In this episode, we discuss and review the latest Spider-Man movie, Spider-Man: Brand New Day. We explore its themes of growth, responsibility, and loss. We talk performances, character development, and how the film fits into the broader MCU landscape and what makes this film stand out in the superhero genre.

As mentioned above, this episode does contain spoilers, so if you haven't watched the movie yet, please wait to listen to this episode.

Enjoy!

We discuss the casting, characters. quality animation, suspend your disbelief plot twists, and some of our favorite moments, all while sharing our thoughts on the live action talking animal genre.

We also discuss some of the unwarranted pre-release internet criticisms levied toward some female led superhero movies.

Annnnnd here’s a new episode just for you! We share some news announcements including upcoming tech, an album release, livestream show, casting, and a virtual film festival that’s opening with a film about a lovely group of dancing dudes from the Maritimes called The Bhangra Boys. One tidbit that surfaced has K SUPER stoked. There are a fair amount of streaming suggestions too, from a star-studded drama to a LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special (no no, not THAT one). 
T reviews Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order as it showed up on Game Pass. Much to our chagrin, we continue to be unimpressed with season 2 of The Mandalorian, and share the whys of that. The Simon Says assignments had K sampling Mike Tyson Mysteries and T sharing his thoughts on the Good Omens limited series. 

We tell you why psychologists think taking trips down pop culture memory lane is good for your mental health and take a little journey of our own back to the days of compilation CDs like Frosh and Big Shiny Tunes.
Our last segment is one of our most favourite, Hidden Treasures and Guilty Pleasures. T tells us why folk have been wrong to pan the sci-fi war film Battle: Los Angeles, and K talks about one of her favourite humorous novels (and novelists), a perfectly apt-for-the-season read, The Stupidest Angel by Christpher Moore.
One of the things we love to do most is to give independent artists a chance to share their work, and so we finish the recording off with Cevilain’s awesome cover of Miley Cyrus’ Midnight Sky (thanks guys!).

We hope you enjoy!

It's new episode time. 

This week Snyder is out and Rodriguez is in at HBO, Evans raids Netflix, DeVito heads back to Gotham, and The Addams Family has a new Morticia.  We then take a look at some other reboots and remakes that should or possibly shouldn't find their way on to the big and small respectively, before falling down a bit of a rabbit hole and finding ourselves in the maze-like wonderment of the Paris Metro, 

In our reviews this week, we asked ourselves "What If...?" and sampled Netflix's "Brand New Cherry Flavour" after taking a lovely stroll through the streets of Free City.

Stick around at the end of the episode to not only hear about T's adventure of going out in the really real world and seeing and interacting with real people, but also some more news on our upcoming Fundraiser, and to listen to T also seemingly have a mild mental breakdown on air. 

Then stick around after that again, to hear "My Way" from Rude Mood (some of those real people T was out being all social with on the weekend).

Enjoy!!

We celebrated our 100th episode by taking a look back at the ups and downs, highs and lows, bestest and worstest moments from the previous 99 episodes.  We talk about how doing the podcast has changed us, the way it has changed the who, what, where, why and how we consume our pop culture, the way it is has made us break from our norm, pushing us outside our comfort zones in a way, and challenged us.  
We wax poetically about being able to use our tiny, tiny bit of celebrity (haha) to fundraise, get involved with and raise some money for some charities that are near and dear to us. 
And we reminisce about one of the best parts of it all, the new friends we've met along way.  From the fine, fine folk we've had come on the cast to talk with us, to our listeners who we have had the pleasure of interacting with. 
So, as it would only be fitting to do on our 100th episode, we add another friend to that list as we welcome guitarist, musician, singer, songwriter, twitch streamer, independent music maker Luke Paluch of L.J.P music to the podcast.  
It's a small world as you'll soon find out. 

You can find on IG at @l.j.p_music 
On Twitch at https://twitch.tv/ljpmusic
On Spotify at https://spotify.link/J4uyZF3r4yb
On YouTube at https://youtube.com/@L.J.P

It's a brand new episode of the Pop Cult Ex-Perience Podcast,  
Joining us on the show today is Alexandre Maheux from Sunday Riot Club to talk about the band and all the good stuff they have coming our way in the nearest of futures.
Before we get to that we of course bring you all the exciting (to us) news, previews, rumours and stories from around the entertainment world.
It's an 80's and 90's television revival as The Golden Girls, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes all find their way into out news this week
Martin wanted more GoT, Nicolas Cage sinks his teeth into a new role, The Foos somehow find time to make a movie, a errant text finds its way to Netflix, Agatha nabs a Grammy nod, Spidey swings "Across the Universe", and Miyazaki comes out of retirement, again, for one last time.  
We then toss some Flying F...s at Tick Tick Boom, DopeSick and the first three episodes of Hawkeye. But did any of them "hit the mark'?   (Ha ha ha)  Listen in to find out. 
Stick around at the end to hear "Light This City" from Sunday Riot Club.  

It's a new week, and with that comes a new episode.

Before this episode hets proper started i get a little something off my chest.  But as soon as that foolishness is done with it's in to the news, where we talk about all the fun stuff that came out of The Venice Film Fest, The Toronto International Film Festival and D23.  We then discuss the fantastic and dark comedic works from Martin McDonagh.  We then  finish things off with a new segment, Better Late Than Never, with Karen finally getting around to watching The Losers, a movie she should have seen 12 years ago,  

Enjoy!!

In this episode we talk about thing affected by the recent pandemic.  We give you reasons and options to help you social distance yourself.  I talk about a hidden treasure, we talk video games coming to tv.  We give you an extensive list of streaming options during quarantine.  

In this all new episode of The Pop Cult Experience, Karen and myself are joined once again by the lovely Sara and we discuss some bits of news, we review the new Fantastic Four flick, we discuss some of our comfort films and shows that we go back to whenever we need something to easy our brains and we talk about being part of the Gen-X crowd and how we are getting up there in age and that we should expect to start losing the celebs and musicians and folk that helped mold our pop culture tastes as youths.   

We’re bringing you a whole whack of Star Wars news: even more Mandalorian on its way, some great Cassian Andor (Rogue One) series casting, the shapers of the Obi Wan series have been announced, & we discuss a new series announcement that’s resulting in some ridiculous internet bs. There’s a new comic set in Firefly ‘verse on it’s way, that has us soaring like a leaf on the wind. We share some exciting new series that are being adapted for TV, as well as giving you our picks on what’s new to streaming platforms. New game arrivals and announcements abound too and T talks Last of Us 2, Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, and more. We let you know about some of the wonderful things that happened in May’s pop culture history from Dracula to Betty White, and we both get between the covers for our Guilty Pleasure and Hidden Treasure, as K talks Sookie Stackhouse, a novel series about vampires & fairies & weres (oh my) and T discusses We Stand On Guard from a very talented writer and Ottawa native.

It has been but a minute since we did this thing we do, and in this spanking brand new episode we explain our unintentional absence as well as talk about a few of the things that happened in the world of entertainment and pop culture while we've been away as well as all the things we've managed to watch and consume over the last little while. 
It's good to be back. 
Enjoy!

When a Friday the 13th just happens to fall in October, there is only one thing to do. 
Dedicate an entire episode to talking about Friday the 13th franchise. 
12 movies.  29 years.  198 kills.  The creation of numerous horror movie rules and tropes.  2 horror movie fans bantering on about it for around an hour, 

In honour of Rex Manning, Tyler and Sara discuss and explore iconic workplace movies and TV shows, sharing personal favourites, insider insights and knowledge, and what makes these stories resonate. From Empire Records to The Office, we chat about how these workplace narratives have shaped our perceptions of work, relationships and friendship.

It's new episode time. 

This week in news and previews, Amazon and Gaiman continue their love affair, Black Superman will soon be flying onto our screens, some familiar faces are returning to Vegas, everyone is suing Disney, Pink does Pink things, Deadpool could be showing up everywhere, Shark the Musical, in Taika we trust, Matt and Ben are friends again, Tom joins Wes's family, and Angel Olsen adds new life to some 80's classics. 

We follow that up with Hidden Treasures (A Little Bit Zombie) and Guilty Pleasures (Hudson Hawk).

