Episode #104 – Two Year Anniversary or The Third Brother Pt. 2

It’s part two of our two year anniversary episode. Ryan, Loren, and Rick are back to fill you in on what’s going on in the f*cked universe and the MCU.

  • Scientific evidence that audiences don’t connect with DC movies
  • Thor: Ragnarok leaked a month early via Movies Anywhere
  • New Mutants is going to be hardest PG-13 ever (are we still doing phrasing?)
  • Joanne Whalley joins Daredevil Season 3
  • Brie Larson in costume as Captain Marvel
  • Also Loren and Rick watched a ton of stuff. Ryan watched some things too!

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Episode #104 – Two Year Anniversary or The Third Brother Pt. 1

It’s our 104th episode which marks our two year anniversary! To celebrate this momentous occasion we got (almost) the whole HPN staff together for a big one. So big it’s broken up into two parts. In this, the first part, Loren, RDT, Rick, and (for the movie section) Jen, talk Movies and TV. Topics include:

  • Black Dynamite 2?
  • Oscar nominees announced
  • Casey Affleck withdraws from presenting best actress Oscar
  • John Cena might be Duke Nukem
  • Sony moving all the release dates
  • Peter Jackson making WWI documentary for BBC
  • Ryan Reynolds to star in Clue remake
  • Emily V. Gordon to adapt novel The Nest for Amazon Studios
  • Cat in the Hat animated movie coming from WB
  • Dundee movie not a movie but has added Hugh Jackman
  • Juman3 potentially fast-tracked for Christmas 2019
  • Latest Mission: Impossible title revealed
  • Rumored Superb Owl trailers
  • Bill & Ted 3 title/plot details
  • Movie Pass is apparently a distribution company now, also not covering all AMC locations anymore
  • Mike Flannigan to direct adaptation of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep
  • Greatest American Hero reboot picked up to pilot
  • Greg Berlanti drama pilot God Friended Me ordered by CBS
  • Murphy Brown returning to CBS
  • Magnum PI and Cagney & Lacey reboots picked up to pilot
  • CBS and Viacom merger?
  • Katrina Law returning to Arrow
  • Charmed reboot and supernatural cop pilots ordered by CW
  • FX orders What We Do In The Shadows series
  • Meryl Streep joins Big Little Lies season 2
  • Helen Mirren to play Catherine the Great for HBO
  • Michael Shannon joins AMC’s The Little Drummer Girl
  • Netflix interested in Cloverfield sequel
  • TV Writers create an anonymous spreadsheet to compare salaries, look for parity in pay
  • Apple orders series from Damien Chazelle
  • Like we said, it’s a big one. You get all that and plus the usual tangents.

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Weekend Watch – 01/26/2018

Welcome to the Weekend Watch. Where we try to point you towards the best ways to spend your viewing time (or, at least, steer you clear of the garbage).

Movies

Wide Release

Maze Runner: The Death Cure

Loren: I just added the other two movies in this franchise to my list. I’m curious but know that they can’t be good per se. If I enjoy one or both of those I may give this a shot, but I’m not running out to the theater for it.

RDT: I haven’t seen any of these. So, I doubt I’m gonna start with this one.

Rick: This is the movie that nearly killed Dylan O’Brien. For his sake, I hope it does well, but I am not going to see it.

Jen: How do you type out a shrug emoji? Like which keys do you use? I always end up cutting and pasting cause I just can’t figure it out.


Limited Release

American Folk

Loren: There might be a sweet movie in there but I’ll never know.

RDT: 35 seconds. That’s how long I lasted into the trailer. So, yeah, hard pass.

Rick: Meeehhhh…?

Jen: It’s the Indie-est Indie Movie that ever movied. No thanks.


The Competition

Loren: Gee, I wonder how this movie will turn out for these horrible people. On second thought, no I don’t.

RDT: I met Chris Klein once. He couldn’t remember the name of the Cobra villain with the metal mask (Destro). That’s all I got.

Rick: Remember Thora Birch and Chris Klein? Be prepared to forget them again when no one sees this movie. Also, these people are assholes. What kind of bet is that to make against your friends’ relationships?

Jen: She cheats on him because she’s afraid of commitment, but then HE doesn’t cheat on HER and she realizes she loves him and they both win. Can we go home now?


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Episode #103 – The Need for Creed

Loren is still out and (walk)about with the Lady(I still don’t know how to do the TM). So, we have another lady(non-TM) Jen stepping in. 

