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In this week's episode, I take a look at the movies and streaming shows I watched in Winter and Spring 2025. This week's coupon code will get you 25% off the ebook versions of my anthologies at my Payhip store: JUNE25 The coupon code is valid through June 17, 2025. So if you need a new ebook this summer, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates   Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 252 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is May 23rd, 2025, and today we are looking at the movies and streaming shows I watched in Winter and Spring 2025. We missed doing an episode last week for the simple reason that the day before I wanted to record, we had a bad thunderstorm that knocked down large portions of my fence, so my recording time was instead spent on emergency fence repair. However, the situation is under control, so hopefully we'll be back to weekly episodes for the immediate future. And now before we get to our main topics, let's have Coupon of the Week and then a progress update on my current writing projects.   So first up, Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon code will get you 25% off the ebook version of all my short story anthologies at my Payhip store and that is JUNE25. As always, the coupon code and links will be available in the show notes. This coupon code is valid through June the 17th, 2025, so if you need a new ebook for this summer, we have got you covered.   And now an update on my current writing projects. Ghost in the Corruption is finished. It is publishing right now. In fact, I paused the publishing process to record this and so by the time this episode goes live, hopefully Ghost in the Corruption should be available at all ebook stores. My next main project now that Ghost in the Corruption is done will be Shield of Power and as of this recording I am 15,000 words into it. My secondary projects will be Stealth and Spells Online: Final Quest and I'm 97,000 words into that, so hopefully that will come out very shortly after Shield of Power and I'll also be starting Ghost in the Siege, the final book in the Ghost Armor series as another secondary project and I'm currently zero words into that. So that is where I'm at with my current writing projects.   In audiobook news, Ghost in the Assembly (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) is now out and should be available at all the usual audiobook stores so you can listen to that if you are traveling for the summer. Recording of Shield of Battle (as excellently narrated by Brad Wills) is underway soon. I believe he's starting it this week, so hopefully we will have another audiobook in the Shield War series for you before too much longer. So that's where I'm at with my current writing projects.   00:02:17 Main Topic: Winter/Spring 2025 Movie Roundup   And now let's move on, without any further ado, to our main topic. Summer is almost upon us, which means it's time for my Winter/Spring 2025 Movie Roundup. As usual, the movies and streaming shows are listed in order for my least favorite to my most favorite. The grades are based upon my own thoughts and opinions and are therefore wholly subjective. With all of that said, let's get to the movies and our first entry is MacGruber, which came out in 2010 and in all honesty, this might be objectively the worst movie I have ever seen. The Saturday Night Live MacGruber sketches are a parody of the old MacGyver action show from the ‘80s. And so the movie is essentially the sketch stretched out to make a parody of an ‘80s action movie. It is aggressively dumb and crude. Its only redeeming feature is that the movie knows it's quite stupid and so leans into the stupidity hard. I'll say this in its favor, MacGruber has no pretensions that is a good movie and does not take itself seriously and then runs away hard with that fact. For that he gets a plus, but nothing else. Overall grade: F+   Next up is Down Periscope, which came out in 1996. Now the fundamental question of any movie is the one Russell Crowe shouted at the audience in Gladiator: “Are you not entertained?” Sadly, I was not entertained with Down Periscope. This wanted to be a parody of Cold War era submarine thrillers like The Hunt for Red October, I say wanted because it didn't really succeed. Kelsey Grammer plays Lieutenant Commander Thomas Dodge, an unorthodox US Navy officer who wants command of his own nuclear sub, but he's alienated a few admirals, which is not traditionally a path to career advancement in the military. Dodge gets his chance in a Navy wargame where he has to command a diesel sub against nuclear subs. Sometimes parodies are so good that they become an example of the thing they are parodying (Hot Fuzz and Star Trek: Lower Decks are excellent examples of this phenomenon). The trouble is that the movie takes itself too seriously and just isn't all that funny. A few funny bits, true, but not enough of them. In the end, this was dumb funny but didn't resonate with me the way other dumb funny movies like Dodgeball and Tropic Thunder did. Overall grade: D   Next up is Deadpool and Wolverine, which came out in 2024. Unlike Down Periscope, I was entertained with this movie, though both movies reside on the dumb funny spectrum. Deadpool and Wolverine is basically one long meta in-joke/love letter for the last 30 years of superhero movies. If you've seen enough of those movies, you'll find those movies funny, if occasionally rather tasteless. If you haven't seen enough of those movies, Deadpool and Wolverine will just be incomprehensible. The plot is that Wade Wilson AKA Deadpool gets pulled into some Marvel style multiverse nonsense. To save his universe from destruction, he needs to recruit a Wolverine since in his universe, Wolverine died heroically.   In the process, Deadpool stumbles across the worst Wolverine in the multiverse. Together they have to overcome their mutual dislike and attempt to save Deadpool's universe from destruction at the hands of a rogue branch of the Time Variance Authority. This means the movie can bring in a lot of cameos from past Marvel films. Hugh Jackman's performance really carries the movie on its back. Like I said, this movie is essentially one very long Marvel in-joke. I thought it was funny. I definitely think it can't stand on its own without having seen a sufficient number of the other Marvel movies. Overall grade: C   Our next movie is the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which came out in 2024. This is very loosely (with an emphasis on “very”) based on Operation Postmaster during World War II, when British Special Forces seized some Italian ships that had been supplying parts for German U-boats. It was entertaining to watch but it couldn't quite make up its mind tonally if it was a war thriller or a heist movie about Western desperados recruited into a crew. It kind of tried to do both at the same time, which killed the momentum. Like, the first parts of the movie where the protagonists take out a Nazi patrol boat and then free a prisoner from a base were good thriller stuff, but then the plot fused with the heist stuff and really slowed down through the middle forty percent or so. It was also oddly stylized with a lot of spaghetti western-style music that seemed out of place and some stuff just didn't make sense, like at the end after pulling off the mission, the protagonists were all arrested. That just seems bizarre since if anything, Winston Churchill and a lot of the British wartime leadership were enthusiastic about special operations and probably had too much confidence in the effectiveness of covert operations. So I did enjoy watching this, but I can see why it didn't make a lot of money at the box office. Overall Grade: C   Next up is The Gorge, which came out in 2025. This was a peculiar mix of science fiction, romance, and horror. For the romance part, perhaps shooting zombies together is a good idea for a first date. Before I dig into the movie, a brief rant. In one scene, a character is using a chainsaw with no protective gear whatsoever and she's not fighting zombies or anything in a situation where she has to pick up a chainsaw without preparing first. She's trimming branches to pass time. If you're using a chainsaw, at a minimum you want protective eyewear and headphones. Ideally you'd want chainsaw pants as well to reduce the chance of serious injury if you slip and swing the saw into your leg. Since I became a homeowner, I've used a chainsaw a number of times and believe me, you definitely want good eye and ear protection. This has been your public safety announcement for this movie review.   Anyway, loner former sniper Levi is approached by a high ranking intelligence officer giving him a mysterious job. He needs to guard a tower overlooking a mysterious mist-filled gorge for one year. On the other side of the gorge is another tower, guarded by an elite Lithuanian sniper named Drasa. Like Levi, Drasa has a fair bit of emotional damage and they're officially forbidden to communicate. However, they're both lonely and they soon start communicating over the gorge using telescopes and whiteboard messages. Eventually Levi gets emotionally close enough to Drasa to rig a zipline to cross the gorge and speak with her in person.   Unfortunately, it turns out the gorge is full of twisted creatures that storm out and attack and the job of the two snipers is to keep them contained. If Levi and Drasa want to save their lives, they'll need to unravel the dark secret within the gorge. This movie was interesting and I enjoyed watching it, but it falls apart if you think about it too much (or at all). Like the chainsaw thing I ranted about above. The entire movie runs on that sort of logic. That said, I appreciate how the filmmakers were trying something new instead of something like Deadpool and Wolverine. Additionally, this was an Apple+ movie and it's interesting how Apple's approach to streaming is to just make a whole bunch of random stuff that's totally distinct, from Ted Lasso to Mythic Quest to Severance to The Gorge. It's like, “we have more money than most countries, so we're going to make Ted Lasso because we feel like it.” Then again, Apple+ is apparently losing a billion dollars every year, so maybe they'll eventually change their minds about that approach. Overall Grade: B-   Next up is Click, which came out in 2006. Cross It's a Wonderful Life with A Christmas Carol and the comedic style of Adam Sandler and you end up with Click. Basically Sandler plays Michael Newman, a workaholic architect with a demanding boss and increasingly strained relationship with his wife and children due to his workload. In a fit of exasperation with his situation, he goes to Bed Bath and Beyond, where he encounters an eccentric employee named Morty (played entertainingly by Christopher Walken). Morty gives him a remote control that lets him fast forward through time, which Michael then uses to skip the boring and tedious parts of his life, but he overuses the remote and goes too far into the future and sees the disastrous results of his current life choices. Definitely a story used in A Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful Life but effectively told and I was entertained (rather on the crude side, though). Overall Grade: B- Next up is Mr. Deeds, which came out in 2002. This was actually one of Adam Sandler's better movies, in my opinion. It was a remake of the ‘30s movie Mr. Deeds Goes To Town. In this new version, Sandler plays Longfellow Deeds, a popular pizzeria owner in a small New Hampshire town. Unbeknownst to Deeds, his uncle is the owner of a major media mega corporation and when he dies, Deeds is his legal heir. When the company's CEO and chief lawyer arrive at the pizzeria to inform him of this fact, Deeds goes to New York and soon finds himself involved in the CEO's sinister machinations. Yet he happens to rescue an attractive woman from a mugger, but there is more to her than meets the eye. The movie was funny and not as crude, well, not quite as crude as some of Sandler's other stuff. It had good story structure and several great lines, my favorite of which was “he was weak and cowardly and wore far too much cologne.”   Sandler's movies, in a strange way, are often very medieval. Like various medieval fables had a savvy peasant outwitting pompous lords, greedy merchants, and corrupt clergymen. The best Adam Sandler protagonist tends to be a good natured everyman who defeats the modern equivalent of medieval authority figures- evil CEOs, arrogant star athletes, sinister bureaucrats and so forth. Overall Grade: B     Next up is House of David, which came out in 2025 and this is basically the story of King David from the Bible told in the format of an epic fantasy TV series. Like if someone wanted to do an epic fantasy series about Conan the Barbarian, it could follow the same stylistic format as this show. And of course Conan and David followed a similar path from adventurer to king. Anyway, if one were to pick a part of the Bible from which to make a movie or TV series, the story of David would be an excellent choice because David's life was so dramatic that it would hardly require any embellishments in the adaptation. The story is in the Books of First and Second Samuel. King Saul is ruling over the Israelites around 1000 BC or so, but has grown arrogant. Consequently, God instructs the prophet Samuel to inform Saul that the kingdom will be taken away from him and given to another. God then dispatches Samuel to anoint David as the new king of Israel. David is a humble shepherd but then enters Saul's service and undertakes feats of daring, starting with defeating the giant Goliath and leading Saul's troops to victory and battle against Israel's numerous enemies. (The Iron Age Middle East was even less peaceful than it is now.) Eventually, Saul's paranoia and madness gets the best of him and he turns on David, who flees into exile. After Saul and his sons are killed in battle with the Philistines. David returns and becomes the acknowledged king after a short civil war with Saul's surviving sons and followers.   If Saul's fatal flaw was his arrogance of pride, David's seems to have been women. While the story of David and Bathsheba is well known, David nonetheless had eight wives (most of them at the same time) and an unknown but undoubtedly large number of concubines. Naturally David's children from his various wives and concubines did not get along and David was almost deposed due to the conflicts between his children. Unlike Saul and later David's son Solomon, David was willing to repent when a prophet of God informed him of wrongdoing and to be fair to David, monogamy was generally not practiced among Early Iron Age Middle Eastern monarchies and dynastic struggles between brothers from different mothers to seize their father's kingdoms were quite common, but enough historical digression.   Back to the show, which covered David's life up to the death of Goliath. I thought it was quite well done. Good performances, good cinematography, excellent battles, good set design and costuming, and a strong soundtrack. All the actors were good, but I really think the standout performances were Stephen Lang as Samuel, Ali Sulaman is King Saul, Ayelet Zurer as Saul's wife Queen Ahinoam, and Davood Ghadami as David's jerkish (but exasperated and well-intentioned) eldest brother Eliab. Martyn Ford just looks extremely formidable as Goliath. You definitely believe no one in their right mind want to fight this guy.   Making fiction of any kind based on sacred religious texts is often tricky because no matter what you do, someone's going to get mad at you. The show has an extensive disclaimer at the beginning of each episode saying that it is fiction inspired by the Bible. That said, House of David doesn't really alter or deviate from the Biblical account, though it expands upon some things for the sake of storytelling. Queen Ahinoam is only mentioned once in the Bible as the wife of Saul, but she has an expanded role in the show and is shown as the one who essentially introduces Saul to the Witch of Endor. Goliath also gets backstory as one of the “Anakim,” a race of giants that lived in Canaan in ancient times, which is something that is only mentioned in passing in the Old Testament. Overall, I enjoyed the show and I hope it gets a second season.   What's interesting, from a larger perspective, is to see how the wheel of history keeps turning. In the 1950s and the 1960s, Biblical epics were a major film genre. The 10 Commandments and Ben Hur with Charlton Heston are probably the ones best remembered today. Eventually, the genre just sort of ran out of gas, much the way superhero movies were in vogue for about 20 years and began running out of steam around 2023 or so. Like, I enjoyed Thunderbolts (which we're going to talk about in a little bit), but it's not going to make a billion dollars the way Marvel stuff often did in the 2010s. The wheel just keeps turning and perhaps has come back around to the popularity of Biblical epics once more. Overall Grade: A   Next up is Chef, which came out in 2014. I actually saw this back in 2021, but I watched it again recently to refresh my memory and here are my thoughts. I quite liked it. It's about a chef named Carl Casper, who's increasingly unhappy with his work after he gets fired over a Twitter war with a writer who criticized his cooking. Carl is out of options and so he starts a food truck and has to both rediscover his love of cooking and reconnect with his ex-wife and 10-year-old son. In Storytelling: How to Write a Novel (my book about writing), I talked about different kinds of conflict. Carl's conflict is an excellent example of an entirely internal conflict. The critic is an external enemy, but he's basically the inciting incident.   Carl's real enemy is his own internal conflict about art versus commerce and a strained relationship with his son. I recommend the movie. It was rated R for bad language, but there's no nudity or explicit sexual content and honestly, if you've ever worked in a restaurant kitchen or a warehouse, you've heard much worse in terms of language. The movie also has an extremely valuable lesson: stay off social media when you're angry. Overall Grade: A     Next up is Thunderbolts, which came out in 2025 and I thought this was pretty good, both very dark and yet with quite a lot of humor to balance the darkness. Former assassin Yelena Belova has been working as a mercenary for the sinister director of the CIA, Valentina de Fontaine (now there's a villain name if there ever was one). Yelena has grown disillusioned with her life and career and is suffering from increasing depression since she never really dealt with the death of her sister. Valentina promises her one last job, only for Yelena to realize that Valentina decided to dispose of all her freelance contractors at once, which includes US Agent and Ghost (previously seen in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Antman and the Wasp). In the process of escaping Valentina's trap, Yelena stumbles across a mysterious man who identifies himself as Bob, who has no memory of how he got there, but shows increasingly unusual abilities. Yelena wants to deal with Valentina's betrayal, but it turns out one of Valentina's science projects has gotten out of control and is threatening the world. The movie was well constructed enough that it didn't rely too heavily on previous Marvel continuity. It was there, but you probably wouldn't be lost without it. It almost feels like Marvel looked at the stuff they did the last couple of years and said, okay, a lot of this didn't work, but makes great raw material for new things. It helped that the central conflict was in the end, very human and about the characters, not stopping a generic villain from getting a generic doomsday device. Overall Grade: A   Next up is The Hound of the Baskervilles, which came out in 1988. This is a movie length episode of The Return of Sherlock Holmes television series, which had Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Watson. The plot deals with Sir Henry Baskerville, the American heir to an English manor set in the Windswept moors of Dartmoor. Apparently there's an ancestral curse laid over the Baskerville estate that manifests in the form of a spectral hound. Local rumors hold that the previous holder of the manor, Sir Charles Baskerville, was killed by the ghostly hound and many of the local people fear it. The local physician, Dr. Mortimer, is so worried about the hound that he comes to Sherlock Holmes for help. Holmes, of course, is skeptical of any supernatural explanation and soon becomes worried that an extremely subtle and sinister murderer is stalking Sir Henry.   Jeremy Brett's version of Holmes is, in my opinion, the best portrayal of the character and Edward Hardwicke's version of Watson is a calm, reliable man of action who sensibly takes a very large revolver with him when going into danger. Definitely worth watching, Overall grade: A   Next up is Sonic the Hedgehog 3, which came out in 2024. The 2020s have been a downer of a decade in many ways, but on the plus side, between Super Mario Brothers and Sonic the Hedgehog, people have finally figured out how to make good video game movies, so we've got that going for us. Sonic 3 was an excellent kids movie, as were the first two in the trilogy. In this one Sonic is living with Knuckles and Tails under the care of their human friends Tom and Maddy, but then a dark secret emerges. The government has been keeping a Superpowered hedgehog named Shadow in stasis and Shadow has broken out. It's up to Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails to save the day.   Meanwhile, Dr. Robotnik is in a funk after his defeat at Sonic's hands in the last movie, but then his long lost grandfather, Gerald Robotnik returns seeking the younger Dr. Robotnik's help in his own sinister plans. Keanu Reeves was great as Shadow (think John Wick if he was a superpowered space hedgehog in a kid's movie). Jim Carrey famously said he would retire from acting unless a golden script came along and apparently that golden script was playing Dr. Ivo Robotnik and his evil grandfather Gerald. To be fair, both the Robotniks were hilarious.   It is amusing that Sonic only exists because in the 1990s, Sega wanted a flagship video game character that won't get them sued by either Nintendo or Disney. It is also amusing that the overall message of the Sonic movies seems to be not to trust the government. Overall Grade: A   Next up is Paddington in Peru, which came out in 2024. This is also an excellent kids' movie. In this installment, Paddington has settled into London with the Brown family and officially become a UK citizen. However, he receives a letter from Peru that his Aunt Lucy has mysteriously disappeared into the jungle. Distraught, Paddington and the Browns set off for Peru at once. Adventures ensue involving mysterious lost treasure, a crazy boat captain, and an order of singing nuns who might not quite be what they appear. Anyway, it's a good kids' movie. I think Paddington 2 was only slightly better because Hugh Grant as the chief villain, crazy actor Phoenix Buchanan, was one of those lightning in the bottle things like Heath Ledger as the Joker in the Dark Knight. Overall Grade: A   Now for the two best things I saw in Winter/Spring 2025. The first of them is Andor Season Two, which came out in 2025. Star Wars kind of has an age range the way Marvel stuff does now. What do I mean by that? In the Marvel comics and some of the TV series like Jessica Jones, they get into some really dark and heavy stuff, very mature themes. The MCU movies can have some darkness to them, but not as much because they're aiming at sort of escapist adventures for the general audience. Then there are kid shows like Spidey and Friends that a relative of mine just loved when he was three. You wouldn't at all feel comfortable showing a 3-year-old Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but Spidey and Friends is just fine.   Star Wars now kind of has that age range to its stuff and there's nothing wrong with that. Sometimes you want to see a dark meditation upon human nature. Sometimes you need something kid friendly to occupy the kids you're babysitting and sometimes you just want to relax and watch Mando and Baby Yoda mow down some space pirates or something. All that said, Andor Season Two is some of the darkest and the best stuff that Star Wars has ever done. It successfully shifts genres from Escapist Pulp Space Fantasy to a gritty Political/Espionage Thriller. We in the audience know that the emperor is a Sith Lord who can use Evil Space Magic and wants to make himself immortal, but that fact is totally irrelevant to the characters. Even though some of the characters are high ranking in their respective organizations, this is essentially a “ground's eye” view of the Rebellion and life under the Empire.   In some ways, this is like Star Wars' version of Wolf Hall (which we're going to talk about shortly), in that we know how it ends already, but the dramatic tension comes from the harrowing emotional journey the characters undertake on the way to their inevitable destinations. Cassian Andor is now working for the nascent Rebellion under the direction of ruthless spymaster Luthen Rael. Mon Mothma is in the Imperial Senate, covertly funneling money to the Rebellion and realizing just how much the Rebellion will require of her before the end. Syril Karn, the ineffective corporate cop from Season One, has fallen in love with the ruthless secret police supervisor Dedra Meero, but he's unaware that Director Krennic has ordered Meero to manufacture a false flag incident on the planet Gorman so the planet can be strip-mined for resources to build the Death Star and Dedra has decided to use Syril to help accomplish it. All the actors do amazing jobs with their roles. Seriously, this series as actors really should get at least one Emmy. Speaking of Director Krennic, Ben Mendelson returns as Orson Krennic, who is one of my favorite least favorite characters, if you get my drift. Krennic is the oily, treacherous middle manager we've all had to deal with or work for at some point in our lives, and Mendelson plays him excellently. He's a great villain, the sort who is ruthless to his underlings and thinks he can manipulate his superiors right up until Darth Vader starts telekinetically choking him. By contrast, the villain Major Partagaz (played by Anton Lesser) is the middle manager we wish we all had - stern but entirely fair, reasonable, and prizes efficiency and good work while despising office drama. Unfortunately, he works for the Empire's secret police, so all those good qualities are in the service of evil and therefore come to naught. Finally, Episode Eight is one of the most astonishing episodes of TV I've ever seen. It successfully captures the horror of an episode of mass violence and simultaneously has several character arcs reach their tumultuous climax and manages to be shockingly graphic without showing in a lot of actual blood. Andor was originally supposed to be five seasons, but then Peak Streaming collapsed, and so the remaining four seasons were compressed down to one. I think that was actually to the show's benefit because it generates some amazing tension and there's not a wasted moment. Overall Grade: A+   Now for the second of my two favorite things I saw, and that would be Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, which came out in 2024, but I actually saw it in 2025. This is a dramatization of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall novels about the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, who is King Henry VIII's chief lieutenant during the key years of the English Reformation. The first series came out in 2015, but the nine year gap between this and between the second series and the first series actually works quite well since Thomas Cromwell looks like he ages nine years in a single year (which may be what actually happened given how stressful working for someone like Henry VIII must have been). Anyway, in The Mirror and the Light, Cromwell has successfully arranged the downfall and execution of Anne Boleyn, Henry's previous queen. Though Cromwell is haunted by his actions, Henry still needs a queen to give him a male heir, so he marries Jane Seymour. Cromwell must navigate the deadly politics of the Tudor Court while trying to push his Protestant views of religion, serve his capricious master Henry, fend off rivals for the King's favor, and keep his own head attached to his shoulders in the process. Since Cromwell's mental state is deteriorating due to guilt over Anne's death and the downfall of his former master Cardinal Wolsey and Henry's a fickle and dangerous master at the best of times, this is an enterprise that is doomed to fail. Of course, if you're at all familiar with the history of Henry's reign and the English reformation, you know that Cromwell's story does not have a happy ending. Rather, Wolf Hall is a tragedy about a talented man who didn't walk away from his power until it was too late and he was trapped. Anyway, in my opinion, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light was just excellent. All the performances were superb. Mark Rylance is great as Cromwell and has some excellent “WTF/I'm SO screwed” expressions as Cromwell's situation grows worse and worse. Bernard Hill played the Duke of Norfolk in the first series, but sadly died before Series Two, so Timothy Spall steps in and he does an excellent job of channeling Hill's portrayal of the Duke as an ambitious, crude-humored thug.   Damien Lewis is amazing as Henry VIII and his performance captures Henry's mixture of charisma, extreme vindictiveness, and astonishing self-absorption. The real Henry was known for being extremely charming even to the end of his life, but the charm was mixed with a volcanic temper that worsened as Henry aged and may have been exacerbated by a severe head injury. Lewis's performance can shift from that charm to the deadly fury in a heartbeat. The show rather cleverly portrays Henry's growing obesity and deteriorating health by having Lewis wear a lot of big puffy coats and limp with an impressively regal walking stick.   Overall, I would say this and Andor were the best thing I saw in Winter/Spring 2025. I wouldn't say that Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light is an accurate historical reputation. In real life, Cromwell was rather more thuggish and grasping (though far more competent than his rivals and his master) and of necessity the plot simplifies historical events, but it's just a superb historical drama. Overall Grade: A+ As a final note, I should say that of all the 2024 and 2025 movies mentioned here, the only one that actually saw in the theater was Thunderbolts, and I hadn't actually planned to see it in theaters, but a family member unexpectedly bought tickets for it, so I went along. Which I suppose is the movie industry's biggest problem right now. The home viewing experience is often vastly superior to going to the theater. The theater has the big screen and snacks, but at home you can have a pretty nice setup and you can pause whatever you want, go to the bathroom, and you can get snacks for much more cheaply. That's just much more comfortable than the movie theater.   Additionally, going to the theater has the same serious problem as booking a flight in that you're an enclosed space with complete strangers for several hours, which means you're potentially in a trust fall with idiots. All it takes is one person behaving badly or trying to bring their fake service dog to ruin or even cancel a flight, and the theater experience has much of the same problem, especially since the standards for acceptable public behavior have dropped so much from a combination of widespread smartphone adoption and COVID. The difference between the movie industry and the airline industry is that if you absolutely have to get from New York to Los Angeles in a single day, you have no choice but to book a flight and hope for the best. But if you want to see a movie and are willing to exercise some patience, you just have to wait a few months for it to turn up on streaming. I'm not sure how the movie industry can battle that, but sadly, it is much easier to identify problems than to solve them.   So that is it for this week. Thank you for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes at https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe, stay healthy, and see you all next week.

