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Michael Falkner offers a double dose of movie premeires on this expanded episode of The Weekly Podioplex.
 
 

Weekly Podioplex Notes for

March 8, 2016

 

Introduction

Opening Clip: 10 Cloverfield Lane

 

Box Office Report

 

Top Ten

#1 – Zootopia
#2 – London Has Fallen
#3 – Deadpool [-2]
#4 – Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
#5 – Gods of Egypt [-3]
#6 – Risen [-2]

#7 – Kung Fu Panda 3 [-4]
#8 – The Revenant [+2]
#9 – Eddie the Eagle [-4]
#10 – The Witch [-3]

 

(New Release) [Change]

 

Tops From the Past

2011 – Battle: Los Angeles
2006 – Failure to Launch
1996 – The Birdcage
1986 – Pretty in Pink
1976 – To the Devil a Daughter

 

Box Office Premieres for the weeks of March 11th and March 18th, 2016

Wide

March 11th 

10 Cloverfield Lane – [PG-13]

The Perfect Match – [R]

The Brothers Grimsby – [R]

The Young Messiah – [PG-13]

 

March 18th 

The Divergent Series: Allegiant – [PG-13]

Miracles from Heaven – [PG]

 

Limited

March 8th 

Creative Control – [R]
Eye in the Sky – [R]

Hello, My Name is Doris – [R]
Lolo – [NR]

Marguerite – [R]
River of Grass – [NR]

Backgammon – [NR]

March 15th 

The Bounce Back – [PG-13]

Midnight Special – [PG-13]

The Bronze – [R]

The Program – [R]

The Little Prince – [PG]

Krishna – [R]

My Golden Days – [R]

 

Home Entertainment for the weeks of March 8th and March 15th, 2016

New Releases on DVD and Blu-Ray 

 

March 8th

The Peanuts Movie – [G]

Victor Frankenstein – [PG-13]

Macbeth – [R]

 

March 15th 

The Big Short – [R]

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip – [PG]

Brooklyn – [PG-13]

Sisters – [R]

 

TV on DVD and Blu-Ray 

 

March 8th

Manhattan: Season Two (2015)

 

March 15th 

Game of Thrones: Season Five (2015)

 

Blu-Rays From the Past 

 

March 8th 

Howard the Duck (1986) – [PG]

 

March 15th 

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) – [Approved]

 

Podcast Promos

 

The Batcave Podcast

The Batcave Podcast is an Internet show that takes a look at each and every episode of the 60s Batman television series. Host John S. Drew celebrates the great and looks to see where the show went wrong as it slid into oblivion in its third and final season with a different guest host each week. In the end, John is attempting to justify his love for this series, not to the listener, but to himself. Join him on this long, strange trip. 

 

The Anomaly Podcast

Welcome to Anomaly Geek Girl Podcasts and Blog.  Articles and episodes feature topics such as: Sci Fi and Fantasy books, games, movies & television shows, costuming & cosplay, conventions, theatre & general geek culture. There’s a little something here for the geek in everyone.

 

Quick Flicks

 

None

Links

 

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Michael’s blog at Creative Criticality

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DEADPOOL continues to impress at the box office, but the weekend's offerings offer new challenges for the Marvel flick.  Michael Falkner has this and more on an all new Weekly Podioplex.

 

Weekly Podioplex Notes for March 1, 2016

 

Introduction

Opening Clip: Zootopia

 

Box Office Report

 

Top Ten

#1 – Deadpool [Third Week]
#2 – Gods of Egypt
#3 – Kung Fu Panda 3 [-1]
#4 – Risen [-1]
#5 – Triple 9
#6 – Eddie the Eagle

#7 – The Witch [-3]
#8 – How to Be Single [-3]
#9 – Race [-3]
#10 – The Revenant [-1]

 

(New Release) [Change]

 

 

Tops From the Past

2011 – Rango
2006 – Madea’s Family Reunion
1996 – Up Close & Personal
1986 – Pretty in Pink
1976 – Taxi Driver

 

Box Office Premieres for the week of March 4th, 2016

Wide

Zootopia – [PG]

London Has Fallen – [R]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot – [R]

