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Longtime listeners to the podcast will remember when the full cast talked about Richard Linklater's Dazed & Confused and Everybody Wants Some!!!, way back in August of 2016. You can listen to that episode here . Earlier today, Collider reported that Linklater has been tapped to write and direct a feature film based on the life of stand-up comedian Bill Hicks, a favorite of ours, and so Russ decide...

Hello, and welcome to the Emerald City Video podcast. I’m your host, Russ Burlingame, and if you listen to the show at all, you know me. If you don’t listen to the show — and it just so happens that the episode where I give an explainer is your first episode to the show — then I’ll break it down for you. Emerald City Video was, until April of 2009, a video rental store in Syracuse, New York. I use...

In the latest episode of the Emerald City Video Podcast, Russ Burlingame and Zach D. Roberts take a look back at the 1997 black comedy Grosse Pointe Blank. Not only is this an employee recommendation — one of both Russ’s and Zach’s favorite movies — but it is thematically appropriate, since this weekend, the Jamesville-DeWitt Class of 1998 had their 20-year reunion… …which Russ was not able to mak...

In part three of our five-part look at the Jack Ryan movies and TV shows, Russ Burlingame and Zach Roberts take a look at Clear and Present Danger (1994) and the third and fourth episodes of Amazon's Jack Ryan TV series. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts)  on the ACPN  family of shows. If you like what we're doing here,  you can become a patron  of the Emerald City Video Podc...

You would think, based on reviews and the harping of comic book fans, that Russ Burlingame and Zach Roberts would not have been big fans of Venom.  Well, listen in and find out...! You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts)  on the ACPN  family of shows. If you like what we're doing here,  you can become a patron  of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can...

Show notes are short and sweet this time. Part two of our look at the Jack Ryan franchise (you can listen to part one here) sees Russ and Zach tackling the second episode of the new TV series (in which it gets better and smarter) and the second feature film to feature the character, Patriot Games (which is not as good as The Hunt For Red October was, and is less smart). You can find us (and a numb...

Russ and Zach make a trip to the cinema for Sorry To Bother You, the first feature film from Boots Riley, who pretty clearly stands out as a Talent You Should Be Watching. We talk a lot about film theory, about the importance of indepdendent cinema, and other theoretical and quasi-academic stuff that we don't get into with most of the big blockbusters and schlock horror movies we watch. But fear n...

This week’s episode is the first recorded on new hardware, the first recorded while part of the ACPN group (as opposed to recording an episode and then being invited while in production), and the first in a while to have the “classic” format of an old release and a new release. For anybody who might be new to Emerald City Video and is currently reading these notes (likely at ACPN), here’s what our...

Hey, gang. Russ here. This is a very special episode for…well, for a few reasons. The first reason, and the one least likely to impact our listeners, is that this will be the final episode recorded and edited on the trusty MacBook that has been with me since the start of the series. It is a work machine, and the corporate overlords at the day job have seen fit to outfit me with a new one that’s ab...

It's Jason Statham Week! Join Russ and Zach as we break down The Meg and Death Race.

The Death of Superman -- based on a story that culminated in 1992's Superman #75 -- being episode #75 of the podcast is so perfect that we’re going to pretend waiting around for that movie to come out is why we haven’t done a new episode lately.

Russ Burlingame and Zach D Roberts break down Skyscraper, which was a ton of fun.

Russ Burlingame and Zach Roberts already took a long, hard look at The Jurassic Games in an earlier New Release Wall episode -- but this is a special episode and the first in what we hope to make a regular thing: The film's director, Ryan Bellgardt, joined Russ for a long-form interview/commentary track, sharing recollections, behind-the-scenes secrets, and observations about the film in real time...

In the latest New Release Wall, Russ and Zach talk about Ant-Man and the Wasp. Be back by noon on the third day to hear their spoilery thoughts!

Russ and Zach give their non-spoiler impressions of The First Purge, Blumhouse's latest horror outing.

After the fun of The Jurassic Games, we decided to try out The Jurassic Dead. This was a poor idea. Russ's notes: I love he score in the opening sequence; it feels like Fletch or something, but with more baseline. What’s with the bright green serum? Is this Cartel 2045? The acting and camera work her are not at a professional level. like, this isn’t Cartel or Jurassic Games, where it’s at that lev...

Russ and Zach talk Sicario, ahead of Friday's release of the film's sequel.

Russ and Zach talk today's new release, The Jurassic Games. 

"How do we find this guy...?" Jack Reacher walks in the door.   Russ and Zach talk about one of Zach's trailer reel picks -- the kind of thing you could put on in the store to have fun background noise but only sort of pay attention to -- Jack Reacher.

Russ and Zach look at Blumhouse Tilt's latest offering, Upgrade. It's very good.

On the one hand, this week the intro (some of the audio of which is taken from Kevin Smith's 1994 indie hit Clerks) feels more appropriate than ever.   On the other hand, it could have been fun if I took the time to customize an opening that integrated the line from the Clerks animated series: "What follows is the fabled lost pilot to Clerks..."   On yet another hand? Apparently the audio cut out...

Russ and Zach talk Solo: A Star Wars Story, and neither of them was crazy about it. You can contribute to keep the show going at  paypal.me/emeraldcityvideo You can also check out our Redbubble store at  redbubble.com/people/archiedigest Follow us on Twitter ! Like us on Facebook !

Russ and Zach give a non-spoiler reaction to Deadpool 2. And guess what? We'll be talking more about this movie soon...!

"My favorite movie since BLACK PANTHER." - Russ Burlingame

SPOILERS ON for the second half of Russ and Zach's look at Avengers: Infinity War. Here's where things get a bit more critical, because however great the movie was, the ending left Russ really cold.