Guy Ritchie's 1000th movie of the last five years - Fountain of Youth - arrived on Apple TV+ this weekend . I had a chance to see it, albeit a little later than I wanted to. I've been a fan of Guy Ritchie's ever since I first blossomed as young film fan; I think he consistently makes fun movies, although they're rarely great, and we're certainly long past his era of truly awful movies at this point. That being said, one of my biggest disappointments of last year was The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which I was pumped for. Similar to that, I really dug the B National Treasure that the trailers of this particular film were selling, and I've been looking forward to seeing it since. Adventure movies are so few and far between these days. Is this a fun one? Find out in this review!Fountain of Youth:Directed by: Guy RitchieWritten by: James VanderbiltProduced by: Ivan Atkinson, Ritchie Atkinson, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger, Jake Myers, Paul Neinstein, Guy Ritchie, William Sherak, James Vanderbilt, Tripp VinsonExecutive Producers: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tara Farney, Tyler Gillett, Chad VillellaMusic by: Christopher BensteadCinematography by: Ed WildEdited by: James HerbertCasting by: Daniel HubbardProduction Design by: Martyn JohnCostume Design by: Loulou BontempsCast: John Krasinski, Natalie Portman, Eiza González, Domhnall GleasonSynopsis: A treasure-hunting mastermind assembles a team for a life-changing adventure. But to outwit and outrun threats at every turn, he'll need someone even smarter than he is: his estranged sister.

