The Doofcast

This week on the podcast Scott is joined by fill in host James Gentry and guest Cyndee Daly to talk about the recently ended season 6 of HBO’s Game of Thrones. We’ve got some good things to say, we’ve got some bad things to say, and Scott and Cyndee start yelling at each other as

This week on the Podcast, we attempt to put another film into The Kryptonian Collection! Matt is absent this week so he can go have a baby or something, but council members Scott and Gentry get together to hear arguments from special guest Adrian Torres who has nominated The Coen Brother’s 1987 comedy: Raising Arizona. Is Raising Arizona good enough to get into the collection? Is it really the bes...

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Scott and Matt break into a new genre of film and talk about one of their favorite Documentaries of all time: The Act of Killing. An award winning documentary focusing on the individuals responsible for the 1965-66 Indonesian Genocide. If you haven’t seen this film I urge you

This week on the Podcast Scott and Matt are joined by frequent guest Michael Grubb to launch another recurring series: The World’s Finest. On this series, a topic or theme is selected and each podcast member selects a film that best exemplifies that theme.  This week, in honor of the release of Warcraft, each of

This week on the podcast, Scott and Matt get to together in the next installment of their deconstructing a director series, this time focusing on Neill Blomkamp. In 2009, his first film District 9 was a rousing success and he was heralded as the next big Science Fiction director. 7 years later, after two disappointing

This week on the podcast we are very excited to announce a new regular monthly feature: The Kryptonian Collection , a curated list of the very best movies that the world has to offer. Once a month we will meet on the Podcast to nominate a new movie for entrance into the collection. We will argue its merits and then take a vote at the end of the episode. If the movie receives enough votes, it will...

This week Scott, Matt, and returning guest James Gentry get together to look a the summer slate of movies. Which will be good, which will be bad, and which will bomb? Find out our predictions on episode 34 of The Daly Planet Podcast! News: Michael B Jordan joins the cast of Black Panther Lars Von

This week on the podcast, Scott and Matt are joined by resident superhero hater Daniel Freeman to discuss Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War. This is a spoiler filled conversation, so maybe see the movie first. News: Ben Affleck is now Executive Producer of Justice League Ridley Scott teaming up again with writer Drew Goddard (The

This week on the Podcast we’re all about Marvel! In preparation for Captain America: Civil War and the beginning of Phase 3 Scott and Matt are joined by guests James Gentry and Daniel Freeman to talk about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, why it’s worked so well, and how it’s changed cinema. We also discuss some

This week on the podcast, Scott and Matt are joined by guest Daniel Freeman to celebrate Alien day and discuss the two classic films Alien and Aliens. We talk about how much of an impact these films had on our childhood and why they still work so well today. At the end we decide definitively

This week on the podcast Matt and Scott are joined by resident Game of Thrones expert James Gentry to discuss what we think is going to happen in season 6! Spoilers and speculation abound in this episode, so don’t all bent out of shape if you want something spoiled. As always, we also talk about

This week on the podcast, Scott and Matt get really in depth with one of their favorite directors of all time: Wes Anderson. We go through each one of Wes’ iconic filmography and say “I love this movie” at least 16 times.  We also discuss the latest movie (read: comic book movie) news and talk

This week on the podcast Matt and Scott and special guest Daniel get really, really, really nerdy. We reminisce about the original Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game EverQuest, discuss the modern landscape of video games and MMOs, and talk about none of us really have time to play games anymore. If you’ve ever played any

This week on the podcast Scott and Matt are joined once again by special guest to discuss Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. There are spoilers for this movie which are clearly announced about halfway through this episode, so be warned! We also discuss current news items and give our recommendations for the week! Please

This week on the podcast, Scott and Matt and special guest James Gentry talk all about Television. They discuss the current state of TV, the ever changing landscape, and their favorite shows right now and of all time. From NBC to Netflix, OJ to Superheroes, if you like TV, this podcast has it all. We

This week, recurring guest Michael Grubb takes over the podcast and forces Scott to watch the anime series Death Note. 25 episodes ago, Scott expressed his extreme distaste of the genre of cinema, so naturally he agreed to spend 8 hours watching 26 episodes of it. Did Death Note change his mind about anime? Find

This week on the podcast Scott brings his serious problems with the universally loved Forrest Gump and tries to convince Matt that he is right and the rest of the world is wrong. Before you get all angry at us, take some time to listen to the podcast and realize that Scott’s arguments aren’t about

This week on the podcast, Matt and Scott are joined once again by Cyndee to wrap up our discussion of Fates And Furies by Lauren Groff. I think we all ended up liking this book way more than we thought we would after our discussion last time. Come check out why! We also discuss the

This week on the podcast, Matt and Scott are joined once again by special guest James Gentry to discuss the Academy Awards. It turns out only Scott has seen all these movies, so he gives his picks for the top 6 categories and the gang discusses the Oscars as a whole. We also each give

This week on the podcast, Matt and Scott are joined by returning guest James Gentry to honor the resounding success of Deadpool by discussing the Marvel films not owned by Marvel Studios. This means we get to discuss all the X-Men films, the failure of Fantastic Four, the greatness that is Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, and the

This week on the podcast team book club is back to discuss the first half of the novel Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff. Scott and Matt are joined by our resident novel expert, Cyndee and we dive deep into our opinions and thoughts on what has so far been a fascinating novel. Also, Scott

On this week’s podcast Matt and Scott celebrate the release of The Coen Brother’s new comedy Hail, Caesar! by discussing some of the duo’s most iconic comedies. We talk the brilliance of Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and Burn After Reading. We also discuss some latest news items including The DC Universe Batman

This week on the podcast, Scott and Matt, both recovering from an illness are joined by special guest Melissa Daly to discuss The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. We talk about the films, their problems, the impossibility of adapting the books, and the legacy the story has created. Come listen to a couple of guys

This week on The Daly Planet Podcast, a double length two hour episode where we dive deep into the filmography of the second greatest living director, Quentin Tarantino. Scott and Matt are joined by special guest Michael Grubb to discuss the movies we love, those we didn’t like so much, and what’s next for the

On this week’s episode of The Daly Planet Podcast, Scott is frustrated and confused by the critical and commercial success of Alejandro Innaritu’s last two films: Birdman and The Revenant. Join Scott and Matt as we dive deep into these movies try to figure out just what the hell they’re about and why people seem