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This week on Friday Night Frightfest, we're exploring the deadly consequences of youthful indiscretions and the relentless pursuit of past sins. We'll be comparing the American slasher sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) and the German horror flick Party Hard, Die Young (2018). I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) Directed by Danny Cannon, this sequel to the 1997 hit follows Julie James and her friends as they take a seemingly relaxing vacation to a remote island resort. However, their past actions come back to haunt them when the vengeful fisherman returns, picking them off one by one in a tropical paradise turned deadly trap. Party Hard, Die Young (2018) Directed by Dominik Hartl, this German slasher film takes the familiar "teens in peril" trope to a vibrant and chaotic Croatian music festival. What starts as a wild party under the sun turns gruesome when a masked killer begins targeting the young revelers, turning their hedonistic escape into a fight for survival. Join us as we dissect these two tales of youthful terror and relentless pursuit. We'll discuss how each film utilizes its unique setting to amplify the horror, the effectiveness of their respective killers, and how they explore the themes of guilt, consequence, and the inescapable nature of the past. Get ready for sun, sand, and a whole lot of bloodshed! Spoilers start around 8:25.
Welcome to another episode of Death Don't Do Fiction, the AIPT Movies podcast! The podcast about the enduring legacy of our favorite movies! This February we're celebrating “Dreddruary,” where we cover movies based on the British comic book character, Judge Dredd! In this week's episode, Alex, Tim, and Matt discuss Sylvester Stallone's misguided 1995 schlockfest, Judge Dredd!Recycled food! Bedazzled codpieces! Distracting lifts! A cool, creepy cyborg! A shockingly sneaky, giant robot! Lethal holograms! Futuristic court drama! Stylish garbs of justice designed by Gianni Versace! A strong score by Predator's Alan Silvestri and cinematography by Aliens' Adrian Biddle! An original song from The Cure! A surprisingly faithful comic adaptation in every way except for the lead character! A visual treat with incredible production design, animatronics, and visual effects, including one of the greatest fictional mega cities in cinema! A solid cast that includes James Remar (briefly), Armand Assante, Max von Sydow, Diane Lane, Rob Schneider unfortunately, and Sylvester Stallone's ego derailing the movie! Dark themes of police corruption and eugenics in this silly movie that maybe works better as a disappointing sequel to Demolition Man, from a frustrated director who loved both the source material and apparently Blade Runner! In addition, Alex shares his spoiler-free thoughts on Captain America: Brave New World, Oz Perkins' new horror comedy, The Monkey, and the final nail in the Sonyverse coffin, Kraven the Hunter!You can find Death Don't Do Fiction on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. As always, if you enjoy the podcast, be sure to leave us a positive rating, subscribe to the show, and tell your friends!The Death Don't Do Fiction podcast brings you the latest in movie news, reviews, and more! Hosted by supposed “industry vets,” Alex Harris, Tim Gardiner, and Matt Paul, the show gives you a peek behind the scenes from three filmmakers with oddly nonexistent filmographies. You can find Alex on Twitter, Bluesky, or Letterboxd @actionharris. Matt is a terrific artist that you can find on Instagram @no_wheres_ville. Tim can't be found on social media because he doesn't exist. If you have any questions or suggestions for the Death Don't Do Fiction crew, they can be reached at aiptmoviespod@gmail.com, or you can find them on Twitter or Instagram @aiptmoviespod.Theme song is “We Got it Goin On” by Cobra Man.
Today is our 1 year anniversary!! We are really sorry for the delay you guys! Thank you for being so patient. We promise we are working on being more consistent with our episode releases!But this week, our grave stays empty!Join us as we discuss Danny Cannon's 1998 slasher sequel, ‘I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.'Brought to you by your hosts, Ruth and DP.Please support us by following us on any (preferably all) of our social media platforms. It really means the world to us!Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/didyougetthatonfilm/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/didyougetthatonfilm/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@DidYouGetThatOnFilm Website: https://didyougetthatonfilm.buzzsprout.comArt by Sebastian Westbrook (@Spwestbrookart on Instagram and Facebook)
In this episode Larry Gilbert sat down with the multi-talented actor Oliver Trevena, a name synonymous with success in Hollywood, philanthropy, and entrepreneurship. With over 20 years in the entertainment industry, Trevena has seamlessly navigated various roles from acclaimed TV host to award-winning actor, producer, and philanthropist. Trevena's journey in the spotlight began with his charismatic presence as a TV host for major shows like Young Hollywood and The Hollywood Reporter, where he interviewed some of the biggest names in entertainment. He's also fronted red carpets for prestigious award shows, including The Grammys and The American Music Awards. But his career didn't stop there. Over the last few years, Trevena has transitioned from hosting to acting, and what a journey it has been. Oliver has starred in over a dozen feature films, sharing the screen with Hollywood heavyweights like Gerard Butler in Plane, Nina Dobrev and Aaron Eckhart in The Bricklayer, and Olga Kurylenko and Harvey Keitel in Paradox Effect, the latter earning him the Breakout Actor Award at the Rome Film Festival. With the recent Toronto Film Festival premiere of The Cut, where he co-stars alongside Orlando Bloom, Trevena's name continues to rise in Hollywood's elite circles. While his acting resume grows, Trevena is also making waves behind the camera. He produced and stars in Another Day in America, which recently hit the festival circuit, and he just wrapped production on Icefall, starring alongside Joel Kinnaman and Danny Huston. Trevena's upcoming projects include two television shows: Beachy Head, which he co-created with Danny Cannon and stars Dougray Scott, and London Son, both of which he is producing with Pulp Fiction producer Lawrence Bender. Beyond Hollywood, Trevena's impact is felt on a global scale through his philanthropic efforts. For over a decade, he's served as an ambassador for Not for Sale, a worldwide organization fighting human trafficking and modern-day slavery. His dedication earned him an award from the Duchess of York. His passion for humanitarian work doesn't stop there—Trevena produced a documentary in India, spotlighting the importance of female education and raising awareness about forced child marriage. Trevena is not just an entertainer; he's also a savvy entrepreneur. As the founder of Ollywood Media, he's built a thriving business centered around investments, production, and brand creation. Recognized as one of the "Top 20 Entrepreneurs to Watch," Trevena has merged his deep connections within the entertainment world with his creative vision to launch global brands like Allsaints, DOGPOUND, and Next Health. His most recent venture, Caliwater, co-founded with close friend Vanessa Hudgens, has attracted an all-star group of investors including Gerard Butler, Glen Powell, and Ryan Tedder. With a packed schedule of upcoming films, TV projects, and entrepreneurial ventures, Oliver Trevena continues to redefine what it means to be a multi-hyphenate in the modern entertainment industry. Whether he's acting, producing, or leading philanthropic initiatives, Trevena's passion for storytelling and making a difference shines through every endeavor. Tune in to the full episode to hear Oliver's inspiring story of perseverance, the lessons he's learned from his 20+ years in the entertainment business, and how he balances his Hollywood success with his business ventures. Follow Larry GIlbert on Instagram. Follow the My Fame, Explained podcast on: Facebook Instagram TikTok LinkedIn YouTube
¡Bienvenidos a un nuevo episodio de El Calabozo del Reverendo Wilson! Otra entrega más del Dossier Slasher y en este caso con uno de los títulos capitales que tuvo el subgénero en el auge que vivió en los 90: "Aún sé lo que hicisteis el último verano" fue la secuela directa de aquel éxito enorme procreado al calor del fenómeno "Scream", que catapultó a Jennifer Love Hewitt como una de las más importantes Scream Queens de toda una generación. Con el análisis de esta divertida secuela vuelve el Slasher de los 90 al Calabozo con todas las consecuencias, y cimentándose como un capítulo en sí mismo de la historia del terror moderno. Enjoy! Si te ha gustado el programa, recuerda que tienes la posibilidad de ayudar a El Calabozo del Reverendo Wilson dándole a "Me gusta". ¡Gracias y feed the cvlt!
On today’s program, we’re speaking with Danny Cannon to hear more about being a donor family and National Donate Life Month. This is part two of a two-part interview.
On today’s program, we’re speaking with Danny Cannon about being a donor family during Donate Life Awareness Month. This is part one of a two-part interview.
It's time to get hooked again with the Back To The Blockbuster team as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer! Directed by Danny Cannon and written by Trey Callaway, the film stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Brandy, Mekhi Phifer, Matthew Settle, and Muse Watson. The murderous fisherman with a hook is back to once again stalk the two surviving teens, Julie and Ray, who had left him for dead, as well as cause even more murder and mayhem for some of Julie's new friends, this time at a posh island resort. Chatting up this sequel would not be complete without a familiar face so we are once again joined by Mark J. Parker of the Release Date Rewind Podcast and he's brought along a new friend of the show, and diehard fan of this sequel, Mike Newquist, of Newqcartoons on Instagram! Links For Guests: Release Date Rewind Instagram, Mike Newquist Instagram
In the future, one man in the law! Directed by Danny Cannon, Judge Dredd is the science fiction action film based on the 2000 AD comics character of the same name. Luke and [co-host] return to the crime-ridden future that is 2080, as depicted in 1995, for this Sylvester Stallone led movie. In the crime-plagued future, the only thing standing between order and chaos is Judge Joseph Dredd (Sylvester Stallone). His duty: police the violent metropolitan sprawls that crowd the decaying earth, and kill criminals on the spot if necessary. The tables are turned, however, when maniacal ex-Judge Rico (Armand Assante) frames Dredd for murder.
Cette semaine : On a regardé I Still know what you did last summer (1998) de Danny Cannon . De plus, on a parlé de la série Goosebump, de Kevin Williamson, du reboot de The crow et de la suite de Brightburn ! Faites ce que vous voulez, mais barrez vos portes!! Bon podcast ! —https://cinerhum.carrd.co— Time stamps: Nouvelles/Intro 0 - 17min20sec Acte 1 17min20sec - 41min52sec Acte 2 41min52sec - 01h14min Acte 3 01h14min - 01h35min Ma note : 6/10 Note de ma femme : 6/10 Liens nouvelles: Goosebump sur disney + en octobre Kevin Williamson derrière Neve Campbell Lions gate obtient les droit pour un reboot de The crow! Suite à Brightburn en développement !
A new DC TV show for The CW arrives tonight as we are returning to Gotham City, but a very different version this time around. Tonight, Gotham Knights finally premiere on The CW, which follows the story of Bruce Wayne's adoptive Turner Hayes and a group of troubled teenagers who get framed for Batman's murder. As they have to clear their name, these individuals will also, along the way, become known as the Gotham Knights, the city's next generation of heroes. The Flash Podcast and Multiverse of Color's Andy Behbakht recently had the honor of chatting with showrunners and creators Chad Fiveash and James Stoteraux, who is taking on their fourth DC TV show, following Gotham, Krypton, and Batwoman. Throughout the interview, the duo goes into depth about constructing this show, creating a new mythology in the Batman lore, how the Court of Owls is tackled in Gotham Knights and much more! “Pilot” — (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET) (TV-14, DLSV) (HDTV) SERIES PREMIERE — Batman is dead, and a powder keg has ignited Gotham City without the Dark Knight to protect it. In the wake of Bruce Wayne's murder, his adopted son Turner Hayes (Oscar Morgan) is framed for killing the Caped Crusader, along with the children of some of Batman's enemies: Duela Doe (Olivia Rose Keegan), aka The Joker's Daughter, an unpredictable fighter and skilled thief who was born in Arkham Asylum and abandoned by her father, Harper Row (Fallon Smythe), a streetwise and acerbic engineer who can fix anything, and her brother Cullen Row (Tyler DiChiara), a clever transgender teen who is tired of being polite and agreeable. With the charismatic and hard-charging District Attorney Harvey Dent (Misha Collins) and the GCPD hot on their trail, Turner will rely on allies including his best friend and formidable coder Stephanie Brown (Anna Lore), and unlikely Batman sidekick Carrie Kelley (Navia Robinson). But our Knights will soon learn there is a larger, more nefarious force at work within Gotham City. This team of mismatched fugitives must band together to become its next generation of saviors known as the “Gotham Knights.” Also starring Rahart Adams as Brody March. Danny Cannon directed the episode written by Natalie Abrams, Chad Fiveash & James Stoteraux (#101). Original airdate 3/14/2023. Every episode of GOTHAM KNIGHTS will be available to stream on The CW App and CWTV.com the day after broadcast for free and without a subscription, log-in or authentication required.” Gotham Knights premiere TONIGHT at 9/8c on The CW! Find The Flash Podcast on: Social Media: Facebook – @TheFlashPodcast – Instagram Subscribe: Apple Podcasts – Stitcher Radio – YouTube – DC TV Podcasts – Multiverse of Color – Google Podcasts – iHeartRadio – Spotify – Amazon Music – Podchaser – TuneIn – Podcast Index Contact: TheFlashPodcast@gmail.com
Another year means another new DC TV show for The CW as we are returning to Gotham City, but a very different one this time around. This week, Gotham Knights finally premiere on The CW, which follows the story of Turner Hayes and a group of teenagers who get framed for Batman's murder. As they have to clear their name, a key player will also emerge in the form of Harvey Dent, played by Supernatural star, Misha Collins, who is trading in his angelic wings for a powerful business suit as the District Attorney. The Flash Podcast and Multiverse of Color's Andy Behbakht recently had the honor of chatting with Collins about his entry into the DC Universe. Throughout the interview, the Supernatural and Gotham Knights lead reflects on getting the gig and the lengths the show takes this Harvey before becoming the infamous Batman villain, Two-Face. Collins also opens up about meeting fan expectations before the show has even premiered and how Gotham Knights stand out from The CW's many DC TV shows. “Pilot” — (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET) (TV-14, DLSV) (HDTV) SERIES PREMIERE — Batman is dead, and a powder keg has ignited Gotham City without the Dark Knight to protect it. In the wake of Bruce Wayne's murder, his adopted son Turner Hayes (Oscar Morgan) is framed for killing the Caped Crusader, along with the children of some of Batman's enemies: Duela Doe (Olivia Rose Keegan), aka The Joker's Daughter, an unpredictable fighter and skilled thief who was born in Arkham Asylum and abandoned by her father, Harper Row (Fallon Smythe), a streetwise and acerbic engineer who can fix anything, and her brother Cullen Row (Tyler DiChiara), a clever transgender teen who is tired of being polite and agreeable. With the charismatic and hard-charging District Attorney Harvey Dent (Misha Collins) and the GCPD hot on their trail, Turner will rely on allies including his best friend and formidable coder Stephanie Brown (Anna Lore), and unlikely Batman sidekick Carrie Kelley (Navia Robinson). But our Knights will soon learn there is a larger, more nefarious force at work within Gotham City. This team of mismatched fugitives must band together to become its next generation of saviors known as the “Gotham Knights.” Also starring Rahart Adams as Brody March. Danny Cannon directed the episode written by Natalie Abrams, Chad Fiveash & James Stoteraux (#101). Original airdate 3/14/2023. Every episode of GOTHAM KNIGHTS will be available to stream on The CW App and CWTV.com the day after broadcast for free and without a subscription, log-in or authentication required.” Gotham Knights premiere Tuesday, March 14 at 9/8c on The CW. Find The Flash Podcast on: Social Media: Facebook – @TheFlashPodcast – Instagram Subscribe: Apple Podcasts – Stitcher Radio – YouTube – DC TV Podcasts – Multiverse of Color – Google Podcasts – iHeartRadio – Spotify – Amazon Music – Podchaser – TuneIn – Podcast Index Contact: TheFlashPodcast@gmail.com Support: TeePublic Store
