Posts Tagged ‘Batman’
Episode 100 – The Batman
This week, we celebrate our 100th episode with The MacGuffin. Patrick of the Consume Us Podcast helps us rank every live-action solo Batman film released since 1989, including an official review of the latest iteration – Matt Reeve’s The Batman. We go into everything that…
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Episode 68 – Slaxx
For this episode, we review the Shudder exclusive horror-comedy, Slaxx. We also compare both miniseries of The Stand, and as our streaming homework, we review the 2017 Hulu documentary, Batman and Bill. If you like comic book talk, we do a lot of it this…
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Episode 66 – Zack Snyder’s Justice League
For this episode of the podcast, we re-evaluate Zack Snyder’s Justice League in the context of the newly released four-hour director’s cut, now available on HBO Max. We also discuss which concept albums we’d like to see as feature-length movie adaptations. For our streaming homework,…
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Episode 25 – The Lighthouse
In this episode of the podcast, we explore the nautical folklore of Robert Eggers‘ new psychological thriller, The Lighthouse. For our Netflix homework, we talk about 2016’s The Eyes of my Mother, which is coincidentally another black and white horror film. We also catch up…
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Episode 4 – Tolkien + WonderCon 2019
On this podcast, we breakdown all the events and panels we attended at last week’s WonderCon in Anaheim. We talk about Batman‘s 80th birthday, exclusive footage of the upcoming Dark Phoenix, and at the end of the program, we review the indie biopic Tolkien, which…
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Film Review – Darkest Hour
When it comes to “transformative” actors – those that have the innate ability to physically disappear into a role – there are very few who are at the level of Gary Oldman. He has a way of altering his very being for a performance, whether…
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Film Review – Justice League
With all its spectacle and bluster, Justice League opens on a low-quality shot designed like it’s coming from someone’s phone. Encompassing the shot is Superman (Henry Cavill), before his death in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, a boy asks him what his favorite thing…
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Film Review – The LEGO Batman Movie
Good News! Everything is still Awesome! Back in 2014, The LEGO Movie was a shot of pure joy. It was the best kind of surprise, a property that was likely to only be a 90 minute commercial for a toy line was in actuality a…
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