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Welcome to the PGP Film Cast! It is a podcast completely dedicated to movies in the theater where we cover upcoming weekend releases, announced movies, focus on one future movie that has us excited, retro reviews and our (in)famous Top 10 lists!
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News
- RIP David Carradine (1936-2009)
- Fox is making a prequel to “Alien”, Tony and Ridley Scott will produce
- Danny McBride will star in “Hench”. McBride will play a football star who suffers a career-ending injury and is forced out. He ends up taking a job as a henchman to a super villain
- Universal and Illumination Entertainment have secured the rights to a film version of “Where’s Waldo?”
- Dan Milano (of Robot Chicken) will script the remake of “Short Circuit”
- “Smoking Aces” director Joe Carnahan will direct Liam Neeson and Bradley Cooper in an A-Team movie
Movie Highlight – District 9 (August 14, 2009)
- Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
- Directed by Neill Blomkamp
- Produced by Peter Jackson
- An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly find a kindred spirit in a government agent that is exposed to their biotechnology.
Versus! The Condemned vs. Death Race
- A new segment each show where we pit two movies against each other and then see which film comes out on top!
- It’s a battle of the dystopian prison movie show movies with some great lines from Jason Statham and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin.
Weekend Releases
- June 12 – The Taking of Pelham 123, Imagine That, Moon, Tetro
- June 19 – Year One, The Proposal, Whatever Works, “Food, Inc.”, Dead Snow
- June 26 – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, My Sister’s Keeper, Cheri, The Stoning of Soraya M.
Retro Review! – The Man Who Knew Too Little
- Released November 14, 1997
- Production Budget: $20,000,000
- Domestic Gross: $13,717,039
- Directed by Jon Amiel
- Written by Robert Farrar
- Starring Bill Murray, Peter Gallagaher, Joanne Whalley, Alfred Molina
- Synopsis: Wallace Ritchie flies to England to spend his birthday with his brother, James. James has business guests coming over and must find something to occupy his brother until dinner’s over. Wallace ends up taking part in the “Theatre Of Life,” which promises to treat the participant as a character in a crime drama. Trouble begins when Wallace is mistaken for a real spy and shoots a man. Now he’s tangled up in a plot to kill Russian dignitaries on the eve of the signing of an important peace agreement. For him, it’s all an act. But to the men who want a second Cold War, Wallace is public enemy number one.
- Check out our review, favorite lines, trivia and more about a retro movie each episode.
Top 10 Senior Citizen Movies!
- Some key choices like Encino Man, Tough Guys, Up and more!
Next Episode
- Featured Movie is “Surrogates”
- Versus is Hollow Man vs Sleepers
- Retro Review is “Grandma’s Boy”
- Top 10 Movie Robots!
- Email in your lists, ideas for Retro Reviews!
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Welcome to the PGP Film Cast! It is a podcast completely dedicated to movies in the theater where we cover upcoming weekend releases, announced movies, focus on one future movie that has us excited, retro reviews and our (in)famous Top 10 lists!
Subscribe on iTunes or our RSS feed!
News
- RIP Beatrice Arthur and Dom Deluise
- Peter Berg will direct an adaptation of Battleship (the board game)
- Anthony Hopkins will reprise his role as Hannibal Lecter and Cate Blanchett will star as Clarice Starling with Ridley Scott directing.
- Terry Gilliam will try to film “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote”
- Jason Patric will join the case of “Losers”
- Warner Bros is making an Odysseus movie
Movie Highlight – Inglorious Basterds (August 21, 2009)
- Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino
- Starring Brad Pitt, Mike Myers, BJ Novak, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, Diane Kruger, Julie Dreyfus, Samuel L. Jackson
- In Nazi-occupied France during WW II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as the “The Basterds” are chose specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Versus!
- A new segment each show where we pit two movies against each other and then see which film comes out on top!
- Cancelled due to Jerry selecting a movie that has never been released on DVD, shame on him.
