Author: David

Favorite movie? Ghostbusters (1984). Favorite Ghostbuster? Egon Spengler. Favorite favorite? The Favourite (2018).

Talkie Talk #59: Watchlist / Reality Roundup / Thor Ragnarok / News – 11/8

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Happy November! We talk about our Watchlists, including our Reality Roundup (including The Challenge and Survivor), enjoy Thor: Ragnarok, and then dip into a bracing Breezy on the Streets (week’s news in film, TV and games).

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The Watchlist (0:53)
David: Addams Family Values (1:24), Mr. Robot Season 3 (2:36), Mindhunter (6:36), That 70’s Show (9:17), Playing HQ (11:03)
TJ: Stranger Things Season 2 (14:02), Survivor (15:55), The Circle (20:34)
Brent: The Meyerowitz Stories (29:13), The Babysitter (30:02), To the Bone (30:14), XX (31:42), 50 Shades Darker (32:49), Kingsmen: The Golden Circle (49:27)
Chris: Colossal (39:42), Free Fire (41:16), Book of Love (41:58), Once Upon a Time in Venice (42:14), OtherLife (43:15), Spider-Man: Homecoming and Thor: Ragnarok (44:11), The Challenge (54:16), Are You the One? (54:44)
Breezy on the Streets (56:03)
56:17 – Reckoning in Hollywood continues: Spacey, Rattner, Hoffman
58:31 – Fun games news at Sony press conference in Paris Games Week  
59:31 – More fun games news from BlizzCon (Overwatch, WoW)
Best Bet this Weekend: Murder on the Orient Express? (59:58)

Warning: Some mild language. Some language is picante.

> Intro theme courtesy of The Willow Walkers
> Outro song “Extemporaneous  Birth” courtesy of Boo Reefa 

Talkie Talk # 58: Watchlist / Reality Roundup / Suburbicon / News – 11/3

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Full of Halloween watches, we all talk our Watchlists, including the new Suburbicon, speak our Reality Roundup (including The Challenge and Survivor) – and then we dip into a fine Breezy on the Streets (week’s news in film, TV and games).

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The Watchlist (0:58)
TJ: Too Funny to Fail (1:14), The Babysitter (3:10), Absolutely Anything (4:20), Naked (5:39), Suburbicon (7:04), Phoenix Forgotten (9:12), The Book of Love (14:08)
David: The Beguiled (16:03), Hocus Pocus (16:44), The Void (17:59), Housebound (19:26), 1922 (20:15), Playing South Park: The Fractured But Whole (21:13), At Home With Amy Sedaris (22:31)
Chris: The Wheelman (23:56), John Wick: Chapter 2 (25:11), Assassin’s Creed (28:57), Playing Orii and the Blind Forest (32:55), Mindhunter (35:02)
Brent: Life (37:00), The Discovery (38:34), Silence of the Lambs (39:34), Memento (39:43), American Vandal (40:50)
Reality Roundup: Survivor (44:25), Are You the One? (47:49), The Challenge (50:29)
Breezy on the Streets (52:53)
53:08 – Lin Manuel-Miranda developing Kingkiller Chronicles for Showtime
55:06 – SNL Halloween Special: David S. Pumpkins Cartoon  
56:40 – Stranger Things is out! But you know that.
57:12 – Big Game Releases: Super Mario Odyssey, Wolfenstein II, Assassin’s Creed Origins
Best Bet this Weekend: Thor: Ragnarok (57:44)

Warning: Some mild language. Some language is picante.

> Intro theme courtesy of The Willow Walkers
> Outro song “Extemporaneous  Birth” courtesy of Boo Reefa 

1922 (2017)

Now Streaming on Netflix
Directed by: Zak Hilditch
Starring: Thomas Jane, Molly Parker

1922 is the newest Stephen King adaptation to make it to the big screen, via the small screens of Netflix. It also marks the sixth Stephen King adaptation this year alone – following films The Dark Tower, It, Gerald’s Game, and the TV shows The Mist and Mr. Mercedes. It’s like those years where Alicia Vikander or Jessica Chastain just happen to be in 10 movies. I’ll be honest and say I hadn’t even heard of the novella before hearing of this new Netflix horror flick – it seems like they’re coming out of the woodwork now. Is it worth it to return to the well once more for 1922? Surprisingly, yes.

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Talkie Talk #56: Talk of Fame – An American Werewolf in London (1981)

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Light your candles and dust off your pentangles, because we are talking An American Werewolf in London for submission to the Talk of Fame. It’s a real bloodbath, both in the movie… and on the pod!

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Homework/Main Topic: An American Werewolf in London Talk of Fame (0:53)
New Homework: Bay of Blood (Filmstruck) (53:09)

Warning: Some mild language. Some language is picante.

