Sequelcast 2 and Friends

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.   A celebration of Kevin Smith's ahead of its time rabid online fanbase, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back takes its inspiration from The Muppet Movie. A road flick about the toking twosome driving from New Jersey to California to stop a Hollywood movie of Bluntman & Chronic from being made, this masturbatory movie wears...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss movies we're watching during quarantine.  With movie theaters closed across the United States, your faithful hosts have been watching more streaming content than usual. They go from the normal to the bizarre and back again. Think of it as a super extended "Watcha Watchin'?" segment.  Enjoy!  Sequelcast 2 and Friends is part of the Green...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss The Crow: Salvation. After Alex Corvis (Eric Mabius) gets the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he tracks down and murders those actually responsible.  Loosely based on the tie-in novel The Crow: The Lazarus Heart by Poppy Z. Brite, The Crow: Salvation mixes up the formula a bit with its crooked cops angle. Eric Mabius is a b...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss the career of the late Sean Connery.  After a three-year stint in the Royal Navy, Connery placed third in the 1950 Mr. Universe contest. After making friends with Michael Caine, he took a greater interest in acting. Aside from playing the first James Bond on the silver screen, his notable films include Hunt for the Red October, The Man...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss The Crow: City of Angels. Ashe Corven (Vincent Pérez) rises from the dead courtesy of a crow to take vengeance upon the gang that killed him. One of many direct-to-video sequels that are basically loose remake of the original The Crow, The Crow: City of Angels works as well as a bad photocopy. Again, the bad guys are rather interesting...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss Dogma. Fallen angels Bartleby (Ben Affleck) and Loki (Matt Damon) start an apocalypse.  Originally promised in the credits of Clerks as Kevin Smith's next film, Dogma is a comedy that digs deep into Biblical lore. One of Smith's higher grossing films, Dogma's killer cast and thoughtful story combines the holy and the profane into a fun mix. The more...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss The Crow. After a man and his girlfriend are murdered, the man comes back to life to get revenge.  Based on the indie comic by James O'Barr, The Crow combined moody goth visuals with a simple revenge story into one slick feature. Director Alex Proyas uses aggressive editing, brief flashbacks, and a good sense of pacing to drive the movi...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss their thoughts on Disney+ after roughly one year of using the popular streaming service.  There are both good and bad things to the service. It's nice it has nearly every animated Disney feature, but many special features from the DVDs are missing. Original programming can be hit (The Mandalorian, The World According to Jeff Goldblum) o...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss Rambo: Last Blood. Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) goes to rescue his friend's daughter Gabriela (Yvette Monreal) from Mexico.  Often feeling more like a Taken movie than a proper Rambo film, Rambo: Last Blood steps away from war-torn battlefields. Rambo's life is different now: he's on medications and is helping Maria raise her daughter Gab...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss Chasing Amy. Holden (Ben Affleck) pines after Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams).  Less broad than Mallrats, Chasing Amy is a thoughtful romantic comedy. Yes, you still have characters obsessed with comic books and Star Wars, but writer-director Kevin Smith is digging a bit deeper here. Easily one of Smith's better films.    Sequelcast 2 and Friends is part...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss Mallrats. Dudes hang around a mall and compete in a game show.  After Clerks became an indie darling, hopes were running high for Kevin Smith's sophomore effort. Sporting a budget that dwarfed the original, Mallrats gets a bit too busy with the plot. Jason Lee is especially memorable as Brodie and Ben Affleck starts his long association with Kevin Sm...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss Triad Election (outside of the US, this was released as Election 2). Lok (Simon Yam) bucks tradition to go up for re-election, but has to run again upstart Jimmy (Louis Koo). A more intimate movie than the original, Johnnie To's Triad Election is another tense political gangster thriller. Faster paced than the original, this one builds...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss Saturday Night Live movies. After certain sketches on SNL became pop culture hits, Lorne Michaels decided to produce movies based on them.  