The Pod Charles Cinecast

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head to New York in the 70s to witness a stand-off between armed robbers and police, as a bank robbery has escalated into a hostage situation. It's a brand-new arc to see us through the summer – BREAKING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW – where we will be going through three stages of...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas are back in the cinema recording an episode together for the first time since before the pandemic. To mark the occasion, they are joined by long-time projectionist, Dan Walden. With the last few weeks spent having a look at cinema-based movies, where some projectionist or showma...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head to Key West, Florida during the Cuban Missile Crisis, where a show-boating B-movie Producer comes to town to cash in the fears of imminent nuclear disaster amongst the townsfolk with his latest sci-fi horror film, MANT . We've got one last date (for now) with the Filaversar...

What do you know!? FRANCHI$ED is back (sort of)! Jonathan & Ariane return to the driver seat to get back to their roots with the franchise that started it all, The Fast Saga (are they still calling it that?). Of course, we are talking about the new instalment of the super spy car racing series, FAST X . After going to space in the last film, you might wonder how the series could top itself? We...

In this bonus edition of The Pod Charles Cinecast, we see the next adventure in our two new side ventures – BRUCE WILLS US: A Pod Charles Cinecast Brucie Bonus, where we're going to be looking at some of our favourite films from Bruce Willis every once in a while on the main timeline, and SHYAMALAMANIA , where we will be charting the films of M. Night Shyamalan in special Patreon exclusives. Like...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head to New York City, where a kid gets his hands on a magical cinema ticket that allows him to jump into his favourite movies. Just when we thought the Filaversary arc was over, and we could move on to some films about cinemas in film, we got pulled back in with the 1993 meta-a...

On this Bonus Edition of The Pod Charles Cinecast, hosts Jonathan Foster & Fil Freitas decided to make a movie about making a movie. It all gets meta, as we talk about Aaron Schimberg's 2019 surrealistic drama, CHAINED FOR LIFE . Starring Jess Weixler and Under The Skin's Adam Pearson, the film takes you down the rabbit hole, as it follows a beautiful actress who develops a relationship with h...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head to San Francisco, where a marriage has broken down, and the father is so desperate to see his kids, that he resorts to going full drag as the geriatric nanny to spend time with them. What could go wrong? The final stop in the Filaversary arc (for now) takes us to the #2 top...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas stumble upon a game of cat and mouse, when a man who is wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife is being hunted down by a federal agent. The Filaversary arc takes us to the #3 top-earning film of 1993, with THE FUGITIVE , starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. With a ten...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas take up an apprenticeship with a couple of Brooklyn plumbers, who have a penchant for taking shrooms and climbing in sewers. But things get a bit trippy when they get us all sucked into another dimension, where the inhabitants are the descendants of dinosaurs. With the brand-new...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head to Austin, Texas in 1976, where a group of teens are getting rowdy because "School's Out For Summer!" It's a special 4/20 edition of the Filaversary arc, as we talk Richard Linklater's seminal 1993 coming-of-age film, DAZED AND CONFUSED . It's the ultimate hangout movie fea...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas travel to 1870s New York, where we meet a wealthy dandy who is engaged to be married to a respectable woman, but finds himself falling for her unconventional cousin. We take the Filaversary arc on a journey through time to the gilded age with Martin Scorsese's 1993 adaptation of...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas watch as a little boy makes his geriatric neighbour's life miserable and thwarts a creepy robber, in classic comic strip come to life with the Home Alone finishing spray. Next up, in the Filaversary arc, is the 1993 family comedy DENNIS THE MENACE , starring Mason Gamble (you kn...

In this bonus edition of The Pod Charles Cinecast, we are finally kicking off two new side ventures – BRUCE WILLS US: A Pod Charles Cinecast Brucie Bonus, where we're going to be looking at some of our favourite films from Bruce Willis once a month on the main timeline, and SHYAMALAMANIA , where we will be charting the films of M. Night Shyamalan in special Patreon exclusives. As an introductory,...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head to the Bronx in the 1960s to hear a tale about a young man choosing between the grind of a working man or the living the high life as a slick gangster. Guess what we learned? The working man is a sucker, and Mickey Mantle ain't gonna pay your rent! Next up in the Filaversar...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas travel to Los Angeles in the year 2032, where society has been purged of violence. However, a criminal who was cryogenically frozen in 1996 has been revived, and is wrecking havoc on the city, and the only man that can stop him is... the DEMOLITION MAN ! Next up in the Filaversa...

On this Bonus Edition of The Pod Charles Cinecast, hosts Jonathan Foster & Fil Freitas enlist in the Royal Hong Kong Police to take down a drug syndicate, and end up getting thrown through over 300kg of glass, level a whole village, and destroy a shopping mall. It's high time we talk about Jackie Chan's legendary POLICE STORY . Released in 1985 by Golden Harvest, the film would start to put th...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas get invited to an exotic island theme park, where an eccentric billionaire has decided to play God, and clone Dinosaurs! With our boy Fil's big 30th coming up later this year, we're going to begin a new arc that will be with us off and on throughout the year of 2023, called FILA...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas enter into a Faustian pact with the Devil to sell our souls in exchange for seven wishes, resulting in a wacky Monkey's Paw situation where all of our wishes are sabotaged by the diabolical demon. It's the final week of our Brenaissance Mini-Arc – and we are taking a look at one...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas go searching for lost treasure inside a pyramid in Egypt, only to accidentally wake a mummy, and thus, unleash a curse on humanity... It's Week 3 of our Brenaissance Mini-Arc – where we are at the apex of Brendan Fraser's career, looking at one of his most iconic roles – Rick O'...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas try to get a show on the radio, but when the station manager denies them, they resort to taking the place hostage! We're in Week 2 of our Brenaissance Mini-Arc – this time looking back on the 1994 rock-comedy, AIRHEADS . Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, and Adam Sandler star as th...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas decide to dig a pool in the backyard and stumble across a two-million-year-old cave man from the first Ice Age. In hopes that this pre-historic find would bring them fame and fortune, the pair concoct a scheme to pass the Cro-Magnon man as a popcorn-slinging usher at The Prince...

Today on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas venture to Gobblers Knob but awaken to find ourselves stuck in a time loop on GROUNDHOG DAY ! Catch all the love and lore we can give for this Bill Murray starring and Harold Ramis directed classic, which celebrates its 30th Anniversary this year! If you enjoy the podcast, leave a Ratin...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas are back from their holiday break and decided to have a little catch-up on all the Best Films of 2022! We put out a call to our Patreon subscribers to have them rank their Top 10 films from last year, and in this Mamma Jamma of an episode have compiled all the rankings into a de...

Jon and Fil are still on holiday break, so in their absence comes an episode released from the vaults of Patreon. It is one of the most vile and disturbing episodes we've ever done. It should have remained behind the paywall, but now this disgusting episode is here to fart, snot and puke its way into your ears and right through your brains... From out of the Garbage Pail and straight back into the...