  • Creed 2: Rocky 8
  • Danny McBride is, maybe, we think, the son of “Crocodile” Dundee….?
  • Ken Watanabe joins Ryan Reynolds in Pokemon movie ‘Detective Pikachu’ (is a sentence I never thought I’d write.)
  • Super Troopers 2 trailer
  • ROM and MASK movies dead
  • Jordan Peele retires….from acting
  • Spielberg mulling his next project
  • Sword in the Stone added to Disney’s bucket (bucket?) of live-action remakes
  • Academy Award nominations drop…today (also, it’s my birthday)
  • Inhumans officially, for reals this time, canceled
  • Bad Boys spinoff, Bad….Females?, goes to pilot
  • Kid Flash moving to Legends, Loren and I are smart
  • JJ Abrams coming back to TV
  • Joel McHale coming to Netflix in “Not The Soup”
  • Pegg and Frost making a funnier version, we hope, of Ghosted which was supposed to be a funnier version of X-Files
  • In a surprising twist, young Han Solo movie to be about young Han Solo
  • Two more future ex-directors of The Flash movie are in talks to direct the The Flash movie
  • We may have a wizard in SHAZAM
  • Who else is in Venom?

All that and the usual tangents return.

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Weekend Watch – 01/19/2018

Welcome to the Weekend Watch. Where we try to point you towards the best ways to spend your viewing time (or, at least, steer you clear of the garbage).

Movies

Wide Release

12 Strong

Loren: Though it’s got a great cast, this looks like half a standard war movie and half a Call of Duty game (put a horse in it). Maybe someday but not in the theaters.

RDT: What Rick said, except for the “wanting to see it” part.

Rick: I can’t imagine that this isn’t going to be full of clichés and a wickedly stretched version of the truth, but this cast is excellent. I want to see it just for this ensemble. I doubt I’ll trek to theaters for it, though.

Jen: I have a lot of mixed feelings on this one. The trailer managed to hit me in the feels for the first few seconds but then sort of turned a bit to jingoistic about the war on terror in a way that turned me off. I have nothing but admiration and respect for these men and what they did, and this does look like an amazing cast (Michael Shannon seems to elevate anything he’s in), but I can’t see spending my precious movie-going resources on this.


Den of Thieves

Loren: I love a good heist movie. Sadly, this doesn’t look like one. I’ll wait on it.

RDT: I’ll give it a shot streaming.

Rick: I mean, this isn’t a terrible concept, but there’s no way that the movie lives up to its setup. I guarantee I’ve sat through a lot worse, though. Call it a rental.

Jen: Where Michael Shannon elevates everything, Gerard Butler tends to do the opposite. This is a meh for me.


Forever My Girl

Loren: Oof. Not much in that trailer made me want to see this movie. And then to top it all off, that little girl is TOO precocious. Pass.

RDT: Jen’s gif is better than anything I could come up with.

Rick: Wait… *looks it up* This isn’t a Nicholas Sparks joint? Huh. I mean, his involvement wouldn’t have gotten me to watch it. I’m just surprised, is all.

Jen: 


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Episode #102 – No Tangents, Part 2

And we’re back! Here to talk Star Wars, DCEU, Marvel and what we watched.

  • More Obi Wan movie talk confirms nothing about Obi Wan movie
  • Is Star Wars the new fucked universe?
  • John Williams to score From His Nap
  • Lindsay Lohan, and only Lindsay Lohan, wants to be Batgirl
  • Some SHAZAM updates that I’m too lazy to type out individually
  • Green Lantern Corps still in development
  • Joe Morton, and maybe only Joe Morton, wants a Cyborg movie
  • Less cooks in the DC/WB kitchen
  • Black Panther is going to be huge!
  • Black Widow may finally fly solo
  • Lauren Shuler Donner happy to join the MCU
  • Fox developing a Kitty Pryde movie that will never get made
  • Gambit also never to be made
  • Fox shifts X-release dates
  • Tom Hardy in Venom looks like Tom Hardy

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Episode #102 – No Tangents, Part 1

Rick steps in for Loren as he’s off with The Lady(I don’t know how to do the TM). So let’s get this out of the way, this week’s episode is long. So long, in fact, we’re cutting it in two. Part 1 is all the news and Part 2 will be all the universe updates and what we watched.

