Enough, after working our way through anthology episodes of TV - both new an old. We touch on Atlanta's The Big Payback, The Twilight Zone's The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, and Alfred Hitcock Presents: Breakdown.

This week we react to the news around Netflix's historic stock plunge, and try to diagnose what went wrong. After that, we say goodbye to CNN+ (extremely quickly), hype up Peacock and talk through Moon Knight episode 4. 

We're finally doing it! We're talking about CNN+! But before that, a return of Peacock Watch, a dip into the surreal with Moon Knight, and we talk all the major Oscars controversies. 

We did it! We finished our Best Picture watch along, and almost all of us made it. We talked through Will Smith as an Oscar contender and whether or not best pictures should be *good* or should be *art*. That's to say, we talk Drive My Car!

This week we continue our Oscar watch alongs - but before that, talk the latest updates from Bob Chapek, make a pitch to save his legacy, and discuss Pixar's Turning Red. 

This week on the DplusCAST, we say gay! The episode starts discussing Disney's disappointing inactivity around the Floriday Don't Say Gay bill, before Garytt and Will give a spoiler free review of The Batman. After that, we continue our Oscar film festival with Steven Spielberg's West Side Story.

Our Oscar Watch continues as we tackle Nightmare Alley and CODA. Two films that arguably couldn't be more different - one of which quickly became a DplusCAST favorite.

We start our DplusCAST Oscars watch-a-long this week with the two films on Netflix, Power of the Dog and Don't Look Up. One feels destined to win, despite being hard to sink into - and the other feels destined to be remembered, despite not being very good. 

On this weeks DplusCAST, Garytt, Greg and Will break down the Oscar noms through the lens of streaming. Where can you see the best picture noms? Which are we watching this week? And should Spider-Man have been included? All this, plus a look at the disney investors call and the finale of the book of Boba Fett!

On this weeks episode, the DplusCAST boys break down the surprise hit Encanto - but before that, we dig through new titles for Peacock and whether Boba Fett is worth the watch, now that it's Mando season three. 

On this weeks episode we do a midpoint check in on both Peacemaker and Boba Fett and decide which one we'd take to a a desert island, before discussing what a stock drop means for Netflix, turmoil at Pixar, and the rising pheonix that is Peacock. 

On the first DplusCAST of the year, the boys talk through The Matrix, Cobra Kai, Don't Look Up and the Book of Boba Fett, before getting into their hot takes for 2022 and what they're most excited about this year. There's a ton of shows coming back! It's a miracle!

We (but mostly Garytt) have been talking about this movie since the podcast started, and just before the 35th anniversary is over, we're finally dedicating an episode to it! Check out our conversation around The Color of Money, if there are any Paul Newman types still acting, and hear it get a little heated as we grade Garytt's homework assignment. 

Our most monumental DplusCAST episode yet, as Greg finally watches Survivor! Does he love it? Does he hate it? Does he want you to support animation writers getting paid with the hashtag #payanimationwriters? Listen to find out! The boys mostly focus on Hawkeye, a Peloton scandal and what else they've been watching, but Will writes these summaries so we're focusing on Survivor!

This week the boys catch up with what they've been watching, Garytt defends his appreciation of QVC, and we recap everything that underwhelmed about Disney Plus Day. All this, and a round of 'real title or fake title' with upcoming Marvel properties!

This week the DplusCAST is taking a look at Tom Hanks' newest movie Finch, and whether or not a dog movie still holds weight. Before that, the boys discuss Garytt's favorite show I Know What You Did Last Summer, if anything interesting is coming out for Disney+ Day, and what to do with a man like Emilio... -- DplusCAST is created and hosted by Garytt Poirier, Greg Hahn and Will Lentz.

We welcome Hiko back to the podcast and host our second 'watch along' with 1996's Scream! We crown the funniest line, learn behind the scene stories, and find out how they implemented one of the most iconic horror film scores on the way to making this meta-horror classic. 

This week three men who have never read the books talk about why the movie was actually pretty good! Good enough to see a midnight showing for the now greenlit sequel? Good enough to buy toys related to it? Good enough for a standalone TV series from HBO? Listen to this weeks DplusCAST to find out!

It's a fall cornucopia of content! We run through the list and touch on Halloween Kills, Muppets Haunted Mansion, the new Batman trailer and a pretty much everything else that comes to mind. 

On this episode of the DplusCAST, the boys ask why people love suffering in their discussion around Squid Game, before diving into the much anticipated Many Saints of Newark. Is there any chance Garytt doesn't love a piece of Sopranos content? You'll have to listen to find out. -- DplusCAST is created and hosted by Garytt Poirier, Greg Hahn and Will Lentz.

This week on the DplusCAST we are talking the best movies from 1996! If you haven't looked at that year yet, holy wow is it stacked with classics - from genre re-inventing to blockbusters to comedies that are still getting stars multi-million dollar contracts, it's a wild trip down memory lane.  But before we dig into the past, we go through the huge trailer week - including Hawkeye, I Know What You Did Last Summer, West Side Story, Don't Look Up and Nightmare Alley. 

The DplusCAST boys are back with a slew of news updates, trailer reactions, and hot takes on Christopher Nolan! We cover the Walking Dead's 'final season', the new Matrix trailer, Seinfeld in 4k, a Fall TV preview and a ton more.  DplusCAST is hosted by: Garytt Poirier, Greg Hahn, and Will Lentz

On this episode, we take a look across all the streaming services and highlight some excellent content you might have missed! There's needless rules, British game shows, and Garytt singing the X-men theme song, what more could you need? Plus, there's a bonus secret story at the end of the episode, about Greg's run in with a reality show... don't miss it!