De Bright Podcast staat stil bij YouTube, dat precies vandaag (23 april) zijn twintigste verjaardag viert. Daarnaast praten we verder over Erwins video die gaat over Europese alternatieven voor tech en diensten, die nogal wat losmaakt.Verder in deze aflevering: Apple en Meta krijgen miljoenenboetes van de EU, is KPN Apple te snel af, komen de Samsung-updates er eindelijk aan, is er op Mars een wel heel gekke rots gevonden en kunnen minder telefoons straks WhatsAppen.Sponsor:Krijg 60 procent korting op een abonnement op Incogni, een dienst die je online-privacy verbetert. Incogni laat jouw gegevens verwijderen bij datahandelaren. Ga naar: incogni.com/brightTips uit deze aflevering:Film: iHostage op Netflix. Kijk vooral ook de achter de schermen, knap gemaakt. Serie: Andor seizoen 2 is begonnen op Disney+. De meest volwassen Star Wars-serie pakt het anders aan en komt wekelijks met drie afleveringen, die elk een jaar in het leven van rebel Cassian Andor beslaan. Zo krijgen we binnen een maand 12 afleveringen, smullen!Film: Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare op Amazon Prime Video. Met Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson en Eiza Gonzalez. Geregisseerd door Guy Ritchie en gebaseerd op een waargebeurd verhaal, over een groep rare soldaten die het de Nazi's moeilijk maakte tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Doet inderdaad denken aan Inglourious Bastards: filmisch niet zo goed, maar wel erg vermakelijk.Docu: The Diamond Heist op Netflix. Een driedelige documentaire over een gigantische diamantroof in de Millennium Dome in Londen, in 2000. Ik had er nooit van gehoord. Geen doorsnee docu: hij is geproduceerd door Guy Ritchie en het kijkt als een van zijn films. Je ziet hoe een gewaagde diamantroof wordt voorbereid door een groep bizar stereotype Londonse gangsters. Er zijn twists en wow-momenten en zeker als je nog niks van deze roof weet, moet je er vooral niks over opzoeken tot je de docu uit hebt.Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

