The Keep Up Podcast

This week! Tim waited a DECADE to see It Follows! How’s it hold up?? A Quiet Place: Day One may be better than its predecessor, and Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment are currently releasing a Transformers ongoing that is *much* more gripping and darker than you might expect!  We also discuss the Underworld franchise, Little Kitty, Big City, TMNT vs. Street Fighter, and more! 00:15:30 — MOVIES! I...

  This week! Inside Out 2 made Brett cry but is it as good as the first one?! Tim FINALLY watched Underworld: Rise of the Lycans and lets us know if it’s still worth watching after 15 (FIFTEEN!!) years 🙄, and Pinball M is a..spooky pinball game?   We also discuss Tim potentially being scammed, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, Underworld & Underworld: Evolution, and more! 00:32:35 — MOVIES! Inside...

  This week! Tim discovers the pilot for the sci-fi TV classic Stargate SG-1 is surprisingly R-rated! Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga has us wondering what the best prequels are, and we’re getting a Marvel vs. Capcom collection?? How?!  We also discuss Cheez-Its, X-Men ’97, Abigail, and more! 00:10:00 — REFLECTIONS! Guessing what Brett bought at Taco Bell, a poll about the superior Cheez-It 00:23:15 — TV!...

  This week! We’re about halfway through 2024! Time to discuss where we’re at as a podcast/YouTube channel thus far and what our plans might look like for the rest of the year! (Is this a thing we do now?) Don’t worry; we snuck a couple reviews into this one, too! In a Violent Nature is an indie horror movie with a *very* cool concept, and Brett is extremely excited to play a sequel he’s been desp...

  This week! Tim continues his consumption of the Alien franchise with the controversial Alien Resurrection! The Silent Hill team makes some announcements regarding the upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake and we’re feeling a little bit cautious with our excitement, and is Tekken 8 the *perfect* fighting game? We also discuss some other stuff! 00:33:10 — MOVIES! Alien Resurrection 00:43:10 — VIDEO GAMES!...

  This week! Dark Waters is a lot like Erin Brockovich — but is it also awesome? Arcadian has Nicolas Cage *and* cool monsters, Alone in the Dark takes another swing at having an enjoyable game in its history that isn’t over 30 years old, and Cheez-It had a pop-up diner and now it’s GONE! Because POP-UP!  We also discuss Fortnite, Contra: Operation Galuga, the worst buffet Brett’s ever been to, an...

This week! With the addition of Fallout to the pantheon of on-screen video game adaptations, Tim says now is a *very* good time to be a video game fan! First Blood is absolutely not the movie either of us thought it was, and while Remedy Entertainment makes games that are like, the best, there’s one thing that makes them like, the worst.  We also discuss Arnold, Dune: Part Two, and more! 00:17:40...

  This week! Despite what Brett says at the beginning of this episode, it is, in fact, episode #286! *EIGHTY*six! After just over 2 years we finally get the chance to watch the next installment in the Sonic the Hedgehog movie-verse by way of Knuckles on Paramount Plus! Was it worth the wait? Is it everything we wanted it to be?? Is Knuckles even *in* this show?! Although he wasn’t exactly a fan of...

  This week! A trailer just dropped for M. NIght’s upcoming movie, Trap! Batman & Robin is one of the worst and funniest movies ever, and with the addition of “channels”, streaming services are rapidly becoming curiously similar to a little thing some of us remember as…*cable*.   We also discuss modern day TV show release schedules, M. Night's filmography, unexpected spoilers, and more! 00...

  This week! Tim gets nostalgic for DVD special features and discovers that he's a fan of [almost] the entire 'The Omen' franchise, and Brett struggles to get out some kind of thought about Batman movies! We also discuss TMNT and Sonic movie announcements, food challenges, and more! 00:22:35 — MOVIES! Bedazzled on DVD and special features, Batman movies, The First Omen Keep up with The...

  This week! Scott Pilgrim Takes Off gives us a story that we have *not* already seen in 3 different mediums, Time Bandits is a movie about time-traveling dwarves who steal things and is somehow *still* more wacky and whimsical than you’d expect, and Nick de Semlyen’s “The Last Action Heroes” may be the best book about the golden age of actions movies and their stars that will ever be written!  We...

  This week! We have no idea how to say the title, but Tim saw the latest installment of the ever-growing Godzilla & Kong monsterverse! Immaculate might be worth seeing and has a unique approach to promotional ads, and the 2011 hardcover special edition of James O’Barr’s “The Crow” offers some heartbreaking insight to the story behind the cult classic! 🐦‍⬛  We also discuss our YouTube video...

  This week! X-Men ’97 picks up right where the 90s animated classic left off — only somehow better — Madame Web *just* might be as bad as you’ve heard it is, Alan Wake 2 showcases Remedy Entertainment’s *continued* streak of incredibly innovative games, and the numbering system for Marvel’s ongoing Alien comic is a collector’s nightmare!  We also discuss The Blair Witch Project, Dead Space 3, and...