A new DC TV show for The CW arrives tonight as we are returning to Gotham City, but a very different version this time around. Tonight, Gotham Knights finally premiere on The CW, which follows the story of Bruce Wayne's adoptive Turner Hayes and a group of troubled teenagers who get framed for Batman's murder. As they have to clear their name, these individuals will also, along the way, become known as the Gotham Knights, the city's next generation of heroes. The Flash Podcast and Multiverse of Color's Andy Behbakht recently had the honor of chatting with co-executive producer and creator Natalie Abrams, a former entertainment journalist who is no stranger to the world of DC TV. After having worked on Batwoman, Abrams is now bringing the Gotham Knights to life on The CW this season. Throughout the interview, Abrams tells the origin story of how the show came to be, how Gotham Knights stand out from other DC TV shows, and the experience of getting to create a whole new Gotham City. “Pilot” — (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET) (TV-14, DLSV) (HDTV) SERIES PREMIERE — Batman is dead, and a powder keg has ignited Gotham City without the Dark Knight to protect it. In the wake of Bruce Wayne's murder, his adopted son Turner Hayes (Oscar Morgan) is framed for killing the Caped Crusader, along with the children of some of Batman's enemies: Duela Doe (Olivia Rose Keegan), aka The Joker's Daughter, an unpredictable fighter and skilled thief who was born in Arkham Asylum and abandoned by her father, Harper Row (Fallon Smythe), a streetwise and acerbic engineer who can fix anything, and her brother Cullen Row (Tyler DiChiara), a clever transgender teen who is tired of being polite and agreeable. With the charismatic and hard-charging District Attorney Harvey Dent (Misha Collins) and the GCPD hot on their trail, Turner will rely on allies including his best friend and formidable coder Stephanie Brown (Anna Lore), and unlikely Batman sidekick Carrie Kelley (Navia Robinson). But our Knights will soon learn there is a larger, more nefarious force at work within Gotham City. This team of mismatched fugitives must band together to become its next generation of saviors known as the “Gotham Knights.” Also starring Rahart Adams as Brody March. Danny Cannon directed the episode written by Natalie Abrams, Chad Fiveash & James Stoteraux (#101). Original airdate 3/14/2023. Every episode of GOTHAM KNIGHTS will be available to stream on The CW App and CWTV.com the day after broadcast for free and without a subscription, log-in or authentication required.” Gotham Knights premiere TONIGHT at 9/8c on The CW! Find The Flash Podcast on: Social Media: Facebook – @TheFlashPodcast – Instagram Subscribe: Apple Podcasts – Stitcher Radio – YouTube – DC TV Podcasts – Multiverse of Color – Google Podcasts – iHeartRadio – Spotify – Amazon Music – Podchaser – TuneIn – Podcast Index Contact: TheFlashPodcast@gmail.com
Welcome back to purgatory!!!! This week the boys along with Jo wrap up Stallone month with Dudge Dredd from 1995 Directed by Danny Cannon and staring The Law, Diane Lane, Armand Assante, Rob Schneider, Max Von Sydow, Jurgen Prochnow, Joan Chen and ABC Robot. Thanks for checking us out and if, you like to find out back catalogue go to podbean.com Outro music "Lawmaster Chase" from the SNES Dudge Dredd video game. https://youtu.be/45S5Cts-D4Y
Danny Cannon returns to direct Pennyworth Season 3 Episode 7 Don't Push It and John and Derek chat all about it in spoiler filled detail. Pennyworth Season 3 Episode 7 “Don't Push It” Synopsis Episode Written by: John Stephens Episode Directed By: Danny Cannon Following Alfred Pennyworth's promise to Miss Zahra Khin, to find and bring back her incarcerated father, he and Dave boy search the Outer Hebrides of Northern Scotland for any sign of the prison he's held in. After a wasted day searching Alfie is bothered by seeing an impossible boy in the desolate landscape. Locals tell Alfie that The Prison is there, but it is Without Walls and he should follow the boy he saw. With Dave Boy unwilling to leave the comfortable pub, Alfie locates the Prison entrance on his own. He's immediately hit with memories of the worst moment in his life. However, the warden quickly knows Alfie is there and increases the prison's defence system, the Psychic Fence, to capture him. Alfie pushes through the mind-affecting device and locates Mr Khin. Before being able to escape with the reluctant inmate, Alfie gets captured by The Warden and her team. As she tries to use her mysterious mind altering tools to “Fix” Alfie, he's saved by Lucius Fox and Dave Boy. Lucius explains that the Psychic Fence is one of the People with Enhancements he tried to cure in the past. The powerful PDub brought Alfie here to put him out of his misery. Alfie kindly obliges and returns Zahra's father to her. Meanwhile after his father's murder Thomas Wayne is no longer responding to calls from his wife Martha. She is torn between going to Gotham or investigating a connection between John Salt's mysterious experiments, following his death, and the English Government. A lead Prime Minister Aziz seems desperate for her to ignore. Cast of Pennyworth Season 3 Follow us and Subscribe to the Podcast If you want to keep up with us and all of our podcasts, please subscribe over at https://tvpodcastindustries.com. Where we will continue to podcast about multiple TV shows we hope you'll love. If you want to just follow Pennyworth each week search for "Pennyworth Podcast" and subscribe to just these episodes. Next time on The Pennyworth Podcast We will be back next week with Pennyworth Season 3 episode 8 "Red Marauder". We hope you'll join us over on "TV Podcast Industries" for our coverage of lots of other TV shows. Including Marvel's She Hulk, Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power and lots lots more. We hope you join us for more podcasts soon. Until then, Keep Watching, Keep Listening and stay safe. Derek and John TV Podcast Industries All images and audio clips are copyright of Epix TV, HBO Max, Warner Horizon Scripted Television and their respective copyright owners.
Danny Cannon returns to direct Pennyworth Season 3 Episode 7 Don’t Push It and John and Derek chat all about it in spoiler filled detail. Pennyworth Season 3 Episode 7 Read More The post Pennyworth Season 3 Episode 7 Don’t Push It Podcast appeared first on TV Podcast Industries.
This week we are welcoming back friend of the Podcast Joe Higgens from Hallmark of Greatness, Yeah you knew we were going to say that! We're using his library of knowledge on 2000 AD as well as talking long walks and Sticking plastic things to existing guns to make them look futuristic. --- Hallmark of Greatsness is a comedy podcast about the greatest stories of our age, Hallmark and made for TV movies. Listen here --- Judge Dredd is a 1995 American superhero film[5][6][7][8] based on the 2000 AD comics character of the same name. It is directed by Danny Cannon and stars Sylvester Stallone in the title role, a law enforcement officer in the crime-ridden futuristic metropolis of Mega-City One. The film co-stars Armand Assante, Diane Lane, Rob Schneider, Joan Chen, Jürgen Prochnow, and Max von Sydow. It was filmed entirely at Shepperton Studios in the United Kingdom, and released by Buena Vista Pictures on June 30, 1995. The film takes place in the year 2080 and depicts a dystopian world. Following an unspecified disaster that turned Earth into a "cursed" wasteland, the survivors established a corps of Judges whose role combines that of police, judge, jury and executioner. In Judge Dredd, Dredd, one of the most dedicated Street Judges, has been framed for murder by his own half-brother — the psychotic Rico, who plots to take over Mega-City One with an army of superhuman clones. The film was produced by Charles Lippincott and Beau E. L. Marks, with a screenplay by William Wisher Jr. and Steven E. de Souza. Reviewers criticized the film for its script and perceived lack of originality and faith to its source material, along with Stallone's acting. The film is often considered to be one of Stallone's worst films,[9][10] but its visual style, effects, music score, stunts and action sequences were praised, and the film was nominated for four Saturn Awards. A reboot film, entitled Dredd, was released in 2012.
"I never broke the Law! I AM THE LAW!!" - Judge Dredd (Stallone) Join our Discord https://discord.gg/jDrUtNcRq2 Join us as Craig and Scott enter the strange and terrifying world of '90s comic book movies. Back in the pre-MCU, pre-Dark Knight, pre-X-Men days when Hollywood clearly had no clue how to deal with these sorts of films. On today's episode from this comic book movie wasteland we look at one of Stallone's most notorious bombs, JUDGE DREDD! Over the course of the episode Craig and Scott talk about how Stallone clearly doesn't get the character or the source material, his many clashes with director Danny Cannon and the silly studio, if understandable, studio decision to have Dredd not have his helmet on for most of the movie. Plus, we get into the films great production design, just how irritating Rob Schneider is in this film and how despite its many flaws the awesomeness Armand Assante (nearly) makes the whole thing worthwhile. Also, we invite you all to get the ball rolling in our bid to see the Cannon cut of this film. #ReleasetheCannonCut
All I know is this is the worst vacation of my life! Join Reneé, John Paul, and Travis as they discuss Danny Cannon's 1998 slasher sequel "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer." Please consider supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepodmortem Where to listen to the podcast and follow us on social media: https://allmylinks.com/thepodmortem Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepodmortem https://twitter.com/bloodandsmoke https://twitter.com/realstreeter84 https://twitter.com/travismwh What would you rate I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and what should we watch next? Email us at thepodmortem@gmail.com "Pod Mortem Theme" written and performed by Travis Hunter. https://youtube.com/travismwh
Mit anderen Darstellern hätte Danny Cannon vielleicht einen wirklich werkgetreuen Dredd-Film hinbekommen. Kostüme und Requisiten waren jedenfalls enorm nah an den Designs aus den Comics. Dann kamen statt Arnold Schwarzenegger und Joe Pesci leider Sylvester Stallone und Rob Schneider ins Spiel. Wie das den Film ruinierte, heute bei Movigilantes...
Una carrellata di cine-comics ante letteram, film brutti, bruttissimi ed incompresi che forse non dovremmo vergognarci di amare.Elenco dei film trattati:Daredevil/Elektra (Mark Steven Johnson, 2003 - Ron Bowman, 2005) Catwoman (Pitof, 2004)Scooby Doo (Raja Gosnell, 2002)Garfield (Peter Hewitt, 2004)The Flintstones (Brian Levant, 1994)Tartarughe Ninja alla riscossa (Steve Barron, 1990)Dredd la legge sono io (Danny Cannon, 1995)Spawn (Mark M Z Dippè, 1997)The Phantom (Simon Wincer, 1996)Howard e il destino del mondo (Willard Huyck, 1986)Il venditore - The Punisher (Mark Goldblatt, 1989)L'uomo ombra (Russell Mulcahy, 1994)Popeye (Robert Altman, 1980)Tex e il signore degli abissi (Duccio Tessari, 1985)Sturmtruppen (Salvatore Samperi, 1976)Dylan Dog Dead of night (Kevin Munroe, 2010)Pugni dollari e spinaci (Emimmo Salvi, 1978)
Freeze, creep! This week, we're checking out the 1995 and 2012 attempts to bring Judge Dredd to American movie audiences. Spoiler alert: It didn't work out like the studios hoped. ----more---- [00:00:00] Mike: That's a little too thirsty, I think. Welcome to Tencent takes the podcast where we violate Mega City One's judicial codes, one issue at a time. Coming at you live from the hot box of my closet; I have not showered in 24-hours, and I smell fantastic. I'm Mike Thompson and I am joined by my co-host, the princess of pain, Jessika Frazer. Jessika: Yaar! I'm also - Mike: How are you smelling? Jessika: God, I'm in a hotbox of pain at the very least, I had to go to work like physically into the office today. So I actually, you know, had to be decent enough to be around people that are masked, so the deodorant had to at least be applied, but. Mike: No hard pass. I work out of my bedroom now, you're lucky if you get pants. Jessika: Well, that's nice. [00:01:00] Mike: Would you like to explain why we are here? Jessika: You know, we're here because we love comics. Mike, Mike: True. Jessika: We love comics. We want to talk about all the comics. We want to do deep dives about our favorite comics and their heroes, and where they came from. And wild little stories that we find out about them and bringing in nefarious characters like Eric Estrada. He's not a nefarious. Mike: He's a little nefarious. He was involved in a really weird kind of scammy land sale thing. He did also endorse Trump on Twitter. Remember that where he was like - Jessika: Oh God. He is nefarious. Gosh, darn I, why do I always want to give Eric Estrada so much credit? I'm like way too nice to the guy. I don't even know him. I do follow him on Twitter now, but. Mike: No. He literally told Donald Trump on Twitter that he should run for president because he tells it like it is. So thanks, Eric. Thanks. Appreciate that. Jessika: No. That was a bad idea. Like, for [00:02:00] the record, I don't know if anyone else knows that. Everyone else knows that, every other country knows that. Mike: They do now. Jessika: Oh man, we're going to get into some hot topics today, too. This is already a good start. Mike: Yeah. So before I interrupted you, is there anything else that we'd like to cover or talk about or look at? Jessika: Oh, their video games, all the related media movies. Everything, everything comics related, we want to talk about it. Mike: Fair. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: Well, today we are going to hop on our Law Masters and cruise the Cursed Earth as we check out both the cinematic adaptations of Judge Dredd. But, before we do that, before we dive into this episode, we'd like to acknowledge a small milestone because this is our 10th episode and we've received over 500 downloads. So, you know, that may not sound like anything major compared to a lot of podcasts out there, but we're incredibly proud of what we've been able to achieve and how far we've gotten so far. And if you're listening to us, we're super [00:03:00] grateful that you've just given us your time. We really appreciate it. So to celebrate, we're going to do a giveaway. If you go to our page on Apple Podcast and leave a rating, and then email us a screenshot of said rating and a review, but that's only if you're inclined, really, we just care about the rating. We'll enter you to win a $25 gift card from NewKadia. NewKadia actually offers international shipping too. So, even listeners outside of the continental us are eligible. Jessika: That's super exciting! Mike: Yeah. Jessika: So Yeah. Rate us, review us. We appreciate you all. Mike: Even you. Yeah. So I'm talking to you right through your car stereo right now. Jessika: We're there with you driving along. Hey, watch the road. Mike: All right. We're at the point of the episode where we like to start off with one cool thing that we've read or watched lately, do you want to start off? Jessika: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. So I needed a little bit of a palate cleanser after watching the [00:04:00] 2012 dread film so much gore. So I ended up watching Guardians of the Galaxy 2, which I hadn't seen before, and it was super fun. Loved the music as always characters had a really good chance to further develop. Okay. But I have to say, dude, I like still Stalloned myself. I did not know he was in that movie. And then he just shows up and I was like, what the fuck? Cause I literally had just watched them both in a row. And so I literally had just seen Stallone like the movie before that. And then he shows up again and I was like, good lord. Mike: Well, and you know that his crew is like the original Guardians of the Galaxy from the comic books. Jessika: I do. Yeah.I do. Now. I know I looked that up afterwards and I was like, oh, okay. All right. Mike: Yeah. And it was like Michael Rosenbalm, who did the voice of Superman and was Lex Luther in Smallville and the Michelle Yeoh and Ving Rhames. I was totally here for that cameo. That was great. [00:05:00] Jessika: Yeah. It was, once I looked that up, I was like, oh, that makes more sense. Cause I wasn't aware of that. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: it was super fun, but then I Stalloned myself again because I today a guest hosting of trivia for North Bay Trivia in Santa Rosa, at Shady Oak Barrel. And they have like a little arcade game. That's Stallone on the front. And I can't remember, I sent it to you, I think, cause I frickin' Stalloned myself again, secondary Stallone. Mike: I feel like you did. And I can't remember what it was. Jessika: I'd have to look it up, but I'm too lazy to look through my phone. So we'll just leave it. Anyone knows I don't, I don't care anymore. Mike: Fair. Jessika: So, back to the Guardians of the Galaxy after that Stallone detour, I really, really liked the evolution of Gomorrah, Nebula's relationship. Mike: I love that. I thought it was fantastic. Like I thought honestly, Almost all the characters had really nice [00:06:00] development, except really, I mean, I don't know. I feel like Peter didn't actually develop that much as an actual character. Jessika: No, he was just taken on some Shamaylan twists and turns. Mike: Yeah. But yeah, the whole bit where, Yondu is yelling at Rocket about, you say that I don't know you, but like you're me. And it was oh, oh. Jessika: Gosh. I definitely cried during that movie. I'm not going to lie, but I'm a crier. Mike: There's a lot of feels. There's a lot of feels in that movie. Jessika: Yeah. Oh, it was so good. So overall two thumbs up. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: What about you? What have you been reading? Watching? Mike: Yeah. So, Sarah and I started watching Loki because that just began airing last week, and ahead of that I wound up reading a couple of old issues of Thor, specifically Thor 371 and 372, which are the issues that actually introduced the Time Variance Authority. And the funny thing is that these issues also introduced a character who [00:07:00] may look a little familiar to you, especially as we've been prepping a bit for this particular episode. So check out the cover and tell me if he reminds you of anyone Jessika: Okay. That looks like a, that's so funny. That looks like Captain America, but it also looks like one of those those Doctor Who, like, what are those things called? Mike: The Daleks. So if you take a closer look at that guy that is so his character, his name is Justice Peace. And if you look at the shape of his helmet and he's actually on a sky cycle. Jessika: Oh shit. Mike: But, yeah, it's a pastiche of Judge Dredd. Jessika: He does look like Judge Dredd. You know what threw me was the bright colors, because Judge Dredd has darker tones. So I kinda got drawn more to that kind of vibe, but you're right. He's got the helmet across his face. You can see one of his eyes and the other one looks like it's probably bionic. And it's kind of like a samurai helmet, it looks like. It's, I think it's supposed to be shaped like more of a samurai style. If I'm not mistaken. Mike: Kind [00:08:00] of which - Jessika: It's big. Mike: Like actually the, Jessika: I don't. Mike: The old school Judge Dredd helmets, actually, like some of them have actually taken on that look too. Like they've kind of played with the shapes, but anyway, I thought it was just kind of a funny, a funny, a full circle moment. Jessika: He's got some arm bandoliers too. Mike: Yeah, man. Those were big in the eighties. Jessika: I guess. So, dang dude, I'm loving this. Mike: Yeah. It's a lot of fun. We are going to be talking about Judge Dredd in general. We're not going to do a deep dive on the comics, but we're going to talk a bit about the background. And so before we actually do that, I felt like we should take a minute and talk about how of us have grown up with pretty close connections to law enforcement. Do you want to go first? Jessika: No. Sure, sure, sure, sure. So my dad was a police officer for, I think, close to 30 years. And for a lot of it he worked in public safety, which is really like policing and [00:09:00] firefighting and they rotate duties. So you have to know both, you go through both academies. It's supposed to be that you're a little bit more well-rounded and involved, and I don't know, it was. At the time the community was a lot smaller and it probably made more sense, but it's getting bigger. And, I don't know how much sense it makes, but I'm also not an expert. And I haven't lived there for a while, so I don't know what the politics there are these days surrounding that as much as I used to. As far as police officers go, I do know a few really decent people who are police officers and, you know, growing up, I had mostly good experiences. However, that hasn't been the case for everyone. And my privilege of being raised white and a child of a law enforcement officer has absolutely shielded me from so many of the issues and policing that plagues our country. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: And I have to say like, unironically, my dad was a decent cop. He's still alive. But when he was still in law enforcement, he was a decent cop and [00:10:00] he definitely let his ethics guide him, and he left positions based on his moral compass. And I'm really proud of him for leaving organizations that were more on the corrupt side or that weren't doing things that he thought they should be doing and abiding by their own rules. However, he's also the one who taught me about profiling, which is a conversation I remember having with him around 9 or 10 years old, maybe earlier than that. And that's just such a racist tactic that has never really sat right with me. And that I adamantly oppose now that I'm older and I have a better understanding of how we as a society, villainize people of color just for existing. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: So without getting too far into what is a really, really massive conversation and discussion, the judicial system in this country is absolutely broken, and we statistically arrest convict and give longer incarceration timeframes to people of color. Mike: Yeah. I mean, there's, [00:11:00] that's just a fact. Jessika: It's a fact. There, there are numbers, you can look it up, you know, it's yeah. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: So, I know, on that fun note, whatever, I'm such a downer. Mike: That's okay. I should have known better than to start us off on this, you know, really positive note for the episode. Jessika: I already got fired up. I'm already going to have to edit out my mumbling. Mike: That's all right. You know, it's funny because I have to wonder if my uncle actually knew your dad because my uncle was in the same area and works in public safety as well. So, he always did the firefighting and police work as well. My uncle is the guy that I grew up idolizing when I was a kid. He was the cool uncle to me. He taught me the basics of photography. And I worked as a freelance photographer for awhile. He was a forensic specialist dealing with fingerprinting. So you and I [00:12:00] grew up in the 90's in the Bay Area. So Polly Klaas is a name that any, anyone who was here during that time knows, and she was a girl who was kidnapped out of her home, basically just taken while she was having a sleep over with some friends out of her home in Petaluma. And the FBI apparently came in and did a Palm print, but they use some fluorescent powder that the local PD couldn't read, but my uncle had the training and I guess the equipment, I don't quite know all the details, but so he worked the Polly Klaas case. He and my aunt are both retired police and they were both so incredibly cool to me when I was growing up. And I've since had to reckon with the fact that, you know, not all cops are good, and I'd hope that they were great. I hope that they were the bar that other cops were measured against, but who can say it, this. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: So we, we both have connections to law enforcement, and I think it's safe [00:13:00] to say that we're approaching Judge Dredd from a perspective that is influenced both by our backgrounds, as well as the current environment that's going on because we're recording this in June of 2021 when things are still real bad in a lot of ways. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: So now that we've got that highlight out of the way. I'm curious, what was your awareness of Judge Dredd prior to this. Jessika: You know, besides name recognition, I didn't know much about the plot line, other than some vague notion that it was futuristic or post-apocalyptic. So, I came into this super fresh, and I'm super excited to learn more now. Mike: Yeah. So, I definitely have a lot more familiarity with the character. I read some of his stuff in the 90's and 2000's. I would just kind of randomly find things and I thought he was pretty cool. When I was in roller derby, my roller derby name actually wound up being Judge Dreadful. [00:14:00] And so I've since then bought a number of collections. I've read most of the big storylines that they did from the 70's up until the mid-90's. And then I also read one of the more recent American series as well. I've seen all the movies. Dred is still one of my favorite movies of all time, even though we'll talk about that later on, it's got its own issues through today's lens. I guess the best way I can describe myself is: I'm more than a casual fan, but I'm not a diehard fan. Part of it is just because there's so much lore at this point. So, I have an unfair advantage in terms of familiarity, I guess. Sorry. Jessika: No, that's okay. That's why you're hosting this episode. Not me. Mike: Yeah. So, we're going to do some basic background. Dredd was originally created in 1977 for this newly launched comics anthology called 2000 AD. There was this guy, he was an editor named Pat Mills and he brought on a writer that he'd worked with named John Wagner to create new content for this magazine. [00:15:00] And, basically comics, anthology magazines, they were printed on like newspaper stock. They were magazine format. And what it was very kind of, you know, old school pulp magazine, like where it was serial stories usually, or a little one-offs. So it'd be four to five pages, usually of content per story. And then a lot of times they would end on a cliffhanger so that, you know, the readers would come back the next week. And that's generally how British comics have worked. At least that's my understanding of it. That's how a lot of them are. And actually when they were trying to do US style sized comics, supposedly they didn't do as well because they would get covered up basically and overshadowed by the sheer size of these magazines, which were much bigger and flashier. So Wagner came into 2000 AD. He'd had a lot of success writing this Dirty Harry kind of character called One-Eyed Jack for another anthology series called Valiant, and both he and Mills realized that 2000 AD needed [00:16:00] a quote unquote, a hardcore cop character as part of the magazine's content. So, Wagner has since then described, dread as a psycho cop with no feelings. And then he worked with this artist named Carlos Escuera to create the character and then Escuera wound up designing a character who reflected that kind of hardcore, no feelings ideal. He actually died a couple of years ago and the Guardian ran a really, it was really nice ,tribute talking about his accomplishments and his style, but there's this really great quote, which I think you should actually read out. And it gives us a lot of background in a nutshell of Dredd and who he is. Jessika: Escuera started his career drawing war comics in Barcelona before moving to the UK and working for the anthology 2000 AD and others, He brought the iconography of fascist Spain to Dredd's extremely weird and [00:17:00] vivid design and combined it with his experiences of living in Croydon through the 70's and 80's, the punk movement on his doorstep and TV images of policemen, charging striking miners. The Eagle motif and helmet were drawn from fascism, the permanently drawn truncheon from police on the picket line. The zips chains and knee pads from punk. I was living in Franco, Spain, he told an interviewer last year, but also I was living in Mrs. Thatcher's England. Mike: I think that kinda tells us all we need to know about what they're going for with the vibe of Judge Dredd. Jessika: Yeah. No, that, that definitely showed. I was thinking that about the Eagle. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: When they were showing the big building and it was super, everything was just cement and. Mike: Yeah. It's got that brutalist kind of architecture. Yeah. Jessika: Yes. Mike: Yeah. So Dred exists in this world. That's left standing after World War III, and [00:18:00] most of the planet's just been devastated. America is largely uninhabitable, say for a couple of what are called Mega Cities, which are these autonomous city states that housed hundreds of millions of people. At one point in the comics, I think it's up to 800 million and they've had different events where they've kind of knocked it down repeatedly, Jessika: Yikes. Mike: And at one point it got as low as like 120 million or so I think that was kind of after I stopped reading though. But anyway, mega city one was originally going to be a future version of New York City. But that was quickly retconned to that specific part, being some sort of capital area for this urban sprawl that covers most of the Eastern seaboard. And from the get-go, Dredd stories were kind of this extreme form of satire. It was presenting the society where democracy basically failed, and the office of the president of the United States has been retired, and society now runs under this, to be honest, terrifying gaze of the Judges. How would you sum up the [00:19:00] Judges based on what we saw in the movies? Jessika: As a whole, they were pretty robotic and unfeeling. They were doling out the letter of the law as it happened and per their protocol, and their justice is swift and immediate, which is really terrifying. Like you said to imagine. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: And what's even scarier is that all crimes were treated the same. You are either sent to a prison called an isopod, or killed right then and there. There was, there were no middle grounds between those points. It was like, you're hauled off then, you serve a sentence, or you're just killed. Mike: Yeah. I mean, that's really not that different from the comics. Jessika: And then, as far as their appearance, as with most uniforms, they dress the same with helmets and body armor and they are just armed to the gills and they look just as scary as they act. Mike: Yeah. And, I think a safe way to describe the system of Mega City [00:20:00] one is to call it authoritarian, but it's just a little bit different than what we normally associate with that term. Jessika: Yeah. I wonder if there's some sort of like a law-tarian like judiciatarion. I don't know, somebody is going to @ me and tell me how stupid I am, but that's fine. I already know. Mike: I like, I like, I liked judicialtarion. I think that's, uh, if that's not a word we should make it one. Jessika: Here we are, TM TM. Mike: Yeah, we're just going to sit back and let the royalties roll in after this. Yeah, but in spite of all this, there's this very weird, dry, British humor that kind of makes the whole narrative a little more palatable. So like one of the early stories is focusing on how robots were doing most of society's work and that's resulted in rampant, unemployment and boredom, so citizens of the mega blocks start engaging in what they call block wars, where neighboring blocks basically just start opening fire on each other because they want something to do. There's another story where the Dark Judges, who [00:21:00] are, they're effectively movie monster versions of the Judges as we know them crossover into Dredd's reality. And then they start slaughtering people, indiscriminately, because all crime is committed by the living. And, thus the sentence for life is death. Jessika: Yikes. Mike: Or, there's also the idea that recycled food is, what they call it, is how they eat these days. But recycled food is actually made from people you know, it's Soylent Green Jessika: Oh, How Soylent Green. Yeah. Mike: Yeah. The Dredd comics always have this kind of underlying tone of absurdity. It's that slight bit of levity that makes this really brutal comic actually pretty enjoyable because it becomes ridiculous. It's a comic of extremes. Over time, the comics gone on to deal with things like Dredd having to resolve how the system that he represents is actually problematic, and it needs some kind of reform. The ramifications of how the push to move back to democracy fails and, [00:22:00] you know, actually fleshing him out as a character who occasionally has feelings, not all the time, but just sometimes. He goes from being kind of a lawful neutral character to a lawful kind of good alignment, like sort of good, kind of, some of the time. There's only so long that you can have a character be a robot for justice, if nothing else before, you know, people are going to sour on them. Jessika: You mean a veritable killing machine? Mike: Yeah. The other thing is that the core Dredd stories haven't really been reset. They're still going from 2000 AD, so at this point we have nearly 50 years of stories that are all canon. And the other thing is that they keep on aging Dredd in realtime. So, at this point he's absurdly old and they hand wave it away by he spends time in the Rejuva-pods or whatever they are. But as a result, he's the same guy who has seen everything that has gone on in the comics. [00:23:00] And as a result, he's matured and changed a bit. And it's kinda neat. So in the UK Dredd's a pretty big deal, but his presence in America isn't quite the same. Like UK comic magazines back then were very different from comics here in the states. So, when they decided to bring them over here across the pond, 2000 AD wound up working with this guy named Nick Landau, who a couple of years earlier had created tightened books to publish comic collections of Judge Dredd in the UK, and then was publishing more collections of other things. Landau had just created Eagle Comics to collect and publish Dredd stories and other 2000 AD stuff. Uh, here in the States in 1983, the Eagle series lasted for about three-ish-is years, and then it moved on to another publisher. And this is pretty much how Dredd existed in the states in the 80's and 90's; a publisher would pick up the rights, and then try to make them click with American readers, and then the [00:24:00] series would get canceled, and then someone else would pick them up and try to do it again. And arguably his most quote unquote mainstream moment was when DC comics published an 18 issue series from 94 to 96. I've only gotten through a couple of these issues and they don't quite bite like the originals. They feel more like an action sci-fi series. Some weird kind of sarcastic humor, but it doesn't quite translate the same way. It feels like a knockoff product, to be honest. I mean, honestly the best American adaptation I've seen is from the 2012 series that IDW did. And that condensed several of the iconic Dredd storylines from the original British run. So they were a little bit more palatable for American audiences, but basically American awareness of the characters generally stayed that level of, oh yeah, that sounds kind of familiar. And then he's never really been a household name, which was what the 1995 movie was trying to change. [00:25:00] Jessika: Yeah, well, it didn't change it for me, but I was also, you know, I was also nine in 1995. So. Mike: *Sigh* I was 14. Jessika: You're only a few years older - you say that like you're 90 now, by the way, every one for the record, Mike is 90. Mike: I am. Jessika: Since he's making a huge deal out of it. Mike: I'm waiting on my Rascal. Scooter Just gonna, just gonna drive through downtown Petaluma with my dogs in my side car. We're all gonna be wearing goggles and flight helmets. And you'll see me go by and just gol “RASCAL!” Jessika: My dude, you can do that now. Mike: Sarah has told me I can't do that yet. We've had this discussion. Jessika: Oh, that's too bad. Mike: Now that we've got the background out of the way, why don't we actually talk about what we're here to talk about? Which is the 1995 Judge Dredd movie. [00:26:00] Jessika: Here we are. Mike: Yeah. Do you remember those TV schedules that used to be in the back of the newspaper, they would show you like A) what was on the air that night and B) provide one sentence summaries of what the movies were? Do you remember those? Jessika: I do because I loved reading those. Mike: I know I did too. How would you summarize Stallone's Judge Dredd, if you were writing it up in that format? Jessika: Oh, need a throat clear for that. In a world where chaos reigns, one man stands between justice and lawlessness. But what happens when the Judge becomes the judged? Find out this Wednesday at 6:00 PM Pacific standard time, 9:00 PM Eastern on Spike TV. I just assume Spike TV would play that. Mike: Spike TV would be all over this. Are you kidding? Jessika: Yeah, no, exactly. That was the first television channel that I thought of that was like, yeah, they would [00:27:00] absolutely have this on like they'd have a Dredd marathon. Mike: God, what an absolute time capsule of a TV channel - is, Spike TV isn't around still, is it? I don't know. Jessika: I have no idea. I was my, my 