 

Limited

The Other Side of the Door – [R]
Knight of Cups – [R]

Desierto – [R]

The Wave – [R]

Emelie – [NR]

 

Home Entertainment for the week of March 1st, 2016

New Releases on DVD and Blu-Ray 

 

Creed – [PG-13]

Room – [R]

The Danish Girl – [R]

Legend – [R]

The Night Before – [R]

Childhood’s End – [NR]

 

TV on DVD and Blu-Ray 

 

Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales (2015)

The Americans: Season Three (2015)

 

Blu-Rays From the Past 

 

Strange Brew (1983) – [PG]

 

Podcast Promos

 

Flash Pulp

Flash Pulp is an experiment in broadcasting fresh pulp stories in the modern age – 3 to 10 minutes, brought to you Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

 

Quick Flicks

 

None

Links

 

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Michael’s blog at Creative Criticality

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Deadpool continues to reign at the box office, but perhaps this weekend's fare will bring it down.  Michael Falkner has the weekend movie releases, new TV on DVD and more on a new Weekly Podioplex.
 

Weekly Podioplex Notes for February 23, 2016

 

Introduction

Opening Clip: Eddie the Eagle

 

Box Office Report

 

Top Ten

#1 – Deadpool [Second Week]
#2 – Kung Fu Panda 3 [Even]
#3 – Risen
#4 – The Witch
#5 – How to Be Single [-2]
#6 – Race

#7 – Zoolander 2 [-3]
#8 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens [-1]
#9 – The Revenant [-4]
#10 – Hail, Caesar! [-4]

 

(New Release) [Change]

 

 

Tops From the Past

2011 – Hall Pass
2006 – Madea’s Family Reunion
1996 – Rumble in the Bronx
1986 – Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1976 – Taxi Driver


Box Office Premieres for the week of February 26th, 2016

Wide

Eddie the Eagle – [PG-13]

Gods of Egypt – [PG-13]

Triple 9 – [R]

 

Limited

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny – [PG-13]
Tere Bin Laden Dead or Alive – [NR]

The Last Man on the Moon – [NR]

 

Home Entertainment for the week of February 23rd, 2016

New Releases on DVD and Blu-Ray 

 

The Good Dinosaur – [PG]

Spotlight – [R]

Extraction – [R]

Diablo – [R]

 

TV on DVD and Blu-Ray 

 

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song (2015)

Fargo: Season Two (2015)

Warehouse 13: The Complete Series (2009-2014)

 

Blu-Rays From the Past 

 

The Big Sleep (1946) – [Approved]

Key Largo (1948) – [UR]

The Graduate (1967) – [Approved]

 

Podcast Promos

 

Remake This Movie RIGHT

“Remake This Movie RIGHT!” is a bi-weekly podcast where we take a classic film that is actively being remade by Hollywood studio execs, and craft our own version of how a modern retelling should go. Does the story need updating? Should characters or motives be tweaked? Do we need more muppets? We take all factors into account, concoct our film, and then offer a Final Pitch to you in movie trailer form. By the end of each episode, we will Remake This Movie RIGHT!

 

Quick Flicks

 

None

Links

 

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It's a delayed episode of the Podioplex as Deadpool continues its reign at the top of the box office.  Plus, Michael Falkner's got new movie news.
 
 

Weekly Podioplex Notes for February 16, 2016

 

Introduction

Opening Clip: Race


Box Office Report

 

Top Ten

#1 – Deadpool [New Records]
#2 – Kung Fu Panda 3 [-1]
#3 – How to Be Single
#4 – Zoolander 2
#5 – The Revenant [-1]
#6 – Hail, Caesar! [-4]

#7 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens [-4]
#8 – The Choice [-3]
#9 – Ride Along 2 [-1]
#10 – The Boy [-1]

 

(New Release) [Change]

 

 

Tops From the Past

2011 – Unknown
2006 – Eight Below
1996 – Broken Arrow
1986 – Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1976 – Taxi Driver

Box Office Premieres for the week of February 19th, 2016

Wide

Race – [PG-13]

Risen – [PG-13]

The Witch – [R]

 

