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The Matrix Reloaded
Our Matrix commentary series continues with 2003's The Matrix Reloaded! Topics include: Merovingian origin theories, the squib arts, Night Court, SERAPH BEING A LOGIN SCREEN.Movie starts at...12:22
2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 1 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT
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MARCH MADNESS 2022 - DAY 20
RIP Groucho, Harpo, Zeppo, Chico, Gummo, Griffo, Simso, and Benno. Monty Python lives on to see another day!The theme of today's matchup is one of underdogs (Rocky from Philly, Dorothy from Kansas) prevailing against insurmountable foes (Clubber Lang, the Soviet Union, Wicked Witches)...It's ROCKY vs OZ.With Ro...
The Evil Dead
Itโs Sam Raimi time - groovy! Our new series PODCAST ME TO HELL kicks off with a banger - 1981โs ultra-low-budget horror classic โThe Evil Deadโ. Weโll be taking you back to Royal Oak, Michigan, to explain how Raimi linked up with Bruce Campbell and the Coen Brothers, thus establishing a very consequential pa...
MARCH MADNESS 2022 - DAY 19
An excellent day for an exorcism indeed - Pazuzu moves on to the next round!Up today - two legendary comedy groups:It's MONTY PYTHON vs. THE MARX BROTHERSA guaranteed good time no matter what.With Monty Python, you'd get: 4 movies: AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, HOLY GRAIL, LIFE OF BRIAN, and THE M...
MARCH MADNESS 2022 - DAY 18
In a NAILBITER, Bond wins yesterday's matchup! What is it with Roger Moore and these close results??? FIVE VOTES. Madness!!Up today - "It's Alive!!" vs "Your mother sucks cocks in Hell!":It's FRANKENSTEIN vs THE EXORCIST.With a FRANKENSTEIN series you get: Five movies Griffin's grand the...
MARCH MADNESS 2022 - DAY 17
(in the Koyaanisqatsi drone voice) IT'S THE SWEET SIX-TEEN...Here's an updated bracket previewing the matches we'll see in this round:Up today - the Roger Moore Bonds vs Jackie Chan's Police Story.With Roger Moore, we get: Seven movies Lots of hot Bond girls Space Bond Paul McCartney singing "Live a...
MARCH MADNESS 2022 - DAY 16
The Blankies have unequivocally placed their votes in favor of FLIRTING - Rock Hudson and Doris Day move on!Up today, it's the battle of the Criterion Box Sets...Godfrey Reggio's QATSI TRILOGY vs Satyajit Ray's APU TRILOGY.The QATSI TRILOGY are three non-narrative experimental films about the relationship b...
MARCH MADNESS 2022 - DAY 15
Can't believe you all let THE FLY die on David Cronenberg's birthday OF ALL DAYS. Shark wins!Up today - some light comedy.It's OH, GOD! vs the collaborations of ROCK HUDSON & DORIS DAY:Two hunks (Rock Hudson, George Burns) paired with two adorable blondes (Doris Day, John Denver)...what more could you want?...
MARCH MADNESS 2022 - DAY 14
Shaft just got shafted - Robocop moves on to the next round!Up today - terrifying creatures of the silver screen!It's JAWS vs THE FLY.Just two cool dudes hanging out with their buddies.With a JAWS series, you'd get:JAWS (1975) - what if there was a shark?JAWS 2 (1978) - what if there was another shark?JAWS 3D (...
MARCH MADNESS 2013 - Day 13
APES TOGETHER STRONG! APES ON TO NEXT ROUND!Okay, up next - we've got a cop who is also a robot going up against a private detective who is also a bad mother-shut-your-mouth.It's ROBOCOP vs SHAFT.With ROBOCOP, we get:ROBOCOP (1987)ROBOCOP 2 (1990)ROBOCOP 3 (1993)ROBOCOP (2014)With SHAFT, we get:SHAFT (1971)SHAF...
The Seventh Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid
Itโs Hollywoodโs biggest night - thatโs right, itโs the Seventh Annual Blankies! โThis Had Oscar Buzzโ host Joe Reid joins us as always to celebrate our favorite films of 2021. Will Griffin award something weird this year? Is anyone going to stump for Being The Ricardos? What crazy categories will Ben come ...
MARCH MADNESS 2022 - DAY 12
Another win for OJ Simpson - THE NAKED GUN moves on to the next round!Up today - two series that we've wanted to cover for quite some time. They're landmark franchises, have been rebooted several times, and are still a part of popular culture.It's SUPERMAN vs PLANET OF THE APES.With Superman, we'd cover...
MARCH MADNESS 2022 - DAY 11
Over at Blank Check HQ, we're pleasantly surprised that PSYCHO and Norman Bates live on to see another day!Up today, we have another franchise that time has forgotten...up against a franchise that was VERY of its time:It's AIRPORT vs THE NAKED GUN.AIRPORT was a movie that took a bunch of aging Hollywood stars a...
Top of the Lake: China Girl with Alan Sepinwall
TV critic and literal saint, Alan Sepinwall, joins BC: SF as we close out our Campion mini series for a discussion on all 6 unpleasant hours of Top of the Lake season 2. Unfortunately, the character Alexander "Puss" Braun is mentioned several times! Other than covering the many fundamental issues and overall di...
