Episode 203: Holiday ReFlicktions

It's another dive into the movies that we have seen over the last few weeks -- lots of reviews of movies new and old.

Plus, find out how Pinky confused Our Brand is Crisis and Jem & the Holograms... plus he watches a nerdy classic... we question the choices of Sienna Miller, the latest movies of Bradley Cooper and whether Kevin Smith should stick to what he knows...

And a huge discussion on SPECTRE and if James Bond is a character past his prime... much disagreement there is in this segment... and Dr Earl's favorite old school Bond girl... Two of the three hosts really had major issues with Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2... Raving over Spotlight... Brie Larson's Oscar prospects... the actor that Mikey dubs as "the next Al Pacino"... the death film that Pinky had to suffer through... and can Ashley Judd actually act, or has she been faking it the whole time?

Also, we do talk about The Good Dinosaur briefly, but we encourage you to go back to Ep 202, "Fave Non Animated Family Films" to hear a full review of this movie.

And d$ has a new #1 film on his Top Five, the first change at the top since May!

Movies discussed this month...
Our Brand is Crisis... Paper Towns... Hotel Transylvania 2... Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery... Revenge of the Nerds... Man on Wire (doc)... Two Night Stand... Tis the Season of Love... Re-Animator... Burnt... Red State... The Outsiders... Hot Tub Time Machine II... Ain't Them Bodies Saints... SPECTRE... Dr. No... Under Suspicion... Back in Time (doc)... Electric Boogaloo (doc)... Magnolia... The Prince of Pennsylvania (doc)... I'll Be Me (doc)... Return to Sender... Someone Like You... Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2... The Peanuts Movie... talhotblonde... People Places Things... Full Tilt Boogie (doc)... Short Term 12... Spectacular Now... Ex Machina... Spotlight... Atari: Game Over (doc)... The Final Girls... Get Hard... Unfinished Business... How to Die in Oregon (doc)... August Osage County... The Good Dinosaur... Nightbreed... Creed... Trumbo

Episode 186: Top 100... 70 thru 61

"What do you mean I get several mentions on this week's episode?!"

From the mind of M Night Shyamalan...

"It's a piece of crap... but I really liked it!" says Pinky about this sequel to one of his favorite films of all time... which movie?  Find out by listening to the latest Top 100 episode, with Mikey, Pinky & d$ giving their all time favorites -- not the Best Films Ever but Favorites -- including the coolest truck of the 80s... Mikey's inability to count properly (thus a throwback to the last Top 100 episode)... 

Also, the improbably deus ex machina ending of Field of Dreams... having a school boy crush on Hayley Mills... a film that Pinky loves as much as Mikey hates... the talent of Charles Groden... how to see Bugs Bunny & Mickey Mouse in the same frame... d$'s special attachment to Con Air... why Pinky is ruining the country... the three movies d$ saw first...

Discussion on movies like Toy Story... Mary Poppins... Heat... Jurassic Park... and much more.

Plus... is Adam Sandler the new M Night Shyamalan?

Oh, and Corey Haim.

The Episode with the Sidekicks

Welcome back to the best podcast concerning movies with hosts named P!nky, Mikey and d$ that you will hear today... NAY... this week.  Maybe even this month.  Dare I say... ever?  Especially since Dr. Earl is back up in the hizzy again.

The guys are back in the Nic Cage Studio on the Deuce Digital Network, kicking off the summer with a great show full of movie news and fun.  Right away, Mikey starts with Nipp News, covering Harrison Ford's leg break, plus the DC film lineup, including the projected date for the Affleck stand-alone Batman film.

ReFlicktions, becoming our biggest and most popular segment, takes on movies we've seen in the last month, including reviews of Million Dollar Arm... Spy Kids: Game Over... Edge of Tomorrow... Maleficent... 22 Jump Street... How To Train Your Dragon 2... and more...

Plus, a look at the four hour documentary, Never Sleep Again, chronicling the Nightmare on Elm Street film series, plus P!nky gives his reviews on classic films like 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and American History X.

In our Pretty in Pink segment, he also gives us his take on the classic Cannonball Run!

After revisiting a few modern films, the guys discuss the experience at the recent Alabama Phoenix Festival.

Friend of the Show and former co-host Matt joins in for a rousing game of Box Office Mojo as they take on Tom Cruise movies, then finally dive into the Big Five Topic--favorite sidekicks in films.

Garth Algar from Wayne's World... Abe from Blade... Fozzie Bear... Kronk from The Emperor's New Grove... Dean from License to Drive... and so many more names tossed into the mix... plus, is Silent Bob an actual sidekick to Jay, or are they equal?  Some of the guys agree... some don't.

Finally... some change over as the guys give their Top Five of the Year (so far), and then assign films for viewing... d$ will watch Steal and Escape from Tomorrow, while Mikey will see the doc Superheroes and Detachment, and P!nky has to catch My Bodyguard and 1992's Dracula.

So many movies, so little time... enjoy the episode, and look out for our Alabama Phoenix Festival episodes to be released soon!

Movies Discussed at Length in this Episode:
Aliens
American History X
Broken City
Clockwork Orange
Edge of Tomorrow
The Fault in Our Stars
Flypaper
Go
How to Train Your Dragon 2
The Frozen Ground
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Locke
Maleficent
Million Dollar Arm
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Muscle Shoals
Never Sleep Again
Red 2
Romancing the Stone
Spy Kids: Game Over
22 Jump Street
2001: A Space Odyssey
White Zombie (1928)
X-Men: Days of Future Past

The Episode with the Awesome Draft

Here comes your movie-guiding-light through tumult of bad film and greatness of good cinema... whatever that means.


