Regular Joes Podcast

This week, the Regular Joes, all five of them, make the Trek to Ticonderoga. There are two good reasons to visit this small New York town. Fort Ticonderoga is the site of the first American victory in the Revolutionary War, and the site of the Star Trek Original Series Set Tour. Note: only one of these is accessible in winter. Hint, it's the one with phasers and not muskets. While there the Joes i...

For 35 years Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) has held the dubious distinction of being the worst Star Trek film ever made, but that inauspicious run is over. With the release of the Paramount+ film Star Trek: Section 31 there's a new benchmark for bad in the Trek universe. To spare you one hour and 35 minutes of weak, nonsensical plot, thin characters, and cheesy gimmicks, the Regular Joe's...

This week, the Regular Joe's catch up each other on what they've been doing the last few weeks. Inspired by the recent 55 films episodes Tod has decided to rewatch classic films in their original unadulterated format to kick this off he recently went to see King Kong (1933) on the big screen in a theater where it originally played when released. Dave, long the master of custom-made displays and pl...

This week the Regular Joe's cover the wrap up of two sci-fi series. Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is the first child centric Disney+ offering from that universe. Lower Decks was the first animated Star Trek series since 1975, and was intended for adults. Specifically adults who are REALLY into Star Trek. Likely the only thing these two shows have in common is that they both exceeded expectations, and p...

It's the second half of our rundown of the gang of 5's personal lists of 55 most important films released prior to 2000. The first round covered a lot of ground but four decades remain. And this time almost all in color! There's the swinging sixties, the sleazy seventies, the epic eighties, and the nineties …. when most every good film is set in another time period. These are the films you could h...

For the much anticipated 555th episode of the Regular Joes Podcast, Barry, Dave, Tod, Derryl and Brian (yes, FIVE of them) each offer up FIFTY FIVE significant films each of them think everyone should see. Sort of. The two caveats are, the films must be prior to 2000, and only a single film from a franchise. Think of it as a twentieth century bucket list for cinephiles. Or, as is often noted, what...

This week, Barry, Dave and Tod, reputedly the three hardest people in the known universe to buy for, exchange Christmas gifts. This may seem like an exercise in futility, but it has become tradition. On the whole this was a good year. Barry didn't buy himself anything a week before the gift exchange, Dave didn't already have everything, and Tod grudgingly accepted that he has gone up a tee shirt s...

From the Max Fleischer cartoons, the early serials, the 1950's series, and back to movie screens and a succession of TV shows, no other hero has left the footprint in pop culture that the Man of Steel has. An orphaned refugee who gives back to the world that took him in, Superman is intrinsically tied to the American mythos. It seems that every generation has a Superman, and this summer James Gunn...

This episode the Regular Joe's roll the dice, betting that nothing fantastic will happen in the next two weeks, as they do their annual year in review show. With Brian Mix and Derryl DePriest singing back up, the Joe's cover the greatest hits and the biggest misses from the past year. There are surprises, and some familiar favorites, as they review the movies TV, series, events, acquisitions and h...

It's December, so there must be a new Star Wars series on Disney+. Do you like watching children getting in trouble, running, and screaming? How do you feel about pirates? Do you have fond memories of watching The Goonies (1985)? If so, Disney+ has the show for you. Surprisingly, it seems to be the show for others as well, as Skeleton Crew has landed well with critics, Star Wars fans, and yes, all...

For the landmark 550th episode the Regular Joe's are again joined by Irregular Joes Derryl DePriest and Brian Mix. After an extremely far reaching round of Random Topics, the hosts discuss the just released Star Trek short, 765874 Unification, from OTOY studios in collaboration with the Roddenberry Archive. With callbacks to the unaired pilot, the original series, the Next Generation, the Kelvin U...

It's been a few months since a pair streaming series based on secondary characters from Marvel's WandaVision (2021), and DC's The Batman (2022) debuted. Expectations, and the level of excitement, was low for both of these offerings. Now that Agatha all Along and The Penguin have wrapped the Joe's go back and review the two series as a whole. Agatha, with an eccentric ensemble cast, followed the Wi...

