Podcasts – The SomethingSomethingCast

Best of 2022 continues with Rob’s Review pick – Black Phone. Here’s what we said then: We’re nearing SomethingSpookums season, so wasn’t Hatton surprised when Rob suggested one of the Summer’s sleeper horror hits  Black Phone . A young man is kidnapped by the local kidnapper, natch, and through a series of mysterious moments… maybe he finds his way home? W...

Welcome to our next  Best of 2022 – this week, Hatton has picked one of his favorites… Favorite Opening Scenes. Here’s the original post: The first moments of a movie or TV show sets the stage for what’s to come… is it a tense moment to moment thriller? Is it confusing, where the plot reveals itself slowly? Is it a podcast that introduces itself the same way to you ea...

It’s that time of year again – when the Somethings take some time off to recharge their poddery batteries, and this year, we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite episodes we’ve done over the last year, so every Friday and Tuesday in December, join us as we take a look back before we kiss this year g’bye. Enjoy ‘ Franchises That Should Have Stopped At 1...

Sometimes there are 5 Tuesdays in a month, so on those glorious days, you get an extra Somethingcast! Now, the boys don’t really plan for this to happen. They don’t write the calendar, blame the Gregorians, so who the heck is going to expect them to plan something? Thus, the Free For All episode was born. This time, however, there is one particular piece of entertainment that slipped p...

What started as a single season of television that people will probably rank as ‘one of the best’ for a long time. Twists. Brilliant acting choices. One of the coolest scores in tv. Robots. Cowboys. Robot Cowboys…. ends where? Does it end in a satisfying place where the tethers that have been left from the first episodes are tied together in a bow and bring the whole of the arc t...

When you were a kid, did you imagine that there was buried treasure out there, and with a shovel and a dream, you would dig on the beaches and one day find it? Well, two multi-millionaires are doing just that, and apparently they’ve turned it into a multi-season reality show that Hatton’s only just hearing about. The Wheel though, the Wheel knows, and it brings the mysterious Oak Islan...

I’d like to think if you know the Somethings, you knew this was coming eventually. We mentioned it a month or two ago, because the minute Hatton saw this movie.. he knew one thing.. he needed to make Rob see it. Why? Well, have you seen it? If you haven’t – stop reading – go watch it – then come back. Now you know why, and I’m sorry I made you do that.  M. Night...

Are you a Keaton fan? What about a Clooney fan? Do you like your Gotham neon and campy or dark and totally not Chicago? Well, the Somethings know a bit about Martha’s Baby Boy and they are going to settle in and discuss who the best Bat that ever donned the cowl.  Let’s be clear, some of their decisions may surprise you… and each other. So, Mr. Wayne, sit near the fire and enjoy...

First, they were nostalgia. Then, they were growing up. After that, they were figuring things out. Now… well, now it’s really just gone all to hell, hasn’t it?! The kids of Hawkins have gone on another of their wacky adventures this past year and the Somethings weren’t going to miss out on a chance to get to talk about Vecna, the Hellfire Club, and whether or not this seaso...

Three people went off into the Burkettsville woods, and weren’t heard from again… this isn’t their story. A bunch of other people went off into the woods to take a tour about the people that were never heard from again, which does kind of infer they were heard from again, albeit unintentionally, and now there are tour groups for them and they are apparently cult icons to weiros a...

The again for The Wheel, the machine that tells us what we’re doing and how – and boy howdy does it hit us with the big’uns tonight. In this corner – hailing from deepest darkest Ohio… In this corner – the European with the meanest bite… In this corner – a milkdud from the internet… In this corner – from the wetlands of Scotland… In...

Not all horror movies are created equal… you see, some movies are amazing because they are frigging amazing. Some are amazing because they are bad. Some are just……. bad. We’re talking about all of them, because none of those headers quite describes ‘lame’.  What is a lame movie? Is it stupid? Does it have a single factor that makes it worse than another? Is it j...

Yeah, so Marvel has had hit after hit. The Avengers, Daredevil, Mandolorian, Sandman, Teen Titans… all of the big hitters! Well, there was once a time where Marvel wanted to throw up the middle finger to some mutants and turn to the Moon for inspiration. If this means absolutely nothing to you, then you clearly missed The Inhumans , a one season attempt to make an obscure part of the Marvel...

