The BizzleCast Podcast by The Bizzle

Ladies and Gentleman, I give you PAPA BIZZLE! A.k.a. my Dad, I finally got him on the BizzleCast after constantly referencing him and seeing all these movies I love with him. But we absolutely loved “THE MARTIAN” even more than we were expecting, and as Papa B. puts it, “the humanism of this movie just oozes out of its pores.” Laughing out loud through the entirety — funnier than every other Ridle...

The Bizzle and Yarehk take on one of the biggest and most difficult issues of our time: Race. What is "Race"? Yarehk and Biz discuss the historical, etymological, and performative roots of "race" and "racism." Is it real or imagined? Is academia helping or hurting our desire to move beyond race? Starting in Spain, where proto-racism developed through the persecution of the Moriscos and Conversos (...

Get “Hooked On A Feeling” again with The Bizzle as your guide to GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY! Humans, Kree, Laskavarians, cybernetic raccoons, giant talking trees, and smoking hot Rajak chicks are all welcome. A hilariously brilliant and surprisingly touching Marvel space opera in the best tradition of epic scifi, GUARDIANS hits on so many fronts that the occasional awkward line or CGI bump are quickl...

Gender stereotypes, sexuality, sadism, emotional manipulation, playing God — Alex Garland’s “EX MACHINA” (2015) joins Spike Jonze’s “HER” (2013) as the greatest films about artificial intelligence (A.I.) in a number of years. “EX MACHINA" is a dark and highly compelling parable about trying to make perfect replicants of our imperfect selves, starring Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, and the spec...

AVENGERS AGE OF ULTRON: The ultimate Nerdgasm from beginning to end. Yes, it is completely unrestrained and over the top, but for me the sum of the parts overwhelm the whole with their awesomeness The most epic and brilliantly executed Earth-based action/comic/scifi film ever realized on the big screen, this movie is on the Mt. Rushmore of genre films: a mind-boggling number of superheroes and sup...

What was maybe the greatest superhero movie ever was hardly a superhero movie. Yes you’ve got Cap — and the shield, and it is glorious -- with Chris Evans channeling both UFC and Edward Snowden in his ongoing rebellion against slavery masked as freedom. Scarlett Johansson steals the screen regularly as per usual. Anthony Mackie is the perfect best friend for Cap — cocky, loyal, and lovable. But th...

Dietz and Biz debate best Zeppelin, Radiohead, and grunge albums; discuss songwriting; critique the somewhat (?) pretentious cultural scene in San Francisco; and of course, rip on "Game Of Thrones" as needlessly pornographic and just plain boring. We do praise the virtuosity of "Breaking Bad” and “Birdman” - but was "True Detective" plagiarized?! AND you get a sneak peak of his latest song, “Lady...

Forget everything you thought you knew about Star Trek. J.J.’s masterpiece to date, this one is at least as much Star Wars as Trek: swashbuckling adventure, fantastic humor, breakneck pace, unbelievably colorful and gorgeously filmed. Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) loves the alien ladies and gets his ass kicked on a regular and highly entertaining basis. But the incredibly sweet, understated, and belie...

In arguably the greatest year of film ever (1999), THE MATRIX stood above the rest. Master Adam Tuck narrates and comments on the greatest parts of the classic first film while Master Bizzle adds philosophical commentary, talks about the other films, and pontificates on his crackpot theories about The Matrix universe. Please sign up for BizzleCast on iTunes (keyword: BizzleCast) or use the RSS fee...

Winner of Best Picture in 1995, BRAVEHEART (now on Netflix!) changed epic historical filmmaking forever, and remains a near-perfect and highly rewatchable work of art. Despite Mel Gibson’s fall from grace, this is an all-time great performance from him as well as from Brendan Gleeson, Sophie Marceau, Catherine McCormack, and so many others. I wasn’t sure it would hold up after many years of not se...

BizzleCast Films (TM) Presents: Bizzle's audio commentary for THE RETURN OF THE KING, the glorious finale of "The Lord Of The Rings" movie trilogy! Have an early dinner, and spend the night basking in the brilliant glow of the greatest fantasy film ever made. Winner of 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, RETURN manages to balance impossibly epic and at times horrifying batt...

