Game season is upon us and the AAA titles are prepping for the holiday season it seems. Last week, we discussed the lineage and pedigree of Naughty and now we're back to review their latest offering. Does it love live up to the standards set by Uncharted 2's multiple GOTY titles? Find out in our review and be sure to tune in on Wednesday for 052: First-Person Shooters.… Continue
Added by Shegaw on November 7, 2011 at 12:04am —
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Happy November and we hope you all had a spooktacular Halloween. Now that all of the shenanigans are out of the way, PCP can get back to business. We’ve returned to review the…Continue
With mischief night having passed and the holiday upon us, we thought we’d give a minute to talk about Halloween. We discuss our previous antics, the best and worst in candy…Continue
It’s an episode about nothing in particular so consider this our homage to Let’s Do This. We wanted to do something special for our 050th episode but, we decided to just chat things up. Things go all over the place in this first half of a two-parter. We discuss Marcus’s job woes, babies that will look like Sasquatch, Thurnis and Mathew tell homeschooling stories, strange punishments and read emails that go everywhere as well. The DC52, our…Continue
Added by Shegaw on October 24, 2011 at 5:06pm —
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With The Thing and Footloose hitting theaters, the crew felt it was as timely as any other time to remake a past episode(this has nothing to do with the fact that a few of us could not make it to the recording). We have the trademark tangents and jokes to keep this one lively for you guys. We talk some of the best and worst prequels and remakes and draw the line on what makes a reboot and new interpretations (be they based on books or anything…Continue
Added by Shegaw on October 17, 2011 at 12:08am —
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After a week off, the Weekly Dose back and in full effect. Well, it's back anyway. The roster is back to 5 again at least but, only 3 of us got to go out and see our review for the week: Real Steel. Yep, the Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em lawsuit waiting to happen is on the cutting board for us. Be sure to check back with us this Wednesday for episode 049: Yu-Gi-Oh!? We'll get back to ya on that. In the meantime, enjoy some impromptu…Continue
With Lion King poised to be number one at the box-office for the second week in a row (and probably the only movie to do that across different millennia), we at the PCP brownstone thought we'd examine the re-release trend. Why do it and what movies actually deserve it? A warning, our soundboard crapped out on us again and we have another have static show. We know, it's frustrating. We're working on the problem but, in the mean time, it's your…Continue
Added by Shegaw on September 26, 2011 at 1:42am —
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Ok, last week, one of us said that Warrior was their favorite movie of the year. But a mere week later, Ryan Gosling and his fingerless gloves may have changed their frame of mind. Yep, this week we continue our post-summer reviews by talking about a small flick by the name of Drive about a stunt/getaway driver that gets into a heist gone bad.…Continue
Breaking from the mold of our general discussion preset for Weekly Doses, Audie, Marcus and Shegaw decided to see the movie Warrior for a full review of ha-has and man-tears. We discuss the movie that has us fear for Batman's life and briefly talk about a few of our favorite fighting movies (a future episode perhaps?). Be sure to come back Wednesday for 045: Summer Movies in Review Deux. It has been one year since we first started this podcast…Continue
Happy Labor Day and apologies for last week's Weekly Dose absence (a faux earthquake and a hurricane didn't help matters for us but, we were hit with technical difficulties. At any rate, we're back and are talking about comics again. Oh, and as a warning, the beginning song is the "Flame On" song by Human Torch (voiced by Brian Austin Green) that we mentioned recently. But, on to the meat of matters: deaths in comics is the triumphant return of…Continue
Between TDK Rises, Spider-Man, Avengers, Superman: Man of Steel and countless other films, leaking footage and content seems to be turning into an industry in it of itself. Trailers, promotional photos and sneaking anything not nailed-down off the set has run exceedingly rampant. It used to be that if you didn't want to see this material, all you had to do was not seek it. The current climate has it so that people pass judgement projects before…
We haven't reviewed an album in a long time so now seems to be as good a time as any to do one. Jay-Z and Kanye West have combined their efforts culminating in Watch the Throne. We run down the track list (after a quick run with death aka Audie) and give our two cents as hip-hop fans. Is this the most anticipated album in rap? Does it live up to the hype? Did we stumble upon the next great hit in rap game parody music? Is Amber Rose a deaf-mute?…Continue
No doubt, you've heard the kerfuffle that transpired last week when Marvel announced that the helm of Spider-Man in the Ultimate universe has been taken up by a half Black and half Hispanic character: Miles Morales. Needless to say, while the majority of people responded with a reasonable "maybe it'll be good, maybe it won't" reaction. Unfortunately, there was also a vocal minority that cited this "blackwashing" as "reverse-racism" and more…Continue
Well, Cowboys & Aliens came out, and everyone is acting like adding "smurf" to their review of The Smurfs is a stroke of genius (no, it's as clever as a rehab joke about Winehouse). So, for some reason, we respectively took ourselves to the theaters to see the ostensibly random assemblage of adjectives that is Crazy, Stupid, Love. If you're wondering, "why are these guys reviewing this movie"...well, expand your horizons. Sadly, only one of…Continue
Coming hot off the heels of Comic-Con, what better movie to see than the character that preceded the industry itself: Captain America? In all honesty, he's only been ranked a private but, we're not gonna be the ones to make the nitpick. Anyway, here's our review for the last pin of The Avengers framework in Captain America: The First Avenger. Be forewarned, we do spoil at least two notable plot points here. If you've seen the movie,…Continue
In what feels like nineteenth hour of Harry Potter coverage, we wrap things up once and for all with our review of Deathly Hallows Part 2. This episode not only examines the final film in the franchise but, we'll also be going back to talk about the last book as whole with callbacks to Part 1. Be forewarned - there are spoilers abound within this episode. If you've seen only the movies but, not this one yet, we will be revealing many…
We, the brethren of the Pop Culture Podcast have forgone the traditional Weekly Dose in favor of an experimental, new format for your listening pleasure. Yeah, that don't sound right from this end either. Real talk, we had a last minute hiccup that threw off our recording so, we decided to play around with posting a shorter, roundtable discussion instead of a long form, "last week in the news" style. Let us know what you think. We'll be…