That’s right, it’s time for a brand new episode of The Flickcast. The new year just keeps on giving (pretty much).

On this week’s episode Chris and Joe discuss the movie Arrival, Ben Affleck dropping out of directing Batman, M. Night Shyamalan’s career, the curious case of Jeremy Renner, the pleasures of mindless entertainment, the start of the new Han Solo solo movie, who should be the next Doctor and more. Plus, the usual even more. But don’t worry, no politics (mostly).

Beer selections this week include Mosaic IPA from Community Beer Co. for Chris and Gnomegeddon Blonde Ale from Brewery Ommergang for Joe. Picks this week include Chris’ pick of the film Unbreakable and Joe’s pick of the movie The Accountant.

As always, if you have comments, questions, critiques, offers of sponsorship, or whatever, feel free to hit us up in the comments, on Twitter, at Facebook, Google+ or shoot us an email.

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It’s Friday again, but this one is pretty special and marks a big milestone: Only seven more days until Star Wars: The Force Awakens! Awesome, right?

Sadly, you do have to wait just one more week for the awakening. You can do it! Until then, don’t worry. We’ve got a brand new episode of The Flickcast to help you pass the time.

Here’s what you can expect from this week’s episode: Star Wars! John Carpenter! The Thing! Escape from New York! Agents of SHIELD! Wayward Pines! The Dark Tower! and a whole lot more! Don’t worry, we’ll stop using exclamation points now.

Picks this week include Chris’ pick of the Syfy Channel series The Expanse and Joe’s pick of the AMC martial arts action drama Into The Badlands.

As always, if you have comments, questions, critiques, offers of sponsorship, or whatever, feel free to hit us up in the comments, on Twitter, at Facebook, Google+ or via email.

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You guessed it! We’ve got an all-new episode of The Flickcast for you. And it’s on time again this week. Two in a row! We’re on a roll again.

On this week’s show Chris and Joe discuss all sorts of new and recurring topics, as you would expect. Some of these topics include more on the new Ant-Man movie, more on their current favorite TV show Mr. Robot, upcoming Marvel movies and casting rumors, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, more love for the Alamo Drafthouse and still more, more, more.

Picks this week include Chris’ pick of the Coen Brothers film No Country for Old Men and Joe’s pick of the Fox series Wayward Pines.

As always, if you have comments, questions, critiques, offers of sponsorship, or whatever, feel free to hit us up in the comments, on Twitter, at Facebook, Google+ or via email.

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Director M. Night Shyamalan has partnered with Jason Blum of Bloomhouse Productions in order to produce a self-financed, low budget project he had been keeping under wraps. The film, called The Visit, is intended as a return to his earlier work and to productions outside the ‘traditional’ studio system.

The Visit concerns a brother and sister visiting their grandparents’ isolated Pennsylvania farm. Eventually, the youngsters discover the seniors are keeping a dark secret and it quickly becomes apparent to the children they may not be going home.

The Visit was written, directed and self financed by Shyamalan and shot near the director’s Pennsylvania home. The partnership with Blumhouse Productions allowed for a first-look arrangement with Universal and the company specialized in low budget genre pictures. Blumhouse’s most recent successful production was Ouija.

M. Night Shyamalan produced the film with Blum and Marc Bienstock, with Steven Schneider and Ashwin Rajan executive producing.

Universal Pictures has set September 11, 2015 as the release date.

In our opinion at least, Will Smith can pretty much do no wrong. Even when he’s in a somewhat questionable movie, he still manages to come out looking good.

His latest, the sci-fi action movie After Earth, looks promising to continue that trend. The only real problem we can see so far is the director, M. Night Shyamalan.

Yeah, we used to think he was pretty great too. But now, not so much. What happened?

Anyway, a new trailer for After Earth has arrived and in it we see Smith and son Jaden, who also play father and son in the movie, crash-land on a hostile Earth a thousand years into the future. Needless to say (but we’ll go ahead anyway) things don’t go as they expect. To say the least.

Look for After Earth to arrive in theaters on June 7th. The trailer is after the break.