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Welcome to Multiverse News, Your source for Information about all your favorite fictional universes. It wasn't quite the box office battle Hollywood wanted it to be this weekend with Wicked and Gladiator II going toe to toe in movie theaters. The musical movie adaptation soared with a nearly $114 million domestic opening, making it the biggest premiere ever for a Broadway movie adaptation. Into the Woods previously held that title, opening to just $31 million in 2014. Internationally, Wicked raked in an additional $50.2 million giving it a total opening of $164 million. While Gladiator II limped behind the musical phenomenon domestically, opening to $55.5 million, it succeeded in the international market to the tune of $165.5 million and overtook Wicked's worldwide box office significantly due to opening one week earlier internationally. The Blonde Bond himself, Daniel Craig, is a potential star for the feature film Sgt. Rock, which is in early development with DC Studios. While nothing is known about the plot, the character first appeared in comics in 1959 as a World War II soldier and was created by Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert. Challengers director Luca Guadagnino is set to direct and his screenwriting collaborator on both Challengers and upcoming film Queer, Justin Kurtizkes, will pen the script. In a deleted scene from Season 2 of Loki — part of an impending 4K UHD Blu-ray release — Loki recalls just how many people said Loki was a problem while talking with his friend Mobius over slices of key lime pie. After listing many names, Loki also brings up two villains from Marvel comics that audiences have not yet encountered in the MCU. The first is Amora, also known as Enchantress and the second is Absorbing Man, who began life as a boxer named Carl Creel, a character seen in Agents of Shield, — until Loki poisons him with an elixir that gives him the ability to transform his body into the quality of anything he touches. At the very end, Loki also brings up Hercules, who appeared in a post credits scene of Thor: Love and Thunder. Disney and Lucasfilm have revealed that animated anthology series Star Wars: Visions is coming back for a third volume in 2025. A new teaser has been released for Noah Hawley's upcoming Alien franchise series titled Alien: Earth that confirms the series will arrive in the summer of 2025 on FX and Hulu. Deadline has confirmed that Suits spinoff series Suits: LA will feature the return of Gabriel Macht who played Harvey Specter on the original series in a limited reprisal of his role that is being described as a three episode arc. Robert Pattinson and Charlize Theron have both joined the cast of Christopher Nolan's upcoming untitled film. They join Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong'o, and Matt Damon. Banijay Rights, the distributor for Netflix anthology series Black Mirror, has struck a deal with Neil Gibson's UK-based Twisted Comics to create comics based on several of the episodes of the series. Developer CD Projekt announced The Witcher 4 video game is now in full-scale production. Isabel May, best known for her role in Yellowstone prequel series 1883 and 1923, has joined the cast of Scream 7 and will play Neve Campbell's daughter. Samuel L. Jackson is in negotiations for a key role in J.J. Abrams' untitled feature at Warner Bros. He joins Jenna Ortega, Glen Powell, and Emma Mackey. In an interview about his upcoming voice role of Doctor Phosphorus in Creature Commandos, Alan Tudyk confirmed that he will also voice Clayface in the series. Tudyk also voices Clayface on Harley Quinn: The Animated Series and its spin-off Kite-Man: Hell Yeah!, but this version will be a new iteration of the character.

This week we're heading back to Haddonfield with Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995). We delve into its chaotic production history, dissect the contrast between the theatrical and producer's cuts, and examine its mark on the franchise. In this episode's b-side, we share our thoughts on the legacy of Jamie Lloyd, dive into the controversies of recasting roles in horror, and reflect on the stars who got their start in horror movies. This episode contains spoilers, beginning at 37:34. Mentioned in the Episode Watch the Movie Streaming Prime Video Prime Video: Producer's Cut Main Episode The Halloween 4K Collection: 1995 - 2002 [4K UHD + Blu-ray] Taking Shape: Developing Halloween from Script to Scream Taking Shape II: The Lost Halloween Sequels Halloween: Illustrated Hard Copy by Curtis Richards Halloween: Illustrated Hard Cover - Halloween H45 Edition LIMITED Previous Episodes 66: Halloween II (1981) 124: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) 125: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) 301: Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) Rewind: Halloween (2018) Episode 179: Halloween Kills (121) Episode 238: Halloween Ends (2022) B-side 10 Horror Franchises that Recast Iconic Characters (And Why) 10 Horror Movie Re-Castings That Proved Successful Who Is That?! 12 Horror Roles that Were Recast for the Sequel Well-Known Actors Who Started Off in Horror Movies Support the Show Support the Show on Patreon Join our Discord Server Special Thanks We want to give a special thanks to these patrons for continuing to make this show possible Music Credits "Hack or Slash" by Daniel Stapleton

Ain't no rats in this pack, daddy-o! Just Ian and Jeff looking back at 2001's Ocean's Eleven--a film that holds up and holds its own as one of Hollywood's coolest, cleverest blockbusters!In Steven Soderbergh's action/comedy heist flick, George Clooney plays Danny Ocean, a professional con man who's just been released from a 4-year prison stint. He immediately hatches a plan to steal $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos, and recruits an all-star cast of misfit criminal specialists to help him pull off the job. Complicating matters is the fact that Ocean's ex-wife, Tess (Julia Roberts), has taken up with Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia), the corrupt manager of the mega-vault connecting all three casinos!In this spoilerific retrospective, the guys look at Ocean's Eleven as an evolution from Soderbergh's 1998 film, Out of Sight (also starring Clooney as an ex-con out for one last score); lament the death of the "movie star"; stand up for Roberts' character against accusations of being under-developed; and, somehow, get embroiled in the Harrison Butker controversy!Plus, much more!Subscribe, like, and comment to the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel, and check out kickseat.com for multiple movie podcasts each week!Show LinksWatch the Ocean's Eleven (2001) trailer. Pick up the new 4K UHD Blu-ray Ocean's Trilogy from Warner Bros.Watch Ian and Cole Rush's "Page2Screen" review of Soderbergh's Out of Sight:Keep up with Jeff York's criticism and caricatures at The Establishing Shot.

Ian and David are on the hunt for the perfect thrilling summer blockbuster--and have traveled all the way back to 1993's The Fugitive!In Andrew Davis' Academy Award-nominated adaptation of the 1960s TV show, Harrison Ford stars as Dr. Richard Kimble--a famous surgeon wrongfully accused of killing his wife (Sela Ward). Set free by a catastrophic accident during his prison transport, Kimble sets out to clear his name by finding the mysterious one-armed man who actually committed the murder. He's beset by a team of U.S. Marshals, led by the dogged and calculating Sam Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones), whose pursuit of his prey knows no compromise.In this loving and spoilerific look-back, the guys praise The Fugitive for being the kind of serious (and seriously exciting) big-budget entertainment Hollywood refuses to make anymore; puzzle over the movie's wild "Illinois" geography; and plow through the film's numerous "errors".Plus: Ian evades capture by changing his appearance live on camera!Subscribe, like, and comment to the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel, and check out kickseat.com for multiple movie podcasts each week!Show LinksWatch The Fugitive (1993) trailer.Pick up The Fugitive on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Warner Bros.Speaking of Chicago institutions, here's your reminder that the 11th Chicago Critics Film Festival has taken over the Music Box Theatre! Get your festival passes and tickets now!Follow David Fowlie's film criticism at Keeping It Reel.

Join Tom, William, and friend of the show Sean Keane as they share their spoiler-free review of the new six-episode series Tales of the Empire which premieres on May 4th. They also review the new 4K UHD Blu-ray box sets for Andor Season 1 and Obi-Wan Kenobi. “Star Wars: Tales of the Empire” is a […]

What do Sam Raimi's Darkman and James Wan's Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom have in common? Beyond the obvious comic-book-movie aesthetic, the answers may surprise you!Ian makes some fun connections while exploring the special features on both films' recent 4K UHD Blu-ray releases!Subscribe, like, and comment to the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel, and check out kickseat.com for multiple movie podcasts each week!Show LinksWatch our full Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom round table review.Watch our full Darkman round table review.Order Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Warner Bros.Order Darkman on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Shout! Factory.Check out our "Hammerland" review series (mentioned in the show!).

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Ian and Jeff board the grief gondola for a look at Nicolas Roeg's 1973 thriller, Don't Look Now!Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie star as a couple who move to Venice, following the accidental drowning of their young daughter. The bereaved couple is soon visited by a pair of sisters, one of whom claims to have psychic visions of the child--and shares a warning of impending doom.Oh, did we mention there's also a killer on the loose?Through haunting imagery, innovative editing, and a truly eerie conception of time and space, Roeg's landmark film has inspired the likes of Steven Soderbergh and Danny Boyle. In this spoilerific review, Ian and Jeff talk life, death, superstition--and wonder why this movie didn't quite make the cut for "Accademia Giallo"!Subscribe, like, and comment to the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel, and check out kickseat.com for multiple movie podcasts each week!Show LinksWatch the Don't Look Now trailer.Order Criterion's recently released 4K UHD Blu-ray of Don't Look Now.Keep up with Jeff York's criticism and caricatures at The Establishing Shot!Bonus! See what happened when Ian confronted the Accademia Giallo faculty about Don't Look Now's “non-Giallo” status!Chicagoans! Help the Music Box Theatre close out their 2024 "January Giallo" series with two nights of terror from Sergio Martino!This Monday and Tuesday (1/22 - 1/23), you can catch the Maestro's classics, Torso and The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh on the big screen--with an ultra-rare in-person Q&A following both screenings!Click here for times, tickets, and more information!Continue your education with our "Accademia Giallo" Playlist!

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we're honored to chat with iconic director John Sayles, whose essential crime epic Lone Star is now available from The Criterion Collection in both 4K UHD + Blu-ray. Our B-Sides today include Limbo, Amigo, and Go For Sisters. We also discuss Sayles' parallel careers as a screenwriter and a novelist. He talks about the work he did on the Toshirô Mifune/Scott Glenn actioner The Challenge (director John Frankenheimer asking him to write new draft over a weekend before an impending strike); he discusses what he learned working for Roger Corman early in his career; which genre he's still itching to direct; his love of the recent Godzilla Minus One; and the slew of scripts that never got made. Other Sayles movies to seek out (really it's all of them) include: The Secret of Roan Inish, Passion Fish, Eight Men Out, City of Hope, The Brother from Another Planet, Return of the Secaucus 7, and Men with Guns. Other mentions include the 1939 Philippine–American War film The Real Glory, La fine della notte from 1989 (the first Italian film with sync sound, which Sayles acted in!), and his recent novel Jamie MacGillivray. There's also his wonderful 2020 fracking novel Yellow Earth. Be sure to give us a follow on Twitter and Facebook at @TFSBSide. Also enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor.

As teased at the end of their Color Purple remake review, Ian and Armond White also talked about Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon Part 1 - A Child of Fire!In this brief review (more to come later this year, once Part 2 comes out), Armond explains why the Watchmen director's take on the Star Wars mythos is one of his favorite films of 2023--and why he's never held George Lucas' pop-defining franchise in high esteem!The guys also touch on DC, Marvel, and the lack of true "cinema" in the blockbuster marketplace. Subscribe, like, and comment to the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel, and check out kickseat.com for multiple movie podcasts each week!Show LinksWatch the Rebel Moon (2023) trailer.Watch Ian and Armond's review of the recent Color Purple remake (which directly preceded this conversation)!Read Armond's latest pieces for The National Review (discussed in the show):The Color Purple (2023)Rebel Moon (2023)The 2023 "Better Than" ListPlus: Read John Demetry's thorough defense of Rebel Moon Part 1 on Letterboxd.Also read Armond's review of Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon (mentioned in the show).Order the book that inspired these regular movie chats: Armond's Make Spielberg Great Again.As mentioned in the show, you should skip the new Color Purple and pick up Spielberg's 1985 classic instead--now available on 4K UHD Blu-ray from WB Home Video!

