It’s time for a brand new episode of The Flickcast. The podcast about stuff nerds love. This week it’s Episode 436: Sci-fi Movie favorites.
On this week’s episode Chris and Joe do things a bit differently and discuss some of the sci-fi movies that made an impact on them and a few that became their favorites. We’re not gonna say which movies were the favorites, you’ll just have to listen to find out.
Suffice it to say we’re pretty sure you’ll find one two of your favorites on the list too. We can pretty much guarantee it. After all, if there’s one thing nerds love, it’s sci-fi movies. And there’s no shame in that.
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Another day, another cool trailer for Trailer Time. Today it’s the latest one for writer/director David Lowrey’s The Green Knight.
This movie was actually ready to drop in 2020, but we bet you can guess what happened to that. Fortunately, things seem to be turing a corner, at least here in the US, so it looks like movies are back, baby!
And, of course, with movies coming back that means new trailers. So here we are.
In this latest Arthurian tale Dev Patel plays Sir Gawain in what’s described in the official synopsis thusly:
“An epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend, The Green Knight tells the story of Sir Gawain, King Arthur’s reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men. Gawain contends with ghosts, giants, thieves, and schemers in what becomes a deeper journey to define his character and prove his worth in the eyes of his family and kingdom by facing the ultimate challenger.”
We gotta say, this movie looks crazy as hell and we are totally in. Will watch. In fact, this is one of the movies that may get us back in the theater. Maybe. Or maybe we’ll wait for Dune. Anyway . . .
The Green Knight stars Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Sarita Choudhury and Sean Harris. It’s based on the novel Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous and written/directed by David Lowrey.
Look for it in theaters, and likely streaming too, on July 30th. In the meantime, check out the trailer below.
This is only the second installment of Western Wednesdays Again and I believe I have already seen the messiest and strangest film that ever boasted a horse, a pistol, and a sunset: Mad Dog Morgan. It was a toss-up between Morgan and The Ox-Bow Incident, but I had a thirst for some Ozploitation, and Morgan is a pretty legendary piece of Australian filmmaking.
It also seemed like a good idea to expand the cinematic frontier early on in this feature, and visit a place that has a remarkably similar history. Americans tend to think that the myth of the Wild Wild West is theirs, and theirs alone – and it certainly is, but Australia enjoyed a settlement experience that was just as violent and lawless as our own. They just had kangaroos instead of buffalo, and convicts instead of hardy pioneers.
One thing America and Australia would appear to have in common is an idolization of outlaws. We’ve got Jesse James and Billy the Kid, whereas they have Ned Kelly and Daniel “Mad Dog” Morgan. Now, I think Americans view outlaws as romantic figures, living outside of the pale, and away from the man.
We rewrite some of them into Robin Hood figures, but we’re usually content to let them represent nothing but robbery. Australian bush rangers like Kelly and Morgan represent a strike against English colonialism, and they become folk heroes, despite that they didn’t do anything particularly worthy of the people. When you’re a country of ex-convicts, there’s probably a greater tendency to worship anyone who shoots an official.
With a week off to rest, recharge (and a few more “R” words) it’s time for a brand new episode of The Flickcast. The podcast about stuff nerds love.
On this week’s episode Chris and Joe dive right back into it as if they’d never left. Topics on this episode include the Apple TV+ series For All Mankind and Mythic Quest, Battlestar Galactica and 15 seconds in heaven with The Eternals.
They also talk about other future Marvel movies like The Fantastic Four and where Marvel’s First Family and the Eternals were during Infinity War and Endgame, potential origins of the X-Men, and the brand new Disney+ series The Bad Batch.
Don’t worry, this is a fun episode and the “real world” hardly comes up at all. Also, Joe doesn’t try to hog the conversation this week, so no need to continue giving him a hard time. Everything’s fine. We’re all fine.
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It’s time for another edition of What We’re Watching. This time we’re watching the the 2020 South Korean martial arts epic The Swordsman.
Before we go on it should be known we’re huge fans of martial arts films here at The Flickcast. Some of us go way back with them. That said, The Swordsman one of our favorite new martial arts films to come out in the last ten years.
Featuring a compelling cast, great production design and cinematography, amazing fight action and an emotionally engaging story The Swordsman delivers. Here’s more on what the film is all about (via Wikipedia):
“During the chaotic period of Ming-Qing dynasty transition, after failing to protect and preventing the downfall of Gwanghaegun, Tae-yul, the best swordsman in Joseon, lives in seclusion with his daughter Tae-ok in the mountains. As Tae-yul’s eyesight begins to fail due to an old injury, Tae-ok seeks to find a treatment for him. When she is captured and taken away by slave trader Gurutai, Tae-yul is forced to raise his sword again in order to save her.”
