Episode 480: Chicken Soup for the Soul ReFlicktions

The summer season approaches! And if it's Mid May, we know that means... May ReFlicktions!  Dave, Mikey, and #TwitterlessDrEarl take on the movie reviews from all the films they've seen in the last several weeks.

Topics include more Streisand... a couple of terrible films... Cynthia Rhodes Updates... Terrible Andy Dick... Earl's Malick excitement... and Bong Joon Ho's filmography... 

• Nobody (in theaters)
• Escape Plan 2: Hades (Amazon Prime)
• Escape Plan: The Extractors (Amazon Prime
• Far From the Madding Crowd (rental)
• Division III: Football’s Finest (Amazon Prime)
• Barely Lethal (Showtime)
• Spontaneous (Amazon Prime; Hulu; Epix)
• Yentl (TubiTV)
• Diabolique (Amazon Prime)
• A Hidden Life (rental)
• Blitz (TubiTV; Chicken Soup for the Soul's Crackle)
• The New Mutants (HBO)
• Thunderforce (Netflix)
• Barking Dogs Never Bite (Hulu; TubiTV)
• Mother (Hulu)
• Mortal Kombat (HBO)
• Unhinged (HBO)
• The Courier (rental)
• Love & Monsters (rental)
• I Used to Go Here (HBO)
• A Week Away (Netflix)
• Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room (Amazon Prime; TubiTV)
• In the Earth (in theaters)
• Battleship (HBO Max)
• Runaway (Amazon Prime)
• Life After Flash (Amazon Prime)
• Identity Theft of Mitch Mustain (Amazon Prime)
• Stowaway (Netflix)
• Wild Mountain Thyme (Hulu)
• The 13^th Warrior (Hulu)
• Crown Vic (Hulu; Crackle)
• Fences (for rental)
• Dreamgirls (HBO Max)
• Ray (HBO Max)
• Get On Up (Netflix)
• American Wedding (Peacock)
• Marshall (for rental)
• Fatman (Hulu)
• Synchronic (Netflix)
• Without Remorse (Amazon Prime)
• Kid Detective (Starz)
• Marie Antoinette (HBO Max)
• The Beguiled (HBO Max)
• At Eternity’s Gate (Netflix)

Episode 324: A ReFlicktion Place

Like that horrifically awful Staind song said, "It's been a while...."  But never fear, Mikey, Dave and #Twitterless Doctor Earl are back in the podcasting saddle, this time with loads of ReFlicktions -- reviewing new and old movies seen in the last month or more.

After a quick look at April birthday movies, the guys dive right into ReFlicktions, going over a great new Star Wars documentary... Dave paying off his punishment for losing the Oscar pool... Bryan Brown talk... Dr Earl enjoying both a RomCom and Munchhausen by Proxy and getting Woke... Dave's latest Disaster Movies... Crushing on the Rock... much love for A Quiet Place... much non-love for A Wrinkle in Time... and lots of Burgess name dropping. 

Plus, Dave & Mikey's newest Top Five of 2018, and Dr. Earl's first list.

Movies discussed:  Hurricane Heist... The Director & the Jedi... Searching for Sugarman... Skiptrace... Pacific Rim: Uprising (WAR READY)... F/X... Atomic Blonde... When We First Met... Blackway... Ready Player One... Mommy Dead & Dearest... Hostel II... Happy Anniversary... Black Panther... Geostorm... Rampage... A Quiet Place... A Ghost Story... Andre the Giant... Elvis: The Searcher... A Wrinkle in Time... The Florida Project... Arthur Miller: Writer... Blockers 

Episode 238: August ReFlicktions (with Predator's Brother!)

Dave, Mikey & Pinky convene again to discuss a boatload, a bounty, NAY a sheer plethora cornucopia of movies that have been watched, witnessed and absorbed in the last few weeks, and to do that, Dr Earl, the resident Terrence Malick apologist and film historian, makes another appearance into the studio.

