The Movie Defenders

We're back and it's time to defend our first listener request film: Reign of Fire!  But before we dive into our discussion we talk about a LOT of Star Wars!  This week brought tons of news out of Lucasfilm, and we dive into all of it.  We play and discuss the new trailer for Solo, and talk about the new movies and TV shows that Lucasfilm has in store.  We also talk about how some Star Wars are rea...

It's time to review the best in movies for 2017 in a show like no other: the First Annual Defender Awards!  Join us as we show the Oscars how it's done as we each run through our Top 10 movies of the year, and then dive into our individual awards.  We talk Best Actor, Best Director, Best Score, Best Picture and many others.  Don't worry, we aren't the stuffy Oscars with a token foreign film and ev...

This time the Movie Defenders defend the first major motion picture distributed by a streaming service... David Ayer's film, Bright.  The movie shows the vast chasm of opinion that exists with the movie, as critics are panning it, but fans are raving about it.  With 11 million views in the first few days, Netflix did something right.  And with Bright 2 already green-lit, this is just the beginning...

It's time for the show we never thought we would have to do... come to the defense of a Star Wars film, not from critics, but from Star Wars fans themselves.  In this special episode of The Movie Defenders we dive into all the things being said about The Last Jedi.  Mostly those from the fans that feel the film was sub par.  Helping us do so, is a great listener who wrote a fantastic letter to us...

This is truly a landmark show!  Not only do we get to review the first Star Wars movie to hit theaters since our show's inception, but we also get to have our first guest-hosts join us!  The Last Jedi is out and we get to dive in head first!  We talk about our impressions of the movie while our emotions are raw and talk about all there is to love about the film.  Then, helping us celebrate, we bri...

Well, we were right and despite a 85% score rating from fans, the Justice League is being panned, predictably, by critics.  Several months ago when we started this show we knew this movie was going to need defending, and even last show we predicted what the critics would say.  Sadly, we were right about all of it.  Justice League was a wildly fun, entertaining movie that dialed our clocks back.  A...

Join us for our first show discussing a film that is currently in theaters as we discuss the fantastic world of Thor: Ragnarok!  (Spoiler alert!) We start by talking about the latest news and theories from the Star Wars world (including a new lightsaber for Rey?) and the amazing Black Panther trailer and its significance.  We then dive into how much fun the third Thor film is and talk about if it...

Star Wars is on the way this December!  To prepare, we tackle and settle once and for all: Was Episode 7 - The Force Awakens a direct COPY of Episode 4 - A New Hope?  We analyze, break down both films, the characters, the settings, and the plot and get to an answer.  We also walk through all the popular criticisms from the Star Wars fan base towards the movie and analyze how valid they really are....

Our discussion of maybe the most fun DCEU movie out to date continues with part 2.  We dive into the movie itself and examine the love story between Harley Quinn and the Joker, we examine Will Smith's Deadshot, and talk about how every character was extremely comic-accurate.  We discuss the common complaints about the movie and work to dis-prove them or at least mitigate them with analysis.  This...

It's time to bust out the shields again and defend yet another DC film that for some crazy reason was dragged through the mud by critics: Suicide Squad!  We begin by talking about some fun news about Richard Donner's 1978 Superman film, and then roll into our main discussion of the film.  In this part we talk about the overall critics' views about the film and the great casting choices that were m...

Our discussion about Batman v Superman continues as we dive into the movie and the climactic and defining moments.  We address all the critics' complaints about the movie using clips from scenes, analysis, and comparison to other films in the genre.  (It's not that unlike the Marvel films if you look at it.)  We also take on the most hated, ridiculed, and teased moments of the film, "Martha".  We...

In this episode we tackle what is arguably the most crapped on movie in the last decade, Batman v Superman!  We analyze all sorts of different parts of the film and address all the major criticisms that have poured out all over the internet since the film was even announced.  The movie was behind the 8-ball from the announcement, and we look at why that's been no different than any Batman film eve...

The news is out and J.J. Abrams has been tapped to write and direct Star Wars: Episode IX!  The news has broken the internet today and the Defenders talk about what it all means.  We break down our opinion and a lot of the venom that's floating around the internet in the wake of the news.  We talk about what the people who hate this move say, and we even analyze J.J.'s direct response to that crit...

It's our first non-Star Wars episode where we defend one of the best superhero movies ever made, but one that is commonly ripped to shreds by critics and internet haters... Zack Snyder's Man of Steel.  We use audio from several scenes and take a deep dive into Superman's first truly modern film and show that it's not that much unlike Richard Donner's 1978 masterpiece.  While Man of Steel looks muc...

In our 3rd episode we tackle the last of the Star Wars prequels and bring our discussion of the oft-hated Star Wars trilogy in for a landing.  This episode concludes over 7 hours of discussion defending the prequels.  We do it with humor and acknowledge when things might be a bit off, but we celebrate and discuss the "why" behind the things George Lucas did and give you a new way to look at the mo...

Our 2nd episode of our new podcast!  This time we continue our discussion of the Star Wars Prequels as we dive into Episode 2 - Attack of the Clones.  We talk about all the amazing parts of this movie like the incredible special effects, great casting and acting (Yes folks, we can explain and defend Hayden Christensen), memorable moments, and that amazing story that George Lucas penned.  We even t...

Welcome to a brand new podcast celebrating movies and not crapping all over them!  In this episode we do a complete break down and defense of the most bashed movie in the history of Hollywood, Star Wars Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace.  We break down the big news of Ron Howard taking over directing the Han Solo Anthology film, and then get into defending The Phantom Menace.  We talk about all aspec...