Emerald City Video

It's really more of a spiritual sequel...   Are the kids getting into tapes because of Taylor Swift? What is “second screen” content? Will Killers of the Flower Moon ever get a physical release? Is there a need for movie takedown posts? Not critical reviews but social media that just shits on other peoples work. What did you call your video tape player back in the day? VHS player? VCR? Tape Machine? Russ and Zach delve into these questions and of course, much much more in this special extended episode of the Emerald City Video Podcast.

In this episode Russ Burlingame and Zach Roberts chat about the drawbacks of streaming media, the fact that directors are getting angry about how their films look on streaming apps, award-winning director of The Godfather not being able to find a home for his new film and so much more.   Part two of this episode will be dropping this week, so listen up kids!   Just some of the stories we're chatting about, some of these we'll get to in part 2: Killers flower moon no physical media release date https://www.joblo.com/is-killers-of-the-flower-moon-not-coming-to-blu-ray-after-all/ Rewinder Cars! https://thenewswheel.com/videocassette-vehicles-remember-vhs-tape-rewinder-cars/ Roku adding ads through HDMI https://www.lowpass.cc/p/roku-hdmi-ad-insertion-patent Did You See (and Hear) That? Why Home Viewing Can Be Dark and Inaudible https://filmmakermagazine.com/125430-home-viewing-problems-audio-video-streaming/ Filmmaker of Immaculate disappointed in color and lighting of different streaming outlets. https://x.com/michaelmohan/status/1795305441674875374?s=46&t=oCX7LFzPAI6SZTIz1OcNpw Coppola can't find distributor https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/megalopolis-francis-ford-coppola-challenges-distribution-1235867556/ Can't do this with digital media. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/wamjkjchtq11edw6/?mibextid=xCPwDs Seinfeld thinks movies aren't culturally relevant anymore https://www.pajiba.com/film_reviews/jerry-seinfeld-says-the-movie-business-is-over-plugs-his-new-movie.php Young listeners are pressing play on cassette tapes https://thehustle.co/news/young-listeners-are-pressing-play-on-cassette-tapes The Criterion Collection is sold to new owner, along with Janus Films https://variety.com/2024/film/news/criterion-janus-films-sell-indian-paintbrush-steven-rales-1236011122/  

This episode of the ECV Podcast we hit play the news of the last month. Chatting about teens learning the difficulties of opening cd's (at least they don't have to deal with the old BJ's long plastic security holders), thereally cool new Evil Dead VHS (yeah that's right, VHS) and much much more. Listen here or watch over on YouTube. We're going to start doing more physical media open boxings and discussions as we get them. Check out the one that Zach did over on his TikTok. Have any recommendations of what we should cover? Show Notes: Teens have problems opening CD's ‘I shouldn't feel this old': Tween Swifties learn how to open ‘1989' CD https://www.dailydot.com/irl/taylo r-swift-1989-cd-tween-swifties/ WB shelves John Cena Movie - Coyote Vs ACME https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/john-cena-coyote-vs-acme-movie-shelved-1235643235/ Wil E Coyote sends a message  https://twitter.com/thecolbyday/status/1723026345607786859 Creatives cancel meetings with WB https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/coyote-vs-acme-wb-warners-canceled-reversal-shop-film-1235645372/ Addendum to this: Brian Duffield in particular told his management he will no longer meet with WB - https://comicbook.com/movies/news/no-one-will-save-you-director-brian-duffield-says-he-wont-even-talk-to-warner-bros/ And saved - https://comicbook.com/movies/news/coyote-vs-acme-reportedly-being-shopped-to-distributors-instead-of-shelved-after-internet-outrage/ BTS Cast member videos https://imgur.com/gallery/LJf2nhq Music: https://imgur.com/gallery/7sSh72s Evil Dead VHS release https://collider.com/evil-dead-2-vhs-release-date-images/ Netflix's DVD.com short documentaries Disney+ and Hulu to combine https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/8/23952835/disney-plus-hulu-combined-app-q4-2023-earnings?recip_id=427800&lyt_id=427800 ‘Reinventing history': Experts warn the end of physical media will give tech giants even greater control - Experts say a future ruled by streaming and digital content poses a serious threat of censorship https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/reinventing-history-experts-warn-end-physical-media-tech-giants-greater-control Holiday guide for Physical media collectors https://creepycatalog.com/black-friday-2023-online-sale-guide-for-physical-media-collectors/

