The BizzleCast Podcast by The Bizzle

I only have limited time in this short podcast, but Carrie Fisher is one of the most interesting, intense, hilarious, brilliant, disturbed, and most importantly real and honest person to ever make it out of Hollywood. And yet she barely made it out of her drug addiction, but she’s spent the last decade or so producing brilliant work on TV, film, theater, and as a writer. Totally fearless, a modern...

Doctor Strange Daze, Guy Fawkes, Female Nerd-Land, Lack of Women Superheroes, Is Marvel Headed Towards the End Already? Feat. Matty G aka Goose

Is this the beginning of the end? Not really sure, but you can't pack enough big name actors into a ridiculous and extremely bizarre comic book property that doesn't fit in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Rachel McAdams, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Tilda Swinton do everything possible to save this hot mess from an inconsistent Benedict Cumberbatch and his horrible New York accent. This felt like a big pi...

Yes, Wil Wheaton! Why you ask? Listen and find out! But mostly Biz & Goose Rap on sexism in TV/Film (and everywhere), the future of the Arrow-verse on CW, the new Rogue One trailer (we disagree!), and WIL WHEATON is kind of great… but his buddy and Nerdist-mogul Chris Hardwick, maybe not so much (also shout-out to Felicia Day!)

I wasn’t sure I would do this but after I started rewatching the first five minutes of STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS after having not seen it since it came out last Xmas I immediately realized that IT SHALL BE DONE. Ok, we had to get the redux/reboot tendencies out of our collective systems, but the movie gets better as it goes along and with each watching because of the brilliant work of the cast...

Where do The Defenders go from a bleak and underwritten but still relatively well-executed Daredevil Season 2 and the excellent early reviews of Luke Cage Season 1? Matty G and I discuss what worked and what didn’t in the Daredevil series — no need to rehash our love and respect for Jessica Jones too much — and continue our exploration into this bizarre time where comic books and movies are experi...

Luke Cage’s own show is HERE on Netflix - in Part 1 of my Pre-Luke Party Papa B and I mostly talk Daredevil Season 2, which was the most recent Netflix Marvel series and quite problematic. We think Luke Cage will be closer to Jessica Jones in tone and quality than Daredevil and we can’t wait to binge and find out! Here’s a quickie with the father of the Bizzle! (NOTE: Spoilers from Daredevil and J...

So deserving, but where do we go from here? ORPHAN BLACK’S Tatiana Maslany wins BEST DRAMATIC ACTRESS at the Emmys! There’s justice indeed in this world: Sci-Fi brilliance is rewarded for insane and lovable creativity. Tatiana paving the path to truth and reality. Matty G and Bizzle rap on what this means for sci-fi, women, and all creative people going forward.

Robert Downey Jr. hitting on Marisa Tomei as Aunt Mae? Check. Fabulous drama, comedy, and action involving Cap and his buddies Sam (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky (Sebastian Stan)? We got that. Paul Rudd as an Avenger? LOL hysterical. Despite some uneven pacing and yet another so-so Marvel villain (though Daniel Bruhl acted the s**t out of his role), the character drama was top notch along with some th...

What can you say about this show? Or even this episode, which may be the greatest pilot episode of all time. The Bizzle brings his best commentator game to all seven episodes of one of the best first seasons we’ve ever seen. And while the show took until Season 3 to really find it’s mega-mojo (joining Netflix was HUGE), the writer’s strike-shortened Season 1 managed to accomplish an insane amount...

A radically humanistic and realistically utopian take on the ultimate fate of the human race disguised as a feel-good space teamwork story that captured audiences imaginations and is going to be a critical tool in enticing younger people to engage with science in general and astronomy in particular. On a mindblowingly low budget of around $100m with legendary director Ridley Scott at the helm, THE...

BC61.5: BizzleCast Sports Goes Deep: We talk racism and diversity among athletes and fans; the state of youth sports; the problems lying beneath the NFL's $13.5 billion juggernaut; whether MLB is dying or flying; sports as the ultimate manifestation of American meritocracy; athlete activism led by LeBron James and more with Matty G aka Goose. Topics include: -we really get deep on sports culture a...

What is Ryan Lochte's level of douchey-ness from 9 to 1000? Ledecky or Biles? Why are the women kicking the men's asses? Can The Bizzle convince you that the Winter Olympics is the superior event? And of course, a short but insightful interview about how my #2 Matty G aka Goose became an esteemed sports reporter in the fertile sports ground of New England.

Why SUICIDE SQUAD succeeded in the box office where STAR TREK BEYOND failed. Non-spoiler mini-review of JASON BOURNE. What a lousy summer movie year. General praise for V FOR VENDETTA as ahead of its time. The future of AGENTS OF SHIELD. Tom Hiddleston and Taylor Swift aka HiddleSwift! Tay Tay! And most importantly the amazingness of HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE and the lack of great indie films so f...

With SUICIDE SQUAD somehow managing to defeat BATMAN V SUPERMAN in the bad review contest — and like BvS making way more money than you’d think possible — DC Comics and their “partners” at Warner Bros are headed for a plane-crash-into-the-mountain scenario with the DC Extended Universe if not for what looks like a very promising film in WONDER WOMAN (2017). After the Bizzle briefly rants solo abou...

There’s no one else that could be here other than my wingman and the Spock to my Kirk, Matty G. aka Goose. We bring you 20 glorious minutes of non-spoiler review (and mostly praise) and then we get into the Nitty Gritty of this excellent scifi entry in the Star Trek multiverse. We like the Beats AND the Shouting! FIGHT THE POWER. Sign up for BizzleCast on iTunes (keyword: BizzleCast) or use the RS...

Ladies and Gents, I am thrilled to welcome Ms. Laura Catana to the BizzleCast: Entrepreneur, businesswoman, professional globetrotter, global arts and cultural hub, musical tastemaker, and now managing the hottest music and arts collective in Cuba today called Guampara - and a long-time friend of mine from back to the college days at Wesleyan University. Laura is truly a global citizen, in heart,...

Adam Smiley Poswolsky — millennial author, speaker, motivator, entrepreneur, camp counselor, and one of my best buddies in the multiverse — is about to drop a brand new edition of his critically-acclaimed and best-selling book for millennials searching for meaningful work: “THE QUARTER-LIFE BREAKTHROUGH: Invent Your Own Path, Find Meaningful Work, and Build a Life That Matters.” We run the gamut o...

Seeing “Les Miserables” on Broadway as a child in the 1980s left a massive impression on me, but the 2012 film was my choice for Best Picture in a year with tons of great films. While it had one of the most inspired castings ever, from the heartbreaking Oscar-winning performance of Anne Hathaway to the deliciously evil Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter, it's the “Little Big Three” of Aman...

Love it or not, "Star Trek," and especially "Star Trek: The Next Generation" is one of the most important, game-changing franchises/shows in modern science fiction. I first brought Matty G (aka Goose) onto the BizzleCast more than half a year ago to talk (ostensibly) about Star Trek as a contrast to Star Wars. But with hundreds of TV episodes (and more on the way!), 12 movies and related material...

The Avengers of A Cappella. The Winter Soldier of musicals. Super tight, super hilarious, and super aca-soulful. Throw down with me, and let’s Do It Tonight and feel the Presto Magic. Sign up for BizzleCast on iTunes (keyword: BizzleCast) or use the RSS feed on any podcast app: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:35604552/sounds.rss

With STAR WARS: ROGUE ONE all *poop* seems to have hit the fan, and even if the reports are off, this situation begs all sorts of questions about Disney’s relevance and substance. Downfall of Disney, you ask? You mean the same company that owns the top 3 grossing movies of 2016 to the tune of over $3 billion combined in CIVIL WAR, ZOOTOPIA, and THE JUNGLE BOOK? Symptomatic of Disney's conservative...

HOLY S**T WE MADE IT TO 50!! “It’s a celebration, B****es!” Cousin Phil is back after a record-shattering podcast together, BizzleCast 35, where we talked Creed, Rocky, and race in the sports world. Here we get straight to it: American politics in 2016. We’ve got Trump. Oh and more Trump! We’re a little elitist. Wisdom seems lacking in the country despite increased knowledge. We talk about the lac...

Papa Bizzle helped keep my head up despite negative reviews heading into APOCALYPSE because X-MEN is a property I have a deep and abiding love for since childhood despite Fox's ongoing attempts to sabotage the franchise. While we aren't non-critical here, we both ended up enjoying the movie a lot and especially the great character drama which was head and shoulders above BvS and CIVIL WAR - even w...

This Bizzle is not gonna lie: I thought “X-MEN: APOCALYPSE” was much better than the reviews - but then again I'm an X-Men nerd for life. I give it a 7.5/10 if I have to put a score, but a very entertaining 7.5. It’s a movie of great moments and scenes and images, even if it’s never quite coherent. If I didn’t know a lot about X-Men coming in, not sure how I’d feel. And the negative reviews coming...