This week the Regular Joes address the science (empirically provable facts) and fiction (ain't never gonna happen) state of the last few years of Disney/Star Wars film/project/director announcements. From the reality side of the equation, they discuss recently dropped trailers for two Marvel films Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts* in the queue for the coming months. Which of these...

Last week the Regular Joes (all the Regular Joes) travelled from up and down the east coast to gather in Providence RI, for the Rhode Island Comic-Con, AKA the biggest con in the littlest state. After spending a day and a half, roaming the sales floor and checking out the show's guests, the Joes took their traditional Sofa in the lobby of the Omni Providence, to share their experience with you. Wh...

As impossible as it might seem, until quite recently, Barry had never seen An American Werewolf in London. This week, the Regular Joe's, joined by Tom Spina of Regal Robot, take a look at the 1981 John Landis horror/dark comedy cult classic. Tom shares his first-hand experience with one of the screen used props, and recounts his own meeting with John Landis. Groundbreaking in many ways, the film e...

As the Regular Joe's annual outing to the Rhode Island Comic Con draws near it's time for the Joe's review of the guest list for the convention. While normal folks may be contemplating which celebrity guests they are most interested in getting autographs from, the hosts have their own, sometimes humorous, and other times awkward, way of articulating their own preferences. Yes, it's time again for...

Remember that TV show, the one with that guy, that woman, and the (fill in plot device here.) Remember how great it was, and then it was just gone? This week the Regular Joe's pay tribute to the one hit wonders. Single-Season TV shows, that captured our interest, but never really sprouted roots. Most faded into obscurity. Some like Firefly and Battlestar Galactica gained cult status. While others...

This week the Regular Joe's sit down with Adam Ezekiel, costume designer and maker, who operates the website, nostromocrew.com. Adam's niche, and passion, is crafting meticulously accurate replicas of the patches, insignia and crew uniforms from the film Alien (1979). He explains how he got started, and the incredible effort he put into recreating the screen used wardrobe. Also, his interesting co...

This week, the Regular Joe's joined by Irregular Joe's, Derryl DePriest and Brian Mix, revisit the Marvel Cinematic Universe Catalog from a different perspective, or perhaps a few different perspectives. Ultimately the question becomes which, Marvel films do you find compelling enough to rewatch, whether you stumble upon them while randomly channel surfing, spot them while scrolling the channel me...

This week a pair of C list characters from DC and Marvel debut new limited run series on Max and Disney+. Agatha all along is a spin off of WandaVision (2021) and a reimagining of Witch Agatha Harkness, a supporting character in Marvel comics going back to 1970. The Penguin aka Oswald Cobblepot, (here renamed Oswald Cobb) has been a Batman adversary since 1941. More recent outings have morphed him...

Back in the day, when large console TVs dominated American living rooms, the harsh reality of back to school was blunted by the fact that September also heralded the premiere of the new Fall TV shows. That era is long behind us. ABC, CBS and NBC no longer hold sway over our viewing habits, as cable and streaming options offer seeming infinite choices of content year round. So, are there still upco...

This week Barry, Brian, Dave and Tod take a look at two films nearly old enough to collect Social Security. Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) is an often mentioned childhood favorite of Dave's which claims to be "Scientifically Authentic." Which might be credible had the film been made in 1864. On the plus side, it has Adam West (briefly) and a monkey in a space suit, so how bad can it be? An automat...

This week the Regular Joes gathered for their annual summer barbecue. It's rare that the hosts are in one place at one time, and it's even less often that their spouses are all together as well. This time around, in an exercise that at least one of the hosts thought might "end badly," the Joe's asked questions of their wives. Some of the answers are surprising, some not so much. It's the no What's...

An Aliens franchise film is not typically the sort of thing the goes unnoticed. Nevertheless Aliens: Romulus snuck up on the Joes like a Xenomorph in a tight crawl space. Unless you have been living on a distant mining colony you have likely heard Romulus is both doing well at the box office and has found favor with viewers and critics alike. Something the last four films largely failed to do. The...

This week Brian Mix stops by to catch up on his recent barnstorming tour across the country. The who, what, where and when of the events and conventions he hit leave the other Joes seriously jealous of Brian's "retirement." Barry and Dave also attended a con , yes just one. But, based on their report, TerrificCon sounds … well, terrific. If you doubt this we need only say two words, "Cobie Smulder...