MARCH MADNESS 2022 - DAY 10
Ennio Morricone's "The Ecstasy of Gold" plays in the background as THE DOLLARS TRILOGY moves on to the next round!Up today - two *massively* important and influential slasher films and their resulting franchises...A killer who dresses up as William Shatner vs a killer who dresses up as his own mother...It&#...
MARCH MADNESS 2022 - DAY 9
Is Oz gonna follow the yellow brick road all the way to the finals? Dorothy & co move on to face Rocky Balboa in the next round! Feel like they're not in the same weight class though...Up today - he's the former mayor of Carmel by the Sea. He's the fastest working filmmaker in the biz. He's the patron s...
MARCH MADNESS 2022 - DAY 8
Cheech and Chong have gone up in smoke, and the Marx Bros move on to face Monty Python in the next round! Groucho would be delighted.Today's matchup? Dazzling. Spectacular. A real razzle-dazzler.It's OZ vs GOLD DIGGERS:With Oz, we're thinking:THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) - the classic Judy Garland MGM musicalTHE...
MARCH MADNESS 2022 - DAY 7
"Your mother pods casts in hell!" Congrats to Satan and THE EXORCIST Franchise as they advance to face Frankenstein in the next round.Up today, we've got a funny mustachioed guy smoking cigars (Groucho Marx) vs two funny mustachioed guys smoking blunts (Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong).IT'S THE MARX BROTHE...
MARCH MADNESS 2022 - DAY 6
Perhaps powered by the momentum of his appearance in last year's main feed bracket, Jackie Chan smashes through the competition! Sorry, Bruce Lee, but POLICE STORY moves on to the next round!Up today - we're gettin' a little demonic. Or maybe it's just Griffin going full "lil stinker" mode? Nah,...
The Power of The Dog with Richard Lawson
An unseen presence looming over the two friends, a man who has definitely ridden a dang horse, a larger than life character about whom many have speculatedโฆare we talking about Bronco Hosley or Bronco Henry? Trolls impresario and Vanity Fair critic Richard Lawson makes his tenth (!!) appearance on the pod to unpack J...
MARCH MADNESS 2022 - DAY 5
PHILADELPHIA WINS! Rocky moves on to the next fight - god bless him.Up today - a martial arts melee!It's Jackie Chan's POLICE STORY franchise vs the films of BRUCE LEE!Chan got his start as a stuntman in Lee's movies before developing his own comedic action style. Whichever legend wins, you're getting i...
MARCH MADNESS 2022 - DAY 4
HELP! I need somebody. The Beatles just lost to Monty Python.I'll get over it - important to Always Look On The Bright Side of Life...Anyway - on to today's matchup!It's two franchises led by two totally normal and chill dudes.That's right, we're talking about Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone!It...
MARCH MADNESS 2022 - DAY 3
The Mummp is dead. Long live Frankenstein!!!Anyway, onto today's matchup, which would surely be a heartbreaker for George Harrison...It's the Beatles vs Monty Python!No, a Beatles series would not include a 9-hour episode on GET BACK, but it would include the other adventures with our lads from Liverpool - A HA...
MARCH MADNESS 2022 - DAY 2
In what seems to be our biggest Patreon vote *ever* - Roger Moore eked out an upset over Sean Connery to be the Bond moving forward to the next round!If yesterday was a Battle of the Bonds, today is a Battle of the Borises - Karloff, that is.It's FRANKENSTEIN vs THE MUMMY (OG)Karloff originated the role of Frankens...
MARCH MADNESS 2022 - DAY 1
The name's Check. Blank Check.AND WELCOME TO THE FIRST PATREON MARCH MADNESS MATCHUP OF 2022!Up first, we've got two men on Her Majesty's Secret Service:CONNERY BONDSvsMOORE BONDSWith Connery, we've got the beginning of the Bond franchise and a million opportunities for "da moviesh" bits.With Mo...
The Matrix
We are pleased to inform you that Blank Check has returned to The Matrix!Movie starts at...19:10
Bright Star with Fran Hoepfner
You may as well call this episode โOde to a Whishawโ because we love that gentle gent! Fran Hoepfner joins us (and joins the Five-Timers Club!) to discuss Jane Campionโs 2006 John Keats biopic โBright Star,โ a movie that prompts Griffin to wonder if he, too, would die of tuberculosis if he took a long walk in...
2022 MARCH MADNESS PREVIEW
Letโs get ready to rrrruuuummmbbbblllllleeeeee!Join us for a special preview episode of this yearโs March Madness tournament where we answer all of your burning questions - How are we dividing up Hitchcockโs filmography? Which series would Griffin and Davidโs parents want to guest on? Which Halloween movies wou...
PATREON MARCH MADNESS 2022 - 20th Century Franchises
This year, we're going back in time on both the main feed AND the patreon...Announcing March Madness 2022 - 20th Century Franchises!So many fun options to choose from here...Everything from Duck Soup to Doris Day...from Clint Eastwood to Koyaanisqatsi...from Boris Karloff's Frankenstein voice to Sylvester Stall...
