Showcast Episode 24: The Movie Guys are joined for the whole show by comedian Ken Barnard to preview “Free Birds” and “Last Vegas”. Plus, “Ender’s Game” inspires an enshrining ceremony for The International Order of Ornate Sci-Fi and Fantasy Names. Also, fiery rounds of “What Did You See This Week?” and Karen’s Birthdays.
Self-congratulation is still the rage in TinselTown. Who are we to not report on it? Agree? Disagree? It doesn’t matter, the awards will go out week after week until the Oscars, March 2nd, 2014.
Showcast Episode 23: The Movie Guys find “The Counselor” trailer so ambiguous, they make a trailer of their own, plus a preview of “Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa”. Plus improviser and comedian Jet Eveleth joins the show for a round of “What’s Not Happening in Hollywood” and some good movie talk.
Showcast Episode 22: Previews of “Escape Plan” and “The Fifth Estate” lead to another round of YouTube movie reviews. The Movie Guys also welcome three guests – the great Steve Guttenberg calls the show, plus “Quick to Duck” director Robin Mountjoy in studio, and the one and only Carrie White talks about her new anti-bullying campaign on the eve of the release of her new film, “Carrie”.
Showcast Episode 21: The movie previews come fast and furious with “Captain Phillips” and “Machete Kills”. Plus, Movie Guys Retractions and a look at future projects from Robert Rodriguez. And special guest Kristen Studard talks comedy, movies, one-woman shows and apes.
Movie Guy Paul Preston breaks down the careers of George Clooney, Matt Damon and Brad PItt, the best Hollywood has to offer in leading men.
Showcast Episode 20: “Gravity”‘s marquee star power has Karen convinced it’s a romantic comedy, plus The Movie Guys preview “Runner Runner” and discuss how Ben Affleck gets an “and” credit. Also, YouTube movie reviews and special guest, stand-up comic Michael Gelbart, sits in the whole show.
I am a fan of director James Wan. He is a great young director with a particularly good eye for horror, a great sense for creating tension, and knows how to scare an audience. Unfortunately, he doesn’t demonstrate ANY of his talents in “Insidious 2”.
Showcast Episode 19: TV and film actor Joe Nunez joins The Movie Guys in studio for the whole show with previews of “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” and “Don Jon”. Plus, regular food weather updates on the fives and a call into The Adult Movie Hotline.
Movie Guy Paul Preston appears on the podcast “Hollywood Close-Up” with Wayne Frazier and Natalie Lipka to discuss the summer 2013 movie winners and losers and take a brief look at what else is coming up later in the year. Then Paul sticks around for the show’s signature “Quick and Quirky Game”.
Movie news from The Movie Guys includes videos and reports about Harrison Ford, “Star Wars” and “The Avengers”, plus bad news for PIxar fans who are looking forward to a new movie from them in 2014.
New movie trailers include “August: Osage County”, “Dallas Buyers Club”, “Divergent”, “Escape from Tomorrow”, “Grudge Match”, “Homefront”, “Inside Llewyn Davis”, “Mr. Nobody”, “Nebraska”, “Rio 2”, “Robocop” and “Stranger”
Showcast Episode 18: A preview of “Rush” sparks a couple rounds of the Indy Car and NASCAR name generators. Plus stand-up comic Andy Peters joins The Movie Guys to preview “Prisoners” and “Battle of the Year” until the whole show wraps up in a rousing birthday celebration for Bill Murray.
The great thing about indies is that they are experimental in nature. They aren’t as polished and high budget as blockbusters, simply because they don’t have the money. But, they allow the filmmaker to explore and try new things never done before. Robin Mountjoy attempts just that.
Showcast Episode 17: A preview of “Insidious: Chapter 2” sparks another round of Creepy Kids Singing and after a preview of “The Family”, a surprise guest risks his life to talk about all the films that are in witness protection. Plus, improv legend and podcast host Dave Razowsky joins us, and at one point rants about “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” to where we named this Showcast episode after his rant.
(“Lee Daniels’ The Butler” spoilers abound)
Our Indie Report critic Justin Bowler was tasked with seeing “Hell Baby” for review. We believe he was not sober during the screening.
Showcast Episode 16: The Movie Guys preview this week’s big theatrical release, “Riddick”, and then get special guest Craig Cackowski on the mic (and cowboy hats on their heads) to fire up a new edition of “Indie Round-Up!”, covering all the independent films in theaters now. Also, Craig’s “Top 100 Films of All Time” list gets a thorough once-over.
Paul Preston reviews the new film from Paul Osborne, “Favor”, in all its sick, twisted glory.
Movie Guy Paul Preston appears on BlogTalkRadio’s “Real Talk With Lee”, hosted by Lee Avent of Look At Me Casting and multimedia company. This is a good get-to-know-The-Movie-Guys-and-what-we’re-all-about interview, talking about how The Movie Guys have evolved and what The Movie Showcast is all about.
Matteo Molinari looks at all those films who thought it might be the next logical step to take their film franchises into outer space. He does this research so you don’t have to. You’re welcome.