Originally released on October 18 on Substack.     Well, this was supposed to be a short, well-planned out episode of the Emerald City Video podcast… but I guess that you all know us better than we do. We went longer than expected. This week/month we start a new series of newsy discussions on the state of physical media. This is the Emerald City Video Podcast after all, we started this whole thing based off of working at video rental stores obsessed with movies that we could hold in our hands. The past month has had it's ups and downs when it comes to movies in a tangible form - Netflix ditched its DVD rental site but at the same time we've seen the largest number of discs be made ever. It's an odd time for the Luddite movie appreciator. https://comicbook.com/movies/news/2023-set-to-break-the-record-for-most-dvd-releases-ever-but-theres-a-catch According to the report, the total number of titles released in 2023 is on pace to be over 28,000 -- that's more than 5,000 more than last year...which is the current record-holder for the most titles ever released on disc. The number of titles has been creeping upwards since 2016, with  the pandemic marking a big increase. Looking at a chart included in the story, it appears the high water mark for official releases was 2006, just prior to the release of the Blu-ray format. The numbers crept downward after that, before suddenly getting markedly higher beginning in 2021.  Well, I won't tease too much of the episode here, other than to say physical is here to stay. The links we mention in the show are below. I do apologize for not really reading that one oped well enough to see what they were going for. You'll understand what I'm talking about when we get to it. We're now uploading every episode of ECV on YouTube with video - whether you like looking at our ugly mugs or not.   Subscribe now Netflix to open its own physical stores and restaurants https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/netflix-ending-dvds-warning-film-1234831403/ https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/netflix-permanent-store-restaurant-launch-2025-1235756145/ Collectors say "there is an absolute need for physical media" as Best Buy halts in-store sales https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/collectors-say-there-is-an-absolute-need-for-physical-media-as-best-buy-halts-in-store-sales/ Walmart discontinuing physical games  https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/walmart-discontinuing-physical-games-media-xbox-2024/ Walmart is reportedly going to stop carrying physical games for select platforms next year. Over the last decade or so, we have seen a major rise in digital content.  Physical media and censorship - oped https://www.michigansthumb.com/opinion/article/internet-unforeseen-medium-orwell-bradbury-s-18414808.php Physical books and media are something protected not only by law but also by history. Government seizures of physical property, especially books, are forever associated with regimes like Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, to the point where any attempt by the government or other powerful group to take them would immediately be met with hostility, even if one political party or another didn't agree with what it had to say. On the internet, however, if someone wants to edit a Wikipedia article or change someone's name in the credits of a movie (like they did with Elliot Page's name on Netflix in the credits of "Inception") they don't have to take anything. They just have to quietly alter it and nobody will be able to do a thing about it. It won't be seen as totalitarian or taking away people's freedoms or rewriting history. The Digital-Only Era Is Here, and I'm Ready For It https://www.ign.com/articles/the-digital-only-era-is-here-and-im-ready-for-it But rather than lament its passing, it helped clarify my priorities. Which games do I want to own? And which games do I only want to own physically? This kind of thinking makes the games I do go out and purchase physical editions of that much more special, and my collection of physical media isn't just “stuff I like” but “stuff I love.” Pete Davidson Is Hoping to Make Money by Collecting Thousands of Sealed VHS Tapes: ‘It's My GameStop' https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/alex-ocho/pete-davidson-money-vhs-tapes 20 secs into video - TLDR got really high, realized that they might become profitable. 

The Emerald City Video Podcast is back after a long absence, and it's Russ and Zach breaking down what we watched this year, what we loved, what we...really didn't...and more. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store's legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.    

Russ and Zach talk about their favorite movies from 2001, including Josie and the Pussycats, about which Russ has just written a book. Check it out at josiebook.com! The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store's legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

Zach D Roberts and Russ Burlingame talk about The Suicide Squad, from the brilliant and twisted mind of Guardians of the Galaxy filmmaker James Gunn.  they also mention a little bit at the end about Russ's new book, Best Movie Ever: An Oral History of Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont's Josie and the Pussycats. The book is now available for preorder on Amazon and will be available to buy on August 21. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store's legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

It's here! They #ReleasedTheSnyderCut, and now we're here to talk about it. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store’s legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.    