90's brain just woke up and was like, this is what you say. Mike: God. I remember that was such a mid to late aughts TV channel. It was basically toxic masculinity, the TV channel. Jessika: Yeah. It was, it was either super masculine movies like this, or it was just a game show about people falling all over each other and just laughing at people. Mike: Oh yeah. Was it Most Extreme Challenge? Jessika: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge Yep. As I sit here and I know exactly what it, cause I didn't watch a million episodes of that. Mike: No I'm, that was the only reason that I would turn that fucking channel on. Jessika: Yeah. It's true. My brother and I would roll. Mike: No, so, okay. I just looked it up and we don't need to [00:28:00] actually record the sorry, uh, Paramount Network, formerly Spike, which is still used for the Dutch in Australian feed as an American, but you know, whatever, fuck Jessika: The Australians don't even listen to us. I'm leaving all of this in, and the Australians don't listen to us, yet. Oh God. They're going to listen to us now. And they're going to be like, oy yes we do. I can't, I'm not even going to try, not even to try to do some like, incredibly offensive Australian accent. Mike: No, no, don't do it. Jessika: No, no, I know about it. Mike: Okay. Let's go for an actual movie summary now. Jessika: Sure set in a, oh, sorry. Regular voice, Jessika. Set in a dystopian future complete with a densely populated metropolis and flying cars, order is dictated and carried out by people called Judges, whose job is to convict, judge, and punish those moving outside of the law. The punishments [00:29:00] are severe, being jailed or even killed for their transgressions. Stallone, who plays Judge Joseph dread is seemingly one of the most feared and respected judges until he is framed by a maniacal and presumed to be dead ex-judge Rico. Dredd has to prove his innocence in order to continue providing his particular brand of justice. Oh, and how can I forget about Rob Schneider? Whose main role in this film was to say Dredd's named really loudly. So they would get caught when they were trying to be covert. I mean, at least that's how it felt. Mike: Yeah, whenever I talk about this movie, I always sit there and reference how Robert Schneider is the worst choice to provide, you know, it's not even comic relief. It's like air quotes, comic relief. Schneider was really big at that time. Like, he had just come out of SNL and I never found them really to be all that funny. But, this was like at the [00:30:00] start of his whole 90's. I don't know. What would you call that movement? Jessika: God, it was like the stupid humor movement. Mike: Yeah, it was that Adam Sandler. Jessika: I talk like I'm a baby. Adam Sandler. I can deal with, to a certain extent. There are some movies, I'm just like, whatever, but I've liked him in some things even, but I feel like Will Ferrell is a result of Adam Sandler. I feel like Adam Sandler, birthed will Ferrell and I'm not happy about it. I do not like Will Farrell Mike: Man, I. Jessika: @ me Will Ferrell. I do not like you. Mike: Just watch, he's going to like angrily tweet and then we're going to get a bunch of, you know, I guess, angry gen X-ers I'll all up in our DMS. Jessika: OPress? Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize that bad press wasn't just good press also, because it is. Mike: Yeah. And I mean, this was before Schneider was given starring [00:31:00] roles in movies like Deuce Bigalow, which I have yet to see a Rob Schneider movie that I don't find absolutely abhorrent for a number of reasons. Yeah. Jessika: Especially in retrospect. Mike: Yeah. I mean, he's not offensive in this movie, he's just not very funny and kind of useless, even though he's supposed to be the plucky comic sidekick, which, I mean, this was part of that era of buddy action cop movies, except just in a different setting. Jessika: Yeah. I don't know. It was just very grating. The humor Mike: Yeah. , Jessika: And forced. Mike: Yeah. So, your summary is spot on. There's also detours into the Cursed Earth where Dredd is wrongfully convicted. And then, this is something where they diverged from the comic lore, but they're traveling to the penal colony in Aspen, when actually the penal colonies are all off-world. So it's, you basically get sent there for hard labor, off-planet and it's not exactly described what, and then he has to come back from the Cursed Earth, after dealing with the [00:32:00] cannibalistic Angel Gang. And then there's the reveal that he's a clone, which at this point in time is not really a big deal. Like, everybody knows it in the lore and yeah, we get a climactic battle at the statue of Liberty. Also, Joan Chen shows up for no real reason other than to be a woman for Diane Lane to fight. Jessika: Yeah, exactly. Mike: But yeah, it's not a great movie. Jessika: No, no. Mike: But there are parts of it that I still really enjoy. Sarah and I wound up watching it together and all of the practical, special effects that they did are still so good and they look so good. And, and honestly the action scenes are pretty decent for, you know, a mid 90's movie, even where there's that bit with the flying motorcycles, where they're being chased and they knock off one of the Judges chasing them that bit, where he's falling into the bottomless abyss of Mega City looked [00:33:00] really good and I couldn't help, but think of Ninja Turtles 3, where on the other hand, the bad guy getting knocked off into the ocean looks like garbage. Jessika: Yeah, no, that, I was really impressed by that. Especially considering the timeframe it was in. Mike: Yeah. So this movie really tried to smash together a lot of those classic Dredd moments from the comic book. And it was trying to basically create something new while giving fans a lot of nods that they would appreciate. The funny thing is that it was really focusing on the story of Rico Dredd after he comes back from serving his prison time, but in the comic, he only shows up for a one-shot serial story. If I remember right where he comes back from serving prison time in a colony on Saturn's moon of Titan. So if I remember this, right, he's just this kind of one-off character who shows up pretty early in the Dredd stories. Like, I, [00:34:00] I don't think the Dredd stories had even been published for a year by that point. It's like the 30th issue or so, and then he's shot down by Dredd in a duel and the whole, the logic behind it is that he tries to get the drop on Dredd, but his reactions are slower because he's been operating in lower gravity for a while. Jessika: Interesting, but he's still supposed to be a clone, right? Mike: Yeah, he's he, it's originally noted that he's Dredd's brother. And then there's the whole club thing that, that shows up later on and all that, but he also looks way different from Armand Assante in the movie, I'm sending you an image, you can take a quick look and see what Rico Dredd looks like after his prison time in the comic. Jessika: Oh, you would not get those two confused. Mike: Yeah. It's um. Jessika: This guy's got this, guy's like a metal face. Now he's got a nice little head band with probably a laser coming out the top. And then he's got like, no nose any longer. He's just got metal over his nose. There's metal stuff going into his mouth. And like [00:35:00] half of his face just doesn't have skin anymore. And you can tell one of his eyes is blind. It's pretty wild. His hair is all crazy. He's not having a good hair day. It's a look. Mike: It's a look. Yeah. So the whole idea is that when you get shipped off to these colonies, you are basically surgically modified to survive in the environment. Jessika: Oh. Mike: Yeah. So, definitely not what we got in the movie. Jessika: No. You had a guy that actually looked a lot like Stallone. They did a pretty good job of that, if they were going for lookalikes. Mike: Yeah. They were both very fit dudes who had those very strong chin lines. And then they also gave them cosmetic contact lenses so that they would actually have blue eyes, which is why. Jessika: That's what I thought. Mike: When you look at Stallone, you're like, mm, pretty sure God didn't make those eyes. That color. Jessika: Yeah. It's not so bad from certain angles, but other ones you're like, wow, Snowpiercer what's up. Mike: Yeah, it looks [00:36:00] very weird when you're, especially when you're watching it in high-def these days, it looks unnatural. I'm not sure how it would look on a TV or in a movie theater in 1995. I'm a little curious because I didn't get to see it. I was too young to go see an R-rated movie back then, womp womp. But yeah, so likewise, the character of Hershey, who is Diane Lane's character, she first appeared in a 1980 story called the Judge Child, which is this it's this cool thing where it starts off as a road trip across the Cursed Earth, and the Angel Gang who we see in the movie shows up, and then it becomes this weird space opera as Dredd winds up chasing after the Angel Gang and the kidnapped Judge Child across multiple star systems, which again, talking about the weird absurdity of Judge Dredd. So, it's weird to see her in this movie because I always associate Diane Lane with Under the Tuscan Sun. I mean, I've never even seen that movie, but that's just always what I [00:37:00] think of when I see her. Jessika: Oh, same. I definitely see her in an Italian villa and I have not seen that either. Mike: Yeah. Although she did play Superman's mom in the DCEU. Jessika: Oh yeah. Mike: So there was that, her finest role, you know, when she gets sad about Superman with Lois Lane, and then it turns out to be a Martian green dude. Jessika: We're going to have so many movie stars, not happy with us. Mike: I know. Jessika: They'll just be crying in all of their money. It's fine. Mike: Oh, no two lame nerds on the internet were mean to me. I just, uh. Jessika: My nightmare. Mike: They made vaguely negative remarks about me. All right. Jessika: Oh, let me use this 50 to dry my tears. Mike: Anyway. Yeah, so [00:38:00] Diane Lane shows up in Judge Dredd, and she's like way more of a damsel in distress and then weirdly a romantic interest for Dredd than anything else. And that was really bizarre to see, because with the hindsight of the comics, that character in Dredd A) Hershey is like a bad-ass cop. She is a hardcore street Judge. But she and Dredd actually have often had kind of an antagonistic relationship based on differing perspectives about how the justice system should operate. Jessika: Oh, interesting. Mike: Yeah. And eventually, she goes on to be the Chief Judge. Jessika: Oh, good for her. Mike: Yeah, you know, she busted through that glass ceiling. Jessika: Man. It just took, you know, going through a third world war, ladies, this is what we have to look forward to. Just wait for the flying motorcycles. We'll be there. Mike: Well, you know, you don't have to cook because we're just recycling people at that point. So, you know, frees up a lot of time. [00:39:00] Jessika: Oh, perfect. Mike: You don't have to, don't have to stand in the kitchen and make all of us men folk roasts all day. Jessika: Oh, perfect. Well, dang. What will I do? Mike: Okay. overthrow the patriarchy, I guess. Jessika: Let's do it. Mike: Yeah. And then additionally, you know, Dredd himself was pretty different from what we had in the comics. The movie violated this key component of the character by spending a lot of time focused on Dredd out of uniform, which means that we got to see his face. And it's such a known thing that this is not something that Dredd does, but it's actually one of the first points in Dreads, Wikipedia article, if you would be so kind. Jessika: Sure. Dredd's entire face is never shown in the strip. This began and is an unofficial guideline, but soon became a rule. As John Wagner explained, it sums up the facelessness of justice. [00:40:00] Justice has no soul, so it isn't necessary for readers to see Dredd's face. And I don't want you to. Mike: Which I mean, I think that's actually a really cool defining aspect of the character. Jessika: And it's always scarier if you can't see what you're fighting. Mike: Yeah. Agreed. Jessika: I mean, that's basic horror film rule, you know, it's always scarier if you can't see what's chasing you. Mike: Yeah. I kind of equate it to the recent Alien movie that they did. Alien Isolation, where they explained the origin for the alien species. And I was sitting there and going, there is nothing that you could tell me that would be worse than what I come up with in my mind when you've got a really nebulous origin. Jessika: Exactly. Mike: And then I watched the movie and I was like, that's dumb. I'm going back to my original design. I like that better. Jessika: Yeah. It's like Signs was really scary until they brought that stupid alien life being in. And then I was like, well, there it goes. Mike: Yeah. [00:41:00] Curse you, Shamaylan! Judge Dredd is one of those movies where when you watch it, it feels like the people that were involved with making it really had a lot of fun, and were really passionate about what they were doing. Like I've got the making-of book, and you can actually see the set that they built basically on a patch of farmland that became the street for Mega City One. And it's crazy. It wound up having hundreds of neon signs after they built it. It looked like a living, breathing street from this strange city in the future. It was really cool. And likewise, there's that ABC warrior robot that we get to see a couple of times who looks absolutely incredible. And the costume designs are really cool. They don't quite work because you know, it's spandex, but it's very faithful to the comic. And, even the final scenes in the Statue of Liberty where you're in the lab and you've got all those clones being grown, I don't quite understand why the clones are [00:42:00] mostly grown, but we can still see their intestines, but they look really cool. Jessika: I agree. Yeah. Mike: That said, the movie had a lot of production problems. And in fact, it actually had to get re-cut and submitted to the NPAA five times in order to get just an R rating down from an NC 17. Jessika: Dang. Mike: And by the way, we need to talk about the fact that this movie is rated R and if you watch it, it does not feel like an R rated movie. It feels like maybe a PG 13 movie at this point, maybe. Jessika: Maybe, I mean, and that would just be for the violence, Mike: I mean, yeah, but, compared to what gets rated PG 13 these days? Jessika: Yes. Mike: I think if I remember right, one of the Aliens vs Predator movies, maybe both of them are rated PG 13 and they're way more violent and gory. Jessika: Really? Wow. Mike: I mean, I could be completely wrong. Jessika: Who rates these movies? I mean, not a real question. We don't need to get into that, but that's wild to me. Mike: We'll go on a very tiny side tangent, but. Highly recommend you watch the movie. This [00:43:00] film is not yet rated, which talks about the NPAA and the ratings board and how weird and secretive it is. And just a how dumb and arbitrary their system is. Jessika: I might watch that tonight. Mike: It's great. I highly recommend it. So there was an interview with Steven D'Souza, who was the guy who actually wrote the script for Judge Dredd. e was talking to Den of Geek, he shed some light on how the movies, problematic production wound up leading to this mess that we wound up receiving, if you would be so kind. Jessika: Why sure. Judge Dredd was actually supposed to be a PG 13 movie, the production company at the time, Synergy, they were having some financial troubles, so they didn't have any UK executives on location in England. And in their absence, the director, Danny Cannon, wanting to make it true to the comic book, was making everything more and more and [00:44:00] more violent. So when the movie was delivered to be cut, it was rated X and it was rated X four times. They say you can't appeal after four, four is all you get. Somehow the producer, Ed Pressman, managed one more time to get it rated R which actually wasn't a victory because this was supposed to be PG 13. They had made a deal with Burger King, oop. I think, and a toy company. And you can't advertise toys for an R-rated movie and no hamburger plays, wants toys for an R-rated movie. So they hamburger people and the toy people turned around and sued Disney, the distributor whoop. Mike: Hmm. Oops. Jessika: Well, Disney then said, we'll take this out of the director's hide because he signed a piece of paper saying he would deliver a PG 13, but Synergy who was releasing it through Disney at that point had never done [00:45:00] anything, but an R-rated movie, nobody in the entire company had ever had the experience of putting that piece of paper in front of a director. So they had to pay him. They couldn't withhold his salary for violating a legal promise they never asked him to make. Mike: I kind of love that. Jessika: Blunders. Mike: Yeah. That interview also notes that the scene where the reporter gets killed by Rico and he's framing Dredd. It was way more violent and gory, and it looked like something out of Robocop. And then additionally, there was the bit where Rico tells his robot to tear off the arms and legs of the council of five Judge that he's been working with. And he says, rip off his arms and legs and then save his head for last. And so it was originally supposed to be a scene where basically it cuts away to Rico walking away or something like that or shadows or something, and then you just hear the screams and that's it. But [00:46:00] apparently they made a full animatronic robot that had the arms and legs actually getting ripped off and like spewing blood. Jessika: Yikes, no. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: Guys. Mike: Yeah. So this was clearly one of those things desires were not clearly communicated. So Stallone gave an interview to Uncut Magazine in 2008. And he talked about a bunch of the things that, that went wrong with that movie, including this weird story about Danny Cannon, where he said, I knew we were in for a long shoot when for no explainable reason, Danny Cannon, who's rather diminutive, jumped down from his director's chair and yelled to everyone within earshot. Fear me, everyone should fear me. Then jumped back up to his chair as if nothing happened. The British crew was taking bets on his life expectancy. Jessika: Yikes. Yeah, the guy's going to give himself a coronary. Holy moly. Mike: It reminds [00:47:00] me a little bit of the stories that were coming out of the Suicide Squad set. Jessika: Oh. Yeah, I'm hearing more and more stories of just things that actors are being put through on set, and it's just, I don't care who you are, you shouldn't have to deal with this bullshit while you're working. Mike: I don't envy them. Jessika: Yeah, I don't either. I mean, there has to be ways that doesn't hurt people to entertain us. Mike: Yeah. Back onto this topic of Judge Dredd itself, it was this movie that costs $95 million and that's in 1995. So adjusting for inflation, that's roughly $190 million in 2021 dollars. Jessika: Whew. Mike: For reference there's a bunch of MCU flicks that when adjusting for that inflation costs less than Judge Dredd did. The R rating in turn, and kind of the lackluster end product, resulted in $113 million at the box office worldwide. And that was a lot less than Stallone, and really everyone else, was hoping for, [00:48:00] they were legit hoping that this was going to be just a blowout success story, and they could make a franchise out of it. So we've already talked about how they were trying to make this into something that they can market to kids. And we still got some products that show that was the plan. There were a couple of associated products, like a junior novelization, and a comic adaptation of the movie from DC comics itself. And then a video game that's actually, it's not bad. It's like a side scroller and the movie story ends about, I think, halfway through. And then you go on to a bunch of different worlds and end up fighting those Dark Judges that I was talking about earlier, which is kinda cool. Yeah. It's fine. But anyway, none of these tie-in products really seemed to land. How did you feel about this film overall? I'm curious. Jessika: Is it bad to say a came across as a little cheesy? Mike: No, not at all. [00:49:00] Jessika: Like a nice wholly Swiss cheese. There were some mega plot holes that were very apparent. That kind of took me out of the experience saying that a lot this episode, but way to go guys. And it made me really overthink aspects of the storyline. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: Like the whole, how did you not know where were clones? Did you not accidentally ever pick up the other person's gone and we're like, why can't I use this? If you have the DNA testing, it just, it didn't make a lot of sense. And how can you sequence two different guns if you only have one sequence of DNA? I don't get that either. Mike: Yeah. Part of that is just because it was 1995. DNA was still like a really hot topic for plots. It was new science. It was really exciting. I mean. Jessika: That's fair. Mike: We were in the throws of the OJ Simpson trial, and so DNA evidence was a really big thing there, but yeah. Jessika: Hot button item. You're right, I think, buzzword. Mike: And so that kind of goes into the whole [00:50:00] idea of clones as well, but that's an established plot line of Dredd itself. But I mean, like I remember, there's a bit where they focus on the flying Law Master motorcycle and they say, well, if you can ever get it to work, it will be yours. And they bust out and then there's several other flying Law Masters chasing after them. Jessika: Well, when they're talking about those motorcycles, I think they're trying to liken them to really bad quality, government issue, like these things are a piece of shit, but you can probably get em into the air, and have the worst model sitting there for the newbies to fuck around with. But I don't know, that's that was my takeaway from it just because I also remember, not that the cars are bad necessarily, the police cars, but it's like, they're stripped down to nothing, they're just like a car. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: None of the fancy shit. Mike: Yeah. Those, those good old Crown Vics. Jessika: Oh Yeah. And I think that part of it for me was the serious scenes, like the courtroom scene, especially mix in Rob Schneider in any of [00:51:00] those situations. And it was just a little much. Mike: Yeah, absolutely. Stallone played it really straight and really intense and it doesn't quite work. It feels almost like a high school drama production where you're watching those kids onstage, they're acting too hard. They've turned their acting dials up to 11 and you're like, okay buddy, we needed it like a seven. Jessika: I'm just imagining a man, like a child on stage, shaking. His arm is shaky. He's got a skull in his head and he was just screaming out lines from Hamlet. You're like, ooh, buddy, calm down. Mike: Yeah. Yurick can't hear you Hamlet. He's already dead. I think it's okay. Jessika: Womp womp. Mike: Yeah. My take on it, aside from the fact that it's a little bit too faithful and too earnest is that this reminds me of that situation where you take a bunch of different ingredients that you think are going to taste amazing and you've slapped them together into a sandwich. And then you realize the combination doesn't work, but yet you end up eating it anyway. [00:52:00] Jessika: Been there. Mike: Like, we talked about the sets, the makeup, the costumes, even the special effects, those are all great, but the script and then Stallone's performance really kind of do it a disservice, and even Sly has acknowledged that the movie missed the mark. So that earlier interview that I mentioned with Uncut Magazine, he had a really great point where he talks about how it didn't work. Jessika: I loved that property when I read it, because it took a genre that I love what you could term the action morality film, and made it a bit more sophisticated. It had political overtones. It showed how, if we don't curb the way we run our judicial system, the police may end up running our lives. It dealt with archaic governments. It dealt with cloning and all kinds of things that could happen in the future. It was also bigger than any film I've done in its physical stature and the way it was designed, all the people were dwarfed by the system and the architecture. It shows how insignificant [00:53:00] human beings could be in the future. There's a lot of action in the movie and some great acting, too. It just wasn't balls to the wall. But I do look back on Judge Dredd as a real missed opportunity. It seemed that lots of fans had a problem with Dredd removing his helmet because he never does in the comic books. But for me, it is more about wasting such great potential there was in that idea, just think of all the opportunities there were to do interesting stuff with the Cursed Earth scenes. It didn't live up to what it could have been. It probably should have been much more comic, really humorous and fun. What I learned out of that experience was that we shouldn't have tried to make it Hamlet. It's more Hamlet and eggs. That's so funny that I brought up Hamlet! I didn't read ahead. Mike: I was laughing about that actually. Yeah. And I mean, he's not wrong. I think he played it too straight and too serious. And they also tried to make it an action buddy comedy [00:54:00] movie, which it just, it doesn't quite work. Like the, the tone with Dredd is you have to walk a really fine line. They didn't stick to it this time. Yeah. I feel like it was trying to be extremely faithful to the source material, which always walked this very fine line tonally, and then it blew past it to create something that's just it's way too earnest. And over the top, it kind of reminded me of Jupiter Ascending. If you remember that movie. Jessika: I do. Mike: Yeah. It's this movie that has crazy high production values, a pretty great cast actually, and a really big story. And then it all combines into something that's honestly kind of underwhelming. Jessika: And forgettable, cause I kind of forget what that whole plot line of that movie is. And I think I've seen it twice cause I was like, I don't think I've seen this before. And I sat through the whole thing again. It's one of those movies. Mike: I just remember a lot of shirtless Channing Tatum and. Jessika: Oh, yeah, he wasn't at sea. I don't even know. Mike: Yeah. Do you have any more thoughts before we move on to [00:55:00] the 2012 remake kind of, it's not really a remake. It's just the 2012 movie. Jessika: No let's Rob Schneider, our way out of this. Mike: I'm not sure I liked that verb. Jessika: I was using it as: do something really stupid to get out of a situation. And I think I did it just by saying that. Mike: All right. How would you describe this movie? Give it, give another quick summary. Jessika: Mega City One. The future. There are still flying cars, but less of them. In a packed city rife with violence, Judge Joseph Dredd is assessing a new potential recruit to the force. This recruit isn't like the others. However, she is psychic; a mutant! In answering their first call, they inadvertently get themselves involved in a large scale drug operation and have to kill or be killed in order to survive. This film has no sympathy for innocent bystanders, who are killed by the dozens each [00:56:00] scene. And the Judges are swift to kill any who might oppose them. They finally escape using their wits and these psychic's ability, all while taking down a drug ring. Ta-da, all in a day's work. Mike: Dread came out right around the same time, I think a little bit after, as this movie out of, I think Thailand called The Raid. Which it's about a police force. That's basically working their way up through a skyscraper. And it's another really intense action movie. It's got really kick-ass action scenes. It's really good. And the sad thing is it's just that and Dredd have a similar plot based on that, but it's also very different. So there were a lot of unfair comparisons to that at the time. Jessika: I see. Mike: How do you feel this movie compares with the Stallone one? Jessika: It was definitely more serious and more bloody, for sure. It really leaned into the death and carnage aspect [00:57:00] becoming more and more creative and destructive as the film progressed. Like was it strictly necessary to aim towards and blow up an entire floor of a densely inhabited building? I dunno. It was kind of hard to watch some times, it was pretty graphic. I did like that it took on a more serious tone though. And I think the reason that it's so hard to watch for me is more for the social implications. Like, when the film made it clear that vagrancy could carry a similar sentence to other more serious crimes. Mike: Right? Jessika: Which was really wild. Mike: Yeah, it's interesting because I feel like it did a lot more subtle world-building with moments like that, or when they're describing the Mega Block that they're investigating and it's noted that there's only a 3% employment rate. It's weird because it's such a violent movie and don't get me wrong, I think the action scenes are just incredible. They look great. But at the same time, it's a more [00:58:00] subtle movie in a lot of ways than the Stallone one was. Jessika: Yeah. Definitely it's scarier. Like the idea of it is more, it seems more real and in your face, and for me, it definitely put a spotlight on how scary policing can be to targeted groups. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: And this might be an extreme example, but how extreme is it really? Mike: Yeah. And it's interesting because you and I talked about this before, this is a movie that is very, it's very binary with its morals. Like there's only the good guys and the bad guys. This isn't this, isn't one of those movies where you sit there and you watch it and are really given a lot of moral things to consider. There's not a lot of philosophy here, but it doesn't sit there and say that Dredd and the Judges themselves are in the right. It's basically showing that there is a force who is basically the gang that is running the apartment block that they are in, which is headed up by a fucking terrifying Lena Headey and A), [00:59:00] they really uglied her up. Which, I was actually really impressed. I didn't recognize her because this came out right after game of Thrones had just had its first season. I think maybe its second season had hit, but I mean what a stark contrast between her in the mama role and then Cersei Lannister. Jessika: Stark. I like what you did there. Mike: Hey, was totally intentional. Or that was totally, that was totally intentional. I totally did that on purpose. Jessika: Okay. Mike: Like I said, there is no wiggle room. They sit there and they basically say no, this woman is a monster, and she does need to be taken down. You know, to the movies credit, the judges, don't really mow down innocent bystanders, it's all the thing of, no, they're going up against bad guys who have guns and are trying to kill them. But at the same time, it does also acknowledge how they aren't completely in the right either. Like there's a scene where they take shelter in an apartment. And Olivia Thirlby's character reads the mind of this woman who they're basically holding up to give them shelter for a few minutes. [01:00:00] And she realizes that, oh, this woman's baby daddy is one of the gang members that they just killed a few minutes ago. Jessika: She herself had killed that guy. Mike: Yeah. And I appreciated that. There are those moments where it takes a more mature look at, maybe everything that's going on isn't great. And then there's that moment at the end where Anderson sits there and talks about how, when she lets the hacker character go, because she realizes that he is just as much of a victim as a lot of the other people in the block are, even though he's been aiding Ma Ma. Jessika: Yeah. And then I like how Dread tries to call her on it. She's like, I've made the judgment. He's a victim. Mike: Yeah. And I thought that was great. Also, that actor is the guy who played General Hux in the Star Wars movies that we got recently. Jessika: I thought I recognized him and I could not place him, and I was too lazy to go on IMDB. Mike: But yeah, thought it was a much more, it's weird to call that movie subtle, but I felt like there were a lot of nice little subtle moments in it. [01:01:00] And I really liked how A) Ma Ma was a genuinely frightening villain, especially because you never see her flying off the handle or being over the top or anything like that. She delivers everything with this really kind of scary, calm, in which we see in the first few minutes, when she tells her officer to skin, some guys who were selling drugs on her territory without her permission. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: And then the order is given after they've been skinned, to be given hits of slow-mo, which is the drug throughout the movie that slows down perceptions of time. So they were thrown off the top story of this apartment block. And basically they have this long, awful, painful plummet into the courtyard below. Jessika: God, that's gotta be so terrifying. Mike: And that really set the tone for who we were dealing with, which I thought was incredibly effective. Jessika: I thought they did such a nice job on the cinematography on that, by the way, when they did those scenes with the slow-mo and they [01:02:00] had it kind of shimmery and they put you in the mindset of the person having used the slow-mo, and I thought that was such a good technique. Mike: So yeah, and the whole thing was that they released this movie in 3D. So, you can tell that those scenes were filmed specifically for 3D cinematography. Jessika: That makes so much sense. Mike: I actually saw this movie opening night in the theaters and A) I remember tweeting about it and saying that movie was way too good for the theater to be that empty on a Friday night. But I remember that was the first, and really that's the only time, I've ever enjoyed a movie in 3D because I felt the 3d actually added something as opposed to just being a cheap gimmick to ring an extra couple of bucks out of my wallet. Jessika: That's usually how I feel about it. Mike: Yeah. But I liked how Olivia Thirlby's character Judge Anderson was actually way less of a damsel in distress than Diane Lane's character Judge Hersey. And then on top of that, a lot of the [01:03:00] superhero movies rely on that whole female heroes have to fight female villains trope that it always feels like they don't get to participate in the end boss battle. And I thought it was really cool how Anderson wound up using her powers to A) escape, her captors, B) actually rescue Dredd, and then C) really be a giant aid to him throughout the movie. She felt like a viable, real character as opposed to just kind of, window trim. Jessika: Yeah. Agreed. I was nodding vigorously when you were talking about that, because I am an absolute agreement. I was a little worried when she first got captured, cause I was like, oh, here we go, so fucking typical. But then when she was actually using her powers and she was getting out of the situation herself, it was like, okay, fine. You got this. You're fine. Mike: Yeah. On top of that, the intro to the movie we get is so tight and efficient. And aside from the intro where we get a chase scene, where we see slow-mo and effect, we see how brutal Dredd is himself. We also get [01:04:00] the intro to Anderson, where she's demonstrating her powers by basically reading the mind of Dredd from behind a two way mirror. And there's that great line about like, oh, well, you know, there's another Judge with you. He's male. I sense control and anger and then something, something more something. And then the judge cuts her off just like, that's enough, that's fine. And I'm like, cool. So we've got a really good summary of who Dredd himself is. Okay. We get it now. This is all we need. Jessika: Yeah. It was a really good narrative tool. I did like that. Mike: Yeah. And then, in the comics, Anderson actually won is a pretty big ally of dread himself. And she's also never romantic interest, but she winds up being key to defeat those monster movie versions of the Judges. And actually, it's been a little while since I read this, but if I remember right when she first confronts Judge Death, who is the leader of the Dark Judges, she winds up, trapping him inside her own mind because he's this psychic entity. And so I was really happy that they took a strong character and [01:05:00] kept her really strong. Jessika: It's good to hear that she also had a really strong role within the comics. Mike: And then the other thing is that I kind of liked how they had Dredd himself be a little bit more subtle. Like, Hey, we never haven't take off his helmet, which I thought was great. And I thought Karl urban, I mean, how did you feel about Karl Urban as Dredd compared to him? Jessika: I thought he was great. And I think I, it would've made less sense if he had taken off his helmet just as far as the character goes. And honestly, I think in this situation, there wasn't much room for him as a character to have his helmet off because they were pretty in a battle mode. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: The whole movie, truly, except for the introductory first few minutes. Mike: Yeah. And I liked the bit where, so Anderson loses her helmet pretty early on and Dredd actually calls her out on it. And he says, you're not wearing your helmet. And she goes, oh, well, the helmet interferes with my psychic abilities and you just go solo bullet and then that's it. That's Jessika: Yup. Mike: I thought that was great. Jessika: Yup. He'll give her the advice he will give, but he's not going to [01:06:00] tell her to do it, which I thought was good. Mike: Yeah. I'm curious. We're going to get to this in a minute about like how it is through the 2021 line. But did you enjoy the movie? Jessika: I think for me, because I'm such an empath, it was a little bit too much innocent blood death. Mike: Okay. Jessika: Even just like, they didn't need to kill the vagrant, it, that was a very like, oh, the gates closed. And the Vagrant just happened to be sitting there and he got squashed and they both kind of looked at it like, well, guess we don't have to deal with that. And I was like, well, fucking hell guys, come on. Mike: Yeah. And I mean, at the same time, from my perspective, and I understand where you were coming from with this, but from my perspective, it was kind of the embodiment of that weird absurdist, gallows humor that is often prese
