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Comedian Randee Neumeyer returns to talk Siskel & Ebert, Friendship, and Hokas. Follow us: Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky.

First I want to thank everybody who has listened to my podcast whether it was a year ago four years ago or yesterday. I appreciate it and please “like and subscribe and comment“ I guess I have to say that for algorithm purposes. But in this episode it's Vinny and myself and we basically“talk shop“. We give our takes on Sinners, Andor & I find out that Vinny never saw Handmaid‘s tale. We then have a lengthy discussion about Batman and why or why not he only attacks street thugs and doesn't go after big corporate entities. We then get Vinny to talk about him finally watching Transformers for the first time. A lot of jokes flying and it's basically a Siskel & Ebert episode with us. Enjoy.

This week, we're busting out the slammer and potentially wishing we were back in it depending on who you ask, as we team up with the canary-clad copper to take down a star-studded mob in a wildly stylish and outlandishly conceived blockbuster starring a charming old man incapable of doing action scenes, that's been seemingly buried in the Disney vault in the years since. It's 1990's Dick Tracy, directed and produced by Warren Beatty, and starring Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino, Glenne Headly, Charlie Korsmo, Mandy Patinkin, Dustin Hoffman, Seymour Cassel, William Forsythe, Charles Durning, Dick Van Dyke, Paul Sorvino, James Caan, Kathy Bates and Catherine O'Hara. Most of these stars are unrecognizeable under the monstrous makeup required to make them look like their vintage crime comic strip counterparts, but Pacino made enough of an impression with a wildly comedic take on his typical mobster persona that he netted an Oscar nom for Best Supporting Actor, losing to Joe Pesci for GoodFellas. While Beatty is at least a decade too old to be proper fit as the movie's lead, it's his ambition behind the camera that makes the movie such a curiosity all these years later, as the film is either an enchanting dreamscape filled with unsolvable How Did They Do That movie magic puzzles, or a steaming pile of neon-drenched puke depending on which of our two hosts you ask. But that's okay, as we have some heated disagreement this week that is maybe the closest we've yet come to vintage Siskel & Ebert kinda stuff. Plus: We've both been to the theater and are happy to sound off on Ryan Coogler's latest as JMo and Hayley both greatly enjoyed Sinners in the cinema, and Justin's got a bonus theatrical field report on Drop, the latest from Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon. If you'd like to watch Dick Tracy before listening along to our conversation, good luck finding a physical copy, and Disney will seemingly never stream this thing on Disney+ -- possibly for rights reasons to avoid paying anything more to Warren Beatty, or possibly because they are cowards who are ashamed of the fun movie they made. Either way, it's tough to find outside of renting it on YouTube. Other works discussed in this episode include Creed, Fruitvale Station, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, Mad Max: Fury Road, Loki, The Accountant, The Perfect Storm, Bridge of Spies, War Horse, The Adventures of Tintin, Red Eye, Trap, Reign of Fire, Surrogates, The Expendables 2, The Last Boy Scout, Princess Mononoke, Hook, This Is The Tom Green Documentary, Cutthroat Island, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, G20, The Silence of the Lambs, Longlegs, Resident Orca, Avatar: The Way of Water, Blackfish, Batman ('89), Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, X-Men, Blade, The Shadow, The Phantom, The Rocketeer, Darkman, Speed Racer, Furiosa, Challengers and Sin City, among others. We'll be back (more than likely) next week, with another special in-theaters spectacular, as 100+ episodes after we covered the original film, it is tax season once again and we're back for more Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal in The Accountant 2. So look for that next Friday, and until then we'll see you at the movies!!

In which Thom Bowers and Travis J Coleman eulogize Val Kilmer, pore over the hubbub from CinemaCon, foment a war between burgeoning BCUs, glory in the widening of the theatrical window, and present their 127th reminiscence on growing up nerdy.   THOM'S WATCH PURGING Death Of A Unicorn, A Working Man, Phantoms (aborted), Runaway Jury, Magpie, The Hunt For Red October (rewatch), Battlestar Galactica '78, Running Point S1, Mythic Quest S4, Severance S2, School Spirits S2, Letterkenny S 1-12, Modern Family S 1-11 TRAV'S WATCH PURGING Ice Princess, Siskel & Ebert, New Hollywood Squares, After Midnight, Pop Culture Jeopardy, Poppa's House, Shifting Gears S1, High Potential S1 Got a question for the SER FAQ?  Superenthusiast Radio on Facebook E-mail: superenthusiastradio@gmail.com Subscribe via iTunes

Len and Beave go through their own separate Top Ten Movies of 2024, and then their own Top Ten TV Series of 2024. Tune in as they count down, argue, agree, insult and make up. You won't want to miss the Siskel & Ebert style banter, and hopefully our lists agree with yours! You see, WE WAIT UNTIL THE ACTUAL END OF THE YEAR TO DO OUR "BEST OF" LISTS.

On the second installment of Friday Flicks, the CHGO White Sox crew reviews the 1988 film “Eight Men Out” starring John Cusack, Charlie Sheen and who's who of Hollywood that guys. What was learned about the 1919 Black Sox scandal from the film? Should Eddie Cicotte and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson be enshrined in the Hall of Fame? Sean Anderson, Herb Lawrence and Vinnie Duber do their best Siskel & Ebert impressions on the CHGO White Sox Podcast.

If there's one thing you need to know about film critic Matt Singer, it's that he loves Arnold Schwarzenegger. And also that he has a book about Siskel & Ebert coming out later this year. Anyway here's me and Matt talking about an Arnold flick that arrived and vanished pretty dang quickly. Big thanks to Matt, who will be back to discuss Last Action Hero, and to all listeners. Thanks for listening to Overhated! There are 100+ more episodes at patreon.com/scottEweinberg. Subscribe to hear them all now! Check out the list of episodes here: bit.ly/3WZiLFk. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc.    Overhated is now proudly sponsored by those Effin' Birds.com, the award-winning comic strip by Aaron Reynolds.        

We finally got our pal Matt Singer, author of the wonderful book Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever, on the show to talk about the team who defined movie criticism for a generation. Also Dan leads a silly Siskel & Ebert related half-game.Catch us LIVE in Boston!Get 20% Off and Free Shipping with the code FLOP at Manscaped.com.

This next guest is a film critic, editor, blogger, author, podcaster, author & on-air host. He is the Editor-in-chief at Screen Crush & he's got a newer book out (Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever). We also talk about some newer projects with his personal & professional opinon as well as revisiting a classic. Let's Welcome Matt Singer! Matt Singer Book: https://www.amazon.com/Opposable-Thumbs-Siskel-Changed-Forever/dp/0593540158/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.4AGOp3oib_Our6dfI2acNAGnhwN7-3RAgEJmbx0I-XcRjk-J9Y_16V6PAaAVtVqlr_2R6PLt0fXY3XkY_KNvtw.p2rSSlbgresJ14ORYuaB-vCxyH3LJbnSafXrfiVVT3g&qid=1711633154&sr=8-1 Screen Crush: https://screencrush.com/ Crazy Train Radio Facebook: facebook.com/realctradio X/Twitter: @realctradio Instagram: @crazytrainradio Website: crazytrainradio.us YouTube: youtube.com/crazytrainradio --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crazytrainradio/support

THIS VOYAGE, the Decksperts are back on DECK 78, writer/producer/author MARK A. ALTMAN (Pandora, The Librarians, Free Enterprise), DAREN DOCHTERMAN (associate producer, Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Director's Edition), screenwriter ASHLEY E. MILLER (Thor, X-Men: First Class) sit down with MATT SINGER, the author of the new book OPPOSABLE THUMBS: HOW SISKEL & EBERT CHANGED MOVIES FOREVER for a fascinating conversation about the last legacy of Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert. Only on DECK 78. And don't miss all the great Treksperts Podcast Network shows wherever you listen to podcasts or visit trekspertsplus.com today. Follow us on social at: Instagram: @inglorioustreksperts Threads: @inglorioustreksperts Twitter/X: @inglorioustrek Facebook: facebook.com/inglorioustrek Post: @inglorioustrek Join us now on Discord at: https://discord.gg/7kgmJSExeh

Threevisiting on the Tues: Scott, Paul & Lauren discuss Siskel & Ebert, stalagmites & stalactites, and drinking at home, then play Secret Word. Follow us on social media @threedomusa. Send Threetures and emails to threedomusa@gmail.com. Leave us a voicemail at 424-252-4678 (HAG-CLAIMS-8).

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Editor and critic of ScreenCrush.com and writer of a brand new book on Siskel & Ebert, Matt Singer joins slim and Brian to talk Los Angeles Plays Itself, Gymkata, his new book Opposable Thumbs, Classic Albums: Steely Dan - AJA, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. They also discuss their connections to LA through film, memories of reading their favorite film critics, learning to love bad films, what the heck a mixing board even does, and grappling with emotional films later in life. Chapters: Annual Letterboxd Sale (00:00:00) Opening credits (00:02:00) Los Angeles Plays Itself (00:05:55) Gymkata (00:17:44) Opposable Thumbs (00:30:03) Steely Dan (00:45:11) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (00:53:15) Closing credits (01:04:07) Credits: Recorded in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia. Edited by Slim. Theme music: “Vampiros Danceoteque” by Moniker. Production manager: Sophie Shin. The Letterboxd Show is a TAPEDECK production. Email us!

The heat wave hasn't slowed us down at The Bar—this month, J.D. and Kerri discuss the new regulations hot off the presses from Treasury, Labor and HHS! How “short” and “limited” is short term limited duration insurance? How will the IRS tax payments from employer-paid fixed indemnity policies? And what's up with the new Mental Health Parity rules? And in Last Call, J.D. and Kerri channel their inner Siskel & Ebert and tout the return of the summer blockbusters!

Beave and Len channel their inner Siskel & Ebert as they argue about the new Wes Anderson movie "Asteroid City". They also talk about the new Indiana Jones movie as well. They also talk through the latest Emmy nominations, and discuss shows like "White Lotus", "The Bear", "Abbott Elementary", and of course "Succession". They also talk about the WNBA All-Star Game, the Northwestern hazing scandal, Cubs, Guardians and White Sox, and of course our reviews of Rolling Stone Top 500 Albums and Len's own Favorite 500 albums. Tune in!

Alex English is one of the most prolific scorers in NBA history.  But the points he's made as a humanitarian surpass ALL his basketball records.  Alex even made a movie with Jamie Lee Curtis that earned two thumbs up from Siskel & Ebert. In this episode, Thom Serafin charts Alex English's journey from the racism of South Carolina to his crusade to stop famine in Ethiopia.  You'll hear why his grandmother chose "Alex" as his name, and which NBA opponent was the most formidable defender.  While Lissa is on assignment, Thom gets personal with an inspiring Hall of Famer.

Kelly + Natasha are a Siskel + Ebert for our times with their very different opinions on this episode.Kelly Anneken's Hilarious PatreonKelly on VenmoNote: Kelly is dealing with some construction in her usual recording spot, so apologies for the less than stellar audio this episode! And possibly other episodes, it's been going on for a while! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we GenXers discuss the end of Medicare coverage for many as more pandemic benefits are ending; The NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament got a lot more attention in part due to some on court gestures made by stars Angel Reese of LSU & Caitlin Clark of Iowa; “This Day In Music History”; “This Week in Pop Culture History” includes remembering Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, the opening of first permanent movie theater + if we still like to go to the theater or stay at home these days, the first mobile phone call made 50 years ago, the introduction of the iPad, Roger Ebert published first movie review + our memories of the Siskel & Ebert movie review show & more GenX talk, memories & rants! Listen to us weekly where you listen to podcasts including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Overcast, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Good Pods & more! Watch us on YouTube & our channel on the B.O.S.S. Code Media TV network on smart TV & mobile devices! Ask your home assistant device to, “Play the It Came From GenX Podcast!” All show links & info can be found on our website: itcamefromgenx.wordpress.com All show links also on Link Tree: linktr.ee/ItCameFromGenX Enjoying the show? Consider becoming a patreon! https://www.patreon.com/itcamefromgenx Support the show from our main podcast page: https://anchor.fm/brian-fisher98 NEW show merch store here (with our brother podcast'Convincing Idiots'): https://convincing-idiots-podcast.creator-spring.com/listing/it-came-from-genx-podcast-merc It'd be gnarly to hear from you! Tell us how we're doing, suggest topics or just say hello. Stay strong friends! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brian-fisher98/support

After a two-week hiatus...and a hilariously unexpected detour in our attempt to do "The Manchurian Candidate" on this episode, my guest Keir Graff and I pivoted to 'The Color of Money' and I'm so glad we did. This episode features a lot of great stories about the making of the film, and also includes plenty of necessary discussion about 'The Hustler', specifically Piper Laurie, Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, and George C. Scott's performances in that original film, the shared origin of the novels by the prolific, alcoholic, (and ultimately recovered) novelist Walter Tevis, who ALSO wrote the books turned into the film 'The Man Who Fell To Earth' and the Netflix series 'The Queen's Gambit'.  We talk about the gentle arc of Newman's life and career, viewed a bit through the lens of recent materials (materials it seems he never intended to make public) that shed light on what he was thinking and feeling during various important moments throughout his life.  And we talk about the curious reception that 'The Color of Money' continues to have among cineastes...and we play the famous Siskel & Ebert two thumbs down review of the film upon its release in 1986.  Hey, nobody's perfect! But it's funny in retrospect how so many of us at the time missed the undercurrents of connection to the Fast Eddie character in 'The Hustler'...connections Newman made sure that Scorsese and screenwriter Richard Price (who also has a great and brief cameo in the film) laced throughout the script and that he also included in his performance. Newman won his first Academy Award for 'The Color of Money'. LINKS Keir Graff's author website. Fast Eddie Felson is back. A funny Marty Scorcese interview from 1986. A great clip of a very Method Newman baiting Jackie Gleason's Minnesota Fats in 'The Hustler' Some clips from 'The Color of Money': Diner Clip/Newman   HALLWAY CONFRONTATION   Manipulating Vincent at Toy World   500 a Rack   DINNER SCENE   MOSELLE/DOOM:   FOREST WHITAKER:    Some of Robbie Robertson and Gil Evans' great incidental music from 'The Color of Money' score.   SISKEL AND EBERT:     Steve Mizerak Miller Lite commercial:  

In true Siskel & Ebert fashion, the guys are joined by Buddy Sotello Esq. as they look back through the decades and remember the many times Hollywood and Professional Wrestling crossed paths.   Send your questions for Dan and Benny to: danandbenny@outlook.com Dan and Benny on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/danandbenny

I shaved off my beard, it's still winter, the American government shooting down UFOs, reading the First Amendment to GOP members, Siskel & Ebert, and Jerry Harrison & Adrian Belew. Here are the show notes to the latest Dimland Radio: https://dimland.com/2023/02/27/dimland-radio-2-25-23-show-notes/

Peter Stormare plays a bad guy in every movie, except his NEW ONE-How does he like playing a Chef-Does he like kissing better than taking out Tom Cruise's eyeballs?-Fargo was panned everywhere-Joel Coen said to me, 'Peter, you're in the worst movie (FARGO) ever made in Hollywood,' then Siskel & Ebert called it the MOVIE of the YEAR!  And it blew up!-Working with the Coen Brothers on 'Fargo' & 'The Big Lebowski'Photo Courtesy: The Playlist 

Linda & Al Lerner not only tell great stories -- they crave great stories.  This couple, of Chicago media fame, is now keeping film lovers enlightened through their review site Movies and Shakers. We're proud to have them as guests on the 100th episode of The Crisis Cast. During this episode, Lissa & Thom contemplate the lasting impact of the COVID pandemic on the film industry and one fascinating director's technique to fuel the chemistry of his casts.  You'll also hear Linda & Al share their personal connections to the legendary Siskel & Ebert.  Plus, get ready to take notes on their recommendations for the 2022 holiday movie season.