  • Millie Bobbie Brown is lil lady Sherlock Holmes
  • Vin Diesel is Bloodshot…?
  • The Academy is dumb
  • Leo joins Tarantino
  • Bad Times at the El Royale gets some cast
  • The Goldfinch is Wright….get it?
  • Bob Odenkirk is Nobody
  • Fox cancels Patty Hearst biopic
  • Will Clive Owen hunt Gemini Man?
  • We’ll still have to go to the movies to see the movies for at least another year
  • Alex, Inc. Trailer
  • Gong Show somehow gets a season 2
  • Michael J. Fox is a Designated Survivor
  • Modern Family to end next season
  • Inhumans dead. SHIELD in life-support.
  • Jesus Christ Superstar
  • CBS All Access actually a legit app now
  • Big Bang Theory heading to the end
  • Germans love Young Sheldon
  • Gillian Anderson done with the X-Files (until she’s not)
  • Cosmos finally getting a season 2
  • Legion of Super-Heroes stills (look awful) from new Supergirl episode
  • Constantine cartoon to be more in line with the comics
  • Trial of the Flash gets a trailer
  • Trust trailer (and RDT confuses Gettys and Hearsts)
  • Halo tv show still in development
  • American Black Mirror Story
  • Krypton trailer
  • Snowpiercer: The Series
  • Full Frontal will continue
  • Tracy Morgan returns
  • Ronan Farrow joins HBO
  • Flight of the Conchords returns to HBO
  • True Detective won’t come back until 2019
  • The Avengers, not those Avengers, coming to tv
  • John Wick spinoff coming to Starz
  • Monsters coming to the UK
  • Hulu picks up Runaways, Future Man, Catch-22 and a Blumhouse horror show
  • BoJack coming to regular tv?
  • Netflix picks up Chambers
  • Apple “See”s the future….
  • Critters coming to….whatever go90 is.
  • Kumail Nanjiani opens a Beautiful Laundrette
  • Bryan Fuller is TV Guillermo Del Toro
  • Head to Vegas, escape Jigsaw

All that and the usual tangents (yeah, I lied).

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Weekend Watch – 01/12/2018

Welcome to the Weekend Watch. Where we try to point you towards the best ways to spend your viewing time (or, at least, steer you clear of the garbage).

Movies

Wide Release

The Commuter

Loren: I thought the last one was the last one of these he’s doing. Oh well. Carry on.

RDT: Looks fairly generic and harmless. I’m sure I’ll watch it, eventually.

Rick: Does Liam Neeson punch a train? This is (allegedly) his last action movie. I kinda want to see him punch a train. I also love me some Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga. Count me in.

Jen: You do you, Liam Neeson.


Paddington 2

Loren: I didn’t see the first one, but they look cute enough.

RDT: Didn’t see the first one. No interest in #2.

Rick: Oh, Christ, no.

Jen: I could bearly stand this trailer. Huh? Get it?


Proud Mary

Loren:

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RDT: 

Rick: 

Jen: 


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Episode #101 – Where are you, Candace Bailey?

Heading down the 101 to talk all things pop culture! Woo woo!!!!

  • Cloverfield 3, or whatever they call it, on the move again
  • We’ll get to see Young Sheldon get a little older
  • The Gifted is the gift that will keep on giving
  • New Girl jumps ahead as she comes back
  • First look at Thunder from Black Lightning
  • Stephen Dorff is not on golf, but will be on True Detective
  • Game of Thrones will return eventually
  • Nightflyers to start flying
  • FX returns to Fargo and motorcycles
  • AppleFlix? NetApple?
  • Brighter
  • Sabrina Draper: Mad Witch
  • Nurse Ratched will eventually face off against Randall P. McMurphy
  • Animaniacs are coming back!
  • Rey’s parents now may be important, or still not, whatever
  • DCEU gets a new boss, again
  • Wonder Woman 2 will be totes different
  • Clair Temple returns!
  • X-Force moves forward as Dr. Doom stalls out

All that and the usual tangents.

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Weekend Watch – 01/05/2018

Welcome to the Weekend Watch. Where we try to point you towards the best ways to spend your viewing time (or, at least, steer you clear of the garbage).

Movies

Wide Release

Insidious: The Last Key

Loren: Key fingers just don’t seem that scary to me. Good for Lin Shaye to get a franchise later in life though.

RDT: I rarely watch good horror movies. So, why would I waste my time with this?

Rick: Man, they just can’t stop shitting out sequels to this poor man’s version of Poltergeist. Please let this be the last one.

Jen: Wow, so there are four of these now? Does the “Last” in the title indicate they won’t be making more? Somehow I doubt it. I look forward to Insidious 5: The Search for More Money, thanks.


Limited Release

Blame

Loren: My only problem here (because this does look compelling) is that it seems to be romanticising the teacher/student relationship thing. That’s kinda not cool.

RDT: I might check it out. Or I might completely forget about it.

Rick: Not really hiding the fact that it’s a modern retelling of The Crucible, is it? Nevertheless, I might take this one in from my living room if it stays on my radar.

Jen: One of my New Year’s resolutions is to see more movies. So far, this week, this is the leading contender. I like Chris Messina and I watched the trailer all the way through without surfing away, so that’s a plus – not a strong plus, but a plus.


On Body and Soul

Loren: If nothing else, I’d like to win a Golden Bear at some point. Nevertheless, I probably will never see this movie.

RDT: I’ve been called a Golden Bear before, Loren. Maybe if you’re nice, I’ll let you win me.

Rick: If nothing else it looks beautiful. Unless reviews are strong I may skip this one.

Jen: This is interesting. It pops up on a lot of autism-related boards and such since the female lead has some Asperger-like behaviors, but it doesn’t use that as a selling point, or even a discussion point, which I think is awesome. That alone might be worth me checking this out.


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