"I never broke the Law! I AM THE LAW!!" - Judge Dredd (Stallone) Join us as Craig and Scott enter the strange and terrifying world of '90s comic book movies. Back in the pre-MCU, pre-Dark Knight, pre-X-Men days when Hollywood clearly had no clue how to deal with these sorts of films. On today's episode from this comic book movie wasteland we look at one of Stallone's most notorious bombs, JUDGE DREDD! Over the course of the episode Craig and Scott talk about how Stallone clearly doesn't get the character or the source material, his many clashes with director Danny Cannon and the silly studio, if understandable, studio decision to have Dredd not have his helmet on for most of the movie. Plus, we get into the films great production design, just how irritating Rob Schneider is in this film and how despite its many flaws the awesomeness Armand Assante (nearly) makes the whole thing worthwhile. Also, we invite you all to get the ball rolling in our bid to see the Cannon cut of this film. #ReleasetheCannonCut "All '90s Action, All The Time" is produced by Scott Murphy, Kyle Hintz and Craig Draheim. Music by Elyssa Vulpes. Editing by Scott Murphy.
On this week's episode, the boys take on their first futbol movie with Danny Cannon's 2005 soccer classic, "Goal! The Dream Begins." This week's "Brew Review" features a U.K. favorite with Great Northern Brewery's "Harp Lager", brewed clean and crisp in Dundalk, Ireland. This week's draft focuses on "people from the U.K. you'd love to have beers with."
We hope you've seen Wonder Woman 1984, it's well worth it. Once you've enjoyed the movie come back to hear our spoiler filled podcast all about it. Synopsis for our Wonder Woman Movie Review Spoiler filled Podcast Directed by - Patty Jenkins Screenplay by - Patty Jenkins & Geoff Johns and Dave Callaham Story by - Patty Jenkins & Geoff Johns Wonder Woman created by William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter Greatness is not what you think. In 1984 Diana Prince is living and working in Washington DC. When she isn’t protecting the city as Wonder Woman, she spends her time alone. Since losing her first love, Steve Trevor in World War One, Diana has distanced herself from human contact. When her new co-worker Barbara is asked to identify some ancient artifacts Diana takes an interest in a seemingly mundane item and forms a bond with Barbara. The item was created by a mischievous god. It grants whoever holds it one wish but takes a toll. Diana inadvertently wishes Steve Trevor back into existence while Barbara who is often overlooked wishes to be just like Diana. Meanwhile businessman and TV personality, Max Lord has been trying to track down the item for years believing it’s the answer to all of his problems. Lord retrieves the item and uses it to get his failing business on track. But being an overnight success isn’t enough for Max, he wants more. He begins to grant everyone wishes, no matter what they are in exchange for more power, influence and health. Diana learns that her failing powers are caused by the return of Steve and realises in order to save everyone they all must reject their wishes. She has to sacrifice a life with Steve and convince the world that achieving their version of greatness is not worth the pain it causes to everyone else in order to save it. Cast of Wonder Woman Diana Prince/Wonder Woman - Gal GadotSteve Trevor - Chris PineHippolyta - Connie NielsenAntiope - Robin WrightBarbara Minerva/Cheetah - Kristen WiigMaxwell Lord - Pedro PascalYoung Diana Prince - Lilly Aspell Subscribe to TV Podcast Industries If you want to keep up with us and all of our podcasts please subscribe to the podcast over at https://tvpodcastindustries.com where we will continue to podcast about multiple TV shows we hope you'll love. Next Time on TV Podcast Industries From December 13th we've been staying in the DC Universe of London as we return to the Bat-Verse with the second season of Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon's "Pennyworth". Watch the later trailer below for Pennyworth Season 2: https://youtu.be/3q5aziwvFVM Then in January we'll be discussing WandaVision the first Marvel show from Disney Plus. Watch the later trailer for Wandavision below: https://youtu.be/sj9J2ecsSpo We'll also be discussing all of the shows we covered in 2020 in our traditional year end wrap up. Email us to feedback@tvpodcastindustries.com if you have any thoughts on any of the shows we've covered this year. Derek, Chris and John TV Podcast Industries
We hope you've seen Wonder Woman 1984, it's well worth it. Once you've enjoyed the movie come back to hear our spoiler filled podcast all about it. Synopsis for our Wonder Woman Movie Review Spoiler filled Podcast Directed by - Patty Jenkins Screenplay by - Patty Jenkins & Geoff Johns and Dave Callaham Story by - Patty Jenkins & Geoff Johns Wonder Woman created by William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter Greatness is not what you think. In 1984 Diana Prince is living and working in Washington DC. When she isn’t protecting the city as Wonder Woman, she spends her time alone. Since losing her first love, Steve Trevor in World War One, Diana has distanced herself from human contact. When her new co-worker Barbara is asked to identify some ancient artifacts Diana takes an interest in a seemingly mundane item and forms a bond with Barbara. The item was created by a mischievous god. It grants whoever holds it one wish but takes a toll. Diana inadvertently wishes Steve Trevor back into existence while Barbara who is often overlooked wishes to be just like Diana. Meanwhile businessman and TV personality, Max Lord has been trying to track down the item for years believing it’s the answer to all of his problems. Lord retrieves the item and uses it to get his failing business on track. But being an overnight success isn’t enough for Max, he wants more. He begins to grant everyone wishes, no matter what they are in exchange for more power, influence and health. Diana learns that her failing powers are caused by the return of Steve and realises in order to save everyone they all must reject their wishes. She has to sacrifice a life with Steve and convince the world that achieving their version of greatness is not worth the pain it causes to everyone else in order to save it. Cast of Wonder Woman Diana Prince/Wonder Woman - Gal GadotSteve Trevor - Chris PineHippolyta - Connie NielsenAntiope - Robin WrightBarbara Minerva/Cheetah - Kristen WiigMaxwell Lord - Pedro PascalYoung Diana Prince - Lilly Aspell Subscribe to TV Podcast Industries If you want to keep up with us and all of our podcasts please subscribe to the podcast over at https://tvpodcastindustries.com where we will continue to podcast about multiple TV shows we hope you'll love. Next Time on TV Podcast Industries From December 13th we've been staying in the DC Universe of London as we return to the Bat-Verse with the second season of Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon's "Pennyworth". Watch the later trailer below for Pennyworth Season 2: https://youtu.be/3q5aziwvFVM Then in January we'll be discussing WandaVision the first Marvel show from Disney Plus. Watch the later trailer for Wandavision below: https://youtu.be/sj9J2ecsSpo We'll also be discussing all of the shows we covered in 2020 in our traditional year end wrap up. Email us to feedback@tvpodcastindustries.com if you have any thoughts on any of the shows we've covered this year. Derek, Chris and John TV Podcast Industries
With the sequel just around the corner we finally discuss Diana Prince's first major cinematic solo outing in our Wonder Woman Movie Review. A huge success when it was first released and considered by many to be one of the best comic book movies made. Synopsis for our Wonder Woman Movie Review Spoiler filled Podcast Directed by - Patty Jenkins Screenplay by - Allan Heinberg Story by - Zack Snyder & Allan Heinberg and Jason Fuchs Wonder Woman created by William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter On the Island of Themyscira, shrouded from the world around them, Diana, daughter to Hippolyta, leads a disciplined but peaceful and safe life on the island unaware of her true destiny and power. However, this world turns upside down, when Steve Trevor, an intrepid American pilot working for British Intelligence accidentally crashes on the island. But with Steve comes German forces intent on recovering a note book linked to a new chemical weapon being developed by Dr. Maru (aka Doctor Poison) and General Ludendorff, for deployment on the Western Front. After fighting off the German army at a terrible cost to the Amazonians and Diana with the death of her fearsome Aunt, Antiope, the terrible reality of a devastating great war that threatens to consume humankind is laid bare by Steve. With the possibility of armistice and peace threatened by Maru’s new weapon and ancient powers at play in the world Steve and Diana team up to embark on a perilous mission to secure peace and stop their all-powerful adversaries General Ludendorff and the shadowy figure of Ares, the merciless God of War! Cast of Wonder Woman Diana Prince/Wonder Woman - Gal GadotSteve Trevor - Chris PineHippolyta - Connie NielsenAntiope - Robin WrightLudendorff - Danny HustonSir Patrick - David ThewlisDr. Maru - Elena AnayaEtta Candy - Lucy DavisSameer - Saïd TaghmaouiCharlie - Ewen BremnerThe Chief - Eugene Brave Rock Subscribe to TV Podcast Industries If you want to keep up with us and all of our podcasts please subscribe to the podcast over at https://tvpodcastindustries.com where we will continue to podcast about multiple TV shows we hope you'll love. Next Time on TV Podcast Industries That's it for our Wonder Woman Movie Review. Wonder Woman 1984 comes out on the 16th of December where cinemas are open outside of the US. It will also be released in North America cinemas and on HBO Max on December 25th 2020. From December 13th we're staying in the DC Universe of London as we return to the Bat-Verse with the second season of Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon's "Pennyworth". Watch the later trailer below for Pennyworth Season 2: https://youtu.be/3q5aziwvFVM Then in January we'll be discussing WandaVision the first Marvel show from Disney Plus. Watch the later trailer for Wandavision below: https://youtu.be/sj9J2ecsSpo We'll also be discussing all of the shows we covered in 2020 in our traditional year end wrap up. Email us to feedback@tvpodcastindustries.com if you have any thoughts on any of the shows we've covered this year. Derek, Chris and John TV Podcast Industries
With the sequel just around the corner we finally discuss Diana Prince's first major cinematic solo outing in our Wonder Woman Movie Review. A huge success when it was first released and considered by many to be one of the best comic book movies made. Synopsis for our Wonder Woman Movie Review Spoiler filled Podcast Directed by - Patty Jenkins Screenplay by - Allan Heinberg Story by - Zack Snyder & Allan Heinberg and Jason Fuchs Wonder Woman created by William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter On the Island of Themyscira, shrouded from the world around them, Diana, daughter to Hippolyta, leads a disciplined but peaceful and safe life on the island unaware of her true destiny and power. However, this world turns upside down, when Steve Trevor, an intrepid American pilot working for British Intelligence accidentally crashes on the island. But with Steve comes German forces intent on recovering a note book linked to a new chemical weapon being developed by Dr. Maru (aka Doctor Poison) and General Ludendorff, for deployment on the Western Front. After fighting off the German army at a terrible cost to the Amazonians and Diana with the death of her fearsome Aunt, Antiope, the terrible reality of a devastating great war that threatens to consume humankind is laid bare by Steve. With the possibility of armistice and peace threatened by Maru’s new weapon and ancient powers at play in the world Steve and Diana team up to embark on a perilous mission to secure peace and stop their all-powerful adversaries General Ludendorff and the shadowy figure of Ares, the merciless God of War! Cast of Wonder Woman Diana Prince/Wonder Woman - Gal GadotSteve Trevor - Chris PineHippolyta - Connie NielsenAntiope - Robin WrightLudendorff - Danny HustonSir Patrick - David ThewlisDr. Maru - Elena AnayaEtta Candy - Lucy DavisSameer - Saïd TaghmaouiCharlie - Ewen BremnerThe Chief - Eugene Brave Rock Subscribe to TV Podcast Industries If you want to keep up with us and all of our podcasts please subscribe to the podcast over at https://tvpodcastindustries.com where we will continue to podcast about multiple TV shows we hope you'll love. Next Time on TV Podcast Industries That's it for our Wonder Woman Movie Review. Wonder Woman 1984 comes out on the 16th of December where cinemas are open outside of the US. It will also be released in North America cinemas and on HBO Max on December 25th 2020. From December 13th we're staying in the DC Universe of London as we return to the Bat-Verse with the second season of Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon's "Pennyworth". Watch the later trailer below for Pennyworth Season 2: https://youtu.be/3q5aziwvFVM Then in January we'll be discussing WandaVision the first Marvel show from Disney Plus. Watch the later trailer for Wandavision below: https://youtu.be/sj9J2ecsSpo We'll also be discussing all of the shows we covered in 2020 in our traditional year end wrap up. Email us to feedback@tvpodcastindustries.com if you have any thoughts on any of the shows we've covered this year. Derek, Chris and John TV Podcast Industries
Judge Dredd—which is based on the character from 2000 AD, a weekly British comic—is a sadly generic action film that fails to grasp the subversive nature of its character. The titular judge—and the system in which he serves—is written as a commentary on the overly aggressive tactics of American law enforcement. The movie, despite nailing the look and feel of Mega-City One and its characters, plays it much more straight forward. Sylvester Stallone, the literal Judge Joseph Dredd, is meant to be the hero. And as an audience, you're meant to ignore that he's clearly a fascist in fancy, eagle-adorned clothing. That's sort of the tragedy of this film. It never knows what it wants to be. This is due in no small part to Stallone's clashes with the director, Danny Cannon. Cannon, who was a fan of the comic, wanted the movie to have a darker edge to it. The execs and its star wanted to aim more for a standard summer blockbuster. It accomplished neither. And as a result, it tanked with both critics and audiences. On a budget of $90 million, it grossed just over $113 million worldwide. Its 20% Rotten Tomatoes score (with 54 reviews) is a little harsh, but not much. All that aside, there is some fun to be had. The practical effects are top notch—kudos to the Angel Gang—Rob Schneider is inexplicably in it, and Armand Assante seems to be aiming for a Lifetime Achievement Razzie with just this performance. So sit back, send a signal flare to your tastebuds with a Molotov Cocktail Imperial IPA from Evil Twin Brewing Co., and set your Law Bringer to Double Whammy! I, the Thunderous Wizard (@WriterTLK), Capt. Cash, Chumpzilla, Mayor McCheese, and a special guest are passing down harsh judgements up and down the block war! This Week’s Segments: Introduction/Plot Breakdown – Like the opening pod of this series, most of this movie is Over the Top, and not necessarily in a good way. (00:00) Lingering Questions – For everything this movie does well, it does so much more poorly; but could it have been salvaged? (42:47) The "I Knew You'd Say That" Trivia Challenge – Capt. Cash challenges the field to trivia centered around the movie. (1:03:31) Recommendations – We offer our picks for the week, and next up in our "Tango and Captain Cash" series: pour yourself a shot of Bulleit Bourbon for Bullet to the Head! (1:16:02) And, as always, hit us up on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram to check out all the interesting factoids—the casting what-ifs and more—from this week’s episode! You can find this episode of Hops and Box Office Flops on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Podbean, Spotify, Acast, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, and Amazon Music!
