It’s time for a brand new episode of The Flickcast on its new day: Friday! We hope you’ll still be able to enjoy the show, even if it’s on a different day now. We know the struggle is real. Stay strong. Speaking of the show . . .

On this week’s episode Chris and Joe are back at it discussing Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But don’t worry, that’s not all they discuss. Also included are the upcoming Jessica Jones series on Netflix, The Walking Dead, Supergirl, the Sherlock period movie, Ash vs. Evil Dead, more pictures of The Joker and Harley Quinn from the upcoming Suicide Squad movie and a whole lot more, more, more.

Picks this week include Chris’ pick of the movie The Martian, and Joe’s pick of the book Whoniverse by Lance Parkin.

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It’s time for an all-new episode of The Flickcast! And it’s a special one. It’s our 300th episode.! We know, right?

On this week’s show Chris and Joe don’t really do anything special to commemorate the 300th episode, but they do discuss all sorts of new and recurring topics. Some of these topics include Fear the Walking Dead, The Last Ship, Mr. Robot, the upcoming Shannara Chronicles, Netflix and Hulu, Strike Back and the tragic death of director and horror icon Wes Craven. There’s also the usual more.

Picks this week include Chris’ pick of the Wes Craven classic Scream and Joe’s pick of the novel The Martian, soon to be a major motion picture.

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This week on The Flickcast, Chris and Matt discuss a bunch of new topics and revisit a few old ones. Some of these include the Evil Dead beboot (or Army of Darkness, as Chris likes to call it), Game of Thrones, Mad Men, horror movies, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium, Jon Hamm’s big problem and more.

They also made some picks his week, as usual, with Matt’s being the upcoming Marty Langford and Mark Sikes documentary on the making of Roger Corman’s mythic Fantastic Four movie and Chris’ being the new NBC show Hannibal.

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So far as I’ve seen, the kerfuffle surrounding the funding and production of Promised Land has received more attention than the film itself. So in case you haven’t heard, the film portrays the process of hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” in a negative light. People such as Phelim MacAleer, director of the documentary FrackNation, and residents of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, where much of the movie was filmed, have accused the producers of exaggerating if not totally fabricating the dangers of fracking.

However, the biggest bombshell came when the Heritage Foundation revealed that one of the film’s backers is connected to OPEC, sparking outcries that there’s a conflict of interest. OPEC, of course, being a supplier of oil would have a lot to gain if the U.S. outlawed fracking altogether or at least had a good amount of public resentment.

Though anyone actually interested in following the story will see that the connection is dubious, and even if it were ironclad, so what? As much faith as I have in people not to get their information from a fictional film, I’m more confident that not many will see it. For that matter and despite all the hoopla, fracking really isn’t that big of a plot point. It’s discussed, and some dangers are touched on, but the larger villain is the old standby, Big Business.

There is a few ways to make a successful trailer parody. You can play on the cliche’s of a genre, or the general practice of that genre’s trailers. You can cram in big name celebs in roles that mock their drive for Oscar bait or general shamelessness. Or in the case of Jimmy Kimmel’s newest piece of genius you can shove that all in and more.

The trailer for the woe-fully fictional Movie: The Movie features a cavalcade of stars and some sharp satire that should delight anyone and everyone.

Highlights of the piece include Matt Damon’s grapes, black Hitler falling to earth on a meteor and of course Dame Helen Mirren in a hover craft. There is tons to chew on in the extra long trailer and even though it clocks in at close to ten minutes you might be compelled to watch it more than once.

If there is any justice in the world some one will fund a feature length Robo-Lawyer film staring Academy Award Winner Tom Hanks, but with our luck all we are going to get is a baby Kevin James and baby Jason Bateman buddy comedy.

Take a look at the hilarity after the jump.