Sequelcast 2 and Friends

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss Airport, the first of four 1970s films based on the book by Arthur Hailey. Stars Jacqueline Bisset, Helen Hayes, Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin. A disaster movie in the skies, Airport is a bit stiff compared to later entries in the series. The late 1960s fashions are fun to look at, as is the lax airport security by modern standards. Kind of a dud an...

Host Mat Bradley-Tschirgi interviews director Jeff Celentano on his new film The Hill now playing in theaters. Mat also interviews Rickey Hill, the real-life subject on whom the film is based on. Born with a degenerative spinal disease, Rickey started his dream of playing baseball by hitting rocks with sticks. Eventually, he got in the MLB. They discuss how Rickey developed his batting style, the...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss the career of the late Paul Reubens. After growing up in New York and Florida, Paul Reubens moved to Los Angeles to get his start in show business. An early member of the influential comedy troupe The Groundlings, Reubens is best known for his character Pee-Wee Herman who starred in 3 movies: Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Big Top Pee-Wee...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss the animated feature Batman vs. Two-Face. Stars William Shatner, Adam West, Burt Ward, and Julie Newmar. Done much in the same style as Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders, this flick introduces a villain never seen in the live-action series: Two-Face. We also get a Batman '66 take on Harley Quinn. While the plot is still filled t...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss the animated Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders. Stars Adam West, Burt Ward, Cesar Romero, and Julie Newmar. Perfectly casting the visual aesthetic of the live-action Adam West Batman TV show, Return of the Caped Crusaders features an overstuffed storyline packed with cute references. It's a big shaggy, but there are fun moments...

Host Mat Bradley-Tschirgi interviews Joe Russo (WGA Strike Captain, co-host of Post Mortem with Mick Garris) on the 2023 Writer's Guild of America Strike. They speculate on how the streaming video market is different from the halcyon days when DVD was king, AI's influence on the industry, how the potential SAG strike on July 12 might affect the WGA strike, and more! Sequelcast 2 and Friend...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller start their discussion of the Adam West Batman features with 1966's Batman: The Movie. Stars Adam West, Burt Ward, Cesar Romero, and Lee Meriwether. Released between the first two seasons of the Batman TV show, Batman: The Movie features Batman and Robin against a supervillain team-up of the Joker, the Penguin, the Riddler, and the Catwoman...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, the eighth film in the Harry Potter series. Stars Ralph Fiennes, Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe, and Emma Watson. Harry Potter faces Voldemort once and for all. Finally putting the pedal to the metal, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is a solid finish to an overlong series. There are some good t...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss American Reunion. A bunch of assholes have a high school reunion. Stars Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Tara Reid, and Seann William Scott. A decent wrap-up to the series with a bit more character work than prior entries. Sequelcast 2 and Friends is part of the Tokyo Beat Podcast Network. Get 15% off EPOS Gaming Audio headsets with code E...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher talk to Dan Amrich and Katrin Auch on their recent experience going on the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser experience in Orlando, Florida. We touch on the amazing integration from its original music score to a novel quest-based system with several cast members constantly in character and the delightful food onboard. Also noted is the oft misleading marketing...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, Jersey Jason, and Adriana discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, the seventh film in the Harry Potter series. Stars Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe, and Emma Watson. Harry Potter and his friends go camping as they track down the Horcruxes. Yet another sequel that takes a final book in a series and chops it unce...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth film in the Harry Potter show. Stars Michael Gambon, Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe, Alan Rickman, and Emma Watson. The Death Eaters assault London as Harry Potter tries to discover who is the Half-Blood Prince. A somewhat lugubrious entry, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince starts to tee things u...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss American Wedding. Jim and Michelle prepare for their wedding, but that scamp Stifler has to butt it. The gang rent a house at Lake Michigan for a killer summer party. Stars Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, January Jones, and Seann William Scott. American Wedding feels like it's on autopilot most of the time. So called hilarious obstacl...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss American Pie 2. The gang rent a house at Lake Michigan for a killer summer party. Stars Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Natasha Lyonne, and Tara Reid. In American Pie 2, the characters are back home after their first year of college. After a labored extended opening retreading much of the first film (they eat at the same restaurant! they...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss American Pie, the first film in the American Pie series. American Pie is responsible for kicking off a new R-rated sex comedy craze not seen since Revenge of the Nerds over a decade prior. Paul Weitz's (About a Boy, Little Fockers) directorial debut stars a mixture of fresh-faced actors (Jason Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth, Sean Willi...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss the career of the late Tom Sizemore. After early stints in two films written by Quentin Tarantino (True Romance and Natural Born Killers), Tom Sizemore continued to gain acclaim in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan and Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor. Sizemore continued to act in films spanning wide variety of genres includin...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss Breaking Dawn Part 2, the fifth and final film in the Twilight Saga as of this recording. Starring Billy Burke, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart. Old vampires fight new vampires and some of them laugh silly and some of them can make leaves float. Showing a momentum much of the series lacked, Breaking Dawn Part 2 show...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss Breaking Dawn Part 1, the fourth film in the Twilight Saga. Starring Billy Burke, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart. Bella is pregnant with a human vampire hybrid. A rather elegiac entry, Breaking Dawn Part 1 finally has Bella and Edward getting married. During their honeymoon, she becomes pregnant with a human vampir...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher, and Jersey Jason discuss Hary Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth film in the Harry Potter show. Starring Rupert Grint, Evanna Lynch, Daniel Radcliffe, Alan Rickman, and Emma Watson. Harry Potter is expelled from Hogwarts and joins a secret society to try and stop Lord Voldemort's return. More of a legal thriller than one might suspect, Harry Pot...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss Eclipse, the third film in the Twilight Saga. Starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart. A sulking teenager and a sulking werewolf have to sleep with each other to keep them warm.  Mortal enemies werewolves and vampires decide to form an alliance against an impending army of newborn vampires...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Harry Potter competes in a tournament to see who has the biggest wand.  A sort of Harry Potter meets the Olympics, this motion picture has some nice suspense to it. The kids are getting a bit older, there's a scene with a fantasy themed rock band (?!?), and Voldemort is more Voldemorty than ever. A bit long,...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Harry Potter learns who his godfather is.  The kid actors are turning into teens and the story's getting a bit more mature. Gary Oldman has some nuance to Sirius Black, his titular Prisoner of Azkaban. Aside from a final shot that would be cheesy by 1970s standards, this is a less cloying movie than the...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the second film in the titular Twilight Saga. Starring Anna Kendrick, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson, and Kristen Stewart. A sulking teenager goes to Italy and sulks with very old vampires. As the title implies, New Moon focuses on the third wheel of the Twilight Saga, Jacob (Taylor Lautner). To prep fo...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss Twilight, the first film in the Twilight Saga. Starring Anna Kendrick, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson, and Kristen Stewart. A sulking teenager plays a game of vampire baseball.  Already a best-selling series of books by the time the first film came out, Twilight seemed destined to be a bit. Its PG-13 tween romance take on high...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher, and Alex Miller interview Dominic Armato (Return to Monkey Island), the voice of Guybrush Threepwood, about pirate food, film, and his work on the Monkey Island games including the latest, Return to Monkey Island.  Pirates have captured the imagination of writers since well before the days of Robert Louis Stevenson. Whether it's humorous (The Pirate Mo...