Showcast Episode 15: With a mob of Ben Affleck protestors just outside the door of The Admiral’s Club, The Movie Guys preview “Getaway” and “One Direction: This is Us”. They also premiere the new trailer for “The Movie Guys: This is We”, all with the help of special guest, comedian/podcaster Matt Dwyer!
Showcast Episode 14: While previewing new releases “You’re Next” and “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones”, The Movie Guys play a “The World’s End’-inspired drinking game about familiar actors. Plus a surprise interview with a guest who has appeared in more movie trailers than anyone else in the past five years and a great talk with film and TV actor and improviser Bill Chott!
Showcast Episode 13: Four more new releases to burn through, including “Lee Daniels’ The Butler”, “Kick-Ass 2”, “Jobs” and “Paranoia” before The Movie Guys launch into “Shark Movie Week”, with special guest Daniel Travis, star of “Open Water”. Also, writer/producer and improv Swami Paul Vaillancourt sits in for Adam the entire show!
New movie trailers include “American Hustle”, “Her”, “Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa”, “Lone Survivor”, “The Monuments Men”, “Muppets Most Wanted”, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and “Thor: The Dark World”
Movie news from The Movie Guys includes a new Robert Downey, Jr. commercial, lost footage from “The Day the Clown Cried” and an awesome George Clooney rant.
Showcast Episode 12: Hollywood’s laying it on thick with FOUR new releases on a non-holiday weekend, and we give ’em all a day in court – “Elysium”, “We’re the Millers”, “Disney’s Planes” and “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters”. Plus, Dave Mattey stops by with stories from the set as an actor and stuntman.
Justin Bowler and Paul Preston bring you The Movie Guys’ annual sights and sounds report from the San Diego Comic-Con, the world’s biggest ball of awesome.
Showcast Episode 11: The longest, most jam-packed Showcast yet!…’cause you can’t make enough jokes about “The Smurfs 2”. The Movie Guys are also visited in studio by Hollywood Movie Titleists, who explain the work that goes into complex movie names like “2 Guns”, and prolific director Willy Laszlo talks about his adventures in the worlds of comedy short films and reality TV.
Movie news from The Movie Guys includes Rick Santorum starting a movie studio, Pixar sticking to original films and R.I.P. Dennis Farina
New movie trailers include “12 Years as a Slave”, “47 Ronin”, “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”, “The Counselor”, “Escape Plan”, “The Frozen Ground”, “How to Train Your Dragon 2”, “Lovelace”, “Out of the Furnace”, “Saving Mr. Banks” and “Seventh Son”
Showcast Episode 10: Wolverine makes his sixth appearance on the big screen and The Movie Guys are all over it. Plus, they preview Aubrey Plaza in “The To-Do List”, take a look at movie news and have a Comic-Con report, including an interview with legendary independent filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman of Troma Entertainment.
The Movie Guys send good friends from The Hater Nation Radio Show & Podcast, MC Hater and Ali, to a screening of “Pacific Rim”. They record their thoughts going to and from the movie. Should they have high expectations? Will there be time for beer and food? Will they spoil the ending? Stay tuned…
The title says it all.
Showcast Episode 9: The Movie Guys celebrate Ryan Reynolds week with previews of his new films “Turbo” and “R.I.P.D.”. Also, they take in a horror movie trailer they’ve always wanted to hear and preview the new action film “Red 2”. Plus, a specialist stops by to explain animation casting. Then film producer Pat Peach stops by to talk movies and movie-making.
Showcast Episode 8: Let’s call it a ‘mini-Showcast’. Movie Guys Lee Kias and Adam Witt hit the “Pacific Rim” premiere to get a few comments out of Guillermo del Toro and play “Is that Charlie Day?”, all in the un-ending red carpet presence of Chris Hardwick.
Showcast Episode 6: Stand-up comic Robert Buscemi joins The Movie Guys for the whole show as they preview Roland Emmerich’s latest way to destroy our nation’s capitol, “White House Down” and also the Sandra Bullock/Melissa McCarthy comedy “The Heat”. Plus, a look at upcoming Flockbusters, and the show’s latest sponsor sparks a look at who could be cast as The Movie Guys on-screen cop buddies.
Movie news from The Movie Guys includes an interview with David Lynch, a look behind the scenes of “Monsters University” and the TSA vs. Chewbacca.
New movie trailers include “300: Rise of an Empire”, “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues”, “The Butler”, “Diana”, “The Family”, “Free Birds”, “Disney’s Frozen”, “Girl Most Likely”, “Insidious 2”, “Jobs”, “The Lego Movie”, “Machete Kills”, “The Wolf of Wall Street”
It’s a big movie weekend as The Movie Guys look at upcoming films “World War Z” and “Monsters University”, including a call in to Monsters University of Phoenix. They also welcome special guests Herm Winningham, who is a zombie, and writer/actor/director Mitch Rouse, who is not.
Realizing the son of Jor-El is living amongst the humans on Earth, a warning is issued from General Zod and Rebecca Martinson to give over the alien or else.