Case Aiken and Sam Alicea take a look at movies that they find fascinating but flawed and make suggestions on what could have been done at the time.
The world’s most popular table top role playing game has had a meteoric rise in the past decade, so it’s hard to imagine just how hard the 2000 attempt to adapt the property to film rolled a critical…
Case and Sam are looking back at the earliest episodes of the show! Check out their thoughts on the third episode when Case sat down with Paul Sieber and chatted about the 2009 Star Trek reboot!
Tom Hanks is known as a talented actor and producer, but once he wrote and directed a well received period piece about a very archetypal band with a number one single. So to talk about That Thing You…
Case and Sam are looking back at the earliest episodes of the show! Check out their thoughts on the second episode when Case sat down with Geoff Moonen and chatted about Mallrats!
Father! Father! Why is there pain? Why is there the pain that is The Island of Dr. Moreau? Micah McCaw asks this of Case and Sam when they reflect on the troubled adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel.
Case and Sam are looking back at the earliest episodes of the show! Check out their thoughts on the pilot episode when Case first sat down with Ben and Addy and chatted about Return of the Jedi!
Can a bunch of millennials look past their rose tinted nostalgia glasses when discussing a milestone from their childhood like “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze”? Mike Urban jo…
With complicated make up, expensive sets, a tight schedule, little support, and brutal weather, it’s a miracle that the original Planet of the Apes was made at all! The fact that it spawned such a va…
Living up to the incredible original Planet of the Apes film was a Gorilla-ian task that no lower budget sequel was up to, let alone the one that was still working out the kinks. Sam Perez joins Case…
The original Planet of the Apes was a landmark film that has remained entrenched in the zeitgeist to this day. The immediate follow up was... not. So how do you course correct the franchise? Flip the…
In the far future of the 1990s, ape will serve man, but humanity is humane, sowing the seeds of uprising. Case and Sam continue their journey backwards (and forwards and then upwards… all the while t…
As we approach our 150th episode, we’re taking a look back at the original Planet of the Apes series, and what better way to handle a series rich with time travel shenanigans than to take them in rev…
When one of your leads dies suddenly in the middle of filming, it takes a lot of creativity to make a finished product, as was the case with The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus! Kelsey Lynn Stokes jo…
The original King Kong was a milestone of special effects and film making tricks, and each generation has tried since to surpass the influential film, including a middling effort in the 70s with an a…
When it comes to a movie that has pervaded the zeitgeist and become shorthand for a type of story, do you dare roll the dice when trying to improve upon it? Kieran Bennett joins us for a conversation…
From starting as a consolation prize when the studio couldn’t get Annie, Popeye was a troubled production every step of the way. Angela “Bones” Bullock joins Case and Sam to see if they can crack a c…
The 2017 adaptation of the sprawling French Space Opera, Valérian and Laureline, was not particularly well received, despite incredible world building and stunning visuals, making it perfect for our …
Many movies are made under difficult circumstances, but the horror genre infamously has a ton of entries, but the original "Halloween" is one for the books! Case and Sam are joined by Entrepeneur, Au…
Correspondence courses can teach you many things! It’s like magic and sometimes IT IS magic! Such is the case with Bedknobs and Broomsticks, the less successful follow up to Mary Poppins. To review t…
In order to go the distance with Disney's uneven adaptation of Hercules, Case and Sam are joined by Gloria and Rose from the Circling Circe podcast, but will the task prove too laborious?