Episode 644: My Favorite Summer... The Animation

What better way to close out an entire summer of top ten lists from across 8 different genres and 3 different movie roles than to look at the cartoons... the animated films! 

Mikey, d$, and #XLessDrEarl jump right in with a look at each of their favorite films of the hand drawn and computer created fare. As you'd expect, lots of Pixar and Disney, but a little Rankin and Bass tossed in, plus Everything is Awesome, a little Cornholio, some smart rats, and a dying robot... only if you believe... in miracles. 

Here are the movies discussed and where to find them:

• Aladdin (Disney+)
• Beauty and the Beast (Disney+)
• Beavis & Butthead Do America (Paramount+)
• Cars 2 (Disney+)
• DuckTales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (Disney+)
• The Great Mouse Detective (Disney+)
• Hercules (Disney+)
• The Incredibles (Disney+)
• Inside Out (Disney+)
• Iron Giant (Paramount+)
• The Jungle Book (Disney+)
• The Last Unicorn (Amazon Prime; Peacock Premium)
• The Lego Movie (Netflix)
• The Little Mermaid (Disney+)
• The Lord of the Rings (for rental)
• The Prince of Egypt (for rental)
• Robin Hood (Disney+)
• The Secret of NIMH (MGM+)
• Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse (FXNow)
• The Sword in the Stone (Disney+)
• Toy Story 3 (Disney+)
• Transformers: The Movie (unavailable)
• Wall*E (Disney+)

Episode 621: The Almost Top 10 Top Five

The Academy Awards are finally completed, which means the Awards Season has but one stop... the Deucie Awards.  And to give out the awards, you need the nominations... so tonight, two special guests and Friends of the Show step up to reveal all that you have been wishing for (and you'll find below)

First, though, Mikey, d$, and #XLessDrEarl discuss a little Oscar recap -- what was snubbed, the surprises, the chalk of it all, the good parts and the bad. 

Then, they take a look at their fave films of the year, and while all of their Top 10s are coming up in a few weeks, along with the actual Deucie Awards, they loo
k just outside the Top 10, at numbers 11 through 15 on their lists. What just missed out on Mikey's Top 10, sitting in that next 5? What made d$'s 11 to 15, that may have made in the other guys top 10s?  And what movies are crossovers, appearing on everyone's lists?

And then finally... the nominations are out... 

BEST PICTURE 1 American Fiction 2 Barbie 3 Godzilla Minus One 4 The Holdovers 5 The Iron Claw 6 Maestro 7 Oppenheimer 8 Past Lives BEST ACTOR 1 Bradley Cooper (Maestro) 2 Zac Efron (The Iron Claw) 3 Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) 4 Glenn Howerton (Blackberry) 5 Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) 6 Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction) BEST ACTRESS 1 Sandra Huller (Anatomy of a Fall) 2 Greta Lee (Past Lives) 3 Carey Mulligan (Maestro) 4 Natalie Portman (May December) 5 Margo Robbie (Barbie) 6 Emma Stone (Poor Things) BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 1 Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer 2 Viola Davis - Air 3 Jodie Foster - Nyad 4 Vanessa Kirby - Napoleon 5 Julianne Moore - May December 6 Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers BEST DIRECTING ACHIEVEMENT BY A DIRECTOR WHO DIRECTED A FILM 1 Bradley Cooper - Maestro 2 David Fincher - The Killer 3 Greta Gerwig - Barbie 4 Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer 5 Alexander Payne - The Holdovers 6 Celine Song - Past Lives BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 1 Sterling K Brown - American Fiction 2 Willem Dafoe - Poor Things 3 Matt Damon - Oppenheimer 4 Robert DeNiro - Killers of the Flower Moon 5 Robert Downey Jr - Oppenheimer 6 Ryan Gosling - Barbie BEST ORIGINAL OR ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 1 Anatomy of a Fall 2 Asteroid City 3 Barbie 4 The Holdovers 5 Oppenheimer 6 Past Lives BEST ANIMATED FILM 1 Elemental 2 Leo 3 Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse 4 The Super Mario Brothers Movie 5 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem JACOB PINKY PINKERTON AWARD FOR BEST BRAIN CANDY MOVIE 1 Anyone But You 2 Gran Turismo 3 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 4 John Wick 4 5 Meg 2 :The Trench 6 MI: Dead Reckoning Part 1 BEST DOCUMENTARY 1 David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived 2 A Disturbance in the Force 3 Sly 4 Still: A Michael J Fox Movie 5 Taylor Swift: the Eras Tour BEST ENSEMBLE CAST 1 Air 2 Asteroid City 3 Killers of the Flower Moon 4 Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning 5 Oppenheimer BEST ACTION FILM 1 The Equalizer 3 2 Extraction 2 3 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 4 John Wick 4 5 Mission Impossible: Dead Recks BEST SONG OR SCORE 1 Ludwig Goransson (Oppenheimer) 2 Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Killer) 3 Daniel Pemberton (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse) 4 Dua Lipa - Dance the Night, Barbie 5 "I'm Just Ken" music and lyrics by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt (Barbie) BEST DRAMA 1 The Holdovers 2 The Killer 3 Oppenheimer 4 Past Lives 5 You Hurt My Feelings BEST COMEDY 1 American Fiction 2 Anyone But You 3 Asteroid City 4 Barbie 5 Blackberry BEST SCI-FI/HORROR 1 The Creator 2 Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 3 Godzilla Minus One 4 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 4 5 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Episode 588: Not Another Long ReFlicktions

