Sequelcast 2 and Friends

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Cube. Mat starts things off with an interview with novelist and comic book writer Kevin Given of Karl Vincent: Vampire Hunter fame . They talk vampire movie franchises like The Lost Boys, different incarnations of Dracula on the silver screen, and how the original Dark Shadows TV series was ahead of its time.  Cube is a Canadian sci-fi indie...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas. A prequel to the 1994 hit The Flintstones, this movie shows how Fred (Mark Addy) and Barney (Stephen Baldwin) met Wilma (Kristen Johnson) and Betty (Jane Krakowski). In the middle of all this, they have to deal with The Great Gazoo (Alan Cumming) monitoring human mating habit. Focusing more on class warfare...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss The Flintstones. A live-action adaptation of the 1960s cartoon, The Flintstones was in the works for almost a decade. Fred Flinstons (John Goodman) gives all his savings to help his friend Barney (Rick Moranis) adopt a child. To pay him back, Barney flips his test results with Fred at work. Fred becomes an executive and an asshole. Will he su...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars. The fifth in the series and the second animated entry, this movie ties in more to the original than any other sequel in the series. After being assigned to a backwater satellite on Mars, Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) is stuck training a bunch of novice troops. After learning of a massive bug uprising, Johnn...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Joseph: King of Dreams. A direct-to-video prequel to The Prince of Egypt, Joseph: King of Dreams retells the story of Joseph from the book of Genesis.  Led by his oldest brother Judah (Mark Hamill), Joseph (Ben Affleck) is sold into slavery as a prank. After cleaning floors, suffering in a pit, and explaining dreams, Joseph rises to prominenc...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, William Thrasher, and special guest Ryan Hoss ( Batman on Film , Super Mario Bros. The Movie Archive ) discuss Son of The Mask. Although he signed a 2-picture deal with New Line Cinema for The Mask, Jim Carrey decided to not move forward with The Mask 2. A sequel without Carrey wiggled its way into theaters in 2005 with MTV and Scream star Jamie Kennedy in the lead. Tim...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss The Mask. Based on the much more ultraviolent comic book series from Dark Horse Comics, The Mask was a smash hit for Jim Carrey. In fact, 1994 was the year Jim Carrey became a movie star; Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, and Dumb & Dumber all came out that same year. Stanley Ipkiss  (Jim Carrey) is a put-upon wallflower of a bank employe...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss the rare two-part crossover episode of The Mask and Ace Ventura cartoon series. In "The Aceman Cometh", Stanley Ipkiss (Rob Paulsen) is distressed when Dr. Pretorius (Tim Curry) kidnaps his pet Milo, so Ace Ventura (Michael Daingerfield) is on the case. In "Have Mask, Will Travel", The Mask and Ace Ventura travel into space to investigate an...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Ace Ventura Jr: Pet Detective. A direct-to-video sequel from 2009, this one looks at Ace Ventura's son (Josh Flitter) trying to solve a rash of animal kidnappings at his school. There's a lot of problems with this movie, chief of which is that the main character doesn't embrace his Ventura lineage until near the end of the movie. Any edge Ace...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. The last of the series to star Jim Carrey in the lead, Ace Ventura is paid a lot of money to retrieve a bat in order to prevent a tribal African war. Stuffy Vincent Cadby (Simon Callow) gives Ace his mission. Can he succeed? Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls is less of a detective story than the original. Instead,...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, the movie that launched Jim Carrey from part of In Living Color's cast to a major movie star. The Miami Dolphins' mascot Snowflake is kidnapped right before the Super Bowl, but he's meant to be part of the halftime show. Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey) is on the case, but Lt. Lois Einhorn (Sean Young) is breathing down hi...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Creed, the latest film in the Rocky series. Way back on the original Sequelcast podcast, Mat and Thrasher discussed the Rocky films. To get caught up with the latest film in the series, they are doing a catch-up episode. They do this every once in a while. Nothing to worry about. Creed weaves a tale about Adonis (Michael B. Jordan), Apollo Cr...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Superman Returns to finish off their look at the first batch of Superman flicks. Director Bryan Singer was so gung-ho to do a Superman movie that he jumped ship from X-Men: The Last Stand to do it. Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey) has another scheme involving land acquisition, but Superman (Brandon Routh) has been gone from Earth for several years....