In this episode, we revisit Brian DePalma's 1981 thriller 'Blow Out', which reunited the director with his 'Carrie' supporting actor John Travolta, who, fives years later, was post-'Saturday Night Fever', 'Grease' and 'Urban Cowboy' and was now one of Hollywood's biggest stars. 'Blow Out' was one of DePalma's most personal films, stemming from his obsessions with the Kennedy Assassination, voyeurism, filmmaking, Hitchcock, and Garrett Brown's new filmmaking invention, the Steadicam.  Shot in his hometown of Philadelphia among locations he was intimately familiar with. Topics in the episode:  DePalma's flirtations with directing 'Prince of the City' and 'Flashdance'.  His Hitchcock revelations.  How his small conspiracy film took on larger proportions with the arrival of an unexpected star.  The layers and layers of meta meaning in 'Blow Out'. A revisionist take on 'The Conversation'.  Appreciating 'Blow Up'.  Siskel & Ebert, Pauline Kael, and MORE!

The terror starts the moment he stops.Our limited series, "1986", is celebrating the great Rutger Hauer on a special Friday bonus episode, as we discuss "The Hitcher." Jeff picks up Jason Colvin of the Surely You Can't Be Serious podcast from the roadside to discuss one of the best thrillers of the 80's. Join us as they discuss Rutger's incredible, albeit creepy, ad-libbing, debate the outrageous review given by Siskel & Ebert in 1986, and rank the villainous roles of the late actor.Special thanks to Jason Colvin! Check out www.thesurelypodcast.comwww.afilmbypodcast.comafilmbypodcast@gmail.com@afilmbypodcast on Facebook and Twitter

What was it like to be on set for Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert and witness the fights between the legendary film critics that didn't make it to the airwaves? In this special archive interview, Joe Scott shares the full conversation he had with TV director Don Dupree, who made more than 200 episodes of Siskel & Ebert. Topics include getting Harry Knowles ready for TV, the lack of a comprehensive archive of old Siskel and Ebert episodes, as well as one of the most underrated comedies of the 90s. We also give shoutouts to everyone who supported the Comics For Kids fundraiser, which ended successfully on May 6th. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/downlowdpod/support

Welcome to the Movie of the Month Club, where you can expect a fresh pick delivered to your ears every month. May 2022's Movie of the Month is 1979's Chilly Scenes of Winter, directed and adapted by Joan Micklin Silver and starring John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert, Kenneth McMillan, and Gloria Grahame. Resources: Watch Chilly Scenes of Winter on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHxpkkmVyhA&list=PLDuhb6_e53EgtDCMLzj0vOH2zYhHWgape&index=3&t=10s Buy the Blu-ray - https://www1.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/32865/CHILLY-SCENES-OF-WINTER-1979/ Siskel & Ebert's Sneak Previews review - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnbtIdWqXWU

July 23 - August 5, 2007 This week Ken welcomes old friend, animation writer Marly Halpern-Graser back to the show. Ken and Marly discuss the last time he was on the show, SEVEN years ago, Marly's new MCU podcast with his brother, Thai food, Ken and Marly's tradition of getting Italian food in L.A., the influence of Sleeping Beauty on Italian Horror films, Aquaman, how much people get paid in Hollywood, pitching shows, when Marly first moved to L.A., Heroes, Lost, the 2007 Sci-Fi TV boom,  I Hate My 30s, VH1's original programming, BBC America showing Star Trek, Doctor Who, getting into Tom Baker, how Ken was the "put together" stand up in the 00s, Zebro, Chocolate Cake City, making online content in the early days of the internet, Shark Week, Snakes on a Plane, Back to the Future/Brokeback Mountain mashups, San Diego Comic Con, Emerson College, Kevin Bright, Hulu, how much it costs to set somebody on fire, making Nazis the heroes, The Gifted, watch parties, the weird sad end of Stan Lee, the mystery of why Ken has never been on the Warner Bros lot, Loonatics, Legion of Superheroes, The Batman, living in an apartment building for child actors, being more open minded about TV, Ken re-writing the New Mutants movie, Siskel & Ebert, confusing Batman '89 and Batman '66, Ken never watching the Jon Stewart era of The Daily Show, Steven Segal movies, when Jeremy Piven got punched in the dick at a comedy club in Boston, why videos of bad people getting hurt are always funny, the grape stomping news blooper, when Superboy fought Spider-Man, The Greatest Open Mic in the History of the World, Right Now Kapow, feeling thrilled and then instantly embarrassed when Graham Linehan gave you a compliment, Buckaroo Banzai, how there are five new Spongebobs this week, Code Monkeys, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, The Naked Brothers Band, real life superheroes, The Simpsons, MoreMAX, HBO II, Entourage, Flight of the Conchords, how hard Joey failed, and how Ken is probably responsible for The Mighty Boosh airing on Adult Swim.

WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley chats with movie critic Leonard Maltin about his new book “Starstruck: My Unlikely Road to Hollywood.” They discuss Maltin's rise from growing up in New Jersey to becoming one of the most famous film critics in America, a household name to rival Siskel & Ebert.

In an episode that comes truly comes full circle, learn about who was almost Maxwell Smart, hear one of the greatest guest star lineups of all time, and Control hires their first openly gay agent! Learn what Roger Ebert and Ted Kennedy had in common (other than weight), a “hilarious” riddle from yesteryear, and more Marty Allen!

This week Ken welcomes writer and film critic Erik Childress to the show. Ken and Erik discuss Chicago, basically growing up in Shermer, Crime Story, John Hughes, Harry Caray, the curse of the Cubs, Dawson's Creek, the loudest voices today who are right wing careerless jerks, The Clinton Era and disgraced politicians, Kevin Williamson, Patrick Stewart in Old West King Lear "King of Texas", Scotland PA, the early 00s late 90s obsession with modern takes on Shakespeare, Wish Men, Ken being totally stumped by a show Erik remembers, Lethal Weapon 2, Popeye, anthologies, "from the producers of...", The Screen Actors' Guild Awards, UPN trying to be irreverent, Everybody Loves Raymond, laughing through The Great Depression, avoiding Mario Cuomo, My So-Called Life on MTV, the tragic Dawson's Creek finale, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Quick and the Dead, Vampires, Horror Directors' non-horror work, Spin City, Michael J Fox, Newsradio, Ryan Reynolds, Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place, Friends, falling asleep to Bound, Sarah Brightman, The Real World Boston, bowling night, Seinfeld, ER, Sterling K Brown, Christopher Darden: Actor, Heavy Tobin Bell, March Madness, Patton, sleeping to Hardcore, Millennium, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, tiny actors, being a film critic, Siskel & Ebert, and the very odd star rating system of TV Guide.

Episode 3: "At the Movies with Siskel, Ebert & Babar”The FletchCast crew breaks down the Siskel & Ebert review of Fletch, as well as two Tonight Show appearances, one with Siskel & Ebert and one solo (in his Lakers Uniform). Laker Jim, Jake, and Bob discuss Kevin Porter Jr, Roy Wood Jr (on the Radio Labyrinth Podcast) talking "Confess, Fletch", Spotlight the Fletch Character: Doctor Jelly Finger, and much much more. Ep 30:00 - Intro1:58 - The Jane Doe Report on Confess, Fletch news6:49 - Roy Wood Jr news & interview10:42 - Kevin Porter Jr Fletch Reference13:20 - Talking Fletch Critical Reviews14:04 - Siskel & Ebert Review28:48 - Chevy, Siskel, Ebert, Carson 34:22 - Chevy promotes Fletch on Carson50:53 - Records Room with Dr. JellyfingerVIDEO LINKSSiskel & Ebert Review of Fletch (1985) VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/FoMgiSkVp1w Tonight Show with Chevy Chase, Siskel, & Ebert (1986)  VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/vlC_dnlc4JsRadio Labryinth Presents Roy Wood Jr: https://youtu.be/uk2grvh8HYQFletchCast is Your Ultimate source for everything Fletch: the books, the movies, & the latest news about our favorite journalistic reporter, Irwin M. Fletcher.Host: James "Laker Jim" KanowitzCo-Host: Jake ParrishCo-Host: Bob WestFLETCHCAST VOICEMAIL HOTLINELeave us a voicemail with a comment or question: (267) 714-6799 - the voicemail is open & available 24/7Follow Us on Social Media:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imfletchcast/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/imfletchcastTwitter: https://twitter.com/imfletchcastP.S. Have a nice day. Fletch is Copyright 1985, 1989 Universal Studios and distributed by MCA/Universal Pictures. All images and sounds are the intellectual property of Universal Studios. They are used only with the intent of public appreciation of a great film and possible publicity for its place among the great comedies of our time. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson clips courtesy of Carson Entertainment Group 

Episode 53: We celebrate, eat a steak dinner and “chart” in more ways than one. Doug goes all Siskel & Ebert over the new Bond movie and we talk Aston Martin's return to F1. Someone put a really nice Singer in their garage and, yeah, we hear that the new GR Yaris is really damn good. Instagram: @ryanbahrke @cannonsrun @thesteeringcommitteepodcast You should buy some goodr sunglasses ...or else some bad things could happen to you. Just kidding. Mostly. Use the code STEERING15 at checkout for 15% off your first order at goodr.com Swisstrax - it's not just surface beauty! Use the code STEER15 at checkout for 15% off sitewide at swisstrax.com. And for bad-ass Belgian brews in Colorado, visit our friends at Bruz Beers: bruzbeers.com

This week Chris, Mike and Justin review the newest David Lowery film, The Green Knight. However, first, they discuss Annette, the Once Upon A Time in Hollywood Novel and The Big Picture podcast's Siskel & Ebert series.  - Intro (00:00:00 - 00:03:29) - News on the March! (00:03:29 - 00:25:37)     - The Big Picture podcast: Siskel & Ebert Series     - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Novel     - Annette - The Green Knight Review (00:25:37 - 1:08:51)     - Spoilers start at 00:44:20 - Outro (01:08:51 - 01:10:06) Also, for all your movie and game news, reviews and more, check out our friends at www.cinelinx.com.Follow us on: Twitter Facebook Instagram Email us at: casualcinemedia@gmail.com Talk Criterion Collection, film, tv and other stuff with us in our Facebook group at:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/casualcinecast Intro/Outro Music courtesy of Jake Wagner-Russell at www.soundcloud.com/bopscotch