We then give out a bevy of Flying F...s.   In the crosshairs of our Ranting, Raving and Reviewing this week are a couple of video games, Death's Door and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, current blockbuster Jungle Cruise, Netflix original Masters of the Universe: Revelations, and the we go back 35 years into the past to rewatch and talk about Howard the Duck in our Retro Rewind segment. 

Stick around at the end to hear the cover of "Something Just Like This" from Complicit, featuring Ian Nichols of Double Experience and Carter Peak. 

Then stick around again after that, if you want to hear all the spoilers, as we dive a little deeper into our issues with Jungle Cruise and Masters of the Universe. 

Enjoy!

Happy International Women’s Day! 
We celebrated in one of the best ways we know how, by talking about some of the women in pop culture who have brought us something special. We even brought on a special guest, Jennifer Mulligan, a screenwriter and director herself, to share some of her favourites too. Pop culture has so often helped to move ideas forward and shape the cultural mindset, and the leadership roles of women continue to grow and expand. We can’t possibly name everyone, but we covered a lot of bases. We chatted about directors, musicians and singers, authors, and characters from both the screen and the page, giving some special attention to some of the amazing moments on screen that just blew us away. It was a fun chat all around. 

Tis the holiday season, tis also the 65th anniversary of the original telling of Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas.  To celebrate both those thing we will be talking all things grinchy..  Exploring, analyzing and discussing the book, as well as the three movie adaptations.  We talk about and compare the 1966 animated tv movie, the 2000 live action adaptation and the 2018 computer animated version.  

Which is your favourite version?  

What happens when we hit the record the button without so much as a plan?  Almost two hours of pure Pop Cult gold.  
It's a long one today, as we get our babbles on about a whole slew of stuff.  Oscars, E3, a new film festival for 2022, casting news, and bunch of other tasty tidbits. 
We celebrate the start of National Poetry Month with a shoutout to a local poet.
We review intentionally hilarious The Bubble and the unintentionally hilarious Moonfall.
To finish things off, we take a look back at the mostly excellent career of Bruce Willis, who, sadly due to health concerns, has decided to step away from acting.  
It's a fun ride, we hope you enjoy it,. 

In this week's episode we celebrate Canada's Day by offering up some suggestions of some all Canadian things to watch, things to read, things to listen to, things to play and things to eat. 

Enjoy and Happy Canada Day!!

It's new episode time. 

On today's episode Titane takes top honours, Wright likes Knight, The Emmys are woke af, Black Widow takes a dive, Clerks of the Universe, a new show from Taika Waititi and Henry Cavill can't get enough of capes. 

We also give out some Flying F....s.  With Gunpowder Milkshake, Fear Street 1666, the season finale of Loki and Scandinavian Sci-fi drama Katla getting the Rant, Rave, and Review treatment,

Enjoy! 

It's a short but sweet episode this week.

In our News and Previews this week the Addams have their Gomez, Vince Vaughn and Bill Lawrence are Bad Monkeys, and some folk possibly eat some other folk. We also take a moment to  say hello to new music from Prince, we say goodbye to the 99, and we ask the question "What If..."  before giving out a substantial amount of Flying F...s. 

Squad Goals!!

 

New Episode.

This week we dive in to the all the news bits we could find before deciding how many Flying F....s we fell like giving Prey, I Love My Dad and Day Shift.

Enjoy

It's another jam-packed and fun-filled episode of the podcast.
On the episode we talk about some interesting news in the worlds of music, movie and television.  We toss out a few reviews for Loki, Luca, and Canadian film, Anything For Jackson. K talks about an Indigenous animated series that we think is well worth the watch. The Barenaked Ladies have new music out and a new album on the horizon, so of course we had to talk about them and that, and we finish up by talking about one of the worst movies ever made, which we forced ourselves to watch for you, our listeners.  
Enjoy!

We manage to make it two episodes in a row without something catastrophic happening.  This week our News and Previews is filled with a bunch of stories from all over the world of pop culture and entertainment.
We follow that up with a Rant, Rave and Review of the first 3 episodes of The Boys, before hitting the Retro Rewind button to talk about a true classic in the horror genre, Poltergeist, and possibly the best of the Star Trek films, Wrath of Khan both of which are celebrating 40th anniversaries.
We finish the episode by giving ourselves (and you, friendly listeners) a little homework assignment and asking the question, is 1982 the greatest year in cinematic history?

In this episode we celebrate the life and legacy of Canadian legend, John Candy.

This episode we discuss some new news, recast a classic 80's movie, review a few things, and rank all the men who've donned the cape and cowl. 

Enjoy.

On this week's episode we celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day by talking about some indigenous artists, musicians, movies and events that you can enjoy from all across Canada, and right here in our home town of Ottawa.   

Enjoy!!

We get back to business as usual, talking about all the interesting tidbits we have found on the interwebs. Teenage Mutant Street Fighters, Bruce, Bacon and Biker Mice.  More live action remakes are headed our way, someone still knows what we did last summer and Spidey goes dark in the 1930s. 
We end things by reviewing the first half season of The Last Of Us and Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania. 

Today is National Canadian Film Day, and therefore we are talking about all things Canadian film.  National Canadian Film Day is a massive one day celebration of Canadian film and filmmaking.  This year the spotlight is shone brightly on Indigenous voices and their stories. 
We watched and discuss a few of the spotlighted films and Canadian film in general.  

We start things off by getting back to the basics with a little Rant, Rave and Review, of the action packed and stylistic Nobody,  the mostly unnecessary Mortal Kombat remake/reboot/retelling, and the uneven but ultimately enjoyable full season of Falcon and The Winter Soldier.  (SPOILERS) 
Then it is back to our Merry Months of Music Spectacular as another bunch of musically inclined individuals grace our little podcast with their presences.  That's right boys and girls, Cynical Sons jumps on the line to talk about all the things going on with them.
Stick around at the end of the episode to hear one of their singles "I'm Free" off their upcoming "One Life" album. 

Enjoy!

Want to know what a virtual Comic Con was like? We share our experiences and impressions and a bit of the news we encountered along the way. We talk TIFF picks, we mention space a lot, and of course bring you show and streaming news for August. There are some really great movies coming and more than a few shows you can learn about and catch up on if you haven’t checked them out already. I mean, some days it is too damn hot to go outside!

We have a new Rant, Rave and Review episode for you to enjoy! We dish on our impressions of the TV series Upload (Prime) and Space Force (Netflix). T talks Minecraft Dungeons (Xbox Game Pass). The Raconteurs new live EP and documentary, Live at Electric Lady (Spotify) got us into a good groove. Our last two reviews for the episode are for the movies The Vast of Night (Prime), a tense period SciFi, and The King of Staten Island, a Judd Apatow character piece (on demand streaming). We have some definite hits, some misses and a couple of almost-but-not-quites too. 

In this episode, we discuss the cancellation of the Buffy reboot, the potential of an animated Firefly series, and review recent music and movies, including new albums from New Found Glory, Mumford and Sons, Charlotte Sands the film 'Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die,' and the first few episodes of the Scrubs reboot. We also talk about some recently live shows from the always amazing Bif Naked, as well as Live, Big Wreck and Econoline Crush. 

Enjoy!!

In this episode of the Pop Cult Experience, we cross the streams as Dana, from The Mixed Tag Podcast joins us to explore the intersection of wrestling and pop culture. We discuss the transition from wrestling into acting, including the careers of The Rock, John Cena, and Dave Bautista, and the current lack opportunities for female wrestlers in Hollywood. We delve into our favourite wrestling movies, wrestlers turned actors, celebrity cameos in the squared circle, and the future of wrestling in film, highlighting the unique stories that wrestlers could bring to the screen.

Enjoy!!

In this all new episode of the Pop Cult Experience podcast, we, and a special guest fill out our respective movie line-ups in the Movie Draft. We had to select films from various genres including thrillers, romance, crime, fantasy, and musicals from the year 1994. We each presents our picks, discusses our choices, and debates the merits of each film. The episode concludes with a call to action for you, our lovely listeners to vote on which collection of flicks you'd want to watch.