Weekend Releases
- May 29 – Up, Drag Me To Hell, Departures
- June 5 – Land of the Lost, The Hangover, My Life in Ruins, Away We Go
Retro Review! – Anatomy of a Murder
- Released July 1, 1959
- Directed by Otto Preminger
- Written by Wendell Mayes (The Spirit of St. Lous, Death Wish – yes, the ones with Charles Bronson)
- Starring James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O’Connell, George C. Scott, Murray Hamilton, Kathryn Grant, Eve Arden
- Synopsis: Paul Biegler is a small town lawyer who until recently had been the local prosecutor and given a lack of clients, he spends a lot of time fishing. When a murder takes place in a trailer park on the outskirts of town, he is asked to defend Lt. Frederick Manion who admits to having killed Barney Quill, a local bar owner who allegedly raped his wife. He now claims temporary insanity. The case is both prominent, with the State’s Deputy Attorney General personally prosecuting the case and lurid, given the rape and the sexual anture of much of the testimony. Biegler and his friend Parnell McCarthy, now a bit the worse for wear and given to drink, must find a way to convince the jury when they have little or no evidence to support their case.
- Check out our review, favorite lines, trivia and more about a retro movie each episode.
Top 10 Adaptations We Want Made!
- Some key choices like Monkey Island, Inca Gold, Deception Point and more!
Next Episode
- Featured Movie is “District 9”
- Versus is Condemned vs Death Race
- Retro Review is “The Man Who Knew Too Little”
- Top 10 Senior Citizen Movies!
- Email in your lists, ideas for Retro Reviews!
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Welcome to the PGP Film Cast! It is a podcast completely dedicated to movies in the theater where we cover upcoming weekend releases, announced movies, focus on one future movie that has us excited, retro reviews and our (in)famous Top 10 lists!
Subscribe on iTunes or our RSS feed!
News
- RIP Beatrice Arthur
- Gore Verbinski’s Bioshock movie has been put on hold by Universal
- Robert Rodriguez will direct “Predators”, a reboot of the Predator series
- Columbia has secured rights to the still unrelease Dan Brown novel, “The Lost Symbol”
- Edgar Wright’s next movie will be “Scott Pilgrim vs The World” with Michael Cera and Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Movie Highlight – GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra (July 1, 2009)
- Directed by Stephen Sommers
- Written by Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the Caribbean) and David Elliot (Four Brothers)
- Starring Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Sienna Miller, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Said Taghmaoui, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christopher Eccleston, Ray Park
- An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer.
Versus!
- A new segment each show where we pit two movies against each other and then see which film comes out on top!
- Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan vs Star Wars IV: A New Hope
Weekend Releases
- May 1 – Battle for Terra, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Limits of Control
- May 8 – Star Trek, Next Day Air, Rudo y Cursi
Retro Review! – Cool Runnings
- Released October 1, 1993
- Production Budget – $14,000,000
- Box Office Totals – $68,856,263 Domestic / $86,000,000 Foreign
- Starring John Candy, Leon, Doug E. Doug, Rawle D. Lewis, Malik Yoba, Raymond J Barry
- Synopsis: A fictionalized account of the unlikely story of Jamaica’s first bobsled team, Cool Runnings, follows the athletes’ journey to the 1988 Winter Olympics. When Derice Bannock’s chances of qualifying for Jamaica’s track team are dashed, he looks for another sport. He persuades U.S. bobsledding gold medalist Irv Blitzer, who now lives in Jamaica, to coach Derice and his friends as the attempt to become a world-class bobsled team.
- Check out our review, favorite lines, trivia and more about a retro movie each episode.
Top 10 Movie Heroes!
- Some key choices like Ripley, Ben Gates, Addicus Finch, Nada and more!
Next Episode
- Featured Movie is “Inglorious Bastards”
- Versus is Going Ape (Tony Danza) vs Every Which Way But Loose (Clint Eastwood)
- Retro Review is “Anatomy of a Murder”
- Top 10 Adaptations We Want Made!
- Email in your lists, ideas for Retro Reviews!
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Welcome to the PGP Film Cast! It is a podcast completely dedicated to movies in the theater where we cover upcoming weekend releases, announced movies, focus on one future movie that has us excited, retro reviews and our (in)famous Top 10 lists!