There can be only one, but Highlander's had a surprising number of media adaptations and spin-offs over the years. We take a look at all of them and even get some behind-the-scenes gossip about the infamous comic book tie-in: Highlander 3030. ----more---- Episode Transcript   Episode 05 [00:00:00] Mike: It's fine. It's fine. I'm not bitter. Mike: Welcome to Tencent Takes, the podcast where we make comics trivia rain like dollar bills on Magic Mike night. My name is Mike Thompson and I am joined by my cohost, the mistress of mayhem herself, Jessika Frazer. Jessika: Muahahaha! It is I hello, Mike. Mike: Hello. If you're new to the podcast, we like to look at comic books in ways that are both fun and informative. We want to check out their coolest, weirdest and silliest moments, as well as examine how they've been woven into the larger fabric of pop culture and history. Today, we are traveling through time and talking about the 35 year legacy of one of the strongest cult franchises around, Highlander. But [00:01:00] before we do that, Jessika, what is one cool thing that you've watched or read lately? Jessika: My brother has some copies of classic Peanuts Comics, and it's so much fun. It's good, wholesome, fun. And Snoopy- related media always makes me nostalgic. And Mike you've mentioned before that we're in California in the San Francisco Bay area, but fun fact, I live right near Santa Rosa, which is the home of the Peanuts creator Charles Schultz when he was alive. So there's a museum there and an ice skating rink. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: Which is super awesome And Snoopy on ice was huge when I was a kid. And that is definitely the place I also learned to ice skate. By the way, they throw a mean birthday party, just saying, not right this second. Not this second. [00:02:00] We should do it is what I'm saying. Mike: We should do it for ourselves. Jessika: No, that's what I'm saying. Oh, I don't have children. Mike: But we do. Jessika: Yes, they can come with us, like they're invited. Mike: I mean, are they? Jessika: Look at you hesitating. Mike: We took the kids to the Peanuts museum right before the lockdowns happened. that really Jessika: That's really lovely that's nice got to do that. Mike: There’s a lot of cool stuff to do. It's really interactive. It's also just a really fascinating experience because there's so much about the Peanuts during their, what 50 year run give or take. It may not have been that long. It may have been 30 or 40, but it was a long time, and I really dug it, like there was a lot of cool stuff, so yeah . And also the cool thing about Santa Rosa is they've also got all those Snoopy statues all over town too. Jessika: They do. Yeah. All the [00:03:00] Peanuts characters actually. Cause they, the Charlie Browns and the Lucy's now and the Woodstocks. Yeah they're all over the place. But that used to be something fun we could do as a scavenger hunt, and actually that's something you guys could still do even with the lockdown. Cause most of them are outside is just find that list of where all the Snoopy's or whatever character is and go find them all. Cause we did that at one point, like as an adult, obviously. Well, what about you, Mike? Mike: The complete opposite of something wholesome. Jessika: Perfect. Mike: We didn't actually have the kids for a few days. They were with their dad and we couldn't find anything new to watch. So, we wound up bingeing the entire series of Harley Quinn on HBO Max. Jessika: Oh, you’re ahead of me then. Damn you. Mike: This is my third time going through the series. We've just gotten to the point where we turned it on when we want to watch something that's kind of soothing in a way, even though it is not a soothing TV show. But I still am [00:04:00] having these full on belly laughs where I'm breathless at the end and it's just, it's so smart and funny and absolutely filthy with the violence. And then there are these moments of sweetness or genuine reflection, and it's just so damn refreshing. I was never much of a Harley fan, but this show and then the Birds of Prey movie really made me fall in love with that character. Also side note, Michael Ironside who played General Katana and Highlander II. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: He shows up in Harley Quinn doing the voice of Darkseid, which is a character he's been voicing since the nineties when he first started doing it for the Superman animated series. Jessika: Oh, damn. Mike: So, just a little bit of symmetry there. Mike: All right. So before we begin, I have to say that this episode wound up being a rabbit hole full of other rabbit holes that I kept going down. So, I want to give a little credit where it's due for a ton of my research. I really wound up leaning on two books: John Mosby's Fearful Symmetry [00:05:00]; and A Kind of Magic: The Making of Highlander by Jonathan Melville. Likewise, there's a YouTube series called Highlander heart hosted by Grant Kempster and Joe Dilworthand, and an associated Facebook community with the same name that were just invaluable for my crash course. And finally, I want to give special, thanks to Clinton Rawls, who runs Comics Royale, and Matt Kelly for taking the time to chat with me because they didn't have to, and they provided me with some really useful information for this episode. Jessika: Yeah, I'm super excited about what lies in store. What's really funny is I've actually, I feel like a kid before it test. Mike: Right? Jessika: like I'm a little nervous because I've been cramming so hard for this Mike: We both have. Jessika: No, you, especially you, especially like you should be much more nervous than me, Mike. No, I’m just kidding, please don't take that on. Oh, but yeah, no I'm super excited and really ready to talk about all of this stuff and learn more because I've just been consuming the media and the [00:06:00] comic books. But, you’re going to give me some back knowledge that's gonna blow my brain and I'm excited. Mike: Oh, well, I'll try to live up to that high expectation. Let's assume that you didn't know what the topic of this episode was. And if someone asked you what cult property from the 1980s. Spawned five movies, two TV series, a Saturday morning cartoon, an anime film, several video games, multiple tabletop games, audio plays, roughly a dozen novels, and four okay, technically six different comic books. What would your first answer be? Jessika: Oh, goodness. What's funny is probably not Highlander. I'd probably I would say like Batman, honestly, Mike: Yeah I would've gone with something along the lines of G.I. Joe. Jessika: Oh, yeah. Mike: Or some weird Saturday morning cartoon, something like that. I never would have guessed Highlander. I never would have assumed that. but it's just, it's really surprising to see how [00:07:00] much has been generated out of this initial movie. Were you fan of the movies or the show before we started bingeing everything for this episode? Jessika: So I was actually a fan of the show via my dad who had it on hadn't watched the films before, because I was born in 1986 fun fact. Mike: Right. Jessika: I was born when this thing was sent into the world. We both were at the same time, apparently. I didn't have that exact experience of growing up watching it, but he definitely had the TV show on in the nineties Mike: Okay. Jessika: So that was what I was familiar with and I loved it and I would run around chopping things; I'd be at work, I was actually like when I got older I'd be like, there can only be one, and I’d like have to like swipe at someone. Mike: It’s such an iconic line. Jessika: iIt is! it transcends. Absolutely. Mike: Yeah. I was pretty young when the movie came out and the show was how I became aware of it. And then when the show was airing, I was in high school. And then I became [00:08:00] aware that there was a movie that had inspired it. And so I was able to rent that when I was old enough to be trusted, to go rent movies on my own by my parents. Back when we couldn’t stream everything. Jessika: Oh my gosh. Mike: And there were rewind fees, Jessika: Oh, my gosh. Be kind rewind. Mike: Speaking of things from the eighties: it’s funny we'll talk about it later on, but the show really brought in, I think a lot of people that otherwise wouldn't have been fans. Before we start talking about the comic books, I really want to take a few minutes to talk about all the media and content that spun out of Highlander because it's a lot. And it was honestly in a couple of cases, really surprising. I didn't know about half of this stuff before I began researching for the episode, and then. Like I said, it was just constant rabbit holes that kept on leading me down more and more research paths. And it was really fun. But I want to talk about all this now. Jessika: Perfect. This is exactly what we're here for, and I think that people want to hear it too. [00:09:00] Mike: I hope so. Okay. So why don't you summarize Highlander? If you had to give an elevator pitch, Jessika: The film follows the past and present of Connor MacLeod, an immortal who is just one of many vying to be the sole victor in an age old battle, where in the end, there can only be one. Like very simply a lot more to it, but like how much of an elevator pitch. Mike: I think that's pretty simple. It's about an immortal who basically keeps on fighting his way through history and there's these really wonderful catch phrases that get us hooked. The movies got actually a really interesting origin story of its own. It was written by this guy named Gregory Widen when he was in his early twenties. That was when he wrote the initial screenplay. But he had already had a really interesting life up until then. He was one of the youngest paramedics in Laguna Beach at that point in [00:10:00] time. And then he went on to become a firefighter while he was still a teenager. By 1981, he'd also worked as a DJ and a broadcast engineer. And then he signed up for a screenwriting course at UCLA and he wrote this feature length script called Shadow Clan. And it would go through a number of changes before it became Highlander. But the core theme of an immortal warrior named Connor MacLeod wandering across the centuries is there. He wound up getting introduced to producers Bill Panzer, and Peter Davis who decided to option the film. And then they hired the screenwriters, Larry Ferguson and Peter Bellwood to rework the script into what we eventually had wind up in theaters. And once the movie was green-lit, they brought in Russell Mulcahey to direct it. And I vaguely knew that Mulcahey had been doing music videos before this, for the most part, he had one other cult movie ahead of time. It was a horror movie, I think, called Razorback. But I didn't realize which music videos he'd been making until I started doing all [00:11:00] this research. So I'm going to give you a small sampling and you're going to tell me if you've heard of these. Jessika: Okay. Sure sure sure. Mike: Okay. The Vapors “Turning Japanese”. Jessika: Uh, yeah. Mike: Yeah, okay. The Buggles “Video Killed the Radio Star”. Jessika: Wow. Yes. Mike: Duran Duran Duran’s “Rio”. Jessika: Wow. Mike: And Elton John's “I'm Still Standing”. Jessika: Yeahwow. That's actually a variety of characters. Mike: Right? But also those all really iconic music videos. Like not only songs, but music, videos cause those were all in the very early days. And the dude's entire portfolio is just iconic. If you think about the music videos that really defined the genre Jessika: Yeah, sometimes you just got it, I guess. Huh? Mike: He has a lot of those music video elements. A lot of times in the movie, it feels like a music video, like when Brenda's being chased down the hall by the Kurgan and it's got all that dramatic lighting, or that opening shot where they're in the [00:12:00] wrestling match and you see the camera flying through everything. Jessika: Yes! Mike: That was wild. That was really unusual to see camera work like that back then. The movie was distributed by 20th century Fox. And I think at this point, We'd be more surprised of 20th century Fox did a good job of marketing weird and cool, because they really botched it. They wound up forcing cuts to the movie that created really weird plot holes because they didn't feel that audiences needed it or what would understand it, and they wanted to make it simpler, but it really made things more confusing. European audiences on the other hand, really embraced the film because they got a much better version. So case in point, I'm going to show you the two main posters for it. This is the American poster for the movie. Jessika: Mmhmm. Oh, wow, he’s scary. Wow wow wow, okay. Before I even say any of the words, what you first see is Connor [00:13:00] MacLeod, but it's this awful grainy picture of him. He looks like there's something wrong with his face, which he shouldn't necessarily. And he looks like he's about to murder someone. He's like glaring off into the distance. And at the top it says, Oh, it's in black and white, by the way. at the top it says, He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536, he will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York city in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal Highlander! Credits at the bottom, rated R, absolutely rated R. Mike: Also, I feel like featuring original songs by Queen does not get the billing that it should. Jessika: I agree. I jammed my way through that film and this just the whole series, [00:14:00] actually the whole franchise I jammed my way through. Mike: Yeah. And if you listen to the kind of Magic album that is basically the unofficial soundtrack to the movie, and it's so good I don't know how they got those perpetual rights to Princes of the Universe, did. Every time I hear that song, I get a little thrill up my spine. All right. So here's the poster though for the European release. Jessika: All right. So, Ooh, this is totally different. This is Whoa. This is way more exciting. Okay. First of all, it's full Color, my friends, right in the middle in red it says Highlander right under it “There can only be one” in yellow. Oh it's amazing. There's a little sticker at the bottom that says featuring original songs by queen. Look it, trying to sell it, I love it. And then there's Connor MacLeod in the center of the screen [00:15:00] dramatically head back eyes closed screaming his sword thrusts forward and behind him is the Kurgan, oh my gosh so good. It's so - Oh, and a backdrop of New York city. All in lights. It's beautiful. Mike: Yeah. It’s one of those things where basically, that documentary that we watched seduced by Argentina, they talk about that where they're just like 20th century Fox fucked us. Jessika: And I didn't realize how much until, because I did watch that as well. And I'm like how bad could it be? But I that's pretty bad. It's a pretty big difference. It's like watching, that'd be like going, expecting to see like psycho or something. Mike: Honestly, I keep on thinking of Firefly and Fox and how they just totally botched the marketing for that show and then the release, and issues with Joss Wheden aside. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: It’s one of those [00:16:00] things where again, it's a really beloved cult property with a really devoted fan base, even, 5 years after it was released, shit, almost 20. Jessika: And I do love Firefly, again, Whedon aside. Mike: I do too. Jessika: And it makes me a little sad think about it because it had so much potential. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: Oh, it's so rough. It's rough to see. Mike: Yeah. What were your overall thoughts on the movie now that you've seen it because you hadn't seen it before this, correct? Jessika: No. I had only seen the TV show and probably rightfully so, because that was much less violent. I mean, much less graphically violent. They were still beheading motherfucker every episode, but, versus the film, which is like blood and like half a head and wow, there, it goes the head. But I actually really liked the movie. It was adventurous, it was thrilling and told a fairly cohesive and interesting storyline which unfortunately had an ending. But it still took us on an emotional journey. [00:17:00] Mike: Yeah, and I feel the same way. Jessika:: And how all the camp that I love from the 1980s and the special effects are just chefs, kiss love it. Mike: There is something so wonderful about the special effects from the 1980s, because they're so earnest all the time. And at the same time they look so cheesy by comparison now. Jessika: But you can tell they were trying so hard. It's almost like a little kid who's just learning to finger paint and they walk up and they're like, I did this thing. It's so good. You're like, it is really good. It's really good for where you're at. Mike: Yeah, exactly. Highlander is very much a quintessential eighties film to me, and there's both that nostalgia factor, but also it's a pretty tight little film. It doesn't really try to do anything too grandiose or too world-building because I don't think they expected to really make the sequels that they wound up doing. Which speaking of which we should discuss the sequels. [00:18:00] Mike: Like, I feel like you can’t discussion without talking about the sequels. And honestly the first time I ever heard of Highlander as a brand really was when I was visiting family in Texas And we were watching a Siskel & Ebert episode where they were thrashing Highlander II. Jessika: Dude, Siskel and Ebert I'm sure hated this. This does not surprise me in the least. Mike: I don't remember much about it, I just remember being like, oh Sean Connery's in a movie, well that's cool. Because my parents had raised me on all of the Sean Connery James Bond movies. Jessika: Yeah casting, come on. Why? Why? They had a French dude playing a Scottish guy and a Scottish guy playing a Spanish Egyptian guy. It's. Mike: I believe label was a Hispaniola Egyptian. They kinda darkened up Sean Connery a little bit too. I'm not sure. Jessika: It felt that way. I was just hoping he had just been under the tanning beds, but no, I think you're right. [00:19:00] Mike: Highlander II was definitely the most infamous of the sequels. And I mean a huge part of that is because it had such a batshit production and there’d been so many different versions of it. It was so bad that Russell Mulcahey reportedly walked out of the film premiere after only 15 minutes. There's this great documentary that you and I both watched on YouTube, it's split up into a bunch parts, but it was a documentary they made for the special edition of Highlander II. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: It was the third release of the movie that they put out because the first one was basically the bonding company for the films. Investors took over the production and assembly of the movie due to the fact that Argentina, where they were filming. And they had gone to Argentina because a, it was gorgeous, but B because it was supposedly going to be a third of the cost Jessika: Yeah. Mike: To make a movie there than it would elsewhere. Argentina’s economy collapsed and went through hyperinflation. And as a result, everything just went haywire. But they went back years later and they not only recut the [00:20:00] movie, but they refilled or added in certain scenes I think four or five years later. And then on top of that, they did the special edition a few years after that, where they redid the special effects. And I don't know it's kind of funny because it's not a bad movie now. It's not terrible. I feel it's an enjoyable film in its own way. But it's also funny where you watch that documentary and they're talking about the stuff that they're so proud of. Russell Mulcahey was talking about how proud he was of that love scene. I'm using this in quotes, love scene between Virginia Madsen and and Christopher Lambert where they just decided to do it up against the wall of an alley? Jessika: That’s always an interesting choice to me. Like you really cannot wait. Mike: Yeah. And then he was like, I thought that was a really hot scene. And I got to sit there and I'm like, I don't, I can't view this through the lens of, a 20 something guy in the 1990s. I don't know what my interpretation of it would have been then, [00:21:00] but watching it now watching it for the first time when I was in my twenties and the, in the early aughts, I just was like, this is weird and sorta dumb. And also they don't really have a lot of chemistry, but okay. Jessika: Yeah, it just kind of happens. They're just like, Oh, here you are. Mike: Yeah Right I don't know. At the same time it was cool to see they did all those really practical, special effects where they actually had them whipping around on the wires on like the weird flying skateboards and stuff. I thought that was cool. Jessika: I thought that was neat too. And how he was like, yeah, I actually got on top of the elevator and he was excited. Now he got on top of the elevator. Mike: And then they basically just dropped it down, like that's wild. So how about Highlander three? Jessika: Ahhh… Mike: Yeah, that’s kinda where I am Jessika: It’s very forgettable in my book. Mike: I feel like you could wipe it from the timeline and no one would care. Really, it felt like a retread of the first movie, but with the shittier villain in a way less interesting love story. honestly, it was a bummer because Mario [00:22:00] Van Peebles, the guy who plays that the illusionist I can't even remember his name. It was that forgettable. Jessika: Yeah, no, I can't either. Mike: Mario van Peebles is a really good actor and he's done a lot of really cool stuff. And it just, it felt like he was the NutraSweet version of the Kurgan Jessika: I like that. Yes. Yes. Mike: All of the mustache twirling, none of the substance. Jessika: It leaves a little bit of a weird taste in your mouth. Mike: Right. Splenda Kurgan! Moving on Highlander, Endgame. Jessika: What I do like about this film is that in both the TV series, as well as the film, there is the actual crossover. Connor shows up in Duncan's world and Duncan shows up in Connor's world and there is that continuity, which is good. And I do appreciate that because, before I got into this, I assumed that the character was interchangeable and we were just seeing different actors James [00:23:00] Bond situation. And when I went back and realized like, Oh no, he's his own character, they're blah, you know. Mike: I dunno I saw this in theaters I love the show and I appreciated that it felt like an attempt to merge the movies in the series and of the movies, I feel like this actually has the strongest action scenes. There's that bit where Adrian Paul faces off against Donnie Yen. And I was like, that's gotta be really cool to be able to sit there and show your kids much later in life: hey, I got to do a martial arts scene with Donnie Yen and he didn't kill me in the movie. that's pretty dope. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: Again, it felt underwhelming. It just wasn't all that interesting. And also I spent years being mad at that movie because the trailer brought me into the theater expecting something way different than what we were going to get Jessika: Okay. And I don't know that I saw the trailer. Mike: It has, it has a bunch of scenes with Magic where Connor and Duncan jumped through a portal [00:24:00]. Jessika: What? Mike: And a sword gets thrown at Jacob Kell and he catches it midair. And then he does something else where he's holding a sphere where you see Connor's face screaming and then it shatters. Jessika: What’s with all this weird, extra scene stuff in these trailers. I don't understand. Mike: Yeah, it turns out that this hasn't, this has never really been officially confirmed, but reading between the lines yeah, it’s been confirmed. They basically filmed extra scenes just to make it more appealing for people. So they would show up to the theaters. Like they filmed scenes, effectively they filmed scenes just for the trailer the director when he was asked about it in Fearful Symmetry. He basically said, yeah, I know there was some stuff that they filmed for marketing afterwards, and I wasn't involved with that. And then I think it was Peter Davis that was asked about this for the book. And he basically said, Oh, this is a really standard practice. People, or accompanies [00:25:00] film stuff for for marketing purposes all the time. And that's where he left it. Jessika: Oh, okay. to know. Mike: I was really grumpy about that, but that said I've softened a little since then. Do we even want to talk about the Source? Cause I feel like that's something that we shouldn't talk about in polite company. Jessika: No pass. Mike: Okay. Jessika: It happened? Mike: It happened, it was a thing that happened that was going to be a trilogy. They were planning to make that into a trilogy of movies. Jessika: Ohh rough times. Mike: Oh it's real bad. I don't think you were able to watch this, but Highlander, the search for vengeance. It's the anime. Jessika: No, I couldn't find it. Mike: Yeah. It's not available for streaming and it really it's really a bummer because it's actually pretty good. I'm not quite sure how to qualify it because it's not a live action movie and it doesn't star Duncan or Connor, but it's a full length anime. It's a full length movie in its own right. It focuses on Colin MacLeod who he’s [00:26:00] an immortal, who's technically part of the MacLeod clan. He's born as a Roman Britain and then he's adopted into the MacLeod clan after he fights alongside them later on. They keep on doing this. They keep on going back to dystopian SciFutures, which I kinda like, Jessika: I love, bless their little hearts. Mike: Yeah. A lot of the story actually takes place in this post-apocalyptic 22nd century, New York. And I haven't seen this in about a decade because it's not available on streaming. I don't have the DVD anymore. I really should pick it up before it goes out of print. But the movie fucking slaps. It was directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, he was really big in the nineties. He did Ninja Scroll and Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust. He's known for really cool looking movies that are also really violent at the same time. Like you look at his characters and you're like, Oh yeah, no, they all look interchangeable because they're also similar one movie to another, Jessika: Oh, I see. Mike: But they're really cool. And the movie was written by David Abramowitz, who was the head writer [00:27:00] for the TV show. So it felt like a pretty legit Highlander story. Honestly, if we had to talk about this and ask which of these movies or the sequels were our favorites, I would probably say the Search for Vengeance. Because I loved it so much, but since that wasn't a theatrical release, we'll exclude that and you didn't get to watch it. Of the sequels, which did you enjoy most? Jessika: Mike, why don’t you go first. Mike: Okay. I'm a little torn, I guess I enjoyed Endgame mainly because it feels like part of he in quotes, real Highlander story, I guess it's the least terrible of the sequels. And it brought in my favorite characters. The final version of Highlander II, is I don't know. I don't hate it. It honestly feels like a cool dystopian cyberpunk story with some bizarre Highlander lore shoehorned in, but at the same time, it's not the worst thing I've ever watched. How about you? Jessika: Funny [00:28:00] enough, I was going to say Highlander II, but maybe just a bit more so if it were its own standalone movie and not try to be a part of the Highlander franchise. The idea of the shield is super interesting and I think they could have elaborated more on the lead-up and the resolution of that issue rather than having to also make it about the Immortals in their forever game. Mike: Yeah, I agree. How do you feel about moving onto the TV series? Jessika: Oh, I am pro. Mike: Okay. I personally feel like this is the property that sucks all the air out of the room when you're talking about Highlander. Jessika: Oh no. Mike: Yeah, I mentioned that this is how I really got introduced to the brand. I started watching it in high school, around season three, which was when it was really starting to get good. The first two seasons I feel were kind of when they were ironing out all the rough spots. But I wound up watching it through the end. So if you're listening to this podcast and you have never seen the [00:29:00] show Highlander, the series ran for six seasons, which is a good length of time for any TV show. And it followed the adventures of Duncan, who was another member of the MacLeod clan. He was a distant cousin of Connor. And the show bounced between Seacouver, which is a fictionalized version of Vancouver in Paris. And it basically retcon things so that the original movie didn't end with The Quickening, but that the battle between the Kurgan and Connor was it's implied, it was the start of The Gathering. That's my interpretation of it. Jessika: That was what I got too. Mike: Yeah. And Christopher Lambert, he shows up in the pilot to help set things up and get them moving. But I think that's the only time we ever really seen him on the show. Jessika: Correct. He's really just an intro. He's in that first episode only. Mike: You have rewatched it as a have I . We haven't watched the entire series all the way through, but we've watched a lot of episodes. Jessika: Correct. Mike: How do you feel [00:30:00] it measures up today? compared to that nostalgic view that we had before, Jessika: I had a lot of fun watching it, actually. definitely super cheesy. I don't love all of the characters I watched a lot of the first season, then I bounced around I think I did the top, like 25 on a list that you sent me. But Duncan’s just so codependent sometimes with his characters and it's like the one time the Tessa goes on a hike by herself, she gets kidnapped by an, a mortal and it’s like, oh my God, she can't even go on a fucking hike, are you joking me? And the one time he goes to the store by himself, he gets kidnapped and it's like, oh, come the fuck on you guys. Mike: Yeah, I feel like it generally holds up pretty well. It's a little uneven, but when it hits , it really hits. And it's a lot of fun. And considering that it was a relatively low budget show on basic cable in the early to mid-nineties, there's a lot of stuff that has aged way worse. [00:31:00] Jessika:: Absolutely. It exceeded my expectations on the rewatch, for sure. Mike: Yeah, and I have to say that one really cool thing about Highlander is it's got a really large female fan base. And I suspect that the show is really responsible for that. Jessika: I would agree. There's a few reasons. Mike: Are six of those reasons. Duncan's abs? Jessika: Like 10 of those reasons are all the times he gets surprised in a bathtub. I know I messaged you while I was watching them, because I was like Duncan got surprised in a bathtub again. Mike: I don't remember which episode it was, but there's one where he is surprised while he's in a bathrobe and he's got, it's not even tighty whities, it’s like a bikini brief, and watching that, I was just sitting there going, thank you for this gift. Thank you. Thank you for this visual treat that you have given us in the middle of my very boring work day. Jessika: It’s [00:32:00] also that there are such a wide variety of female characters. I would say, Iit’s not just the other female person he seeing or whatever, the love interest, there are other female Immortals and they a lot more frequently than they do in the films. I can't recall if they have any female immortals in the films. Mike: They do in Endgame. Jessika: Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I thought there was, there were some in there, but that’s tailing into, I mean yeah. Mike: Yeah. And the Source had them too, but meh. Jessika: Oh yeah. Mike: I will say that the show was pretty good about writing pretty strong female characters, I felt. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: And we'll talk about Amanda in a little bit, but I have to say that I really liked how she was written and how Elizabeth Grayson played her through the original series and then her own afterwards. I dunno. I, what do you think is the sexiest thing about Duncan MacLeod? I'm curious. Jessika: He seems [00:33:00] really like trustworthy, but like and sexy trustworthy. It's like, he'd be the dude. I called if some guys were fucking with me. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: I kept on thinking about how there's this Tumblr post that's been going around the internet, regularly, and it's this discussion about which Disney men women find the sexiest guys always thinks it's Gaston. Jessika: Oh lord, why? Mike: It’s that male power fantasy thing where they're just like, oh no, like he's like really charming. And he's really muscly. And the counterargument from women is usually A no Gaston sucks and B we all like Roger from 101 Dalmatians. Jessika: Oh yeah. Roger. Mike: Which, Roger is very much my personal role model. The dude's a talented musician, he loves animals and he's got that great, a snark where he literally is trolling the villain when she comes to his house with a motherfucking trombone from upstairs [00:34:00]. And I think Duncan's a little like that. Like he's cultured and he's worldly and he's got this wicked sense of humor. And he's also the type of dude who has no problem reciting poetry in public or making his partner breakfast in bed. Jessika: Yeah, absolutely. Mike: So it just it was something that came to mind while I was rewatching all this stuff. Jessika: Yeah. just as like a wholesome guy. Mike: Right? Jessika: He always has good intentions. So that's actually what it feels like. He's always coming at things with good intentions. Mike: Yeah, and he's not perfect, but he's always trying to do the right thing, which I really appreciate. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: What was your favorite episode? Jessika: I went back and forth. I really like the Homeland episode, and like I said, I've really only watched a good chunk of most of season what I would say, and then so kind of bounced around, but season four, episode one. It was really sweet to see [00:35:00] Duncan take the obligatory trip back to his Homeland to pay respects. And it also had a good lesson in not judging a book by its cover as the main character assumes that Duncan is just an ancestry tourist, which was super interesting. She was super hating on it but I was like this is interesting instead of visiting what once was literally his home during formative years. So it was just such a wild thing to see her be like, what are you doing near those graves? And he can't really be like, they were my parents because you cannot even read them. They are so old. Mike: The funny thing is I didn't rewatch that episode during our refresher, but I remember watching that episode when I was about 15 or so. Because it's stuck out to me. Jessika: It’s really good. And of course, Duncan, he always has a good intention. The whole reason he went back was because he figured out that somebody had been [00:36:00] pilfering graves Mike: Yeah. Jessika: And he had to return what was in this grave. Mike: I know he's making the rest of us look bad. So mine is, it's unusual suspects. It's from season six, which I feel is actually pretty weak season overall. And it's this really silly one-off episode, starring Roger Daltry of the Who fame. He plays Hugh Fitzcairn, which is a character that he shows up in plays a couple of times throughout the series. And at this point in time in the story, he was dead, but it's a flashback to the 19 teens or 1920s. 1920s, because it ends with the stock market crash, but it's a take on the British country, house murder, mystery genre, and it's really fun. And it was just this really refreshing moment of levity after what I felt our run of really heavy, and in my opinion, not very good episodes. The end of season five and the beginning of season [00:37:00] six are all about Duncan confronting this demon named Aramon and it's weird and it's not very good. And I really don't enjoy it. This is all my opinion. I'm sure that I'm insulting some Highlander fan who absolutely loves this, but it's a fun episode in its own. And then it's a good moment after one that I didn't really enjoy. And so it's got that extra refreshing bonus. I just, I want to note, it's really funny to me how intertwined Highlander has always been with rock and roll and music in general, because they had Mulcahey who do it, doing all these music videos and stuff. And then they kept on having musicians show up as guest stars. I think it was there's a character named Xavier St. Cloud, I think who was played by one of the guys from, again, I think, Fine Young Cannibals? Jessika: Yeah, I think I actually watched that episode. Mike: I think he was using nerve gas to kill people. Jessika: Yes I did watch that episode. That was a wild one. Yeah. Mike: Yeah, and I think he shows up later on too. [00:38:00] I can't remember but anyway, I really appreciate that they gave Roger Daltry of all people, this character, and he just really had fun with it and they kept bringing him back. Jessika: Yeah. He was a good character every episode he was in my other favorites was the one where they had Mary Shelley and he was in that one too. I believe. Mike: I think so. Yeah. No, it was, the series was really fun, and I liked that we can sit there and pull all these episodes just from memory that we really liked. Jessika: Absolutely. Mike: So season six , they were trying to find a new actress who could carry her own Highlander show. And so they tested out a bunch of different actresses in season six and gave them either really strong guest appearances, or they were basically the main character for episodes. But they wound up not going with any of them. They went with Elizabeth Grayson and gave her the Raven where she reprised her roles Amanda. Did you watch any of that? Did you get a chance to? Jessika: I watched the [00:39:00] first and the last episode of season one, I can only find the first season. Is there only one? Mike: There’s only one season, it didn’t get picked up again. Jessika: Oh then there you go. Then I could have only, I know I was scratching my head. Worried about where else do I find this? Mike: Well, and it ends on a cliff-hanger. Jessika: Yeah, exactly. That's where I was like, let's go. Mike: It ends with Nick becoming immortal. Jessika: Oh, see, I didn't quite finish it. Cause I was hurriedly setting it up in the background. Mike: Yeah it was fine. I thought Elizabeth Grayson is really charming in that role, but at the same time, there wasn't a lot of chemistry initially between Amanda and Nick, I felt at the very beginning. Jessika: I agree, not in the first episode. Mike: By the end of the season, it was there, and I think they were also, as is the case with most shows first seasons, they were trying really hard to figure out what they wanted to do. And so originally it was a cop show with an immortal, which there are certainly worse pitches that I've heard. Jessika: Yeah. No, I agree. Mike: But yeah. sad that it didn't get to go further [00:40:00] Jessika: I'm tempted to go back and watch all of these things. I may have to do a pallet cleanse of something different. I may have to go back to my Marvel watching. Mike: On top of this, there was a Saturday morning cartoon called Highlander, the series or Highlander, the animated series, and it was set in the future. It's in a weird alternate timeline. It stars another MacLeod. It's fine It's a Saturday morning cartoon. I didn't even care enough to really go back and watch it because being that great. They did some interesting stuff. Like they brought Ramirez back if I remember, right. And then they also had a thing where instead of beheading other Immortals, the main character had an ability where he could be voluntarily given their power. Jessika: Oh. Mike: So he had all of their knowledge and power. And again, it’s again in a dystopian future where another immortal has taken over the world. Jessika: Wow. They just love their dystopian future. Mike: They really do. But yeah, it's fine. I think it's streaming on Amazon prime. I was just so focused on everything else that I didn't get a chance to go and [00:41:00] rewatch it. Jessika: Huh, good to know. Mike: We're going to go over all the other various pieces of media real quick. and then we've got one side tangent and then we're going to go through comic books, but. Jessika: I'm so excited. Mike: Books, Highlander wound up having a pretty substantial literary footprint. The original movie had the official novelization. There wasn't really anything after that until the show came out and then the show had 10 novels and an anthology and an official behind the scenes kind of book called the Watchers Guide and it's full of essays and interviews and photos. And since then, there've been a couple of non-fiction books, like Fearful Symmetry, which is about everything Highlander related. And it's almost like a textbook, but it's pretty good. And then there's also A Kind of Magic, which is more focused on making of the original movie. And those are both actually really good. I liked them a lot. They were really easy to read. [00:42:00] There were audio plays, which I keep on forgetting audio plays are a thing at this point, but it's by this company called Big Finish in the UK. They do tie-in audio dramas for television properties. Most famously they do Dr Who. They wound up doing two seasons of audio plays. The first had Adrian Paul reprise his role as Duncan and they take place after the series ended. And then also after the events of Endgame, you can't really find them anymore. Because they just, the license expired so they aren't selling them as far as I'm aware. Jessika: That's super interesting though. Dang. Mike: Yeah. And then the second season focuses on the four horsemen Immortals, remember Jessika: Okay. Mike: Do you remember them? Jessika: I sure do. Mike: Because we were talking about this a little bit, but it was all about Methos and the other guys that he hung out with when he was effectively, a comic book villain who would've if he’d had a mustache to twirl, he would have done it. Jessika: So quickly. Yes. Mike: I thought that was really interesting. There were a couple of people in the Highlander Heart [00:43:00] group who talked about it and they seem to really like them. I can't comment, but it was really neat. Games, this is the one that's really interesting. Highlander actually has been turned into a number of games over the years. There's a couple of tabletop games we're going to breeze through. So there was two different card games in a board game. One of the card games was released back in the nineties, it was a collectible card game. And this was right when Magic: The Gathering was really hot and everybody was trying to get in on that action. And then recently there's a new one called Highlander: The Duel. And it's a deck-building game where you play as Connor or the Kurgan going up against each other. And just a couple of years ago, there was a board game that got kick-started, it was in 2018 and it's this fast paced game for two to six players. The reviews across the web were pretty positive. And again, it's one of those things where it's Immortals battling for that mysterious prize. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: But it's cool. Jessika: Nice. Mike: I’m actually pretty surprised [00:44:00] we never got like a tabletop RPG because they are not precious about applying the license for Highlander to stuff. I'm amazed that nobody went to them and said, Hey, we can make this cool historical RPG where we sorta start having players wake up and then they have flashbacks or whatever. And Jessika: Yeah Oh that would have been cool Yeah Mike: Right? But yeah we never got anything like that which I was really I actually that was the one thing I expected and was surprised to see that we never got. Okay. So we're going to go into mini tangent with video games even though they aren't technically related to comics. The first game for Highlander was a 1986 tie-in release for home computers. It was a really simple fighting title. It wasn't well received. It was apparently pretty bad. So after that the animated series had a tie in called Highlander: Last of the MacLeods. It was released on the Atari Jaguar CD console. If you remember that. Do you remember the Atari Jaguar? Jessika: Oh my god, no. I don't. [00:45:00] Mike: It kinda got lost in the shuffle in the early to mid nineties of all the different consoles that were coming out. But you can find footage of this on YouTube and it's one of those early 3d games. And so it got a lot of praise for his exploration elements and animated video sequences, but it also got a lot of criticism for its controls in combat. After that there was actually going to be an MMO called Highlander, The Gathering. And it was in development by a French studio called Kalisto entertainment, which was honestly weird because Kalisto's catalog up until now were mostly middling single-player games. They'd gotten famous for a series called Nightmare Creatures, but they also did a Fifth Element racing game on PS2 that I had and was actually pretty fun. Anyway, Kalisto went bankrupt before the MMO could come out. Jessika: Oh! Mike: And none of the folks who, yeah, that's video games. Jessika: Fair enough. Mike: So they went bankrupt. The MMO hadn't come out yet. And the folks who wound up with the rights afterwards just decided to kill the project. There's [00:46:00] one other game. That's become the source of a lot of speculation. And it's only known as Highlander: The Game it basically came about because Davis Panzer productions that's, the guys who own the rights to Highlander, and SCI, which was this holding company that owned a bunch of video game groups. They decided to ink a deal, to make a Highlander game. They announced that they basically had done a partnership back in like 2004, 2005. And at the time SCI owned Eidos who was the publisher that gave us Tomb Raider. So they were a pretty big name. The game itself was formally announced by Eidos in 2008 and the development was being handled by another French developer called Widescreen Games. It was going to be an action role-playing game. It would star a new Immortal named Owen MacLeod. The story was going to be written again by David Abramowitz and that added some [00:47:00] serious legitimacy to the project for fans. Actually, why don’t you read the summary. Jessika: Would love to my pleasure. Summary: Owen is captured and enslaved by Romans who force him to compete as a gladiator. During this time, Owen dies only to come back to life. Methos, the oldest living immortal approaches Owen to be his mentor. He teaches Owen about the game and how he and other Immortals can only be slain by beheading. As with other immortal MacLeods Owen is pursued throughout his life by a nemesis. This enemy proves to be extremely powerful. One that Owen is unable to defeat Owen learns of a magical stone, fragments of which are scattered all over the world. Throughout the game, Owen embarks upon a quest to recover these fragments and restore the stone in an attempt to gain the power to overcome his foe. [00:48:00] So dramatic. I love it. Mike: What's Highlander without any drama? But that sounds rad right? Jessika: Oh, it sounds amazing. Mike: The game was announced with a trailer in 2008 that really only showed some of the environments from different eras and then it ended with an image of Owen, but it looked promising. And then there wasn't much else after a couple of years of pretty much nothing but radio silence, Eidos wound up canceling the game and that's where a lot of the speculation has started. There's not a lot of information on Highlander: The Game. I keep waiting for one of those gaming history YouTubers to get ahold of an old dev kit and then do a video with a build, but that hasn't happened yet. So really it's all kind of speculation and wishful thinking about what could have been. And it also seems like some of the details are getting muddied as time goes on. Like Fearful Symmetry talks about the game of it but they [00:49:00] have the segment. And again I want you to read this. Jessika: Sure sure. The gam was so far along in its development stages that segments including backdrops and some of the gameplay options were presented at a Highlander Worldwide event in Los Angeles 2006 and got a very positive reaction. The beautifully rendered backdrops were almost movie quality and included the likes of Pompei, a dark forest in the Highlands, New York, and Japan as gameplay locations and introduced us to another MacLeod, Owen, the same surname but a much earlier vintage. Mike: Yeah, so, I think Mosby is a little overly enthusiastic about all of this, and this is because I think Mosby doesn't have much familiarity with how game development works. It sounds like they had concept art on display and were discussing gameplay [00:50:00] rather than showcasing a build of the game. Concept art and design discussions are things that happen very early in game development. But if you're an outsider, looking in this stuff could easily be interpreted as things being much further along than they were. Jessika: Ah. Mike: Yeah. Now that said, I did work in video games for almost a decade, and a few of my coworkers were actually involved with Highlander the game. Jessika: What? Mike: Every one of them over the years has told me the cancellation was a mercy killing. And again, this is from multiple sources, so I'm not going to name or identify because, I don't want to make things awkward for them. But basically the game was garbage . It's not really surprising to hear cause widescreen never really made a good game, the best reception that any of their titles got was just kinda mixed. But earlier this week, I actually called one of my friends. Who'd been [00:51:00] attached to the project because I wanted to get more information about this game before we recorded. Jessika: We need to get you a new shovel, you dug so deep for this. Mike: With both hands. But, they confirmed what I've been hearing from other people the gameplay itself wasn't just bad. It was boring. The biggest problem was it didn't know what kind of a game it wanted to be. Basically, it was trying to do everything all at once. There were a bunch of traversal elements, which didn't really make a lot of sense. Like why would you climb a Manhattan skyscraper when you're a roided out dude with a sword? Couldn't you just take the elevator? Or I don't know the stairs? There was going to be a bunch of Magic elements in the gameplay, which, isn't really, that's not really a thing in Highlander. There's that fantasy element because we're talking about Immortals who can't die unless you cut off their heads, but generally Magic isn't a part of the accepted Canon. And then the combat, what they were aiming to do something like [00:52:00] God of war, which was really big at the time. But, it wasn't great. My friend also pointed out that Owen looked like a bodybuilder, but his fashion sense was from that industrial metal scene of the late nineties, which neither of those things really fits with the Highlander aesthetic because Adrian Paul was arguably the most in shape of the Highlander actors. But even that was, he was a dude who was like, yeah, I could achieve that if I was really good about my diet and then just worked out aggressively but not like Hugh Jackman does for his Wolverine roles. Jessika: Yeah, yeah. Mike: So I'm going to send you a screenshot of what Owen looked like in the key art the initial title it does. Jessika: What? It looks like Criss Angel. Mike: Right. And they're trying to recreate that iconic pose of The Quickening from the first movie that Connor does at the very end where he's getting raised up and, by the rails of Lightning, or the wires [00:53:00] of lightning. Jessika: Yeah, I get what they were trying to do. Mike: Yeah,I wanna know, what the fuck is up with those weird straps with rings that are going down his legs. Jessika: I don't really know, I was trying to figure that out myself. So just so that everyone can really get the picture that we're getting here and you'll, you might understand why it's taken me so long to describe it. I had to take it all in first. Mike: Yeah, it’s a ride. Jessika: It’s all very monochromatic. And the background is of course, a cut of the statue of Liberty, the backdrop of parts of New York that I'm sure aren't even next to each other, which is always funny. And then what is this? Is this the new guy, or is this supposed to be Duncan? Mike: Yeah, this is the new guy, Jessika: It’s Owen. Mike: Yeah. It's Owen. And then Connor and Duncan were supposed to appear, supposedly. I know Peter Wingfield was recording his lines for Methos. Jessika: Well, if they haven't killed off Methos that makes sense. And I don't know in the series if they have, and maybe Duncan makes [00:54:00] sense if he hasn't died yet, but. Mike: Yeah they can't kill off Methos, Methos was my first gay crush. Jessika: Yeah. He's. Slightly problematic in a couple episodes, but he's a great character overall. But he's very Chriss Angel, he's wearing like a trench coat and that has to be some sort of a lace undershirt or something. Mike: lAnd he’s got like a weird really, like baggy leather pants. Jessika: Yes. Which cannot be comfortable. It's doing this weird pooching thing in the front. Mike: Yeah, and then I think I saw another screenshot where it looks like he's wearing skater shoes tennis shoes as well. Jessika: Oh, Vans Off the Wall, man. Mike: Just once I want to see a MacLeod in the movies with a good fashion sense. Jessika: Yeah, I mentioned that I wanted to cosplay as Duncan, which overall would be a great idea. But then I was looking through his outfits and I'm like, what do I wear? Do I wear this weird white tank top with these like acid wash jeans [00:55:00] and a belt? Or is this the one where I'm wearing like five shirts and a long jacket? Is it that day? Mike: You know who he looks like that guy, Canus. Jessika: Yes! Yes, does. He has the lace shirt and everything. Mike: And the dog collar. Jessika: Oh my god, it was so funny. I told you, I think it was trying to be edgy. Mike: Yeah, and instead it comes off as really queer-coded. Jessika: It really does though. I know, my little queer brain was like bling. Mike: Yeah, It feels like they weren't really getting the essence of what Highlander actually was and who these guys were, because usually the Highlander characters are a little bit more believable and ordinary because that's the whole idea is that they're walking among us and we have no idea unless they tell us. Okay. On top of all this. So remember how I mentioned that trailer was just showcasing environments for the [00:56:00] game. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: There was a reason for that. The reason was that they couldn’t get the character models to work. Jessika: Oh! Mike: So the shot of Owen at the end it's actually just animated key art it's the same it's the same art that you just saw. It's that image. It was just slightly animated. And then they released a couple of screenshots for the game, but apparently they were really heavily photo-shopped well, beyond industry standards. So, it was one of those things where, this was a turd and it needed to be flushed. And it finally did. But Widescreen went under about a year after the game was formally announced. They were working on another big project and apparently that got taken away, and as a result, it just caused the studio to implode. By this point in time Square Enix the guys do all the final fantasy games had bought Eidos and they formally canceled it. We're not sure why exactly, my guess is that it was probably, they just looked at cost it would take to finish this game and then the [00:57:00] amount that it would need to sell in order to be profitable or to meet their sales expectations for it and they just thought it wasn't worth it. But yeah, my friend actually said they were embarrassed to work on it and they would have been fine even if it had been an average game, but it was just bad. Even one of those kind of middling average games, I think that would have been fine, that would have lived up to the Highlander bar. Finally, there's that Highlander game that spark unlimited was working on. I never even heard a whisper about this until. We watched that episode of Highlander Heart focusing on video games, and they brought Craig Allen on to talk about the project. Based on what we know now, I think this might be why Square Enix was holding onto the rights for another year after they shut down Highlander, the game, just because they had this other title, theoretically in development or very early development. Based on the footage that they have, it looks like they had at least done enough development work to put together a vertical slice that they could show for pitch [00:58:00] purposes and at conventions. But I thought it was really promising looking overall. What did you think? Jessika: I thought it did look really interesting the game play itself I did like the idea of having a female Highlander. That being said, they had this whole concept about what Craig Allen was calling beautiful damage. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: And it was this whole thing about, oh it was the first female Highlander and her looks go when she gets damaged, and that's her whole motivation is to stay pretty. And I just, that gave me a huge headache, and it of course was super male-gazey I mean, the game itself seemed that way. Mike: It was weird because I would love to see women and Highlander being built a little bit more like warriors, like a little bit more muscly, which would be in keeping with people who battle across the centuries. [00:59:00] They don't need to be super jacked like the Amazons in Wonder Woman, but making them look like stick thin suicide girl, punk rock chick from the late aughts. Didn't quite gel with me. I understood what he was talking about though, because that was the thing where they were starting to do permanent cosmetic damage in video games. That was something that was really big in the Batman Arkham games. Every time that you got knocked out, you'd come back and you'd have a little bit more of your outfit chipped apart. So, after a while Batman's looking pretty ragged and you realize maybe I'm not as good at this game as I think I am. Jessika: Yeah And the concept itself is really interesting It just I guess was the way it was phrased by this person. And it very much was he was so proud of the fact that it was the first Highlander female in a video game. And then everything was just like so incredibly sexist. I was excited that I wasn't Mike: We're also viewing it, with the lens of 2021 at this point. At that time, [01:00:00] that was before they had relaunched Tomb Raider, in 2013, 2014, where they made her much more realistic. She was still very fit, but she wasn't the Lara Croft that had generated a lot of criticism. I think possibly, I don't know, but I hope that it would have been marketed a bit differently if it had been done today. That said we also don't know exactly what it would look like as a final product. Jessika: Oh absolutely, yeah. Mike: It’s, I agree. It's a little bit problematic viewed through the current lens. At the same time, like a lot of the Highlander properties when it was being done, I think it was kind of just par for the course. Jessika: Yeah, fair enough. But, I did like the idea of having a female Highlander and having her have a whole story regardless of whether it's the first one to be completely [01:01:00] tragedy laden which was the other comment like her experience a ton of loss because she's female and experiences empathy unlike the male characters. Mike: I really didn't like that. Actually. I thought that was. I mean the, the whole thing where they were saying we wanted to focus on lifetimes of tragedy as opposed to enjoying multiple lives. And I'm like, that's the whole purpose of Highlander. That's what I really like is when you sit there and you watch them having fun and doing all this interesting stuff. Jessika: Women aren't allowed to have fun, Mike. Mike: Apparently. Jessika: We just have to have lives full of tragedy and pining for people that we've lost in our lives. Mike: Well, yeah. And we all know that the dudes don't have feelings, so we just, you know, go on and enjoy things. Jessika: That does suck that Hugh they don't give men the ability to have that capacity or give them the the credit to have that capacity. Mike: I will say, I am sorry that this one didn't get further along the development [01:02:00] stages, because it certainly seemed like it had a lot more promise than the title that was canceled right before it. Jessika: Yes, the gameplay itself looked more interesting, it looks more complex, it easier to navigate. What they were showing us was really intense. Mike: I really liked that whole idea of being able to view the environments in two different eras. It reminded me a lot of another Eidos game called legacy of Cain soul river, where there was a spiritual world and then a physical world. And you could flip back and forth between them, which was kind of cool. Jessika: Oh, that’s neat Mike: Yeah. I dug that. I liked the idea of exploring the same environment in two different areas. I thought that was really neat. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: Let's move on to Comics. Jessika: Sounds great. Mike: Okay, so, I’m curious. When do you think that Highlander got big enough to get a comic book? Jessika: I don't know maybe late nineties Mike: 2006. Jessika: Wow [01:03:00] That's later than I had expected. Mike: Yeah. There wasn't a comic adaptation of the movie when it came out, which is weird, there wasn't one here in the States. Highlander Heart, in their YouTube podcast, noted there was a series of five newspaper comic strips that were published as part marketing promotion. The hosts weren't entirely certain if they're exclusive to Europe or not. I don't know. I haven't been able to really find much reference to it. After the movie came out, though there was a two-part comic adaptation in Argentina. It was published through El Tony Todo Color and El Tony Supercolor they were sibling comic anthology magazines, and here's the weird twist. It looks like this was an unlicensed adaptation. Jessika: Mmhm, interesting. Mike: So now we're going to take another side tangent. The important thing that you need to know is that Argentina had just come out of a brutal military dictatorship that came about as part of Operation Condor, which is this horrific program the United States was involved in. And it isn't really taught about in high school history, at least it [01:04:00] wasn't when I was going through high school and I went to a pretty good one. did you ever learn about that? I'm curious. Jessika: No, I did not. Mike: Okay I'm giving you an extremely TLDR read of this, but basically this was a program in the seventies and eighties when the US backed military dictatorships across South America. So our country helped these groups, kidnap, torture, rape murder, thousands of political opponents, like Argentina was especially brutal. There were literally death squads, hunting down political distance across the country. It was a really horrific time. I want you to read this summary of what was going on during that time, actually. Jessika: Give me the really fun stuff I see. Mike: Sorry. Jessika: No you're good. It is estimated that between - 9,000 and 30,000 that's a huge span. Mike: I know, it’s such a margin of error I don't understand. Jessika: Lack of record taking will get you there quick, I think. I'm going to start over, but we’ll leave that in. It is estimated that between [01:05:00] 9,000 and 30,000 people were killed or disappeared, many of whom were impossible to formally report due to the nature of state terrorism. The primary target, like in many other South American countries participating in Operation Condor, were communist guerrillas and sympathizers, but the target of Operation Condor also included students, militants trade, unionists, writers, journalists, I don't love this, artists, and any other citizens suspected of being left-wing activists - well take me the goddamn way away. Mike: Right. Jessika: Including Peronist guerillas. I don't love that. Mike: No it's really awful. And based on that list of targets, it's not surprising that there was a lot of media suppression during this time. Democracy returned to the country in ’83, and there was this explosion of art across the mediums. Argentine Comics [01:06:00] saw this Renaissance period. A lot of them though, weren't really licensed and let's be honest. It's not like there's an internet where IP owners could monitor stuff like this and shut it down when they learned about it. There was also this drastic comics increase in the area due to create or publishing Zines because the eighties was the decade where personal computers suddenly became commonplace and all of a sudden pe