> Intro theme courtesy of The Willow Walkers
> Outro song “Extemporaneous  Birth” courtesy of Boo Reefa

The Beguiled (2017)

Now available to rent on Amazon, Apple, Google Play $4.99
Director: Sofia Coppola
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning

Virginia. Three years into the civil war. A girl wanders the forest, looking for mushrooms, and comes across a wounded Union colonel, John McBurney (Colin Farrell), and takes him back to her school, the Seminary for Young Ladies. The school, run by the steely and pragmatic head-mistress Miss Martha (Nicole Kidman), only has a few students left and one teacher, Edwina (Kirsten Dunst), around. Everyone else has ditched the Seminary to be with their families, or perhaps had existentialist crises about the conflict of teaching/learning sewing / violin / French as the country is torn apart, causing them to wander country roads in search of meaning (my fan-fiction, not really within the movie). The school is a mansion on a small plantation, and has run into disrepair, as the civil war is raging outside the iron gates. At first, the ladies hide the charming Union soldier from the Confederates, who check in on the school. Later, they are confronted by the consequences of this “Christian-minded” action, as McBurney disrupts the equilibrium of this little community. I’m comfortable giving away this plot (for free!) as the film is not that interested in it. Instead, it luxuriates in the humid and tense atmosphere of a school being reclaimed by nature and repressed feelings. And there’s the crux.

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State of the Race: The Gotham Independent Film Nominations

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As we all know, Oscar season is a year-round affair. The first domino dropped on October 19th, with the first film award nominations coming – these were for the Gotham Independent Film Awards. These are given annually from the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) “the largest membership organization in the United States dedicated to independent film” and the awards were founded in 1991.

A group of people decide on the nominations and awards, limiting the scope to films that could be considered independent – so big budget movies and big studio ones are ineligible. So we wouldn’t expect to see Dunkirk or Wonder Woman here. But independent film has dominated the Oscars for the last 20 years anyway – the last four years have been indie winners for Best Picture, for 12 Years a Slave (2013), Birdman (2014), Spotlight (2015) and Moonlight (2016) – all of which were nominated for Best Feature in the Gothams.

Let’s show the actual nominees first and then see what it means:

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Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)

Now Streaming on Netflix
Directed by: Noah Baumbach
Starring: Adam Sandler, Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, Emma Thompson

Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (yes that’s the full title) is the next high profile original movie from Netflix, after the Bong Joon Ho helmed Okja. It’s almost fitting that this is coming out in horror friendly October – but instead of jump scares, we have the jump cringes of Baumbach comedies. It’s a horror show, how self involved and petty these people are, and the suffering that they endure. But it’s also pretty good and pretty funny.

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Talkie Talk #52: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy / Movie Title Name Games

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Tinker. Tailor. Soldier. Podcast. We dive into TTSS from 2011 and talk about the slowburning, British intelligence spy movie. We think we get it. But are we being set up? Taking its unusual title as inspiration, we play Movie Title Name Games – having a grand ole time with crazy titles, working titles, list titles, all that.

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Homework Assignment: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (0:56)
Main Topic: Movie Title Name Games (15:38)
Title said during the movie? (16:32)
Working Titles – Guess the final title (24:44)
Movie Quotes Missing the Title (30:44)
The Movie Title is a List (41:37)
Crazy Title Grab Bag (48:21)
New Homework: American Werewolf in London for Talk of Fame (Amazon Prime) (56:22)

Warning: Some mild language. Some language is picante.

> Intro theme courtesy of The Willow Walkers
> Outro song “Extemporaneous  Birth” courtesy of Boo Reefa

Talkie Talk # 51: The Watchlist / Survivor / News – 10/11

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We talk our Watchlists, more Survivor talk (we’re all watching now!), and a helping of Breezy on the Streets (week’s news in film, TV and games).

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> Contact: email, Facebook (movies, TV, games), and Twitter!
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The Watchlist (0:57)
David: Rick and Morty (1:13), Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (3:22), Gerald’s Game (5:07), Playing: Uncharted 4 (8:01)
All-Watch: Survivor… as compared to Are You the One (10:30)
Chris: The Challenge (18:41), The Girl with All the Gifts (21:52), Cuphead Teaser (24:02), Playing: Knights of Pen & Paper 2 (25:10)
TJ: The Good Place (26:55), Podcast Corner [Limetown, Spooked, LaVar Burton Reads] (27:47), a little bit of Revenge of the Sith (31:40)
Brent: Boiler Room (32:50), Assassin’s Creed (33:18), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (38:35), Pearl Harbor (41:21), Changing Lanes (44:21),
Breezy on the Streets (45:49)
46:03 – Harvey Weinstein sexual harrassment/assault case
48:11 – Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead will have cross-over
48:48 – Elijah Wood likely leading Y: The Last Man adaption for FX
49:50 – Trailer Round Up (Pacific Rim 2, Red Sparrow, Red Dead Redemption 2)
52:36 – Checking in on new season of SNL
54:16 – Best Bet this Weekend: The Foreigner, Happy Death Day or Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
56:09 – Finally – John Krasinski as Jack Ryan

Warning: Some mild language. Some language is picante.

> Intro theme courtesy of The Willow Walkers
> Outro song “Extemporaneous  Birth” courtesy of Boo Reefa