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Superman 4: The Quest for Peace to round out their look at the Christopher Reeve Superman films. Frustrated by humanity's refusal to rid the world of atomic weapons, Superman (Christopher Reeve) decides to take care of the problem himself. A side effect of chucking nuclear missiles into the sun is the creation of Nuclear Man (Mark Pillow). Me...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Superman 3. Director Richard Lester returns from his work on the theatrical cut of Superman 2 to helm Superman 3 and leans more heavy into comedy this time around. An earlier screenplay for Superman 3 had Braniac and Mister Mxyzptlk as the villains, but after Richard Pryor did an extended routine on the Superman movies on The Johnny Carson Sh...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Superman 2. The rebellious Kryptonians Zod (Terence Stamp), Non (Jack O'Halloran), and Ursa (Sarah Douglas) have broken free from the Phantom Zone to cause chaos on Earth. Can Superman (Christopher Reeve) stop them in time? Featuring more action than the original, Superman 2 is a fan favorite of the series. To complicate things, there are mul...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Superman, the first of four live-action feature films featuring the late Christopher Reeve as the titular Man of Steel. Fresh off his success with The Omen, director Richard Donner helmed what would be considered the first movie based off a comic book with a big budget and a respectable cast. Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) is trying to hijack a pa...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss the last of the Sam Witwicky trilogy of live-action Transformers flicks, Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Chicago, a mustached robot, and sliding down buildings collide in another overlong entry of the Transformers series. Sam (Shia LaBeouf) is a young man looking for a job in the big city, but the Transformers have other plans on their mind....

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the second in the long-running series of live-action films based on the action figures by Hasbro. Sam (Shia LaBeouf) is a college boy now. He plans to stay in touch with his girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox) through webcam while enjoying higher education, but the Transformers have something else in mind. As s...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Transformers, the live-action smash hit directed by Michael Bay based on the popular 1980s animated series and toy line. A teenage boy (Shia LaBeouf) gets his first car, but discovers it's a Transformer named Bumblebee. The evil Decepticon Megatron (Hugo Weaving) has been resurrected and is competing with heroic Autobot Optimus Prime (Peter C...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. A return of sorts to the darker tone of the original, this flick involves Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) trying to get back into the real world through our pregnant hero Alice's (Lisa Wilcox) unborn son. We get some baffling dream sequences inspired by Monty Python's Meaning of Life, comic books,...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, the highest grossing film in the series. Blade wielding child killer Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) bumps off the heroes from A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors, but not before Kristen (Tuesday Knight) transfers her powers to Alice (Lisa Wilcox). Alice tries to warn her friends abou...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss "Sister's Keeper", the sequel to the pilot episode to the short-lived horror anthology TV series Freddy's Nightmares - A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series. Last time around, the cop who killed Freddy Krueger ended up dying in a nightmare haunted by Freddy himself. A decade later, his twin daughters are now high school students; one is mousy...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss "No More Mr. Nice Guy", the pilot episode to the short-lived anthology TV series Freddy's Nightmares - A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series. Focusing on the origin of Freddy Krueger, this tale starts when Krueger gets off all charges of child murdering on a technicality and features the famous scene of the parents murdering Freddy Krueger in...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, William Thrasher, and special guest Russell Dyball (Production Associate for Shout! Factory) talk about A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. Wes Craven's original screenplay was rejected, but the final film features a script featuring work by wunderkind Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Mist). A gang of teens are attempting suicide thanks to nightmar...