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Collin and Kerry are joined by their friend Christopher Grace for a 45-minute discussion on Nora Ephron's ensemble comedy, "Mixed Nuts" (1994). The runtime is notable because Siskel & Ebert could barely talk about this movie for two minutes. How does it compare to Martin Scorsese's "After Hours"? Why did Steve Martin dye his hair? What's the connection between this film and Bergman's "Wild Strawberries"? Answers are given and you won't be put on hold. 

Adam and Drew open the show by going straight to the phones and speaking with a caller who suggests that as a result of their fondness for The Love Boat they should check out old episodes of Siskel & Ebert. That leads Adam to recall when his movie 'The Hammer' was reviewed on 'At The Movies' and how much the positive review it received therein meant to him. They then turn to the phones and speak with callers on topics from old Loveline callers, how to tell a spouse they should start therapy, covid & more. Please Support Our Sponsors: SimpliSafe.com/ADAM Lifelock.com, promo code ADAM

In this Episode: Our Heroes throwback to the 90s classic True Lies. You've got Arnie. Bill Paxton. The fantastic Jamie Lee Curtis. I mean, Tom friggin' Arnold fer chrissakes! What's not to love? Tune in for this action extravaganza... Follow Us: Our Website Twitter Instagram Facebook Items discussed (links to more info): Note - if the below links don’t work in your podcast player please visit the show page at: ebd.fm/episodes/80 Cobra pizza scene James Cameron Ant Man 2 truth serum City of Heroes Jack Palance (City Slickers) Yam seng La Totale! (original movie) Siskel & Ebert review Ow My Balls Pink Panther Tia Carrere Aziz Light! Jamie Lee Curtis (Helen) Robert Palmer girl Butlerian Jihad Boom shaka-lakka Art Malik (Salim Abu Aziz) Jeff Dunham DJ Khaled Tom Arnold (Gil) Bill Paxton (Simon) Paxton Commando Bathroom fight scenes Gasoline fight accident Say what again Boris Vallejo Al Pacino dance scene McG Mesmer (The Boys) Foghorn Leghorn Paxton at JFK speech Harrier behind the scenes

Always wanted to rewatch Mando S1 E1 with 2 gorillaz providing color commentary but didn't know where you could get that? No? Well, if you ever get desperate enough & change your mind, follow these simple steps while this episode is playing. 1. Open Disney+ 2. Pull up Mando S1 E1 3. 3...2..1... Hit "Play" when we SAY! 4. Rethink your decision several times Mando watch-thru is from 2:27 to about 39:40 We may not be Siskel & Ebert...or Ebert & Roper, but we KNOW how to run our mouths. Why not let us know you're out there?   Leave your name and city.   Find us on:   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cb1138/    Homesite: http://cellblock1138podcast.com    Contact at: info@cellblock1138podcast.com   

Happy hump day everyone! Today Matt and Mike continue cheating death and visit the movie theater to catch the last Fox Marvel film The New Mutants. Additional topics include sports ball, Siskel & Ebert, and the future of the X-Men franchise. What is wrong with critics today? The New Mutants isn’t a masterpiece but it is in no way a terrible movie. Could it have been better, sure. It is a decent take on making the mutant/superhero genre into a horror film. There are still elements of your typical superhero film with big action sequences and CGI but it succeeds at it’s attempt to create a horror sub-genre. The acting is very good, the sets all take place in one location but are very different, and the story is decent. This is not a must see film in the theaters but it is definitely worth a watch when it drops on Hulu or Disney+ in the future. Mike and Matt both agree it earns 3 out of 5 Reels.     Next week is a little dry for new releases on streaming and in theaters. It is Matt’s pick and he chose to do a Legacy cast on the 2011 alien road trip comedy, Paul. It is currently streaming on HBO and HBO Max. Don’t forget to enter our movie giveaway contests, we have a couple going on with more in the near future! Thanks for listening and we will chat at you next week! If you have a film you would like Matt and Mike Talent to review you can email us at nerds@reelfilmnerds.com, listeners we are talking to you too. Our little show can be found anywhere Podcasts reside such as iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, etc. While you are there like, subscribe, rate, and review us if you can too! You can find us on all things social such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.  Join our Facebook Fan Group so you can have a safe space to yell at Mike and Matt from the comfort of your keyboard while talking about films too.  Don't forget we do have an old fashioned website where you can watch trailers, read the host's bios, listen to the podcast, and get a ton more info on the movies we review.  http://www.ReelFilmNerds.com Thank you for liking, subscribing, rating, reviewing, and telling your friends about our podcast. Go watch as many movies as you can!

What’s it like being the Siskel & Ebert of porn? Find out on ep 135 of American Sex Podcast! Yvette d'Entremont and Alice Vaughn from the Two Girls One Mic podcast tell us how they stumbled into porn reviewing and where it’s taken them. We talk about the plots and details of classic adult films like Behind the Green Door, Deep Throat, and Debbie Does Dallas, plus analyze how well they’ve aged. We dive into porn parodies too like Fap to the future, ET The Extra Testicle, and more. If you’re looking for solid recommendations for your next adult movie, they’ve got them! There’s lots of laughs and wild stories in this conversation too-- like the time Alice & Yvette called the FBI on an unsolicited dick pic sender! Submit your BDSM & sex advice questions by email to americansexpodcast@gmail.com To support American Sex podcast, please visit patreon.com/americansex (plus you’ll get all episodes early, secret episodes, bonus stories from guests, on-air shout-outs, stuff in the mail & more!) Get friendly with us on Twitter at @AmericanSexPod or visit sunnymegatron.com or americansexpodcast.com Join our mailing list by visiting http://sunnymegatron.com/newsletter   Sunny & Ken, xo! ____________________________________ Episode 135 Links TGOM Website https://www.twogirlsonemic.com/ TGOM Twitter https://twitter.com/TGOMPodcast Alice Vaughn Twitter https://twitter.com/RationalBlonde Yvette d'Entremont Twitter https://twitter.com/thescibabe TGOM Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tgompodcast/ TGOM Facebook https://www.facebook.com/watch/TGOMPodcast/ Sunny on TGOM https://www.twogirlsonemic.com/2020/06/19/92-sex-with-sunny-megatron/ XBIZ Industry Forum https://www.xbiz.net/index.php?c=home.updates&referrer_id=1410259 American Sex Podcast Discord Community http://bit.ly/discordasp American Sex Podcast subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/americansexpodcast Wednesday night free American Sex Podcast live stream http://bit.ly/sunnygetvokl  Episode 135 Sponsor, Affiliate & Giveaway Info  Get 20% off + free shipping at Manscaped.com with code SUNNY http://manscaped.com YNOT Mail - The only sexual health & adult industry friendly email service http://bit.ly/sunnyynot 10% off American Sex Podcast & Sunny Megatron merch with code SUNNY (t-shirts, mugs, phone cases & more) http://bit.ly/sunnyshirts Sunny & Ken’s classes on Kink Academy http://bit.ly/kinkacademyelectric  & http://bit.ly/kinkacademyhumiliation Prostate Play for Beginners (recorded class) from Sugar Baltimore https://www.sugartheshop.com/prostate-milking-for-beginners.html 15% off your order at Lovehoney when you use this link http://bit.ly/lovehoney15 (This link can be a little wonky and does not keep tracking cookies. If the discount does not show up in your cart (or disappears after you shop around on the site), access the site with that link again. Your items will still be in your cart & the discount will appear) 15% off everything at Lelo.com with code SUNNY 10% off everything (with minor restrictions) online from woman-owned, feminist, trans & queer-friendly Early To Bed http://bit.ly/sunnyetb with code SUNNY 10% off everything from Fun Factory using this link http://bit.ly/sunnyfunfactory and the code SUNNY at checkout At least 25% off BDSM gear & sex toys with Stockroom’s daily deal (there’s a new product each day!) https://www.stockroom.com/dailydeal/?acc=7c590f01490190db0ed02a5070e20f01 15% off most items from Stockroom http://bit.ly/sunnystockroom with code SUNNY

Oooooo weeeee! We get back to basics in this Basic Bitch with Captain Party, Producer Char, and Erin!We haven't been able to catch our breath and just have a basic bitch in a minute. It's been a really strong month of interviews with our heroes in  entertainment, food, politics, and poetry. On this episode we get to talk about the sneeze that made us laugh so hard we cried, Siskel & Ebert, news from one of our favorite films from Sundance, Seed & Spark, Mark Duplass, and RIP to director Lynn Shelton.  Crack open a cold one and laugh with us. It's good for the soul...Enjoy!Be well, stay safe, and thank you for staying home.Subscribe to our NEW channel on YouTube for behind the scenes footage!--Rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts!Let us know how we're doing: therealbtpod@gmail.comVisit our BRAND NEW website! www.bitchtalkpodcast.comFollow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.Listen in every Monday from 6:00 - 6:30 AM on BFF.FMPOWERED BY GO-TO Productions   

I’m joined by my friend Bart as we journey into The Call of the Wild, the new family adventure movie from recent Disney acquisition 20th Century Studios. Then we discuss other shows we’ve been watching, including The Mandalorian on Disney+ and the acclaimed docuseries The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, which is streaming on HBO. We also talk about Siskel & Ebert and their legacy on film criticism. Find us on Facebook, Twitter and Letterboxd.

It's an all-new episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer YOUR letters! This week, Bibbs and Witney take a look at YOUR picks for the best movies of the decade, as well as when we lost faith in the Oscars, whether Siskel & Ebert would make an impact today, and which old movies we'd like to remake! Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  Follow us on Twitter at @CriticAcclaim, join the official Fan Club on Facebook, follow Bibbs at @WilliamBibbiani and follow Witney at @WitneySeibold, and head on over to www.criticallyacclaimed.net for all their podcasts, reviews and more! 

