Movie Podcast Weekly Ep. 151: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015) and Straight Outta Compton (2015)

Posted on August 19, 2015 by producer

Welcome to Episode 151 of Movie Podcast Weekly. In this show, Jason, Karl and Ryan bring you two Feature Reviews of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and later Andy shows up to help Jason review Straight Outta Compton. We hope you’ll join us!

If you’re new to our show… Movie Podcast Weekly typically features four hosts — Jason, Andy, Karl and Geek Cast Ry — along with frequent guests. We give you our verdicts on at least one new movie release from the current year that’s currently playing in theaters, as well as several mini reviews of whatever we’ve been watching lately. And we usually provide specialized genre recommendations. New episodes release every single Wednesday. Continue reading →

Movie Podcast Weekly Ep. 150: Fantastic Four (2015) and The Gift (2015) and The Cokeville Miracle (2015) and MPW’s Tribute to Jon Stewart and 12 Movies We Could Watch 150 Times

Posted on August 12, 2015 by producer

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150 episodes of Movie Podcast Weekly! We’ve reached another milestone! So, to celebrate Episode 150, your hosts bring you lists of three films that each host could watch 150 times! We also bring you Feature Reviews of Fantastic Four and The Gift and The Cokeville Miracle. And special guest, Wildman Willis Wheeler, stops by to help us recover from seeing “Fantastic Four.” We also bring you a considerable tribute to Jon Stewart, upon his departing of The Daily Show. Join us!

Movie Podcast Weekly Ep. 149: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) and the Mission: Impossible Franchise

Posted on August 5, 2015 by producer

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Welcome to a special, Considering the Sequels Podcast-style episode of Movie Podcast Weekly, where Josh returns as our special guest to help us review the ENTIRE MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE FRANCHISE.

That’s right! In Episode 149, your five hosts bring you Feature Reviews of Mission: Impossible (1996) and Mission: Impossible II (2000) and Mission: Impossible III (2006) and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) and, of course, the brand-new Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015). Join us!

And please help us settle a debate from this week’s episode:

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MPW Blog: Mr. EULA and The Cloud – by Karl Huddleston

Posted on August 5, 2015 by producer

You may remember a few years ago when Walmart announced its big “Cloud” initiative in relation to DVDs and Blu-ray movies. Basically, you could bring in all your discs that you had purchased in the past from anywhere, and they would take them and “give” you a copy of that movie “in The Cloud” that you would own “forever” and stream whenever you like.

Yeah, right.

This is the part where I love to introduce our good friend, “Mr. EULA” (pronounced “yoo-la”). I became good friends with Mr. EULA when I worked for seven years at a large software company doing compliance work. Essentially, my job was to make sure that all our customers had paid for all the software they were using, because they could install as many instances of the software as they wanted — at will. Continue reading →

MPW Blog: The Next Great Franchise – by Geek Cast Ry

Posted on August 4, 2015 by producer

The old adage goes something like this: “The book will always be better than the movie.” I’m here to disagree with that — if only for this instance.

I recently bought and read, “The Stuff of Legend Omnibus One,” the New York Times best-selling graphic novel written by Mike Raicht and Brian Smith and produced by Th3rd World Studios.

The story centers around a child’s toys which travel into The Dark to save him after he is brought there by The Boogeyman. The Dark is just that, a desolate place run by Boogey himself and populated with the boy’s discarded toys. Continue reading →