We apologize for any sound quality issues in this episode, 

We start this weeks episode by diving into the live music scene as one of took in some live music over the weekend. We then confess our music crushes over the years, reflect on reality TV and music competitions, and share their ideal casting choices for films. The conversation culminates in a spoiler-filled review of the movie 'Strange Darling', where we discuss its themes, storytelling techniques, and character interpretations, ultimately expressing their admiration for the film's execution and depth.

In our return for a new season, we chat about and recommend some breakup movies in honor of Valentine's Day (and also the 25th anniversary of our own breakup). We discuss a variety of films, from classics like 'Chasing Amy' and 'High Fidelity' to modern takes like '500 Days of Summer' and 'Birds of Prey.' The conversation explores the emotional depth of these films, the complexities of relationships, and the importance of self-discovery after breakups. They also touch on upcoming movies for Valentine's Day, providing listeners with a comprehensive look at love and loss in cinema.

In this extra special episode of the podcast, we got the chance to interview the charismatic and charming Charlie Kerr, lead singer of Hotel Mira, who are currently in the last legs of a cross-Canada tour in support of their new album, “I Am Not Myself”.  A tour that finishes up right here in Ottawa at The SAW Gallery on Feb 18th. 

We talk to Charlie about some highlights and awesome moments from the tour, the new album, with its wonderful blend of catchy beats and introspective lyrics, and the connection people make through music and other mediums.  

We even take some time to delve into some pop culture shenanigans with Charlie talking about unapologetic love of cinema and other arts, the nonsense of toxic fandom, and he takes us behind the scenes on a few of the tv sets he’s had the pleasure of working on.  

It's a news heavy episode as we start things off catching up on all the things we've missed the last few weeks.  We finish things off talking about the interesting story behind the 1984 martial arts flick, New York Ninja, 

We have a new episode for you!

It's a simple but fun episode.  We talk about our love for Ted Lasso before making our way Across The Spider-Verse.  We then give mention to Art by Veya and Alanna Sterling, two artists/creators that we have a fondness for and felt like sharing with our listeners and followers.

We finish things off with the introduction of a fun new game, a game we have borrowed from The Big Picture podcast (check them out), where we take a specific year and five genres of film and we both create our own binge-worthy movie watchlist that you then get to vote on. 

Enjoy!!

We are back after a short hiatus, and that means we had a bunch of things to talk about.  We discuss all the new news we came across on the interwebs, recap how we did on our Oscar prediction, and give you our thoughts on season 1 of The Last of Us. 

As we've gone for a couple of weeks, it's a news heavy episode of the podcast.  We discuss all the bits and bobs of news we've come across on the interwebs.  We then review the 3rd season of The Mandalorian and Guy Ritchie's Operation Fortune. 
We end things off with a lovey little talk with Mike and Jasmine from Canadian alt rock band Polarity. 

Our interview with Polarity starts around 1:02 mark. 

Check out Polarity at https://polaritymusic.com/
Find them on IG at @PolarityMusic

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With it being that time of the year where all major sports are being played at the same, we decided to chat about some of our favourite sports movies and shows. 

In this week's episode we talk about all the new news, we give Andor, Emily the Criminal and The Black Phone our reviews and we let you in on what's happening with this years 31 Day Shocktober Horror Fest.  Hail to the King. 

Enjoy!!

In this week's episode we discuss all the bits of news we found to be worthy of discussion, we talk the Mario movie controversy, and we make some bold predictions as to the identities of Sauron and Black Panther.  
In our reviews this week we throw about some Flying F..ks at Mr. Harrigan's Phone, a Netflix film adaptation of Stephen King's story of the same name, and Werewolf by Night, Disney's new homage to 1940s monster flicks. 

Enjoy!

It's the 20th anniversary of the premiere of Firefly, the shiniest little space western in all the verse.  So we talk about Firefly.  

With White Zombie, the movie thought to be the very first feature length zombie film, celebrating it's 90th anniversary, we decided we would talk about zombies and zombie movies.  

A whole new episode for your listening pleasure. 

Kevin Smith goes Inception, the question of Who's The Boss gets asked again, we will still only have half a Dune movie for longer than expected, My Neighbour Totoro gets the Muppet treatment, people are being cast in things, James Bond to get a makeover, and we get ocean bound with mention of sharks and shells. 

We also put on our judgey hats and throw some flying f...s around with reviews of the indigenous horror/comedy Slash/Back, The Boys season 3 and Thor: Love and Thunder.  Were they good?  Did they suck?  Did we give a Flying F. 

Enjoy.  

We are back!!

As per usual we are starting a new season of the podcast with our traditional, if slightly unconventional Valentine's Day episode. 
This year we share with you some of our favourite Vampires from film and tv.
So why not cuddle up with that special someone or curl up by yourself and get sucked in and seduced by the lure and the lore of a movie monster that has hidden away in the shadows of our screens big and small for past 100 years. 

Happy Vampire's Day!!

It's our final episode of season 2, and in it we say good bye to a literary legend we say hell to the final season of The Expanse and in between we do all that other babbling and rambling we tend to do.,  

Enjoy!

It's another episode filled with all of the news, and a few reviews too  
We talk about the new Spider-man: No Way Home trailer (yay!), the new Ghostbuster: Afterlife trailer (less yay), and a bunch of other news including Disney's next Star Wars movie, Creative Differences (harhar). We then yabber on about some other newsy things including Dune and Squid Game getting 2's, Morgan Freeman lending his sweet, sweet voice to prison breaks, and all of the news and announcements from Disney+ Day, including the discovery that one of us is afraid of Beatles. 
After the news, it's review time, and this week one of us takes far too long talking about and throwing all of our flying f...s at a 9 year old video game that has finally found it's way back to playability thanks to backwards compatibility, and that game is Max Payne 3.  Forza Horizon 5 also gets the review treatment, as does the record breaking Netflix original, Red Notice.   But does all of it's record-breaking mean that it's actually good?  Listen and find out!

It's a new month and a new week and a new episode   We say goodbye to a month of things that go bump in the night and hello to a regular brand of news, previews and reviews. 
In the news this week, people don't want Chris Pratt as a big fat cat, the only real guns on a Dwayne Johnson movie set will be his own, the McManus brothers are back for the third time, cult classic RAD is in Canadian theatres for the first time, Taika takes on Jodorowsky and Moebius' graphic novel The Incal, Ryan Gosling as Ken, and Superman likes men.  You can find our thoughts on these and other news stories in this weeks episode.  

From there we toss about some Flying F...ks as we review The Eternals and The Harder They Fall. 

Stick around at the end to hear a story of how one of us came across local Celtic/Folk band The Broken Bridges and listen to "The Way", one of the songs from their Porch Sessions album. 

Enjoy!     

You know what time it is.  It's new episode time. 

We start our News and Preview by saying goodbye to a legend and 7-time Emmy-winner, Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista just became best friends, the Doom Patrol have found their Madame Rouge, we All Hail The King, and we swing through the first Spider-man "No Way Home" teaser. 
We then take a deep dive into the Fantasia 2021 Film Festival bringing you all sorts of weird and wonderful films that we recommend you keep an eye out for in the near future, 
One of those aforementioned weird flicks being Phil Tippett's "Mad God', a film we managed to catch during the festival and one that had us asking "What the f...?", while Disney and Marvel once again had us asking "What if...?"

Enjoy!

With the world slowly opening back up and life getting back to normal for some, it seems that all those movies that we expected to hit theatres last year or earlier this year may have finally found a home on the 2021 release calendar.  So, on todays podcast we take a look at that calendar and talk about all the flicks and film that we are looking forward to coming out in the second half of 2021. 

In this episode we rant, rave and review about Love, Death and Robots Volume 2 and Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead, before inviting superstar singer, songwriter, teacher and streamer, Danielle Allard on to the podcast to talk about music, keeping busy during a pandemic, dinosaurs and all the other wonderful things going on in her life.

We talk to Andrew Parmalee (who recently appeared on the podcast to talk about his band, Cevilain) about his new musical endeavour, Complicit,   How did it come to be?  Where is it going?  What does it all mean?  and Nickelback?  Andrew, and special guest and collaborator Ella Wile answer those and all of the other questions.  

