by The Flickcast, Aug 2 2016 // 5:00 PM

That’s right, it’s time for a brand new episode of The Flickcast. Yeah, we’re making ’em as fast as we can. Deal with it.
On this week’s episode Chris and Joe discuss the new Ghostbusters, Star Trek: Beyond, Stranger Things, the best stuff from Comic-Con in San Diego including trailers for Wonder Woman, Justice League and Doctor Strange. Plus, the usual more, more and more.
Picks this week include Chris’ pick of Star Trek: Beyond and Joe’s pick of, well, the same thing. Yes, they liked it.
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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Tagged: Anton Yelchin, Beastie Boys, Ben Affleck, Bill Murray, Gal Gadot, Ghostbusters, John Cho, Justice League, Justin Lin, Matthew Modine, Movies, Mr. Robot, Patty Jenkins, Paul Feig, Podcasts, Simon Pegg, Star Trek, Star Trek: Beyond, Star Trek: Discovery, Stranger Things, The Duffer Brothers, TV, Winona Ryder, Wonder Woman, Zack Snyder
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by Nat Almirall, Aug 16 2013 // 9:00 AM

Why they didn’t go with the title jObs is anyone’s guess.
At the end of the film, we see a comparison between the actors and the people they played, none of whom are credited. And despite spending two hours with these fellows, there aren’t many you could name. Cliched as it is to say, but that’s a metaphor for the entire film — it’s so concerned with covering all the major events in the history of Apple Computers and simply the looks of its founders and key people that it misses the mark giving the viewer a sense of what made founder Steve Jobs tick.
Granted, the movie opens with a fantastic scene of Steve Jobs (Ashton Kutcher) announcing the iPod. Kutcher’s inflection, body language, and script are dead-on as he builds the audience’s anticipation, teasing them with hints and pauses and mere suggestions — there’s a mix of delight and arrogance that’s electric. Even if you’ve never heard Jobs speak, the performance still conveys the feeling of being in the presence of a great man at the peak of his strengths
It’s too bad the film likewise peaks in this scene. We flash back to Jobs’ college years where we’re told he’s a renegade, a rebel, the guy who doesn’t wear shoes and drops acid and casually mentions to a fling that he has a girlfriend He takes a hit in a field with his girlfriend (Amanda Crew) and after copious amounts of dancing, he lies back, restless. His girlfriend queries, “You’re thinking about your parents, aren’t you?” a tear rolls down Steve’s cheek, and the audience laughs.
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Tagged: Ahna O'Reilly, Amanda Crew, Apple Computers, Ashton Kutcher, Brad William Henke, David Denman, Dermot Mulroney, Eddie Hassell, Elden Henson, Entertainment One, Giles Matthey, J.K. Simmons, James Woods, Jobs, John Getz, Josh Gad, Joshua Michael Stern, Kevin Dunn, Lenny Jacobson, Lesley Ann Warren, Lukas Haas, Matt Whiteley, Matthew Modine, Nelson Franklin, Open Roads Films, Robert Pine, Ron Eldard, Steve Jobs, Victor Rasuk
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by Matt Raub, Jul 12 2011 // 8:00 AM
As we get ever closer to the release date of Christopher Nolan’s alleged final film in his Batman franchise, we’re getting more and more of a glimpse into this world once again before it comes to a close.
Rumor has it that the first teaser trailer for the film is attached to prints for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, which means we may get some goodies in the coming days. But before we even get that far, the very first “teaser” poster for the film has hit the web, and we’re nothing but excited.
In the poster we can see that Gotham seems to be falling to pieces, which is what we expect to be the setting for the film, as Christian Bale’s Batman makes his public turn into the hero he’s meant to become.
No sign of the film’s full cast, but you may see more of Tom Hardy’s Bane, Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, or Marion Cotillard in the film’s upcoming teaser trailer later this week.
In the meantime, you can check out the poster in gigantic-size right after the jump, and keep it here for more news as it develops of The Dark Knight Rises.
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Posted in: Action · Comics · Dark Knight Rises · DC · DC Entertainment · Drama · Movies · News · Posters · Warner Bros
Tagged: Anne Hathaway, Brett Cullen, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, Dark Knight, Gary Oldman, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Juno Temple, Marion Cotillard, Matthew Modine, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Nestor Carbonell, The Dark Knight Rises, Tom Hardy, Warner Bros
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by Douglas Barnett, Jun 20 2011 // 11:00 AM
This week’s pick is another salute to our WW II flyboys in Michael Caton-Jones’s Memphis Belle (1990). The film stars Matthew Modine (Captain Dennis Dearborn, Pilot), Tate Donovan (1st Lt. Luke Sinclair, Co-Pilot), D.B. Sweeney, (Lt. Phil Lowenthal, Navigator), Billy Zane (Lt. Val Kozlowski, Bombardier), Top Turret Gunner), Eric Stoltz (Sgt. Danny “Danny Boy” Daly, Radio Operator), Sean Astin (Sgt. Richard “Rascal” Moore, and John Lithgow (Lt. Col. Bruce Derringer, an Army publicist writing a story on the crew of the Memphis Belle).
The film is set in the spring of 1943 where American B-17 heavy bombers of the 8th USAAF have been practicing daylight strategic bombing for almost a year against targets within Hitler’s Fortress Europe. The crew of one bomber the Memphis Belle, are the first ever crew to successfully complete their twenty-fifth and final bombing mission before they are allowed to rotate home for R&R.
The film opens where the crew of the Belle are grounded due to their plane under repairs after their last severe mission. As the twenty or so planes from the group arrive back, personnel on the ground can see the battle damage inflicted on the bombers due to enemy guns and shrapnel from air bursts over the target. The last returning bomber’s landing gear is damaged and the plane crash lands on the field. They can hear the men on board screaming as they are trying to get out and then the plane explodes. The men look on as fire and ambulance crews respond to the fiery wreak.
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Tagged: Billy Zane, Courtney Gains, D.B. Sweeney, David Strathairn, Eric Stoltz, Harry Connick Jr., John Lithgow, Matthew Modine, Michael Caton-Jones, Neil Giuntoli, Reed Diamond, Sean Astin, Tate Donovan
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by Douglas Barnett, Jul 26 2010 // 4:00 PM
1987’s Full Metal Jacket is Stanley Kubrick’s riveting classic about U.S. Marines who survive the brutality of basic training only to be caught up in the horrific 1968 Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. The film is based on Gustav Hasford’s novel The Short-Timers, and screen writer Michael Herr (Apocalypse Now), lend their literary talents to the production of the film.
Matthew Modine (“Joker”), Adam Baldwin (Sgt. “Animal Mother”), Vincent D’ Onofrio (Pvt. “Gomer Pyle”) Arliss Howard (“Cowboy”), and R. Lee Ermey (Gunnery Sgt. Hartman) make up the cast of this amazing Vietnam war movie. Like Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, and Kubrick’s incredibly underrated eighteenth century military period piece Barry Lyndon, Full Metal Jacket is shot for shot, and line for line Kubrick at his finest.
The film is most notable for Ermey’s improvisation in many of the scenes. During the production Ermey was made the military technical adviser for the film and he so desperately wanted to try out for the role of Sgt. Hartman. Kubrick had seen and admired Ermey’s portrayal of SSgt. Loyce in The Boys in Company C and felt that he wasn’t tough enough for the role.
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Tagged: Adam Baldwin, Arliss Howard, Blockbuster, DVD, Gustav Hasford, Matthew Modine, Michael Herr, Neflix, R. Lee Ermey, Stanley Kubrick, Vincent D'Onofrio, War, War Movie Mondays
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