Talkin' TV

Oh man, another jam packed third episode, what is with these third episodes being so jam packed yet so awesome. "Breaker of Chains" sees the immediate aftermath of Joffrey's death, and how everyone reacts to it, and only a few short months after the Red Wedding served a similar purpose. Tywin immediately begins readying Tommen to take over, Jaime & Cersei engage in a very strange and oddly interpr...

Oh man. After MONTHS of just terrible, mediocre movies, not only do we have a gem, not only do we have something refreshing, but we quite possibly have the best movie of the year. That's right. On today's episode of #talkintv , Chris is talking all about James Gunn's "Peacemaker" starring John Cena. A 2022 American superhero series based on DC Comics featuring the team Suicide Squad, based on the...

This is one we've been waiting for awhile to do. Season 4, Episode 2, The Lion and the Rose. The final episode written by George R. R. Martin for the series before he went back to procrastinating on the Winds of Winter. This episode has a few other storylines, we're reintroduced to Ramsay and his sadism and briefly check in with Bran & Stannis, but the grand centerpiece of this episode is Joff...

Alright people, a new year is upon is, which means it's time for the best and worst of the previous year! But this one's a special occasion because, that's right, I finally got Chris to do the worst of the year list with me! I've been trying to get him to do one of these lists with me for awhile now, and I finally convinced him because ho man, was it a bad year for movies. It's something I've been...

We're back! After a much needed break, Professor Pat & the Movie Nerd are back to recap the rest of Game of Thrones! We pick up right where we left off with the Season 4 Premiere, Two Swords! This episode served as a bit of a soft reboot of the series, once again signifying the ultimate victory the Lannisters achieved over the Starks with Tywin's symbolic melting of Ned Stark's Valyrian steel...

And this is it! The final one! We're closing out the year of 2021 with a movie that, quite frankly, perfectly sums up the year we just all experienced in terms of movies. This movie is...predictable to say the least. Produced, co-written, and directed by Lana Wachowski . It is the sequel to The Matrix Revolutions (2003) and the fourth and final installment in The Matrix film franchise . Keanu Reev...

Alright people! This is it! Movie event of the year time! Chris & Dom are back together to break down arguably the most anticipated movie of what feels like the last two years, the conclusion to the Tom Holland MCU Spider-Man trilogy, it's "Spider-Man: No Way Home!" After the reveal of his identity by J. Jonah Jameson at the end of 2019's Far from Home, Peter's life and that of his friends and...

We're almost done guys! Only two more episodes after this before we begin the new year! And before we all start freaking out over Spider-Man, we reviewed the latest gem that popped up on Netflix, that being Arcane: League of Legends! Arcane is a 2021 adult animated streaming television series. It is set in the League of Legends universe. The series was announced at the League of Legends 10th anniv...

Alright people, we're in the home stretch, final three weeks of 2021, and you know what that means? It's OSCARS TIME BABY!!!! And we kick that off with returning guest hosts Adam Sommer & Brandon Fallat, who join Dom to talk about a film that's been getting a lot of critical hype from all the awards circuits and festivals, Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog! Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kir...

And another one finished. With that, we've reached the end of the line, officially at the finish line of the first third of the show. The Season 3 finale, entitled Mhysa, which is old Ghiscari for mother. This was a big season, despite the seeming pull back in action, but an important one at that. It signified a big shift in where the focus of the story would be going forward, recontextualizing th...

We're wrapping up 2021, and to top off our Thanksgiving vacation, we're giving you guys the review for the 2nd Ridley Scott film released in 2021, House of Gucci! Based on the 2001 book The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed by Sara Gay Forden, the film follows Patrizia Reggiani ( Lady Gaga ) and Maurizio Gucci ( Adam Driver ), as their romance transforms in...

We've arrive people. The moment that I've been hyping up all season. Still, to this day, we haven't gotten something this shocking and utterly devastating on television. This is easily one of the most utterly devastating betrayals, deceptions, plot twists, whatever word you want to use to describe, it's time...for the Red Wedding. All of Robb's actions have been building to here, whether he realiz...