We had the pleasure of being joined on the podcast by Alex and Warren  of Taming Sari, an absolutely amazing indie rock band from the wilds of Ottawa/Gatineau. 
They discussed the early days and evolution of the band, they give us an inside scoop of their song making process, and as it is 2021, we talk about the struggles of making music in the Pandemic Years.
Give the episode a listen and then go find all their musics and fill your earholes with the untamed sounds of Taming Sari.

With the Apr 30 release of Dave Grohl's "What Drives Us", we start off this episode by delving into some rock doc talk and then proceeded to get into all sorts of "Late Night Trouble" as we are joined by Roxanne and Yuri of the aforementioned Montreal-based band. They stick about for awhile and pull back the curtain on their beginnings, some recent changes that brought about a new name and a new mentality.
Give it all a listen and enjoy. 

This week is one of those weeks where we invite you to our table, so to speak, while we have a conversation. There are always things about the entertainment industry that really grind our and the public’s gears. The lack of originality in Hollywood is definitely one of them. What happened to both production companies and A-listers taking risks? Where are the dark comedies that help us cope with the world around us? How do we go about finding the edgier stuff that most definitely exists but doesn’t get the promotion of the blockbusters? We banter about all this and more. Lend us your ears and feel free to lend us your thoughts!
Stick around at the end of the episode to hear Atoms to Ashes and their new single, "Break The Silence" from their EP "Blackburn" dropping in 2021 

We invoked the power of three for this episode when K chatted with Jennifer Mulligan and Kait Kenel: 1 screenwriter, 1 archaeologist, & 1 archaeogenetics student studying abroad. It was a chat about Halloween and spooky fiction in general: costumes, local traditions, movies, stories. We talked about what Halloween is for us culturally and personally, about bringing kids up to enjoy the spooky things. Then, given what Kait and K do for a living, there was a dive into recounting some of our own more haunting encounters. We’re all changing things up given the pandemic, but determined to still enjoy the season. Give us a listen and share your Halloween memories too! 

It's a bit of a weird episode this week, as due to a possible alien abduction and/or narcotic induced forgetfulness we couldn't do what we had originally planned. With nothing else planned for the episode we could have taken the week off.  But no, instead we adapted, we improvised and we overcame, all so we could bring our dozens and dozens of listeners the sweet soothing serenading sounds of us shooting the sh..
So we hope you enjoy a small sampling of our News and Previews, our reviews of Enola Holmes and episodes 4, 5, and 6 of the Boys, and a fun little conversation we have about some movie mishaps, blunders and plot holes. 

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We wish you a horrific week, and by that we mean filled with horror movies! Today’s episode has us talking about the Fantasia Film Festival happening online from now through to Sept. 2. This amazing event brings us independent cinema from around the world and we chat about some of the films that have piqued our interest. 

Even better than that though is that we got to talk to producer Christopher G. Giroux about life as a producer in Canada, the film industry, and two of the films that he has worked on that will be showing as part of the Fantasia Festival

After 13748 days of May it is finally June, and with that comes our newest episode of The Pop Cult Ex-perience.  In this episode we bring you all the news and previews from Spider-man to Superman to Indy 5 to Borderlands.  We talk director cuts, new director hires and other casting news. And we give you our picks for what to play and what to watch in our June gaming and streaming previews.

In this weeks episode we talk new music from Fiona Apple and The Hu and take you back to the early 00's with Poe. We entice you to flip through the pages of House of Leaves, and the works of Brian K. Vaughan. We finish on a special interview with Christopher Merkley, a talented Canadian comic creator and artist out of Thunder Bay, where we merrily chat about how one goes about bringing life to pages and some of his excellent work.

And stay passed the end of the of the episode to hear a special bonus track of us losing our minds a little. 

The new episode is out! This week we are talking about our love for East Asian cinema, and we encourage y’all to join in the fun by sharing some of the films we think could bring you into the fold. What makes them special? Why do we love them so? Why might you? There are beautiful epics, ambitious animes, and action-packed (and often hilarious) martial arts extravaganzas. We share some of the history of films out of Hong Kong and Japan and how they finally got some traction in North America. We think they deserve even more attention. 

May the 4th be with you all!

In the spirit of the day, we decided to rank the Stars Wars movies from our least liked to our most liked.  Below is each of our lists. We want to see yours too, at least your best & worst!

If you want to hear the reasonings behind where these films landed in our rankings, please give a listen to our special May the 4th episode of the podcast.

From worst to first!

A list of flicks that we feel should be watched by those who enjoy a little romance, but not in the conventional sense.

In our annual Valentine's Day episode of The Pop Cult Experience Podcast, we go through Billboard's list of The Top 50 Greatest Love Songs Of All Time, and debate whether the song is actually a love based on the criteria of, would we put the song on a playlist we were making for someone for Valentine's Day.  

Welcome to the new week everyone! In News & Previews this week we chat about changes in DC Universe, the ongoing conflict between Ray Fisher and Warner Bros, and share a fun Marvel cast announcement. We express some hopes for TIFF and the Emmys and share a couple of new streaming suggestions too. Also tied into TIFF was our Retro Rewind review of Almost Famous, as it premiered at TIFF 20 years ago. After a number of less-than-stellar streaming movie reviews, we were pleasantly surprised by both #Alive and I’m Thinking of Ending Things, but listen to the ‘cast for our full spoiler-free rundown.
The main feature of the week though is our interview with award-winning Canadian screenwriter Jennifer Mulligan. She shares her experiences, tells some fun stories, talks TIFF, and dishes on a whole bunch of resources that are available for Ottawa locals who want to get into filmmaking.
Give it, us, and her a listen!

A new episode has arrived and in it we bring you lots of news and previews pulled from this week’s headlines. Controversies abound, old school animation is returning and we share info on some upcoming and returning series. We ponder whether or not you can hear engines roar in space? We continue to chat about TIFF which continues through this week, with a mention of Good Joe Bell and One Night in Miami. We of course have some streaming and movie suggestions.

For the fun of it we attempt to alienate a significant proportion (if not all) of our listeners as we admit our lukewarm acceptance and mild enjoyment of Nickelback.

Lastly in Simon Says T sends K back to Summer School and K launches T into Final Space. Give us a listen!

A new week means a new episode of The Pop Cult Ex-perience Podcast. This week brings us some news, some previews and some controversy.  This week also brings us back to the theatres as we both got to check out Tenet, and give not only our review of the film but our impressions of the new theatre going experience.  

As well as our review of Tenet, we also share our feelings on Bill and Ted Face the Music, the first three episodes of Raised by Wolves, and the first three episodes of The Boys season 2. 

And to end the episode we have a little fun taking the less than spectacular Ghost Rider in a new direction. 

Treat your earholes, give it a listen. 

In this episode, Chris Starr, lead singer and guitarist for Atoms to Ashes comes on to talk about the band and life in general and then sticks around to join in on the conversation as we rant, rave, and review the most recent episode of Falcon and the Winter Soldier, a new animated superhero show from Robert Kirkman called Invincible.  We then have a little fun taking 80's classic Stand By Me and recasting it for different generations. 
We hope you all enjoy.

It's review time here on the podcast, and today we take a few movies to task, yes we are looking at you The Old Guard, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, and Palm Springs.  We have a few guests come aboard to help us review Hamilton on Disney+.  We give our impression on the groundbreaking graphic novel anthology, This Place, which explores the past 150 years in Canada told through the eyes of its indigenous creators. We also talk about another graphic coming to us in slightly different medium, Neil Gaiman's Sandman graphic novel, read to us by an amazing voice cast. 
And finally we introduce a new segment to the podcast, and manage to talk a few new friends into join us on this shiny new adventure. 
Enjoy.

In this episode of the Pop Cult Experience, I welcome my new best friend Sara to the podcast to discuss various pop culture topics. We start by getting to know Sara before diving into the latest entertainment news. 

We played a game of Simon Says, with Sara forcing me to watch the romantic comedy 'What's Your Number?' and me making her watch the podcasts favourite flick, 'True Romance.' 

