NO FLICKS GIVEN

Happy Halloween! We've made it through our series on maritime horror, but we've got one last treat in our candy bowl. In its 60th Anniversary year, we've paid tribute by releasing this commentary track on perhaps the only haunted house episode in all of Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Night Terrors". On Stardate 44631.2, USS Brattain was found adrift in space after goin...

The big day (Halloween that is) is just around the corner, and we are sliding into home with our fourth and final entry for this year's campfire series. We've had a haunted Submarine, a ship that's haunted by a Dracula, and a town that was haunted BY a ship. This week we take the final step that all great horror series take: TO SPACE! We're headed to Paul W.S. Anderson's "...

Special guest Amanda Kusek from The 90-Minute Movie substack joins the boys to talk about John Carpenter's The Fog ! The Fog is a supernatural horror film directed and scored by John Carpenter, who co-wrote it with its producer Debra Hill. It stars Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh and Hal Holbrook. It tells the story of a strange, glowing fog that sweeps over a small...

Another week, another haunted ship-wait...no, I'm hearing that this one is technically a boat. For those in the know, that means we're taking our existential horror *under* the sea. It may be October, but Matt is bringing Subtember back for a guest spot as the boys hop aboard our diesel sub and go Below !

Happy Halloween all! Welcome back to another installment of No Flick Given's 'Campfire Series'. This season's them: nautical horror. And first up is Peter's pick, 2023's The Last Voyage of the Demeter . It is an adaptation of "The Captain's Log", a chapter from the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. The film stars Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunning...

AVAST! Continuing the "good but not great" sequel series, the boys watched the follow up to Pirates of the Caribbean. P irates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is a 2006 American swashbuckler film directed by Gore Verbinski, written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), it is...

"Life, uh, finds a way..." to make a sequel to one of the biggest and best blockbusters of all time. Join the boys as we continue our Summer of Sequels as we venture to Isla Nubalr, a small island in the chain "The Five Deaths". Something has survived there. Those somethings are in fact dinosaurs. It always starts with Oh and Ah, and then there's running and screaming, and...

We only have one rule: everyone listens, no one quits. We're joined by friend-of-the-pod Pat Luciano to discuss a fan favorite: Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers. Set in the 23rd century, the story follows teenager Johnny Rico and his comrades as they serve in the military of the United Citizen Federation, an Earth-based world government engaged in an interstellar war against an alien spe...

We only have one rule: everyone listens, no one quits. We're joined by friend-of-the-pod Pat Luciano to discuss a fan favorite: Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers. Set in the 23rd century, the story follows teenager Johnny Rico and his comrades as they serve in the military of the United Citizen Federation, an Earth-based world government engaged in an interstellar war against an alien spe...

Summer is here and it's time to bring on the mindless blockbusters. This week, Frank, Peter, and Connor take a look at the 1989 "classic" Tango and Cash , staring Sylvester Stalone and Kurt Russel as two cops that don't play by the rules. And also might love each other very much.

Another First Contact Day, another Giant-Sized Trek Review! Cousin Mike and Matt are tackling the third season of Strange New Worlds and all the strike-impacted foibles that came with it. Each episode is covered in fine detail, so we highly recommend a watch along. If you're looking for discussion of a particular episode. Timecodes below: Hegemony, Part 2: 00:09:30 Wedding Bell Blues: 00:33:37...

In a dramatic conclusion to our Three Musketeers exploration, we finally land where we set off to reach in the first place, the 2023, french language adaptation of The Three Musketeers, starting François Civil as D'Artagnan, Vincent Cassel as Athos, Romain Duris as Aramis, Pio Marmaï as Porthos , and Eva Greene as Milday de Winter. Cutting to the chase, it's great! Tremendous fun and a gre...

In the continuing adventures of our Four Podcasteers watching Three Musketeers movies, today we learn that they can't all be winners. Some big choices are made, some are good, some are bad, most are only kind of half baked. But we love a big swing at NFG HQ, so en gaurde! as we swing into... more Muskteer action. The only question remaining, ladders or airships? "The Musketeer" (2001...

