The Talking Back Podcast

This week on Talking Back we're reviewing the first 6 issues from the 2014 Moon Knight comic book run!! This run is a great collection of anthology stories about one of Marvel's most underrated characters. The storylines, art, and colours, were all extremely well done, imaginative, and most of all fun! Whether you know a lot about Moon Knight or nothing at all, this series is a winner! We hope you...

This week on Talking Back we practice our jumping round house kick with the cult classic "Bloodsport"!! This marks our first movie from action mega star Jean Claude Van Damme but it definitely won't be our last. What Bloodsport lacks in quality it makes up for with pure fun. Join us as we walk through the film touching on all the fun and not so fun parts.  We hope you enjoy our review of Bloodspor...

This week on Talking Back we continue our franchise walkthrough of Star Wars with Revenge of the Sith!! Another polarizing movie in the franchise, Revenge of the Sith seems to be equally loved and hated. We fall in the loved column. With Anakin's fall to the Dark Side playing out before our eyes this movie pays off many plot lines that have been set up in the previous movies. It also delivers some...

This week on Talking Back we're discussing Batman and Robin from 1997 with our special guest Christo! Batman and Robin is a movie co-host Tim said would never make it onto Talking Back, so what went wrong? Tune in to find out! Regardless of the quality of the movie we had an absolute blast this week chatting with Christo, our buddy from across the Ocean, about the film. Whether you like it or hate...

This week on Talking Back we're covering the movie The Punisher from 1989! It's one of the earliest comic book movies ever made, and a fantastic example of plucking a character right out of the comics and into a movie. It's the earliest, and in our opinion the best version of this character onscreen!  Join us as we go from the sewers to the penthouse and walk through this gritty take of a beloved...

This week on Talking Back we're digging into Superman 2! We really enjoyed covering the original Superman and wanted to continue with the franchise, so here we are! This movie was a real treat to re-visit! It's aged extremely well and gave us everything we were hoping for out of a sequel. Join us as we walkthrough Superman 2 and relive all the fun it has to offer! If you'd like to unlock bonus epi...

This week on Talking Back we continue our franchise walk through of Star Wars with Episode 2 - Attack of the Clones!! Many people feel this movie is one of the weakest entries in the franchise, they might be right but we still think it's a really good movie! Joining us as a guest for this walkthrough is our brother in podcasting Corey Stevenson! Corey's a huge Star Wars fan, and he chose Attack of...

This week on Talking Back we're giving you another 4-Pack episode, this time on the topic of Batman!! That's right Movies, Comics, Video Games, and More all in the same episode! We'll be discussing all of the topics below: Movie: Batman Forever Comic: Detective Comics #439 - "Night of the Stalker" Video Games: Batman (NES) and Batman Returns (Super NES) More: Batman 66' - Season 1 Episode 1 - "Hi...

This week on Talking Back we're digging back into Deadly Class! We've been walking through this comic book series for a while and this week we bring you Volume 8! We're excited to get back into this comic because of it's excellent story, it's amazing characters, all of the beautiful art, and the well thought out themes that it brings! We hope you enjoy this weeks episode Deadly Class Volume 8! If...

This week on Talking Back we cover our second consecutive film from director Tony Scott with his memorable action, drama, spy-thriller, "Spy Game"!!  If you're a fan of spy movies make sure that you've seen this one! This movie has great performances from leads Robert Redford, and Brad Pitt, it has a really fun and intelligent story, and is a real gritty take on the spy genre.  We hope you enjoy t...

This week we're covering one of the movies that came up in our recent Top Ten Saturday Afternoon movies episode, the Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, and Rosario Dawson action/drama "Unstoppable"!! Directed by Tony Scott, this movie delivers a fast paced, and fun story of a run-away train. Join us as we walk through the film touching on our likes, and dislikes, and try to figure out how this "based...

This week on Talking Back we're finally covering our first Star Wars film! It took us a while but we're very excited to finally be covering this franchise that we love so much.  Join us as we walk through the first entry in this mega story "The Phantom Menace". We talk story, characters, lore, battles, rumours, theories and more! If you're a fan of Star Wars you won't want to miss this episode.  I...

