by Luke Whitmire I’ll be honest: Expendables 2 is a shoddy and lazy film with careless acting, clumsy story structure, cheesy dialogue, and awful CGI. This film truly is a nonsensical and emotional detached opus that redundantly serves up an untrammeled mess of exaggerated carnage. Elementary filmmaking at its worst. Sylvester Stallone structures this sequel […]
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Expendables 2 is Unabashed Nostalgia.
Posted: 22nd August 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, Dolph Lundgren, Expendables 2, Jason Statham, Jean Claude Van Damme, Jet Li, Luke Whitmire, Randy Couture, Simon West, Sylvester Stallone, Terry Crews
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Thomas Jane’s Ultimate Fan Film
Posted: 5th August 2012 by Dion in Comic Books, Film, NewsTags: Dolph Lundgren, Frank Castle, Marvel, Punisher War Zone, Ray Stevenson, The Punisher, Thomas Jane
It has been brought up occasionally on the podcasts, but my all-time favorite comic book character is The Punisher. Hands down. Growing up, I never was really able to fully wrap my head around heroes with super powers, or anything else of the sort. I was I guess what you’d call a realist, and preferred a […]
Gotta Get Back In Time
Posted: 4th August 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, News, PodcastTags: Alfred Hitchcock, Citizen Kane, Dinosaurs, Jurassic Park, Orson Welles, Time Travel, Vertigo
This week the wits of pod use their time travel technology to debate the merits of the return of the dinosaurs, the relative importance of 1974 and whether or not Alfred Hitchcock deserves to unseat Orson Welles as the auteur of the greatest film of all time! It’s zany time travel goodness as only the […]
Getting the “Plug” In
Posted: 21st July 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, News, Podcast, TelevisionTags: Alien Vs. Hunter, Asylum Pictures, Batman, Elementary, Lucy Liu, Man of Steel, Red Dwarf, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, Superman, The Day the Earth Stopped, The Justice League, The Transmorphers
With Brian on temporary assignment, this installment finds Dion and J dissecting Asylum Pictures, the new CBS series based on Sherlock Holmes called Elementary, and the shocking news of a slated Justice League film, without any set prequels to ignite the franchise. Do the guys think it is a good idea to have the proverbial cart before […]
A Blast from the Past: The Drive-In Movie Theater
Posted: 11th July 2012 by Dion in Film, History, TechnologyTags: Brave, Drive In Movie Theater, Glen Falls Drive In, Lake George, The Amazing Spider-Man
While on a much-needed honeymoon to the Lake George region of upstate New York (if you’ve seen or read The Last of the Mohicans, then that’s the lake it all occurred on), my bride and I took in a custom that I thankfully have been enjoying since since childhood, which was see a double feature […]
Ernie
Posted: 9th July 2012 by Dion in Celebrities, Ernest Borgnine, Film, History, Housekeeping, News, Obituaries, Podcast, TelevisionTags: Borgnine Moment, Borgninian Moment, Ernest Borgnine, Obituaries
On July 8, the world lost another pillar of greatness, a link to a lost and nearly forgotten world, a connection to a time when legends walked the earth. Sunday morning, Ernest Borgnine peacefully passed away of renal failure, surrounded by his family. He was 95 years young. Where can one begin to discuss the life of the […]
It’s All Brian’s Fault… HONEST!
Posted: 7th July 2012 by J. Marcus in Books, Comic Books, Doctor Who, Film, PodcastTags: Batman, Detective Comics, Doctor Who, Douglas Adams, Ernest Borgnine, San Diego Comic Con, Shada, Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man
With Dion on the lam again, J. and Brian are forced to go it alone once again. Amazing technical goofs aside, the boys manage to run the bases, covering such amazing topics as the upcoming San Diego Comic Con, Doctor Who, the new Spider-Man movie and even a little bit of historical comic lore! So […]
Stories From The Utility Belt: “To The Batmobile!!!’
Posted: 4th July 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Comic Books, Film, Podcast, TelevisionTags: Adam West, Batcave, Batgirl, Batman, Batman: The Animated Series, Batman: Year One, Batsignal, Batwoman, Bill Finger, Bob Kane, Burt Ward, Casey Kasem, Comics Code Authority, Douglas Croft, Dr. Fredric Wertham, Frank Miller, George Clooney, Hanna Barbera, Joel Schumacher, Johnny Duncan, Kevin Conroy, Lewis Wilson, Matt Garrison, Michael Keaton, Olan Soule, Robert Lowery, Seduction of the Innocent, Serials, Superman, The Dark Knight Returns, Tim Burton, Val Kilmer
Holy podcast, Caped Crusader! J. and Dion have decided to take a trip back in time to the very beginnings of the Dark Knight, rediscovering his roots and tracing the steps that a millionaire playboy took to becoming the world’s greatest detective. We follow him from his meager beginnings as a simple line drawing, through […]
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Posted: 29th June 2012 by J. Marcus in Film, Film Review, Science FictionTags: Alice Eve, Emma Thompson, Josh Brolin, Men In Black 3, Rick Baker, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith
This week I had some time to kill, so I did what anyone with nothing better to do WOULD do. I went and saw Men in Black 3. The film reunites Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones as Agents J and K (respectively) who are in the 14th year of their partnership. This movie’s twist… […]
Taken 2, Taken Again, (Re) Taken Trailer Debuts
Posted: 25th June 2012 by J. Marcus in Film, NewsTags: Famke Janssen, Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Taken
On Friday, the good folks at 20th Century Fox dropped the trailer for Taken 2 on YouTube. If, like me, you were a fan of the first film, then this trailer should trigger all the right areas of your pleasure zone!