Limited

Embrace of the Serpent – [NR]
Busci novio para mi mujer – [PG-13]

Neerja – [NR]

Rolling Papers – [NR]

 

Home Entertainment for the week of February 16th, 2016

New Releases on DVD and Blu-Ray 

 

Steve Jobs – [R]

Trumbo – [R]

The 33 – [PG-13]

 

TV on DVD and Blu-Ray 

 

Girls: Season Four (2015)

Family Matters: Season Five (1993)

 

Blu-Rays From the Past 

 

The Kid (1921) – [NR]

 

Podcast Promos

 

Earth Station Who

Earth Station Who is a show dedicated to the culture around the BBC icon Doctor Who. Join Mike F, Mike G, Mary, and Jennifer as we explore the 50 year history and fandom surrounding the Doctor With reviews, interviews and just general talk you never know WHO might pop up.

 

Quick Flicks

 

Minor notes: Star Wars, the X-Men films, and Deadpool's R rating.

Links

 

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We pay another visit to the Old Curiosity Shop.  This time around, a frustrated reader, tired of the mass market offerings of large publishing corporations turns to the Old Curator, looking for a book that wasn't written by committee.  The book he winds up with really draws him into the tale.  if you're enjoying this series, please let us know by visiting our website - chronicrift.com or our Facebook page.

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“The Romance of the Ranchos” was one of the more unusual series to be broadcast during the Golden Age of Radio. Sponsored by the Title Insurance and Trust Company of Los Angeles, each episode traced the history of a certain district of Southern California from the days of the Ranchos – when everything was still owned by Spain and Mexico in the 1700s – up to then-contemporary times, the 1940s.  Through a series of vivid historical vignettes, listeners would hear how these areas changed and grew to become well-known cities and neighborhoods.  This episode centers on the discovery of the La Brea Tar Pits, that bubbling pool of crude oil where mastodon and saber-toothed tiger bones were found at the start of the 20th Century.  Then Groucho Marx returns in another episode of the greatest comedy radio quiz show of all time, “You Bet Your Life.”  You’re sure to enjoy not only Groucho’s bon mots, but the true story of Bob von Kuznick, whose adventures in the Korean War amaze to this day.

 

Episodes

 

Romance of the Ranchos

“Rancho La Brea”

April 19, 1942

5:15

 

You Bet Your Life

The Secret Word is “Car”

December 16, 1953

34:14

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It's a quiet week for the movies in terms of anyone taking the top spot.  Kung Fu Panda 3 continued to dominate at the box office last weekend, but this weekend is for lovers and what says love like Marvel's Deadpool.  Check out what other movie offerings are available on a new Weekly Podioplex with Michael Falkner.
 

Weekly Podioplex Notes for February 9, 2016

 

Introduction

Opening Clip: Deadpool

 

Box Office Report

 

Top Ten

#1 – Kung Fu Panda 3 [Second Week]
#2 – Hail, Caesar!
#3 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens [Even]
#4 – The Revenant [-2]
#5 – The Choice
#6 – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

#7 – The Finest Hours [-3]
#8 – Ride Along 2 [-3]
#9 – The Boy [-2]
#10 – Dirty Grandpa [-4]

 

(New Release) [Change]

 

 

Tops From the Past

2011 – Just Go With It
2006 – The Pink Panther
1996 – Broken Arrow
1986 – Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1976 – Next Stop, Greenwich Village


Box Office Premieres for the week of February 12th, 2016

Wide

Deadpool – [R]

Zoolander 2 – [PG-13]

How to Be Single – [R]

 

Limited

Where to Invade Next – [R]
Fitoor – [NR]

Of Mind and Music – [PG-13]

Providence – [NR]

Touched With Fire – [R]

 

Home Entertainment for the week of February 9th, 2016

New Releases on DVD and Blu-Ray 

 

Spectre – [PG-13]

Crimson Peak – [R]

Love the Coopers – [PG-13]

MI-5 – [R]

 

TV on DVD and Blu-Ray 

 

Touched By an Angel: The Complete Series (1994-2003)

 

Blu-Rays From the Past 

 

Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture Collection (1979-1991) – [PG]

Star Trek: The Next Generation Movie Collection (1994-2002) – [PG/PG-13]

 

Podcast Promos

 

Generations Geek

Generations Geek is a family-friendly celebration of geekdom by a father/daughter crime-fighting duo. Okay, perhaps they don’t fight crime, but they are two generations of geek. In every monthly episode they talk about stuff like books, movies, comics, games, and any other geeky thing they think of.