We then share thoughts on the Superman movie directed by James Gunn. How many Flying F_cks did we give the man of steel?  Listen to find out. 

In this week's all new episode, we have friend of the pod Erin on the cast as she has some questions she wanted to ask our opinion on.  We talk about life imitating art, censorship, streaming vs theatrical releases and more.  We review Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and we finish things off by picking the year and genres of the film draft. 

Enjoy. 

Weeee’re baaaack...and we are bringin’ the love! 
We started our  little podcast right around a year ago with a V-Day episode about unconventionally romantic movies, mostly because the conventional doesn’t much resonate with either of us, and we decided to do something similar this year, though this year we decided to expand on the theme. So enjoy as we banter and babble about fictional couples that we admire, seriously romantic moments that turn up unexpectedly in TV and film, some fun video games to play with your significant other, and some songs you may want to put on while playing some different kinds of games, if you know what we're saying. Now, it wouldn't be a Valentines Day episode if we didn't bring up a few more unconventionally romantic movies; so that is exactly what we did. For those of you who want nothing to do with Cupid’s nonsense, V doesn't have to stand for Valentines. For you folk, we talk about a few films that start with the letter V, but don't have much to do with all love and romance. Happy V-Day folks! 

New episode time.   We start things off as we usually do, by delving into our traditional News and Previews of the week. We then take a look back at Boyz in the Hood as it celebrates its 30th anniversary.  After that we dive into Shark Week, and the impact that sharks have on pop culture, before finishing things up with reviews of Loki, How I Became a Superhero, Fear Street 1978 and a spoiler-free review of Black Widow, followed by a spoiler-rich review of Black Widow.  

Enjoy!

New week, new episode. 

In this week's episode we talk about the droves of subscribers leaving the once all-mighty Netflix and we question our credibility as so-called cinephiles and pop culture podcast hosts. The release of Nic Cage's new film, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, has us talking about some of our most favourite and least favourite films from this enigmatic actor, and we finish it all off with a fictional retelling of the life and times of Elisabeth Shue, using some of the characters she has played in a new segment, Unauthorized Lie-ograghy. 

Enjoy.

New week, new episode. 

This week we dive in to the Dead-pool with some exciting bits of news, before turning our attention to "Blonde" the fictional retellings of the life and times of Marilyn Monroe and the problematic nature of some Biopics.
In this weeks Rant, Rave and Review we give out some Flying F....s to the Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton fantasy "Three Thousand Years of Longing" and we urge people to watch the disaster that is Stephen King's "Maximum Overdrive", one of the movies on our Pop Cult Ex-Perience 31 Day "Hail to the King" Shocktober Movie Marathon.  

With just a month to go before they hit the stage here in Ottawa, the lovely lads from Cevilain jump on the podcastr for a lengthy chat about everything going on with the themselves and the band.  We laugh, we cry, we laugh again.  Joining me and the boys on this rollercoaster ride is the always wonderful Kat, making her second appearance in the poscast in as many episodes. 

Enjoy, and pledge yourself. 

This Was Us

The journey to this very podcast was 20+ years in the making. For our 5th episode, we thought we would take you back to the times when neither of us were the ex in Ex-perience. We share the raw, unfiltered tales of where it all began, the (rather crazy) fun adventures we had while together, and the how and the when it all went so terribly, terribly wrong. Pop culture was always a thing we had in common though, and we show how that was woven through much of what we did, and how that connection got us back to a point where we decided that this whole podcast idea could be a lot of fun.

After a few months of interviewing a bunch of wonderful folk, this episode it seems it's just the two of us getting back to the basics, talking news and doing reviews.   We toss out reviews of the premier of Loki, the Netflix original series, Sweet Tooth and the gory and fun 2020 grindhouse flick, Spare Parts.  We get a little nostalgic with our Retro Rewind segment taking another look at Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. All 3 flicks celebrated milestone anniversaries on the weekend and so we decided to celebrate with them.  We then talk about moments in some of our favourite films that just entirely don't make sense to us, and we end the episode talking Tank Girl, a crazy little flick that we felt fit under both categories in our Hidden Treasures/Guilty Pleasures segment,  
It's a fun-filled episode and we hope you enjoy.

In this week's episode we talk Top Gun and have ourselves some other pop culture-related fun. 
The Joker sings, Josh Brolin talks to himself, Taika wants to create worlds and Netflix wants to give you 4.56 million dollars. And somehow we're in a universe with Guy Ritchie and Disney: The Odd Couple. All that and more in this week's News and Previews. 
Karen gets between the covers with The Yellow Wallpaper, a haunting and powerful short story from 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman brought to glorious graphic novel life by illustrator Hannah Flügler.
For our finale, Tyler takes to the skies, Flying F...king his way in to the Danger Zone with his review of Top Gun: Maverick. 
P.S. Come join our Film Club! Our first film to watch will be RRR, a raucous Bollywood action flick which is getting lots of love out there.

While it is the season to be jolly, not all of us find ourselves immersed in the festive spirit.  In this week's episode we share some of our own experiences dealing with the stresses and pressures that the holidays can put on people, while offering suggestions on possible ways to deal with the holiday turmoil. We also discuss the ways in which pop culture media can reinforce negative self image at this time of year.
And we once again defend Die Hard's inclusion as Christmas canon. 
Stick around at the end of the episode to hear "Down with the Devil" by Ottawa's own, Taming Sari. 
Cheers, K & T  
 

In this weeks news and previews we talk Blink's nine year itch, The Candy Man, Scorsese gets the Gang back together, Netflix revives that which they killed, Indiana Ross, Nudity and Firearms and more Phase Delays.  We hand out some homework assignments and we set free a handful of Flying F..ks in our reviews of She-Hulk, The Rings of Power and Stephen King's The Dark Half.   

We hope you enjoy. 

We are back with another new episode.  

This week we have some news from the Amazon, a 20 year hiatus comes to an end, a Coven adds an Aubrey, Indiana set for a series, is Lobo a-go-go? Star Wars Episode 10: Studio Ghibli, and the "Cogs" are turning on a new flick.   
After that we toss around a healthy amount of Flying F...s as the Playstation exclusive, Stray, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, and Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever. 

Enjoy!!

It's our first episode of July, which means it is time for our News and Previews episode, where we let you fine folk in on all the happenings in the world of pop culture for the month of July and general near future. 
On this episode we run the gamut from theatre re-openings, new movie release dates, changes to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, lost films, and found documentaries, to comic cons and game cons being brought to us virtually to other podcasts, aside from our own, that we feel you may want to give a listen to.  We talk Juno winners, and basic income for the people who bring us said music, and win said awards. There are some interesting games being turned into TV adaptations, and classic TV shows getting the reboot treatment that we felt the need to discuss, and to close out the episode, we give you our picks for new movies and shows available on the numerous streaming services that we feel you should check out. 

In this weeks news, there is various Star Wars talk, you sex doll just got a little more realistic, Formula One gets the Maverick treatment, Phase Five will be revealed shortly, Alan Rickman kept a diary, and Bruce Davis gives us a behind the scenes look at the Academy Awards.

Tyler went and saw Our Lady Peace at the NAC and discusses all the fun he had. 

We then give out some Flying F....s for the full season of Obi-Wan Kenobi.

And we end with the ongoing discussion of whether 1982 was in fact the greatest year in cinematic history, as two more masterpieces, Blade Runner and The Thing, celebrate their 40th anniversaries. 

Enjoy!

We have a brand spanking new episode for you,
In this weeks News and Previews we say nay to the idea of Bond, Dwayne Bond, yay to a little Delroy in our Blade, and ask why an American remake of Train to Busan needs to get made.
Ridley Scott working on Bladed Runner and Aliens tv series and casts himself as a  Grumpy Old Man, and we are getting the story of Pam and Tommy starring Lily James and Sebastian Stan.
Olivia Colman and David Thewlis do some landscaping, Rey, Finn and Poe are still alive and well in Star Wars land, and I may finally get a new Rock Band. 

We dove in a few new shows this week give our early impressions of Arcane, the new season of Dexter, Wheel of Time, and Cowboy Beebop,  Listen in to find out which of these are worth the watch and which of these are flops.

