The Pod Charles Cinecast

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas discover the dangers of artificial intelligence, while attending the Nakatomi International Podcast Festival 2023 in New Jersey. With Christmas just days away, the pair find themselves stuck in traffic, and a familiar voice from the past threatens to take over the podcast using...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas start knocking off local shopping malls, using Fil's Santa outfit from the cinema. The pair pose as a surly Santa and his oversized Elf, who by day try to stay sober enough to ask the kids what they want for Christmas, and by night rob the stores blind. It's the final week of NA...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas pull out all the Halloween decorations from the basement of the cinema, and plaster them all over the place to confuse the jolly cinema goers coming in for their Christmas cheer. It's week two of NAUGHTY or NICE , and our Patreon backers were given the choice between two films f...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas take a trip to Wall Street in New York and witness two men bankrupt two old racist, rich bastards who made a $1 bet to see if they swapped these two guy's lives around if nature or nurture would prevail. At the end of the day, it was just so good to watch two rich guys become br...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head to Calgary, Alberta, Canada to pay respects to the legendary Hart wrestling family, and stumble upon a group of Jamaican's training to be Olympic Bobsleighers. We take another dip in 1993 – The Filaversary – with John Turteltaub's sports comedy, COOL RUNNINGS, starring John...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas celebrate Thanksgiving with the spookiest family around, THE ADDAMS FAMILY ! Join us, in this special Thanksgiving episode, where we not only dip into the Filaversary, with one of the best Thanksgiving films of all-time, ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES (1993), but because we've never talke...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas hit the icy town of Wabasha, Minnesota, where two men have been fighting for decades over a girl. After years of trading insults, jabs, and pulling pranks on each other, they were left to be nothing by GRUMPY OLD MEN . With us nearly at American Thanksgiving, we've decided to di...

In this bonus edition of The Pod Charles Cinecast, we are back in the world of SHYAMALAMANIA , where we are charting the films of M. Night Shyamalan in special Patreon exclusive episodes over at patreon.com/thepccpodcast – We've unleashed episode to the main timeline, as we decided against doing The X-Files movie, but still wanted to give you some fun "I Want To Believe" spookiness! Join hosts Jon...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas travel to the woods of Arizona, where they witness a lumberjack get abducted by a UFO. The boys are framed for murder when they attempt to report the incident to local police, but are cleared of the crime when the lumberjack returns five days later with a wild tale of intergalac...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas are having a nice Thanksgiving dinner when all of a sudden they see a bright flash of light, and the power goes out. They go outside to investigate, and to their surprise, they witness three aliens outside a spaceship performing a cattle mutilation. When they try to get them to...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas see a UFO and start having visions of a large hill with a flat top, leaving them to wonder what it all means. When they finally see the structure in the news on TV, they race to Devil's Tower in Wyoming to get answers! With the Spooky Ooky season upon us, we decided to shake up...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas take a trip to Thailand, only to be given a mysterious map to a mythical beach, on an island unspoiled by tourists. They decide to take on this adventure, and arrive to the beach to find a group of international travellers and hippies living out their best Lord of the Flies scen...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas get in a car wreck, and decide to off themselves. Not before leaving their minds to be cryogenically frozen and set to lucid dream mode for 150 years. It's WEEK 3 of 2 THOUGHTS 2 DEEP TOO : TOKYO DRIFT , and we are scratching our heads to Cameron Crowe's 2001 follow-up to Almost...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas are fresh out of prison and faced with a new dilemma – Jonathan can't quite remember what happened in jail, or pretty much any aspect of his life. With the help of Fil, he scours his memories for clues... We're bringing the old gimmick back – It's Week 1 of our returning mini-ar...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas are tasked with finishing out their prison sentence at the hardest place to ever do time... The Rock! It's the final episode of our BREAKING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW crime arc, and we end things with a good ol' fashioned jailbreak, with Don Siegel's 1979 prison thriller, ESCAPE...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas get transferred to Gateway Prison, where they witness the evil warden subjecting a fellow inmate to some hard time because he previously broke out of another prison under his watch, which resulted in him being forced to run this horrible prison... or something... It's the penult...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas try breaking out of prison using a crop duster, just like Eddie Murphy attempted to do in LIFE (1999) . This week in the prison section of our BREAKING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW arc, we take it easy after the big mamma-jamma excursion into Shawshank Penitentiary, and have a look...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas attempt to break out of prison using a small rock hammer, after seeing Tim Robbins do it in THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION . We've entered the final portion of our BREAKING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW arc, the Prison Movie section! And we kick off the festivities with the film that is o...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas hit the courthouse for the final time, to sit in on a divorce case where it turns out one of the scummy lawyers can't tell a lie because of a birthday wish his son made. It's the last week of Courtroom section of our BREAKING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW arc, and we are talking the...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas once again find themselves in Alabama, where they watch a rookie lawyer try to win his first case – which just so happens to be a murder case, where his defendants will be executed should he lose. No pressure... We're in Week 3 of the Courtroom section of our BREAKING THE LAW, B...

On this special Bonus Episode of The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas reignite the rivalry, and once again ask the ultimate question, "Are you an Anderson Guy, or an Anderson Guy?" That's right! With a new Wes Anderson film now out, Anderson vs. Anderson is back, with the 11th feature from the visionary director – ASTEROID CITY...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas finally get put on trial for all their misdeeds to the art of podcasting over the last few years, and their fates are put in the hands of... 12 ANGRY MEN . Now that our crime wave is in the books, in our BREAKING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW arc, we are moving on to our second part...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas return to Los Angeles for another round of bank heists and get caught up in a dangerous game of cat and mouse, where a loose cannon cop will stop at nothing to catch his criminal; and a serial killer gets tossed into the mix to make things interesting. It's the final episode of...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas hit the beach in Southern California, where they try their hand at surfing and make friends with a surfer who is secretly undercover as a cop looking for a group of bank robbers that he suspects are fellow beach bums. It's our third week of BREAKING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW cri...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas try out the office job life, and must contend with annoying colleagues, terrible bosses, monotonous work and those damn TPS reports! It's Week 2 of BREAKING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW crime season, and this week we are taking it easy with the 1999 low-key workplace crime comedy,...