 

Quick Flicks

 

None

Links

 

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It's very odd that Burgess Meredith returns so quickly in this early part of the third season.  It's even more odd that they pair him up with Ethel Merman as Lola Lasagna in the first two-part story of the season.  And in many respects, it's a wasted opportunity as the two are used more as a Vaudville act more than anything Batman-related.  And yet, this look at Penguin trying to horn in on the horse racing world has more weight to it than Riddler's previous attempt to become the "King of the Ring."

 

Joining John to discuss what worked and what didn't work in this story that could have been a one part story is podcaster, The Hunnic Outcast.

 

Comment on the episode here or write thebatcavepodcast@gmail.com.

 

 

SLXLM

HunnicOutcasts offers a variety of podcasts.  Whether it's unscripted/off the cuff or an in depth discussion, regarding T.V. films, literature, and/or video games.  

 

Learn more at 

 

https://www.facebook.com/hunnicoutcasts

https://www.facebook.com/groups/hunnicoutcasts/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hunnicoutcasts/id913787694?mt=2

http://www.spreaker.com/show/hunnicoutcasts

Twitter @hunnicoutcasts

http://www.geekcastradio.com/show-guide/syndicated-shows/hunnic-outcast-podcast

http://tangentboundnetwork.com/network-shows/

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There's a new leader at the top of the box office.  With an impressive debut, Kung Fu Panda 3 shows that some sequels still have staying power.  But what of this week's offerings and DVD releases?  Michael Falkner has the latest on a new Weekly Podioplex.​
 

Weekly Podioplex Notes for February 2, 2016

 

Introduction

Opening Clip: Hail, Caesar!

 

Box Office Report

 

Top Ten

#1 – Kung Fu Panda 3
#2 – The Revenant [-1]
#3 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens [-1]
#4 – The Finest Hours
#5 – Ride Along 2 [-2]
#6 – Dirty Grandpa [-2]

#7 – The Boy [-2]
#8 – The 5th Wave [-2]
#9 – 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi [-2]
#10 – Fifty Shades of Black

 

(New Release) [Change]

 

 

Tops From the Past

2011 – The Roommate
2006 – When a Stranger Calls
1996 – Black Sheep
1986 – Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1976 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest


Box Office Premieres for the week of February 5th, 2016

Wide

Hail, Caesar! – [PG-13]

The Choice – [PG-13]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – [PG-13]

 

Limited

Regression – [R]
Southbound – [NR]

Eisenstein in Guanajuato – [UR]

Tumbledown – [R]

 

Home Entertainment for the week of February 2nd, 2016

New Releases on DVD and Blu-Ray 

 

Suffragette – [PG-13]

Truth – [R]

Bridge of Spies – [PG-13]

The Last Witch Hunter – [PG-13]

Rock the Kasbah – [R]

Our Brand is Crisis – [R]

Man Up – [R]

Mercy Street – [NR]

Batman: Bad Blood – [PG-13]

 

 

TV on DVD and Blu-Ray 

 

Falling Skies: Season Five (2015)

Falling Skies: The Complete Series (2011-2015)

From Dusk Till Dawn: Season Two (2015)

 

Blu-Rays From the Past 

 

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) – [G]

 

Podcast Promos

 

The Dead Robots Society

The Dead Robots’ Society was created by Justin Macumber in an effort to offer advice and support to other aspiring writers. All the hosts, current and former, have writing experience of some kind. They gather on a weekly basis to share stories of their individual journeys and discuss topics important to the world of writing. Occasional forays into the territories of brown dragons, taco eating cowboy space ninjas, or random discussions involving monkeys are all considered rumor at best and none of the hosts are willing to admit any of that actually happened.

