Review by Luke Whitmire This time Iron Man belongs to the prolific action screenwriter from the 80’s, Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, Predator, The Long Kiss Goodnight, The Last Boy Scout, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), and his Iron Man is full of irreverent humor and wit that has turned him into one of the best screenwriters in the […]
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Iron Man 3 is an Effective Machine Designed Solely to Entertain
Posted: 3rd May 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Ben Kingsley, Brian Tyler, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Iron Man, Predator, Robert Downey Jr, Shane Black, The Avengers, The Dark Knight, The Last Boyscout, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Ty Simpkins
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Eastwood at Tribeca
Posted: 30th April 2013 by Dion in Film, Film Review, NewsTags: Akira Kurosawa, Breezy, Clint Eastwood, Darren Aronofsky, Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story, Fatal Attraction, Fistful of Dollars, Lolita, Play Misty For Me, Richard Schickel, Sergio Leone, The Eiger Sanction, Tribeca Film Festival, William Holden, Yojimbo
Yorkshire Girl and I were lucky enough to attend the Clint Eastwood installment of the Director’s Series at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. After the theatrical premiere of the new documentary Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story, which discussed Eastwood as a director, a Q&A was held immediately afterward with Mr. Eastwood, which was moderated by director […]
All Roads Lead To The Hoff!
Posted: 20th April 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Film, PodcastTags: Ballistic City, DC Comics, Joseph Kosinski, Joss Whedon, Man of Steel, Marvel Comics, Star Trek Into Darkness, Superman, The Avengers
After a brief trip to the Twlight-Zone that is NPR, the boys are back on form in a brand-new podcast designed to titillate your ears and warm your senses. The Podwits are introspective this week, looking to the future of their beloved genre offerings and striving to see if they will ever truly find genre […]
What is a Podwit To Do?
Posted: 9th March 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Comic Books, Film, PodcastTags: Batman, Battleship, Captain America, Christopher Nolan, DC Comics, G.I.Joe, Iron Man, Joss Whedon, Superman, The Avengers, The Punisher, Thor, Zack Snyder
On the Podwits Podcast, we don’t examine the greater mysteries of life, the universe and everything. Mainly because the computer that we were using for such things was destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass, but we digress. Instead, we look at the bigger picture of pop culture; where our movies are going and […]
With All Respect To Albert Brooks…
Posted: 9th February 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Film, PodcastTags: Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind, Foreign Films, Hardware Wars, Netflix, Post Office, Star Trek, Star Wars, Superman, UltraViolet, Vudu
This week The Podwits are podcasting minus one! Brian’s out sick with a note from the doctor, leaving Dion and J. to run the store for a week! You think you know movies? You haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen their half-as-good foreign remakes! And not all remakes are foreign as J and Dion recount […]
The Podwits Challenge: 10 Films that Molded You
Posted: 30th January 2013 by Dion in Film, Film Review, Up on The Soap BoxTags: A Night to Remember, Charles Laughton, Dirty Harry, James Cagney, Randy Jurgensen, Sorcerer, The Black Hole, The Last Man on Earth, The Muppet Movie, The Night of the Hunter, the terminator, The Untouchables, Transformers the Movie, Wages of Fear
He’s a fun thing a friend passed on to me, contributor J Blake. Pick 10 movies. They don’t have to be good, or groundbreaking. You don’t even have to like them anymore. But these 10 movies are films that really sculpted you into who you are today, and really had an affect on you growing up. […]
The All-New Adventures of the Original Podwits!
Posted: 19th January 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Books, Film, Podcast, Science Fiction, TelevisionTags: Frank Miller, Game of Thrones, Gremlins, John Carter, Lord of the Rings, Robert Rodriguez, Sabrina, Sin City, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hobbit, The Phantom, The Prisoner, The Shadow, The Spirit, Tintin
Accept no substitutes! The Podwits are back once again and THIS time it’s personal! The boys picked up a few good books and are talking remakes. Do we really need ’em? And WILL comics legend Frank Miller ever make a decent movie again? The Podwits race through all this and more… but did someone cut […]
Jessica Chastain Takes Charge in the Taut, Stark and Unconventional Zero Dark Thirty
Posted: 27th December 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Greig Fraser, Jessica Chastain, Karthryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Oscars, Point Break, Seal Team Six, Strange Days, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty
Review by Luke Whitmire Twenty five years ago in the genesis of her career, a young Kathryn Bigelow was a protege to a high caliber filmmaker (James Cameron), and she soon became a great visionary for directing big-budget action films. She started her career as a filmmaker whose work consisted only in the artifice realm. […]
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Posted: 17th December 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Cate Blanchet, Christopher Lee, Gollum, Hugo Weaving, Ian McKellen, J.R.R. Tolkien, Martin Freeman, Peter Jackson, The Hobbit
Review by Luke Whitmire The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey takes place sixty years before the events of The Lord of the Rings. The Rings trilogy was a dynamic, pulsating fantasy story that roused audiences, and changed the landscape for epic spectacles. A brief history: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again—better known by its abbreviated […]
Killing Them Softly Is A Vicious, Sordid and Violent Darwinian Blood-Sport
Posted: 3rd December 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Andrew Dominik, Ben Mendelsohn, Brad Pitt, Johnny Cash, Killing Them Softly, Obama, Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins, Scoot McNairy
Review by Luke Whitmire The plot goes like this: Two lowlife, crack-addict, brain-dead criminals (Scoot McNairy & Ben Mendelsohn) are recruited to knock off Markie Trattman’s (Ray Liotta) high-stakes underground casino. A porcine thug who has knocked off one of his own games in the past and got away with it, Markie knows he […]