News
- RIP Natasha Richardson (1963 – 2009)
- New Line is trying to find a writer for a MacGyver movie
- Ron Howard is rumored to be directing “The Strange Adventures of HP Lovecraft”
- Tom Hanks is developing a movie based on Mattel’s Major Matt Mason astronaut action figure
Movie Highlight – Public Enemies (July 1, 2009)
- Directed by Michael mann
- Written by Ronan Bennett
- Starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Billy Crudup, Channing Tatum, Mario Cotillard, LeeLee Sobieski, Emilie de Ravin, Giovanni Ribisi and David Wenham
Versus!
- A new segment each show where we pit two movies against each other and then see which film comes out on top!
- Little Big League vs Rookie of the Year
Weekend Releases
- April 3 – Fast and Furious, Adventureland, Gigantic, Alien Trespass
- April 10 – Hannah Montana: The Movie, Observe and Report, Dragonball: Evolution
Retro Review! – Predator
- Released June 12, 1987
- Production Budget – $15,000,000
- Box Office Totals – $59,735,548 Domestic / $38,532,010 Foreign
- Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura, Elpidia Carillo, Sonny Landham, Richard Chaves, Shane Black, RG Armstrong, Kevin Peter Hall
- Synopsis: Dutch and a small group of commandos are sent by the CIA to a Central American jungle, to rescue captured airmen from guerrilas. But it’s not the armed terrorists which are the problem. Something hidden in the jungle, something invisible to the naked eye, something not of this earth is the problem. As Dutch and his men head back to transport, they are slowly targeted one by one.
- Check out our review, favorite lines, trivia and more about a retro movie each episode.
Top 10 Animal Movie Characters!
- Some key choices like Tango and Cash, K-9, Strange Wildreness and more!
Next Episode
- Featured Movie is “G.I. Joe”
- Versus is Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan vs Star Wars IV: A New Hope
- Retro Review is “Cool Runnings”
- Top 10 Heroes!
- Email in your lists, ideas for Retro Reviews!
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Welcome to the PGP Film Cast! It is a podcast completely dedicated to movies in the theater where we cover upcoming weekend releases, announced movies, focus on one future movie that has us excited, retro reviews and our (in)famous Top 10 lists!
News
- Kevin Smith’s next movie is “A Couple of Cops” starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan
- Leonardo DiCaprio to star in Christopher Nolan’s new sci-fi movie “Inception”
- Eddie Murphy to star in Bill Condon’s biopic of Richard Pryor
- Cate Blanchett to play Maid Marian in Ridley Scott’s long in development “Robin Hood”
- Remakes of The Neverending Story and Total Recall are in very early stages of preproduction
Movie Highlight – Angels and Demons (May 15, 2009)
- Directed by Ron Howard
- Written by David Koepp and Akiva Goldsman
- Starring Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgard
Weekend Releases
- Mar 13 – Race to Witch Mountain, The Last House on the Left, Sunshine Cleaning, Miss March
- Mar 20 – Knowing, Duplicity, “I Love You, Man”, Sin Nombre, The Great Buck Howard, Super Capers
Retro Review! – The Third Man
- Released 1949
- Box Office Totals – $618,173 Domestic
- Starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Ernst Deutch, Siegfried Breuer
- Synopsis: An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in post-war Vienna divided into sectors by the victorious allies, and where a shortage of supplies has lead to a flourishing black market. He arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job, only to discover that Lime has recently died in a peculiar traffic accident. From talking to Lime’s friends and associates, Martins soon notices that some of the stories are inconsistent and determines to discover what really happened to Harry Lime.
- Check out our review, favorite lines, trivia and more about a retro movie each episode.
Top 10 Movie Titles!
- Some key choices like C.H.U.D., Big Trouble in Little China, Doctor Giggles, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and more!
Next Episode
- Featured Movie is “Public Enemies”
- Retro Review is “Predator”
- Top 10 Animal Characters (come on you Air Bud fans)!
- Email in your lists, ideas for Retro Reviews!
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