Through fewer movies than you might think, SNL movies tried to capitalize on hit characters from the show; the 90s in particular was a heyday for this kind of thing. Other than The Blues Brothers an...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss Ulysses and the Golden Fleece (Hi-Res Adventure #4). You collect the Golden Fleece for the King. A pastiche of Greek mythology, Ulysses and the Golden Fleece is a mediocre adventure from Sierra. Around half the game is gathering a crew and departing on a boat before anything of note happens. Graphics appear worse than before, and, as always in these...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss Election. Lok (Simon Yam) and Big D (Tony Leung Ka-fai) compete to see who gets elected as the Triad's new Chairman. A political gangster movie, Johnnie To's Election combines tense dialogue, shocking bursts of violence, and a few comedic moments into one smashing feature. Dark, contemporary, and fast-paced, Election wipes away a lot of...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, and Thrasher discuss Clerks. A convenience store clerk (Brian O'Halloran) and a video rental store clerk (Jeff Anderson) kill time working their tedious jobs.  Kevin Smith's directorial debut financed on a handful of credit cards, Clerks screened at Sundance and was picked up by Miramax Films for a limited theatrical release. An indie comedy with witty dialogue, Clerks...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Jersey Jason discuss the career of Jon Lovitz. Learning his craft as part of the Groundlings, a young Lovitz was picked to be part of the SNL cast. He later played a pivotal role in getting fellow Groundlings member Phil Hartman cast. After being tempted by movie deals, Jon Lovitz left SNL for the silver screen. More recently, he has regretted this decisio...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss Wayne's World 2. Wayne (Mike Myers) and Garth (Dana Carvey) try to start a music festival. Rushed out to movie theaters at ludicrous speed, Wayne's World 2 repeats a lot of the jokes from the original picture. The edges are sanded off a bit. Instead of Alice Cooper, we get Aerosmith as the requisite band cameo. Its plot takes inspiratio...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss their favorite DVD Special Features.  Although the LaserDisc format from the 1980s and 1990s had special features for movies like commentary tracks, movie trailers, and documentaries, it was really the DVD format from the late 1990s that made such goodies go into the mainstream. As avid collectors of physical media for film, the hosts r...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss the Star Fox series of video games for Nintendo consoles and handhelds.   Nintendo decided to dip its digital toes into a new genre with space flight sim with Star Fox for the SNES in 1993. Developed by Argonaut Software using a special Super FX chip on each cartridge to power its polygonal graphics, Star Fox became a hit spawning many sequels and re...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss Wayne's World. A couple of slackers try to go for the big time.  The first Saturday Night Live film in over a decade, Wayne's World fleshes out its thin concept to become a real comedy classic. Puns, satire, and surrealism collide in this slick feature. Rob Lowe is quite good as the sleazy producer. Sequelcast 2 and Friends is part of t...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss Marty's First Date, Season 1 Episode 3 of The Critic according to the DVD order. Marty (Christine Cavanaugh) dates Fidel Castro's granddaughter.  Another solid episode, this one focusing on Jay's son Marty.  Marty's international school is often ridiculous (they have Klingon students!), but there's real heart here in Marty's romance. The Critic wasn'...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and special guest Josh Long ( co-host of More Than One Lesson )  discuss The Muppets, a feature from 2011. The Muppets put on a telethon to save their theatre.  Director James Bobin (Flight of the Conchords) brings new life to the Muppets in the blandly titled The Muppets from 2011. Both a soft reboot a kind of a sequel to The Muppet Movie, The Muppets succeed...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss games in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Sega's blue mascot has been in a hell of a lot more games than Mario. Starting as a modest side scroller in 1991, Sonic and his pals have been featured in dozens of games over the years for a variety of systems. It also spawned a lot of animated series. This episode was recorded before there was the popular 202...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss Miserable, Season 1 Episode 2 of The Critic according to the DVD order. A projectionist (Pamela Reed) stalks Jay Sherman (Jon Lovitz)  Among other things, this episode spawned the popular "Buy My Book" animated GIF. A comedic take on Fatal Attraction, Miserable is a strong episode. Several episodes in Season 1 feature the failed romances of Jay Sherm...