Your favorite gang of misfit villains, The DplusCAST are back to talk about the surprise delight of The Suicide Squad! How did right wing trolls lead to the James Gunn giving the DCEU one of their first real wins? Why was Gunn shooting back at Martin Scorcese? And what did any of our hosts make it back to the theaters for what had to be an incredibly expensive movie? Listen to find out!

On this episode of the DplusCAST, your hosts ponied up the thirty dollars to check out The Rock's Jungle Cruise and collectively our review matched the Rotten Tomatoes score. Before that, we talk going back to the theaters, Ted Lasso, White Lotus, and ScarJo suing the Mouse. 

Marvel, Marvel, Marvel! This week on the DplusCAST we discuss the first Marvel movie in almost two years, whether *this* is the end of Black Widow, and what the final tag at the end of the movie gets us excited for. Then we shift into the finale of Loki and talk about why this one felt different from Wandavision and Falcon and Winter Soldier. 

This July Fourth was the DplusCAST independence day, from the tyranny of zoom calls! The boys are back in the same room, and what better way to celebrate than to do a re-watch and live reaction to the 1996 classic Independence Day?  We take the film in pieces, pausing after each completed 'day' in the movie to discuss - who is the MVP of the movie? Where did *this* Will Smith go? And do the rest of President Whitmore's terms look like? All this, plus all the favorites of the movie, this week on the DplusCAST!

We're bringing back the Dplus Lightning Round this week to catch up on all the news from the past month! But before we get to it, we talk through Loki episode 3 and whether it works without Owen Wilson. Then we dive into a Bloomberg article that details the changes in streaming behaviors across generations - and what it means for the future of the medium.  During the lightning round, we touch on Bo Burnham's Inside, Scarlett Johansson's Tower of Terror, Jerry Seinfeld's Pop-Tart movie, and Harrison Ford's recurring injuries! You can find the bloomberg article here https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-tv-streaming-deals-best-bundle-options-netflix-hulu-disney/

This week we finally get the chance to dive into Loki and whether or not the Wednesday release experiment seems to be working. Then we talk about The Heights disappointing box office numbers, what it's going to take to get people back to the theaters, and whether Luca is a top, middle, or bottom tier Pixar movie - before appreciating the beauty of it all the same.

What a week! So much to cover that we implement the first ever DplusCAST lightning round - but first we talk about what Amazon's MGM acquisition means, whether they should be broken up, and Bezos' guide to making 'epic content'. Then we give quick reactions to Army of the Dead, the Eternals trailer, Mighty Ducks Game Changers and more - before wrapping with a movie we all... kind of really liked? In Disney's Cruella. 

This week we're dusting off our MBA's and talking about the future of a few big media companies! What does the WarnerMedia and Discovery merger mean for the consumer? Who will be leading Disney in 2024? And what does the future hold for the golden globes? (Hint: Greg gets to gloat) All this plus a look forward on a post-pandemic life.

The guys get loose in todays episode - but all in the sake of saving the Oscars. What can the award ceremony take from sports? Reality television? Coachella? No inspirations are off limits, and honestly, I think we stumbled upon a pretty entertaining pitch for 2022. 

We're bringing you a Monday morning reaction pod to last weeks Falcon and Winter Soldier Finale! What worked? What *super* didn't? And how can we get more Zemo? Seriously, if you know how we can get more Zemo please write in, it's pretty much all we want.

This week on the DplusCAST we make a shocking revelation when it comes to the Fast and Furious franchise, before talking about our excitement when we hear Kenny Rogers music in action movie trailers. Then we play a game of IP Buy or Sell, where we discuss underutilized franchises and if we're betting on continued success - or if it should stay on the shelf. 

Are physical copies of media a thing of the past? Why was Kyle Chandler in Godzilla vs Kong? Are we still interested in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier? This week on the DplusCAST we tackle all of those topics, plus our reaction to the Loki trailer - more of it, please!

This week we take a 'state of the stream' and talking about sharing passwords, and what a crackdown could look like from Netflix. After that, we dive into two Disney Plus properties and hit the ice with the new mighty ducks, before talking ourselves into real excitement around the future of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

This podcast is presented in mp3 to preserve the integrity of DplusCAST's creative vision.  This week we're going off the rails talking about the Snyder Cut! Is it worth 4 hours? Did it save the DCEU? Is Eisenberg the best or worst part of the film? After that, we touch on the latest Marvel property - The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and determine once and for all, which one of them will be Mephisto. 

This week, we talk two fantastic properties. Disney releases a new animated film in Raya and the Last Dragon - but is it worth the price to go premium? And we process our thoughts on the final WandaVision - before going to the scoreboard on which reddit theories rang true... if any. All this, plus Coming 2 America and a dip into Paramount Plus!

As we head towards the final episode of WandaVision, the DplusCAST reacts to episodes 7 and 8, before diving into the offerings of Paramount Plus. We touch on the Mortal Kombat and Cruella trailers, Martin Scorsese's thoughts on 'content', and finally tackle the biggest franchise you've never heard of - Boonie Bears. 

On this weeks episode we talk through a ton news. Gina Carano is unceremoniously fired by Disney, we get our first look at the Falcon and Winter Soldier series (and it seems... fine?), and we touch on the theories and takes around WandaVision episode 6. All this and more, on this weeks DplusCAST!

We're talking WandaVision again! We discuss the big reveal at the end of episode 5, what it could mean for the future of the MCU and fan theories about where the show could be going. Then, we finally do what the industry has been asking of us for years - we fix the Golden Globes.