Our movie review of the week has us asking "If there's something strange in your neighbourhood", is Ghostbusters: Afterlife worth the call?  Spoiler alert, the answer is yes.  But listen in to find out why. 

We were then supposed to have friends of the show Late Night Trouble on the podcast, but due to some technical difficulties, we lost the audio from our interview with them.  But we do let you know what they are getting up to, which is a bunch.  

That's it, that's the episode, that's all folks. 
 

It's new episode time...
We go reverse Three's Company this time around as we invite Chris Starr from Atoms to Ashes to come on the program and gabber with us about all of the things.  
This week those things are: the return of The Expanse for a short and final season, a new show from the creator of Little Mosque on the Prairie, and all the big news that came out of DC Fandome. 
I throw some Flying F...ks at recently-released run and gun zombie shoot em up, Back 4 Blood, and we discuss/review Candyman 2021 and Candyman 1992.
Stick around after that as we let Chris take over the airwaves and tell you about the stuff and such that Atoms to Ashes has on the horizon, before he breaks into an impromptu and acoustic rendition of their song, "Like A Bullet"  (T may have had a hand in that last little bit happening).
Enjoy!! 

It's new episode time.
This week, we talk about a bit of news that caught our attention, including some news about Dexter, Star Wars: Detours, Good Omens 2, Smells Like Teen Spirit, and the Netflix/Spielberg deal. 
Then we jump in, talk about and review the things we got around to watching this week including Episodes 3 and 4 of Loki, No Sudden Move, Amazon Original The Tomorrow War, and Netflix Original Fear Street 1994.  How many flying fucks did we give each of these?  Not a lot, it wasn't a lot, not at all. 
Enjoy!

In this episode we get our talk on about the little hidden treasure of a film celebrating its 25th anniversary, Grosse Pointe Blank. We then give out our traditional Flying F...s to Michael Bay's latest, Ambulance, and proceed to discuss the rest of the Bayhem catalogue. We end things with a little talk about those great scenes from movies that look so very cool - until you stop and consider their logistical issues - in our new segment, Wonderful BS. 

After a brief and unexpected hiatus we are back behind the mics and bringing you our ramblings on all things pop culture,  
On this episode we finally get to babble on about and celebrate the 25th anniversary of one of the best television shows of ever and ever, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, we share our love for Canadian Alt/Rock/Punk goddess, Bif Naked in our Pop Cult Celebrity Profile, and we awkwardly and with mild shame giving a generous amount of Flying F...s  to the family friendly Disney/Pixar flick Turning Red.

One of our favourite filmmakers, Edgar Wright, has an article (we recommend you check out) in the upcoming March issue of @empiremagazine where he and multiple other Hollywood alum talk about THOSE cinematic moments, the moments that are enhanced by watching them unfold onscreen in a movie theatre. These are the moments that amaze, the ones that shock or scare, the ones that have you shifting toward the edge of your seat, and the ones that have you spilling out into the aisle with laughter. It’s about the deeply communal experience of going to the cinema, how powerfully that can add to your experience of a film, while also highlighting the work of the professionals that create that environment.
If you’ve been paying attention, you may have gathered by now that we love movies. It is possible that at some point we may have made reference to movies, and our love of said movies, and our love of watching said movies in the theatre. We have chatted for some time now about revealing some of the moments that blew us away, moments that would have had a lessened impact had they not been seen on the silver screen, so we decided that for this episode we’d reminisce about some of our favourites, and share with you our joys of the movie-going experience.

What are some of your most memorable movie moments and/or theatre going experiences? Are you looking forward to returning to the theatre when the movies do?

New episode time!!

On this episode we wish a happy anniversary to Jay and Silent Bob, I go on a road trip with a boy and his bubble, K takes a trip back to Arthurian times, for the second week in a row we ask the question "What If...?", I go guns blazing into the wild wild west, and we say goodbye to an absolute cinematic legend. It's then time for us to enter the Oasis and celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Ernest Cline's Ready Player One.

Stick around at the end of the episode to hear the newest single "Bring Me Down" from Atoms to Ashes.

It’s podcast release day! This week’s episode has so many things! We have news of the week: some of it fun, some not so much. We give a big rundown of DC Fandome with how we felt about the con overall and what we thought of all those trailers that dropped with it. There is gaming chat too where T talks about Gamescom and shares some of the games he’s excited about. As per usual, there are our streaming picks for the week if you’re looking for new media suggestions. We end with a special segment. Have you ever thought you needed a personal soundtrack? Well we give you each of ours and why we chose the songs we did. We’d love to hear yours too!

In this episode we talk Star Wars news and rumours.  We give you more ideas of how to spend your quarantine time, from virtual tours, to virtual concerts, to skype get togethers and movie watch parties. We discuss some significant happenings in April throughout history.  We review The Hunt.  We bring you new and upcoming Blu-ray and video game releases.  We hope you enjoy.

In this episode, I am joined once again by my best friend, Sara to discuss a variety of topics including, the potential decline of Funko Pops, upcoming movie releases like Kill Bill, Gremlins, Zelda, Miss Piggy and The Mummy. Netflix bringing us a Clue and Overcooked competition series.  We also talk about the live action Tangled, the fatigue surrounding Disney's live action adaptations, and everything Settlers of Catan. The conversation shifts to Bif Naked's documentary tour, the casting changes in The Witcher, and the current state of Marvel and DC content. The episode closes out with our review of the fantastic, Predator: Badlands, where we explore the directing, action, character development, humor, and the film's unique take on the Predator franchise.

In this episode of The Pop Cult Experience, we are "Defying Gravity" and "Dancing Through Life" as we talk about the super "Popular" Wicked and Wicked: For Good. 

After getting a little Wicked, we turn our attention to some sinning, as the boys from Cevilian join on the podcast to discuss their new album, upcoming shows and what's on the horizon. 

Stick around at the end of the episode to hear AVARICE // WARS fomr the new album VII // SINS.

Enjoy!

In this episode of the Pop Cult Experience Podcast, we discuss the exciting changes in the podcast, including a soft reboot and new co-hosts. We dive into the anticipated TV shows, movies, albums, concerts, comics and gaming releases for 2026. 

We highlight the return of beloved series like Scrubs and Ted Lasso on the small screen. We discuss upcoming albums and concerts, from the likes of The Maine, New Found Glory and Broadside.  We get between the covers in anticipation of some comic books and graphics novels coming out this year, with Saga being one high on the radar. 

Before dipping into the movies we are most looking forward to this year, we discuss irreplaceable experience of watching movies in the theater, and the multifaceted world of cinema, discussing the shared experience of watching certain movies with a crowd versus those films that require an individual focus. We then delve into the upcoming movie release calendar, highlighting those we deem to be of the must watch variety. 

We hope you enjoy.  

(As this is a longer episode we have added chapter markers for your convenience)

In today's episode, we explore the harmonica's important role in 90's alternative rock and the need for more of it in modern music.  We discuss the impact of horror in literature and film, our appreciation of the genre, and the challenges of adapting the works of Stephen King into film. We then give a mostly positive review of the film 'Long Legs,' analyzing its atmosphere, character development, and the effectiveness of its ending. 

Enjoy!

Summary

In this weeks episode of the podcast we share our recent experiences, including a captivating concert by Cyndi Lauper and a theatre performance of Much Ado About Nothing in London. We discuss the potential Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, as well as the return of Scrubs and Ted Lasso. We shift the conversation to our recent reading habits, before introducing a new segment where we explore where F-bombs could fit into PG-13 movies, starting with the Lord of the Rings trilogy. We close the episode off with lengthy chat about how our intake in the various forms of Pop Cult media has changed over the years. 

We hope you enjoy,

In this week’s episode one half of us comes to you live from inside The Womb, a new and unique music and community venue here in Ottawa. We sit down with Sarah and talk about why and how The Womb came to be and all the ideas she has to expand it and what the future holds for her and The Womb. 
We have a great talk, she feeds me banana bread and a small child makes a few appearances. 


Enjoy.  