Yes, it's time to go back to JUSTICE LEAGUE (2017) again, just in time for ZACK SNYDER'S JUSTICE LEAGUE, the upcoming super-long version of the same movie but with better cinematography and more characters. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store’s legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

In this episode, RUSS BURLINGAME and ZACH D ROBERTS talk about the closure of FAMILY VIDEO's brick-and-mortar stores, as well as talking about some of what they've been watching during the winter months, with honorable mentions going to Netflix's DISENCHANTMENT (they sent Zach mead!), the animated movie BATMAN: SOUL OF THE DRAGON, and Russ's recent introduction to IT'S GARRY SHANDLING'S SHOW. And this time, for the first episode in like three months, both of them are and remain completely sober throughout! You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store’s legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

#SaveTheVideoStore...and lots of rants. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store’s legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

We're back! It won't be so long next time, we promise. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store’s legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.    

Russ and Zach talk about Fletch. Kind of. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store’s legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

Together, Russ and Zach are looking at Volition, a movie about a guy with psychic powers who has to scramble when he sees his own death.    It's pretty damn good.

Russ and Zach come back from their long hiatus to talk about...nonsense!

This week, Russ and Zach talk abut Same Boat, a fun and smart romantic comedy with a science-fiction twist and a big heart. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store’s legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.  

Russ and Zach talk about Contagion. So...yeah.

Russ and Zach are back to talk about Jurassic Thunder, a zombies-versus-dinosaurs movie. It's definitely better than the last one. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store’s legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

This week, we look at a contagion movie -- kind of? It's a zombie film that promises something and then TECHNICALLY delivers it, but it's a lot of good execution of ideas that are...just okay: Zombie With a Shotgun. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store’s legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.  

It's the Year of the Bastard, and everybody knows it. Welcome to Year of the Bastard, one of a pair of new ECV features that will also serve as their own stand-alone spinoff podcasts so that people who want to get really granular about specific things can either listen here with all their other ECV content, or they can get it on their own by subscribing to a second feed.  Year of the Bastard will be Russ Burlingame and a rotating cast of guests (including but not limited to Zach D. Roberts and Logan Bretschneider of Emerald City Video) doing an in-depth re-read and analysis of Transmetropolitan, the great Vertigo/Helix series from Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson. One or two issues a week, we will be breaking down Transmet and looking at its fascinating and often horrifying parallels to the world today. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store’s legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

It's time for a new comic book movie, which means it's time for Russ and Zach to pull it down off the new release wall and give it a spin. What did they think of Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)? We'll leave the specifics for the episode, but Russ gave it about a 4.5/5, and Zach gave it a solid 4/5. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store’s legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.    

  Yeah, this one has a title that's kind of wasted on the third movie, when its huge success has already put a fourth -- a movie that could have been called Bad Boys 4 Life -- into produciton. Still, Russ and Zach mostly enjoyed it, and it was a fun thing to get around to, since Russ actually has not SEEN the first two Bad Boys movies. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store’s legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

In our latest episode -- the first movie review of 2020 -- Russ Burlingame and Zach Roberts take a look at Barry Levinson's classic satire Wag the Dog. Obviously, for no reason in particular. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store’s legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.  

Russ Burlingame and Zach Roberts name our Emerald City Video Yellow Brick Awards winners for 2019. Winners are announced on the podcast and tagged via social media. If they want to receive the actual award, they can. The Yellow Brick in question is a VHS tape spray-painted gold and then labeled with their project and mailed out in a rental case. We'll post a longer blog post tomorrow that talks about the winners. For now, feel free to listen! You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store’s legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

Russ and Zach break down Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.   You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store’s legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.  

In this episode, Russ Burlingame is joined by @MakeMineAmalgam, the man behind the #JosieQuest hashtag. This intrepid viewer sat down to watch Josie and the Pussycats, one of Russ's favorite movies and the first film ever discussed on the ECV Podcast, every day for a year. Now, he's here to talk to us about it. Sorry for the audio quality; our usual recoding methods didn't work and this is what we had to work with. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store’s legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

In what used to be -- and probably still should be -- two episodes, Russ and Zach talk for two hours and change about the changing face of streaming, how it's going to cost users a fortune, how coporate America doesn't care to make your movie-watching more pleasant or convenient, and why everyone maybe made too big a deal out of the whole Disney+/Marvel Cinematic Universe kerfuffle last week. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store’s legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.  