This week we're doing something a bit different to end off the year, we're creating a top ten list of our favourite "Saturday afternoon movies".  If you've listen to the show before you've probably heard us talk about Saturday afternoon movies, those movies you're happy to see come on TV when you're lying on the couch with nothing to do.  We bring twenty movies to the table and sift through until...

This week on Talking Back, the Star Trek Crew are back together in studio to bring you a classic episode of Star Trek TNG called Tapestry! Turns out this episode is actually a Christmas episode, and might even be the only Christmas episode ever released for any Star Trek franchise!  Join us as we discuss this excellent episode that takes a page out of Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol", and give...

This week on Talking Back it's a true Christmas classic and perfect follow up to last weeks episode as we cover Batman Returns! This movie is quite the follow up to Batman. Nobody was expecting what Tim Burton delivered with this film. Burton agreed to direct Batman Returns under the one condition that he have complete creative control. What came from that is one extremely unique, weird, and excel...

This week on Talking Back we're starting off December the right way, and that's with Tim Burton's 1989 mega-blockbuster, comic book adaptation of Batman! This movie has so many great things going on. You've got a great story, a great cast, great music, great performances, it's weird, it's dark, it's quirky, it's fun, it's amazing!  Join us as we dig into this classic movie, break down the ins and...

Today on a very special bonus episode, we're having our second ever BFOP Network Roundtable discussion! This time round we're chatting about the recently released "Ghostbusters Afterlife"!! We had an absolute blast watching, and discussing this movie with our pals in the network! Same as our roundtable discussion on Mortal Kombat, there are some who liked this movie, and some who didn't. As you mi...

This week on Talking Back we thought it would be a good idea to preface our walkthrough of the gigantic franchise that is Star Wars, with a warm-up episode! Essentially, we want to do some Star Wars stretching before the heavy lifting begins! We feel it's important to let you know where we stand with this franchise, our likes, dislikes, favourite and least favourite characters. Some of the things...

This week on Talking Back its Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier!! We continue on with the joy that is the Star Trek Movie franchise. So far we've had a blast with these movies, and as it turns out The Final Frontier is no different. While it's not your traditional Sci-Fi movie, it's still jam packed with fun!  Join us as we walk through the movie and talk about all the wild scenes this movie has to...

This week on Talking Back we're completing our review of the original Matrix trilogy with the third and final entry "Revolutions"!! As huge fans of the Matrix series we're really excited to get to "Revolutions" and the end of this incredible story. With so many different plot lines to close up, the movie doesn't stop delivering cool and interesting twists and turns from start to finish.  Join us a...

Please enjoy this bonus "New Release" episode where we review Denis Villeneuve's DUNE. "New Release" is an upcoming series from Talking Back where we'll be covering newly released content in the world of Movies, Comics, Video Games, and More! This series will be available exclusively on Patreon.  Please support us by leaving a 5 star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Drop us a line on Social Me...

This week on Talking Back we're digging into one of the best console games ever, the timeless classic Super Mario World!! A groundbreaking title in 1990, this game still holds up today! Super Mario World took the best pieces of the three Super Mario Bros. titles that led up to it, then added an incredible soundtrack, and level design that far surpassed its day. Whether you played this game back wh...

Please enjoy this Bonus Episode of a new Monthly Wrap-Up Series that will soon be released exclusively on Patreon.  You can also support us by leaving a 5 star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Drop us a line on Social Media at Instagram , Twitter , and Facebook This podcast is part of the BFOP Network  

This week on Talking Back we're trying something new. We like to talk about Movies, Comics, Video Games, and More, and today we've decided to talk about all 4 in a single episode! That's right we've got content from each of those categories lined up for you and our theme is Spider-Man! We're going big by discussing all 4 of the topics below: Movie: Spider-Man 1 (Sam Raimi) Comic: What If Spider-Ma...

Today on a very special Halloween bonus episode, we're continuing with our tradition of Universal Monsters movies as we review the 1931 classic "Frankenstein"!! This movie is a true work of art, a timeless classic, and must have rocked peoples worlds back in the day! Join us for all of our usual Halloween high jinx as we crawl out of our graves, drink from our goblets of blood, hear strange noises...