Revisiting this one in 4K!  13 Hours (2016) - 4K UHD Blu-ray Review #13hours #michaelbay #podcast ~ You can subscribe to my podcasts on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iTunes, Amazon Music/Audible, Google Podcasts, iHeart Radio, Pandora, TuneIn, Alexa, Player FM, Samsung, Podchaser, Stitcher, Boomplay, Overcast, Pocket Cast, Castro, Castbox, Podfriend and Goodpods with more on the way.  ~ -Join my group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rockfilesroom -My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rockfile -My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rockfile -Interview Archive: https://tinyurl.com/rockfileinterviews ~ Music by Bountigrade by Valdi Sabev  Filmstro | Create custom royalty-free music in minutes  https://filmstro.com/ ~ Thank you for listening! ~

Well, Bumblebee was good. Transformers Rise Of The Beasts (2023) - 4K UHD Blu-ray Review #transformers #riseofthebeasts #podcast ~ You can subscribe to my podcasts on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iTunes, Amazon Music/Audible, Google Podcasts, iHeart Radio, Pandora, TuneIn, Alexa, Player FM, Samsung, Podchaser, Stitcher, Boomplay, Overcast, Pocket Cast, Castro, Castbox, Podfriend and Goodpods with more on the way.  ~ -Join my group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rockfilesroom -My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rockfile -My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rockfile -Interview Archive: https://tinyurl.com/rockfileinterviews ~ Music by Bountigrade by Valdi Sabev  Filmstro | Create custom royalty-free music in minutes  https://filmstro.com/ ~ Thank you for listening! ~

Very impressed!  Prey (2022) - 4K UHD Blu-ray Review #preymovie #predator #podcast ~ You can subscribe to my podcasts on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iTunes, Amazon Music/Audible, Google Podcasts, iHeart Radio, Pandora, TuneIn, Alexa, Player FM, Samsung, Podchaser, Stitcher, Boomplay, Overcast, Pocket Cast, Castro, Castbox, Podfriend and Goodpods with more on the way.  ~ -Join my group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rockfilesroom -My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rockfile -My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rockfile -Interview Archive: https://tinyurl.com/rockfileinterviews ~ Music by Bountigrade by Valdi Sabev  Filmstro | Create custom royalty-free music in minutes  https://filmstro.com/ ~ Thank you for listening! ~

Physical media isn't dead, but some studios are doing more than others to preserve the tradition of robust, features-heavy discs. I've got a stack of DVD's, Blu-rays, and 4K's to review, and some fiery opinions on recent releases from Criterion, Kino Lorber, and Warner Bros!Subscribe, like, and comment to the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel, and check out kickseat.com for multiple movie podcasts each week!Show LinksBuy Only in Theaters on DVD from Kino Lorber.Watch Ian and Sujewa's interview with Only in Theaters director Raphael Sbarge and documentary subjects Greg and Tish Laemmle.Buy No Bears on Blu-ray from Criterion.Watch Ian and Sujewa review No Bears.Buy National Lampoon's Vacation on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Warner Bros.Buy Enter the Dragon on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Warner Bros.Watch Ian and Pat review Enter the Dragon.Buy The Flash on 4K UHD Blu-ray.Watch Earth's Mightiest Critics review The Flash. Buy Barbie on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Warner Bros.Watch Earth's Mightiest Critics review Barbie.

Revisiting this in 4k.  Ender's Game (2013) - 4K UHD Blu-ray Review #endersgame #orsonscottcard #podcast ~ You can subscribe to my podcasts on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iTunes, Amazon Music/Audible, Google Podcasts, iHeart Radio, Pandora, TuneIn, Alexa, Player FM, Samsung, Podchaser, Stitcher, Boomplay, Overcast, Pocket Cast, Castro, Castbox, Podfriend and Goodpods with more on the way.  ~ -Join my group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rockfilesroom -My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rockfile -My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rockfile -Interview Archive: https://tinyurl.com/rockfileinterviews ~ Music by Bountigrade by Valdi Sabev  Filmstro | Create custom royalty-free music in minutes  https://filmstro.com/ ~ Thank you for listening! ~

Here's my review of the Blu-Ray release of Dungeons & Dragons! Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Amongst Thieves is available to Download & Keep now and on DVD, Blu-ray™, 4K UHD™ and 4K UHD™ + Blu-ray™ SteelBook® 31st July.

Sarah Polley is aangenomen als regisseur voor een live action film van Disney. De nieuwe Alien film van Fede Álvarez heeft een officiële releasedatum gekregen. Andy Muschietti heeft het blijkbaar goed gedaan als regisseur van The Flash, want hij is alweer betrokken bij een nieuw DC project. Aaron Taylor-Johnson is een jager op groot wild in de trailer van Kraven the Hunter. Zendaya houdt wel van spelen met een balletje (wink wink nodge nodge!) in de trailer van Challengers. En om weer in de onschuldige modus te komen hebben we het over Nimona, de tiener die van gedaante kan verwisselen.   We geven een review van de 4K UHD & Blu-ray van The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Wil jij deze toffe film winnen? Doe dan mee aan onze prijsvraag!   Ben je Film Fans Podcast Fan en wil je meer van ons horen elke maand? Steun dan onze podcast vanaf één euro per maand via Patreon en krijg er leuke extra's voor terug! Steun ons via https://www.patreon.com/FilmFansPodcast   Vergeet je niet te abonneren op ons kanaal, laat een review achter in jouw podcast-app, volg ons op Facebook: www.facebook.com/filmfanspodcast en Instagram: www.instagram.com/filmfanspodcast. Voor meer reviews, filmnieuws en afleveringen ga je naar www.filmfanspodcast.nl. Voor vragen en opmerkingen mag je ons altijd mailen via mail@filmfanspodcast.nl.

Kneel before pod! Hot on the heels of last week's Superman livestream, Earth's Mightiest Critics return for a look at both cuts of Superman II!Years ago, WB put out an alternate cut of the 1980 sequel, comprised of original, alternate, and unfinished scenes that were more in line with what director Richard Donner had originally envisioned. The result is a bizarre "Tale of Two Movies", both centered on Superman's rejection of his powers at the precise moment a trio of Kryptonian criminals arrive on Earth with domination and destruction on the brain!In this spoilerific round table review, we look at the pros and cons of both films, and debate which version deserves to wear the cape!Superman: The Movie was recently released by WB Home Entertainment as part of a 4K UHD Blu-ray box set of the 1978-1987 films.Show LinksWatch the Superman II trailer.Support all of Earth's Mightiest Critics at their various outlets:Check out Mark "The Movie Man" Krawczyk's The Spoiler Room Podcast.Follow David Fowlie's film criticism at Keeping It Reel.Get educated with Don Shanahan at Every Movie Has a Lesson…...And Film Obsessive...and the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast.Make Nice with Mike Crowley of You'll Probably Agree.Keep up with Annie Banks at Chuck Load of Comics....and MoviewebKeep up with Jeff York's criticism and caricatures at The Establishing Shot.And stir things up with Will Johnson of the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast.Subscribe to, like, and comment on the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel!

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You'll believe a podcast can fly! Join Earth's Mightiest Critics live for a soaring celebration of Richard Donner's landmark superhero adventure, Superman: The Movie!Christopher Reeve stars Kal-El, the sole survivor of the doomed planet Krypton. He lands on Earth, where he discovers unique powers that allow him to become a hero to the helpless and a defender of justice. He runs afoul of criminal mastermind Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman), and the rest is cinema history!In this retro round table, the EMC look back on the movie that started it all. This discussion considers Superman as a movie, as a special effects breakthrough, and as a pop cultural phenomenon that comic-book-movie creators are, in many ways, still chasing today.Superman: The Movie was recently released by WB Home Entertainment as part of a 4K UHD Blu-ray box set of the 1978-1987 films.Show LinksWatch the Superman: The Movie trailer.Support all of Earth's Mightiest Critics at their various outlets:Check out Mark "The Movie Man" Krawczyk's The Spoiler Room Podcast.Follow David Fowlie's film criticism at Keeping It Reel.Get educated with Don Shanahan at Every Movie Has a Lesson…...And Film Obsessive...and the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast.Make Nice with Mike Crowley of You'll Probably Agree.Keep up with Annie Banks at Chuck Load of Comics....and MoviewebKeep up with Jeff York's criticism and caricatures at The Establishing Shot.And stir things up with Will Johnson of the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast.Subscribe to, like, and comment on the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel!

At long last, Ian welcomes Dog Soldiers superfan-turned-author-turned-filmmaker, Janine Pipe!Ever since last year's review of Neil Marshall's 2002 squaddies-versus-werewolves movie, Ian has been low-key obsessed with catching up on the writer/director's filmography. Fortunately, UK-based author Janine Pipe wrote a heartfelt, thorough, and thoroughly enjoyable book called Sausages: The Making of Dog Soldiers--which covers everything about the project, from concept, to filming, to release, and beyond. In this wide-ranging conversation, Janine talks about stepping away from a career in law enforcement to focus on motherhood, and how that made way for her turning a lifelong passion for horror movies into a snowball of writing gigs, meeting and collaborating with her filmmaking hero, and now producing, writing, and directing her own short films!This one's for anyone who needs that push to stop dreaming and start being! Show LinksWatch the Dog Soldiers trailer.Buy Janine's book, Sausages: The Making of Dog Soldiers.Support Janine's latest short film, Footsteps, Executive-produced by Neil Marshall (now In Demand at IndieGoGo).Buy Scream Factory's 4K UHD Blu-ray of Dog Soldiers.Watch the episode that started it all--Ian and Chad's Dog Soldiers review.Watch Ian, Chad, and AC review Neil Marshall's 2005 film, The Descent.Subscribe to, like, and comment on the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel!

Yes, May 4th is Star Wars day. No, we didn't talk about Star Wars.But Earth's Mightiest Critics did talk about a rebellious country boy (with a very familiar name) who must navigate a treacherous hive of scum and villainy!In this round table review of Cool Hand Luke, we look at Stuart Rosenberg's sweltering chain gang drama, which stars Paul Newman in the iconic, titular role. From changing depictions of masculinity on film; to connections with Christ imagery and Rebel Without A Cause, and the disappearance of culture-shaking big studio pictures from the modern movie landscape--this spirited episode is 50 eggs worth o' podcast!Cool Hand Luke is now available on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.Show LinksWatch the Cool Hand Luke trailer.Order Cool Hand Luke on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Warner Bros.Watch Ian, Mark, and Don review Rebel Without A Cause.Support all of Earth's Mightiest Critics at their various outlets:Check out Mark "The Movie Man" Krawczyk's The Spoiler Room Podcast.Follow David Fowlie's film criticism at Keeping It Reel.Get educated with Don Shanahan at Every Movie Has a Lesson…...and Film Obsessive...and the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast.Make Nice with Mike Crowley of You'll Probably Agree.Keep up with Annie Banks at Chuck Load of Comics....and MoviewebKeep up with Jeff York's criticism and caricatures at The Establishing Shot.And stir things up with Will Johnson of the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast.Subscribe to, like, and comment on the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel!

Turns out the kids aren't alright! Ian, Don, and Mark get all broody and sensitive with a look at Nicholas Ray's landmark 1955 drama, Rebel Without a Cause!The movie follows three troubled teens who find solace in each other, away from the dysfunctional families and knife-wielding hoodlums that make life nearly unbearable. Jim (James Dean), Judy (Natalie Wood), and Plato (Sal Mineo) navigate the ups and downs 1950s America in ways that scrape at the facade of its post-war idealism.In this wide-ranging, spoilerfific discussion, the guys marvel at the audacity of Ray's achievements; the subtext (and plain ol' text text) of a story whose layers are still being unraveled today, and touch on why Rebel should remain a film of its time.Rebel Without a Cause is now available on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.Show LinksWatch the Rebel Without a Cause trailer.Order Rebel Without a Cause on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Warner Bros.Watch Ian and Don's review of Casablanca.Watch Ian and Don's review of The Maltese Falcon.Get educated with Don Shanahan at Every Movie Has a Lesson……and Film Obsessive: https://filmobsessive.com/...and the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast.Spoil yourself with Mark "The Movie Man" Krawczyk at The Spoiler Room Podcast.Subscribe to, like, and comment on the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel!

