Podcast #6 – Summer Movies & Blockbusters
It’s our sixth podcast! We’ve done this six times! With summer fast approaching, this episode is devoted to Big Summer Event Blockbuster Movies! The Pigs discuss the rise of the blockbuster and why three old and cynical men don’t get nearly as excited about the movies as they used to. There must be some reason. Also, our takes on the latest, critically important movie news, Movie Jail, fun and games, an adventurous cold reading, and much, much more! Well, not that much, but there’s definitely more.
This time, on a very special episode of The Film Pigs Podcast:
Continue reading Podcast #6 – Summer Movies & BlockbustersTonn Slingdog Remembers The Franchises, Part One: Children of the Corn
No, I didn’t just rewatch all these goddamn things. This is simply my memory of each one.
CHILDREN OF THE CORN — First time I saw this was at a religious sleepover camp in a church basement. Because of where I was, and the fact that I was surrounded by girls I was really sexually attracted to, it was both more way effective and more enjoyable than it should have been. However, that creepy Isaac guy and the red-head with the raspy voice have stuck with me through the years. Continue reading Tonn Slingdog Remembers The Franchises, Part One: Children of the Corn
Jeremy Renner Is Not Jason Bourne In New Bourne Movie
Jeremy Renner has been cast as the lead in the new, non-Greengrass, non-Damon Jason Bourne sequel, but is not playing Jason Bourne. Via Yahoo! Movies:
Universal couldn’t let such a profitable franchise die, though, so they gave Gilroy the director’s chair and set about casting a new lead, someone who is not Jason Bourne, but is certainly cut from his proverbial cloth.
Now, I am all for a Bourne movie without the annoying, action-destroying Paul Greengrass Super-Shaky-Cam, but a Bourne movie without Jason Bourne is kind of confusing. What’s the point? Other than the money, of course.
StarTalk: Scientists Discuss Best/Worst Science In Movies
This episode of the StarTalk radio show has astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and Phil Plait, “The Bad Astronomer,” discuss the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of science in the movies.
Most nerdy part: midway through the podcast they have a contest to see who can point out the most nitpicky science errors in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Near the end of the show, Neil tells the story of how he called out James Cameron for showing the wrong sky at the end of Titanic.
Cagewatch 2011: Nic Cage Arrested!
According to CNN:
Actor Nicolas Cage was arrested in New Orleans early Saturday and faces charges of disturbing the peace and domestic abuse, authorities said.
I was really hoping for something more along the lines of him doing a general freak out on top of his graveyard obelisk.