Russ: 3/5 Zach: 2/5 This is a little late, but Russ and Zach saw Joker. They didn't love it. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store’s legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

Rating: 5/5 (Russ)             4/5 (Zach) In this episode, Russ and Zach talk about Jay & Silent Bob Reboot, the latest opus from indie icon and geek hero Kevin Smith. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store’s legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.    

Rating: 3/5 Russ is joined by Logan Bretschneider and Dan Fecteau to talk about the new Netflix film, Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store’s legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

In a very special episode, Russ Burlingame is joined by Tucker Brennan, who has plans to revive and reinvent RST Video, the store featured in Kevin Smith's movie Clerks and plenty more.  You can check out the IndieGoGo campaign that will help him do it here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/restore-rst-video/x/9503338#/ You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

Empathy Inc: 4/5 Stars Ready Or Not: 4.5/5 Stars In this episode, Russ and Zach talk about Empathy, Inc and Ready or Not, a pair of smart and creative genre films that deserve more attention. SPOILERS ON for Empathy, Inc, as it's hard to talk about the film without talking about the film. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.  

Rating: 5/5 It's time to talk about Satanic Panic, a low-budget horror movie that Russ and Zach both LOVED. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

The Velocipastor: 4.5/5 The Banana Splits Movie: 4/5 It's been a while since we did a two-movie episode that was ACTUALLY a ton of fun. But here you go. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.    