THE INSANE TRUE STORY!! The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare Full Reaction Watch Along!! https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects With Guy Ritchie's new Crime Series "MobLand" premiering on Paramount+, Aaron and John team up to give their The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare Reaction, Recap, Commentary, Analysis, & Spoiler Review!! Download PrizePicks today at https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/RE... & use code REJECTS to get $50 instantly when you play $5! Join Aaron Alexander and John Humphrey as they dive into the adrenaline-fueled world of Guy Ritchie's 2024 action/war film, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. This high-octane movie plunges us into the covert realm of an elite special operations unit that employs unorthodox tactics and bold strategies to wage secret battles behind enemy lines. The film boasts a star-studded cast, led by Henry Cavill (known for Man of Steel and The Witcher) whose commanding presence anchors the mission. Alan Ritchson (celebrated for his roles in Reacher, Fast X, and Blue Mountain State) brings raw intensity to his role, while Alex Pettyfer (I Am Number Four, Magic Mike) and Eiza González (Baby Driver and Alita: Battle Angel, Ash) add their own dynamic flair to the team. The ensemble is further bolstered by standout performances from Babs Olusanmokun (Dune, Wrath of Man), Hero Fiennes Tiffin (notable for After), Henry Golding (from Crazy Rich Asians), Rory Kinnear (famed for his work in the James Bond series), Til Schweiger (Inglourious Basterds), Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride, Robin Hood: Men in Tights), Freddie Fox (The Rings of Power), and more. Aaron & Johnald break down every heart-pounding moment—from the film's jaw-dropping infiltration scenes and explosive combat sequences to the witty banter and unexpected twists that showcase Guy Ritchie's signature style. Whether it's a high-stakes ambush on enemy territory or a meticulously choreographed showdown in the heat of battle, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare delivers action, suspense, and a touch of irreverence that will leave you on the edge of your seat! Follow Aaron On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealaaronalexander/?hl=en Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eiza Gonzalez (3 Body Problem, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Baby Driver) sits down to talk about her early life riding motorcycles, the overnight fame she experienced on an Argentinian soap opera, and the realities of navigating her teen years in the shadow of her beloved father's passing. The light, the dark, and the in-between... Eiza goes there. You can catch her new film "Ash" -- a space-based horror thriller directed by electronic musician Flying Lotus -- in theaters now! Follow Podcrushed on socials: Instagram TikTok XSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to another episode of the all new Scene In Fifteen!It's me, Jabbo, and I'm still on my soapbox about this whole James Bond thing, so in keeping with the "awesome British spy movies", I give you, The Ministy Of Ungentlemanly Warfare! Guy Ritchie's little war ditty is up for the Treatment, so it's time for a little KEEP IT or SLEEP IT action, right here on Scene In Fifteen!

FACE TO FACE WITH QUINN!!! Reacher Full Series Watch Alongs: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects = THANKS TO HUEL! Visit https://huel.com/rejects to get 15% off your order Come See The Reel Rejects at WONDERCON! https://www.comic-con.org/wc/badges/ Reacher Season 3 Episode 6 "Smoke on the Water" Reaction, Recap, Commentary, Analysis, & Spoiler Review!! Join Greg Alba and John Humphrey as they dive into the latest explosive chapter of Amazon Prime Video's Reacher Season 3, titled "Smoke on the Water." In this searing installment, Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson, Blue Mountain State, Titans, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,) finds himself face-to-face with the sinister & unpredictable Quinn (Brian Tee, The Wolverine, Jurassic World). In "Smoke on the Water," Reacher manages to gain the favor of Quinn (aka Julius McCabe) who, organization-compromised, begins a mad rush to alter every facet of his operation. This puts Duffy (Sonya Cassidy, Lodge 49, Humans) & Villanueva (Roberto Montesinos, Gridiron Gang, We Bought a Zoo) directly in harm's way as Richard Beck (Johnny Berchtold, The Wilds) discovers their operation and is pulled into a harrowing roulette sequence opposite his father, Zachary Beck (Anthony Michael Hall, The Breakfast Club, The Dead Zone). We also get one of the most BADASS sequences in the show as Quinn's Goons attempt to ambush Neagley (Maria Sten, Swamp Thing, Channel Zero) to bone-crunching & very satisfying ends... Gregory 'n Johnald break down every riveting moment—from a heart-stopping showdown set against swirling smoke and flames to subtle exchanges that peel back the layers of hidden motives. "Smoke on the Water" delivers a masterful blend of action, suspense, and emotional depth, setting the stage for an unforgettable climax to the season! Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the bell icon for more in-depth reactions and reviews! Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Film critics Brendan Wahl and Jason MacLeod survey videos and related products as holiday gifts. Included: films and TV programs on videocassette, instructional videos, VCRs, laser discs and players, camcorders for children, interactive toys, video games and publications. Also: a special look at last year's hottest World War II glow-up: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Next week: More new movies!? Questions? Comments? Suggestions? You can always shoot us an e-mail at forscreenandcountry@gmail.com   Full List: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/war-movies/the-100-greatest-war-movies-of-all-time Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forscreenandcountry Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/fsacpod Our logo was designed by the wonderful Mariah Lirette (https://instagram.com/its.mariah.xo) The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare stars Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer, Eiza González, Babs Olusanmokun, Cary Elwes, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Henry Golding, Rory Kinnear, Freddie Fox and Til Schweiger; directed by Guy Ritchie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 2 of the episode is here and it's all homework.  We talk about In, Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection Vol 17: Kraven's Last Hunt, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, Space-Mullet Vol 1: One Gamble At A Time, We Called Them Giants, Punk Rock Jesus, Usagi Yojimbo Vol 1-2 (Fantagraphics), Love Hurts, Nightbitch, Glass Onion, Austin Powers, Blues Brothers, Kill Bill, The Jerk, Severance, Silo, Skeleton Crew, Turtles All The Way Down, Spiderhead, When You're Done Saving The World, After Everything, Say You Will, Teacher, I Used To Go Here, Dear Zoe, Arcadian, Free Samples, Creature Commandos, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, and The 4:30 Movie. The featured song is "Money" by Empired.  You can find them at: Website | Instagram Check us out at our website and on social media.  Don't forget to rate and review the podcast on iTunes.

Bill Frost (CityWeekly.net, X96 Radio From Hell) and Tommy Milagro (SlamWrestling.net) talk Better Man, The Simpsons: The Past & The Furious, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Sly Lives!, Cobra Kai: The Final Finale, The Gorge, I Love You Forever, Yellowjackets S3, Have I Got News For You, The White Lotus S3, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver S12, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, The Amazing Spider-Man (sorry, Andrew Garfield), Rasslin' News, R.I.P. The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh, Mo, The Franchise, Frasier, Bosch: Legacy, and Billy the Kid, School Spirits, Chelsea Green & Farrah Abraham: Future Standup Comedy Legends, and more.Drinking: Sir-Veza Mexican Lager and Cherny Bock Czech Dark Lager from OFFICIAL TV Tan sponsor Bohemian Brewery.* Yell at us (or order a TV Tan T-shirt) @TVTanPodcast on Threads, Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, or Gmail.* Rate us: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, YouTube, Amazon Podcasts, Audible, etc. 