Hey all, Jim here. I wish I could explain what you're about to hear, but I really can't. But Patrick is recovering in the hospital after 40% of his body was eaten away by insects, so all I can do is direct you to this sound file, which captures his final moments before he succumbed to a demonic force. So listen, but listen with caution, lest the same happen to you... TRACKLIST 1. Skeletons in the Closet - Louis Armstrong 2. Everyday is Halloween - Ministry 3a. "Help Me!" from The Fly (1958) 3b. Human Fly - The Cramps 4a. Graveyard Sounds - corfen 4b. Screaming Skull trailer 4c. Rattlin Bones - Preservation Jazz Hall Band 5. Nightmare at 20,000 feet - Black Market 6a. Siskel & Ebert review of Friday the 13th Part 2 6b. Intro/Cabin theme to Friday the 13th NES game (strings remix) - 7a. Resident Evil zombie sound effects 7b. I Walked With A Zombie - Roky Erickson 8a. Media Home Entertainment's retailer promo for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors 8b. Freddy Krueger 900 Number Commercial 8c. Freddy's Nightmares Videotape commercial 8d. Freddy hosting MTV 8e. Do The Freddy - Elm Street Singers 9a. No More Room In Hell speech from Dawn of the Dead 9b. No More Room In Hell (Gervano DC remix) - The Darrow Chem Syndicate 10. Swan Lake - The Nebulas 11a. Clip from Intimate Conversations - Bela Lugosi 11b. Bela Lugosi's Dead - Electric Hellfire Club 12a. Spooky Forest and Ambience - Royalty Free Sounds 12b. I Was A Teenage Werewolf trailer 12c. Werewolf - Morgus and the Daringers 13a. Bloodbath - Escape 13b. The Bat - The Ventures 14a. Lights Out Intro 14b. Jerusalems Lot audiobook piece 14c. Dirge - Death in Vegas 15.  Tenebre - Goblin 16.  Mystic Stylez - Three 6 Mafia 17a. Stevie Wayne Radio Intro from The Fog 17b. Michael Myers - The Meteors 18a. Trial of the Dead radio spot - Something Weird 18b. Halloween - Siouxsie and the Banshees 19. Zombie - Fabio Frizzi 20. Bones of Baby Dolls - Acid Bath

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where we this week complete our Castlevania discussion with the beloved PlayStation classic. We talk about actually finishing the game, the size and scope of the thing, character movement, enemy variety, and a host of other topics including our takeaways. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: Finished the game! Podcast breakdown: 0:38 Castlevania SOTN discussion 52:30 Break 53:07 Takeaways and Feedback Issues covered: the end dialog of a game this gothic and melodramatic, the Japanese lens, localization in the 90s, various early memes, ideogram languages and translating into small amounts of space, translation as an art, the reward for getting a greater percentage of the game, finding your way to the inverted castle, having a 3D bias, following industry trends, Tim's mea culpa, the fully inverted castle and how big it is, whole new enemies and placements, wondering how they came to invert the castle and make the changes they did, the nightmare of mirroring or copying geometry, having the transformation buttons easily accessible, mapping where the bosses show up and whether there are more, Alucard and being both a hero and a vampire, not being familiar with these games, familiars and their various identities, challenging yourself to play different ways, the various sub-weapons, comparisons to Metroid, fitting together sprites for larger characters, managing pixel density, the availability of Redbook audio on a PlayStation, making changes in the CD hallways, getting the most out of memory, precise character animation, avoiding stun lock and when you are committed to a move, the huge space of the RPG elements, giving a look at Richter, gothic theming, video games are Hawaiian shirts, in Transylvania it's always the 15th century, how much of it is there is and player choice, wanting the player to miss stuff, exploration in space and systems, the ability to miss the big change, loving the bosses, seeing bosses again and in number, big bosses, committing to movements, grounding the character to match the groundedness of the space, motion blur on the character, full-screen effects, a first meetup for the podcast, emulation QoL improvements and auto-attacks, changing the feel of a game with QoL improvements, playing the unimproved Dragon's Dogma, leaning on fast travel, licensed titles, living in the worlds others have created, managing fan expectations, lack of consistent voices, reaching niche markets, using the Star Wars IP and bringing it to genres, Brett identifies his perfect license. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Zero Wing, Resident Evil, Starfighter (series), Douglas Hofstadter, Le Ton Beau de Marot, Siskel & Ebert, Metroid (series), Stranger Things (obliquely), Alex Neuse, Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy Tactics, Tomb Raider, LucasArts, Bob Dylan, Grim Fandango, Aliens, Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, Ray Harryhausen, God of War (series), PlayStation/Xbox, Dead Cells, Super Mario World, Dark Souls, Legend of Zelda (series), Diablo, Metal Gear (series), Hal Barwood, Universal Monsters, Edgar Allan Poe, Metal Gear Solid, Thief, Shadow of the Colossus, Fumito Ueda, Ico, Hideteka Miyazaki, Contra, SNES Classic, Devil May Cry, Bloodstained, Koji Igarashi, Warren Linam-Church, Chrono Trigger, MYST, Breath of the Wild, Final Fantasy XII, Dragon's Dogma, The Witcher III, Elder Scrolls (series), Morrowind, Ashton Herrmann, Xbox 360/Arcade, Shadow Complex, Chair Entertainment, Epic Games, Gothic Chocobo, Hollow Knight, Star Wars, Daron Stinnett, Justin Chin, Matt Tateishi, Dark Forces, EA, Lord of the Rings, James Bond, The Godfather, Goodfellas, Fallout, No Mutants Allowed, Wasteland 2, TIE Fighter, X-Wing, Ingrid Bergman, Konami. Next time: Some of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night https://twitch.tv/brettdouville, @timlongojr, and @devgameclub DevGameClub@gmail.com

In this extra special episode of TV Guidance Counselor Ken presents three chats from this year's Denver Pop Culture Con. First up is Ken's chat with the stars of Flash Gordon - Sam Jones and Melody Anderson. Ken, Sam and Melody discuss early success, how you can never be spoiled, when a job is a job, being overwhelmed, staying in shape, getting the part last minute, playing an iconic character, throwing out the script, being a giant spider, Buster Crabbe, the football scene, smacking Timothy Dalton around, bullwhips, shaved heads, wigs, generations of fans, cardboard boxes, Dino, and Life After Flash. Next up Ken talks to actor Michael Rosenbaum. Ken and Michael discuss Smallville, songs, being in a band, The Crash Test Dummies, mic jokes, Michael's podcast "Inside of You", chewing gum, horror movies, Lex Luthor, cold fathers, shaving your head, auditioning for Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, not reading scripts, needing love and validation,Grease, being unpopular in school, first kisses, the Billy Madison "kill list" scene with Steve Buscemi, holding grudges, Superman, hating Rotten Tomatoes, Siskel & Ebert, and Michael's band Left on Laurel, Finally Ken talks to Claudia Christen. Ken and Claudia discuss actor vs. actress, running out of headshots, Babylon 5, Blacke's Magic, Columbo, The Hidden, New Year's eve at Charlton Heston's House, being a writer, giving back, The C3 Foundation, being a drug and alcohol counselor, the early days of CGI, blogging Babylon 5, watching yourself, how phones have ruined on set connections, being the Cute Commander, LGBT storylines, cooking for gamers, making friends with penpals, crying scenes, and Freaks and Geeks.

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett take you to the movies this week - not to Endgame, because Crockett went over the weekend - but we're gonna do the Siskel & Ebert gimmick with wrestling documentaries! There's some great stuff out there right now, and we'll break that down too, but we are looking back at the all-time greatest docs out there: WWE produced stuff, independently produced features, even mainstream commercial pictures. Which WWE doc might have been the first and is probably the best? What little-known film about a comedian is a stellar wrestling doc pick? Who is the Vince McMahon of backyard wrestling? And finally, which wrestling documentaries are Mike & Brian's number one picks? Also, Brian The Brawler shares his travel story as he tried to get to Grand Rapids for Ring Of Honor in one piece! Plus, a totally bogus Promo About Nothing, we talk Tommaso & Dijak(ovic) injuries, we celebrate THREE YEARS of podcasting, and we ask you to take our friggin' survey! tinyurl.com/WPANsurvey Promo About Nothing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddCqgFuIimc Get our weekly episodes, our t-shirt and more info on the podcast at TheWPAN.com. Leave a voicemail and be a part of the podcast! Call 401-584-9726. Follow @TheWPAN, @BrianMilonas & @crocksox on Twitter. #WPAN

In this episode, your host Trimble Thumbprint reviews the 1992 episode of Siskel & Ebert where they review movies like Home Alone 2, The Efficiency Expert, Bad Lieutenant, and My New Gun.

In this episode, your host Trimble Thumbprint reviews a 1990 episode of Siskel & Ebert, includes reviews of Flatliners and Young Guns II.

a podcast about random episodes of Siskel & Ebert. This week, host Trimble Thumbprint looks at a 1990 episode where S&E review Miami Blues and pay tribute to the legendary Greta Garbo. A Hot Dog Code production.

Season 2's six remaining supermonsters trek out to the woods to give scream queen realness in Episode 5's slasher challenge, with Peaches Christ and Miss Coco Peru serving us Siskel & Ebert (if they were somebody's sensible aunts). Biqtch Puddin' not only kills the challenge but the extermination as well with her gifable reactions. Then it's a funereal wedding floor show in Episode 6 that ends in an unfortunate divorce with one of the season's standouts. We spend a significant amount of this episode queening out on Disasterina. Patreon: www.patreon.com/alrightmary Email: alrightmarypodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @alrightmary Johnny: @johnnyalso (Instagram) Colin: @colindrucker (Twitter) www.alrightmary.com

Women Who Sarcast will be channeling Siskel & Ebert and take you back (waaaay back) to the TV shows we all grew up watching. From Hogan's Heroes to Bewitched and on to MacGyver and Miami Vice. It's the worst flashback you'll ever experience.

Episode 23 of the Nerds Who Swing podcast is out now! We have a conversation about our first multi day hotel takeover, and Siskel & Ebert.   #Swingers #Swinging #Lifestyle #TheLifestyle #Sex #Podcast #Vacation #Hotel #Takeover #Expectations #Games #Siskel #Ebert   https://www.nerdswhoswing.com/2018/08/09/episode-23/   Title: The Takeover (Part 1) Sub Title: No Way I Could be Disappointed  Episode Number: 023 Episode Description: We have a conversation about our first multi day hotel takeover, and Siskel & Ebert.   Contact Nerds Who Swing... Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/NerdsWhoSwing Website - http://www.nerdswhoswing.com/ Email - NerdsWhoSwing@gmail.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Nerdswhoswing Twitter - https://twitter.com/NerdsWhoSwing Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nerdswhoswing/ Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.ca/NerdsWhoSwing/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGlNEEHiAgnVA1F8_9sD5jQ iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/nerds-who-swing/id1349874241   Footnotes… Want to be in the Nerds Who Swing logo? Submit your pictures to  NerdsWhoSwing@gmail.com   Want to be in the Nerds Who Swing Into? Record yourself saying “Welcome to the Nerds Who Swing podcast” Send your recording to  NerdsWhoSwing@gmail.com   Keywords... Swingers, Swinging, Lifestyle, TheLifestyle, Sex, Podcast, NonMonogamy, Vacation, Hotel, Takeover, Expectations, Games, Siskel, Ebert

James and Chelsea discuss the late, great Roger Ebert's complicated relationship with horror, and play a game with some of his reviews! Siskel & Ebert's "Women in Danger" special *Quick correction: The "Women in Danger" special is from Sneak Previews, not At The Movies.

The History of TV Part 4 - The Reagan Era Continued   This episode was going a bit long so we broke it up . . . gotta give you guys a little bit of breathing room. We continue with sitcoms, Bill Cosby, constant and unrelenting news, the beginnings of FOX, Siskel & Ebert, daytime talk, and commercials - both public service, scare tactics, and selling! Take a listen as we finish the 80s and get ready for the 90s. Thanks for the continued love & support. Questions, Comments, Problems, and Suggestions can be directed to gondoramos@yahoo.com  

This week we review WWE Hall of Famer Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1987 film THE RUNNING MAN, which also features wrestling legends Jesse “The Body” Ventura and Professor Tanaka. This leads us into discussions about the Toys ‘R’ Us gun aisle, post-apocalyptic trash can fires, trends in Hollywood by the decade, and all of the dick trauma in Arnie movies. Plus, we call out THE CABLE GUY, COPLAND, and LAST ACTION HERO for being underrated movies of the 90s, and we name which 80s wrestlers could work as stalkers in the RUNNING MAN universe. No worries, Siskel & Ebert, your torch is being well-carried.

Buying time before the next series, Natalie and Maren fangirl over This Is Us, A catchy jam from Summer Twins, and Stanley Tucci's hottest role (thus far). Plus, Phantom Thread brings out the Siskel & Ebert in all of us, and the next "truly outrageous" theme is revealed!   ***  Brought to you by TV Time: http://bit.ly/2rxbrSz Fangirl Merch: https://fangirlfridayspodcast.threadless.com/ Instagram: @fangirlfridayspodcast Facebook: @fangirlfridayspodcast Twitter: @fgfpodcast

John, Andrew, and Emmanuel talk about the newest Star Wars film from Disney! SPOILER FREE REVIEW & SPOILERFUL DISCUSSION afterwards, including an old Siskel & Ebert review from the 80s, an interview with Carrie Fischer & Ryan Johnson, and more! We play a super fun trivia quiz, with questions on cameos, blue milk, and lightsabers! We talk about the new chapter for the space odyssey and who we think should helm the next films! Make sure to like and subscribe, and May the Force be with you!

This week, the group of Halloweenies talk about Torgo's Jim Carrey story, Myke Cole worship, the Fallout Vegas tour, Gifted, John Carpenter LIVE, Catan rumbles, Contra programming, Siskel & Ebert, Wishbookweb.com, Theater Dynamic Pricing, Shazam!, Gamestop's new rental program, Ron's Gone Wrong, John Mollo, Nightbreed, and Showtime gets to Kingkillin. Baby you'll be famous, chase you down until you love me, papa- papageekshock.

Siskel & Ebert have nothing on Kiser & Hougie as they continue their summer blockbuster movie reviews with this week's Spiderman Homecoming. They discuss all their likes, dislikes, and compare how this Spiderman holds up to all the previous Sony adaptations.

Summer is now well under way, and it's about time to start up our season long project! If you watched our spring announcement episode, Dub Talk is launching it's first Summer at the Movies event! Every Friday, all summer long, the crew will take on the roles of Siskel & Ebert as we tackle a bunch of anime films and discussing the English dubs for those films. Kicking us off: Megan, Steph, and Lac become the one trio who dive into the alternate world of England where living corpses are a common occurrence and where there's a lot of Sci-Fi tropes involved. This week's film: Project Itoh's The Empire of Corpses! Like what we do? Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/dubtalkpodcast Or consider buying us a Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/dubtalk DUB TALK SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @DubTalkPodcast Instagram: @dubtalkpodcast Twitch: dubtalkpodcast Tumblr: dubtalkpodcast Hosts: @queenira2 @LilacAnimeRevue @LactheWatcher Episode Editor: @LilacAnimeRevue Music: The Empire of Corpses OST

Sixty minutes are on the clock and straight outta WEE Studios, Jack & Dan are mashing it in and discussing season 21's The Devil Wears Nada, an episode where Homer becomes Carl's assistant and Marge poses for a racy calendar before nearly having an affair with Ned Flanders. Why did Siskel & Ebert die? What is the code for pupils? How do you get the 100% completion rank at the end of Worst Episode Ever? All that plus the CCH Poundcast, This American Taint, and HAWUSE! NEXT WEEK: Season 18's 24 Minutes www.weepodcast.com And help support us by shopping through amazon.weepodcast.com!