By the time you read this, it will likely be officially summer... June is half over, which means it's time for another round of REFLICKTIONS!

This is the episode where Mikey, d$, and #TwitterlessDrEarl reFlick'd upon the movies they've seen in the last several weeks, since the last time they reFlick'd.

Along the way, more Scott Adkins... Dr. Earl goes French... more live action Disney... more animated Pixar... more The Flash chat... a movie about the Chevy Cavalier or something... why The Son does not follow The Father... d$ with more Bond... Dr Earl with even more Bond... Thor shoots a bunch of people... robots transform into animals... Sydney Sweeney tries, and fails, to be unattractive... and Spidey reigns supreme...

And who can say they've seen "The Double O Kid"?

And here are the movies discussed, and where to find them:

• And God Created Women (Max; Criterion Channel)
• Bama Rush (Max)
• Being Mary Tyler Moore (Max)
• Billy: The Early Years (Tubi’s CracklePlex)
• Breathless (Max)
• Chevalier (Hulu)
• Coffee Shop (Peacock)
• Digging for Fire (TubiTV)
• The Double O Kid (Tubi)
• Elemental (in theaters)
• Empire of Light (Max)
• Extraction 2 (Netflix)
• Flamin’ Hot (Hulu; Disney+)
• The Flash (in theaters)
• Holy Spider (Netflix)
• Kandahar (in theaters)
• The Little Mermaid (in theaters)
• Living (Netflix)
• Mean Streets (Max; Freevee)
• Missing (Netflix)
• My Father’s Dragon (Netflix)
• Next Exit (Hulu)
• Not Another Happy Ending (Hoopla)
• The Old Way (Hulu)
• Padre Pio (for rental)
• Reality (Max)
• 65 (for rental)
• SPECTRE (FX Now)
• Spider-Man Across the SpiderVerse (in theaters)
• Something in the Dirt (Hulu)
• The Son (Netflix)
• Sorcerer (for rental)
• Strange World (Disney+)
• To Leslie (Netflix)
• Transformers Rise of the Beasts (in theaters)
• Trojan War: 30 for 30 (Disney+)
• Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (Chicken Soup for the Soul’s Crackle)

Episode 582: Ranking the MCU Last 10

It's the end of an era in the MCU, as Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 has just hit theaters - and it's the last hurrah of the Marvel Cinematic Universe group of characters that link audiences to the Infinity Saga... sure, some heroes will carry over, but it does feel like we are saying good-bye to the MCU as we know it.

But what kind of ending is it, and how does it stack up against the rest of the MCU films released since Avengers: Endgame?

That's what the Deucecast crew aims to find out -- with Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessDrEarl on the show, and Young Spawn of Ryfun, the Pride of Albany, GA, Lil G, but now he's a Big G, fresh off of his prom and headed to Senior Portraits, Garrison Ryfun joins the show to discuss and rank in their own top tens those very films.