Hello, and welcome to the Emerald City Video Podcast. This is Russ Burlingame, and tonight is going to be a little different than usual. Today saw the cancellation of KRYPTON, a TV series that ran for two seasons on SYFY and which was not just one of my personal favorite shows on TV but one of the series that has kind of shown me the most love in return. Along with Deadly Class, also cancelled this season on SYFY, these are two of the only shows that have ever quoted me in TV spots. The series was a huge critical hit, especially in its second season, and its cancellation is 100% one of those situations where the ratings did not keep up with the reputation of the show. I’m not going to go after SYFY for this choice; the show was averaging almost 2 million viewers in its first season and was the third-highest-rated show on the network. A year and change later, it’s barely pulling 400,000. Krypton centers on the character of Seg-El — played by Cameron Cuffe. Seg is the grandfather of Superman, and there is a time-travel element that created something of a ticking clock in the first season. If they didn’t stop the bad guys, it would mean that Superman never existed, and Earth’s future is doomed. By the end of the first season, though, the characters had made things infinite worse, and not only was Set exiled to the Phantom Zone, but Zod was in control of Krypton, and years in the future, that would spell disaster for Earth. Krypton was originally billed as “Game of Thrones in Space,” an easy characterization since they actually filmed in Belfast, where Game of Thrones had, and the series featured Ian McIlhenny of Game of Thrones as See’s grandfather, Val-El. The show actually turned out to be something else entirely, and that led to a few growing pains. Ironically, the most GAME OF THRONES-y scene in the whole first season was probably an argument between Elliot Cowan’s Daron Vex and Ann Ogbomo’s Jayna Zod. I saw that scene being filmed during a set visit to Belfast back in 2017. That same week, they were filming the episode — “House of Zod” — which would fundamentally alter what the show was. It has been a hard few months at SYFY. Happy — a series based on the comics from artist Darick Robertson and writer Grant Morrison — was cancelled after two seasons, and after just a single season and a crazy cliffhanger, the network declined to pick up a second season of Deadly Class, based on the comics from Rick Remender and Wes Craig. Krypton had a sequel planned, based on the character of LOBO, who appeared in the show’s second season, but unless either that pilot, or Krypton, or both, can find a new home, it ain’t going to happen. All of these cancellations happened while the network was waiting on new episodes of WYNONNA EARP, which it actually DID pick up but which failed to go into production on time due to a financial shortfall from IDW Entertainment, the current publishers of Wynonna Earp comics and the series’ producers. Suddenly, WYNONNA is the only comic book show still on the air at SYFY, and it’s currently on a weird, unplanned hiatus. While I am not going to lay into SYFY — working in the entertainment industry I know that almost no network ever roots for a show to fail — I will say that it is a strange choice for them to leave fans hanging on both this and Deadly Class. Genre TV has some of the most passionate fans, and every if there aren’t a lot of them, they will punish you for supposed bad behavior. The easiest thing you can do — and something that almost every other network has already figured out to do — is to renew shows for a “final season” to give the producers time to make a good ending and the fans time to adjust to the fact that their show is going away. While something like Deadly Class, which didn’t make it past the first season, might not have supported such a move, certainly Krypton could have. Whatever the case, Krypton was a gorgeously designed, beautifully-shot, wonderfully-acted show that had real heart and real consequences. That might be a surprise to anybody who hasn’t watched it, since the premise — that a time-traveler from the present was going back in time to keep history intact so that Superman could exist — is just begging for a forgettable series that had no real stakes. But Cameron Welsh, the show runner, along with David Goyer, the writers’ room, and series stars Cameron Cuffe, Shaun Sipos, Georgina Campbell, Wallis Day, and others, would not have anything of the sort.  The show’s Kryptonite was arguably that it was so predictable, and its power was in how completely the producers resisted that. Another strength was in the way the characters were treated. While Seg-El has basically no presence in the comics, and most of the other characters had around the same amount of pages in their history, the series treated each of them like a valuable piece of intellectual property. As far as the show was concerned, the El family was Superman, and Seg was treated with as much seriousness and respect as if he had been his grandson. Colin Salmon played General Dru-Zod, best known as one of Superman’s greatest enemies, and he managed to do what many would have though impossible: he surpassed the standard-setting performance of Terrence Stamp in Superman II. Krypton, more generally, managed to be just as exciting and “alien” on a TV budget as it had in MAN OF STEEL, of which Goyer was a writer. Part of that was the show’s ability to do something movies have not so far: embracing the history of the comics. The Justice League, the Green Lanterns, and more exist in the world of Krypton, and even though we don’t see them, there are clear references to them. That status quo set the stage for the introduction of Doomsday, an ancient, biological weapon created by two of Krypton’s greatest scientists and hidden away underground because it was too dangerous to ever use. In the pilot, Val-El, facing execution for “heresy” because he dared to tell the Science Guild that doom was coming in the form of an alien called Brainiac, reached out to his grandson in his final moments. “Keep believing in a better tomorrow,” he told young Seg, and that message reverberated and echoed through Krypton for two seasons. It was, in a lot of ways, the clearest mission statement that the House of El had since Christopher Reeve declared himself “a friend” back in 1978. As far as narrative themes go, you could do a lot worse for a show about heroes, and the writers even managed to turn it back on itself a few times, with a season 2 episode called “A Better Yesterday.” Krypton, though, was a marvel. It was a technical and creative achievement, filled with talented people who all bounced off one another in a way that made each part better, and elevated the whole. Some iconic characters — notably Zod and Doomsday — had their best versions appear on Krypton, and Seg-El will now be a character who people care about for decades to come, in spite of having had something like a total of 30 pages of comic book story before the show began. The show raised the bar for quality on a comic book show. Certainly it is not alone: series like Deadly Class, The Walking Dead, Doom Patrol, and Gotham all contributed to this movement, but Krypton’s second season earned a 100% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes and, in all likelihood, will have launched the career of some fan-favorite actors before all is said and done. In my day job, of course, I come to know a lot of actors, producers, and the like. Most of them I get along with fine, although it’s rare that I can say with a straight face that I have more than one — MAYBE — friend on any given show. Krypton was different. Krypton was a show full of people who were excited to talk to the press, who were passionate about their stories, and who never failed to know my name when we met up at  crowded events. They followed me on Twitter, they replied to my reviews and theories, and they thanked me for the kind words I had for the show — even though there was no thanks necessary because the only reason I praised it is that they had earned the praise. I will close out, then, with a message for the writers, producers, cast, and crew of KRYPTON. I told Cameron Cuffe something similar in a message I sent him shortly after I heard about the cancellation, but he is not alone. As a viewer of the show and as a reporter who covered it, thank all of you for this gem of a series, which brought me a lot of joy and raised the bar for comic book adaptations on TV. I look forward to what comes next from this stellar cast and crew, and will be more than happy to cover whatever that is. For me, I'm bummed by the loss of a great show, but I'm far more sad for those who are losing jobs and opportunities due to the cancellation. Krypton was a great, talented, and friendly cast and crew that it was a pleasure to get to know and cover over the last year and a half.  And the doors they opened, and the bar they raised, will reverberate into the future, spawning a better class of comic book show and making stars out of some of these young, talented, unknown actors and writers. This particular show, and these particular people, may not be around to enjoy the better tomorrow they have helped to build for the audience, but their contribution will not be forgotten. That’s all I’ve got for tonight, folks, so thanks for listening. Be back by noon on the 5th day for more form Emerald City Video, and keep believing in a better tomorrow. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. 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Review Score: 5/5 Zach Roberts (@zdroberts) is back in town, so he and Russ (@russburlingame) join forces for a new episode of the new release wall, where they checked out Blinded By the Light at an early, "Springsteen Fan Event" screening four days before its official release on Friday. Russ braved being sick and Zach being jet-lagged after a week-long event in Switzerland to go see this movie. Was it worth it? Well... You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.  