Ian and Don investigate the legacy of John Huston's foundational film noir, The Maltese Falcon!The 1941 detective-movie template stars Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, a private eye with a hard edge and a soft spot for dames. A visit from a mysterious widow (Mary Astor) lands him in the heart of a global conspiracy to obtain an ancient artifact--the titular bird statue whose black veneer conceals millions in jewels and sculpted gold.This was a first-time-watch for Ian, who relied on Don's expertise (he's actually read the Dashiell Hammett novel on which the film was based AND is a Bogart super-fan) to help him understand why the movie didn't quite grab him in the way its reputation suggests it might have.This spoiler-filled discussion looks at the obsessions of The Maltese Falcon's characters; fan's and filmmakers' obsession with The Maltese Falcon; and the treasures that lay ahead when Ian gives this one another shot.The Maltese Falcon is now available on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.Show LinksWatch the Maltese Falcon trailer.Order The Maltese Falcon on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Warner Bros.Watch Ian and Don's review of Casablanca.Get educated with Don Shanahan at Every Movie Has a Lesson….. and Film Obsessive: https://filmobsessive.com/...and the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast.Subscribe to, like, and comment on the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel!

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We also talk about Spatial Audio Calibration Toolkit, and why it might be late for the Disc to get to you. Erin gets a sound bar to go with his McIntosh amp, wait what? Ok maybe it's not for that use! Also the company behind Zapitti is coming out with a top of the line 4k player called the Magnetar! Note they are the same people behind the Reavon players, will that work out for them, having two lines of 4K UHD Blu-ray players? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dailyhifi/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dailyhifi/support

On this, our 100th episode, we eschew any silly self-congratulatory show to get right into one of James Cameron's most under appreciated films, his 1989 anti-nuke allegory The Abyss. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT   From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   We're finally here.    Episode 100.   In the word of the immortal Owen Wilson, wow.   But rather than throw myself a celebratory show basking in my own modesty, we're just going to get right into another episode. And this week's featured film is one of my favorites of the decade. A film that should have been a hit, that still informs the work of its director more than thirty years later.   But, as always, a little backstory.   As I quite regularly say on this show, I often do not know what I'm going to be talking about on the next episode as I put the finishing touches on the last one. And once again, this was the case when I completed the show last week, on Escape to Victory, although for a change, I finished the episode a day earlier than I usually do, so that would give me more time to think about what would be next.   Thursday, Friday, Saturday. All gone. Still have no clue what I'm going to write about.   Sunday arrives, and my wife and I decide to go see Avatar: The Way of Water in 3D at our local IMAX theatre. I was hesitant to see the film, because the first one literally broke my brain in 2009, and I'm still not 100% sure I fully recovered. It didn't break my brain because it was some kind of staggering work of heartbreaking genius, but because the friend who thought he was being kind by buying me a ticket to see it at a different local IMAX theatre misread the seating chart for the theatre and got me a ticket in the very front row of the theatre. Now, I don't know if you've ever seen a movie in IMAX 3D, but that first row is not the most advantageous place to watch an IMAX movie in 3D. But because the theatre was otherwise sold out, I sat there, watching Avatar in 3D from the worst possible seat in the house, and I could not think straight for a week. I actually called off work for a few days, which was easy to do considering I was the boss at my theatre, but I have definitely seen a cognitive decline since I saw Avatar in IMAX 3D in the worst possible conditions. I've never felt the need to see it again, and I was fine not seeing the new one. But my wife wanted to see it, and we had discount tickets to the theatre, so off we went.   Thankfully, this time, I chose the seats for myself, and got us some very good seats in a not very crowded theatre, nearly in the spot that would be the ideal viewing position for that specific theatre. And I actually enjoyed the movie.    There are very few filmmakers who can tell a story like James Cameron, and there are even fewer who could get away with pushing a pro-conservation, pro-liberal, pro-environment agenda on an unsuspecting populace who would otherwise never go for such a thing.   But as I was watching it, two things hit me.   One, I hate high frame rate movies. Especially when the overall look of the movie was changing between obviously shot on video and mimicking the feel of film so much, it felt like a three year old got ahold of the TV remote and was constantly pushing the button that turned motion smoothing off and on and off and on and off and on, over and over and over again, for three and a half hours.   Two, I couldn't also help but notice how many moments and motifs Cameron was seemingly borrowing from his under-appreciated 1989 movie The Abyss.   And there it was.   The topic for our 100th episode.   The Abyss.   And, as always, before we get to the movie itself, some more background.   James Francis Cameron was born in 1954 in small town in the middle eastern part of the Ontario province of Canada, about a nine hour drive north of Toronto, a town so small that it wouldn't even get its first television station until 1971, the year his family would to Brea, California. After he graduated from high school in 1973, Cameron would attend Fullerton College in Orange County, where would initially study physics before switching to English a year later. He'd leave school in 1974 and work various jobs including as a truck driver and a janitor, while writing screenplays in his spare time, when he wasn't in a library learning about movie special effects.   Like many, many people in 1977, including myself, Star Wars would change his life. After seeing the movie, Cameron quit his job as a truck driver and decided he was going to break into the film industry by any means necessary.   If you've ever followed James Cameron's career, you've no doubt heard him say on more than one occasion that if you want to be a filmmaker, to just do it. Pick up a camera and start shooting something. And that's exactly what he did, not a year later.   In 1978, he would co-write, co-produce, co-direct and do the production design for a 12 minute sci-fi short called Xenogenesis. Produced at a cost of $20,000 raised from a dentist and starring his future T2 co-writer William Wisher, Xenogenesis would show just how creative Cameron could be when it came to making something with a low budget look like it cost far more to produce. There's a not very good transfer of the short available on YouTube, which I will link to in the transcript for this episode on our website, at The80sMoviePodcast.com (). But it's interesting to watch because you can already see themes that Cameron will revisit time and time again are already fully formed in the storyteller's mind.   Once the short was completed, Cameron screened it for the dentist, who hated it and demanded his money back. But the short would come to the attention of Roger Corman, The Pope of Pop Cinema, who would hire Cameron to work on several of his company's upcoming feature films. After working as a production assistant on Rock 'n' Roll High School, Cameron would move up becoming the art director on Battle Beyond the Stars, which at the time, at a cost of $2m, would be the most expensive movie Corman would have produced in his then-26 year career, as the production designer on Galaxy of Terror, and help to design the title character for Aaron Lipstadt's Android.    Cameron would branch out from Corman to work on the special effects for John Carpenter's Escape from New York, but Corman would bring Cameron back into the fold with the promise of running the special effects department for the sequel to Joe Dante's surprise 1978 hit Piranha. But the film's original director, Miller Drake, would leave the production due to continued differences with the Italian producer, and Cameron would be moved into the director's chair. But like Drake, Cameron would struggle with the producer to get the film completed, and would eventually disavow the film as something he doesn't consider to be his actual work as a director. And while the film would not be any kind of success by any conceivable measure, as a work of storytelling or as a critical or financial success, it would give him two things that would help him in his near future.   The first thing was an association with character actor Lance Henriksen, who would go on to be a featured actor in Cameron's next two films.   The second thing would be a dream he would have while finishing the film in Rome. Tired of being in Italy to finish the film, and sick with a high grade fever, Cameron would have a nightmare about an invincible cyborg hit-man from the future who had been sent to assassinate him.   Sound familiar?   We've already discussed how The Terminator came to be in our April 2020 episode on Hemdale Films, so we'll skip over that here. Suffice it to say that the film was a global success, turning Arnold Schwarzenegger into a beloved action star, and giving Cameron the clout to move on to ever bigger films.   That even bigger film was, of course, the 1986 blockbuster Aliens, which would not only become Cameron's second big global box office success, but would be nominated for seven Academy Awards, including a well deserved acting nomination for Sigourney Weaver, which came as a surprise to many at the time because actors in what are perceived to be horror, action and/or sci-fi movies usually don't get such an accolade.   After the success of Aliens, Twentieth Century-Fox would engage Cameron and his producing partner, Gale Anne Hurd, who during the making of Aliens would become his second wife, on a risky project.   The Abyss.   Cameron had first come up with the idea for The Abyss while he was still a student in high school, inspired by a science lecture he attended that featured Francis J. Falejczyk, the first human to breathe fluid through his lungs in experiments held at Duke University. Cameron's story would involve a group of underwater scientists who accidentally discover aliens living at the bottom of the ocean floor near their lab.    Shortly after he wrote his initial draft of the story, it would be filed away and forgotten about for more than a decade.   While in England shooting Aliens, Cameron and Hurd would watch a National Geographic documentary about remote operated vehicles operating deep in the North Atlantic Ocean, and Cameron would be reminded of his old story. When the returned to the United States once the film was complete, Cameron would turn his short story into a screenplay, changing the main characters from scientists to oil-rig workers, feeling audiences would be able to better connect to blue collar workers than white collar eggheads, and once Cameron's first draft of the screenplay was complete, the couple agreed it would be their next film.   Cameron and Hurd would start the complex process of pre-production in the early days of 1988. Not only would they need to need to find a place large enough where they could film the underwater sequences in a controlled environment with life-size sets under real water, they would need to spend time designing and building a number of state of the art camera rigs and costumes that would work for the project and be able to capture the actors doing their craft in the water and keep them alive during filming, as well as a communications system that would not only allow Cameron to talk to his actors, but also allow the dialogue to be recorded live underwater for the first time in cinema history.   After considering filming in the Bahamas and in Malta, the later near the sets constructed for Robert Altman's Popeye movie nearly a decade before, Cameron and Hurd would find their perfect shooting location outside Gaffney, South Carolina: an uncompleted and abandoned $700m nuclear power plant that had been purchased by local independent filmmaker Earl Owensby, who we profiled to a certain degree in our May 2022 episode about the 3D Movie craze of the early 1980s.   In what was supposed to be the power plant's primary reactor containment vessel, 55 feet deep and with a 209 foot circumference, the main set of the Deepcore rig would be built. That tank would hold seven and a half million gallons of water, and after the set was built, would take five days to completely fill. Next to the main tank was a secondary tank, an unused turbine pit that could hold two and a half million gallons of water, where most of the quote unquote exteriors not involving the Deepcore rig would be shot.   I'm going to sidetrack for a moment to demonstrate just how powerful a force James Cameron already was in Hollywood by the end of 1987. When word about The Abyss was announced in the Hollywood trade papers, both MGM and Tri-Star Pictures started developing their own underwater action/sci-fi films, in the hopes that they could beat The Abyss to theatres, even if there was scant information about The Abyss announced at the time.   Friday the 13th director Sean S. Cunningham's DeepStar Six would arrive in theatres first, in January 1989, while Rambo: First Blood Part Two director George P. Cosmastos' Leviathan would arrive in March 1989. Like The Abyss, both films would feature deep-sea colonies, but unlike The Abyss, both featured those underwater workers being terrorized by an evil creature. Because if you're trying to copy the secret underwater action/sci-fi movie from the director of The Terminator and Aliens, he's most definitely going to do evil underwater creatures and not peace-loving aliens who don't want to hurt humanity.   