Wired Shut

Its all about family this week. Family and Harry Connick Jr.

We talk about Vin Diesel's Bloodshot and the nanomachines in your butt, David Lynch's Dune and the Sandworms in your butt, plus Netflix's Ragnarok and the World Serpent in your butt.

We talk about our love for the Atari VCS and then in descending order of interest some other things involving evil, murderous monsters with nothing behind the eyes - Zach Snyder's Army of the Dead, The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It, and Jeff Bezos

We try to review the new Mortal Kombat movie with friend of the podcast Callum Wagstaff. It goes well?

We talk about Love & Monsters starring a Zach Braff type, Promising Young Woman with it’s Garden State whimsical representation of depression and The Vast of Night which frankly is just a really good movie about a small town with things falling from the sky but noone believes anything the main character says….oh god, it’s Chicken Little.

What better way to get into Wired Shut 2021 than watching 4 hours of Justice League and listening to a podcast about those 4 hours of Justice League? #releasethewiredshut #borglife #restorethesnyderverse

Shout out to that Twitter user who made us laugh at Tony Shalhoub Pro Skater too

Another in-person episode where old feelings about new movies come to the surface. We review Raised by Wolves for the first hour then quickly go off the rails at all the Alien sequels, James Cameron and naturally end on Star Wars because we’re hungover and tired and John Boyega should have been the main character of the new trilogy. There, we said it.

We review Tenet and unexpectedly ruin Logan's favourite director in the process. Whoops.

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We review Extraction, The Old Guard, Relic, Snowpiercer and touch on Raised by Wolves while also responding to the Beirut event.

Next up is the original Dracula + Wolfman + Creature from the Black Lagoon

We compare The Mummy (1932) to The Mummy (1999) to The Mummy (2017) + The original Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein as Logan is binging all the original Universal Monster Movies.

We talk about Da 5 Bloods and criticisms surrounding it's plot contrasted with the powerful history of black men and the Vietnam War draft. We also ramble and some such about the space jerk-off movie High Life and slum it amongst the Colour Out Of Space and Slender Man because we love us some shitty horror. Also, we love Gore Verbinski so we talk about Rango too and the lack of Rango 2.

It's the end of NZ's lockdown and ya know what? None of that fucking matters, Black Lives Matter.

We talk the Westworld Season 3 Finale and a whole host of 2019-20 horror movies that Logan watched and Jesse didnt!

Jesse finally caught up on 3 seasons of Westworld during the lock-down and off the back of some timely news about Evan Rachel Wood’s efforts in extending the statute of limitations for sexual assault cases in California. We cover our theories about the show, have some thoughts on the filthiness that is Hollywood, fame and rape culture, before rambling a little bit about our love of all things Nuclear, except Fallout ‘76, which fucking sucks. Don’t pay for that game like we did.

We continue our lockdown podcast clown town, talk about Warhammer lore off-mic, Marie Osmond's children on-mic, and laugh-cry when we talk about being creative executives for a company who just needs ideas and nothing else aka our dream job. Also Logan made a baby Yoda from clay and its terrifyingly cute.

COVID-19 continues to shut down New Zealand, and we're doing just fine.

We experience Day 0 of the NZ-wide Coronavirus lockdown. Things are already getting weird.

We wake up early on a Sunday to bring you the news that is the ‘12 Monkeys’ TV show from 5 years ago. Then we talk about the ‘Resident Evil’ reboot , the new AppleTV + Show ‘Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet’, and accidentally come up with a new idea for a podcast after talking about the ‘Fitzcarraldo’ film by Werner Herzog. Whoops.

Corona Virus, Apple vs Amazon. Chinese political influence in NZ vs NZ being afraid of anyone Chinese who might sneeze. Jennifer Aniston almost-no-wait-definitely crying in every episode vs Billy Crudup smiling. The things that got us ruffled this week.

We discuss the Iran stuff in real-time, review Train to Busan and explore the Amnesia games, with sexy results!

We review Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and get drunk enough to also discuss the problems with capitalism.

It’s the end of season 3 and the boys are back in town. Logan, Jesse, and Callum of Bittercup all come together to laugh, cry, riff, biff and celebrate the 69th episode of Wired Shut. Nice.

Rule 34 Baby Yoda + Death Stranding review - that's why this episode is so fucking long

Not a very good episode. The Will.i.am of episodes

We discuss Apple and Disney Plus and all manner of Werner Herzog-related antics ensue!

We talk Netflix's Daybreak, HBO's Watchmen and Disney's Monopoly

Logan and Charlotte took a walking tour and propositioned an elderly Scientologist for sexual adventures.

No seriously, that's it. One topic. I know, it's weird. Is this the new us?

We interview BitterCup Frontman and Doorman, Callum Wagstaff

Featuring Charlotte - the girl without a sense of smell, but with an appetite for fudge!

Ted Raimi is hot, Jim Carrey is sad. Welcome to the Upside Down.

We talk all things E3 2019, Nolan and I Am Mother

Oh god, there's not a lot going on this episode. Features passionate political discourse. Also dick jokes.

We talk Black Mirror and X-Men. All the good rat jokes are in the first five minutes.

We discuss the quality of Ryan Reynold's knees and whether Sally Hawkins and Juliette Binoche are interchangeable.

3 month hiatus you say? That’s a bold-face truth!

What do you want from us? Content? Regular content? Okay. We chat about Umbrella Academy and video games and stuff.

Read the fucking title mate, we talk about the Academy Awards and jailbait a guy named Oscar.

Wow we actually had a crisp, clean, well-timed episode that doesn't sound like garbage. Enjoy!Wow we actually had a crisp, clean, well-timed episode that doesn't sound like garbage. Enjoy!

Spider-Man references, StarCraft explainings. We are so sorry.

Episode 50 has us discuss our Netflix and chills, Peter Stormare, and a new animated idea about the end of the world.

We review Deadpool 2: The Rise of Taj and talk about dead kids?

The Roe v Wade of things Kevin Smith cares about, probably. 

A brave new virtual world awaits you all.

We review A Quiet Place, The Death of Stalin, the trailer for the new Purge movie and talk about our UFO experience from Forestcast