Review Score: 5/5 Russ Burlingame and Shawn Carpenter from Delicious Flavor: A Psych Rewatch Podcast break down the final season of iZombie, a criminally underrated show with heart, humor...and a pinch of horror. You can read Russ's interview with showrunner Rob Thomas here. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.  

Review Score: 3/5 You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

Emerald City Video hosts Russ Burlingame (ComicBook.com) and Zach D. Roberts (Around the Lens) talk Comic Con International: San Diego 2019, where Russ checked out various Warner Bros. TV projects including the end of ARROW, the CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS, RIVERDALE, and the final season of SUPERNATURAL. We also talk about the "Kevin Smith Reboots Hall H" panel and a little bit about Marvel's aggressive new slate of movies and TV shows. Jay & Silent Bob Reboot Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHvaWulHk5E You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.  

With the end of the Syracuse New Times, we want to start repping the hometown a bit more and covering some local events. We started with one we were already planning to attend. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

Review Scores:  The Dead Don't Die: 5/5 Hi-Death 1/5 Here are Russ's notes from Hi-Death, as mentioned in the episode:  Opening shot of Romero’s star. Yeah, we get plenty of others — but the OPENING SHOT. Titles looked amateur — budget or choice? And I love the music that sounds like just a 2-minute version of an old direct-to-VHS studio fanfare. Zero budget in an endearing way. The acting is WOOF but little things like not having.a filter so the phone shows up properly onscreen feels properly guerrilla. Cut from the opening scene of bright, musical, cheerful LA to the silent (for like 5 seconds, TOTALLY silent) train station at night felt jarring at first but was actually a great choice.  They hold the show JUST long enough so it feels like maybe your computer froze. Diminishing returns when they did the same thing again from the nightclub to the alley. It feels like Chuck Palahniuk’s writing in Fight Club, where ehe found a couple of cool stylistic choices and just repeated them till they weren’t cool anymore. The girl who is tripping in the first segment is actually great when she’s doing dialogue but her actual physical acting is really hit or miss. This feels like a shot-on-shitty-o movie from the ‘80s and if it was shot in low resolution on VHS, it would probably look better. The HD doesn’t do many favors for effects like the Reaper. The guy in “Night Drop” is the worst burglar ever. He takes off his mask AND takes the time to open the briefcase? Just steal the briefcase! Why the surreptitious hand-off of the money/goods when they’re the ONLY ONESon the bleachers with no sporting event going on? That’s so much sketchier than just meeting anywhere else. The “Switchblade Bandit” segment is full of cheap and lazy iMovie effects. Rockoff doesn’t know how to smoke. “Night Drop” was shot in a Family Video. The actors are pretty solid, especially by comparison to “Dealers of Death,” as are the filmmaking choices. His hand trauma reminds me of the time I stabbed myself in the thumb with a pair of scissors while working at Blockbuster. I still have a scar and nerve damage to this day. “Fantastic Flicks” is the fake name for the video store in spite of being able to clearly see Family Video logos in several shots. Red DVD cases pretty much are always porn The DVD from Night Drop is creepy on a David Lynch level and it really should not have been put right after the dreadful Night Drop. All those copies of The Peanuts Movie on the new release wall pretty much dates this segment. So it’s The Ring on steroids. Right. “The only reason I’m seeing you for this audition is that my friend Michelle said that you were good” is a hell of a piece of expository dialogue. The girl in the actress one (Fabiana Formica) is probably the best actress in the movie, which is fortunate. I’m not sure what that one has to do with the whole horror/supernatural thing though. And it feels incredibly indulgent. She’s joined in that one by Julia Vally, who recently appeared in an episode of What They Do In The Shadows Once the POV girl is lost, why not use her phone’s GPS? It’s obviously working. Why is the painter rocking back and forth? And is that Gatorade in the water bottle supposed to be pee? It’s ORANGE. The VFX people on this movie don’t really get how anything looks or works on the inside. The devil guy talking over the guy’s shoulder in “The Muse” was actually not bad when he was bathed in shadow, or even when he was killing the hooker. But once you get clear shots of him in (relative) light it’s a mess. The gratuitous mix of sex and violence feels the most like the ‘80s slasher movies the anthology is meant (I guess) to pay tribute to. The whole thing feels like a love letter to Creepshow and Tales From the Crypt, but done with 2% of the budget and 1% of the talent. Creepy guy in the beanie has those weird sex backing his voice that sounds like they are doing the backwards talking thing from Twin Peaks, but without actually doing git. It’s weird. Also, this whole thing went from killing people in back rooms to a Cthulu ruling the world. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.  

