The Pod Charles Cinecast

On this Bonus Edition of The Pod Charles Cinecast, Jon & Fil tell Bruce Willis to stop trying to make Bruno happen, as they trudge through his 1991 partially musical comedy-caper HUDSON HAWK. The film boasts an impressive supporting cast with Andie MacDowell, Danny Aiello, Richard E. Grant, Sandra Bernhard and James Coburn; as they all are entangled in a yarn about Bruce Willis being a thief n...

It's been a long time coming... After a couple of years since the original request, the music of the podcast is finally here!  Set your ears to the smooth sounds of The Pod Charles Cinecast from 2019-2022. We're talking all the theme songs, dumb snack time jingles, silly covers, weird season intros, dumb segment sound bites, and weird background music. Sit back and let the music from our very...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas spend the final episode of 2022 trying to figure out if Pandora is a place on Earth. When not adjusting for inflation, James Cameron's sci-fi epic AVATAR is the most successful movie of all-time. Selling nearly $3 billion worth of tickets, it is a film that was seen by just abou...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas are stuck in a game of "Simon Says" after attending the Nakatomi International Podcast Festival 2022 in New York City. It's days before Christmas, bombs are going off all over the city, and a voice from the past forces the boys into a series of degrading events, including nearly...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas accidentally knock the usual Santa off the PCC stage during rehearsals for our annual Muppet Christmas Carol shows. When they went to check on him, his body had vanished and the only thing left was his suit with a card that read, "If something should happen to me, put on my suit...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas finally finish their long journey with George Lucas's Prequel Trilogy... Of course, that means it's STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH , and we're talking about how one of the greatest movie villains of all-time, Darth Vader, put the final touches on his origin story....

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas get sent back to the front, this time tagging alongside a tactical bomb defusing unit in the streets of Baghdad, and find themselves in a tight situation with their reckless squad leader. Now that the spooky season is over, we're back to finish off our WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?...

On this Post-Halloween Spooky Bonus Edition of The Pod Charles Cinecast, hosts Jonathan Foster & Fil Freitas follow a cat to a countryside house, where an older lady lives. All seems well until the woman is revealed to be a ghost-witch or a witch-ghost and her old house intends to devour our fearless hosts... We, of course, are talking the 1977 Japanese fantasy haunted house horror flick HOUSE...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our host Jonathan Foster is joined by writer/director and PCC Staff Member Levi Eddie Aluede, as we discuss Levi's upcoming strand at the Prince Charles Cinema, the QUEER COMMUNAL CINEMA season, and their short film, THE SMELL OF CUT GRASS . In this sort of old school episode, we explore how Levi got into film, found th...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head to the small town of Woodboro where some masked maniac is on the loose terrorizing the local teens. On the way, we accidentally ran over someone, and covered up our tracks, but we were seen by a crazed fisherman. One year later, we realised it was all an elaborate prank mea...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas travel to a small town in Nebraska to take in a local high school's basketball game, where one of the teenage players has been ballin' as a werewolf! It's Week Three of our Halloween mini-arc – VAMPIRES, WITCHES, AND WEREWOLVES, OH MY – and of course, we are talking about the ti...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas take a hike in the woods and discover some old videotapes from some film students who went missing while shooting a documentary about a fabled witch. It's Week Two (Witch Week) of our Halloween mini-arc – VAMPIRES, WITCHES, AND WEREWOLVES, OH MY – and we are talking about the 19...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head to Mexico and find themselves locked up in a bar full of blood-sucking vampires! It's October! So that means it's the return of the Spooky Ookie season on the podcast, and we bring back our Halloween mini-arc – VAMPIRES, WITCHES, AND WEREWOLVES, OH MY! Over the next four we...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas run to the finish line with our final Vietnam film in our WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?... HOLLYWOOD MOVIES arc! What better way to finish off the Vietnam War, than with one of the "best" films about the war, and just in general, of all time? Of course, we're talking about the 1994...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas travel into the Heart of Darkness. Our WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?... HOLLYWOOD MOVIES arc marches on, and we march with it straight into our next era of the arc. We've said goodbye to the simpler times when war seemed black and white, good versus evil, and patriotism was somethin...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas are back on the front and ready to storm the beaches of Normandy for some Camembert and andouillette d'Alençon. It's Week 2 of WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?... HOLLYWOOD MOVIES arc – where we will be talking all things war movies and war adjacent movies. We've done World War I and l...

Due to an emergency with Fil that prevented us from recording Episode 150, there will be no episode of The Pod Charles Cinecast this week. But, you won't be left empty-handed, as Jonathan has a special treat in store for you all... It's the pilot episode for YOUNG SHELDON-VERSE ! Don't miss this informative breakdown on what Jonathan thinks makes this The Big Bang Theory spin-off one of the best s...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas travel to New Zealand to deal with our daddy issues, in Taika Waititi's BOY . It's our second week of taking it easy and talking about our feel good movies, and Jon has picked this incredibly funny, sweet, and at times brutally sad 2010 coming-of-age film for his feel good flick...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas continue on their journey with George Lucas's Prequel Trilogy... Of course, that means it's STAR WARS: EPISODE II - ATTACK OF THE CLONES and we're talking how George Lucas picked up the shattered pieces of his heart, after the fan backlash against The Phantom Menace . How did Lu...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas go searching for dead bodies. In our 3rd Week of the Nepotism aka Children of Men arc, we discuss the iconic coming-of-age tale STAND BY ME , directed by Rob Reiner, son of Carl Reiner. This 1986 film adapted from Stephen King's novella "The Body", starring Wil Wheaton, Corey Fe...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas talk about the increase in teenage pregnancy rates following 2007's JUNO . In Week 2 of Children of Men aka Children of Famous Men aka Nepotism, we discuss the coming-of-age tale directed by Jason Reitman – son of Ivan Reitman. Starring Elliot Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas are finally back! After a month off from podcasting duties, the dynamic duo are here to talk about what was keeping them so busy that they couldn't pick up a microphone, press record, and say, "hi". The real truth is, there were big events going on, and all will be revealed insi...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas, in honour of MAY THE FOURTH, finally voyage to the galaxy far, far away to embark on a new journey with George Lucas's Prequel Trilogy... It's STAR WARS: EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENACE and we're talking how George Lucas found his way back to the franchise with this fourth, but...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas partake in celebrating the finest holiday in April. No, not Easter... It's 420 dude, and we're lighting one up with the 2000 stoner movie DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? . It's finally happening. After someone emailed in about it around two years ago, and our continued utterance of the ph...

On Sunday 3rd April 2022, Writer, Director and Actor Alex Winter aka Bill S. Preston, Esq. joined us live for a special IN CONVERSATION event at The Prince Charles Cinema. We discussed Alex's career from his roots in London to his days spent on Broadway to Bill & Ted, The Lost Boys, Freaked, and beyond into his directing career! Don't miss this incredible interview, that gives insight into the...