Talkin' TV

Chris makes his long awaited return to the podcast as we return to yet another franchise that probably should have stayed dead, with the return of Jurassic World: Dominion! The sixth entry in the Jurassic Park franchise, and the third in the new trilogy following up 2015's Jurassic World & 2018's Jurassic World: Dominion, the film sees a cascading series of events as dinosaurs have been unleas...

Another week, another episode in the wind down phase of Talkin' Thrones, Season 6, Episode 3, entitled "Oathbreaker," a reverse of a previous Season 4 episode, only with a much different context behind it. Despite this still being an action season, we're finding that Season 6 is mirroring Season 5 a little bit more than we would have liked, considering that we're getting into the phase of set up/s...

Well, to quote a certain song, The Boys are indeed back in town. Dustin "The Duster" Mason makes his return to the show to talk about one of his & Dom's absolute favorite shows, Amazon's The Boys! As one of the only shows that we as viewing audiences were graced with during the pandemic, we were forced to patiently wait two years for the return of the third season, but since 2022 is the year t...

Pat and I are back with another Talkin' Thrones episode as we get closer and closer to the finale! Next we have Season 6, Episode 2, "Home," another episode that is heavy on plot and introducing secondary character arcs, as we've grown accustomed to in the last couple seasons. This time, we finally have the return of Bran, to whom Pat & Dom dedicate a significant amount of time to breaking dow...

It's a whole host of content! This may very well be the biggest memorial day yet after 2 straight years of really nothing! But with the release of Top Gun: Maverick in theaters, the debut of the long awaited Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+ and the return of the long awaited fourth season of Stranger Things, its a content competition to see what can get viewers eyeballs! First up is Top Gun: Maverick, th...

We're officially here, the beginning of the end. It's been a fun road on Talkin' Thrones, but it all must eventually come to an end. So here we are with the premiere of arguably the biggest and most critically acclaimed season of the show, the big one, the one that gave us Battle of the Bastards, the one that surpassed the books, it's the Season 6 premiere, entitled "The Red Woman." Despite a very...

On today's episode, Dom sits down with Kristen aka Ms. Filmingo to discuss the latest effort from one of the very few auteur filmmakers left, Alex Garland, "Men." The film stars Jessie Buckley as a woman who moves to the countryside to get away after the death of her husband, but soon discovers that the cottage is populated by a series of strange men who all seem to have the same face, portrayed b...

We've reached it, another finale to probably our most problematic and least enjoyable season of the show yet. Season 5 ultimately proved to be a severe downshift for the show, as this was the full transition away from the books, away from the awesome character moments and amazingly well thought out story decisions that carried the first four seasons to make something that truly earned its spot in...

And now for something entirely different. Dom the Movie Nerd sits down with the Brandocritic to have much more of a casual conversation for today's podcast. They talk about Brando's recent trip to Disney World and how the entire environment feels different before launching into yet another crusade about the MCU and just how much it's changed in the post-pandemic world. Then they talk about some of...

We're almost at the end of yet another season! It's been a real chore beginning the track of the second half of the show, but at the very least I can say that Season 5 goes out on a high note. It's yet another penultimate episode, which are always fun to cover for this show. This one is entitled "The Dance of Dragons" after both the fifth and most recent book in the Song of Ice & Fire source m...

Alright, this is the big one, arguably the next most anticipated major movie event after the Batman. Marvel returns in two forms, first in the television format with Moon Knight, and now it's back to the movies with the much anticipated sequel to 6 previous MCU properties, Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness! This film functions as a sequel to Dr. Strange, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: En...

Alright, this one's a big one, the biggest one we've done in a while. We've been building up to this one for the whole season, and rightfully so, because this episode is ultimately the one that determines the course of the rest of the show, Season 5, Episode 8 "Hardhome," rightfully named after the devastating battle that takes place when the White Walkers unexpectedly attack and brutally massacre...

New month, new quarter, new feelings! Dom is joined by Eli Holicky in order to commemorate the first of a couple of shows that will be wrapping up this year. We teamed up back in January to do a surprise bonus episode talking about the first half of Season 4 when it dropped in January, and now we're talking about the final 7 episodes which dropped this past Friday on Netflix. It's been a wild and...