In today's installment of the New Release Wall, Russ and Zach talk about Dark Phoenix, the latest X-Men movie, and...well, we talked a lot, so I'll shut up now and let the episode do the heavy lifting. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.    

Russ and Zach break down Godzilla: King of the Monsters and tee up the next NRW episode, X-Men: Dark Phoenix. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

In the latest installment of the new release wall, Russ and Zach talk about the new indie horror movie Winterskin. And while we are all about most of our indie horror movies, no matter how schlocky, this one just did not connect with us at all. You can hear why in the podcast. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.  

I know, I know -- I still haven't finished the ECV 100 installments yet. But the Class of 1999 series, which will run irregularly for the rest of the year, is something that fits in nicely with the idea of "legacy," so we're going to put those on Mondays too, at least on weeks that we don't already have an ECV 100 thing. Here, we talk about Payback, which is a great movie with a terrible director's cut that we did NOT rewatch. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

Russ and Zach talk this week's biggest movie, John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.  

In this episode, Russ Burlingame talks with Ted Sikora about his new comic, Tap Dance Killer. He is currently crowdfunding the first trade paperback on Kickstarter, which you can check out here and pre-order a copy. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.    

Russ and Zach talk about the indie dramedy The Browsing Effect. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

The latest episode of Archie Digest: A Riverdale Podcast ran a little long — actually about another 15 minutes over what you hear here, since Russ ended up trimming quite a bit of comic book talk that wandered off into the esoteric and absurd.   We’ve got quite a bit going on this week. Obviously the biggest piece is talking about “Chapter Five: Heart of Darkness,” the episode of Riverdale that just finished airing minutes ago as of when this episode posted.   Other areas we touched on included the Riverdale comic book, which launches next Wednesday, March 1, from Archie Comics. We took a little time out to look at the sales pitch for the first three issues, including May’s issue of Riverdale which feels very much like a wink and a nod to a classic film starring upcoming Riverdale guest star Molly Ringwald!   Let us know in the comments whether you enjoyed the comics talk. It certainly seems germane to the podcast, and Russ writing for a comic book website it seemed to make sense to at least address it, but obviously if we’re going to add a few minutes to the show every month or so to look at solicitations and/or the comics themselves, we want to make sure the listeners are finding it enjoyable and worthwhile.   There’s also the matter of Beaverdale, a porn parody of Archie Comics recently released to capitalize on the increased awareness of the characters thanks to Riverdale’s success. You can check out the official trailer for this incredibly bizarre abomination below. If it’s your kind of thing, you can see it at PornHub Premium — although, no, we aren’t going to do an episode of the podcast for this one. Sorry.  

HOLDING ON — When Jughead (Cole Sprouse) learns that an anonymous buyer has plans to tear down the local drive-in, he fights desperately to keep it open. Betty (Lili Reinhart) finds her friendship with Archie on the line after stumbling upon some startling information she’s uncovered about Miss Grundy’s (guest star Sarah Habel) past.   Elsewhere, Veronica (Camila Mendes) confronts her mother Hermoine (Marisol Nichols) about a suspicious meeting she witnessed between her mother and a shady Southside Serpent. Finally, after uncovering Betty’s diary, Alice (Madchen Amick) finds the perfect opportunity to destroy Archie’s golden boy image.  

Russ, Craig, and Chris broadcast from Vancouver, BC, where they're currently visiting the set of Riverdale!