Pretty cool, right? We sure think so. We also think you should watch this film, especially if you’re a fan of great martial arts action.
Check out the trailer for the film below. The Swordsman is now available on one of your favorite streaming service, probably for a fee (at least right now). Worth it.
The Swordsman features Joe Taslim (of the recent Mortal Kombat reboot), Jang Hyuk, Kim Hyun-soo and Jung Man-sik. It’s written and directed by Choi Jae-hoon.
Have you seen The Swordsman? Do you love it as much as we do? Let us know in the comments or hit us up on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. Happy Watching!
As you may know, The Flickcast has been around for a minute. Well, more like ten years. During that time we’ve amassed a great deal of amazing content and much of it is still relevant today. So, we figured, why not share it with an entirely new audience?
In that spirit we’re bringing back one of our favorite features: Western Wednesdays. And we’re kicking it off with a favorite: Two Mules for Sister Sara. Written by the gifted Elizabeth Rappe, Western Wednesdays explores a different film in the Western genre each week with Elizabeth offering her unique take on the film, details about the production and whole lot more. They’re great to read, especially if you’re a fan of the Western like we are.
We’re pleased to bring you the first installment of what we’re now calling “Western Wednesdays Again.” Enjoy!
– Chris
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I used to hate Westerns. I live in the wide and rugged expanse of Colorado, grew up in the shadow of the Rockies, and see cowboy boots on a daily basis. Heck, I even did a volunteer stint at a western museum. I couldn’t stand watching films that were basically set in my own backyard, even if the days of gunslingers and posses were long gone.
Later, I finally came around. I can’t say when this shift happened — probably upon my first adult viewing of Lonesome Dove, or maybe even as recent as James Mangold’s remake of 3:10 to Yuma. But I suddenly found Westerns to be a lot of fun, and I’ve enjoyed going back and watching all John Wayne and John Ford offerings that I’ve missed due to my snobbery.
Because I’m the type of girl who overshares everything, I thought it would be fun to chronicle this obsession, and encourage others to ride along with me. Thus, Wednesday Westerns was born. Every Wednesday, I’m going to explore this dusty and acrid genre, finding the good, the bad, and the ugly examples along the way.
I hope you’ll watch and discuss along with me — and I’m going to try and make as many selections from online streaming options to prevent you from putting off the ride.
I was hoping to launch this with a film that was daring and unusual, and one that I hadn’t seen before. But while browsing Instant Netflix, I discovered that one of my all-time favorites was available: Two Mules For Sister Sara. As much as I hate being obvious (and if you know my Clint Eastwood fandom, it’s terribly cheap of me to do it), I can’t resist the opportunity to write about this one, and encourage more people to watch it.
Two Mules for Sister Sara occupies a weird, misty period of Eastwood’s career. Released in 1970, it was post Sergio Leone, but right before he became Dirty Harry, and gunned himself into grim and humorless typecasting. The late 1960s were a period he was still willing to smile onscreen, and the film reportedly bombed because of that.
It’s time for another edition of Things We Love here at The Flickcast. This time the things we love is actually a group of things. What are these magical unicorns, you may ask? Well, they’re the Apple Macintosh computers.
This won’t be a place to debate the merits or restart the war between Mac and PC. We each have our favorites and reasons for choosing to use what we do. Many of you prefer to use Windows computers, and that’s just great. Enjoy.
But for the majority of us here at The Flickcast, we go Mac. And we’ve gone Mac since the beginning of time . . . or at least since the last thirty years or so.
What started as a fun challenge taken up by Steve Wozniak at the Homebrew Computer club in the mid-seventies and culminating, at that time, with the release of the Apple I computer (selling for an imaginative $666.00) spawned a whole generation of amazing devices we pretty much take for granted today. Apple computers of the early days paved the way for the Mac, famously introduced in 1984 by an Orwell-inspired commercial directed by young genius Ridley Scott. I wonder what ever happened to that kid?
Since that time, the Mac is grown in popularity and although it’s never achieved the level of success its Windows counterparts enjoy, it’s still the de facto tool of choice for millions of people around the world.
We know it is for us. Well, most of us. Joe doesn’t like Macs. We still like him, though. And we’re still working on bringing him into the light. Until then . . .