TIME TO KILL SOME NAZIS!!!! Well that is something that we all aspire to do if we were living in the time of this movie!! Fascists beware!! Churchill is on the move and he is doing it secretly!!! This episode is one that you all should enjoy. We certainly had a great time watching and talking about the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare for two reasons. One it was a very interesting premise that most of us had never heard of. Two, becasue GUY RITCHIE directed it and he is really good!! So sit down and enjoy the mayhem that Henry Cavill and company inflict upon Hitler's horde!! Cheers!!! INTRO: PEG & THE REJECTED -- ALL SING ALONG REFILL: SHAOLIN DUB -- SKANKING IT EASY DUB OUTRO: DISTEMPER -- HAPPY END EMAIL : MOVIESONTHEROCKS2020@GMAIL.COM INSTAGRAM: @moviesrockpodcast

In this Episode: This week it's another Twofer! The boys are doing The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare! This one is a damn fine flick! Tune in for our chat! 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: https://ebd.fm/episodes/287

This week on the Talk Without Rhythm Podcast I'm kicking off a new series of Patreon Picks with a selection from TWoRP Legionnaire Georges! Georges requested I take a look at 2024's The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare so I opted to pair it with another "SOE on a Mission" flick, 1968's Where Eagles Dare. [00:00] INTRO [02:30] The Good, the Bad, and the Odd Promo [03:14] RANDOM CONVERSATION [09:53] Where Eagles Dare (1968) [36:34] The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) [01:03:37] FEEDBACK [01:15:28] ENDING MUSIC: Where Eagles Dare by The Misfits Buy Where Eagles Dare (1968) Buy The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) Support TWoRP Contact Us talkwithoutrhythm@gmail.com

Here is my ranking of all 144 2024 movies I saw ranked from the worst to the best! This is an edited re-uploaded of my annual livestream ranking every new movie I saw in the previous year.  I added audio compression, posters, numbers & some trailer footage  AND I cut the Q&A segments to improve teh viewing experience on re-watch. If you want to watch the FULL RAW LIVESTREAM with all the Q&A and banter, WATCH HERE: https://youtube.com/live/llc7u2crT04 SKIP AHEAD 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:00 144 Madame Web 00:02:41 143 Borderlands 00:04:03 142 Snow White & the Seven Samurai 00:05:13 141 Rebel Moon 2 00:07:06 140 A Family Affair 00:08:06 139 The Killer 00:12:00 138 Unfrosted 00:13:04 135 Imaginary 00:14:23 134 Mean Girls 00:16:32 133 My Spy 2 00:16:58 132 Despicable Me 4 00:17:47 131 Kraven the Hunter 00:22:06 137 Atlas 00:23:03: 136 The Crow 00:24:24 130 Trigger Warning 00:25:06 129. V/H/S/Beyond 00:26:15  128. Blackout 00:26:50 127. Damsel 00:27:45 126. The Union 00:28:49 125. Venom: The Last Dance 00:29 53 124. The Garfield Movie 00:30:44 123. Dogman 00:32:29 122. Little Bites 00:33:25 121. In a Violent Nature 00:34:49 120. The Last Video Store 00:35:46 119. Our Little Secret 00:37:22 118. Rebel Moon: The Director's Cut 00:39:12 117. Azrael 00:40:20 116. Never Let Go 00:41:31 115. The Killer's Game 00:42:51 114. Lights Out 00:43:26 113. The Watchers 00:44:10 112. The Book of Clarence 00:45:07  111. Joker: Folie à Deux 00:47:37 110. Time Cut 00:49:14 109. I'll Be Right There 00:50:11 108. The Last Kumite 00:52:02 107. Argylle 00:53:39 106. Apartment 7A 00:54:38 105. Immaculate 00:56:00 104. Ricky Stanicky 00:57:13 103. The Apprentice 01:00:07 102. Stream 01:00:56 101. Hellboy: The Crooked Man 01:01:49 100. Mr. Crocket 01:02:36 99. ‘Salem's Lot 01:03:07 98. Elevation 01:04:03 97. Mufasa: The Lion King 01:05:51 96. Road House 01:06:38 95. Red One 01:08:48 94. 100 Yards 01:09:24 93. Moana 2 01:10:26 92. Wolfs 01:11:48 91. The Greatest of All Time 01:12:51 90. Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 01:14:15 89. MaXXXine 01:15:16 88. Young Lion of the West 01:17:24 87. Blink Twice 01:18:46 86. Trap 01:19:49 85. One More Shot 01:21:03 84. Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part One 01:22:12 83. Fighter 01:22:38 82. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare 01:23:44 81. Subservience 01:25:08 80. House of Spoils 01:26:05 79. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire 01:27:01 78. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 01:28:15 77. Arcadian 01:28:47 76. Infested 01:29:54 75. Crumb Catcher 01:32:41 74. My Hero Academia: You're Next 01:33:12 73. Cuckoo 01:34:10 72. Babygirl 01:40:22 71. Y2K 01:41:31 70. Werewolves 01:42:11 69. New Life 01:43:13 68. Kalki 2898 AD 01:44:02 67. Boy Kills World 01:45:35 66. One Percenter 01:46:55 65. The Bikeriders 01:48:20 64. Lisa Frankenstein 01:49:16 63. Code 8: Part II 01:50:06 62. Things Will Be Different 01:51:36 61. Aliens Expander 01:52:43 60. Am I Racist? 01:57:13 59. Your Monster 01:57:58 58. Kung Fu Panda 4 01:59:09 57. Monkey Man 02:00:32 56. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 02:02:06 55. Emilia Pérez 02:04:43 54. Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F 02:05:50 53. Oddity 02:06:54 52. A Different Man 02:08:53 51. Better Man 02:10:50 50. Carry-On 02:12:30 49. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 02:13:38 48. Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person 02:16:08 47. The Beekeeper 02:17:00 46. The First Omen 02:17:57 45. Land of Bad 02:18:49 44. Piece By Piece 02:21:13 43. Saturday Night 02:22:44 42. Woman of the Hour 02:25:33 41. A Complete Unknown 02:27:54 40. IF 02:29:40 39. Babes 02:31:02 38. Kill 02:32:56 37. Nosferatu 02:35:35 36. The Last Stop in Yuma County 02:36:08 35. The Fall Guy 02:36:50 34. Challengers 02:37:18 33. Juror #2 02:38:25 32. Speak No Evil 02:39:22 31. Smile 2 02:40:11 30. Bad Boys: Ride or Die 02:41:00 29. Ultraman: Rising 02:42:11 28. Terrifier 3 02:43:40 27. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever 02:44:17 26. September 5 02:45:38 25. Abigail 02:46:09 24. The Idea of You 02:47:47 23. Strange Darling 02:48:27 22. A Quiet Place: Day One 02:49:35 21. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 02:51:12 20. Alien: Romulus 02:52:52 19. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 02:53:38 18. Heretic 02:55:19 17. Transformers One 02:56:29 16. Civil War 03:00:20 15. Ordinary Angels 03:01:51 14. Gladiator II 03:03:38 13. Anora 03:04:58 12. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 03:06:53 11. Twisters 03:09:44 10. Deadpool & Wolverine 03:11:46 9. Longlegs 03:12:32 8. Rebel Ridge 03:14:37 7. The Substance 03:16:24 6. Hit Man 03:17:06 5. Wicked 03:18:11 4. Inside Out 2 03:19:04 3. Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story 03:20:28 2. Dune: Part Two 03:22:07 1. The Wild Robot

This week (?) we're bringing you our Can't Win Awards (again... sort of), and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Massive apologies to our fans as many of our episodes over the last six months have been up and down, seemed to be up but weren't really, and have had all sorts of other problems. And, that doesn't even cover some serious delays in publishing. We'll be catching up rather quickly, so further apologies as we shotgun many episodes from the past few months.

We were bound and determined to end the year with a bang so we devised a poll that couldn't fail. Picking between Bee Keeper, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and Deadpool guaranteed that everyone wins and we would end the year with a bang. Even with some voter fraud, we landed what was probably the best action movie of the year.  Bee Keeper is a throwback to the Cannon days of "Safety Be Damned," action movie filled with practical effects and real honest to god explosions. We even get probably the best "dummy fall" since Children of the Corn 2. Nate, Pete and Charlie giggle their way through a hell of a ride not because the movie is silly but because it's silly. Wait...does that even make sense? Never mind. Have a safe Holiday season and we'll see you in 2025.