And special guest for a short time... you might have seen him in Predator... in Big Top Pee Wee... maybe in Harry & the Hendersons... he's always the big guy, he's Kevin Peter Hall!!  Well, since KPH has passed away many years ago, there is the next best thing, the Brother of the Predator, Sean Hall graces the studio for a few minutes.

Amongst the topics discussed... The villainy of Cumberbatch vs Elba… The Donkey Kong record holders… old school Randy Quaid and Gary Busey… Ryan Reynolds acting abilities… carbon copies of Toy Story films… Minions in your face… When non-Christians make Christian films… the direction of Jeff Nichols director… More OJ talk… movie computer hacking… 90s comedians who get movies… Lloyd Dobler’s legacy… the truth of the WWE… Animated vs Real Batman men… Jason Bourne’s supremacy, ultimatum and identity… Ben Hur old and new… DC’s characters being other worldly vs Marvel’s grounded characters… misleading old people…

Plus, the top five of the year by each of the hosts, including one list that has remained the same for 3 straight months. 

Finally, the movie assignments, including Cloverfield, a horror anthology and a classic cult film that inspired Tarantino.

Movies discussed:

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters… The Invitation… Lolli Madonna XXX…. Star Trek Beyond… How to Be Single… Mississippi Grind… The Secret Life of Pets… Best of Enemies… Christian Mingle… Midnight Special… OJ: Made in America… Love & Friendship… Blackhat… Goya’s Ghost… Ghostheads… The Winding Stream… Strictly Business… Defending Your Life… Say Anything… Jane Eyre… How I Live Now… The Resurrection of Jake the Snake Roberts… Batman: The Killing Joke… The Lobster… Not Another Teen Movie… Jason Bourne… Children of Men… Spotlight… Cradle 2 the Grave… Ben Hur… Suicide Squad… The BFG… The Dependables… Swingers… The Little Prince… Midnight Run… The Man Behind the Poster… Man Up… Elizabethtown… 

Episode LI: Podcast Magnolias

Enjoy this, the Fifty First episode of The (not yet) Award Winning Deucecast, (not yet) winner of 71 Webby Awards, plus (not yet) 8 BAFTAs! 

The guys welcome in Trey O'Neal, creator of (not yet) the award winning upstart site, StuckItToTheMan.com.  They jump into various topics, ranging from the jerk-ness of Ferris Bueller... blogging vs. building websites... Mikey's night out... Apple viruses... the meeting of Mikey and producer Tommy...

Mikey brings us some Moon Taxi for the Music Minute... we preview the upcoming LEGO Star Wars sequel... we discuss the Wilson Phillips reality show... and even more random crap that you know and love.

Friend of the Show Minnie Driver, in her Canadian
Grammy nominated turn in "Hard Rain"

Trey gets his first taste of Reel or UnReel... and our ReFliktions runs the gamut of new (Cabin in the Woods) to fairly recent (Hanna) to old (Tango & Cash) to older (Serpico) to Keanu (Henry's Crime).  And lest we forget, an indepth discussion of the amazing, fantastic, beautiful, historically accurate "Hard Rain" with Christian Slater and Mikey's Hollywood Girlfriend, Minnie Driver.

And our Big Three takes you on a bad movie journey with Top Great Casts in Bad Movies, with films like Oceans 12... Batman & Robin... K-Pax... and could Nothing But Trouble really be that bad?  Yes.

Next week, we try to drag Hurricane Rhett kicking and screaming to the currently being renovated The Deucecast Studios as we discuss Our Big Three Favorite TV Moms... Mikey brings more Schaeffer artists... d$ has a great Buried Treasure in store... and you'll find all of this in The Deucecast Episode LII: The Podcast of the Traveling Pants!