Starting with Spider-Man Far From Home, then to Black Widow, where the show picks up another guest, one Steve Glosson, who comes in to present his own list.

Then the Shang-Chi, Eternals, Spider-Man No Way Home, then Doctor Strange & the Multiverse of Madness, with Thor Love & Thunder, Black Panther Wakanda Forever, then Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania, and ending with Guardians 3, it's a long discussion, but a worthwhile one.

Plus, everyone but Steve (who questions as to whether he's seen it or not) also give their own quick review on Guardians 3 (SPOILER FREE, by the way).

And stick around for the ending, which goes off the rails as usual, from who gets invited to the show, Mikey's dismissal of Scotty Ryfun's concerns, Punisher movies, TMNT movies, Cannonball Run Criterion Collections and so much more. And of course, Casey's Biggest Hits.

Episode 514: Who Won 2021

The new year has begun, winter is crashing around us, and it's time to reflect on what made our moviedom in the last year... and for the first time, we ask, Who Won the Year?

Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessDrEarl host this episode, with a Marky Mark game of Rotten Tomatoes sure to give you Good Vibrations... plus some chitchat on our new year's festivities, a few movies here and there, and of course, who won 2021...

Everyone gives their top fives, including incredible acting performances... juicy roles... movie websites for movie lovers.. movie studios who swung for the fences... genre films... streaming services... and so much more... 

Plus, a stinger riff on Chris Pine...

Episode 511: tick tick Reflicktions

Feliz Navidad and all that to the masses!  Mikey, d$ and the #TwitterlessDrEarl record another great episode with all the movies seen in the last several weeks.

Topics Discussed...

Wahlberg's good roles... Amy Adams (who d$ is in love with)... Will Smith's Oscar chances... The Wes Studi of 50s Hollywood... Mikey and the Velvet Underground... musicals reign supreme... Andrew Garfield's big year... getting back with The Beatles... 

Plus... a special deal only for Deucecast listeners for booking your travel!! 

And RIP Mike Nesmith

Movies discussed, with where to find them at time of recording!

• 8-Bit Christmas (HBO Max)
• The Bourne Legacy (HBO Max)
• Breaking News in Yuba County (Hulu; Paramount+)
• Bruised (Netflix)
• C'mon C'mon (in theaters)
• Encounter (Amazon Prime)
• Encanto (in theaters)
• The Eyes of Tammy Faye (for rental)
• Get Back (Disney+)
• Ghostbusters Afterlife (in theaters)
• The House of Gucci (in theaters)
• Joe Bell (Amazon Prime)
• Julie & Julia (STARZ)
• King Richard (HBO Max)
• Mixtape (Netflix)
• The Most Reluctant Convert (in theaters)
• Passing (Netflix)
• The Power of the Dog (Netflix)
• Queenpins (Showtime; Paramount+)
• Revolution Rent (HBO Max)
• Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It (Netflix)
• Robin Robin (Netflix)
• Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas (Netflix)
• Sing 2 (in theaters)
• The Sparks Brothers (Netflix)
• The Summer of Soul (Hulu)
• tick, tick... BOOM! (Netflix)
• The Unforgivable (Netflix)
• The Velvet Underground (AppleTV+)
• Venom: Let There Be Carnage (in theaters)
• West Side Story (in theaters)

Episode 381: Summer Summer Summertime Movie Preview

It is the summer summer summer time movie preview, as Will Smith rapped many years ago.  Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessDrEarl hustled to the mall to get them a short set, then fill your earholes with all the summer movies upcoming in June, July and August.

The guys gush over the new Rock and Statham romantic comedy... are excited for Woody and Buzz to make their return, and for Chucky to slash his way back to the silver screen.

Spider-man! Bautista! Scary Stories! Gerard Butler, falling! More Angry Birds and Bill Murray's back and Tarantino's 9th and just talkin' bout Shaft.

All the movies you need to see in one episode, The Deucecast Movie Show Summer Movie Preview show.

Episode 359: Holiday ReFlicktions

Merry Christmas (just passed) and Happy New Year and in between time, in the meantime, it's the rundown of the movies that Mikey, Dave and #Twitterless Dr Earl has seen in the last several weeks.

