The Batman is here and that means Mike & Matt are back with a new episode of The Tape Crusaders.
They discuss the tone, the run time, casting choices and an unfortunate divide in their favourite source material. Long time listeners will be rewarded… and newbies will get it summarised for them anyway. Smile for the camera!
Continue reading The Tape Crusaders – Episode #19: The Batman
Jerome and Brian examine a new release this week. Did the world really need a three hour noir Batman story? Maybe not but what a tremendous effort from Matt Reeves. After reinventing the ‘Apes’ franchise for the 21st century, Reeves does something similar for Batman.
We get a lot of Batman in the suit but very little Andy Serkis. We also get a number of people from the rogue’s gallery, including an unwelcome tease. Enjoy our nearly hour long discussion on one of the best modern superhero movies of these first couple years of the decade.
Continue reading The Superhero Pantheon: The Batman (Theatrical Review)
Ben Phillips & Matt Waters continue to present 25 of their favourite movies from a given decade, this time with 2010 – 2019.
Our Cynthia Erivo double bill concludes with the excellent crime thriller, Widows, a movie that truly has it all: racism, classism, abuse (both emotional AND physical) a high stakes sauna scene and even a cute little dog!
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Episode 45: Widows
The first trailer for Matt Reeves’ The Batman has dropped and people are freaking the eff out. I myself spent most of the next day watching it on progressively larger screens. A litany of breakdown videos have launched since then, including people solving one of the riddles! Neat!
Jerome and Brian flash back to a time when Ben Affleck could play a superhero and the world wasn’t seemingly going to end any day. The bottom of the barrel is nearly scraped folks. Enjoy the conversation on Bendevil! Continue reading The Superhero Pantheon: Volume 2, Episode 52: Daredevil (2003)
Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from a given decade, kicking things off with Volume 1: 2000 – 2009.
Everybody grab your passports and some dumdums and gather around to listen to a pair of liberals try and explain why they’re celebrating a film jam-packed with EXTREMELY problematic dialogue rather than calling for its cancellation. Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Episode 21: In Bruges
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