One of the showrunners of Gotham comments on the look of the series.
We're back for the final time with The Boys Season 2 Recap. We chat all about the second season, some thoughts about what we're going to see in the Boys announced Season 3 and spin off. We also discuss all of your feedback on Season 2 and announce the winner of our Boys Pub Quiz goodies. The Boys Season 2 Recap Synopsis Billy Butcher lost the Boys when he was thrown to a new town by Homelander. He found them again after CIA Agent Raynor lost her head at the hands of an unknown Supe. As Kumiko discovered her superpowered brother Kenji and freed him the team bumped into a whale controlled by The Deep at speed. Kenji was hunted down and killed by the new racist member of the Seven, and Homelander’s new girlfriend, Stormfront. When Billy finds his wife Becca and her own superpowered son he hopes to take her away from Homelanders prison but doesn’t want the kid Ryan. Becca refuses to leave so The Boys uncover another alternative to taking down the seven when they find they’ve been testing compound V on adults to turn them into new Supes. With the help of Starlight and their former enemy Lamplighter they get the word out about the project but Vaught is too powerful. Meanwhile after The Deep hits rock bottom he convinces A-Train to join a religious cult to get them back into the Seven. A-Train is challenged by the fascist Stormfront and releases her Nazi ways to the world and Queen Meave teams up with Starlight and Kumiko to take her down. When she tries to escape and take out Becca her son Ryan shows how much power he truly has as he shreds her with his laser eyes. But his uncontrolled action kills his mother and Ryan is relocated to new protection. As the Boys are cleared of all charges, even the ones they did do, they part ways and Hughie goes legit by joining the latest challenger to the Seven, Congresswoman Victoria Newman. While Homelander shouts to the world that he can do what he wants, Congresswoman Neuman kills The Deep and A-Trains former cult leader. Season 2 Cast Billy Butcher played by Karl UrbanStarlight/Annie January played by Erin MoriartyMother's Milk played by Laz AlonsoHughie Campbell played by Jack QuaidAgent Susan Raynor player By Jennifer EspositoHomelander played by Antony StarrQueen Maeve played by Dominique McElligottFrenchie played by Tomer CaponAshley Barrett played by Colby MinifieThe Deep/Kevin played by Chace CrawfordStormfront played by Aya CashThe Female/Kimiko Miyashiro played by Karen FukuharaEagle the Archer played by Langston KermanGecko played by David ThompsonStan Edgar played by Giancarlo Esposito Subscribe to TV Podcast Industries If you want to keep up with us and all of our podcasts please subscribe to the podcast over at https://tvpodcastindustries.com where we will continue to podcast about multiple TV shows we hope you'll love. Next Time on TV Podcast Industries That's it for the Boys until Season 3 and The Boys spin off come out. On our main feed for TV Podcast Industries we will be back with two more shows by the end of the year. First up from December 12th we'll be returning to the DC Bat-Verse with the second season of Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon's "Pennyworth". Watch the later trailer below: https://youtu.be/3q5aziwvFVM Then in January we'll be discussing WandaVision the first Marvel show from Disney Plus. Watch the later trailer for Wandavision below: https://youtu.be/sj9J2ecsSpo Derek, Chris and John TV Podcast Industries All images and audio clips are copyright of Amazon Prime TV and their respective copyright owners. No infringement is intended.
We're back for the final time with The Boys Season 2 Recap. We chat all about the second season, some thoughts about what we're going to see in the Boys announced Season 3 and spin off. We also discuss all of your feedback on Season 2 and announce the winner of our Boys Pub Quiz goodies. The Boys Season 2 Recap Synopsis Billy Butcher lost the Boys when he was thrown to a new town by Homelander. He found them again after CIA Agent Raynor lost her head at the hands of an unknown Supe. As Kumiko discovered her superpowered brother Kenji and freed him the team bumped into a whale controlled by The Deep at speed. Kenji was hunted down and killed by the new racist member of the Seven, and Homelander’s new girlfriend, Stormfront. When Billy finds his wife Becca and her own superpowered son he hopes to take her away from Homelanders prison but doesn’t want the kid Ryan. Becca refuses to leave so The Boys uncover another alternative to taking down the seven when they find they’ve been testing compound V on adults to turn them into new Supes. With the help of Starlight and their former enemy Lamplighter they get the word out about the project but Vaught is too powerful. Meanwhile after The Deep hits rock bottom he convinces A-Train to join a religious cult to get them back into the Seven. A-Train is challenged by the fascist Stormfront and releases her Nazi ways to the world and Queen Meave teams up with Starlight and Kumiko to take her down. When she tries to escape and take out Becca her son Ryan shows how much power he truly has as he shreds her with his laser eyes. But his uncontrolled action kills his mother and Ryan is relocated to new protection. As the Boys are cleared of all charges, even the ones they did do, they part ways and Hughie goes legit by joining the latest challenger to the Seven, Congresswoman Victoria Newman. While Homelander shouts to the world that he can do what he wants, Congresswoman Neuman kills The Deep and A-Trains former cult leader. Season 2 Cast Billy Butcher played by Karl UrbanStarlight/Annie January played by Erin MoriartyMother's Milk played by Laz AlonsoHughie Campbell played by Jack QuaidAgent Susan Raynor player By Jennifer EspositoHomelander played by Antony StarrQueen Maeve played by Dominique McElligottFrenchie played by Tomer CaponAshley Barrett played by Colby MinifieThe Deep/Kevin played by Chace CrawfordStormfront played by Aya CashThe Female/Kimiko Miyashiro played by Karen FukuharaEagle the Archer played by Langston KermanGecko played by David ThompsonStan Edgar played by Giancarlo Esposito Subscribe to TV Podcast Industries If you want to keep up with us and all of our podcasts please subscribe to the podcast over at https://tvpodcastindustries.com where we will continue to podcast about multiple TV shows we hope you'll love. Next Time on TV Podcast Industries That's it for the Boys until Season 3 and The Boys spin off come out. On our main feed for TV Podcast Industries we will be back with two more shows by the end of the year. First up we'll be discussing WandaVision the first Marvel show from Disney Plus. Watch the later trailer below: https://youtu.be/sj9J2ecsSpo Then from December 12th we'll be returning to the DC Bat-Verse with the second season of Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon's "Pennyworth". Watch the later trailer below: https://youtu.be/3q5aziwvFVM You can also watch the full New York Comic Con Pennyworth panel. https://youtu.be/UzkjsG0UYSg Derek, Chris and John TV Podcast Industries All images and audio clips are copyright of Amazon Prime TV and their respective copyright owners. No infringement is intended.
On today's podcast, we present part 2 of my two-part interview with Carol Mendelsohn, the founding showrunner of the juggernaut CBS crime procedural, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In this part of the conversation, we discuss the show's characters, we take a deep dive into one of the iconic episodes of CSI which was directed by Quentin Tarantino, we look at the impact of the show on America's criminal justice system and Carol reflects on the enormous success of the show and it's spinoffs. One last podcast note, last Tuesday, October 6 marked the 20th Anniversary of the series' debut on CBS.
On today's podcast, we present part 1 of my two-part interview with Carol Mendelsohn, the founding showrunner of the juggernaut CBS crime procedural, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In this part of the conversation, Carol and I discuss the forces that shaped her values and influenced her as a storyteller, her entree into the world of television, the evolution of her career, the beginnings of CSI and how the core creative team discovered the show's identity. One last podcast note, last Tuesday, October 6 marked the 20th Anniversary of the series' debut on CBS.
Adam and Craig discuss the 1995 Danny Cannon Movie starring Sylvester Stallone. Find out why Danny Cannon never made a big action star movie again? Why Craig hates Rob Schneider? And why this ranks up there on the guilty pleasure meter! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/guiltypleasurecinema/support
One of the showrunners of Gotham comments on the look of the series.
Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante, Diane Lane, Max von Sydow, and Rob Schneider again! It’s time to celebrate 25 years of Judge Dredd! Plus, we cover the latest entertainment news including Seth Rogan’s new Ninja Turtles, Craig Robinson’s new series, Mulan coming to Disney+, Ray Park’s revenge porn, and the passing of Wilford Brimley. We also...
Summer blockbusters are always a huge success, right? Well... let's examine that with our month-long series: Summer Flopbusters! Nathan and Brendan roll on with the worst of summer and, alongside returning guests Steve and Izzy of Everything I Learned from Movies, they discuss the big-budget comic book adaptation Judge Dredd starring Sylvester Stallone. The discussion ranges from Stallone making every fan angry by taking the famous helmet off for most of the movie, the nuances of Armand Assante's insane bug-eyed performance, very dangerous billboards that can literally kill people, one of the worst comic relief sidekicks ever and much more. Plus: Steve and Izzy imagine another remake of the film - with MUPPETS! The guys also drop a hint for next week's movie. Check on Facebook or Twitter on Monday for the reveal! Questions? Comments? Suggestions? You can always shoot us an e-mail at wwttpodcast@gmail.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/wwttpodcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/wwttpodcast Twitter: www.twitter.com/wwttpodcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/wwttpodcast Theme Song recorded by Taylor Sheasgreen: www.facebook.com/themotorleague Logo designed by Mariah Lirette: www.instagram.com/mariahhx Montrose Monkington III: www.twitter.com/montrosethe3rd What Were They Thinking is sponsored by GameItAll.com and HostGator (use the coupon code 'SCHLOCK' for 25% off your first purchase) Judge Dredd stars Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante, Diane Lane, Jurgen Prochnow, Max von Sydow, Joan Chen, Balthazar Getty, Ewen Bremner, Scott Wilson, James Remar and the voice of James Earl Jones; directed by Danny Cannon.
Our next guest is an award-winning composer, producer, songwriter and touring artist. His credits include the phenomenally moody and atmospheric music behind the hit Fox series Gotham and its acclaimed, highly-stylized spinoff, Pennyworth. Most recently, his music can be heard in epic father-son drama Windows on The World, starring Edward James Olmos, directed by Michael D Olmos. He has contributed to over 150 films, TV shows, documentaries, and commercials, for directors such as Robert Rodriguez, Adam McKay, Danny Cannon, David Gordon-Green, Michael Mann and Barry Levinson. He has also worked in the studio or toured with some of music's biggest artists, including Rage Against the Machine, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Sheryl Crowe, 50-Cent, Paul Weller, Crowded House, Bone, Thugs and Harmony, Dave Navarro, and super-producer Rick Rubin. The composer is... David Russo --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/composertalk/support
Robert & Joshua lay down the law on this double episode, which pits Judge Dredd, directed by Danny Cannon, against Dredd, directed by Pete Travis. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a damn episode. And come and tweet us over on that here twitter thang @TornStubsPod
Hayley watches the 2005 hit (?) film Goal! for the very first time. One for all you deprived football fans to get stuck in to! Goal! (also known as Goal! The Dream Begins in the United States) is a 2005 sports drama film directed by Danny Cannon and starring Kuno Becker as Santiago Munez, a young man with a rough background who is offered the chance to trial with one of England's top football clubs. Head to our website for more episodes and info on the podcasts - www.howhaveyounotseen.com Join our Patreon - www.patreon.com/howhaveyounotseen Check out McKool Collectables - (www.instagram.com/mckoolcollectables) for some awesome scale models from your favourite films!