A new episode, a new guest host.  
A new friend and guest host joins me on this episode, as me and said friend took in a few events in the last little bit and decided we should have ourselves a conversation about it,. 
So after we play a few games to let all of you get to know Kat, we settle in and reminisce about our nights at The SAW Gallery, where we had the pleasure of taking in a plethora of live music.
We  also travelled to a galaxy far, far away for a night of sexy Star Wars parody, as we sat front and center at the Kailash Mital Theatre for The Empire Strips Back, a Star Wars themed burlesque show.   Did we enjoy the show?  Listen to find out, 

Enjoy. 

With The Bloodbash only a few days, we jumped online with the five bands who will be entertaining the masses over two nights.  Here are all the things that were said,  

The Bloodbash is a two night music fest put together by ourselves and Resist The Throne in support of and raising money for The Canadian Blood Services.  The boys from Resist the Throne will be joined on stage by Complicit, The Scarecrowz, Ultimus, and Wyntr.  

This is us talking to each of those amazing bands. 

Enjoy

It's the start of a new season.  And season 5 of the podcast is a bit of a special one as it is also the 25th anniversary of when we met and subsequently dated and pretty much the reason this podcast exists. 
So we start things pff this year letting you know what to expect from this season and how the 1999 will be integral and a big part of this season. 
We then continue with our trend of starting each season off with out anti-Valentines Day narrative and we go back to 1999 to talk about and review the first movie we ever to see togther, Cruel Intentions.  Does it stand up 25 years later?  Give a listen to find out. 
We finish things off by finding out how well we know each other after 25 years.  We'll give you  a hint, not well. 

Well back to 1999.  

Grab yourself a coffee, sit back, relax and enjoy the experience as we talk to one half of Double Experience,  They are a band, they are Twitch streamers, they are self-professed nerds. 
Brock sits down with us to talk about the band, their streaming channel, the writing and recording process and some u[coming live events that you'll want to add to your calendar,  We also find out what "Nerd Rock" is  

Stick around at the end of the episode to hear their hit song, Bill Murray, 

Enjoy,

With the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 capping off one of the greatest of all trilogies of all time we decided to have a talk about the best of the best in the world of movie threesomes.  
Also coming out the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol3 was The High Evolutionary, one of the better villains to grace a Marvel movie, so we turn or attention and the conversation to some of the better villains of the MCU.  
We end our episode talking with one of our favourite folk, Alexandre from Sunday Riot Club.  We talk about all the what's happening with the band.

Enjoy. 

On this week's episode we take a look at some of the headlines from around the interwebs. Writers are on strike, sequels are in the works, folk are following Gunn from Marvel to DC, Pedro continues to be everywhere, and Carrie Fisher goes from being among the stars to having one of her own on the walk of fame. 
Following that we review Dredge, a horror inspired, narrative driven, resource gathering fishing game.  Sisu, a stylish Finnish action romp, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, possibly the best Marvel movie to date. 
We end this week's episode having a nice little chat with The False Peak, an alt rock three-piece out of the UK,  

Enjoy. 

WE ARE BACK!!

And we are starting off the new season, that same wawat we start off each and every season.  Bringing you the unconventionally romantic movies, shows and games you can watch and play with the special someone. 

Enjoy!

Another week, another episode.  

RRR gets another R, Margot Robbie loses her arrrrrrrr, Tarantino has a lot to say, horror megapowers unite, Disney trades one Bob for another Bob, Blade finds direction, and I think we have an impromptu conversation about Batmen, 

After all that nonsense we give out Flying F..ks to Somerville on Xbox, and God of War: Ragnarok and Days Gone for Playstation. as well as The English, the new Interview With a Vampire series, and no indie sci-fi flick, Vesper. 

Enjoy.  

In this weeks episode we dive straight in, talking about all the news we've pulled from the interwebs.  We talk Fridays, doctors, witchers, superheroes, and the new faces of the DCEU. We give you our thoughts on the new stop-motion animated film from Henry Sellick, Wendell and Wild, in our Rant, Rave and Review, and we bring our 31 Day "Hail to the King" Shocktoberfest Movie Marathon to an end with a little talk about The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me and Carrie, four of the better film adaptations of Stephen King stories.  

Enjoy,  

On todays episode we have a quick chat with the boys from Resist the Throne and talk about all the new and exciting in their worlds, including some newly announced live shows and some new music for all our listening pleasures.
After we bid the boys adieu, we do what we usually do and talk about all the interesting news and tidbits from the week before setting some Flying F...s free with our reviews of the first two episodes of the LOTR prequel series, The Rings of Power and the superhero hero movie starring Sylvester Stallone, The Samaritan.

Enjoy!!

New week, new episode.

In this week's episode we lament about the current state of the DCEU, we speculate about the return of Sarah Michele Gellar to tv and we give  out a fair amount of Flying F...s to As Dusk Falls, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, The Sandman, Black Bird and Bullet Train. 

Enjoy!!

This episode is all about the 7 R's: Rise, Roar, Revolt, Ritchie, Rant, Rave and Review.  
We start things off by tossing around some speculations regarding the live action Hercules movie that is currently in the works from director Guy Ritchie.  Our Film Club is off to a grand start with the insanely entertaining Tollywood epic, RRR: Rise, Roar, Revolt, and we finish everything off with a few reviews of Ms. Marvel, Strange New Worlds and The Umbrella Academy.

Enjoy!

We get back to our regularly scheduled programming this week with some news and previews and some rants, raves and reviews. 
In the news this week, we find out that one of us actually reads, or is at least looking to start.  We trade in the 70's for the 90's  and Rockstar games wants your money but don't want to give you anything new for it.  
Following the news we introduce a new segment where we take North American remakes and put them up against their foreign language counterparts to see which is the better flick.  First up is the 2018 Danish thriller "The Guilty" going up against the 2021 Netflix remake.  Who did it better? 
We then throw some Flying F...ks at What If...?, Squid Game and No Time To Die.
Enjoy!

We are back doing this thing we love to do, and we decided to get back at it today of all days, as today marks the 20 year anniversary of the premiere episode of one of our favourite shows, Scrubs, which debuted on Oct 2, 2001.
There isn't much more to say,  It's a full episode of us bantering about all the fantastic stories and all the wonderful characters that lived, loved and learned inside the fictional walls of Sacred Heart Hospital. 

Hey there folks! We have a new episode for you! It was a special week for us as we recorded some of our ‘cast during our Purge Night livestream event last weekend. We had some fun pop culture news to share, dished on our thoughts about the Oscar noms, and K gave a couple of comic book reviews: Watch How I Soar (out of the Firefly ‘verse) and Plume by K. Lynn Smith.

The special bit though is our interview with the talented Ottawa based heavy metal musician and singer, Resist The Throne. It gives us much happy happy joy joy to share great new music with our followers!

We have a special epilogue too after the main episode is over. We had a super fun chat on the stream with the tres amusant Chris Starr of Atoms to Ashes regarding Falcon and Winter Soldier and Disney in general, and our awesome friend L. Erin Hilton joined in with the three of us to talk about Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Much fun was had.

'Tis the season to argue the finer points of what makes a holiday movie a holiday movie.  To do that we recruited two of our friends to come on and argue with us.  Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?  We have our opinions, on that and many other holiday classics and favourites. 
Stick around at the end of the episode as we continue to play songs from local and/or independent artists/musicians/bands. On this week's episode it is The Town Pants and their song "Broken" from their 2018 album Something To Say. 
Enjoy.

The week is still newish and we have a shiny new episode for ya! We chat about some changes in the works for streaming services in Canada, share some entertainment news, diss The Mandalorian, and T chats about the new Xbox and Playstation consoles that are coming to all those fore-thinking pre-orderers out there. The pending series finale of Supernatural got us thinking about best and worst finales and we share some of our picks for both of those. Of course we also have a couple of streaming picks to recommend! The best bit though is our chat with the guys from FNS Gaming. It’s a popular thing these days to record your gaming adventures and post it for others to watch, and these two do it a bunch and we wanted to know WHY?! They’re a great pair of guys and gave some excellent reasons, so give us all a listen!