Right?   Suffice it to say, neither DeepStar Six or Leviathan made any kind of impact at the box office or with critics. DeepStar Six couldn't even muster up its modest $8.5m budget in ticket sales, while Leviathan would miss making up its $25m budget by more than $10m. Although, ironically, Leviathan would shoot in the Malta water tanks Cameron would reject for The Abyss.   Okay. Back to The Abyss.   Rather than cast movie stars, Cameron would bring in two well-respected actors who were known to audiences but not really that famous.   For the leading role of Bud Brigman, the foreman for the underwater Deepcore rig, Cameron would cast Ed Harris, best known at the time for playing John Glenn in The Right Stuff, while Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio would be recognizable to some for playing Tom Cruise's girlfriend in The Color of Money, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Other actors would include Michael Biehn, Cameron's co-star from The Terminator and Aliens, Leo Burmester, who had been featured in Broadcast News and The Last Temptation of Christ, Todd Graff, who had starred in Tony Bill's Five Corners alongside Jodie Foster and John Turturro, character actor John Bedford Lloyd, Late Night with David Letterman featured actor Chris Elliott in a rare non-comedy role, and Ken Jenkins, who would become best known as Doctor Kelso on Scrubs years down the road who had only made two movies before this point of his career.   More than two millions dollars would be spent creating the underwater sets for the film while Cameron, his actors and several major members of the crew including cinematographer Mikael Salomon, spent a week in the Cayman Islands, training for underwater diving, as nearly half of the movie would be shot underwater. It was also a good distraction for Cameron himself, as he and Hurd had split up as a couple during the earliest days of pre-production.    While they would go through their divorce during the filming of the movie, they would remain professional partners on the film, and do their best to not allow their private lives to seep into the production any more than it already had in the script.   Production on The Abyss would begin on August 15th, 1988, and would be amongst the toughest shoots for pretty much everyone involved. The film would endure a number of technical mishaps, some due to poorly built supports, some due to force majeure, literal Acts of God, that would push the film's production schedule to nearly six months in length and its budget from $36m to $42m, and would cause emotional breakdowns from its director on down. Mastrantonio would, during the shooting of the Lindsey resuscitation scene, stormed off the set when the camera ran out of film during the fifteenth take, when she was laying on the floor of the rig, wet, partially naked and somewhat bruised from being slapped around by Harris during the scene. “We are not animals!” she would scream at Cameron as she left. Harris would have to continue shooting the scene, yelling at nothing on the ground while trying to save the life of his character's estranged wife. On his way back to his hotel room after finishing that scene, Harris would have to pull over to the side of the road because he couldn't stop crying.   Biehn, who had already made a couple movies with the meticulous director, noted that he spent five months in Gaffney, but maybe only worked three or four weeks during that entire time. He would note that, during the filming of one of his scenes underwater, the lights went out. He was thirty feet underwater. It was so dark he couldn't see his own hand in front of him, and he genuinely wondered right then and there if this was how he was going to die. Harris was so frustrated with Cameron by the end of the shoot that he threatened to not do any promotion for the film when it was released into theatres, although by the time that happened, he would be making the rounds with the press.   After 140 days of principal photography, and a lawsuit Owensby filed against the production that tried to kick them out of his studio for damaging one of the water tanks, the film would finally finish shooting on December 8th, by which time, Fox had already produced and released a teaser trailer for the movie which featured absolutely no footage from the film. Why? Because they had gotten word that Warners was about to release their first teaser trailer for their big movie for 1989, Tim Burton's Batman, and Fox didn't want their big movie for 1989 to be left in the dust.   Thirty-four years later, I still remember the day we got both trailers in, because they both arrived at my then theatre, the 41st Avenue Playhouse in Capitola, Calfornia, within five minutes of each other. For the record, The Abyss did arrive first. It was the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, the day before we opened the Bill Murray comedy Scrooged, and both Fox and Warners wanted theatres to play their movie's trailer, but not the other movie's trailer, in front of the film. I programmed both of them anyway, with Batman playing before The Abyss, which would be the last trailer before the film, because I was a bigger Cameron fan than Burton. And as cool as the trailer for Batman was, the trailer for The Abyss was mind-blowing, even if it had no footage from the film. I'll provide a link to that first Abyss teaser trailer on the website as well.   But I digress.   While Cameron worked on editing the film in Los Angeles, two major teams were working on the film's effects. The artists from Dreamquest Images would complete eighty effects shots for the film, including filming a seventy-five foot long miniature submarine being tossed around through a storm, while Industrial Lights and Magic pushed the envelope for computer graphics, digitally creating a water tentacle manipulated by the aliens that would mimic both Bud and Lindsey in an attempt to communicate with the humans. It would take ILM six months to create the minute and fifteen second long sequence.   Originally slated to be released in time for the Fourth of July holiday weekend, one of the busiest and most important weekends of the year for theatres, The Abyss would be held back until August 9th, 1989, due to some effects work not being completed in time, and for Cameron to rework the ending, which test audiences were not too fond of.   We'll get back to that in a moment.   When The Abyss opened in 1533 theatres, it would open to second place that weekend with $9.3m, only $350k behind the Ron Howard family dramedy Parenthood. The reviews from critics was uniformly outstanding, with many praising the acting and the groundbreaking special effects, while some would lament on the rather abrupt ending of the storyline.   We'll get back to that in a moment.   In its second week, The Abyss would fall to third place, its $7.2m haul behind Parenthood again, at $7.6m, as well as Uncle Buck, which would gross $8.8m. The film would continue to play in theatres for several weeks, never losing more than 34% of its audience in any given week, until Fox abruptly stopped tracking the film after nine weeks and $54.2m in ticket sales.   By the time the film came out, I was managing a dollar house in San Jose, a point I know I have mentioned a number of times and even did an episode about in September 2021, but I can tell you that we did pretty good business for The Abyss when we got the film in October 1989, and I would hang on to the film until just before Christmas, not because the film was no longer doing any business but because, as I mentioned on that episode, I wanted to play more family friendly films for the holidays, since part of my pay was tied to my concessions sales, and I wanted to make a lot of money then, so I could buy my girlfriend of nearly a year, Tracy, a nice gift for Christmas. Impress her dad, who really didn't like me too much.   The film would go on to be nominated for four Academy Awards, including for Mikael Salomon's superb cinematography, winning for its special effects, and would enjoy a small cult following on home video… until shortly after the release of Cameron's next film, Terminator 2.   Rumors would start to circulate that Cameron's original cut of The Abyss was nearly a half-hour longer than the one released into theatres, and that he was supposedly working on a director's cut of some kind. The rumor was finally proven true when a provision in James Cameron's $500m, five year financing deal between Fox and the director's new production company, Lightstorm Entertainment, included a $500k allotment for Cameron to complete his director's cut.   Thanks to the advancements in computer graphics between 1989 and 1991, Industrial Lights and Magic was able to apply what they created for T2 into the never fully completed tidal wave sequence that was supposed to end the movie. Overall, what was now being called The Abyss: Special Edition would see its run time expanded by 28 minutes, and Cameron's anti-nuke allegory would finally be fully fleshed out.   The Special Edition would open at the Loews Village VII in New York City and the Century Plaza Cinemas in Century City, literally down the street from the Fox lot, on land that used to be part of the Fox lot, on February 26th, 1993. Unsurprisingly, the critical consensus for the expanded film was even better, with critics noting the film's story scope had been considerably broadened. The film would do fairly well for a four year old film only opening on two screens, earning $21k, good enough for Fox to expand the footprint of the film into more major markets. After eight weeks in only a total of twelve theatres, the updated film would finish its second run in theatres with more than $238k in ticket sales.   I love both versions of The Abyss, although, like with Aliens and Cameron Crowe's untitled version of Almost Famous, I prefer the longer, Special Edition cut. Harris and Mastrantonio gave two of the best performances of 1989 in the film. For me, it solidified what I already knew about Harris, that he was one of the best actors of his generation.   I had seen Mastrantonio as Tony Montana's sister in Scarface and in The Color of Money, but what she did on screen in The Abyss, it still puzzles me to this day how she didn't have a much stronger career. Did you know her last feature film was The Perfect Storm, with George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg, 23 years ago? Not that she stopped working. She's had main or recurring roles on a number of television shows since then, including Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Blindspot and The Punisher, but it feels like she should have had a bigger and better career in movies.   Cameron, of course, would become The King of the World. Terminator 2, True Lies, Titanic, and his two Avatar movies to date were all global box office hits. His eight feature films have grossed over $8b worldwide to date, and have been nominated for 45 Academy Awards, winning 21.   There's a saying amongst Hollywood watchers. Never bet against James Cameron. Personally, I wish I could have not bet against James Cameron more often. Since the release of The Abyss in 1989, Cameron has only made five dramatic narratives, taking twelve years off between Titanic and Avatar, and another thirteen years off between Avatar and Avatar 2. And while he was partially busy with two documentaries about life under water, Ghosts of the Abyss and Aliens of the Deep, it seems that there were other stories he could have told while he was waiting for technology to catch up to his vision of how he wanted to make the Avatar movies.   Another action film with Arnold Schwarzenegger. An unexpected foray into romantic comedy. The adaptation of Taylor Stevens' The Informationalist that Cameron has been threatening to make for more than a decade. The adaptation of Charles Pelligrino's The Last Train from Hiroshima he was going to make after the first Avatar. Anything. Filmmakers only have so many films in them, and Cameron has only made eight films in nearly forty years. I'm greedy. I want more from him, and not just more Avatar movies.   In the years after its initial release, both Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio have refused to talk about the film with interviewers and at audience Q&As for other movies. The last time Harris has ever mentioned The Abyss was more than twenty years ago, when he said he was never going to talk about the film again after stating "Asking me how I was treated on The Abyss is like asking a soldier how he was treated in Vietnam.” For her part, Mastrantonio would only say "The Abyss was a lot of things. Fun to make was not one of them.”   It bothers me that so many people involved in the making of a film I love so dearly were emotionally scarred by the making of it. It's hard not to notice that none of the actors in The Abyss, including the star of his first three films, Michael Biehn, never worked with Cameron again. That he couldn't work with Gale Anne Hurd again outside of a contractual obligation on T2.     My final thought for today is that I hope that we'll someday finally get The Abyss, be it the theatrical version or the Special Edition but preferably both, in 4K Ultra HD. It's been promised for years. It's apparently been completed for years. Cameron says it was up to Fox, now Disney, to get it out. Fox, now Disney, says they've been waiting for Cameron to sign off on it. During a recent press tour for Avatar: The Way of Water, Cameron said everything is done and that a 4K UHD Blu-ray should be released no later than March of this year, but we'll see. That's just a little more than a month from the time I publish this episode, and there have been no official announcements from Disney Home Video about a new release of the film, which has never been available on Blu-ray after 15 years of the format's existence, and has been out of print on DVD for almost as long.   So there it is. Our 100th episode. I thank you for finding the show, listening to the show, and sticking with the show.   We'll talk again soon.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about James Cameron, The Abyss, and the other movies we covered this episode.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

