The Pod Charles Cinecast

In this first official episode of Season Two of FRANCHI$ED, join hosts Jonathan Foster, Ariane Anantaputri and Fil Freitas as they return from the grave to discuss the OG zombie movie – George A. Romero's seminal 1968 classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD! In this look at the horror classic, learn how Romero and his small crew shocked audiences with their special effects, cast of of the first Black Lea...

Welcome to Season 2 of FRANCHI$ED! In this episode, hosts Jonathan Foster, Ariane Anantaputri, and newcomer this season Fil Freitas take you on a journey with the undead. We're talking Zombies this season and the films that started it all with George A. Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, as well as the rest of Romero's zombie films. Alongside this, we will explore its loose spin-off series RETURN...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas get invited to the mysterious land of Outworld. There they learn that the future of Earth is at stake in an ancient martial arts tournament called MORTAL KOMBAT! You asked for it and we're giving it to you! A wild Anderson has appeared to challenge Wes Anderson and Paul Thomas A...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas travel back to the haute couture world of 1950's London and see about a renowned dressmaker, who takes his work a little too seriously in Paul Thomas Anderson's 8th feature PHANTOM THREAD! Starring Daniel Day-Lewis in his swan song performance and the woman of a thousand faces V...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas find themselves enrolled as Khaki Scouts at Camp Ivanhoe on the New England island of New Penzance. There they witness the great escape of an orphaned fellow scout and get caught up in a storm of biblical proportions. It's Wes Anderson 2012 coming-of-age comedy drama MOONRISE KI...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas find themselves in a hazy daze in 1970s California, as they try to solve the ultimate mystery – What in the hell is going on in Paul Thomas Anderson's 7th feature? Of course, we are talking about PTA's 2014 neo-noir crime comedy INHERENT VICE, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Katherine...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas go back to post-war California and find themselves stowaways upon the ship of a man leading a new spiritual movement called The Cause. We're in Week 10 of our Anderson vs Anderson arc and we're talking Paul Thomas Anderson's 2012 period drama, and not-so subtle riff on scientolo...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas, fresh off of holiday and one member stricken with Covid, take an imaginary trek off the coast of Italy to dive into the depths of the seas in search for the elusive jaguar shark... It's Week 7 of our #AndersonvsAnderson arc and this time to throw on your red caps, lace up your...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas explore the broken bellows of the harmonium that is a 90 minute Paul Thomas Anderson rom-com(?)... It's Week 6 of our #AndersonvsAnderson arc and we're talking Paul Thomas Anderson's 2002 pudding-filled romantic comedy-drama PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE, starring the at-the-time questionabl...

Jonathan and Fil are on holiday this week, so instead of The Pod Charles Cinecast, we've decided to introduce you all to our new show FRANCHISED, where each season we go through a different Hollywood movie franchise, one film at a time. And what better way to start you off, than with the first episode from Season One covering THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS (2001)! Franchised is basically our sister podc...

This week on The NEW Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas enrol in a prestigious prep academy to take lessons in their newly saved Latin programme. Who said Latin was a dead language? It's Week 3 of our new arc #AndersonvsAnderson and we're studying up on Wes Anderson's sophomore feature RUSHMORE! It's both the debut film role of J...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas return to the mean streets of Gotham to break the ice with the king of puns, while trying to avoid letting a beautiful poisonous plant lady come between them! It's Joel Schumacher's 1997 neon-drenched follow-up to Batman Forever – BATMAN & ROBIN! Starring the self-proclaimed...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by the Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan and Fil are headed to Idaho to check in on our favourite dancing nerd and his dysfunctional family. It's the 2004 runaway hit indie comedy NAPOLEON DYNAMITE directed by Jared Hess and starring Jon Heder. It's Tyler, The Creator's favourite film and we decided to see how it holds up after 17 years. So...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by the Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan and Fil are whisked off to the mysterious Skull Island in search of the 8th Wonder of the World King Kong, before heading to Japan to witness the birth of the first kaiju Gojira It's the final instalment of REBOOT MONTH and it's a big one – as we have a Battle of the Strange Beasts! First we cover the...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by the Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan and Fil exorcise the spirits of the podcast with Ivan Reitman's 1984 comedy classic GHOSTBUSTERS starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson! It's the second instalment in our REBOOT MONTH series where we are talking classic films that will see a Sequel, Remake or Reboot in the co...

Remember when the Greatest Basketball Player of All-Time Michael Jordan teamed up with the Greatest Cartoon Character of All-Time Bug Bunny and saved the Looney Tunes from an eternity of slave labour on Moron Mountain, all set to the tunes from the Greatest Soundtrack of All-Time? This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by the Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan and Fil hit the cour...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, hosts Jonathan Foster & Fil Freitas are back to see in the New Year with all that extra holiday weight! After weeks of guilt eating, the pair desperate to get back into shape, look to none other than the 1996 Eddie Murphy comedy classic THE NUTTY PROFESSOR for inspiration. Is there more to this film than a fat suit...

"Put that cookie down, NOW!!" This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by the Prince Charles Cinema, hosts Jonathan Foster & Fil Freitas try to beat the rush of all the Holiday-themed film podcasts with the ultimate Arnold Schwarzenegger holiday classic – 1996's JINGLE ALL THE WAY ! With a supporting cast of Sinbad, Rita Wilson, Phil Hartman and the kid who played Anakin Skywalker in T...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by the Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster & Fil Freitas travel to see why Neo-Tokyo 2019 is about to explode! It's Katsuhiro Ôtomo's 1988 animated cyberpunk masterpiece AKIRA! It's one of the greatest films of all-time and it opened the floodgates to Japanese Anime in the West. Hear the story of how it went from the epic manga to t...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by the Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas find themselves in a dorm at Harvard where a young cyborg posing as a college student is about to invent Facebook : the social network that has torn as many families apart as it has brought together. Worst of all, it killed MySpace and forced all the scene kids to cut their hair...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas make their third (and final???) voyage to a galaxy far, far away to complete the Original Trilogy... It's STAR WARS : RETURN OF THE JEDI and you better believe it's chock full of Ewoks, Sith Lords, and complaints about the unnecessary additions in later releases. "It's A Trap!"...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas unlock a door to another dimension and discover the depths of Twilight Zone : The Movie! When four of the most iconic directors of all-time (Steven Spielberg, John Landis, Joe Dante, George Miller) teamed up to bring Rod Serling's legendary TV Show to the big screen, it should h...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas are joined by PCC Duty Manager and Photography Zinester Dusty Keeney to explore the life and times of Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese's iconic gangster classic GOODFELLAS! We hope it amuses you... If you'd like to support The Prince Charles Cinema during this time, you can do so b...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas venture off to a galaxy far, far away with A New Hope in mind for the future! Along the way they discuss the often requested and impossible to screen 1977 classic Star Wars, directed by George Lucas! May The Force Be With You! If you'd like to support The Prince Charles Cinema d...

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas are joined by the returning Ariane Anantaputri, as the trio travel into the wastelands of MAD MAX : FURY ROAD and come back with stories of dancing penguins! Give a listen and we ourselves will carry you through the gates of Valhalla. You shall ride eternal. Shiny, and chrome! If yo...