Mildly Pleased

I had intended this to be our triumphant return to form, but some unforeseen technical difficulties and foreseen better things to do has led to this comeback being more a whimper than a bang. But don’t take that as any indicator of the quality of this episode to which you’re about to listen! Sure, it’s […]

Now that America has caught up to – and maybe even surpassed – us on anti-Shia LaBeouf sentiment, we return to the well of unfair criticism with a list of directors who just aren’t doing it for us. Maybe they’re just hacks, maybe they’ve been screwed over by the studios, maybe they were once great […]

It’s the long-awaited return of Pitching Tents, just in time for the big game! This week on the show we come up with our best ideas for a movie about sports. Not just football, that would have been too constraining. I mean, if we had done football, would we have really done another show for […]

It wouldn’t be fun if it was easy and that’s never been truer than this week on T3, when we battle technical problems and the very limits of our bodies to make a new episode for you. Yeah, sounds pretty exciting, doesn’t it? Like you can’t wait to hear it? Like you feel like you’ve […]

Talk about the ultimate Grudge Match! There are no ties this week as only three Warm Bodies show up to host our last 2013 wrap-up podcast. And, boy, we sure do bring The Heat and sling the Mud this week. When we kicked it into Turbo, I’m surprised World War Z didn’t break out during […]

Is the golden age of television over? Breaking Bad, 30 Rock, The Office, and at least one other show that’s been mentioned too many times all came to an end in 2013. And while there might be some hope in fresh meat like Rick and Morty, The Americans, Axe Cop, some people seriously believe TV […]

It’s a tradition older than the royal baby, the PlayStation 4, and SnapChat. More respectable than Duck Dynasty, Paula Deen, and probably some not racist things too. That’s right, it’s the Mildly Pleased Awards, America’s chance to look back at a year of mediocrity. Even though 2013 seems to have been particularly grueling and painful […]

What’s that? It’s too early to talk about Christmas movies? Well, you’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch. It’s less than two weeks away from the biggest holiday in the world, and once it’s come and gone, we’ll have to wait such a long time until it comes again. Let’s enjoy it. Let’s all enjoy it. […]

We didn’t really know what to talk about this week, so we got real and decided to talk about how much of a shit year it’s been. This episode is a real downer, I’m not going to dance around it. Maybe we just needed to vent about how bad things have gotten, but it should […]

Some of the best movies of all time were sequels, like The Godfather Part 2, The Empire Strikes Back, and… uh… Ghostbusters 2? But also sometimes sequels are a dumb idea that only manage to tarnish the legacy of a good first movie. And that sucks. So this week, we’ve put together a list of […]

I certainly hope everyone is having a spooktacular Halloween! I know we were, because up until the last minute, I had no idea what to pitch. It’s so hard coming up with a new idea for a horror movie, there are just so many of them! Basically anyone you can possibly think of has tried […]

When you were a little kid, did you ever imagine you got to join your favorite characters on their adventures? Obi Wan would teach you in the ways of the force, maybe, or Indiana Jones would need your help to secure a precious artifact, for example. Well, the filmmakers behind those films thought you had […]

Here’s something a bit different. You know how sometimes they make movies? Do you ever wonder how executives and screenwriters come up with the ideas for those movies? Well, here’s our best approximation of what it’s like. It’s a new show for a growing network of podcasts for the smallest audience possible, Pitching Tents. It’s […]

As implied by my Dexter finale review, “Felina,” Breaking Bad‘s final episode, was actually not disappointing somehow. And while sure, you could argue the merits of focusing criticism on one episode of a serialized story like this, we felt it was meaty enough to talk about for 45 minutes or so. After all, something like […]

We end our late summer hiatus by spending this week talking about the thing everyone was talking about last week: Grand Theft Auto V. But can you blame us? It’s the biggest franchise in gaming, with massive appeal outside of core gamers. And it made like a billion dollars in three days. That’s Justin Timberlake […]

Bryan Cranston was recognizable, if not an outright star. He was Snizard on Power Rangers, Dr. Whatley on Seinfeld, Hal on Malcolm in the Middle. He was a known quantity, a fun, goofy guy. His niche was carved. And then he started playing a chemistry teacher with cancer and revealed to the world that he […]

What if you had one shot to summon history’s greatest heroes …And then just hang out with them for a bit? Like, you know, do whatever it is you wish you could with them. Not like sexual stuff. Gross! They’re dead people. They have a word for that, you know. Necrophilia. It’s not cool. Not […]

If you had been foolish enough to buy The Cannonball Run on DVD, you’d want to make something of it too. But you’re not that foolish, are you? No, you’re a smart, savvy Internet browser/podcast listener/sex machine. Look at you, you emblem of perfection. You pillar of the community. We should be thanking you, for […]

Hey, so, the last episode got lost… Sort of. It sounds bad, and it’s kind of hard to fix it, and maybe someday it will be out as a bonus lost episode. But instead we push on! And by push on, I mean continue to focus on things somewhat related to Pacific Rim. Because that […]

This week we play judge, jury, and executioner for the two Judge Dredd movies that have been made thus far. The first, starring Sylvester Stalone, tries to be the ultimate story for the character, full of massive reveals and incredible consequences for the rest of the franchise. The second, starring Mildly Pleasedman Karl Urban, is […]

2013, man. Shit’s half done. All we are is dust in the wind. This week we wallow in the fragility of mortality by talking about our favorite stuff so far this year. That means video games, TV shows, music, and movies. Consider it a preview of sorts for the big deal lists we’ll be doing […]

We only get one shot at Super Smash Bros. in a generation. The franchise-mash-up fighting series, which has already appeared on N64, Gamecube, the Wii, was recently officially announced to be coming to both the Nintendo 3DS and the Wii U. More importantly, the confirmation of Mega Man joining the fray means that Solid Snake […]

Supes. The Big Blue Boy Scout. The Last Son of Krypton. The Man of Tomorrow. The Metropolis Kid. The Man of Steel. There were a lot of options to with when titling the new Superman movie, based on the trend of using nicknames instead of actual names for DC films. They went with probably the […]

Sometimes things don’t work out, for a lot of reasons. Good ol’ fashioned creative differences, tragic deaths, that sort of stuff. Sometimes they don’t work out for bullshit reasons. Like in the case of Arrested Development, which was cancelled because it was too good, I guess. But now it’s back, so that’s weird. Anyway, in […]

Another week, another episode of something that’s not Top Ten Thursdays. This week, join Colin and I as we compare another two movies with very little in common in another episode of Good Movie/Bad Movie. Our focus this time? The summer action showcase that is Fast and Furious 6, and the significantly more down-to-earth indie […]