Time for the new episode! You know those moments from film, game or page that just make the whole thing for you? We shared a few of ours from Pirates of the Caribbean, Supernatural, The Long Dark and House of Leaves. Got a few of your own to share? We would love to hear them! We did a dip into the past on our Retro Rewind talking about a favourite production of both of ours, Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog. For his Hidden Treasures, T brought out the soul-touching indie video games, Ori and the Blind Forest and its sequel Ori and the Will of the Wisps. K was all about the fun action-flick nonsense of her Guilty Pleasure, Guns Akimbo. We then thought we should put on our best-as-possible behaviour for our talented special guests, artist Sarah Joy from Fresno, California and multi-genre singer/songwriter Allison Stanton from Ottawa, Ontario. Both of these lovely humans gave us a glimpse into what they’re up to and we want to share that with you, lovely listeners.

'Tis the haunting season, and in honour of the month of scary movies we decided to take it upon ourselves to watch & review 31 scary movies in 31 days. We've watched the first few and we have a slightly spoiler-y chat about them, as well as discussing some news in the world of pop culture, including new casting announcements, some streaming options, and more.
We also bring you our thoughts on the newest episode of The Boys and the season so far, and tell you what we think of the new game Star Wars Squadrons in our Rant, Rave and Review.
We hope you enjoy.

For those good folk who couldn't make it to our 2022 Year in Review, here is the replay of it for your listening pleasure. 

We take one last look back at everything that was 2021.

On this weeks' episode of the podcast, we scrap most of what we had planned, as 2/4s of Ottawa rock band extraordinaire CEVILAIN decided, to our absolute joy, that they wanted to chat with us for the entire runtime of the episode.  Stories were shared and fun was had. 

With a new series of Doctor Who out there in the universe, and with a new Doctor at the helm of said series, our resident Doctor Who expert, Karen, takes a look back at all the Doctors who have come before and ranks them all.  

Who is Karen's favourite Doctor?  Listen to find out, 

Agree or don't agree with Karen's rankings?  Let us know.

Enjoy!!

It's new episode time!!

In this episode we get defensive over the news of a Roadhouse remake, we discuss all the shiny and new that came out of the San Diego Comic Con and we confusingly and potentially unsuccessfully attempt to give Flying F...s about a trio of flicks, Men, Nope and The Gray Man.  

Enjoy!

We talk Oscars, Rick Moranis, The Mighty Ducks, Jurassic World Dominion, Rage Against The Machine, Friends.  We talk some Hidden Treasures and Guilty Pleasures, and we review Birds of Prey.

It's been a week, as  every Showcase, Con and Fest brought us news and previews of a bunch of the things we can look forward to for the rest of the year, The Joker seemingly has more jokes to tell, Marvel reveals their Suicide Squad, an extra-terrestrial went home 40 years ago and dinosaurs run amok (again).

In this episode we share some of these moments in our Pop Culture History spot (for more information, see the links below). With all the heavy out there, we call back to a whimsical, quirky movie that we talked about in our very first episode, Wristcutters: A Love Story. We bring you news of a streaming concert by some of Ottawa's own on Jun 27th for Rock the Quarantine. We also have some fun re-casting the lead characters in the fantastic heist film Heat.  We hope you enjoy the new episode.

It’s an all Canadian episode this week on the podcast as we get ready to celebrate Canada Day. 

Not only are we shining a spotlight on the day, but also on the month as we talk about some Canadian films focused on Queer and Trans stories that were recommended by Can Film Day. 
C.R.A.Z.Y. Can be streamed on Apple TV
Breakfast with Scot can be streamed on CBC Gems
Dawn, Her Dad and the Tractor can be streamed on Crave. 

If sitting out in the sunshine and flipping through the pages of a good book is more your speed, we talk about ‘Pageboy’, the memoir from @elliotpage, and ‘The 38 Impossible Loves of Naoko Nishizawa’ by @monnamcdiarmidwrites , two fantastic books by Canadian authors. 

Check out Monna McDiarmid here —> https://monnamcdiarmid.com

And what are outdoor festivities with out music?  This week we take a listen to and talk about @tamingsariband’s amazing sophomore album, ‘My Heart, My Love’. 
Give it a listen wherever you gets your music. 

We then play a Canadian version of stuck on a deserted island, picking one movie, one tv series, one album and one book that we would take with us to keep us entertained if we were stranded and alone. 

We end the episode with a wonderful chat with @thespacebetweenofficial, a stellar hard rock three piece from Ottawa, coming in fresh off the release of the first EP, that EP’s release party and a nomination for best Newcomers of the Year at this years Capital Music Awards. 

Stick around at the end of the episode to hear their song 'Time', off their new album. 

Enjoy!! 

In this all new episode, we show off our fondness for Jurassic Park and give it some much deserved banter as it celebrates it's 30th anniversary,  
We then go head to head and pick the flicks we will be putting up against each other in our Pop Cult Pick 'em Draft.  The year, 2010, the genres, action, adventure, animated, drama and documentary.  Go on our socials and vote on which movie watchlist you prefer, 
We end the episode putting the spotlight on some creative forces in the LGTBQ2S+ community.  

Enjoy!!

After a few weeks of one or both of us being away for various reasons, we are back at full strength and bring with us a bunch of exciting news, previews and things to banter about. We offer up our reactions to some newly released trailers, casting news, and discuss some new and some old shows that will be coming to the small screens in the nearish future.
We give our thoughts on The Boys season that was, the current and final season of Supernatural, and a rundown of everything we have liked and haven't liked as we continue our way through our 31 Day Halloween Horror Movies  Challenge. 
We hope you enjoy. 

The new episode is here, in Part 1 of what will be a multipart discussion, we let you in on a few of the things we believe are wrong with Hollywood and the film industry today. 
Also in the episode we have our new friends, Kornicky and Mel, from the Rebel 101.7 morning show back on to conclude our new Simon Says segment, and talk about the things, good and bad, that we forced each other to watch over the last week. 
Enjoy. 

It’s a brand new week and we have a brand new episode for all you awesome people! We took a look at a whole bunch of stuff over the last few weeks and here’s where we get to share what we thought about them with you, We listened to 2 new albums, 1 from an Ottawa alternative rock band we enjoy, Cevilain, and the other from the ever-evolving Ottawa-born pop music star Alanis Morrisette. We even listened to another podcast for our podcast. Aren’t we nice? There were also a couple of Xbox games, Grounded and Carrion, which are included in the Xbox Game Pass, and we ended with two new shows streaming on Netflix, Cursed and Transformers: War for Cybertron....well, we almost ended there, but then we decided to finish with a little 90’s alternative rock and a shoutout to our beloved Barstool Prophets.

We have a new cast for you! 

We brought on some fantastic guests to talk about pop culture that’s special to them, and there was a whole lotta LGBTQIA+ pride going on, as there should always be! They shared some terrific movies, TV, book series, and music, and we all got to rejoice in how pop culture can bring us forward in accepting others and ourselves.

It is full of awesomeness, and very little of us. These things are not related, we swear (ok we hope). It must be different though because T completely forgot what podcast he was actually on... We also all managed to get a little distracted by Willow and/or Tara from Buffy and devolve into hopelessly admiring dorks.

Happy Canada Day Everyone! We hope you're chillin' and enjoying yourselves. If you're looking for some Canadian entertainment for the day, give us a listen! We build you a fantastic driving playlist if you feel like taking a tour down one of our highways. We have some awesome Canadian movie recommendations if you feel like hiding out in the air conditioning and share some Canuck TV memories and give a few suggestions that would work for that too. Both of us build fantasy Canadian music festivals that we would love to be attending if it wasn't for COVID-19. Finally we end with talking about our most beloved Canadian band, and why we love them so goddamn much. 

We wish you Canada Day celebrations befitting this beautiful and inspiring place we're from!

This is the review show. In it we review the Netflix original Extraction, I let everyone know what to expect from the resource management survival game, Stranded Deep. For it's 30th anniversary, K sings the praises for Good Omens, and we both have a little something to say about Meredith Quill's Complete Awesome Mix, the James Gunn Spotify playlist made up of the unused music that was considered for Guardians of the Galaxy flicks. Enjoy.