 Today I am catching up on a bunch of the movies that I missed reviewing in 2024! The list of movies I discuss in this episode include The Deliverance, Deadpool & Wolverine, Alien: Romulus, Smile 2, Reagan, Borderlands, You'll Never Find Me, Trap, Twisters, Horizon: An American Saga, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Sting,  Abigail, Watchmen Chapter 1, Gladiator 2, and Venom: The Last Dance!Be sure to Subscribe on iTunes and Spotify and wherever podcasts are found!helixreviewspodcast@gmail.comEpisode 386: https://ia802904.us.archive.org/20/items/386-catching-up-on-2024-movies-venom-3-alien-romulus-deadpool-and-wolverine-smile-2-and-more/386%20Catching%20up%20on%202024%20Movies%20%28Venom%203%2C%20Alien%20Romulus%2C%20Deadpool%20and%20Wolverine%2C%20Smile%202%20and%20more%21%29.mp3

Welcome back to Not A Bomb! This is the podcast where we explore some of cinema's biggest box failures and decide if they deserve a second chance. The fires of history still burn bright, and the lads of Not A Bomb are here to stoke them with tales of valor and defiance. This week, the spotlight falls on the dashing duo of Mr. Boxer-Dropper himself, Henry Cavill, and his stalwart ally Alan Ritchson, as they bring to life The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare! Directed by the ever-reliable Guy Ritchie, this cinematic triumph thrusts us into the daring exploits of Operation Postmaster—a secret mission that turned the tide against tyranny on the Spanish island of Fernando Po during the Second World War. With action and intrigue dripping from every frame, this film rekindles the spirit of resistance that defined the Greatest Generation. Though the box office may not yet reflect its worth, the critical battle has been won, with audiences and critics alike singing its praises. Is this just another pretender in the crowded field of WWII adventures, or does it cement its place as a true monument to courage and cunning? Join the ranks, watch the film, and decide for yourself—because history isn't just remembered, it's relived! The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is directed by Guy Ritchie and stars Henry Cavill, Eiza Gonzalez, Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Babs Olusanmokun, Henrique Zaga, Til Schweiger, Henry Golding, and Cary Elwes. Not A Bomb has has plenty of spooky designs in our Merch store! Head over to the Not A Bomb Tee Public store and check them out. Special thanks to Ted Blair for the amazing designs! We're committed to hearing your feedback and suggestions. If there's a cinematic flop you'd like us to delve into, please reach out to us at NotABombPod@gmail.com or through our contact page. Your reviews and feedback are what drive us. If you enjoy our content, consider leaving a review on Apple Podcast or Spotify. Cast: Brad, Troy

Loosely based on the daring exploits of a ragtag group of soldiers during World War II, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a tale of heroism with a Guy Ritchie spin. The film chronicles Operation Postmaster—in which a battalion led by Gus March-Phillips (Henry Cavill) is sent on an off the books mission to disrupt, ideally destroy, the Nazis U-Boat resupply operation. March-Phillips, played with extraordinary flair by Cavill, is joined by an eclectic group of commandos. Though the subject matter is serious, their personalities allow for plenty of fun, and that levity drives The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. As historically embellished as it may be, this is still a journey through the past well worth taking. Now, sit back, gear up for some sabotage with an Old Speckled Hen from Green King, and do not sing in Yiddish! The Thunderous Wizard (@WriterTLK), Chumpzilla, and Bling Blake are prying the nipple clamps off Capt. Cash to free him from Nazi prison! This Week's Segments: Introduction/Plot Breakdown – Keep calm and Cavill on! (0:00) Lingering Questions – Which of these motley crew members is our respective spirit animal? (36:17) The "Operation Postmaster" Trivia Challenge – Bling Blake challenges the field to trivia about the movie. (50:42) Recommendations – We offer our picks for the week and next up: We continue our series of 2024 flops with the video game adaptation disaster Borderlands! (1:00:49) And, as always, hit us up on Threads, Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram to check out all the interesting factoids from this week's episode! You can find this episode of Hops and Box Office Flops on all your favorite pod catchers!

Weeeeeee're back after a few week hiatus to discuss a buttload of non-butt-like things. Plus, we reveal our new L Speed score for movies. Tonight we talk: Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, (starz) LSPEED: 12Madame Web, (Netflix) LSPEED: 21Lincoln Lawyer, season 1, (Netflix) (8 Episodes)  Tracker, (Hulu) (13 Episodes)  Expend4bles (Starz) LSPEED: 100  My Old Ass, (Amazon Prime), LSPEED: 11Inglorious Bastards, LSPEED: Fucking 5 (minimum is 6?) Plus, Arcane, season 2 (Netflix), Time Cut (Netflix), Trapped (Max), Brats (Hulu), Penguin season finale (HBO), and Agatha All Along season finale (Disney+)

Big boys blast bad boys in Guy Ritchie's historically innacurate true historical fiction.

Welcome to the Poddy | Episode 440 | "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare [PRIME VIDEO] | Rogue Tactics, Team Dynamics, and Daring Missions" In this episode, Bossman Clay is feeling feisty as he dives into The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) on Prime Video—a WWII film that goes rogue with unconventional heroes, guerilla tactics, and high-stakes missions. This is not your grandad's war movie! Clay breaks down the “ungentlemanly” strategies of the film's misfit squad, gives a critical take on their unique character dynamics, and talks about where the movie hits (or misses) in terms of emotional depth and action. Critical Movie Analysis: Hear Clay's take on the film's tactical realism, cinematography, and plot twists. Relatable Stories: Clay connects the film's gritty teamwork and “rule-breaking for a cause” vibe to real-life experiences, high-stakes projects, and the challenges of working with a wild crew. High-Impact Themes: Exploring what happens when doing things “by the book” doesn't work and how unconventional methods can sometimes lead to victory. What to Expect:Expect laughs, insights, and real talk as Clay takes on The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare in his own “ungentlemanly” style. Strap in for an intense episode!

Sting is a nasty little creature feature that came and went to little notice. Released on under 1,000 screens, this tale of a cosmic spider running amok is sure to make the hairs of any arachnophobe stand up. It's lean; it's mean; and it's got enough gross gore to unsettle even the least squeamish of us. It's like Alien—if the Xenomorph was an eight-legged freak who enjoyed dining on birds, babies, and pups. Now, sit back, drown the ick with a West Bestern IPA from Belching Beaver, and don't you dare whistle! The Thunderous Wizard (@WriterTLK), Chumpzilla, and Bling Blake are washing ourselves with mothball water to keep Sting away! This Week's Segments: Introduction/Plot Breakdown – Your biggest fear just got bigger! (0:00) Lingering Questions – How quickly to we flee a building being menaced by a giant arachnid? (21:41) The "Bug Brothers" Trivia Challenge – The Thunderous Wizard challenges the field to trivia about the movie. (40:31) Recommendations – We offer our picks for the week and next up: We kick off our series of 2024 flops with The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare! (51:12) And, as always, hit us up on Threads, Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram to check out all the interesting factoids from this week's episode! You can find this episode of Hops and Box Office Flops on all your favorite pod catchers!

This week we get a little crazy with a review of Joker: Folie à Deux. We also discuss Joker, Inside Out 2, Wolfs, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Didi, and The Fall Guy. All while drinking Infamous IPA. An American IPA by INFMS Beer Tape out of parts unknown. Intro and Beer Selection 0:00-17:52 Joker: Folie à Deux Review 17:52-46:27 Nano Reviews 46:27-1:10:14 Outro 1:10:14-1:11:43 Subscribe to our Patreon for premium episodes! Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Apple Podcasts! Follow us on Spotify! Follow us on  Podbean! Follow us on Instagram! Follow us on TikTok! You can buy individual premium episodes on our Bandcamp! Send your questions and comments to sudsandcinemapodcast@gmail.com Logo and Artwork by @djmikeholiday

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Homework [Harley] The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) Homework [Fonso] Rebel Ridge (2024) Extras: [Fonso] Invasion U.S.A. (1985) [Harley] Happy Gilmore (1996) Next: Extra Credit [Harley] Gangs of New York (2002) Extra Credit [MCP] Bronson (2009)

Hello classmates!Can the Star Wars franchise learn to let go? Constantine 2 is really happening!  Denis Villanueve goes back to Arrakis for one last job, and Director Isaac Florentine calls in to discuss his new film, Hounds of WarVisit the YouTube channel Saturdays @ 12:30 PM Pacific to get in on the live stream!Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@middleclassfilmclassThis Episode:https://youtu.be/b7Ga-NKY7S8http://www.MCFCpodcast.comhttps://www.twitch.tv/MCFCpodcasthttp://www.facebook.com/MCFCpodcasthttp://www.twitter.com/podcastMCFChttp://www.tiktok.com/middleclassfilmclasshttp://www.instagram.com/middleclassfilmclassEmail: MCFCpodcast@gmail.comLeave us a voicemail at (209) 730-6010Merch store - https://middle-class-film-class.creator-spring.com/Join the Patreon:www.patreon.con/middleclassfilmclassPatrons:JavierJoel ShinnemanLinda McCalisterHeather Sachs https://twitter.com/DorkOfAllDorksChris GeigerDylanMitch Burns Robert Stewart JasonAndrew Martin Dallas Terry Jack Fitzpatrick Mackenzie MinerBinge Daddy DanAngry Otter (Michael)The Maple Syrup Don: StephenJoseph Navarro     Pete Abeyta and Tyler NoeStreaming Picks:Caddyshack - $4 rental on YouTubeInto the Dark: I'm Just Fucking With You - HuluKinds of Kindness - HuluThe Taking of Pelham 123 - Tubi, Pluto, MGM+, Hoopla, FuboThe American Society of Magical Negroes - Prime VideoThe Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - $6 rental on AppleTVJackpot! - Prime VideoThe Dirties - Prime Video, AMC+, Tubi, Plex, FreeveeBody Bags - Prime video, Peacock, AMC+, Roku, Tubi, Shudder, Pluto, Plex, FreeveeBad Hair (short) - https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2022/06/13/bad-hair/Rebel Ridge - Netflix

The government involvement in Hollywood marches on so in today's episode we examine two films that were released this year,... The post ClandesTime 273 – The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare vs My Spy: The Eternal City first appeared on Spy Culture.

