Emerald City Video

It's really more of a spiritual sequel...   Are the kids getting into tapes because of  Taylor Swift ? What is “second screen” content? Will Killers of the Flower Moon ever get a  physical release? Is there a need for movie takedown posts? Not critical reviews but social media that just shits on other peoples work. What did you call your video tape player back in the day?  VHS player? VCR? Tape Ma...

In this episode Russ Burlingame and Zach Roberts chat about the drawbacks of streaming media, the fact that directors are getting angry about how their films look on streaming apps, award-winning director of The Godfather not being able to find a home for his new film and so much more.   Part two of this episode will be dropping this week, so listen up kids!   Just some of the stories we’re chatti...

This episode of the ECV Podcast we hit play the news of the last month. Chatting about teens learning the difficulties of opening cd’s (at least they don’t have to deal with the old BJ’s long plastic security holders), thereally cool new Evil Dead VHS (yeah that’s right, VHS) and much much more. Listen here or watch over on  YouTube . We’re going to start doing more physical media open boxings and...

Originally released on October 18 on Substack.     Well, this was supposed to be a short, well-planned out episode of the Emerald City Video podcast… but I guess that you all know us better than we do. We went longer than expected. This week/month we start a new series of newsy discussions on the state of physical media. This is the Emerald City Video Podcast after all, we started this whole thing...

The Emerald City Video Podcast is back after a long absence, and it's Russ and Zach breaking down what we watched this year, what we loved, what we...really didn't...and more. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts)  on the ACPN  family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts w...

Russ and Zach talk about their favorite movies from 2001, including Josie and the Pussycats, about which Russ has just written a book. Check it out at josiebook.com! The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awa...

Zach D Roberts and Russ Burlingame talk about The Suicide Squad, from the brilliant and twisted mind of Guardians of the Galaxy filmmaker James Gunn.  they also mention a little bit at the end about Russ's new book, Best Movie Ever: An Oral History of Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont's Josie and the Pussycats. The book is now available for preorder on Amazon and will be available to buy on August 21....

It's here! They #ReleasedTheSnyderCut, and now we're here to talk about it. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN  family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarde...

Yes, it's time to go back to JUSTICE LEAGUE (2017) again, just in time for ZACK SNYDER'S JUSTICE LEAGUE, the upcoming super-long version of the same movie but with better cinematography and more characters. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts)  on the ACPN  family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame,...

In this episode, RUSS BURLINGAME and ZACH D ROBERTS talk about the closure of FAMILY VIDEO's brick-and-mortar stores, as well as talking about some of what they've been watching during the winter months, with honorable mentions going to Netflix's DISENCHANTMENT (they sent Zach mead!), the animated movie BATMAN: SOUL OF THE DRAGON, and Russ's recent introduction to IT'S GARRY SHANDLING'S SHOW. And...

#SaveTheVideoStore...and lots of rants. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts)  on the ACPN  family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of...

We're back! It won't be so long next time, we promise. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts)  on the ACPN  family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Softw...

Russ and Zach talk about Fletch. Kind of. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts)  on the ACPN  family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers o...

Together, Russ and Zach are looking at Volition, a movie about a guy with psychic powers who has to scramble when he sees his own death.    It's pretty damn good.

Russ and Zach come back from their long hiatus to talk about...nonsense!

This week, Russ and Zach talk abut Same Boat, a fun and smart romantic comedy with a science-fiction twist and a big heart. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts)  on the ACPN  family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in E...

Russ and Zach talk about Contagion. So...yeah.

Russ and Zach are back to talk about Jurassic Thunder, a zombies-versus-dinosaurs movie. It's definitely better than the last one. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts)  on the ACPN  family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video sto...

This week, we look at a contagion movie -- kind of? It's a zombie film that promises something and then TECHNICALLY delivers it, but it's a lot of good execution of ideas that are...just okay: Zombie With a Shotgun. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts)  on the ACPN  family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Bur...

It's the Year of the Bastard, and everybody knows it. Welcome to Year of the Bastard, one of a pair of new ECV features that will also serve as their own stand-alone spinoff podcasts so that people who want to get really granular about specific things can either listen here with all their other ECV content, or they can get it on their own by subscribing to a second feed.  Year of the Bastard will...

It's time for a new comic book movie, which means it's time for Russ and Zach to pull it down off the new release wall and give it a spin. What did they think of Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)? We'll leave the specifics for the episode, but Russ gave it about a 4.5/5, and Zach gave it a solid 4/5. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts)  on th...

  Yeah, this one has a title that's kind of wasted on the third movie, when its huge success has already put a fourth -- a movie that could have been called Bad Boys 4 Life -- into produciton. Still, Russ and Zach mostly enjoyed it, and it was a fun thing to get around to, since Russ actually has not SEEN the first two Bad Boys movies. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts)  on t...

In our latest episode -- the first movie review of 2020 -- Russ Burlingame and Zach Roberts take a look at Barry Levinson's classic satire Wag the Dog. Obviously, for no reason in particular. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts)  on the ACPN  family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating...

Russ Burlingame and Zach Roberts name our Emerald City Video Yellow Brick Awards winners for 2019. Winners are announced on the podcast and tagged via social media. If they want to receive the actual award, they can. The Yellow Brick in question is a VHS tape spray-painted gold and then labeled with their project and mailed out in a rental case. We'll post a longer blog post tomorrow that talks ab...

Russ and Zach break down Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.   You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts)  on the ACPN  family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video...