The Bricked Pit

Are you a child with a troubled life and psychic powers? Does your car drive itself and murder your bullies? Do violent religious zealots curse and abuse you? Are you a writer with an alcohol/drug problem? Well, you just may be a Stephen King character? Don't worry. You might be in one of the ones with a good ending. Probably not, though. While you wait for your certain doom to materialize, listen...

More more more. Everything’s gotta be bigger than the last time. Movies, y’all need to chill

The engines are out. Navigation is inoperable. You're drifting through space, and there is an unknown organism on board. One by one your crewmates disappear. As you notice the slime hanging off the bulkhead, your ears catch the hiss from behind you. It's at that moment that you realize that you're in a space horror film. Maybe you can figure out your chances of survival by listening to Jason and A...

Said it before. Saying it now. Will probably say it in the future. I don’t like George RR Martin and hate Game of Thrones

If you wish to learn the secret of Bricked Pit style, you must first unite your body and mind to optimize the flow of your qi. Then, you must muster all of your hatred, passion, and ego to channel it into the unearned self confidence to discuss film theory and history for podcast episodes on things such as the Hong Kong/Taiwanese Kung Fu film genre. Adam uses his Flying Giggle Kick to talk about D...

I hate when people hate on thing before they even come out. Even when I do it.

We don't have time to mess around. We've only got 45 more minutes before we lose the light. You only get one take, so don't screw up your lines. Don't worry about the camera. It's just going to be on sticks. We can't afford to move it. That's how it is when you're working on a small budget. Don't worry, this movie will be big despite not having a blockbuster budget. You know why? Because this movi...

Adam steps in this week and explains why trying to talk about statistics on a podcast is a terrible idea. 

Welcome to the Western, pardner. What we gots here is the old cattle barons, gunslingers, and all sorts of rough and tumble folks who helped tame the wild land west of the Mississippi coming up against all the greenhorns from back east coming in with their fences, locomotive trains, and laws with them. Jason, Adam, and Josh talk about when civilization proper begins to encroach on the Wild West of...

Josh discusses his disgust of cliffhangers. He also reveals a deep dark secret, but you’ll have to wait till the end to find out

Time to get up, scumbags! We've got a five mile hike followed by rifle training and then another five mile hike! It's my job to get you wimps prepared for discussing the modern World War II movie! There will be talk of post 1990 films about the greatest war in human history such as The Tuskegee Airmen , Band of Brothers , Greyhound , The Pacific , Enemy at the Gates , Dunkirk , and of course Savin...

TikTok is the terminus of postmodernity. And I don’t like it

Put on your too tight jeans, do up that hair, and get ready to rock! In your living room! The guys go back to the documentary genre for a little slice of the concert film. What separates these movies from other documentaries? Are they their own art form? Did you just take the brown acid? Oh my god! Keep calm! Take deep breaths, and listen to the guys bring you down by talking about Monterey Pop, T...

Josh is out again this week for... reasons. Jason steps in again for a short, not so hateful episode on how Disney is getting lazy.

It's late. The kids have gone to bed. You have the living room to yourselves. The lights are low. You still have a box of wine left. You know what's it time for. That's right. Time to watch some cartoons! We're not talking about that Disney BS with dancing mice. No, the mice here only do the dance of death as they gnaw off people's faces. The guys discuss animated films that are made for more matu...

Aloha, Josh spent 2 days in Hawaii and can’t shake the colloquialisms. Kidding. He hates that. He also hates shows that botch the final episode, retroactively ruining the whole season. Mahalo for listening

Are you trying to hack the Pentagon on an Apple IIe? Are you wearing suspenders with a t-shirt and blazer? Is a Culture Club cassette stuck in your mom's Chevy Caprice Wagon's tape deck? Are your Air Jordans kicked up on the mall food court table? You may be stuck in an 80's teen movie. I mean existentially. You really need to get help. Your hairline is not what it used to be and all those bills a...

The sugars. Brittle and severe. Diabetes is called a lot of different names but rarely shown accurately on film and Josh Hates That

As you sit back in your LazerBoy recliner wearing your Levy jeans and drinking your Dr. Thunder soda, you see by the time on your Rollex watch that it's time to watch a movie. Well, there're only one kind of movie for someone of your caliber. That's the mockbuster. A movie that knows that it doesn't have the budget, cast, marketing, or originality of your big studio A-list titles; but knows that i...

Lots of stuff here. No music this week. Unfortunately, my squeaky office chair makes an appearance. Warning, this ended up more serious than I first intended. Hence, no music. I have no answers to the problems women face behind the scenes. It’s frustrating and heart breaking

You sit in the living room of that old house that you just bought. The door swings open as that old rocking chair squeaks back and forth. Is it all due to that cold draft that you felt chill your bones just a moment ago? Or is it something much worse? An entity of pure dread? At that moment you hear the disembodied laughter echo around you and your heart sinks in the realization that it's Adam and...

Uncle Traveling Josh returns from parts unknown with tales of woe and sorrow. Plus he saw the new Doctor Strange

The earthquake's damaged the nuclear reactor. Its heat is attracting the Killer Horny Toads towards the town. The guys in the Pit decided that since their podcast was a disaster that maybe they should do an episode on disaster films. What are the hallmarks of a disaster film? Why do audiences love them? How much money was Michael Caine's tax bill to cause him to be in so many? The guys talk films...

The Great Miffed Lord Josh is out, so Jason steps in for this week's Hate Box to talk about his most hated movie. A live action adaptation tarnishes his favorite toy line, but is it really that important?

Are you strutting around to the cool groove of a smooth Stevie Wonder track? Cranking out the reps in the gym to some Outcast? Driving cross country to some classic Tom Petty? Or just getting drunk to some Hank Williams? Music informs the moments of our lives, and the movies that we love. The guys in the Pit talk about some of their favorite movie score composers and soundtracks. Somehow Adam, Jas...