Among the discussions, the guys touch on the problem with YA movies... the flop of Mortal Engines... Natalie Portman in Annihilation... Hot Burgess Talk... Mikey's Shudder... Mikey's Star is Born... Dave's turning the corner on Vanessa Hudgens... and tapping into the Spider-Verse.

And the final Top Five of the Year is released, with a Top Ten of 2018 coming in a few months!

Movies reviewed:
Robin Hood... Annihilation... Kalifornia... First Reformed... The Ballad of Buster Scruggs... The Commuter... Minding the Gap... The Other Side of the World... The Front Runner... Summer of '84... Mayhem... Revenge (not the Costner flick)... Green Book... Instant Family... A Star is Born... Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse... The Christmas Chronicles... Attack of the Killer Donuts... Roma... Once Upon a Deadpool...

Episode 353: ReFlicktion Rhapsody

It's a hostful episode of The Deucecast Movie Show, as Mikey and Dave come together for a Reflicktions time to Reflicked upon the Flicks they've seen in the last few weeks included several new releases such as Bohemian Rhapsody, First Man, and Bad Times at the El Royale.

The guys dive in as usual, discussing the best in Yeti Cinema... the Spideyverse... John Wick 2 comparisons... mental illness issues... Mikey licking the Guest... young Dicaprio... Jon Hamm's acting chops... Dave completing the 90s trilogy... Hulk Hogan and what kind of tape??... the new Michael Myers... vintage Malick... AA Milne is a jerk... old school Andre Gower... making space boring... zombie solder creature things... Ted Kennedy's crimes... and the story of Sacha Baron Cohen and Freddie Mercury...

A sad event in real time, breaking on the show... and the updated top five lists of the year!

Movies discussed:
Smallfoot... Hotel Artimus... Venom.. 211... God Knows Where I Am (doc).. Apostle... The Quick & the Dead... Game Night... Bad Night at the El Royale... Beirut... Empire Records... Kindergarten Teacher... Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press... Private Lives... Halloween... The 22nd of July... Badlands... Goodbye Christopher Robin... The Hudsucker Proxy... Slice... Monster Squad... First Man... You Were Never Really Here... The Night Comes for Us... Overlord... Chappaquiddick... Bohemian Rhapsody

Episode 349: Hometown Movies

Another episode of The Deucecast Movie Show commences, as Mikey, Dave and #TwitterlessDrEarl welcome in longtime Friend of the Show Not Remodeling Clay Shaver!

First up, a quick pre-ReFlicktion review of new movies "Venom" and "Bad Times at the El Royale", then a compelling round of a Characters Welcome style IMDb with some familiar names and roles. Then we break down some favorite Hometown Movies.

Mikey shares his hatred of the city of Detroit early and often, as Clay seeks to defend his beloved city's honor, and his own heart.

Then, the guys share their favorite "Hometown Movies", with Dave taking on films made in, and set in South Alabama and the Florida Panhandle... Earl with more Alabama movies... Mikey with his homestate of Oregon... and Clay with the mitten known as Michigan.

Along the way, the guys discuss Patrick Dempsey's career... take suggestions for the upcoming "SpirituEarl"... Dave sharing a ribbeting junior high story... thoughts on Beverly Hills Cop and its sequels... the Goonies missing octopus...

Episode 285: ReFlicktion Homecoming

After a quick weekend of a live show and getting their nerd on, Mikey, Dave and Pinky are back in the studio , welcoming in friend of the show Wit Stillman fan, Terence Malick apologist, Brie Fan (Alison, Larsen & Cheese), Film Historian and part time proctologist for fun, Dr Earl.

Among the topics include Mikey's diet fail... the real purpose of Freeform Channel (Harry Potter, of course)... the Fantastic Four of '94... Robert Downey Jr's early stuff... political Weiners... GLOW Gals... Crackle's app... the Just Watch app... love for Spidey... being tired of Gru... the glory of The Southerners... doubling down on meat eating... and is Anthony Hopkins overrated?

Some great discussion on Spider-Man: Homecoming, Baby Driver & Transformers: The Last Knight

Also, the top five of the year and some more movie assignments!