Extra Credit [Fonso] Bring It On (2000) Homework [MCP] Gerald's Game (2017) Extras: [Fonso] Trap (2024) [Fonso] Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) [Fonso] The Outsiders (1983) [Fonso] Alien: Romulus (2024) Next: Homework [Harley] The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) Homework [Fonso] Rebel Ridge (2024)

Help A Guy Out I smash through twenty one movies and three TV series so you don't have to. Movies: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Race For Glory Audi Vs. Lancia, Black Flies, Abigail, The First Omen, Civil War, The Vanishing, Late Night With The Devil, Arcadian, How To Rob A Bank, Queenpins, Free state of Jones, Jackdaw, The Bikeriders, Find Me Falling, Inside Man, Operation Mincemeat, The Instigators, Alien Romulus, Self Reliance & Jerry And Marge Go Large. TV Series: Mr & Mrs Smith, Yellowstone and Lord Of The Rings Season 2. This Is Movie Bollocks. 

Exactly 85 years ago today, on 3 September 1939, the Second World War officially began with Britain's declaration of war against Germany. Russians might argue, however, the real war began on 22 June 1941 with Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. While, for America, of course, the war began on December 7, 1941, with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. World War Two was then, in a sense, three wars rolled into one featuring the alliance of Britain, the Soviet Union and America against the Axis. But this alliance, for the historian Giles Milton, was a short-term affair rather than a marriage which would inevitably disintegrate after the defeat of Nazi Germany. Indeed, in his interesting new book, The Stalin Affair, Milton describes it as an “impossible alliance” that might have “won” the war but would lose the peace and trigger the Cold War. GILES MILTON is the internationally best-selling author of twelve works of narrative history, including Nathaniel's Nutmeg and Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. His books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages and have been serialised on both the BBC and in British newspapers. He is also the writer and narrator of the acclaimed podcast series, Ministry of Secrets. Milton is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. The Times described Milton as being able ‘to take an event from history and make it come alive', while The New York Times said that Milton's ‘prodigious research yields an entertaining, richly informative look at the past. Giles Milton's book Nathaniel's Nutmeg is currently under option in America for a major TV series, and Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is also under option. All of Milton's books are available in print format and as e-books, in UK and US editions.Giles Milton was born in 1966. He was educated at Latymer Upper School and the University of Bristol, where he read English. His nonfiction books include Nathaniel's Nutmeg, Big Chief Elizabeth, Samurai William, The Riddle and the Knight, White Gold, Paradise Lost, Wolfram, Russian Roulette, Fascinating Footnotes from History. He is also the author of three novels, The Perfect Corpse, According to Arnold and Edward Trencom's Nose.  In the preface to the American edition of Fascinating Footnotes he has written: 'Much of my working life is spent in the archives, delving through letters and personal papers. The huge collection housed in Britain's National Archives is incompletely catalogued (the National Archives in Washington DC is somewhat better) and you can never be entirely sure what you will find in any given box of documents. Days can pass without unearthing anything of interest: I liken it to those metal-detecting treasure-hunters of North Carolina who scour the Outer Banks in the hope of turning up a Jacobean shilling or signet ring. Persistence often pays rich dividends and this book - an idiosyncratic collection of unknown historical chapters - is the result of my own metaphorical metal detecting. Amidst the flotsam and jetsam, I've found (I hope) some glittering gems.'  Milton's works of narrative history rely on personal testimonies, diaries, journals and letters to make sense of key moments in history, recounted through the eyes of those who were there. A Cornish slave boy held captive in Morocco; a Jacobean adventurer in Japan; a young German artist conscripted into Hitler's war machine - Giles Milton's books focus on the stories of ordinary people who found themselves attempting to survive in extreme situations.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Friends of the show and fellow film superfans Clarisse Loughrey (of The Independent fame) and Ian Sandwell (of Digital Spy fame) join forces with our Ali once again to tackle some of the biggest - and smallest, to be honest - releases that have come our way over the past few weeks or so. Expect their thoughts on Kneecap, Trap, Alien Romulus, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and plenty more as they hop, skip and jump through the likes of Oscar-worthy fare (Sing Sing) and... not-so-Oscar-worthy fare (Borderlands).

Josh & Alex go over some recently seen shows/movies with Daniel Kotnik of Pack-A-Day & Game on Wisconsin  Football talk with Dan (0:40)  Bears double-doink & The Ohio State Buckeyes (6:02)  I Hate It. Let's Watch It promo (8:11) Star Wars: The Acolyte breakdown (8:51) The sexiness of Manny Jacinto and other good things about The Acolyte (21:51) Twister, Twisters, Glen Powell appreciation! (Sorry, Justin) (28:17) Alex's love of bad movies: Super Icyclone, Santa Jaws, Deep Blue Sea, Sharknado (31:43) Rebel Moon: The Director's Cut (39:14) The Three Amigos: One of the greatest movies ever made (44:39) The Drew Carey Show is finally streaming (49:36) Those About to Die (Peacock exclusive; not a sponsor, but could be ;) ) (53:48) Iwan Rheon and Alan Rickman appreciation (57:35) The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (59:40) Wrap up (1:09:08)  Check out Dan's work on Pack-A-Day & Game On Wisconsin Please remember to check out the I Hate It. Let's Watch It podcast, join our Discord and check out our merch store! 

If there was a Ministry of Ungentlemanly Podcasts, Movie Muggin would be the poster boy. Tune in as the boys discuss 2024's The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and more. Thanks for listening! www.MovieMuggin.com

In this episode of 'Screens in Focus,' hosts Diana and Sam discuss the new Deadpool and Wolverine movie, highlighting its humor, action, and impactful music. They also touch on various other shows and movies such as 'Emily in Paris,' 'Umbrella Academy,' 'The Sopranos,' 'The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,' and more, sharing their thoughts and recommendations.    00:00 Welcome to Screens in Focus 00:34 Deadpool and Wolverine Review 04:35 Marvel vs. DC: Villains and Violence 05:23 Music and Cameos in Deadpool 08:15 TV Show Recommendations 14:42 Movie Recommendations 16:28 Thank You and What's Next   Follow and subscribe to Screens in Focus. Website: www.screensinfocus.com Email: screensinfocus@gmail.com  Twitter https://twitter.com/screensinfocus  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/screensinfocuspodcast/ Facebook: Screens in Focus  Feedback and TV/Movie Recommendations:  Google voice (669) 223-8542‬  Free background music from JewelBeat.com: www.jewelbeat.com

Send us a Text Message.Angelo, Rhea, and Jay are back to discuss the most dramatic TV moment of the year, and it isn't even close.  Angelo takes you through the entire story and explains exactly what made it so compelling and the moment is so huge that Jay even admits to once watching a four hour YouTube documentary about the history of The Family Feud.  It all makes sense in context.  You won't want to miss this discussion!Then, the gang talks about the new Vince Vaughn show, Bad Monkey, and the joy of watching stars just be themselves on screen.Also discussed this episode: who should be the host of next year's Oscars, the amazingly fun Guy Ritchie film The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, and the new season of Industry.As always, the show is jam-packed with content and you're gonna want to listen!MAKE SURE TO VISIT OUR SPONSOR: Steven Singer Jewelers!The TV Show is a weekly podcast hosted by Jay Black, with regular guests Angelo Cataldi and Rhea Hughes. Each week, we dive into the new Golden Age of Television, with a discussion of the latest shows and news.  

The Rogue Agents return! Starring Jarrod Alberich - Jason Alberich - Delvin Williams - Pat Sampson - & Alan J. Porter.  This episode:  Jason has the lead, and the lads talk all about The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare! Wanna be part of the show? EMail us your questions or comments - feel free to email us an audio file - to: OHMSPOD@outlook.com Or leave a voice mail: 707-532-5269 If you like our style AND you like comic books, check out the fellas on their other channel: The Longbox Crusade at www.LongboxCrusade.com Be a part of the White Rocket Entertainment family by becoming a patron of the shows-we thank you by name on every episode: https://www.patreon.com/vanallenplexico Brought to you by White Rocket Entertainment and by Audible.com. Find links to everything we do at www.plexico.net

Agent Scott welcomes bestselling author and filmmaker Damien Lewis to the show to talk about writing his 2014 book The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. He also shares top secret intel on the development of Guy Ritchie's 2024 film adaptation, notable changes and more!  Learn more about Damien's work over at his website. All of his books, including The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, are available on Amazon.  Become a SpyHards Patron and gain access to top secret "Agents in the Field" bonus episodes, movie commentaries and more! Social media: @spyhards Purchase the latest exclusive SpyHards merch at Redbubble. View the NOC List and the Disavowed List at Letterboxd.com/spyhards Podcast artwork by Hannah Hughes. Theme music by Doug Astley.