Mikey, P!nky and d$ once again take the microphones, sans two turntables, to tell you about all the good and bad movies they've seen, what you should see and avoid, and to rib P!nky about his growing Jimmy Stewart obsession.


We discuss at length films like The Amazing Spider Man 2... A Million Ways to Die in the West... Neighbors... It's a Wonderful Life... and of course, X-Men: Days of Future Past...


A stirring game of Ryan Phillippe holds forth, moderated skillfully by P!nky (how many Chris Cooper movies can YOU name?) and our first edition of Pretty in Pink, where Mikey and d$ make the prediction as to how much he liked Dirty Dancing upon seeing it recently for the first time.


The guys then hold the first ever 2014 Deucecast BadA** Draft, where we decide which action characters would fill up a 10 person roster of the most awesome, kick buttedness team we could possibly put together... names like John Matrix (Commando)... Ripley (Alien)... James Bond (the Casino Royale version)... Jason Bourne... and who picks The Bear Jew from Inglorious Basterds?  Find out!


A great discussion is had on the upcoming Star Wars dealings, including recent casting news and a prospective one-off film, and what the guys think it will be, then a rabbit trail discussion on how Disney and Star Wars is faring against Harry Potter at Universal Studios in Orlando.


We wrap it up with the promise of movies that will be seen over the next month and discussed, including Frozen Ground, the new epic with Cusack and Cage... Never Sleep Again, a four hour doc on Nightmare on Elm Street... and Ashley Judd's award winning story of Flypaper.


Join us next month as the discussion turns to favorite sidekicks in movies, plus a 1932 classic that Mikey has to force himself to watch.


ALSO... next weekend!  THE ALABAMA PHOENIX FESTIVAL!  COME SEE US!!


In addition to above links, here are other movies discussed in this episode:


Breakdown
The Family
A Fistful of Dollars
The Getaway
Godzilla
The Graduate
Heaven Is For Real
Let the Right One In
Million Dollar Arm
Mom's Night Out
Monsters
The Purge
Ride Along
Soapdish

Invaders from Mars! (and other places)

On this episode... With the release of Pacific Rim this past weekend, Pinky, d$ and Mikey take on the topic of Earth Invasion movies... and in the studizzy... Dr Earl makes his re-appearance!

What makes an Earth invasion movie?  A film where aliens, perhaps otherworldy, perhaps of this worldly, plot to take over the planet either for enslaving us, or to use up our resources and move on... of course, the guys never let the thought process of rules encumber what they try to do...

So goes the discussions of Earth Invasions like ID4...They Live...Marvel's The Avengers...Mars Attacks!... and so many more... and is Super 8 an invasion film, or just a movie about an alien who just wants to go home?  Find out.

We debate about the good--and bad--of this epic film
that will surely lose a ton of jack for Disney

We have round robin discussions on films like The Lone Ranger--and whether Johnny Depp should have even been a part of this movie or not... World War Z... Monsters University... and the aforementioned Pacific Rim...

We also play a little "Which Crap Is Better"? game, taking familiar films like "The Watch", "Battlefield Earth" and "Signs" and match them up against unseen little gems like "Feeders 2: Slay Bells" and the Oscar winning epic "Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Across America"... and what was that movie called?  Say what?  Yes.  Its a real title.  Just listen.

Speaking of Oscar winning epics... Mikey gives his rundown of how much he loved Heaven's Gate, and how Pinky cried at the majesty that is Double Jeopardy...

And our Top Five changes up slightly, with the appearance of new films!

Join us next week as our latest Deucecast Intermission takes on the classic Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Bomb

And in our next Deucecast Movie Picture Show, we discuss the best (and worst) comic book films... specifically, Marvel films... and d$ talks about Oldboy... Pinky watches The Hunt for Red October and Mikey relishes in the late Brittany Murphy classic, Little Black Book


Movies Discussed This Week:

Cloverfield
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Despicable Me
Despicable Me 2
Double Jeopardy
Evolution
Grown Ups 2
Heaven's Gate
Independence Day
The Lone Ranger
Mars Attacks
Monsters University
Pacific Rim
Signs
Super 8
Thank You For Smoking
They Live
13 Going on 30
V: The Final Battle (tv mini-series)
World War Z

Episode LXXIII: The Pod & The Furious: Maylene Drift

Listen to our new episode and hear Hurricane Rhett yell about people. 

No, seriously.

We kick off our new show with another segment from our sponsors, then a tasting of our latest beverage, the atrocity known as Celsius. It is loaded with interestingness. 

Mikey tells us all about his adventure at Bark at the Park, and how easy it might be for all you single dudes to get yourself a woman.  And his disappointment with Star Wars Reads Day. And we talk about Liam Neeson.  And Taken 2.  And Facebook.  And Armie Hammer in "The Lone Ranger".  And Armie Hammer as Batman in "The Justice League Movie".  And a new Mary Jane?

We also touch on Hulk Hogan's unfortunate video discovery... Star Wars news abounds, with some Angry Birds... some Disney news and the Annual Passholder preview for New Fantasyland... movies like Get the Gringo... Soapdish... Rio... and Nancy McKeon !! 

Did you know that Dionne from "Clueless" is voting for Romney!? 

Mikey's crap music brings us some old school The Psychedelic Furs, and we go mano-a-mano in The IMDb Game, featuring Sandra Bullock... Bill Paxton... Steve Buscemi... and even more!

And speaking of crap, the worst movies ever?  That's right... the worst movies ever!  Its our list of the crappiest movies we've ever seen, and it includes Chevy Chase movies... John Candy movies... a Matthew Broderick movie... Terrence Malick movies... and breaking up with Ashley Judd with "Bug ".  Terrible. 

And... Demi Lovato coins a new phrase!