 

Quick Flicks

 

None

Links

 

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Michael’s blog at Creative Criticality

 

 

 

 

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Episode 35, The Cornetto Trilogy

 

Science fiction writer Scott Pearson (Star Trek: The Original Series: The More Things Change) and his daughter reminisce about Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End, the thematic trilogy of films from Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg. This is a Special Grup Edition of the podcast—PG talk about R-rated movies.

 

Segments

Intro :28

Shaun of the Dead 1:30

Hot Fuzz 21:14

The World’s End 33:47

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens climbed upward in the box office ranking this weekend, but it wasn't enough to keep it at the top.  In addition, Ride Along 2 didn't hold the spot as well.  A new movie has taken the position, but how long will that last when there are new movie releases for Febraury just around the corner?  Michael Falkner has this and more on an all new episode of The Weekly Podioplex.
 

Weekly Podioplex Notes for January 26, 2016

 

Introduction

Opening Clip: Kung Fu Panda 3

 

Box Office Report

 

Top Ten

#1 – The Revenant [+1]
#2 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens [+1]
#3 – Ride Along 2 [-2]
#4 – Dirty Grandpa
#5 – The Boy
#6 – The 5th Wave

#7 – 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi [-3]
#8 – Daddy’s Home [-3]
#9 – Norm of the North [-3]
#10 – The Big Short [-2]

 

(New Release) [Change]

 

 

Tops From the Past

2011 – The Rite
2006 – Big Momma’s House 2
1996 – Mr. Holland’s Opus
1986 – The Color Purple
1976 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Box Office Premieres for the week of January 29th, 2016

Wide

Kung Fu Panda 3 – [PG]

The Finest Hours – [PG-13]

Fifty Shades of Black – [R]

 

Limited

Jane Got a Gun – [R]

 

Home Entertainment for the week of January 26th, 2016

New Releases on DVD and Blu-Ray 

 

Goosebumps – [PG-13]

Burnt – [R]

Chi-Raq – [R]

The Assassin – [NR]

 

 

TV on DVD and Blu-Ray 

 

Doctor Who: Series Nine, Part Two (2014)

Downton Abbey: Season Six (2014)

 

Blu-Rays From the Past 

 

Kansas City Confidential (1952) – [NR]

 

Podcast Promos

 

The SciFi Diner Podcast

In this Science Fiction Podcast, we share interviews, reviews, and opinions on popular and perhaps not so popular Science Fiction TV shows and movies.

 

Quick Flicks

 

February 2016 Coming Attractions

 

Links

 

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“Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders” was a kid’s radio show set in “the modern West.”  Bobby was a 12-year-old who had inherited a Texas cattle ranch, the B-Bar-B.  He and his ranch hands struggled against rustlers and other sorts of appropriately western, but mid-20th-Century, hazards.  This episode prominently features a young Don Knotts playing crusty old-timer Windy Wales.  In Windy, you’ll hear the roots of Knotts’ Nervous Man character, who eventually morphed in Deputy Barney Fife on “The Andy Griffith Show.”  Then Bing Crosby hosts the “The Kraft Music Hall,” the radio program that solidified his place in radio history.  Crosby hosted the variety show for a decade, singing standards and popular tunes of the day as well as cracking wise with plenty of guest stars.  This time, he hosts young Donald O’Connor, who’s about to go into the Army.  Bing open with the post-war classic “San Fernando Valley,” then he and O’Connor mix it up with “Small Fry.”

 

Episodes

 

Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders

“The Killer Wales”

December 28, 1949

4:32

 

 

The Kraft Music Hall

“Guest Donald O’Connor”

February 24, 1944

34:21

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With apologies to Michael Falkner, here is the delayed release of the January 19, 2015 edition of The Weekly Podioplex.  So, did you win in the movie pool concerning what was going to topple The Force Awakens from the top box office spot?  Who was surprised?  We've got the coverage as well as new movie and DVD releases on this episode.
 