  How To Make Best Use Of Both Podcast Co-Hosts – Episode 136     Today, we will open the Podcast Talent Coach mail bag and answer a few content questions I have received. The first questions is about making effective use of a co-host. The second is about consistently helping your listeners with your content.     I would love to hear an episode on involving a highly effective style with a cohost. – Rick Sizemore – VR Workforce Studio   CO-HOST BASICS Different point of view Distinct styles and perspectives Different voices One needs to be the leader   I was listening to a business podcast the other day. It is a show that is hosted by two marketing gurus. They typically offer business advice to listeners who write or call the show.   The hosts had received a question regarding unique ways to market a product. The listener had included a few methods he had used. Host number one rattled off his critique of the methods used and offered a couple of his own. Host number two basically said, “I agree with your assessment and really have nothing further to add.”   When a second host (or guest for that matter) isn't offering any new information or differing opinion, the second host is unnecessary.   If your podcast involves more than one person on the show, you need to have a justifiable reason for each of you to exist on the show. When there are multiple voices on a show, each voice needs a role. One of the hosts is unnecessary if two voices are offering the same information, with the same opinion persona.   There are many podcasts hosted by two co-hosts. Many of those are successful, such as “On The Media” with Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield, “Manic Mommies” with Erin and Kristin, and “Mike & Mike in the Morning” with Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg.   Not all two-person podcasts are structured quite as well as these. It seems two friends who have similar interests get together and start a podcast without much planning. The similar interests of the hosts seem to spawn similar opinions and positions on topics.   If you and I are hosting a show, and we are both saying roughly the same thing, one of us isn't necessary.   A great example of two hosts that compliment each other well is “Mike & Mike in the Morning”.   Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg host “Mike & Mike in the Morning”. You can find the show broadcast on ESPN television and radio as well as their “best of” podcast online. The show recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary.   Both Mikes have an interest in sports. That is the commonality that brought them together. A general interest in the topic is necessary for the subject matter and foundation of the show.   The differing opinions create the magic within the show.   Mike and Mike come from very different background. Their different experiences have developed differing opinions, attitudes and approaches to various sports topics. These differences make the show compelling.   Mike Greenberg was born to a Jewish family. He grew up in New York City. Greenberg went on to study journalism. He worked his entire career in broadcasting, beginning in Chicago, the third largest city in the United States.   Mike Golic was born in suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. He played American football in College while studying finance and management at Catholic university Notre Dame in Indiana. Golic played professionally in the NFL. He then began his broadcasting career after his playing career ended.   Where Greenberg approaches topics from the researcher/journalist perspective, Golic tackles those topics from the real life experience angle. Greenberg comes from the big city. Golic comes from the suburbs. Greenberg worked big-time radio in the nation's largest cities. Golic made big-time hits on one of professional sports' biggest stages.   There are multiple approaches you can take on a show with multiple hosts.   Good cop/bad cop is a common show structure.   This is approach would position one host as the nice guy. He is there to help. Always encouraging and supporting the listener.   The second host would be a bit of a jerk. He might have a big ego. This host would be in your face and telling you like it is. He wouldn't necessarily be mean. However, he would be the antagonist in the show.   There is a three-person version of this called “The Dog, The Doll and The Dork”. This show involves the bad guy (the dog), the good guy (the dork) and the sweet girl to round it out (the doll). The female typically plays mediator between the two guys. This show is heard quite often on radio morning shows.   You can also see “The Dog, The Doll and The Dork” in America's original version of “American Idol”.   Simon Cowell was “The Dog”. He was the bad guy with the big ego. Simon was the guy everyone loves to hate.   Paula Abdul played the role of “The Doll”. She was sweet while often siding with one of the two guys. She was very likeable. Paula was almost the antidote to Simon.   Randy Jackson was “The Dork”. He would often play the nice guy, even while providing tough criticism. You would hear Randy say something like, “You know you're my dog, but that just wasn't good.” Randy could be seen considering the feelings of the contestants.   "American Idol” is currently not as strong, because they've lost the role identity of each judge. When you watch the show, you really don't know what to expect from each judge. Is Randy going to be the nice guy or suddenly play the part of “the Dog”? Roles are inconsistent from show to show.   There are many other varieties of show roles. You could use nerd/jock where one host has “studied it” and one host has “done it”. Liberal/conservative is an option if you can find a co-host with the opposing point of view. Corporation/entrepreneur could offer diverse points of view on business. Male/female is pretty clear. You simply need to select the differences that work for you.   Think of some of the best duos in history. What makes them different (and therefore valuable)? McCartney & Lennon. Abbott & Costello. Siskel & Ebert. Bert & Ernie. Sonny & Cher. Milli Vanilli. Ok, maybe not that one.   Each member in those great partnerships offered something different than their teammate. Often, that difference was the opposite of their counterpart. Sometimes, it was simply a different approach. Find those differences that make each of you unique.   The goal of your show is to entertain your audience. Listeners have come to your show to learn something, laugh at something, or be amazed by something. Your job is to create compelling content.   Debates and differing opinions are a great way to stir up emotion with your audience. It doesn't always need to be an argument. Multiple hosts simply need to offer different information. If both hosts are offering the same content, one of you are just wasting the time of your audience. You are repeating yourself when you could be dishing up new content.   If you host a show with multiple people, find each individual voice and use those differences to entertain your audience.     HELP OTHERS   How can I help others with every show. I am so grateful for your show, keep up the good work, I point all my podcasting friends your way! You have a devoted fan on Oahu, if you need any ideas for family adventures on Oahu.... I'm your Man! - Dave Tupper - Kids Adventures Hawaii Podcast    Start with the goal of your show. What is it that you want people to take from this particular episode? How will your content help them?   I'm sure you've heard the phrase “what's in it for me?”   Your audience will be asking this very question every time they tune into your podcast. Your introduction better tell your listener exactly how your topic will affect them. You need to hook them right at the beginning with an intriguing introduction. If you don't hook them early, they will be gone in search of something more captivating.   When your audience knows what is in it for them, they begin to care. Making your listener care is the only way to get them to listen and more importantly come back again.   As I was listening to a podcast recently, it suddenly hit me. How does this apply to me, and what am I getting out of this podcast? I was having a tough time answering those two questions.   It was an entrepreneural podcast. The host and guest were recounting the launch and growth of the guest's company. It was a decent story. There were a few highlights about growing out of a basement and finding industry partners. The most interesting part of the story was the fast growth of the company.   After twenty minutes of the show, it hit me. I really have nothing in common with this tech company. The stories being told were very specific to the guest's company. Most of all, neither the guest nor the host were making the connection between the tale of the company and lessons that could be gleaned by the listener. They were not incorporating the audience into the show at all.   To truly engage your audience, you need to make the listener the star. Nobody wants to watch your home movies unless they are in them.   Your listener doesn't need to be part of the show to be the star. The content could give them hope, help them envision the future, or relate to their situation. You need to help them make that connection.   The key question is “what's in it for me?” Your listener isn't attracted to your podcast by your content. They listen to your podcast because of what your information can do for them. They don't buy products. They buy benefits.   If your podcast is only focused on you, your product, or your guest without making a connection to the listener, the size of your audience will shrink. Engaging content must be listener focused. Keep your audience engaged by making your listener the star.   Connection, put them in the show, one-on-one communication and teaching without being condescending.   This week, check out the free video I have on PodcastTalentCoach.com about one-on-one communication. We discuss how to make your listener feel like they are part of the show and that your content is specifically for them.       Next week, we will start a series on interviewing. How do you make the most of the time with your interview guest? What is more effective at attracting traffic, interviewing others or being interviewed? In the next few episodes, we will cover that, along with interview terms, and tips to help create powerful interviews.       You can find my podcast and other tools to help you create great content at www.PodcastTalentCoach.com.   Let's turn your information into engaging entertainment.      

This week Siskel & Ebert review the movie "Goodfellas", my date that mirror's the horrid 80's movie "Blind Date" and why did teenagers from the 50's speak a completely different language and who was writing their dialogue. It's a really good pre-holiday Juskow classic. :) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

February 18-24, 1984 This week Ken welcomes musician, comedian, podcaster, writer and all around personality Dave Hill to the show. Ken and Dave discuss pizza parties, Double Tree logo issues, Hong Kong prostitutes, inviting yourself on your friend's family vacation, Cheers, Sweeps Week, letting things go, Rebecca vs. Diane, Three's A Crowd, The 1984 Olympics, Figure Skating, Hockey, barrel jumps, Silver Spoons, silent credits, Very Special Episodes, Love Sydney, Paul Lynde's Halloween Special, Variety Shows, adding Glenn Campbell, Siskel & Ebert, hating Mama's Family, Dave's beef with Vicki Lawrence, Airwolf, questioning Jan Michael Vincent's living status, Stacey Keach, Monty Python as palette cleanser, hanging out with Terry Jones, sports, evil twins on Knight Rider, questioning Ken's place on the Autism spectrum, Baywatch Nights, Craig T. Nelson, Super Nights of Rock N Roll, The Boston Bruins, The Who, Mod culture, Roger Daltrey's acting career, Black Emmanuel, scrambled soft core, The Playboy Channel, judging Gallagher, the A-Team, Dudley Moore's concept of time, The Man With Two Brains, O Madeline, The Pee Wee Herman Show, Gary Panter, Mr. Bungle's Giant Cake, Barney Miller, Jack Soo, talking to Abe Vigoda on the phone, Real People, Fred Willard, Baby I'm Back, Sandford and Son, The Facts of Life, Jerry Jehl's filthy stand up comedy, people with disabilities on TV, hot saucing, Ken's connection to the Sausage King of Cleveland,  Night Court, hockey player autobiographies, WKRP, Molesting Dudley, Neptune King of the Sea, favorite Friday the 13th movies, Bloopers, Elvira, Dom DeLouise special, M*A*S*H, Cheers, Taxi, Dean Martin's celebrity roasts, the horrors of 20/20, KISS vs. Menudo, peeing the bed/couch/floor, having someone else pee your bed, Little Caesar's Pizza Pizza, the wonder of chocolate raviolis, Floyd the Barber's stroke, the advent of ironic t-shirts, Hogan's Heroes, Bob Crane, not wanting to be murdered by Willem Defoe, Dukes of Hazard mix ups, Benson, Guillome Emmanuel, Solid Gold, loving Groucho, Webster, Wet T-Shirt contests, Kitten Natividad, getting Indian food with Ronnie James Dio, Sean Penn's stripper, just resting your eyes, literal calendars, military time, and being completely destroyed by a comedy festival. 

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No time to catch a movie in the theater? Join us to discuss the recent DVD/On-Demand releases. Siskel & Ebert make room on the couch, Luci and Susan are in the house! This episode's Chick Flick Chat movie is, "Revolutionary Road," starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. No matter what decade you grew up in, join us and share your timely point of view about this popular film.

No time to catch a movie in the theater? Join us to discuss the latest DVD/On-Demand releases. Siskel & Ebert make room on the couch, Luci and Susan are in the house! This episode's Chick Flick Chat movie is, "Twilight." Whether you read the book or not, we are biting into this film with gusto! Join us and share your feelings about this popular film...so call in with your most tempting thoughts.

Siskel & Ebert make room on the couch, Luci and Susan are in the house! This time we are going to the movies...Join us for this Chick Flick Chat about the newly released movie, "Julie & Julia." Lot's to chat about regarding the female roles in this popular film, so call in with your thoughts. We want to hear from you!

No time to catch a movie in the theater? Join us to discuss the latest DVD/On-Demand releases. Siskel & Ebert make room on the couch, Luci and Susan are in the house! This episode's movie chat is, "He's Just Not That Into You." Lot's to chat about with the many female roles in this popular film, so call in with your thoughts.

No time to catch a movie in the theater? Join us to discuss the latest DVD/On-Demand releases. Siskel & Ebert make room on the couch, Luci and Susan are in the house! This episode's movie chat is, "Rachel Getting Married," starring Anne Hathaway.

What the McDuck?! They made a movie about those adventurous mallards? It's a surprise to us as well. Regardless, these thirteen things about Ducktales The Movie will have you screaming whoo hoo all the way to the bank. 13. First Disney animated movie to be spun off from a television series. 12. There were originally plans to have a Chip 'n' Dale's Rescue Rangers movie released the summer following this movie's release, along with a Goof Troop movie. However, Disney decided to pull the plug on that project, and retool the Goof Troop movie into A Goofy Movie, since this movie underperformed at the box-office. 11. Someone dressed like Indiana Jones is briefly seen at the Explorer's Club. 10. Released on the big screen with the classic Donald Duck cartoon "Dude Duck". 9. Side characters from DuckTales, like Gyro, Doofus, Bubba the Cave Duck, and Gismoduck are absent, as the filmmakers didn't want to confuse newcomers who have not seen the Disney Afternoon cartoon. This is also why none of any of the show's villains, like the Beagle Boys, Magica DaSpell, and Flintheart Glomgold are present. 8. The plot point of Scrooge finding and digging a pyramid out of the sand, is taken from a Carl Barks story "Pyramid Scheme" from the Scrooge comics. 7. Error: During the treasure of Collie Baba sequence, when Scrooge orders Dijon to bring their sacks, his "treasure-hunting" outfit briefly returns to his trademark waistcoat. 6. The events of the film take place between the third and fourth seasons of DuckTales. 5. The initial voice-overs took one year, and another six months were spent on re-takes. Although Alan Young had never worked with Christopher Lloyd or Rip Taylor before, he said he would "'sit there in awe' watching them at work." 4. When the film was released in theaters, the theme song was reprised twice during the end credits, with both times sung. For some reason, the VHS only has the first time sung, while the second time is instrumental only. 3. In the 2000 video game Donald Duck Goin' Quackers, Merlock plays the game's main villain. 2. The film made only $18 million at the box ofice, causing it to be a failure and killing all future theatrical sequels. 1. Critics in the USA, generally considered the film an Indiana Jones rip-off. It was also a betrayal to Carl Barks's Uncle Scrooge comic books which DuckTales was based on. Noted movie critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert didn't even bother reviewing this film for their tv show Siskel & Ebert at The Movies DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) G | 1h 14min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 3 August 1990 (USA) Scrooge McDuck takes Huey, Dewey, and Louie to Egypt to find a pyramid and magic lamp. Director: Bob Hathcock Writer: Alan Burnett (animation screenplay) Stars: Alan Young, Christopher Lloyd, Terence McGovern