Alright, we haven't done one of these in awhile. People, we've got another TV show that we're covering ON THE PODCAST! That's right, because this was something that was gonna be so big we were gonna have to cover it in the main format. What we have here is something that has the potential to be the next big thing in the Streaming Wars. Amazon has officially made its next foray forward with the rel...

Alright people, we took off from the main podcast this week, but Talkin' Thrones is going strong all the way to the finish line, as we're on the last stop before the dreaded Red Wedding with Season 3, Episode 8, entitled Second Sons! The wrap up of this very deliberately plotted season has begun, as we check in on a lot of the secondary storylines that have been going on this season. We spend the...

On the next episode of Talkin' Thrones, we're officially into the second half of Season 3, further down the road to the Red Wedding, and despite that we're stopping on every pitstop on the way there with Episode 7, named after one of the more popular songs in Westeros, the Bear and the Maiden Fair! This episode focuses on a lot of the relationships that the characters have established up to this p...

Tonight, we break down our thoughts on the latest effort from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we're talking everything about Marvel's Eternals! Eternals is a 2021 American epic superhero film based on the Marvel Comics race of the same name. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 26th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was dir...

On the next episode of Talkin' Thrones, we're officially into the second half of Season 3, further down the road to the Red Wedding with one of the most technically brilliant episodes of the show, Season 3, Episode 6, entitled The Climb. A rather fascinating conundrum, in that it's one of the most technically brilliant episodes, with all the story beats being framed around this one narrative devic...

To wrap up Halloween & SHOCK-tober, Dom is joined by old friend Brandon Fallat to discuss the latest work from one of their favorite directors, the one and only Edgar Wright, with his new film, Last Night in Soho! A 2021 British psychological horror film directed by Edgar Wright, with a screenplay by Wright and Krysty Wilson-Cairns, from a story by Wright. The film stars Thomasin McKenzie, Any...

On the next episode of Talkin' Thrones, we hit the halfway point of Season 3, with one of the best episodes of the show and Dom's favorite episode up to this point, Episode 5 of Season 3, entitled "Kissed by Fire." The second episode directed by Alex Graves and the 3rd episode of 11 written by series mainstay Brian Cogman, this is an episode filled from top to bottom with amazing character and act...

Alright people, the penultimate podcast installment of October, Chris & Dom sit down to review the next film from Denis Villeneuve and the long awaited second adaptation of Frank Herbert's iconic 1965 novel, Dune! a 2021 American epic science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve with a screenplay by Jon Spaihts, Villeneuve, and Eric Roth. It is the first of a planned two-part adaptation o...

On the next episode of Talkin' Thrones, Professor Pat & Dom "The Movie Nerd" examine the fourth episode of Season 3 of this hit show, entitled "And Now His Watch is Ended." Directed by Alex Graves and written by David Benioff & DB Weiss, this episode is a peculiar beast, because it has some very iconic and amazingly well done sequences, in contrast to the vast majority of the plot being ve...

We kick off the countdown to Halloween with the latest installment in the Halloween franchise as well as our SHOCK-tober event, "Halloween Kills." a 2021 American slasher film directed by David Gordon Green and written by Green, Danny McBride, and Scott Teems. The film is a sequel to 2018's Halloween and the twelfth installment in the Halloween franchise. The film stars Jamie Lee Curtis and James...

On tonight's episode of Talkin' Thrones, it's the continuation of Season 3 with the next part of the set up of the season with Season 3, Episode 3, Walk of Punishment! One of only three episodes directed by the series creators, this one by David Benioff, this episode starts to see all the storylines established in the first half of this season coalesce. First there's Robb, who's moved his forces t...

On tonight's episode of the Talkin' TV podcast, we return, LIVE, for a true cinematic event. People, that's right, we're discussing the return of James Bond, 007 himself, in Daniel Craig's swan song "No Time to Die." The 25th in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It stars Daniel Craig in his fifth and final outing as the fictional British MI6 agent James Bond. It is directed by Car...

On tonight's episode of Talkin' Thrones, it's the continuation of Season 3 with the next part of the set up of the season with Season 3, Episode 2, entitled Dark Wings, Dark Words. It serves as Part 2 of the opening really, as it covers a majority of the storylines that there wasn't enough time to get to last week. We're spending a lot more time in the Riverlands now, as we have not just one, but...