Not every decision is a good one… just think of any strange flavor, because Japan has probably turned it into a Kit-Kat. Well, the same goes for movies. Sometimes there is a choice in a film that just brings down the whole affair. The wrong actor at the wrong time or the right actor in the wrong film – sometimes you just don’t want Wasabi in your Chocolate Wafers. So join the Som...

We’re nearing SomethingSpookums season, so wasn’t Hatton surprised when Rob suggested one of the Summer’s sleeper horror hits  Black Phone . A young man is kidnapped by the local kidnapper, natch, and through a series of mysterious moments… maybe he finds his way home? Was it good? Was it great? Was it overhyped or just right? It’s time for  Something in Review: Black...

♫ We’re goin back….  back…  back to schooOol ♫ Now, we’re aware tha tmost of the people that listen to his show have had no more pencils, no more books, no more of those dirty looks for at least a decade… but that does not mean that there isn’t a whole series of films that take place int he hallowed halls of alma maters across this great land of ours. So which o...

On the first week of the month we do a themed episode. The second and third are Something in Review and The Wheel. The 4th week is The End — but what happens when there is a fifth week tot he month?  What are the Somethings supposed to do? Well, if you have been listening to our show for any length of time, you should know it is time for a  Something Free-For-All which is where we take a wee...

Time to hitch the wagons, hit the dusty trail for the next town, the next ballyhoo, the next mark on the route. That’s right, it’s time to lay on hands with the rest of the geeks as we settle down to discuss  Carnivale . The HBO darling that ended too soon, but why? Was it rolling downhill towards a depression or was it a show that was just too far ahead of its time for people to be ab...

The Wheel is a neverending mistress, always spinning, always providing. It is the alpha, the omega, and what decides our fate. We are but pawns in its sometimes brilliant, sometimes cruel decisions. Today, the Wheel spins yet again, and the Somethings are confronted with their biggest disaster yet – plotting their own elevator pitch for a Disaster Film! To join them on this harrowing adventu...

Since the world is currently learning what artsy nerds have known for 20 years, that The Sandman is amazing, the Somethings had the brilliant (and coincidental) idea to do a movie that ties in ever so slightly to the Sandman mythos… the story of a man who can see the evil forces that move between worlds and fight them for the benefit of his own soul. He also knows kung-fu… whoa…...

Some movies build a universe that expands the lore and mythos, that delves deep into other characters and builds new ways to love what you already loved.  They are treasures that feel like each moment is a part of a greater whole. Some movies need to make rent so they sell themselves to whatever bidder happens to have a coupon for a McRib Value Meal. Today, the Somethings are talking about the lat...

ALL RISE! The honorable Somethings are now back in session for their final episode of the Year 9 Podiganza! To keep with the theme of ‘things that relate to 9’ we went with a classic comedy that went 9 seasons and.. possibly? is getting a comeback. More on that later, first, why don’t you settle in to the misdemeanor charges for arguing with your neighbor on alternate side of the...

The Anniversary Strikes… THE WHEEL with a list of 9 oriented topics, we spin the wheel, make the deal… annnnnnnd – BAD MOVIE DRAFT! That’s right – Hatton and Podcast Rob are picking the best of the worst and letting you decide precisely who wins.  What was the worst? What was the best? Does one being better make it the loser? Did you like any of this dreck? How do you...

With 9 movies on the books, the Fast & the Furious Franchise, fun to say five times fast, seemed like the perfect spot for us to flex our Year 9 Anniversary muscles and go back behind the wheel to breakdown all of the hard turns the series have made.  How much is a drag? How much does the series drift off course? These are car puns. Have you tire’d of these yet? Fine. I get it. So &#8211...

First off – it is Year 9.  Every year, the Somethings celebrate another year closer to the heat death of the universe with a celebration of all things Something. To start us off on our anniversary (which, if you look up is the  pod -ery anniversary….. get it?) we have joined forces with a friend of the show of years upon years – Cthulu’s Prodigy ( @cthulhusprodigy ) from Bl...