Bizzle's Part 2 of "Lord Of The Rings" audio commentary. In “The Two Towers,” Gandalf kicks the sh!t out of a Balrog of Morgoth, we're introduced to the super-badass Viking-influenced culture of Rohan, the amazing Eowyn-Eomer sister-brother relationship, and The Battle Of Helm's Deep which is the greatest medieval battle ever realized on screen. Lathspell, I say! If you want to get straight to the...

BizzleCast Films presents "The Lord Of The Rings” films audio commentaries: nearly 12 hours of glorious movie-making and movie-watching. Hopefully I can add 12 hours of entertaining insight into behind-the-scenes secrets, describing my geek-out moments supreme, and just generally fantastical fun! Tolkien superfans or not, many were nervous and/or skeptical leading up to the first film, "The Fellow...

Scholar/friend Yarehk Hernandez, a PhD student in the religion dept. at Temple University where I studied Islamic Studies as well, talks about the history and legacy of Islam in Spain, which was then called Al-Andalus or Andalusia. We touch on the reverberations of the multicultural society of Al-Andalus for Muslims as well as for Christians and especially for the Jews, who were generally well-int...

"The One BizzleCast To Rule Them All" - The Bizzle's massive LORD OF THE RINGS nerd-fest podcast with Master Adam Tuck on the films (and book!). The Bizzle will be releasing full-length audio commentaries for ALL THREE EXTENDED CUTS of the LOTR films, but I wanted to launch this miniseries with an all-out geek out with Master Tuck, whose remains filled with the strength of Numenor. Enjoy our galli...

"Terminator Genisys" is definitely a "B" movie but a very entertaining one. Amazing special effects and photography. Arnold and Emilia hold it down as predicted by The Bizzle. Check out my 5 minute BizzleCast review! https://soundcloud.com/jessemodiba/bizzlecast-12-adam-tuck-and-bizzles-lord-of-the-rings-film-and-book-nerd-fest?in=jessemodiba/sets/bizzlecast

Bizzle's first full length audio commentary is one of the greatest films of all time: "Moon." 2009. A modern day based science fiction masterpiece at just $5 million, Duncan Jones - son of David Bowie - changes the genre forever. Biz weighs in on 90 minutes of hypnotic brilliance. Queue it up at 00:00 and take a journey.

The Bizzle interviews entrepreneur and old buddy Sivan Cotel on his company Stonecutter Spirits, sports gambling, the finance world, the fallout of living in NYC, learning how to re-humanizing ourselves, our time studying music and other heady subjects at Wesleyan University, memory-related films (Inception, Memento), TERMINATOR talk! and a lot more! www.stonecutterspirits.com

The Bizzle talks with author and speaker Smiley Poswolsky, author of "The Quarter Life Breakthrough," about getting a book deal, building a personal brand, and the challenges of writing and entrepreneurship. We also muse on ebooks, the self-help industry, and more! "In-person interaction is where joy happens." -Smiley P. www.smileyposwolsky.com

BC8 Time Travel Addendum - Bizzle error correction by The Bizzle (Jesse F. Brenner)

BizzleCast 8: TERMINATOR Party!!! Emilia Clarke (Khaleesi) will be amazing as Sarah Connor, like her "Game of Thrones" castmate Lena Headey was. We talk A.I., time travel, the Singularity, and why "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" was by far the greatest Terminator property and a classic sci-fi series.

BizzleCast Opening Theme: Terminating Your Preconceptions by The Bizzle (Jesse F. Brenner)

Special guest and singer Brooke Hardy and The Bizzle nerd out on Game of Thrones, the music industry, Pitch Perfect, Hunger Games, Miley Cyrus, translating books to TV and film, manga/anime, over-exposure of genre movies and TV, the possible death of rock, and a lot more!

Yup, it’s my 3rd AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON podcast, but it’s the last. I just take a ride through some of the best parts of the movie, and now I can finally use spoilers! Hope you’ve enjoyed the BizzleCast Ultron Trilogy! (SPOILERS)

The Bizzle and Smiley step it up a level and take on some of the most pressing social, political, and philosophical issues in America in 2015.