This week! Tim’s hair has too many miles on it, Silent Hill has the best monsters, and in one of the deepest conversations we’ve had on the show in a while, we have a *lot* of discussion points to cover after watching Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV!  We also discuss Dead Space 3, Resident Evil, and more! 00:08:50 — REFLECTIONS! Tim didn’t know “Toxicity” and he’s getting a haircut 00:18:15...

  This week! Over 20 years after it first aired, we revisit Nickelodeon’s classic kids’ gameshow Legends of the Hidden Temple, and Tim decides his theme this week is 90s sports comedies, seeing both Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s Baseketball, and Adam Sandler’s The Waterboy for the *first* time!  We also discuss Akira Toriyama and Dragonball, Anger Management, Leo, Deathstalker, and more! 00:13:51 —...

This week! We’re back with our *longest* episode so far this year and it’s got everything; tragedy, comedy, stories about meeting strangers, smelling video games, a guy in a mask scaring children in a warehouse full of fake candy — *everything*! After having just seen the original for the first time, Tim reacts to the photo reveal of Bill Skarsgård’s Eric Draven in the upcoming reboot of The Crow....

This week! Tim watched 90s classics The Crow and Airheads for the first time and has officially beaten EVERY official Sonic the Hedgehog game *ever* released, and Brett is equal parts stoked and annoyed at Fortnite’s extensive TMNT crossover!  We also discuss I See You, Terrified, Limited Run Games, and more! 00:11:10 — MOVIES! The Crow, I See You, Airheads, Terrified 00:44:10 — VIDEO GAMES! Tim b...

  This week! Super Bowl LVIII happened! Did we watch it? Yeah! Did we also watch movies about Norwegian werewolves and pop music? Yeah! Viking Wolf proves just how valuable good CGI really is, Tim says The Greatest Night in Pop is a documentary *absolutely* worth watching, and Brett says the 2019 thriller, I See You, may be one of the best movies he’s seen in years.  We also discuss the Super Bowl...

  This week! Tim deems Disney’s latest animated feature film Wish to be “ok”! The Hong Kong Massacre is basically like playing in your own action movie with slow motion controls [which is excellent], and Palworld is *not* Pokemon with guns!   We also discuss John Wick, Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, and more! 00:18:55 — MOVIES! Wish, John Wick, Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe 00:39:50...

  This week! The new Ted TV series is a healthy dose of Seth MacFarlane’s signature brand of comedy, Hazbin Hotel is a surprisingly fun animated musical for adults, and Brett can’t believe Sally Face is the creative genius of just one man!  We also discuss streaming services, Tim’s birthday, all-you-can-eat sushi, and more! 00:20:30 — TV! Ted, Hazbin Hotel 00:41:00 — VIDEO GAMES! Sally Face Keep u...

  This week! Beavis and Butt-Head’s return in 2022 was triumphant in both stupidity and hilarity, Rebel Moon’s inspirations may be a bit *too* on-display, and Tim can’t stop listening to “Poppy. Computer”!  We also discuss some 90s pop music, streaming on Twitch, and more! 00:17:20 — TV! Mike Judge’s Beavis & Butt-Head 00:34:00 — MOVIES! Rebel Moon 00:50:25 — MUSIC! Poppy’s “Poppy. Computer” K...

  This week! Tim has started *physically* writing things! A journal? For notes and reviews?! What other surprises might this year hold?! How about this: Tim doesn’t quite *get* The Lost Boys, Con Air reminds Brett why 90s movies kinda rule, Junji Ito’s “Smashed” gets us better acquainted with the renowned artists writing style, and Tim hears Metallica’s full length debut “Kill ‘em All” for the fir...

This week! It’s an extra special long boiiiii as we get into our best and/or favorites of 2023! It was a MASSIVE year for new releases across the board, and we got ourselves caught up on some classics and long-time favorites, too! Enjoy the episode, then do the right thing and let us know on socials what your favorites of 2023 were! 😁 00:24:58 — TV! 00:32:00 — MOVIES!  00:43:35 — VIDEO GAMES! 00:...

  This week! It’s the final episode of the year! While we were apparently too preoccupied with other things to make a holiday special happen this year, we still have a *relatively* Christmas-centric podcast here, for those who are into that kind of thing (but also for those who aren’t!).   Violent Night is bloody to the point of hilarity and shows us what might happened if one of our favorite chil...

  This week! On the heels of Godzilla Minus One, Brett decided to go back to the beginning and watch 1954’s Godzilla! The Crow is so beloved that no one even mentions its imperfections, The Game Awards gave long-time Sega fans a lot to be excited about, and Spider-Man 2 made Tim cry!  We also discuss Ori and the Will of the Wisps, a game shuffling emulator, and more!  00:09:10 — MOVIES! Godzilla (...