We're past the halfway point and almost at the end of yet another season! Hard to believe we've already almost completed 5 seasons of this show! That just shows the power of this show, even at its worst, which this season easily has been. But we have a special episode to cover here, Season 5, Episode 7, entitled "The gift," because this marks the directorial debut of Miguel Sapochnik, arguably the...

We've got a double hitter this weekend with two out of THREE, that's right, THREE wide releases this week! Dom is joined by Joe of Guy at the Movies to discuss Robert Eggers' third feature film "the Northman" & the Nicolas Cage starring parody "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent." First up is the Northman, an epic historical action drama film, based on the legend of Amleth, the film featu...

Alright, we've officially reached the point of no return, Season 5, Episode 6, the infamous Dorne disaster, "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken." The Martell sigil words, which seems to signify the pigheadedness of all the characters and their actions as they move towards the finale. This is the second episode written by Bryan Cogman & directed by Jeremy Podeswa, and has become very controversial in th...

It's a moment of celebration. We put up the episode a day later, but that's ok, because we're talking about the next in a long line of delayed shows because of the pandemic. Sean of Math Teacher Movies joins Dom the Movie Nerd to discuss the premiere of the long awaited sixth and final season of "Better Call Saul," the prequel/spinoff to Vince Gilligan's critically acclaimed midlife crisis drama "...

We're on for another episode of Talkin' Thrones as well as another midpoint, Season 5, Episode 5, entitled "Kill the Boy." The title being a reference to Maester Aemon giving Jon his last bit of advice to kill the symbolic boy and become the man, essentially yet another way of describing Jon's growth and maturity from embittered bastard to leader of men. The theme of maturity seems to be a prevale...

It was a jam packed weekend for movies, with Dom watching not one, but two movies this weekend, both returning films from his favorite directors, Michael Bay's Ambulance and the Daniels' Everything Everywhere All at Once! Dom is joined by Luk Reviews to finish off their Bayhem video they did on Thursday to talk about Michael Bay's new film, which stars Jake Gyllenhaal , Yahya Abdul-Mateen II , and...

We've reached the point of no return with this week's episode, Season 5, Episode 4 entitled "Sons of the Harpy." This is the episode where a lot of stupid stuff happens with little to no return, because unlike last week's episode where the story was actually pretty engaging despite the lack of payoff, here we're provided with stupid moment after stupid moment with little in-between to tie it all t...

We've got the next big superhero movie to review (Christ, we're really getting one of these a month now), and who do we have? Morbius. The Living Vampire. The next movie from the Sony Spider-verse, who's previous entries include Venom & Venom: Let There be Carnage, Morbius is a 2022 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Morbius, the Living Vampire , produced by Columbia...

We're at the point of the show where Dom's problems really start to show with Season 5, Episode 3 "High Sparrow." As the title suggests, this episode is the introduction of the titular High Sparrow, the leader of the religious fanatical group known as the sparrows makes his appearance portrayed by Jonathan Pryce. The High Sparrow represents a very confusing element that comes to play in the later...

We've got another video game adaptation to hit, this time centering around the long awaited adaptation of the very popular series, "Halo." An American military science fiction television series developed by Kyle Killen and Steven Kane for the streaming service Paramount+ , based on the video game franchise of the same name . It is produced by Amblin Television , 343 Industries , Showtime Networks...

We're into the final run of the show with Season 5 Episode 2, "The House of Black & White." This is what I like to call the plot episode, in that this is an episode where a WHOLE lot of plot happens. We get a lot of characters arriving at their new destinations they set out for, characters in transtit, characters starting out new journeys. Dom breaks down even more where they're deviating from the...

Oh man, people, we've crossed the Rubicon. We're officially at the point where Game of Thrones transitions from being great to just...meh. Season 5 is such an interesting conundrum, because some of the best, most awesome moments of the entire show happen this season. The Dragonpit attack, Shireen's tragic death, Davos' speech to Jon, and of course, the real turning point of the show, Hardhome. It...