Casting The Net

We are back, people! We took way too long off last year, but we've returned with a brand new episode, as we discuss the Netflix western, The Harder They Fall. The bullets fly with reckless abandon in this film, as two rival outlaws prepare to cross paths with one another for a second time, with their respective gangs riding along with them, while a determined lawman is looking to dispense his...

It's the battle we've all been waiting for since it was teased in the post-credit scene for Kong: Skull Island! In one corner, the undisputed champion, a heavyweight with a record of 3 wins (5 if you count all three of Ghidorah's heads!), this building-sized lizard stays juiced and jacked on nuclear radiation, and will spit an atomic lougie down your throat until your head comes off...

Yes, this episode is two and a half hours long , and I apologize for nothing.  I brought back friend and up and coming indie filmmaker Chris Farmer to talk about one of this most talked about superhero films in recent memory, whether you like it or not, Zack Snyder's Justice League. Some were convinced it would never happen, and even as he's proven to be a reality, the folks who were sta...

This week, we're looking at Studio Ghibli's first foray into 3D animation with Earwig and the Witch. Growing up in an orphanage, young earwig is prone to mischief, almost to a fault, but is eventually adopted by a rather strange couple, who Earwig almost immediate discovers are not entire what they seem. Witchcraft and classic rock collide with fairytale hijinks ensuing. 

We've been looking forward to covering this one, boi! When a powerful demon arrives on earth, chaos and mutilation are all he's got on his mind . . . but a feisty 10 year-old girl has other plans for the self-proclaimed "Archduke of Nightmares", including a giving him the much cooler moniker of Psycho Goreman. 

This week, we're doin' a double feature, discussing two streaming specials, Death To 2020 and Yearly Departed, which had distinct takes for reflecting on the year that was 2020. And while you would think it's feel odd watching these AFTER the events of January 6th, but it actually makes them better. Listen and find out why! 

Happy New Year!!!! We are back to spread some belated Christmas cheer as we talk about the Netflix original movie, Jingle Jangle, a whimsical holiday musical that may very well become a new Christmas Classic for a lot of folks. Forest Whitaker stars as Jeronicus Jangle, a disillusioned toymaker and inventor who has lost everything after a former apprentice stole his life's work. But with the...

Many of us remember the original 1990 version of The Witches, starring Angelica Huston, and featuring to work of Jim Henson's creature shop, right? Well, 30 years have passed, and we have a new adaptation of the Roald Dahl children's book, this time coming courtesy of Robert Zemeckis, and starring Anne Hathaway as the Grand High Witch! So how does this adaptation about a young boy being...

It's Halloween, kiddies! And it's time to let your spooky flag fly! This week, we're covering the anthology horror film, starring Clancy Brown as the ghoulish Montgomery Dark, in The Mortuary Collection! Before young Sam can be hired to assist Dark at the Raven's End Mortuary, she must first hear an assortment of bone-chilling tales about some of the bodies that have passed thr...

We're covering one of the most talked about films of the summer, and no, it is not Tenet! We watched Money Plane, and it was quite the experience. WWE superstar Edge (aka Adam Copeland) is forced to take down the infamous money plane, after a botched art heist has him indebted to illustrious crime lord, Darius "The Rumble" Grouch, played by Kelsey Grammer. This film was apparently a...

Sad there's no Marvel movie to watch in theaters this summer? Netflix has you covered, with the new comic book-based action film, The Old Guard. Charlize Theron leads a team of immortal soldiers, fighting in the shadows and trying to keep the secret of their immortality, while evading mercenaries and breaking in a new team member.

Full disclosure, neither of us knew Eurovision was a real thing before reviewing the latest Netflix original starring Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams, but whoo-boy did we learn a few things as we watched Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga! What did we think of the film? Listen and find out.

Eric Andre has some thoughts he'd like to share in his new Netflix comedy special, Legalize Everything, and if you've got anything to, ahem . . . enhance the experience, we certainly wouldn't hold that against you!

Spike Lee tackles the Vietnam War with his latest film courtesy of Netflix, Da 5 Bloods. A group of soldiers reunite in the country decades after the war, hoping to reconnect, but also to find a stash of gold bricks they had buried there, with their squad leader, who was killed in combat.

Demons from hell are trying to suck out our souls through our cell phones, and the only hope for humanity is an Australian sewage technician! We're covering Nekrotronic on this episode, and we'll let you know if this horror comedy brings enough laughs and frights to be enjoyable!

Sisters Mary Beth and Priscilla live pretty mundane lives, until they're forced to despise of a dead body, and discover many shady secrets about their sleepy, unassuming finishing town, in the Amazon Original Movie, Blow The Man Down.

The prospect of breaking up is bad enough, without being implicated in a brutal murder at the same time. Such is the case for Lailani and Jibran in The Lovebirds, as Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani play a couple frantically trying to clear their names after a stranger commandeers their car to kill someone, leaving them to be the only suspects. *Originally planned for theatrical release, the film is c...

We're . . . BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN!!!!! After take the last month off, Casting the Net is back with an all-new episode, as we're sure A LOT of folks are probably doing a fair amount of quarantine binge-watching. This week, we're talking about one of the most anticipated sequels in recent memory, Iron Sky: The Coming Race, as what's left of the human wages war against reptilia...

Sad is it may be, it's time to draw a close to another Clearly Canadian month, as we cover the twisty, mind-bending, dramatic thriller that is Enemy. In dual roles as Adam and Anthony, Jake Gyllenhaal tries to make sense of an encounter with another man that looks just like him, and how the two of them will move forward with their increasingly confusing lives.

As Clearly Canadian III: The Domination continues, we're talking about the existential comedy Zoom, starring Allison Pill and Gael Garcia Bernal play creator and creation in a wildly imaginative story of doubt, self-discovery, fake breasts, fake penises, and a whole lot of trippy stuff that you have to see to believe. . .

Clearly Canadian III: The Domination continues with the Soska Sisters' remake of a David Cronenberg classic, Rabid. After the quiet and timid Rose falls victim to a horrific auto accident, and profoundly disfigured, she undergoes an experimental procedure that makes her even more beautiful than she's ever been. Unfortunately, the side effects of the procedure include vivid hallucinations...

We took a break, but we're back, and we got a special guest for the next four episodes, as we begun Clearly Canadian 3: The Domination!!!! Original co-host Whiskee is back in the (virtual) building, people. And we're starting this theme month off with the nostalgic teen thriller, Summer of 84, as four friends try to enjoy their break from school, until they suspect that one of their numb...

It's all fun and games until someone spikes the sangria with LSD! Chris Farmer is back and we are talking about Gaspar Noe's Climax, and boy did we have a lot to talk about. As a group of dancers (led by Sophia Boutella) hold a party in an abandoned school to unwind, things get downright trippy, as they discover they've all been drugged without their knowledge. As events play out, s...

This week, we're covering the Amazon Original film, Troop Zero, as McKenna Graces stars as Christmas Flint, a curious young girl who pulls together a group of misfits to become their own Birdies troop, in hopes of winning the annual Jamboree, allowing her to lend her voice to NASA's Golden Record project. With an unbreakable spirit, and a frustrated troop mother, will she be able to show...

Happy Valentines Day, Folks! This week, we got our romantic comedy on with The Wedding Year, as Sarah Hyland and Tyler James Williams play a newly formed couple discovering that they have over half a dozen weddings to attend in a year's time. With each wedding, they encounter old flames, learn more about each other's pasts, and test the strength of their own relationship for better or wo...