On this, our 100th episode, we eschew any silly self-congratulatory show to get right into one of James Cameron's most under appreciated films, his 1989 anti-nuke allegory The Abyss. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT   From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   We're finally here.    Episode 100.   In the word of the immortal Owen Wilson, wow.   But rather than throw myself a celebratory show basking in my own modesty, we're just going to get right into another episode. And this week's featured film is one of my favorites of the decade. A film that should have been a hit, that still informs the work of its director more than thirty years later.   But, as always, a little backstory.   As I quite regularly say on this show, I often do not know what I'm going to be talking about on the next episode as I put the finishing touches on the last one. And once again, this was the case when I completed the show last week, on Escape to Victory, although for a change, I finished the episode a day earlier than I usually do, so that would give me more time to think about what would be next.   Thursday, Friday, Saturday. All gone. Still have no clue what I'm going to write about.   Sunday arrives, and my wife and I decide to go see Avatar: The Way of Water in 3D at our local IMAX theatre. I was hesitant to see the film, because the first one literally broke my brain in 2009, and I'm still not 100% sure I fully recovered. It didn't break my brain because it was some kind of staggering work of heartbreaking genius, but because the friend who thought he was being kind by buying me a ticket to see it at a different local IMAX theatre misread the seating chart for the theatre and got me a ticket in the very front row of the theatre. Now, I don't know if you've ever seen a movie in IMAX 3D, but that first row is not the most advantageous place to watch an IMAX movie in 3D. But because the theatre was otherwise sold out, I sat there, watching Avatar in 3D from the worst possible seat in the house, and I could not think straight for a week. I actually called off work for a few days, which was easy to do considering I was the boss at my theatre, but I have definitely seen a cognitive decline since I saw Avatar in IMAX 3D in the worst possible conditions. I've never felt the need to see it again, and I was fine not seeing the new one. But my wife wanted to see it, and we had discount tickets to the theatre, so off we went.   Thankfully, this time, I chose the seats for myself, and got us some very good seats in a not very crowded theatre, nearly in the spot that would be the ideal viewing position for that specific theatre. And I actually enjoyed the movie.    There are very few filmmakers who can tell a story like James Cameron, and there are even fewer who could get away with pushing a pro-conservation, pro-liberal, pro-environment agenda on an unsuspecting populace who would otherwise never go for such a thing.   But as I was watching it, two things hit me.   One, I hate high frame rate movies. Especially when the overall look of the movie was changing between obviously shot on video and mimicking the feel of film so much, it felt like a three year old got ahold of the TV remote and was constantly pushing the button that turned motion smoothing off and on and off and on and off and on, over and over and over again, for three and a half hours.   Two, I couldn't also help but notice how many moments and motifs Cameron was seemingly borrowing from his under-appreciated 1989 movie The Abyss.   And there it was.   The topic for our 100th episode.   The Abyss.   And, as always, before we get to the movie itself, some more background.   James Francis Cameron was born in 1954 in small town in the middle eastern part of the Ontario province of Canada, about a nine hour drive north of Toronto, a town so small that it wouldn't even get its first television station until 1971, the year his family would to Brea, California. After he graduated from high school in 1973, Cameron would attend Fullerton College in Orange County, where would initially study physics before switching to English a year later. He'd leave school in 1974 and work various jobs including as a truck driver and a janitor, while writing screenplays in his spare time, when he wasn't in a library learning about movie special effects.   Like many, many people in 1977, including myself, Star Wars would change his life. After seeing the movie, Cameron quit his job as a truck driver and decided he was going to break into the film industry by any means necessary.   If you've ever followed James Cameron's career, you've no doubt heard him say on more than one occasion that if you want to be a filmmaker, to just do it. Pick up a camera and start shooting something. And that's exactly what he did, not a year later.   In 1978, he would co-write, co-produce, co-direct and do the production design for a 12 minute sci-fi short called Xenogenesis. Produced at a cost of $20,000 raised from a dentist and starring his future T2 co-writer William Wisher, Xenogenesis would show just how creative Cameron could be when it came to making something with a low budget look like it cost far more to produce. There's a not very good transfer of the short available on YouTube, which I will link to in the transcript for this episode on our website, at The80sMoviePodcast.com (). But it's interesting to watch because you can already see themes that Cameron will revisit time and time again are already fully formed in the storyteller's mind.   Once the short was completed, Cameron screened it for the dentist, who hated it and demanded his money back. But the short would come to the attention of Roger Corman, The Pope of Pop Cinema, who would hire Cameron to work on several of his company's upcoming feature films. After working as a production assistant on Rock 'n' Roll High School, Cameron would move up becoming the art director on Battle Beyond the Stars, which at the time, at a cost of $2m, would be the most expensive movie Corman would have produced in his then-26 year career, as the production designer on Galaxy of Terror, and help to design the title character for Aaron Lipstadt's Android.    Cameron would branch out from Corman to work on the special effects for John Carpenter's Escape from New York, but Corman would bring Cameron back into the fold with the promise of running the special effects department for the sequel to Joe Dante's surprise 1978 hit Piranha. But the film's original director, Miller Drake, would leave the production due to continued differences with the Italian producer, and Cameron would be moved into the director's chair. But like Drake, Cameron would struggle with the producer to get the film completed, and would eventually disavow the film as something he doesn't consider to be his actual work as a director. And while the film would not be any kind of success by any conceivable measure, as a work of storytelling or as a critical or financial success, it would give him two things that would help him in his near future.   The first thing was an association with character actor Lance Henriksen, who would go on to be a featured actor in Cameron's next two films.   The second thing would be a dream he would have while finishing the film in Rome. Tired of being in Italy to finish the film, and sick with a high grade fever, Cameron would have a nightmare about an invincible cyborg hit-man from the future who had been sent to assassinate him.   Sound familiar?   We've already discussed how The Terminator came to be in our April 2020 episode on Hemdale Films, so we'll skip over that here. Suffice it to say that the film was a global success, turning Arnold Schwarzenegger into a beloved action star, and giving Cameron the clout to move on to ever bigger films.   That even bigger film was, of course, the 1986 blockbuster Aliens, which would not only become Cameron's second big global box office success, but would be nominated for seven Academy Awards, including a well deserved acting nomination for Sigourney Weaver, which came as a surprise to many at the time because actors in what are perceived to be horror, action and/or sci-fi movies usually don't get such an accolade.   After the success of Aliens, Twentieth Century-Fox would engage Cameron and his producing partner, Gale Anne Hurd, who during the making of Aliens would become his second wife, on a risky project.   The Abyss.   Cameron had first come up with the idea for The Abyss while he was still a student in high school, inspired by a science lecture he attended that featured Francis J. Falejczyk, the first human to breathe fluid through his lungs in experiments held at Duke University. Cameron's story would involve a group of underwater scientists who accidentally discover aliens living at the bottom of the ocean floor near their lab.    Shortly after he wrote his initial draft of the story, it would be filed away and forgotten about for more than a decade.   While in England shooting Aliens, Cameron and Hurd would watch a National Geographic documentary about remote operated vehicles operating deep in the North Atlantic Ocean, and Cameron would be reminded of his old story. When the returned to the United States once the film was complete, Cameron would turn his short story into a screenplay, changing the main characters from scientists to oil-rig workers, feeling audiences would be able to better connect to blue collar workers than white collar eggheads, and once Cameron's first draft of the screenplay was complete, the couple agreed it would be their next film.   Cameron and Hurd would start the complex process of pre-production in the early days of 1988. Not only would they need to need to find a place large enough where they could film the underwater sequences in a controlled environment with life-size sets under real water, they would need to spend time designing and building a number of state of the art camera rigs and costumes that would work for the project and be able to capture the actors doing their craft in the water and keep them alive during filming, as well as a communications system that would not only allow Cameron to talk to his actors, but also allow the dialogue to be recorded live underwater for the first time in cinema history.   After considering filming in the Bahamas and in Malta, the later near the sets constructed for Robert Altman's Popeye movie nearly a decade before, Cameron and Hurd would find their perfect shooting location outside Gaffney, South Carolina: an uncompleted and abandoned $700m nuclear power plant that had been purchased by local independent filmmaker Earl Owensby, who we profiled to a certain degree in our May 2022 episode about the 3D Movie craze of the early 1980s.   In what was supposed to be the power plant's primary reactor containment vessel, 55 feet deep and with a 209 foot circumference, the main set of the Deepcore rig would be built. That tank would hold seven and a half million gallons of water, and after the set was built, would take five days to completely fill. Next to the main tank was a secondary tank, an unused turbine pit that could hold two and a half million gallons of water, where most of the quote unquote exteriors not involving the Deepcore rig would be shot.   I'm going to sidetrack for a moment to demonstrate just how powerful a force James Cameron already was in Hollywood by the end of 1987. When word about The Abyss was announced in the Hollywood trade papers, both MGM and Tri-Star Pictures started developing their own underwater action/sci-fi films, in the hopes that they could beat The Abyss to theatres, even if there was scant information about The Abyss announced at the time.   Friday the 13th director Sean S. Cunningham's DeepStar Six would arrive in theatres first, in January 1989, while Rambo: First Blood Part Two director George P. Cosmastos' Leviathan would arrive in March 1989. Like The Abyss, both films would feature deep-sea colonies, but unlike The Abyss, both featured those underwater workers being terrorized by an evil creature. Because if you're trying to copy the secret underwater action/sci-fi movie from the director of The Terminator and Aliens, he's most definitely going to do evil underwater creatures and not peace-loving aliens who don't want to hurt humanity.   Right?   Suffice it to say, neither DeepStar Six or Leviathan made any kind of impact at the box office or with critics. DeepStar Six couldn't even muster up its modest $8.5m budget in ticket sales, while Leviathan would miss making up its $25m budget by more than $10m. Although, ironically, Leviathan would shoot in the Malta water tanks Cameron would reject for The Abyss.   Okay. Back to The Abyss.   Rather than cast movie stars, Cameron would bring in two well-respected actors who were known to audiences but not really that famous.   For the leading role of Bud Brigman, the foreman for the underwater Deepcore rig, Cameron would cast Ed Harris, best known at the time for playing John Glenn in The Right Stuff, while Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio would be recognizable to some for playing Tom Cruise's girlfriend in The Color of Money, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Other actors would include Michael Biehn, Cameron's co-star from The Terminator and Aliens, Leo Burmester, who had been featured in Broadcast News and The Last Temptation of Christ, Todd Graff, who had starred in Tony Bill's Five Corners alongside Jodie Foster and John Turturro, character actor John Bedford Lloyd, Late Night with David Letterman featured actor Chris Elliott in a rare non-comedy role, and Ken Jenkins, who would become best known as Doctor Kelso on Scrubs years down the road who had only made two movies before this point of his career.   More than two millions dollars would be spent creating the underwater sets for the film while Cameron, his actors and several major members of the crew including cinematographer Mikael Salomon, spent a week in the Cayman Islands, training for underwater diving, as nearly half of the movie would be shot underwater. It was also a good distraction for Cameron himself, as he and Hurd had split up as a couple during the earliest days of pre-production.    While they would go through their divorce during the filming of the movie, they would remain professional partners on the film, and do their best to not allow their private lives to seep into the production any more than it already had in the script.   Production on The Abyss would begin on August 15th, 1988, and would be amongst the toughest shoots for pretty much everyone involved. The film would endure a number of technical mishaps, some due to poorly built supports, some due to force majeure, literal Acts of God, that would push the film's production schedule to nearly six months in length and its budget from $36m to $42m, and would cause emotional breakdowns from its director on down. Mastrantonio would, during the shooting of the Lindsey resuscitation scene, stormed off the set when the camera ran out of film during the fifteenth take, when she was laying on the floor of the rig, wet, partially naked and somewhat bruised from being slapped around by Harris during the scene. “We are not animals!” she would scream at Cameron as she left. Harris would have to continue shooting the scene, yelling at nothing on the ground while trying to save the life of his character's estranged wife. On his way back to his hotel room after finishing that scene, Harris would have to pull over to the side of the road because he couldn't stop crying.   Biehn, who had already made a couple movies with the meticulous director, noted that he spent five months in Gaffney, but maybe only worked three or four weeks during that entire time. He would note that, during the filming of one of his scenes underwater, the lights went out. He was thirty feet underwater. It was so dark he couldn't see his own hand in front of him, and he genuinely wondered right then and there if this was how he was going to die. Harris was so frustrated with Cameron by the end of the shoot that he threatened to not do any promotion for the film when it was released into theatres, although by the time that happened, he would be making the rounds with the press.   After 140 days of principal photography, and a lawsuit Owensby filed against the production that tried to kick them out of his studio for damaging one of the water tanks, the film would finally finish shooting on December 8th, by which time, Fox had already produced and released a teaser trailer for the movie which featured absolutely no footage from the film. Why? Because they had gotten word that Warners was about to release their first teaser trailer for their big movie for 1989, Tim Burton's Batman, and Fox didn't want their big movie for 1989 to be left in the dust.   Thirty-four years later, I still remember the day we got both trailers in, because they both arrived at my then theatre, the 41st Avenue Playhouse in Capitola, Calfornia, within five minutes of each other. For the record, The Abyss did arrive first. It was the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, the day before we opened the Bill Murray comedy Scrooged, and both Fox and Warners wanted theatres to play their movie's trailer, but not the other movie's trailer, in front of the film. I programmed both of them anyway, with Batman playing before The Abyss, which would be the last trailer before the film, because I was a bigger Cameron fan than Burton. And as cool as the trailer for Batman was, the trailer for The Abyss was mind-blowing, even if it had no footage from the film. I'll provide a link to that first Abyss teaser trailer on the website as well.   But I digress.   While Cameron worked on editing the film in Los Angeles, two major teams were working on the film's effects. The artists from Dreamquest Images would complete eighty effects shots for the film, including filming a seventy-five foot long miniature submarine being tossed around through a storm, while Industrial Lights and Magic pushed the envelope for computer graphics, digitally creating a water tentacle manipulated by the aliens that would mimic both Bud and Lindsey in an attempt to communicate with the humans. It would take ILM six months to create the minute and fifteen second long sequence.   Originally slated to be released in time for the Fourth of July holiday weekend, one of the busiest and most important weekends of the year for theatres, The Abyss would be held back until August 9th, 1989, due to some effects work not being completed in time, and for Cameron to rework the ending, which test audiences were not too fond of.   We'll get back to that in a moment.   When The Abyss opened in 1533 theatres, it would open to second place that weekend with $9.3m, only $350k behind the Ron Howard family dramedy Parenthood. The reviews from critics was uniformly outstanding, with many praising the acting and the groundbreaking special effects, while some would lament on the rather abrupt ending of the storyline.   We'll get back to that in a moment.   In its second week, The Abyss would fall to third place, its $7.2m haul behind Parenthood again, at $7.6m, as well as Uncle Buck, which would gross $8.8m. The film would continue to play in theatres for several weeks, never losing more than 34% of its audience in any given week, until Fox abruptly stopped tracking the film after nine weeks and $54.2m in ticket sales.   By the time the film came out, I was managing a dollar house in San Jose, a point I know I have mentioned a number of times and even did an episode about in September 2021, but I can tell you that we did pretty good business for The Abyss when we got the film in October 1989, and I would hang on to the film until just before Christmas, not because the film was no longer doing any business but because, as I mentioned on that episode, I wanted to play more family friendly films for the holidays, since part of my pay was tied to my concessions sales, and I wanted to make a lot of money then, so I could buy my girlfriend of nearly a year, Tracy, a nice gift for Christmas. Impress her dad, who really didn't like me too much.   The film would go on to be nominated for four Academy Awards, including for Mikael Salomon's superb cinematography, winning for its special effects, and would enjoy a small cult following on home video… until shortly after the release of Cameron's next film, Terminator 2.   Rumors would start to circulate that Cameron's original cut of The Abyss was nearly a half-hour longer than the one released into theatres, and that he was supposedly working on a director's cut of some kind. The rumor was finally proven true when a provision in James Cameron's $500m, five year financing deal between Fox and the director's new production company, Lightstorm Entertainment, included a $500k allotment for Cameron to complete his director's cut.   Thanks to the advancements in computer graphics between 1989 and 1991, Industrial Lights and Magic was able to apply what they created for T2 into the never fully completed tidal wave sequence that was supposed to end the movie. Overall, what was now being called The Abyss: Special Edition would see its run time expanded by 28 minutes, and Cameron's anti-nuke allegory would finally be fully fleshed out.   The Special Edition would open at the Loews Village VII in New York City and the Century Plaza Cinemas in Century City, literally down the street from the Fox lot, on land that used to be part of the Fox lot, on February 26th, 1993. Unsurprisingly, the critical consensus for the expanded film was even better, with critics noting the film's story scope had been considerably broadened. The film would do fairly well for a four year old film only opening on two screens, earning $21k, good enough for Fox to expand the footprint of the film into more major markets. After eight weeks in only a total of twelve theatres, the updated film would finish its second run in theatres with more than $238k in ticket sales.   I love both versions of The Abyss, although, like with Aliens and Cameron Crowe's untitled version of Almost Famous, I prefer the longer, Special Edition cut. Harris and Mastrantonio gave two of the best performances of 1989 in the film. For me, it solidified what I already knew about Harris, that he was one of the best actors of his generation.   I had seen Mastrantonio as Tony Montana's sister in Scarface and in The Color of Money, but what she did on screen in The Abyss, it still puzzles me to this day how she didn't have a much stronger career. Did you know her last feature film was The Perfect Storm, with George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg, 23 years ago? Not that she stopped working. She's had main or recurring roles on a number of television shows since then, including Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Blindspot and The Punisher, but it feels like she should have had a bigger and better career in movies.   Cameron, of course, would become The King of the World. Terminator 2, True Lies, Titanic, and his two Avatar movies to date were all global box office hits. His eight feature films have grossed over $8b worldwide to date, and have been nominated for 45 Academy Awards, winning 21.   There's a saying amongst Hollywood watchers. Never bet against James Cameron. Personally, I wish I could have not bet against James Cameron more often. Since the release of The Abyss in 1989, Cameron has only made five dramatic narratives, taking twelve years off between Titanic and Avatar, and another thirteen years off between Avatar and Avatar 2. And while he was partially busy with two documentaries about life under water, Ghosts of the Abyss and Aliens of the Deep, it seems that there were other stories he could have told while he was waiting for technology to catch up to his vision of how he wanted to make the Avatar movies.   Another action film with Arnold Schwarzenegger. An unexpected foray into romantic comedy. The adaptation of Taylor Stevens' The Informationalist that Cameron has been threatening to make for more than a decade. The adaptation of Charles Pelligrino's The Last Train from Hiroshima he was going to make after the first Avatar. Anything. Filmmakers only have so many films in them, and Cameron has only made eight films in nearly forty years. I'm greedy. I want more from him, and not just more Avatar movies.   In the years after its initial release, both Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio have refused to talk about the film with interviewers and at audience Q&As for other movies. The last time Harris has ever mentioned The Abyss was more than twenty years ago, when he said he was never going to talk about the film again after stating "Asking me how I was treated on The Abyss is like asking a soldier how he was treated in Vietnam.” For her part, Mastrantonio would only say "The Abyss was a lot of things. Fun to make was not one of them.”   It bothers me that so many people involved in the making of a film I love so dearly were emotionally scarred by the making of it. It's hard not to notice that none of the actors in The Abyss, including the star of his first three films, Michael Biehn, never worked with Cameron again. That he couldn't work with Gale Anne Hurd again outside of a contractual obligation on T2.     My final thought for today is that I hope that we'll someday finally get The Abyss, be it the theatrical version or the Special Edition but preferably both, in 4K Ultra HD. It's been promised for years. It's apparently been completed for years. Cameron says it was up to Fox, now Disney, to get it out. Fox, now Disney, says they've been waiting for Cameron to sign off on it. During a recent press tour for Avatar: The Way of Water, Cameron said everything is done and that a 4K UHD Blu-ray should be released no later than March of this year, but we'll see. That's just a little more than a month from the time I publish this episode, and there have been no official announcements from Disney Home Video about a new release of the film, which has never been available on Blu-ray after 15 years of the format's existence, and has been out of print on DVD for almost as long.   So there it is. Our 100th episode. I thank you for finding the show, listening to the show, and sticking with the show.   We'll talk again soon.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about James Cameron, The Abyss, and the other movies we covered this episode.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

In this episode we discuss the upcoming 4K UHD release of "All-Star Superman," new "Legion of Super-Heroes" animated movie clips, the upcoming John Williams documentary, "Superman & Lois" photos, the latest comic books, your favorite version of Supergirl, and much more.

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Film Noir 4K UHD/Blu-ray - Movie Reviews (Part Two) - Cutter's Way (1981) @Fun City Editions - Blow Out (1981) @criterioncollection - Deep Cover (1992) MUSIC Main theme: Music: Dar Golan Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb7E... Transitions “So Long Analog” Noir El Blanc Vie Blow out “Tension Nonstop” by Wmyuu Deep Cover “Piano trap Beethoven” by josh pan LINKS - Website: https://www.returnofthedisc.com/ -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/returnofthedisc/ -TikTok : https://www.tiktok.com/@returnofthedisc - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1suNpWBGZHWDBW8bRZ3qe3 -Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/polipictures/id1487564839 For more FULL EPISODES: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbPWwWv1OQDvX7TBMfee_QS-S3mugB2WF

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Ian and Don celebrate 80 years of Casablanca!Michael Curtiz's iconic romance drops audiences right into the middle of World War II, where a brooding loner named Rick (Humphrey Bogart) runs a cafe in the middle of the titular Moroccan city. Policed by the French, and on the verge of domination by German forces, Rick's Cafe Americain becomes a port for European refugees trying to make their way to America.When an old flame named Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) re-enters his life, looking for safe passage with a revolutionary-on-the-run (Paul Henreid), Rick finds himself at the center of a conflict involving stolen papers of transit, vicious political machinery, and the remnants of a broken heart.In this affectionate and spoiler-filled conversation, Don explains why Casablanca is his absolute favorite film; Ian marvels at a movie he hasn't watched in nearly three decades; and both guys talk about why the film could not--and should never, ever, under any circumstances--be remade today!Casablanca will be available on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Warner Bros on November 8, 2022.Show Links:Watch the Casablanca trailer.Order Casablanca on 4K UHD Blu-ray.Continue your education with Don Shanahan at:Every Movie Has a LessonCinephile Hissy Fit Podcast25 Years LaterSubscribe to, like, and comment on the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel!

I chat with director John Irvin about Raw Deal, which is released on 4K UHD Blu-ray by Studio Canal on October 24th. Visit www.60MW.co.uk for news, reviews, podcasts, how to join our World Tour, and a very easy way to leave us a review. We also now have a SpeakPipe account where you can leave us voice messages up to 90 seconds. Just visit any page on our website on your computer or phone and a SpeakPipe button will pop up where it is then just “click and record”. Leave us a voice message/comment/question and we'll respond on our podcasts. Thanks for listening and please send any written comments and thoughts HERE.

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This week, Kicking the Seat looks at horror movies that most people don't instantly think of as "horror movies"!Sofia Coppola's 1999 feature directorial debut, The Virgin Suicides, centers on a strict religious family living in the Michigan suburbs in the mid-1970s. The five teenage Lisbon sisters are the talk of their school: attractive, aloof, and totally mysterious, they inspire wild speculation in the adolescent boys who admire them from afar.In adapting Jeffrey Eugenides' novel, Coppola frames The Virgin Suicides as a haunted reminiscence by one of those boys, who recalls the tragedy that befell the Lisbons and the ripples it caused decades later. This spoilerific conversation finds Ian and Pat McDonald looking back on a film they hadn't revisited in nearly a quarter-century--and wondering just what kept them away. From the story's take on the so-called "male gaze"; to its kinship with a very popular, no-doubt-about-it horror movie; to the inclusion of a song that inspired Ian to create a new Film Rule, the guys delve into one of the most unique and insightful takes on the dark corners of nostalgia and the horrors of growing up.Show Links:Watch the Virgin Suicides trailer.Keep up with Pat at HollywoodChicago.com.The Criterion Collection recently released The Virgin Suicides on 4K UHD Blu-ray, which you can order here.Subscribe to, like, and comment on the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel!

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It's another packed episode as Jonathan gives first impressions of Splatoon 3 on the Nintendo Switch, reviews the Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Director's Edition on 4K UHD Blu-ray, and we commiserate over the ever-growing avalanche of Disney/Marvel news from the weekend, before jumping into the next phase of our Fullmetal Alchemist review series! This time, we're talking Brotherhood, the 2009 anime that starts fresh to adapt Hiromu Arakawa's original manga in full. With a new crew, a new animation style, many new cast members, and a largely new story, Brotherhood is extremely different than the 2003 anime – and in many ways, it's also a different beast than the manga, especially in this first half. It's a lot to talk about, and with a whole half of the series left to go, we're only just scratching the surface. Enjoy!TIME CHART:Intro & Stuff: 0:00:00 – 0:37:41Fullmetal Alchemist: 0:37:41 – 3:29:34Subscribe to our YouTube Channel!Subscribe to Japanimation Station, our Anime Podcast!Subscribe for free to 'The Weekly Stuff' in Apple Podcasts!Follow Jonathan Lack on Twitter!Follow Sean Chapman on Twitter! 

In this follow-up to Ian's review of the movie with Pat "The Uber Critic" McDonald last week, he looks at two special features on The Criterion Collection's new 4K UHD/Blu-ray release of Shaft (1971)--both centered on the surprising cultural and literary influences that gave birth to Blaxploitation's most towering icon! Show Links:Watch the Shaft (1971) trailer.Pick up The Criterion Collection's new release of Shaft on 4K UHD and Blu-ray. Watch Ian and Pat discuss Shaft on the latest edition of "There's No Stalgia Like Nostalgia"! Keep up with Pat at HollywoodChicago.com.Subscribe to, like, and comment on the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel!

DJ breaks down the differences between the three formats and the two versions of Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness.  Which is the best? What are the differences? What to expect on the 4K UHD Blu-ray and more…Before that he also talks about the Hopes and Doubts in Home Theater and how those two things drive the passion for this hobby.All that and so much more!Push Play and hear or see for yourself! ENJOY!To Help Support the Podcast you can sign up for a Monthly Donation HERE to become a Patreon Member

DJ breaks down the differences between the three formats and the two versions of Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness.  Which is the best? What are the differences? What to expect on the 4K UHD Blu-ray and more…Before that he also talks about the Hopes and Doubts in Home Theater and how those two things drive the passion for this hobby.All that and so much more!Push Play and hear or see for yourself! ENJOY!To Help Support the Podcast you can sign up for a Monthly Donation HERE to become a Patreon Member

Carl and Victor chat about their Black Friday hauls this week! Victor shows off his stack of 4K UHD Blu-rays, from the Lord of the Rings trilogy to Citizen Kane... Carl digs into his latest comic book pickups including Hulk #1 by Donny Cates, Black Panther #1 by John Ridley, and vintage Marvel issues including The Eternals, Luke Cage, and Howard the Duck... Victor also reviews the Will-Smith starring biopic King Richard. As per usual, it's time to GET IT! Recorded November 30, 2021 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Purchase SILK CITY HOT SAUCE here: https://levinskystopshelf.com/silk-city-hot-sauce - Use CODEX to get 15% off of your order! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Buy Codex Prime Shirts at: @MFAMUCUSTOMS (Instagram) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Catch Codex Prime on SPOTIFY Email: CodexPrimePodcast@gmail.com Buy Codex Prime Shirts at: @MFAMUCUSTOMS (Instagram) CATCH CODEX PRIME AT: Facebook: www.facebook.com/codexprime Twitter: twitter.com/codexprimecast Instagram: instagram.com/codexprimepodcast/ iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/codex…id998035389?mt=2 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCbDMNJNgnM6y3WB3fA1a1HA SoundCloud: @codex-prime Victor Omoayo - https://www.instagram.com/victoromoayo/ Carl Byrd - Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat: @mrbyrd1027 - bookmrbyrd1027@gmail.com

Movie Geeks United! host Adam Long chats with Jimmy Hawkins and Karolyn Grimes, the actors who portrayed the Bailey children alongside Jimmy Stewart in Frank Capra's magical classic It's a Wonderful Life. A newhttps://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Life-Steelbook-Blu-ray-Digital/dp/B08FP5NQBB/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=it%27s+a+wonderful+life+blu+ray&qid=1638238717&sr=8-1 ( 4K UHD Blu-ray is now available for purchase) In conjunction with the film's 75 anniversary. Support this podcast

Movie Geeks United! host Adam Long chats with Jimmy Hawkins and Karolyn Grimes, the actors who portrayed the Bailey children alongside Jimmy Stewart in Frank Capra's magical classic It's a Wonderful Life. A newhttps://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Life-Steelbook-Blu-ray-Digital/dp/B08FP5NQBB/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=it%27s+a+wonderful+life+blu+ray&qid=1638238717&sr=8-1 ( 4K UHD Blu-ray is now available for purchase) In conjunction with the film's 75 anniversary. Support this podcast

In this episode, we discuss the 4K UHD Blu-ray of CAT O' NINE TAILS (1971; dir: Dario Argento) released by Arrow Video.

The fall season is upon us, and with it comes the end of one disappointing series and the disappointing reveal of a returning favorite, all to the dismay and bewilderment of the dais of this program. But it's not all doom and gloom, as there are plenty of details for some upcoming Netflix projects to discuss, be it good or bad or even cautiously optimistic, some upcoming theatrical rollouts planned for the end of the year and the start of next year, some choice home video offerings to close out the year with, and a Gintama movie dub cast that seems to be the best of both worlds for fans all around. Be ready for an eventful October for this program, there's plenty to come throughout the month with the fall season kicking off this weekend. And there's nowhere to go but up for Digimon now, because Tai has to go now. His planet needs him. In Memoriam French Tickner - 1930-2021 Takao Saito - 1936-2021 intro - New Game's good non-coward ending 5:00 - RIP Eiichi Yamamoto 7:01 - Digimon Adventure 2020: the show where Tai is Poochie 17:19 - Demon Slayer season 2 broadcast details FINALLY revealed 29:25 - ufotable. founder formally admits to tax evasion 31:03 - sidebar: last week's Nintendo Direct 32:44 - more info on the Netflix Cowboy Bebop series revealed 43:50 - Gintama: The VERY FINAL movie dub cast revealed, premiering at NYCC 50:17 - Future Boy Conan dub cast revealed, 4K UHD Blu-ray release planned for the UK 59:09 - live-action Knights of the Zodiac film cast leads revealed 1:01:17 - Eleven Arts acquires Poupelle of Chimney Town 1:02:14 - GKIDS acquires Pompo the Cinephile 1:03:13 - My Hero Academia season 6 announced 1:07:17 - Science Fell in Love S2 and Irregular S3 announced 1:11:34 - Super Crooks anime coming in November to Netflix 1:14:21 - Aggretsuko S4 confirmed for December 1:17:04 - Drifting Home original film (Studio Colorido) coming to Netflix in 2022 1:20:13 - My Next Life as a Villainess film coming soon 1:22:06 - a pair of… unique sci-fi romance anime films coming in 2022 1:27:05 - Black Rock Shooter sequel anime announced for 2022 1:28:39 - new Gundam projects starting in 2022 1:30:44 - Adult Swim panels at NYCC 1:31:28 - Sentai and TMS hosting a theatrical Lupin event in October 1:34:47 - Belle placeholder theatrical listing set for January 1:35:47 - Boruto and Fate/Grand Order home video listings 1:44:09 - Funimation December home video slate (Mugen Train, Robotech) 1:47:21 - Discotek December home video slate (Project A-Ko, Robot Carnival 4K) 1:49:48 - Sentai December home video slate (Alice in Borderland, steelbooks, DanMachi S3) additional audio from: Inuyasha Highschool of the Dead Apple Podcasts – https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/podcastona/id1348141210?mt=2 Google Play – https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5wb2RjYXN0b25hLnN1cnJlYWxyZXNvbHV0aW9uLmNvbS9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Q Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/2JZLO3LfoeHepomejTw4TP iHeartRadio – https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-podcastona-43099114/ TuneIn – https://tunein.com/podcasts/Podcasts/PodcastONA-p1249922/ Stitcher – https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/podcastona/ Where to find us: Alex – @AuraOfAzure Andy – @MangaMan9000, youtube.com/DubTalk Jet – @Divinenega, animationinfinity.com As always, check out surrealresolution.com for more content, and follow @SurrealReso for more updates on the show, our continued news posts, reviews, and our fellow podcasts.

Nu hun oorsprong eindelijk onthuld wordt, nemen Godzilla en Kong het tegen elkaar op in een epische en spectaculaire strijd. Ze beseffen alleen nog niet dat er een serieuzere dreiging boven de twee titanen en de mensheid hangt.   In deze aflevering hoor je Nils zijn spoilervrije review over Godzilla vs. Kong, nu te koop op 4K UHD Blu-ray, Blu-ray & DVD.   Vergeet je niet te abonneren op ons kanaal, laat een review achter via Apple Podcast, volg ons op Facebook: www.facebook.com/filmfanspodcast en Instagram: www.instagram.com/filmfanspodcast. Steun ons via http://bit.ly/FFPPatreon. Voor meer reviews, filmnieuws en afleveringen ga je naar www.filmfanspodcast.nl. Voor vragen en opmerkingen mag je ons altijd mailen via mail@filmfanspodcast.nl.

IT'S TRUE! This past Friday, during it's fan fest 2021 event, Hasbro (in conjunction with Shout Factory) revealed that for it's 35th Anniversary, that the 1986 animated film "Transformers: The Movie" would finally be getting a 4K UHD BLU-RAY Release this summer. Of course, growing up with the film, I couldn't be excited. But they also dropped news on new additions to their Studio Series '86 line as well. Comments are Welcomed #TrabsformersTheMovie #35thAnniversaryofTransformersTheMovie #4KUHDBLURAY #Transformers #ShoutFactory #HasbroFanFest #HasbroFanFest2021 #4K #UHD #4KUHD --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bwrosas/support

This week, I am back (a day late) to discuss the current news regarding upcoming 4K UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray Disc titles, the upcoming releases for April 6th, some rumors, and finally some online streaming content in 4K UHD and HD. 

This week I cover the current news regarding 4K UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray Disc releases, the upcoming March 30th releases on both formats, as well as discuss a few rumors of upcoming titles and some 4K content as well.

This week I'm back for another episode and recording in a different way. I'll be covering the current news and upcoming releases on 4K UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray for the week of March 23rd. Also, I'll discuss Zack Snyder's Justice League in 4K, as well as some other new HD and 4K content on streaming services.

I'm back for another episode this week and there's more current news as well as a list of the upcoming Blu-ray Disc releases for the week of March 16th, 2021. Also, there's a rumor that Zack Snyder's Justice League (AKA #TheSnyderCut) is coming to 4K UHD Blu-ray in May.

Sony has finally revealed the launch date, launch games, and price for PlayStation 5, alongside a slew of new game announcements. Final Fantasy XVI, Hogwarts Legacy, and a new God of War title. Nintendo also had a lot to say this week, announcing two new exclusive Monster Hunter titles from Capcom, a new mainline Disgaea from NIS, and more. Follow us on Twitter: @TTStageMusic by Rukunetsu and used with permission.TIMESTAMPS03:03 - PlayStation 5 launches on November 12th, 2020, starting at $399 USD for the digital-only edition. The standard PS5 model, with a 4K UHD Blu-ray drive, will sell for $499 USD. 08:51 - Launch titles from PlayStation Studios.15:09 - PS5 titles will now retail for up to $69.99, starting with Demon’s Souls and Destruction All-Stars.24:06 - PlayStation Plus Collection.31:34 - Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Horizon: Forbidden West, and Sackboy are all coming to PS4.40:31 - Final Fantasy XVI (Square Enix, PS5 Console Exclusive)50:56 - Hogwarts Legacy (WB Games Avalanche)1:03:01 - Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition (Capcom)1:04:49 - God of War sequel (Sony Santa Monica) - SPOILER WARNING FOR GOD OF WAR 2018!1:10:10 - What other games did we like from the PS5 Showcase?1:18:06 - Kena: Bridge of Spirits, the debut title from studio Ember Lab, delayed to Q1 2021.1:19:21 - General thoughts on the Nintendo Direct Mini - Partner Showcase | September 20201:20:04 - Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom, Switch Exclusive)1:22:51 - Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin (Capcom, Switch Exclusive)1:25:55 - Ori and the Will of the Wisps is available now on Nintendo Switch. 1:27:07 - Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise (Imagineer, published by Nintendo)1:28:29 - Balan Wonderworld from Square Enix launches on March 26th, 2021.1:30:46 - Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny (NIS, Switch Console Exclusive)1:31:44 - Rune Factory 5 (Marvelous)1:34:05 - Production and manufacturing of the Nintendo 3DS family of systems has ended worldwide.1:39:45 - Michel Ancel, creator of Rayman and Beyond Good and Evil, is leaving the video game industry.

Sony has finally revealed the launch date, launch games, and price for PlayStation 5, alongside a slew of new game announcements. Final Fantasy XVI, Hogwarts Legacy, and a new God of War title. Nintendo also had a lot to say this week, announcing two new exclusive Monster Hunter titles from Capcom, a new mainline Disgaea from NIS, and more. Follow us on Twitter: @TTStageMusic by Rukunetsu and used with permission.TIMESTAMPS03:03 - PlayStation 5 launches on November 12th, 2020, starting at $399 USD for the digital-only edition. The standard PS5 model, with a 4K UHD Blu-ray drive, will sell for $499 USD. 08:51 - Launch titles from PlayStation Studios.15:09 - PS5 titles will now retail for up to $69.99, starting with Demon’s Souls and Destruction All-Stars.24:06 - PlayStation Plus Collection.31:34 - Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Horizon: Forbidden West, and Sackboy are all coming to PS4.40:31 - Final Fantasy XVI (Square Enix, PS5 Console Exclusive)50:56 - Hogwarts Legacy (WB Games Avalanche)1:03:01 - Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition (Capcom)1:04:49 - God of War sequel (Sony Santa Monica) - SPOILER WARNING FOR GOD OF WAR 2018!1:10:10 - What other games did we like from the PS5 Showcase?1:18:06 - Kena: Bridge of Spirits, the debut title from studio Ember Lab, delayed to Q1 2021.1:19:21 - General thoughts on the Nintendo Direct Mini - Partner Showcase | September 20201:20:04 - Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom, Switch Exclusive)1:22:51 - Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin (Capcom, Switch Exclusive)1:25:55 - Ori and the Will of the Wisps is available now on Nintendo Switch. 1:27:07 - Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise (Imagineer, published by Nintendo)1:28:29 - Balan Wonderworld from Square Enix launches on March 26th, 2021.1:30:46 - Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny (NIS, Switch Console Exclusive)1:31:44 - Rune Factory 5 (Marvelous)1:34:05 - Production and manufacturing of the Nintendo 3DS family of systems has ended worldwide.1:39:45 - Michel Ancel, creator of Rayman and Beyond Good and Evil, is leaving the video game industry.

Xbox Series X Release Date: November 2017 Brand: Microsoft Storage capacity: 1 TB Release price: TBD (499 most likely) Console Specs: CPU: 8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.8GHz (3.6GHz with SMT) 7nm. GPU: 12 TFLOPs, 52 CUs at 1.825GHz, Custom RDNA 2. Memory: 16GB GDDR6. Storage: 1TB custom NVMe SSD. Optical drive: 4K UHD Blu-ray. Ports: HDMI 2.1 output, 3x USB 3.2, networking port, expanded storage slot, power input. 120 fps support. Disk drive

The Fast and Furious movies have always capitalized on over-the-top action and stunts that defy the laws of physics, but a sense of family among the major players in the saga, even between those who don't always get along like the title characters in Hobbs & Shaw, has always been at the core of the drama.Chris Morgan has been the screenwriter for the franchise since Tokyo Drift, and as each sequel expanded the world beyond street racing, it was clear that a cinematic universe had been born. On this edition of the podcast, we talked to Morgan about Hobbs & Shaw, which is coming to 4K UHD Blu-ray and DVD on November 15, and how this spin-off opens up all sorts of possibilities for reaching new audiences. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

เห็นหนังเรื่องนี้จะออกแผ่นขายในไม่กี่วันนี้แล้ว เลยออกอาการอยากรีวิวนิดนึงๆ X-Men: Dark Phoenix จะวางจำหน่ายในรูปแบบ 4K-UHD/Blu-ray/DVD ใน boomerangshop ติดตามเราเพิ่มเติมได้ที่ FB : web.facebook.com/gdevilmovie/IG : www.instagram.com/gamedevilbitch/ ช่องทางการโดนเนท พร้อมเพย์ : 0820737841 กสิกร : 051-3-73279-1 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gamedevil-bitch/support

Funny Women chatted on the phone to Susanna Fogel about her journey from short film maker to writer / director of Hollywood comedy feature film The Spy Who Dumped me. We discuss working with the differing styles of performer such as Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon, the "toxic narrative" of success and the necessity of resilience and communities (such as Funny Women) when working in the arts. With Becky Singh. The Spy Who Dumped Me is available on Digital Download from 15th December and DVD, Blu-Ray and 4K UHD Blu-ray on 26th December

Am 7. November 2017 lancierte Microsoft mit der «Xbox One X» die aktuell stärkste Konsole auf dem Markt. Dabei folgt Microsoft der Konkurrenz. Die «Xbox One X» ist wie die «PlayStation 4 Pro» ein vollkompatible Konsole zum Vorgänger der gleichen Reihe. Die «Xbox One» hat nun nach dem Original und der «Xbox One S» die dritte Ausgabe - nun mit dem Zusatz «X». Das Wichtigste im Vergleich zur Original Xbox One: GPU-Leistung steigt um den Faktor 4,3 Um ca 30% schnellerer CPU Mehr und schnelleres Ram 12GB statt 8GB Schnellere Festplatte "Wasserkühlung". Leiser Ultra Bluray Player mit HDCP 2.2 Anschlüsse sind die gleichen geblieben Sehr leise dank "Wasserkühlung" Und: Auch in allen Belangen der PS4 Pro überlegen Es stellt sich beim Preis von 500.- jedoch die Frage, ob sich die Anschaffung lohnt. Dies ist sehr individuell, wir stellen aber folgendes fest: Wer auf starke Exklusivtitel und Power setzt, ist mit der «PlayStation 4 Pro» am Besten bedient Wer auf Top-Exklusivtitel setzt und zudem gerne unterwegs zockt, der schnappt sich Nintendos «Switch» Wer einen 4K UHD Blu-ray Player will, jedoch bei Games HDR reicht, der ist mit der «Xbox One S» am Besten bedient Wer schliesslich die stärkste Konsole auf dem Markt möchte, in 4K spielen kann und zudem gerne und oft 4K-Filme schaut, der kommt um die «Xbox One X» nicht herum Auf jeden Fall hat jede Konsole seine Vorteile, was uns sehr erfreut, Konkurrenz belebt schliesslich das Geschäft. (raf)

On THIS episode: Pack your bag! We have 6 weekender adventures for you that are easy get aways departing from 98226. This is BPM: Tech!* * *Wrist check Chris with a new new-Bond NATOAJ with a modded Infantry leather NATO and... a little bezel alchemy with some lume Weekend Bag'n itWhat is Chris and AJ's go-to weekend bags:Chris - Cargo Works Utility Carry-all (https://www.cargo-works.com/products/utility-carry-all) - $50 onlineAJ Timbuk2 Navigator (small) http://www.timbuk2.com/navigator-duffel-bag/592.html * $99 ish* Recently got a design update* Duffel + Backpack * If loaded down with it, you might want to get a little more padding on those backpack straps. Just say'n.Weekenders * Chris - * La Connor, Washington * Deception Pass Tour (http://www.island-adventures.com/specialty-tours/la-conner-evening-tour) * Cedar Springs Christian Retreat Center (http://cedarspringscrc.org/) in Sumas, Washington * Sequim, Washington * Olympic Game Farm (http://olygamefarm.com/) * Dungeness Spit (http://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/dungeness-national-wildlife-refuge) * AJ - * Coupeville * Knead and Feed (http://www.kneadandfeed.com/) * San Juan Islands * San Juan * Lime Kiln Lighthouse (https://wspf.org/pacific-northwest-lighthouse-adventures-with-wspf-photographer-aj-barse/) (...and a little shameless plug for WSPF and a little guest article by AJ) * Roche Harbor * Sea to Sky Highway * Sea to Sky Gondola (https://www.seatoskygondola.com/) * Passport/Enhanced Drivers License required Tech that caught our eyeAJ putting in some game time into Horizon Zero Dawn (https://youtu.be/f-rKdnNAtgg)* Great who love action adventure with a post apocalyptic techno fall of humanity...and there is hunting of machines with a bow. Mad Max got nothing on this. E3 was this last weekXbox One X (https://news.xbox.com/2017/06/11/xbox-one-x-e3-2017/) (yes...bad naming yet again)* “the world’s most powerful console (http://www.xbox.com/en-us/xbox-one-x) designed for immersive true 4K gaming”* “Xbox One X is built for true 4K gaming, which combines 2160p frame buffers, High Dynamic Range and Wide Color Gamut into a pristine visual package” * “The 8-core Custom AMD CPU is clocked at 2.3GHz to bring enhanced AI, real world detail, and smoother interactions to your gaming.” PS4 Pro 2.1 GHz * Liquid coold vapor chamber * Smalles xbox ever made * “12GB GDDR5 of graphic memory” PS4 pro has 8gb * 6 teraflops of graphics power vs PS4 Pro 4.2* “ Like the Xbox One S, it includes a 4K UHD Blu-ray player, built-in power supply, three USB 3.0 ports (one in the front and two in the back), and IR blaster”* $499 USD November 7 * PS4 Pro around $399USD* * *Connect with us* AJ: patreon.com/ajbarse (http://patreon.com/ajbarse) or follow me on Twitter/Instagram both are @ajbarse. * **_VLog is on hiatus due to personal/family medical issues, but the feed will still have photography from my adventuring and travels . _*** Chris: You can find me on Twitter, Instagram, and Medium as @mnmltek * Quiet Conversations newsletter: bit.ly/quietchris (http://bit.ly/quietchris) * 100 Tech Tips - An ongoing project: www.100techtips.com (http://www.100techtips.com/)Listen to us* If you're in the Bellingham area, be sure to listen to our show on KMRE 102.3 FM (http://www.kmre.org/bellingham-podcast-media-tech/)! * Thursdays at 9 am * Saturdays at 1:30 pmTalk to us* Got a question about technology or anything else about life in Bellingham? Leave us a voicemail! * 201-731-8324 (tel:2017318324) (**TECH)** * Ask us nicely! We may include it in one of our future shows.Thank You for Joining Us* Subscribe to us on iTunes, Google Play Store, Soundcloud, Spreaker, or wherever else you podcast. And check out our website at bellinghampodcast.com (http://bellinghampodcast.com/)

Patrick and Robert look to encode like Netflix, play a 4K UHD Blu-ray on a PC, stream all the goodness, and answer your home theater questions

We thoroughly review Suicide Squad (Standard and 4K UHD Blu-ray), Jason Bourne (Blu-ray/4K UHD Blu-Ray), and the top Blu-Ray releases of 2016.  Suicide Squad stars Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Jared Leto, Viola Davis, Ike Barinholtz, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Common, Ben Affleck, Cara Delevingne and Joel Kinnaman. Jason Bourne stars Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Julia Stiles, Vincent Cassel, and Alicia Vikander. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/zadzooks-happy-hour/support

We thoroughly review Ghostbusters 2016 (4K UHD / Blu-ray). Joe reviews new horror films and television releases on blu-ray. Ghostbusters (2016) stars Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Andy Garcia, Chris Hemsworth & Neil Casey. Featuring cameos from Bill Murray, Dan Aykroid, Annie Potts, Al Roker, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Ozzy Osbourne.   Check out Joe's Ghostbusters 2016 Review: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/4/ghostbusters-extended-edition-review-4k-uhd/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/zadzooks-happy-hour/support

Was die Betriebssystem-Vorlieben angeht, steht die c't-Redaktion für Multikulti: Von Linux bis Windows über Amiga OS und OS X ist alles vertreten. Dennoch: Die Titelgeschichte der Ausgabe 10/16 richtet sich an Windows-(10)-Kritiker [--] und zeigt, welche Alternativen es zum Microsoft-Betriebssystem gibt. Jan Schüssler berichtet, was für den Wechsel spricht. Ebenfalls kritisch hinterfragt wird die generalüberholte Blu-ray Disc, die nun auch UHD-Auflösung und High-Dynamic-Range beherrscht. Natürlich gibt es noch Kinderkrankheiten, erzählt Stefan Porteck. Außerdem kommen die kompatiblen Fernseher erst jetzt auf den Markt. Last not least erklärt Axel Kossel, welche Daten ein durchschnittliches Auto heute erfasst - und wie diese missbraucht werden können. Die c't 9/16 gibt's am Kiosk, im heiseshop und digital in der c't-App für iOS und Android. Alle früheren Episoden unseres Podcasts gibt es unter: www.ct.de/uplink

Was die Betriebssystem-Vorlieben angeht, steht die c't-Redaktion für Multikulti: Von Linux bis Windows über Amiga OS und OS X ist alles vertreten. Dennoch: Die Titelgeschichte der Ausgabe 10/16 richtet sich an Windows-(10)-Kritiker [--] und zeigt, welche Alternativen es zum Microsoft-Betriebssystem gibt. Jan Schüssler berichtet, was für den Wechsel spricht. Ebenfalls kritisch hinterfragt wird die generalüberholte Blu-ray Disc, die nun auch UHD-Auflösung und High-Dynamic-Range beherrscht. Natürlich gibt es noch Kinderkrankheiten, erzählt Stefan Porteck. Außerdem kommen die kompatiblen Fernseher erst jetzt auf den Markt. Last not least erklärt Axel Kossel, welche Daten ein durchschnittliches Auto heute erfasst - und wie diese missbraucht werden können. Die c't 9/16 gibt's am Kiosk, im heiseshop und digital in der c't-App für iOS und Android. Alle früheren Episoden unseres Podcasts gibt es unter: www.ct.de/uplink

Was die Betriebssystem-Vorlieben angeht, steht die c't-Redaktion für Multikulti: Von Linux bis Windows über Amiga OS und OS X ist alles vertreten. Dennoch: Die Titelgeschichte der Ausgabe 10/16 richtet sich an Windows-(10)-Kritiker [--] und zeigt, welche Alternativen es zum Microsoft-Betriebssystem gibt. Jan Schüssler berichtet, was für den Wechsel spricht. Ebenfalls kritisch hinterfragt wird die generalüberholte Blu-ray Disc, die nun auch UHD-Auflösung und High-Dynamic-Range beherrscht. Natürlich gibt es noch Kinderkrankheiten, erzählt Stefan Porteck. Außerdem kommen die kompatiblen Fernseher erst jetzt auf den Markt. Last not least erklärt Axel Kossel, welche Daten ein durchschnittliches Auto heute erfasst - und wie diese missbraucht werden können. Die c't 9/16 gibt's am Kiosk, im heiseshop und digital in der c't-App für iOS und Android. Alle früheren Episoden unseres Podcasts gibt es unter: www.ct.de/uplink