Continuing to celebrate the festive Halloween season, Dion and contributor J. Blake are back with part two of their hugely insightful Side Cast on Horror Movie Remakes. They jump right back into the in’s and out’s of the genre, and see how their favorite modern intrepretations stack up to the classics and why. So grab a pen and paper (or you dang […]
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Side-Cast: Horror Remakes Part 2
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Side-Cast: Horror Remakes Part 1
Posted: 16th October 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film Review, Podcast, Side-CastsTags: 13 Ghosts, 28 Days Later, Assault on Precinct 13, Bob Clark, Bullitt, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Deadly Blessing, Don Siegel, Don't Look Now, Donald Sutherland, Ed Gein, Friday the 13th, Funny Games, George Romero, Halloween, Halloween 2, House on Haunted Hill, I Spit on Your Grave, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Irreversible, John Carpenter, John Saxon, Kevin Williamson, Last House on the Left, Monica Bellucci, Murder By Decree, My Bloody Valentine, Night of the Living Dead, Nightmare on Elm Street, Phil Kaufman, Psycho, Robert Duvall, Scream, Side-Cast, Sidecast, Straw Dogs, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Beyond, The Crazies, The Evil Dead, The Faculty, The Fly, The Haunting, The Strangers, The Thing, Tony Todd, When a Stranger Calls, William Castle, World's End
‘Tis the season of witches, ghosts and goblins, and the Podwits are full of the Halloween spirit! Contributor J. Blake and Dion sit down in this edition of the Side Cast to discuss their favorite remakes in the horror film genre! They get into the nuts and bolts and see how their faves stack up […]
Side-Casts: The Rise and Fall of the Video Store
Posted: 5th June 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Podcast, Side-Casts, Technology, Up on The Soap BoxTags: A History of Violence, Asylum Pictures, Betamax, Blockbuster Video, Bruce Campbell, Christopher Lambert, Columbia House, David Cronenberg, Day of the Dead, DVD plaver, Escape from New York, Full frame, Fullscreen, Hollywood Video, Ice T, Mean Guns, Michael Mann, Mister Roberts, Netflix, Redbox, Side-Cast, Sidecast, Streaming, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Burning, The Prowler, Tom Savini, Tombstone, VCR, VHS, Video Store, Video tape, Westcoast Video, Widescreen
In 2005, David Cronenberg‘s A History of Violence, marked the last time a film saw a mainstream VHS release. Along with the overwhelming popularity of companies like Netflix and Redbox, these mailbox and streaming entertainment services virtually spelled the end to the 25 year-old industry known as the video store, and only a handful of small, “Mom & Pop” stores […]
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 […]