Agents Scott and Cam grab their bows and arrows and hit the high seas with Henry Cavill and crew while tackling the 2024 Guy Ritchie WWII action film The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Directed by Guy Ritchie. Starring Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer, Eiza González, Babs Olusanmokun, Cary Elwes, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Henry Golding, Rory Kinnear, Freddie Fox and Til Schweiger.  Become a SpyHards Patron and gain access to top secret "Agents in the Field" bonus episodes, movie commentaries and more! Purchase the latest exclusive SpyHards merch at Redbubble. Social media: @spyhards View the NOC List and the Disavowed List at Letterboxd.com/spyhards Podcast artwork by Hannah Hughes. Theme music by Doug Astley.

Today's word of the day is ‘champions' as in Stanley Cup as in Florida Panthers as in South Florida. They got it done. Greg Cote is vindicated. Connor McDavid still won the Conn Smythe Trophy. But the Florida Panthers are the champions! (15:05) JJ Redick has been introduced about as Lakers head coach. He said he didn't talk to LeBron about the job beforehand… hmmmmm. (27:30) Review:The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. (30:10) NPPOD. (31:00) The Cleveland Guardians are the best team in baseball. Yes, that team. Ramirez, and Naylor, and Kwan. How about Stephen Vogt in his debut? (39:30) The Arizona Coyotes are no more. We already knew part of that, but now we know all of it. (47:50) Charlotte is giving money to David Tepper. Sorry, everyone. Public-financing is never going away! (51:00) The Marlins are giving away team streaming. 2 months for fans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today's word of the day is ‘champions' as in Stanley Cup as in Florida Panthers as in South Florida. They got it done. Greg Cote is vindicated. Connor McDavid still won the Conn Smythe Trophy. But the Florida Panthers are the champions! (15:05) JJ Redick has been introduced about as Lakers head coach. He said he didn't talk to LeBron about the job beforehand… hmmmmm. (27:30) Review:The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. (30:10) NPPOD. (31:00) The Cleveland Guardians are the best team in baseball. Yes, that team. Ramirez, and Naylor, and Kwan. How about Stephen Vogt in his debut? (39:30) The Arizona Coyotes are no more. We already knew part of that, but now we know all of it. (47:50) Charlotte is giving money to David Tepper. Sorry, everyone. Public-financing is never going away! (51:00) The Marlins are giving away team streaming. 2 months for fans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When France fell to the Nazis in 1940, Churchill declared that Britain would resist the advance of the German army--alone if necessary. Churchill commanded the Special Operations Executive to secretly develop of a very special kind of military unit that would operate on their own initiative deep behind enemy lines. The units would be licensed to kill, fully deniable by the British government, and a ruthless force to meet the advancing Germans.The very first of these "butcher-and-bolt" units--the innocuously named Maid Honour Force--was led by Gus March-Phillipps, a wild British eccentric of high birth, and an aristocratic, handsome, and bloodthirsty young Danish warrior, Anders Lassen. Amped up on amphetamines, these assorted renegades and sociopaths undertook the very first of Churchill's special operations--a top-secret, high-stakes mission to seize Nazi shipping in the far-distant port of Fernando Po, in West Africa.Though few of these early desperadoes survived WWII, they took part in a series of fascinating, daring missions that changed the course of the war. It was the first stirrings of the modern special-ops team, and all of the men involved would be declared war heroes when it was all over.To discuss this unit, dubbed by Churchill “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” is today's guest, Damien Lewis, author of the book by the same name.

Inappropriate portal behavior; RTO drives away top talent; Apple may add OpenAI to iOS; garbage in, garbage out; AI continues to promise more than it can deliver; Twitter redirecting to X; entire Supercharger staff fired; enshittification of the Web speeds up; Google AI search will kill what's left of the old internet; Uber announces new, worse bus; Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare; the Rings of Power returns; Dune: Prophecy; MoviePass, Ashley Madison docs; bundling & a return to cable; no MTV Movie Awards this year; ToDoIst; Sonos app; PPSSPP; META Quest on a plane; the Far Reaches & Forward Collections; Erik Larson; Neal Stephenson; Star Wars Oreos; Chuck E. Cheese Band, Jasper T. Jowls in the wild; Fabio and the Goose; Thelma.Show notes at https://gog.show/648Sponsors:Mood - For 20% off your order and a FREE THCa pre-roll, go to hellomood.com and use promo code GOG.DeleteMe - Head over to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use the code "GOG" for 20% off.Factor - Head to Factor and use code grumpy50 to get 50% off. That's code grumpy50 at Factor to get 50% off!1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1passwordPrivate Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!!FOLLOW UPPortal Between New York And Dublin Closed After A Week Due To "Inappropriate Behavior"The OnlyFans Model Who Ruined the Portal Previously Went Viral for Licking a ToiletApple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away | Ars TechnicaIs the Internet bad for you? Huge study reveals surprise effect on well-beingIN THE NEWSApple Reportedly Close To Deal With OpenAI To Add AI Features To iPhoneOpenAI inks deal to train AI on Reddit dataGoogle Project Astra hands-on: Full of potential, but it's going to be a whileFor self-driving cars, the free ride is over - The VergeElon Musk's X can't invent its own copyright law, judge saysHere's the inside story of why Elon Musk fired the entire Tesla Supercharger staff - AutoblogEnshittificationAs Google AI search rolls out to more people, websites brace for carnage - The Washington PostGoogle is overhauling its search results page with AI overviews and Gemini organization - The VergeGoogle Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web resultsGoogle I/O 2024: Here's everything Google just announced | TechCrunchLearn how to use ChatGPT for SEOChatGPT likes to fight. For military AI researchers, that's a problemUber announces its new, worse version of a busMEDIA CANDYThe Ministry of Ungentlemanly WarfareThe Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power - Official Teaser TrailerThe Stars of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Promise Things Will Actually Happen This SeasonMax Releases First Dune: Prophecy Teaser: WatchDune: Prophecy | Official Teaser | Max - YouTubeHBO's upcoming MoviePass documentary is a must-watch for fans of tech trainwrecksAshley Madison - Sex, Lies & Scandal'The Boys' Renewed for Season 5Jimmy Kimmel Unleashed at Disney Upfronts: See His Best JokesA ‘vastly reduced' Netflix, Peacock and Apple TV+ bundle is coming this monthThe MTV Movie & TV Awards Scrapped for 2024, Returning Next YearSony Music Warns Companies to Stop Training AI on Its Artists' ContentAPPS & DOODADSToDoIstURL CleanerIs Sonos' New App a Podcast Killer? : r/sonosApple brings eye-tracking to recent iPhones and iPadsPPSSPP game emulator now available on the iOS App StoreWipeout PureMeta encourages you to disregard your seat mates and use VR headsets on a planeAT THE LIBRARYThe Far Reaches collectionThe Forward Collection, curated by Blake CrouchThe Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik LarsonPolostan: Volume One of Bomb Light by Neal StephensonTHE DARK SIDE WITH DAVEThe CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopOreo's Special Edition Star Wars Cookies Are Here to Feed Your Inner WookieeThe Chuck E. Cheese Animatronic Band Is Breaking UpFabio and the GooseThelma - Official Trailer | June Squibb, Richard Roundtree, Parker Posey, Fred HechingerSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Editors' Picks:Rich: NR's editorial "Florida's Meat-Mandate Hypocrisy"Charlie: Philip Wallach's magazine piece “Waiting for Caesar”Ramesh: Fred Bauer's magazine piece “Bronze Age Menace”Jim: Stanley Kurtz's post “Stop Greenlighting High-School Walkouts”Light Items:Rich: Coke in a green bottleCharlie: Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp baseball gameRamesh: Songs about LincolnJim: Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and Fall GuySponsors:Made InExpressVPNBasic Books' The End of Everything by Victor Davis HansonThis podcast was edited and produced by Sarah Colleen Schutte.

In this excerpt from the Filmcast: After Dark, David, Jeff, and Devindra discuss Guy Ritchie's latest film, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, and weigh in on whose filmography they prefer: Guy Ritchie's or Matthew Vaughn's. You can sign up to listen to this entire episode at patreon.com/filmpodcast

Description: TOP NEWS | On today's Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Texas Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar is expected to be indicted Friday by the Department of Justice. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke asked to resign after Daily Signal reports she lied to the Senate. The Biden administration announces that Illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children will soon be eligible for federal health care in the U.S.We bring you a Friday movie review of “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” directed by Guy Richie. Relevant Linkshttps://www.dailysignal.com/2024/05/03/biden-make-daca-recipients-eligible-subsidized-federal-health-care-coverage/ Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcastsSign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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