We've got another mega-series for you all (despite telling us to stop). Connor, Matt, Peter and Frank are all coming together to discuss four film adapations of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure novel "The Three Musketeers". In this episode we'll be talking about the following versions: "The Three Musketeers" (1973) dir. Richard Lester "The Three Musketeers&qu...

It's Frank's turn to be visited by Santa (this time played by Connor), who's brought a little bit of the old dusty trail to our holiday celebration. Frank and Connor are joined by Matt while they discuss 1985's "Silverado!" It's a a classic Western about four unlikely heroes—a calm gunfighter (Scott Glenn), a charming drifter (Kevin Kline), a sharpshooting Black cowbo...

Peter's opening the next holiday gift this season, unwrapping a lovely little 90s adventure film given to him by Frank. Join the two boys as they discuss Stephen Sommers' 1994 live action (and we mean live action) The Jungle Book. That's right. It's Christmas in India! The film is based on the Mowgli stories from The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895) by Rudyard K...

Let the Great Gifting of 2025 begin! Peter and Matt are holed up by the fire to talk about a cult classic from their youth that, somehow, Matt never caught. Peter's got Lucky Number Slevin all wrapped up and tied with a bow today on No Flicks Given!

Happy Holidays from all of us at No Flicks Given! This season, we're doing something a little different. This episode's just a little teaser to our Christmas Concept and a preview of the movie's we'll be posting episodes on this December, so be sure to listen so you know what's coming to your feed soon! - Connor, Matt, Peter and Frank

Welcome back to the fire campers. We had chills and spills last week with Lake Michigan Monster . This week we have... something else... entirely: 2011's The Bunnyman. We'll be honest. Don't watch Bunnyman. You'll miss nothing. It's a mean, incompetent, and worst of all... boring movie. That said, there is a great tale behind the scenes that Connor tells us all about. Listen as...

Happy Halloween, dear listeners. We've relit the fire just in time for Peter to join us for another year of the Campfire Series. This year's theme: movies about our hometown cryptids. Watch how quickly we go off-theme. Our first entry is a Peter pick: 2018's Lake Michigan Monster, a comedy horror film written, produced and directed by Ryland Brickson Cole Tews. It stars Tews, Erick Wes...

Well, it's Star Trek Day...again. Matt's cousin Mike has been brought out from stasis to talk about the second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds at long last. The world, and Trek, have already considerably changed since it first aired, but is it worth watching and does it have the right message for our trying times? Only one way to find out. Hailing Frequencies are open on this speci...

It's the head to head nobody was asking for in 2025. Once again our cultural timing is spot on. This week the boys revisit Antz and A Bug's Life to see which truly is the quintessential CGI-bug movie of the late 90s. Antz is a 1998 American animated adventure comedy film directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson from a screenplay written by Todd Alcott and the writing team of Chris and Paul...

Someone once asked, "Why is Horizon?" And that's exactly what Connor, Matt and Frank are here to...also ask. Welcome back to our Kevin Costner series for Part 2, where we cover Chapter 1. Today we get revenge on Matt for making everyone watched the Postman to bring him Costner's opus: Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1, the first 3 glorious hours of what is expected to be a 12 hour, 4-movie fra...

First of a Costner Double Feature! Civilization has fallen. The last vestiges of humanity cling to their fief-like cities. Roving gangs of white supremacists abduct people from their homes and steal their resources. No, this isn't your daily news feed, it's the "far flung future" of 2013 in Kevin Costner's post-apocalyptic epic: The Postman. Hey, he was only off by a few years. The real question i...

May the Fourth be with you. (And also with you.) Lift up your horns. (We lift them up to the Force.) Yes, it's Star Wars Day. Frank and Matt have lost all sense of copyright reason and have treated us all to a packed episode all about one of the greats. Throw your over-the-ear headphones, pour a glass of wine, and revel in the leitmotifs. It's the music of the Star Wars Saga this week on N...