Mike's Music Minute:
Go check out the Schaeffer Crawfish Boil May 4-5 in Birmingham, AL

Moon Taxi - "Cabaret"

Dave's Buried Treasure:
Hard Rain [Blu-ray]

Go check out Special Guest Trey's Website Stuck It To The Man

Roundtable Randomness:

• Star Wars Lego: The Padawan Menace [Blu-ray]
• Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Bueller... Bueller... Edition) [Blu-ray]
• Tango & Cash [Blu-ray]
• Minnie Driver Movies

Episode XXIX: The Podcast: Live Hard, Sell Hard

Pumpkin patches!  Clare Danes!  Petting Zoos and (B)Ryan Adams!  All in this week's episode of The Deucecast...

Mikey kicks it off with his kid's first pumpkin patch visit, while Matt relates his own kid at a petting zoo.  "Red State" is a movie that Mikey recommends, but not for his--or anyone's--kids, while Matt recommends Jet's Pizza in The Noog.  And d$?  He'd just like his wife to talk more about her feelings (!).

Mikey gives us a great music minute with a Canadian singer (which sounds great when doing that Robin Hood song), while Matt's Smorg concentrates on The Batman.

Man, I used to freakin' love this show

Our Big Three brings back those shows that were cancelled too soon, TV series that lasted less than a single season... Heather Locklear... Keen Eddie... John Doe... Donal Logue... Manimal... Kevin Peter Hall... they, and so much more... all get their due in this segment, plus a rant on why "My So Called Life" actually isn't a great series, and why it, in all actuality, sucked bigtime.

The roundtable brings us everything from Shia fighting to LiLo's probation, from Gugino in S.O.A. to the Dark Knight in IMAX, from Ahnold's Last Stand to d$'s thoughts on "Moneyball"... and lest we forget, "Grey's Anatomy" Watch!

Oh, and Steven Seagal.

Next week... Mikey's very special music minute... Matt's very filling smorgasbord... d$'s very deeply buried treasure... another segment of "Dying with Dr. Earl"... Our Big Three favorite scary movies... and so, so much more... on The Deucecast xXx:  State of the Podcast


The Music Minute brought to you by Mike:
Ashes & Fire - Ryan Adams
Amanda Leigh - Mandy Moore

Smörgåsbord brought to you by Matt:
Batman: Arkham City (PS3, XBOX 360)

The Big 3: The One Where The Deucecast Team Picks Their Favorite TV Shows That Where Cancelled Way Too Soon:
Mike's Choice - The Inside
Dave's Choice - Drive
Matt's Choice - Terriers
Shawn's Choice - Hello Kitty Becomes a Princess  Something really manly with guns and explosions.

Nic Cage & Carla Gugino Watch:
Snake Eyes

Seagal & Lindsey Lohan Watch:
Machete [Blu-ray]

Episode X: On Stranger Podcasts

It's our TENTH Episode!

This week, Mike, Matt and d$ cover all things and every thing... including... Mike's car shopping woes... Matt's baby rashes... d$ and his propensity to sit through bad films, like the masterpiece (of crap), Swimf@n... the release of The Very Best of WCW Nitro... watching X-Men: First Class... new music from My Morning Jacket... Roland Emmerich's tendancy to destroy the world in his movies... d$'s thoughs on Pirates and why it was actually pretty good... the love (or lack of) for Penelope Cruz... more TV news featuring the fates of The Event and the upcoming The Firm... more The Rock stuff...

Plus, the guys answer the question "Who are our three actors we'll watching ANYTHING they are in?"

Matt covers the E3 convention with news on X-Box, Sony and we all share a love for old Nintendo.

And of course, Seagal Watch...

The Deuce Approved Music:

• My Morning Jacket - Circuital

The Deuce Approved Movies:

• Will Smith Movies
• Paul Rudd Movies
• Sam Rockwell Flicks
• Roland Emmerich Movies
• Troll/Troll 2

The Deuce Approved TV:

• The Very Best of WCW Monday Nitro

The Deuce Approved Video Games:

• Wii Console with Mario Kart Wii Bundle - Black

The Deuce Approved Books:

• If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor By Bruce Campbell
• Essential Uncanny X-Men, Vol. 1 (Marvel Essentials)