Weekly Podioplex Notes for January 19, 2016

 

Introduction

Opening Clip: Dirty Grandpa

 

Box Office Report

 

Top Ten

#1 – Ride Along 2
#2 – The Revenant [Even]
#3 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens [-2]
#4 – 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
#5 – Daddy’s Home [-3]
#6 – Norm of the North

#7 – The Forest [-3]
#8 – The Big Short [-1]
#9 – Sisters [-4]
#10 – The Hateful Eight [-4]

 

(New Release) [Change]

 

 

Tops From the Past

2011 – No Strings Attached
2006 – Underworld: Evolution
1996 – From Dusk till Dawn
1986 – Iron Eagle
1976 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest


Box Office Premieres for the week of January 22nd, 2016

Wide

Dirty Grandpa – [R]

The 5th Wave – [PG-13]

The Boy – [PG-13]

 

Limited

Ip Man 3 – [PG-13]

Synchronicity – [R]

Monster Hunt – [NR]

Mojave – [R]

Aferim! – [NR]

Exposed – [R]

 

Home Entertainment for the week of January 19th, 2016

New Releases on DVD and Blu-Ray 

 

Everest – [PG-13]

Woodlawn – [PG]

Jem and the Holograms – [PG]

Straight Outta Compton – [R]

 

TV on DVD and Blu-Ray 

 

Continuum: Season Four (2015)

12 Monkeys: Season One (2015)

Sister Sister: The Complete Collection (1994-1999)

 

Blu-Rays From the Past 

 

Gilda (1946) – [NR]

The Ice Pirates (1984) – [PG]

 

Podcast Promos

 

The Hollywood Outsider

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens continues its dominence at the box office.  Will it manage to make it through the month of January at the top?  Michael Falkner has new movie releases that could challenge it on a new Weekly Podioplex.
 
 
 

Weekly Podioplex Notes for January 12, 2016

 

Introduction

Opening Clip: Ride Along 2

 

Box Office Report

 

Top Ten

#1 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens [Fourth Week]
#2 – The Revenant [+21]
#3 – Daddy’s Home [-1]
#4 – The Forest
#5 – Sisters [-1]
#6 – The Hateful Eight [-3]

#7 – The Big Short [Even]
#8 – Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip [-3]
#9 – Joy [-3]
#10 – Concussion [-2]

 

(New Release) [Change]

 

 

Tops From the Past

2011 – The Green Hornet
2006 – Glory Road
1996 – 12 Monkeys
1986 – Out of Africa
1976 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest


Box Office Premieres for the week of January 15th, 2016

Wide

Ride Along 2 – [PG-13]

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"The Wail of the Siren"

Aired September 28, 1967

We met her briefly in the last episode, but now The Siren takes the center stage as the villainess of the week.  Joan Collins is one of the better guests and gives one of the better performances in the third season.  In fact, there is much to be praised about this story which has more of the feel of a second season story and also has one of the better Robin/Batgirl team-ups. 

Joining John to discuss what many consider one of the better, if not one of the best, episodes of the third season is writer/editor Glenn Greenberg.

 

Glenn Greenberg is an award-winning editor and writer. He worked extensively for Marvel Comics and DC Comics on such properties as Spider-Man, the Hulk, Superman, Star Trek, Star-Lord, the Silver Surfer, Thor, Iron Man, and Dracula, as well as Web-based tie-in projects for the film Superman Returns and the weekly comic-book series 52. His work has also appeared in such publications as TIME Magazine For Kids, Scholastic News, Time Out New York, Back Issue, and Smoke. Glenn has also written several works of prose Star Trek fiction for Simon and Schuster, and is now making the jump to The X-Files for an upcoming fiction anthology that will be published by IDW. He avidly covers all aspects of popular culture on his blog, “Glenn Greenberg’s Grumblings” (http://glenngreenbergsgrumblings.blogspot.com), and welcomes anyone and everyone to check it out.)

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WCRS Radio Stage returns for the new year with a new story by a new author.  They present an interesting story by Michael Giorgio about a bank robbery that goes wrong and what the hostages have to do - and what they do to each other.

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We start off the new year with The Jack Benny Show.  Jack, Mary, and the gang are celebrating the change-over from 1938 to 1939.  They survey the previous year, which included Howard Hughes flying around the world and “Wrong Way” Corrigan, who left New York for California, but ended up flying to Ireland.  Then  before Jack Webb was Sergeant Joe Friday on Dragnet, he was the titular hero of Pat Novak, For Hire.  Pat was a sort of un-detective.  He ran a boat rental place on the San Francisco Bay, but solved crimes and problems to raise extra cash.  Pat’s tough guy, hard-boiled lingo is a far cry from Friday’s “Just the Facts” persona.

 

Episodes

The Jack Benny Show

“Goodbye 1938, Hello 1939”

January 1, 1939

4:20

 

Pat Novak, For Hire

“Wendy Morris”

May 5, 1948

34:55

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"Ring Around the Riddler"

Aired September 21, 1967
 

It's the 50th review episode of the podcast!  And what a way to celebrate!  Frank Gorshin is back as The Riddler!  His latest scheme?  To become the king of the ring by taking over the boxing world in Gotham...

 

Yeah, for this they brought Frank Gorshin back?  As kids, John and his guest were just excited to see The Riddler, but they are not as loving of this episode now as adults.  What's wrong with it?  How has their view of it changed and how did it change from one of the earlier versions of the script?

 

Joining John to discuss this episode is Dan Greenfield, creator and author of the 13th Dimension website.

 

SLXLMDan Greenfield is the editor and co-creator of 13thDimension.com, a website devoted primarily to comics and pop culture, past and present. To him, the basic food groups are Batman, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek (the Original Series), James Bond, the Beatles and the Stones. But if he had to he'd be able to subsist on Batman alone. Channel 11 in New York was his favorite syndicated channel as a kid -- you can guess why -- followed closely by Channel 5. Channel 9 didn't really enter into it unless he was home sick and there wasn't much else on. He's married to his remarkably patient wife Wendy and his best sidekick is his son, Sam. They have two cats,Lex and Zod.
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Vinnie is out of jail and looking for revenge on Jackie.  Will Jackie take on Vinnie?  Why does everyone think Billy is looking for a fight?  Was this episode really necessary?
 

The first season of Shazam! comes to an end with the second of a two-part story.  And the real question is, "Was this episode really necessary?"  John and Richard come at the episode from different sides and have very different opinions on it.

 

 It's all here and we want to hear from you on what you think of the episode.  Write us as ShazamIsisPodcast@gmail.com.

 

Moral: "In the end, fighting doesn't prove anything. It makes more sense to work together, and iron out our differences in a constructive, rather than a destructive way."

 

Guest Cast

Greg Mabrey as Jackie

Jack McCulloch as Vinnie

Tom Ruben as Vinnie's Lieutenant

Carol Anne Seflinger as Mellie

Chad States as Vinnie's Pal

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The Force Awakens is quite awake at the box office as it continues to not only dominate the box office, but box office records as well.  And with the New Year's weekend ahead, it looks to continue that dominance with the short movie release schedule available.  Michael Falkner has this and more on a new Weekly Podioplex.
 
 
 Weekly Podioplex Notes for December 29, 2015

 

Introduction

Opening Clip: The Hateful Eight

 

Box Office Report

 

Top Ten

#1 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens [New Record, Second Week]
#2 – Daddy’s Home
#3 – Joy
#4 – Sisters [-1]
#5 – Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip [-3]
#6 – Concussion

#7 – The Big Short [+12]
#8 – Point Break
#9 – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 [-5]
#10 – Creed [-5]

 

(New Release) [Change]

 

 

Tops From the Past

2010 – Little Fockers
2005 – The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
1995 – Toy Story
1985 – Rocky IV
1975 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest


Box Office Premieres for the week of January 1st, 2016

Wide

The Hateful Eight – [R]

 

Limited

Anomalisa – [R]

 

Home Entertainment for the week of December 29th, 2015

New Releases on DVD and Blu-Ray 

 

Bone Tomahawk – [NR]

Hitman: Agent 47 – [R]

A Walk in the Woods – [R]

Heist – [R]

The Perfect Guy – [PG-13]

 

TV on DVD and Blu-Ray 

 

Shameless: Season Five (2015)

Ray Donovan: Season Three (2015)

 

Blu-Rays From the Past 

 

None

 

Podcast Promos

 

Geek Radio Daily

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