Movies discussed this month:

Batman & Bill (doc)… The Southerner (1945)… Tower (doc)… That Sugar Film (doc)... Fantastic Four (1994)… Doomed! The Making of Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four (doc)… Chaplin… Disgraced (doc)… Weiner (doc)… Mindhorn… Shimmer Lake… Rushmore… GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (doc)… Wonder Women… War on Everyone… Adaptation… Baby Driver… Okja… Handsome… Hologram For a King… It Comes at Night... Spider-Man Homecoming… The LEGO Batman Movie… Cars 3… Despicable Me 3… Grindhouse (Planet Terror & Death Proof)… Colossal… Transformers: The Last Knight… A History of Violence… Gone Baby Gone… Silicone Cowboys (doc)… The Sting… High Noon... Night of the Living Dead… Glory… Parenthood… The Shallows... 

And in the credits, a quick review of the documentary Dying Laughing, the doc Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic, the animated Rio 2, the British comedy I Give It a Year. 

Episode 279: The 2017 Summer Movie Preview

Yes, yes, Dave says Episode 278.  But it's 279... the audience knows better than to believe anything Dave says.

Join Mikey, Pinky, Dave, and Film Historian Terence Malick Apologist Brie (Larsen, Alison, Cheese) Lover Wit Stillman Fan World Renowed Brainologist Dr Earl as they run through the summer of films -- what to watch, what to avoid and what you should be excited for!

First up, a round of The Ryan Phillippe Game, with such names like Tom Cruise, Chris Pine and Owen Wilson.

Then, the summer films, including discussions on The Dark Tower Universe... Re-Re-Reboots... A good Wonder Woman preview... DC Rising... McQueen becoming Logan... Optimus Prime dead... the many problems with Transformers... and Spidey, Sony & Marvel.

Oh, and where is Producer Shawn or Producer Tommy?

Amongst the movies & their release dates discussed
June 2: Wonder Woman... Captain Underpants... Churchill... Band Aide

June 9: The Mummy... It Comes At Night

June 16: All Eyez On Me... 47 Meters Down... Cars 3... Rough Night

June 23: Transformers 73: The Last Knight... The Beguiled... The Bad Batch

June 28: Baby Driver

June 30: Despicable Me 3... The House... Amityville the Awakening

Spiderman Homecoming... A Ghost Story...

July 14: War for the Planet of the Apes... Lady McBeth... To the Bone... Wish Upon

July 21: Dunkirk... Girls Trip... Valerian and the City of 1000 Planets... First Kill... Landline

July 28: Atomic Blonde... An Inconvenient Sequel... Brigsby Bear... The Emoji Movie

August:  The Dark Tower... Detroit... Wind River... Death Note... Hitman Bodyguard... Logan Lucky

Episode 228: Forget Everything You Think You Know... A Marvel-ous Discussion

Forget Everything You Think You Know!!!!  A few weeks back, after the debacle that was Batman Vee Superman Dawn of Justice, the movie guys had a long discussion on the good (not much) and bad (much) on DC movies.

With Pinky out on location filming his first movie, Dave and Mikey welcome in friend of the show, Terrence Malick Apologist and Film Historian Dr Earl, and welcome back to the studio the Rantmaster Extraordinaire Hurricane Rhett to discuss Marvel movies.

After Birthday Movies (Cannonball Run is how old?!), the group dives in discussion topics like...

• The total rundown of all main Marvel films since 1986's Howard the Duck
• Fox Studios problem with X-Men
• Which X-Men can carry a movie, and who would fail
• The Fassbender to McKellen problem
• Jennifer Lawrence mailing it in
• Sony's Spiderman dilemma
• What has been with Spidey and what could have been 
• Sony and Disney Marvel working together
• Possible recasting of RDJ and Chris Evans
• The test that is Dr. Strange
• Marvel's approaches to the movies 
• #SoWhiteAvengers
• The future movies coming up 
• The Marvel TV (Daredevil, Jessica Jones) melding into the cinematic universe
• Brie Larson as Captain Marvel

Also, with some questions of Al Gore's Interwebs, the topic turns to what Marvel should have done differently... who should have been the original Sue Storm in 2005... the future of Inhumans and Mutants... and what the heck a CTI is...

Enjoy this lively discussion of where Marvel movies have been, where they are now and where they are going! 

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
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