Thank you Woz, thank you Steve Jobs and thank you to the thousands of others who labored and toiled and sweated to bring us one of the things we love. And thanks to you Macintosh. We literally couldn’t do it without you. You will always be one of the things we love.
Here’s the infamous “1984” commercial.
Do you love Apple’s Macintosh as much as we do? Or, do you go to the dark side? Nah, only joking. Let us know why you love the Mac, or why we’re missing out on the perfection of Windows, in the comments or hit us up on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.
It’s time for another new episode of The Flickcast. The pop culture podcast about stuff nerds love. This week it’s Episode 434: Mortal Podcast.
On this week’s episode Chris and Joe dive into a slew of new and recurring topics such as Apple’s new podcasting announcement, movies such as Stowaway and Mortal Kombat, Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, Tig Notario, special effects movies and, of course, the finale (aka Episode 6) of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. They don’t, however, get too real and talk much about current events. I’m sure that makes a few of you very happy.
We try not to bring the “real world” into things too often. But as we said last week, sometimes it happens. And hey, this episode isn’t all that long so it will hopefully hold your attention all the way through. So no, nothing to blame Joe for this week.
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Thanks for listening!
WARNING: This episode may contain discussions about COVID-19, mental health, quarantine and other real-world issues. We understand not everyone is in a place to talk about or hear discussions surrounding these issues. We completely understand. Please do what’s best for you. Stay safe everyone.
As always, if you have comments, questions, critiques, offers of sponsorship or whatever, feel free to hit us up in the comments, on Twitter, Instagram or, yes, even Facebook. Or shoot us an email. We don’t mind.
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Sure, Pineapple Express might feel like an odd choice given the movie came out in 2008. That seems so long ago. It kinda was. But if being stuck at home during a pandemic showed us one thing, it’s you need to entertain yourself.
One way we enjoy entertaining ourselves is pretty much the same way most of the people in this movie do. So yes, Pineapple Express is a fine choice for us . . . and it might be for you too.
The movie is very funny and features great performances by stars Seth Rogen and James Franco (especially Franco). We do find the shift in tone from stoner buddy comedy/drama to violent gore fest rather abrupt and it does dampen our enjoyment of the movie somewhat.
While we do realize what the gang who made the film were going for, it just doesn’t quite land with this one. But even so, the film managed to be very successful and profitable, so obviously it didn’t bother a lot of other people. We were just hoping for more, as always. Opinions differ, and that’s cool.
Rogen and company do a much better job pulling this off with the more recent This is the End. We really like that one. Don’t worry, we’re gonna watch that again soon and will be posting about it.
Until then, watch Pineapple Express and entertain yourself. It really is quite fun, not matter where your head’s at.
Oh, if you do decide to enjoy this movie, partake in other related products (or both), please do so responsibly. We don’t advocate breaking the law and certainly aren’t encouraging you to do so.
Sorry, our lawyers made us say that. But yeah, try to be cool.
Pineapple Express stars Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny McBride, Amber Heard, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Craig Robinson and a host of other great actors. It’s written by Rogen and Evan Goldberg, produced by Judd Apatow and directed by David Gordon Green. Check out the trailer below.
It’s time for another new episode of The Flickcast. The pop culture podcast about stuff nerds love. This week it’s Episode 433: The Mind’s Eye.
On this week’s episode called, once again, The Mind’s Eye (you’ll get it), Chris and Joe dive into a slew of new and recurring topics such as the recent trailer for F9,Star Wars fandom, amazing shows like Ted Lasso, Mythic Quest and For All Mankindand Episode 5 of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. They also get a bit serious and talk about the current state of internet outrage, a bit of politics and something that will likely be pretty controversial: how cop show are dealing with real world events.
We promise not to bring the “real world” into things too often. But sometimes it happens, so bear with us. Oh, this is another kinda long episode too, but you can’t blame Chris this time either. It’s all Joe’s fault again.
If you get a moment and feel like it/can do it, consider rating or reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts. Every rating and review helps. And if you’re really feeling it, consider supporting the show on Patreon.
Thanks for listening!
WARNING: This episode may contain discussions about COVID-19, mental health, quarantine and other real-world issues. We understand not everyone is in a place to talk about or hear discussions surrounding these issues. We completely understand. Please do what’s best for you. Stay safe everyone.
As always, if you have comments, questions, critiques, offers of sponsorship or whatever, feel free to hit us up in the comments, on Twitter, Instagram or, yes, even Facebook. Or shoot us an email. We don’t mind.
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