Episode VII: Curse of the Black Podcast

Michael reveals his love for this
Oscar nominated classic

On this week's show... d$ rants about expensive sunglasses at discount malls... Matty complains about power outages... and Mikey talks about his love for The Hot Chick... also, we give props to The Deucecast First Lady... Friday Night Lights... the music of MuteMath... a discussion on the upcoming fall TV season... Ashton Kutcher on Two & a Half Men... How Harrison Ford has become a bitter, bitter old man... Spinderella's upcoming bio-pic (maybe?)... Lots of Piratey talk...
Gaming news include LEGO Pirates (and what other movies would make good LEGO games?  Back to the Future!  The Goonies!  Killer Clowns from Outer Space?)... LA Noire... Call of Duty 3 and more...

The three guys play a round of Simple Star Wars Trivia, where the questions are ridiculously easy....

And we ask the important questions... are Twilight fans called "Twi-Hards" (yes)? Are haters "Twi-Softs"? "Twi-Nots"? And is Mikey on Team Edward or Team Jacob? 

Plus, in this edition of SEAGAL WATCH... Steven and Vladimir Putin... BFFs? 
All this and more on The Deucecast Ep VII: The Curse of the Black Podcast...

The following links will take you to Amazon for purchases... go through us, they get a few bucks, we get a few pennies... plus, you can buy more than whats linked here! 

The Deuce Approved Music:

Yes, he keeps playing with the drum on this head...MuteMath at the Alabama Theater, Nov 2009 (shot by Tommy):

• MuteMath - Armistice
• Smooth Love Jams of the 90's

The Deuce Approved Movies:

• The Hot Chick
• Kuffs
• Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy (Seven-Disc Blu-ray)
• Killer Klowns from Outer Space
• The Patriot (Steven Seagal) 

The Deuce Approved Video Games:

• LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean (PS3,Xbox 360, Wii, DS, 3DS, PSP)
• Assassin's Creed Revelations (PS3, XBOX 360)

Seagal Movie of the Week:

• Above the Law [Blu-ray]

JOIN US NEXT WEEK... we'll have d$'s full review of his Disneyland Adventure... Hurricane Rhett will join us in the studio with his new "Circle of Idiocy" (tm)... and more on The Deucecast Ep VIII:  Dead Man's Podcast...

Episode IV: A New Podcast

In the wake of the terrible storms that tore through Alabama this week, The Deucecast aims to bring a little humor to your life... so listen and laugh a lot.On this week's episode, you'll hear discussions and thoughts on: Network weather coverage... Princess Di... The Playstation Outage... Matt's problem with Fro-Yo... Liam Neeson... Hanna... Silver Bullet with Corey Haim... Season of the Witch with Nic Cage... Boomerang with Eddie Murphy... Antoine Dodson's grass... The "Terminator" legacy... Sly Stallone & HGH... Who makes the best Punisher... Fast Five... the Films of Rutger Hauer (let's be real... where else will you get "The Films of Rutger Hauer" as a topic?)... and, of course:

This Week in Steven Seagal.

And much more.

Here's links from the show... click any of these, buy anything from Amazon, put a few pennies in our pockets!

The Deuce Approved Stuff Some People Would Call Music

• Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards
• Cold War Kids - Loyalty to Loyalty
• Cold War Kids - Mine Is Yours
• Boomerang: Original Soundtrack Album

The Deuce Approved Stuff to Watch

• Darkman [Blu-ray]
• Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
• Rob Roy [Blu-ray]
• Star Wars - Episode I, The Phantom Menace (Widescreen Edition)
• Batman Begins [Blu-ray]
• Taken [Blu-ray]
• The A-Team (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]
• Boomerang
• Silver Bullet

The Deuce Approved Seagal Movie of the Week

• Born to Raise Hell [Blu-ray]

The Deuce Approved Video Games

• Portal 2 (PS3,Xbox 360)

The Beastie Boys' "Make Some Noise"


And special thanks to this week's sponsor, conveniently located on the corner of Valleydale Rd & Caldwell Mill Rd: