Sequelcast 2 and Friends

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, William Thrasher, and very special guest Eric McEver (writer and director of Paleonaut) discuss Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.  After Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) tricks Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem) into a fiery death, Salazar swears his revenge. Now drunk and besotten, Sparrow trades in his magical compass for a bottle of rum, setting off a...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Jersey Jason discuss Beverly Hills Cop. Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) tracks down a friend's killer from Detroit to Beverly Hills. Along the way, he meets up with former flame turned art dealer Jenny Summer (Lisa Eilbacher) who helps him crack the case. A skillful blend of comedy and action, Beverly Hills Cop is one for the ages. Eddie Murphy's vibrant performance steals...

  Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, William Thrasher and very special guest Alexander Miller (Producer of The Trailer Project) discuss Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), Captain Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), and Captain Blackbeard (Ian McShane) all try to track down the Fountain of Youth. To get there, they will have to find hidden treasure, trick deadly...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William T. Thrasher talk about A Race to the Finish, the fourth episode of Star Wars: Droids. Our heroes complete in the Boonta Speeder Race, but gangster Tig Fromm hires Boba Fett to take them out. The final episode in the Thall Joben arc of Star Wars: Droids delivers on the promise of the Boonta Speeder Race promised at the start. Fan favorite Boba Fett makes an ex...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Captain Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) takes a crew of pirates to rescue Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from a bizarre underworld. Now in possession of Davey Jones' (Bill Nighy) heart, the East India Trading Company uses his tentacled help to start their final assault to get of pirates once and f...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William T. Thrasher talk about The Trigon Unleashed, the third episode of Star Wars: Droids. Our heroes attempt to destroy the deadly Trigon One super weapon in tip top Star Wars tradition. Finally, an episode that feels a bit like Star Wars. There's a super weapon, bickering bad guys, and some morally questionable action from our two heroic droids. Follow the show o...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) is working undercover for the East India Trading Company to steal Jack Sparrow's enchanted compass. Somehow there's an Obeah Priestess (Naomi Harris), the titular Dead Man's Chest with Davy Jones' (Bill Nighy) heart in it, and a Kraken involved in all of this. Sporting a...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William T. Thrasher talk about Escape Into Terror, the second episode of Star Wars: Droids. The Fromm Gang continues their work on the Trigon One super weapon. C-3PO, R2-D2, Jord, Thall, and Kea manage to sneak into the enemy base to steal the Trigon One. This is a meandering episode. A ship ventures through an asteroid field, and we get another chase sequence. The v...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, William Thrasher, and special guest Eric McEver (writer and director of Paleonaut) discuss Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. They talk to Eric about how his love of Godzilla movies led him to Japan, how hard Godzilla films are to collect, and his early short film The Early Years of Captain Jack Sparrow . One of a gaggle of Disney films based on the...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Wes Craven's New Nightmare, the final flick of the original cycle of A Nightmare on Elm Street films. Director Wes Craven makes a very meta movie focusing on the making of a new Nightmare on Elm Street film. After a special effects accident on the set, Heather Langenkamp notices odd behavior from her son. Freddy Krueger (Robert England) is tr...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss the career of comic book writer, editor, and publisher Stan Lee. After a stint writing training films in the United States Army during World War II, Stan Lee returned to working for Timely Comics as a writer; in 1961, Timely Comics officially changed their name to Marvel Comics. That same year, at the tender age of 39, Stan Lee and artist Jac...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William T. Thrasher talk about the first episode of Star Wars: Droids. Having been jettisoned by their prior master, C-3PO and R2-D2 explore the arid wastelands of Ingo. They team up with starship jockeys Jord Dust and Thall Joben to investigate the secret base of up and coming crime lord Tig Fromm. This initial episode struggles a bit to introduce a host of new char...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William T. Thrasher of Sequelcast 2 fame discuss why they are launching a new podcast looking at the short-lived Star Wars animated series Star Wars: Droids in this premiere episode of In Trouble Again A Star Wars: Droids Podcast. Despite lasting for a scant lone season and change, this animated series featured high quality animation and actual continuity, both rarit...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. After the lackluster box office gross of A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, New Line Cinema decided to wrap things up with a bang with Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. Another group of troubled kids venture to Springwood City to learn oodles of backstory on Freddy Krueger himself. There will b...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Tony Minsent, and Sean Christopher Franson host a live panel on the Video Game Movies of Uwe Boll at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2018. After a special pre-recorded interview with director Uwe Boll, we give away prizes, discuss his massive slate of video game movies, and take questions from the audience. Special thanks to Producer Gary Otto for making the Uwe Boll int...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss The Expendables 3. Trying to go for bigger box office, The Expendables 3 went for a PG-13 rating. A pirated copy of the full film hit the Internet months before the official release, resulting in a lower box office gross. Former Expendable Conrad Stonebanks (Mel Gibson) has gone rogue selling weapons on the black market. After much of The Exp...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss The Expendables 2. Emboldened by the surprise success of the original, this sequel adds such heavy hitters as Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris to the mix. After rescuing a Chinese doctor, the Expendables are given a mission to retrieve a secure laptop from a downed plane in Albania. Nuclear arms dealer Jean Vilain (Jean-Claude Van Damme...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss More American Graffiti. Posters for the first American Graffiti asked "Where were you in '62?" In this ambitious sequel, we look at four different vignettes taking place on New Year's Eve in 1964, 1965, 1966, and 1967 in Modesto and San Francisco California and Vietnam! Terry (Charles Martin Smith) is fed up fighting knee deep in the muddy fi...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss American Graffiti. The second feature film from director George Lucas, American Graffiti looks at the lives of four friends in 1962 the last day of their summer vacation. Terry (Charles Martin Smith) watches over Steve's (Ron Howard) hot rod car for the evening as zaniness ensues. Meanwhile, John (Paul Le Mat) is stuck cruising around with so...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Austin Powers in Goldmember, the final film in the Austin Powers trilogy. Austin Powers (Mike Myers) travels back in time once again to deal with his playboy father Nigel Powers (Michael Caine) and new villain Goldmember (Mike Myers). Helping Austin out in the swinging 1970s is Foxxy Cleopatra (Beyonce Knowles). In many ways a retread of the...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. After the original film was a huge hit on home video, a sequel came out on the silver screen a mere two years later. Villains Dr. Evil (Mike Myers) and Mini-Me (Verne Troyer) go back in time to steal Austin Powers' (Mike Myers) mojo in 1969. Along the way, Austin meets up with Felicity Shagwell (Heather...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. Saturday Night Live veteran Mike Myers created the character of Austin Powers as a homage to the classic British comedies and spy films he'd watch as a child with his family. After being cryogenically unfrozen, 1970s spy Austin Powers (Mike Myers) has to reckon with the chaste 1990s as he battles h...

  Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss the career of noted science-fiction author Harlan Ellison. Although his most widely seen work is the Star Trek episode City on the Edge of Forever, he also wrote hundreds of short stories and dozens of screenplays and teleplays over the years. He also wrote several nonfiction columns on film, television, and writing featuring his epic rants...

  Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Cube Zero, a prequel that wraps up the Cube trilogy. Another group of fools is trapped in a deadly cube. This time around, we spend a large amount of time with cubicle workers Dodd (David Huband) and Eric (Zachary Bennett). Their day job is to monitor the cube's behavior for any redundancies. When too many things go sideways, the corporatio...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Cube 2: Hypercube. A new group of men and women are together in a brand new fiendish cube that bends physics, time, and space itself. When one of them sees a future version of a companion killing people, suspicions are raised even further. Can anyone survive the dangers of the Hypercube? Going for a stark white high contrast lighting, this mo...