The first "G" in "Gigli" is pronounced like the "J" in “Jacques,” the second “G” is silent. Rhymes with "really." Now that that’s out of the way - we conclude our Martin Brest series with...
2024-07-14 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
He’s hot. He’s got frosted tips. He loves peanut butter. His lil swimmers may or may not look like skulls. He’s death, baby! And we’re meeting him this week! Vanity Fair’s Richard Lawson ...
2024-07-07 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
🐢🍕They come out of the shadows now?? The Turtles are back and visible this time as BC:SF discusses 2016’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows 🐢 ...
2024-07-01 07:38:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Warning - this episode contains an ungodly amount of Pacino impressions. Listener discretion is advised.
“Actor’s actor” and local boy from Queens David Krumholtz becomes the second cas...
2024-06-30 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In a first for Blank Check, Ben Hosley produces an entire episode while handcuffed and under threat of legal action. What else would you expect from a MIDNIGHT RUN episode? The great Alan Sepinwall...
2024-06-23 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
🐢🍕 The Turtles are back BAY-by. BC:SF is discussing 2014’s Michael Bay-produced "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (almost starring Griffin Newman) 🐢 🍕
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2024-06-21 04:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
An indelible synth theme by Harold Faltermeyer. A scene-stealing turn from Bronson Pinchot. A banana in a tailpipe. EDDIE FREAKING MURPHY. It’s no wonder that Martin Brest’s Beverly Hills Cop i...
2024-06-16 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re feeling Hot! Hot! Hot! For our Martin Brest bonus ep Griffin, David and Ben discuss Brest’s two student films; 1972’s Hot Dogs for Gauguin and 1977’s Hot Tomorrows.
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2024-06-11 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
After years of citing him as a potential series, we’re finally Brest men. In this inaugural episode of our “Podverly Hills Cast” series, we’re taking a look at Martin Brest’s debut featur...
2024-06-09 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We return to the Wasteland this week with Furiosa, and we’ve got quite the tour guide. Kyle Buchanan - author of Blood, Sweat & Chrome, THE book on the making of Mad Max: Fury Road - joins us...
2024-06-02 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
🐢 🍕 BC:SF is tackling the most irrelevant entry in this series, but technically the sequel to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III as they discuss 2007’s “TMNT” 🐢 🍕
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2024-06-01 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Come join the dream parade, folks - we’re talking about Paprika! Mother of the Blankies Emily Yoshida is with us to chat about Satoshi Kon’s final film - a film that FEELS like a swan song espe...
2024-05-26 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
🐢 🍕 BC:SF is Back....In Time?!? 🐢 🍕 Headed back to Ancient Japan, the BC crew discusses 1993’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: (No Subtitle).
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2024-05-21 04:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
They call them the Godfathers of Tokyo…and we call him the KING of TIKTOK (in an old man newscaster voice) - Reece Feldman joins us to chat about Satoshi Kon’s beautiful Christmas fable about a...
2024-05-19 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Our Satoshi Kon series continues with his 2003 film Millennium Actress, a moving exploration of memory, history, and the magic of da moviesh. Writer Hoai-Tran Bui returns to the pod as we discuss t...
2024-05-12 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In our Satoshi Kon bonus ep Griffin, David and Ben are joined by; “The Burger Boy” himself, one of the two titular Doughboys, member of the oft-mentions Blank-Dough text thread, and most releva...
2024-05-11 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the filmography of Satoshi Kon - a thrilling series of funhouse mirrors and puzzlebox narratives that proved what is possible in the animation form. The icon, the legend, the culturista ...
2024-05-05 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
🐢 🍕 🧪 Can we tell you a secret? 🐢 🍕 🧪 In the continuation of our Turtles commentaries, the BC crew discusses perhaps the perfect combination of 10 words ever assembled for a movie...
2024-05-01 04:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Our McTiernan series concludes with 2003’s BASIC - a film that Griffin thinks should instead be titled “COMPLICATED” - get it? Because there are so many plot twists?? The great BenDavid Grabi...
2024-04-28 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
🐢 🍕 We're headed to the sewers as we kick off our long awaited Ben-forward commentary series on The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with 1990's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 🍕 🐢
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2024-04-21 04:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally, we arrive at the film that helped put John McTiernan in both “director jail” and “jail jail” - the incoherent nu-metal fart that is 2002’s ROLLERBALL. Zach Cherry continues his t...
2024-04-21 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
What if there was a 13th Warrior? What if there was a version of Beowulf so grounded in reality that the climactic battle with Grendel just kind of felt like a shrug? What if Antonio Banderas was t...
2024-04-14 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In our final McTiernan-related bonus ep, the BC crew discusses the 2-Part 2023 New York Times Presents docuseries Sin Eater: The Crimes of Anthony Pellicano.
Topics include: Lawyer com...
2024-04-11 04:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
A Fiji water bottle. “Sinnerman” by Nina Simone. That Magritte painting with the bowler hat. A SCINTILLATING, AGE-APPROPRIATE ROMANCE WITH TWO OF THE GREATEST HEIST SEQUENCES IN MOVIE HISTORY. ...
2024-04-07 04:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Missed the live show but want one of the incredible posters Olly designed for us? You're in luck - they're on sale NOW (including some signed versions!) at the link above!2024-04-05 16:00:16 +0000 UTC
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The conclusion of our Terminator commentary series is upon us with 2019's Terminator: Dark Fate. Topics include: McKenzie Davis, Patreon programming, Terminator rankings and of course LOTS of Carl ...
2024-04-01 04:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHere we are. March 31st. Two untraditional (aka made up) franchises. A ton of fan support. Zero buttholes.
It's TABLETOP GAMES vs PULP HEROES.
2024-03-31 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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