Interviews include Erin Richards, Chris Chalk, Morena Baccarin and executive producer Danny Cannon talking about the new villains and the new Poison Ivy.
Roundtable interviews taped at New York Comic Con with Robin Lord Taylor,Sean Pertwee,Erin Richards,Ben McKenzie,Donal Logue,and executive producer Danny Cannon. Special thanks to Warner Bros,Fox and New York Comic Con.
Welcome back fellow Gothamites, Defenders, Angels and Demons, Boys and Girls and fellow Watchers. We're taking a look back at all the shows we discussed last year and give a sneak peak at the new shows we're covering in next year. Join us for our 2019 Recap and 2020 preview podcast. All the shows we discussed in 2019 and one of the shows we'll be discussing in 2020. 1. Gotham: Season Five (Fox TV US) After five years and one hundred episodes our first ever show came to an end on Fox in 2019. We discussed the show for almost 150 episodes on Gotham TV podcast. Even though these twelve episodes we're perfect there were a lot of great moments for the cast we've loved talking about for six years. Goodbye Gotham 2. Punisher Season 2 (Netflix) It was also the second and final season of The Punisher on Netflix. As each of the Marvel Netflix shows finished we got closer and closer to the end of Defenders TV Podcast. Jon Bernthal totally embodied Frank Castle this year and we hope we see more of him in the future. Farewell Frank Castle 3. Good Omens (Amazon Prime) Based on a 1990 book written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett this was the first show we covered on Amazon Prime. From the casting of Michael Sheen as the angel Aziraphale and David Tennant as his earthbound devilish counterpart Crowley this show was a fantastic endeavour. We loved every second of chatting about this show. 4. Jessica Jones Season 3 (Netflix) Jessica Jones was the final show commited to Netflix from Marvel. The main cast of Krysten Ritter, Rachael Taylor, Eka Darville, Rebecca De Mornay and Carrie-Anne Moss were on top form throughout the season. With the addition of new office temp Gillian (Aneesh Sheth), possible love interest Erik Gelden (played by Benjamin Walker) and a new type of villain Sallinger (Jeremy Bobb) the show went out on a high. 5. Pennyworth Season 1 (EPIX) In July the creators of Gotham, Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon returned to the DC Batverse for a story of the early years of Alfred Pennyworth. Opening with a star making turn from Paloma Faith as Peggy Sykes the ten episode series was a blast. In a reimagined version of London we saw what the DC universe would do to the city. The show started slow but after a twist death in episode three it went from strength to strength. We're excited for season two in 2020. 6. The Boys (Amazon Prime) Based on the comic series from Garth Ennis Amazon made a bid for the most adult show of the year with The Boys. From flying dolphins to crashing planes Season 1 of the show was balls to the wall. But what surprised us was how much heart showrunner Erik Kripke was able to get out into the show. An absolute highlight of our year. 7. Watchmen (HBO and Sky Atlantic) It was an uphill battle for the Watchmen from the start. Based on a series of comic books that everybody from The New York Times to local comic shop owners have recommended for decades it was going to the be tough. But this sequel from Damon Lindelof and a team of extraordinary writers delivered far more than we all hoped. If this season is all we see from the Watchmen it will have been worth every moment. What's coming in 2020? Star Trek: Picard (Amazon Prime) From January 2020 we'll be going where we've never been before. We will be joining Patrick Stewart and his pit-bull discussing every episode about Star Trek Picard. We're so excited to see how the story of Jean-Luc Picard continues. The show will include special appearances from Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Marina Sirts and Jeri Ryan but it is a brand new story in a new time for the characters. Engage! Join us on Patreon You can support us by going to https://patreon.com/tvpodcastindustries and donating to the running of the podcast. We appreciate everyone who has supported us so far and as a special thank you we'll be sharing very special podcast with our Patreons of any level first.
Welcome back fellow Gothamites, Defenders, Angels and Demons, Boys and Girls and fellow Watchers. We're taking a look back at all the shows we discussed last year and give a sneak peak at the new shows we're covering in next year. Join us for our 2019 Recap and 2020 preview podcast. All the shows we discussed in 2019 and one of the shows we'll be discussing in 2020. 1. Gotham: Season Five (Fox TV US) After five years and one hundred episodes our first ever show came to an end on Fox in 2019. We discussed the show for almost 150 episodes on Gotham TV podcast. Even though these twelve episodes we're perfect there were a lot of great moments for the cast we've loved talking about for six years. Goodbye Gotham 2. Punisher Season 2 (Netflix) It was also the second and final season of The Punisher on Netflix. As each of the Marvel Netflix shows finished we got closer and closer to the end of Defenders TV Podcast. Jon Bernthal totally embodied Frank Castle this year and we hope we see more of him in the future. Farewell Frank Castle 3. Good Omens (Amazon Prime) Based on a 1990 book written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett this was the first show we covered on Amazon Prime. From the casting of Michael Sheen as the angel Aziraphale and David Tennant as his earthbound devilish counterpart Crowley this show was a fantastic endeavour. We loved every second of chatting about this show. 4. Jessica Jones Season 3 (Netflix) Jessica Jones was the final show commited to Netflix from Marvel. The main cast of Krysten Ritter, Rachael Taylor, Eka Darville, Rebecca De Mornay and Carrie-Anne Moss were on top form throughout the season. With the addition of new office temp Gillian (Aneesh Sheth), possible love interest Erik Gelden (played by Benjamin Walker) and a new type of villain Sallinger (Jeremy Bobb) the show went out on a high. 5. Pennyworth Season 1 (EPIX) In July the creators of Gotham, Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon returned to the DC Batverse for a story of the early years of Alfred Pennyworth. Opening with a star making turn from Paloma Faith as Peggy Sykes the ten episode series was a blast. In a reimagined version of London we saw what the DC universe would do to the city. The show started slow but after a twist death in episode three it went from strength to strength. We're excited for season two in 2020. 6. The Boys (Amazon Prime) Based on the comic series from Garth Ennis Amazon made a bid for the most adult show of the year with The Boys. From flying dolphins to crashing planes Season 1 of the show was balls to the wall. But what surprised us was how much heart showrunner Erik Kripke was able to get out into the show. An absolute highlight of our year. 7. Watchmen (HBO and Sky Atlantic) It was an uphill battle for the Watchmen from the start. Based on a series of comic books that everybody from The New York Times to local comic shop owners have recommended for decades it was going to the be tough. But this sequel from Damon Lindelof and a team of extraordinary writers delivered far more than we all hoped. If this season is all we see from the Watchmen it will have been worth every moment. What's coming in 2020? Star Trek: Picard (Amazon Prime) From January 2020 we'll be going where we've never been before. We will be joining Patrick Stewart and his pit-bull discussing every episode about Star Trek Picard. We're so excited to see how the story of Jean-Luc Picard continues. The show will include special appearances from Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Marina Sirts and Jeri Ryan but it is a brand new story in a new time for the characters. Engage! Join us on Patreon You can support us by going to https://patreon.com/tvpodcastindustries and donating to the running of the podcast. We appreciate everyone who has supported us so far and as a special thank you we'll be sharing very special podcast with our Patreons of any level first.
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You can subscribe to our full podcast on https://www.tvpodcastindustries.com/subscribe-to-podcast/ Happy New Year fellow Gothamites. As 2019 ends we take a look back at all of the shows we discussed on TV Podcast Industries during the year including the final season of Gotham and the first season of Pennyworth from Gotham creators Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon. We discussed eight of the biggest shows in 2019 with lots more to come in 2020. We also discuss the other five shows we talked about this year Gotham Season 5, Good Omens, Pennyworth, Garth Ennis' The Boys and HBO's seminal show Watchmen. You can hear all of these shows on their own feeds or on our full TV Podcast Industries feed on Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. https://open.spotify.com/show/71WiYolZMPxB7QVSTMZ5zk Thank you so much for staying with us throughout our time covering all five seasons of Gotham and the first season of Pennyworth. We'll be back later this year with Pennyworth Season 2 and hopefully lots more shows that you love on TV Podcast Industries in 2020. You can support us on Patreon If you'd like to help us keep the podcast going please consider supporting us on Patreon at https://patreon.com/tvpodcastindustries every penny helps us cover the costs of bringing hosting and providing the podcast. You'll always be our fellow Gothamites. We hope you'll join us on TV Podcast Industries. Derek, John and Chris.
Jimmy covered the Pennyworth press room roundtables while at SDCC. In attendance were cast & creators including Ben Aldridge, Jack Bannon, Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon! Hear all about the new Epix original series based on Batman's butler Alfred and his early years before Bruce Wayne was born. How much freedom did they have in creating this world? What familiar characters from Batman lore will we see? What is the tone of the series? Tune in to find out! Leave your iTunes comments! 5 stars and nothing but love! Also, get a hold of us! Thanks for listening!
The time is here. We finish our four year coverage of Marvel's Netflix show with our Jessica Jones 313 Finale Review of "A.K.A. Everything". It's been a long road but the final Defender goes out on a high and we chat all about it in our spoiler-filled discussion Jessica Jones makes a big decision as we get to the finale of the Marvel Netflix shows. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0PLW0vz65I0GSpIbBJX0uM Listen to our Jessica Jones Finale Review on Spotify Jessica Jones Finale Review of 313 "A.K.A. Everything" Spoiler Filled Synopsis Story by: Melissa Rosenberg and Nancy Won Screenplay by: Melissa Rosenberg with Lisa Randolph Directed By: Neasa Hardiman As Jessica Jones returns from the courthouse to her apartment an old friend, Luke Cage, in his new threads visits and gives her some sage advice. Knowing what she must do Jessica sets out to track down her sister and friend, Trish Walker. Trish is trying to prove her heroic abilities with an attack on Dimitri Patseras, at the direction of Jeri Hogarth. However following this attack Trish flees back to Jeri’s apartment on her suggestion. But the trap laid by Jeri and Jessica backfires when Kith unexpectedly turns up and is held hostage by the Hellcat. With Kith in a choke hold a love struck Jeri pulls a gun and in the standoff offers to help Trish escape from the USA. Shooting Jessica in the leg they make their getaway. Shortly after, Jessica leaks Trish's true identity as the masked vigilante and finds Trish attempting to leave the country. As they battle, Trish pulls a knife stabbing her sister as Jessica learns the true cost of being a hero and in custody Trish learns what it means to be the bad guy! In the aftermath, Kith destroys any hope of Jeri’s that they could become a couple. As the Hellcat is sent off to the Raft, Jessica gives Malcolm the keys to Alias Investigations, sets up Erik and Costa as a crime fighting duo as she intends to leave New York. But while buying her ticket to El Paso a dark familiar voice from Jessica’s past begins to whisper to her to “...give up everything.” to “ Give in”. In true Jessica fashion she fights those negative purple thoughts and decides to remain in New York. Getting in Contact with Us Thanks so much for listening to our Jessica Jones Finale Review Podcast. We love to hear from listeners about your thoughts on all of our podcasts so please send yours to feedback@tvpodcastindustries.com join us on Facebook at facebook.com/tvpodcastindustries or follow us onhttps://www.facebook.com/TVPodcastIndustries/ Twitter @tvpodindustries and you can now record your thoughts for the podcast directly from our website tvpodcastindustries.com by clicking the “Send Voicemail” button. Well that’s it for all of the Jessica Jones, The Defenders, and officially Defenders TV Podcast. We still intend to cover upcoming Marvel movies. Next up is Black Widow announced for May 2020. Also announced are the five Disney + projects if they are made available outside of the US. The earliest planned Disney + show is coming in Autumn 2020 with Falcon and The Winter Soldier. So we’ll be on a bit of a Marvel break for a while. TV Podcast Industries is now our hub project. We already know we’ll be covering ultra violent “The Boys” from Garth Ennis on Amazon Prime. Our review of The Boys Episode one out on Friday the 26th of July as the episodes begin to be released. We will also be chatting about the surprisingly ultra violent Pennyworth from the creators of Gotham Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon. We’ll have the first review of that out on the 28th of July.We’ll have a review of each show once a week. Thanks so much to all of you who have joined us for the last 236 episodes of Defenders TV Podcast we hope to see you around the way soon. Thank you so much for listening John, Chris and Derek Defenders TV Podcast Date recorded: 24/07/2019Date published: 25/07/2019MP3, 103.10 mins, 112kbps, 82.8 MB
This week on the Horror Junkies Podcast we start a two-month long look into some of the best and worst 90's Slasher movies made. So if you have any suggestions, please make sure to hit us up. It's so overdue, but here is last weeks episode where we discussed the awful series I Know What You Did Last Summer. Released in 1997 and 1998, directed by Jim Gillespie and the sequel by Danny Cannon. Want to be featured on the show and give your own thoughts about what we're discussing or give a shout out to your mom? Call our 24/7 Horror Junkie Phone line at 352-448-6726 and leave a message. As always leave us a review, follow us on Instagram and Twitter, and tell your friends about our show, so that they can join in on the horror. If you have any show topics, movies, comics, or have something Horror related you would like to see discussed on the show, send us an email at horrorjunkiepodcast@gmail.com Want more content?! Well then subscribe to our Youtube and Twitch channels so you can watch us play scary games. And if that's not enough for you head over to our Patreon and make a monthly pledge to the show and get even more content. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/horrorjunkiespodcasts/support
Danny Cannon grew up in Luton, England and began his career as a theatre actor. While working with a small repertory company, he directed several short films featuring his fellow actors. Acclaimed film director Alan Parker saw Cannon's work and championed the young director (he was just 19) in BBC Showreel, an annually televised competition. After Danny took first prize, Parker persuaded him to enroll at the prestigious National Film and TV School. In addition to The Young Americans, starring Harvey Keitel and Viggo Mortensen, Danny has also directed Judge Dredd, starring Sylvester Stallone, Phoenix, starring Ray Liotta, Anjelica Huston, and Giovanni Ribisi, and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. Cannon has also directed a number of commercials and music videos. Film producer Jerry Bruckheimer was impressed with Danny's debut feature film, The Young Americans to the degree that when he made his foray into television and wanted to bring cinema to the small screen, he thought of Cannon. After Danny directed the pilot for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, he stayed on as a producer and writer, going on to do pilots for both CSI: Miami and CSI: New York. In four years CSI had grown into the most successful television franchise ever and has garnered 3 Emmy and 3 Golden Globe nominations and won 3 People's Choice Awards. More recently, Danny co-created TNT's crime drama series starring Dylan McDermott, called Dark Blue. He also directed the pilot episode for Dark Blue. In 2010, Danny joined The CW action series Nikita, as director and executive producer and in 2011, he executive produced and directed the pilot for the FOX crime/mystery Alcatraz. In 2014 Danny was appointed to direct the first episode of the series Gotham and continues to work as an executive producer.
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