Dvd Verdict Presents... Movie Podcasts

Patrick and Doug tear themselves away from roof hockey and arguing the finer points of Star Wars to give Kevin Smith's Clerks the ultimate reach around. You gotta hear this. I mean, c'mon... they're not even supposed to be here!

Dave, Mac, Erich, and Michael get overly Justified, as they enter March movie madness. If that weren't enough, Michael details his Oscars horror, Erich joins The Guild, Mac describes classic anime, Dave takes on Sharktopus, the boys test their Arrested Development knowledge, and uncover their inner Bayside pride.

Steve and Jon return for more incoherent ramblings. Killzone 3 and Bulletstorm lead to ranting and raving about first person shooters of this generation, while news that Play Magazine has bit the dust spurs on another rant on the state of the Video Game Journalism. What few trickles of news that have come from GDC this week are there to be had, and there's talk of many things gauranteed to offend some fanboy or another. To end the night, the subject is finishing... games that is.

Kent and Michelle return from illness hiatus to deconstruct the Oscars, review Disney's Tangled, and heartily endorse Megamind on Blu-ray. Today's show is brought to you by the word "imprisoner."

This week, Clark jumps in his musical time machine and travels back to the year 1979, spotlighting film music from The Great Train Robbery, The Black Hole, Rocky II, Moonraker, Zulu Dawn, The Muppet Movie, A Little Romance, Players, and Time After Time. Enjoy!

This week, Dan and Dave, put their own contrarian spin on The Oscars, offering up awards in such categories as Least Deserving Best Picture, Worst Part of the Ceremony, If the Academy Really Cared About the Audience, and more.

Patrick and Alex dust off their Peter Pan complexes and hike up their tights for a return to Neverland with Steve Spielberg's Hook.

Outlander Mike Rubino returns to the game grid, joining Dave and Mac in discussing the highly unanticipated Oscars, Thor: God of Boring Movie Trailers, crime-fighting superheroes vs. gods and monsters, facial prosthesis, giant rabbits, and fictional families you would hate to be born into.

A sleep deprived Steve and a ready-for-action Jon take you through all the latest news that’s fit to print (or talk about on the internet), and pour one out for the recently deceased Bizarre Creations. Meanwhile, Jon plays a bit of Dragon Warrior/Quest VI on the DS, while spanking Galactus in Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Steve spends some time with two critically lauded first person shooters, gushing all over Killzone 3 and enjoying himself a bit of Bulletstorm. We clue things up with thoughts on some developers who are no longer with us. Have a favorite Developer who’s since gone the way of Elvis?

This week, Clark spotlights another batch of new and recent releases, offering up selections from Drive Angry, The Eagle, In Treatment, The Social Network, The Tillman Story, and Beastly, plus new recordings of pieces from Kick-Ass and Clash of the Titans. In addition, the Liam Neeson thriller Unknown is reviewed. Enjoy!

In honor of President's Day, our contrarian a-hole tribunal -- Dave, Dan, and Mac -- undertake the near impossible task of defending two of science fiction cinema's most despised political despots: Emperor Palpatine and Ming the Merciless. Good luck with that, boys!

Patrick and Erika spend Valentine's Day discussing the current state of romantic comedies, choosing 10 (or more) worthwhile entries in the genre, and turning the podcast into a schmoopfest.

Knicks basketball interruptus forces Erich into the driver's seat, during which the boys talk Justified, middle-aged British gearheads, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, MTS3K XX, creepy kids, creepy corridors, and creepy relationships.

Steve is out this week with a severe case of the Fallouts, so instead we've got two gibbering monkeys who've managed to finagle their way onto the internets. Adam is saving mad ducats playing indie games on Steam, but which of these "Magickal" diversions possesses voodoo powerful enough to peel him away from World of Warcraft? Jon has embraced his inner twelve year old and has plunged a la Scrooge McDuck into a giant vat of Marvel vs. Capcom 3, but can the final product deliver on a decade of fighting game fanatic's prayers?

Kent and Michelle are back, and this time they're loaded for bear. What starts with a post Valentine's Day rant, slowly devolves into an analysis of French Canadian Beer, Grammy Awards surprises, and '80s music flashback, discovering new planets, and everything you wanted to know about Leopards but were afraid to ask. It's just another View from the Couch.

This week, Clark explores the music of composer Brian Tyler, offering selections from Panic, Terror Tract, Darkness Falls, Bubba Ho-Tep, Frailty, Annapolis, Children of Dune, Rambo, Partition, Bug, and The Expendables. In addition, the Channing Tatum action flick The Eagle is reviewed. Enjoy!

In what may be their most harrowing mission yet, Dave and Dan valiantly attempt to defend the indefensible -- Transformers 2 and Batman & Robin -- garnering so much animosity in the process that they actually turn their arguments on each other.

This week, Patrick and J.B. kick it old school, with a cougar-like F-ing of Mike Nichols' The Graduate. One warning: At some point, you might say to yourself, "This conversation is getting a little strange." Just power through. It's worth it.

Join Dave, Mac, and Erich as they unveil Bane: Behind the Muscle -- The true story of The Dark Knight's latest big screen villain; explore Shawn Ryan's Chicago Code/Terriers and justify their man-love for Justified; and debate the advantages of television season-long arcs versus the story-of-the week format. Plus: The Filibuster Travel Agency plans your trip to Future World, The Twilight Zone, and the insane world of The Shaw Brothers; and the boys consult the all-knowing Filibuster Oracle. What more do you need to start your weekend?

Random synaptic firings abound, as exhausted Kent and hoochie-mama Michelle return from a week off to "hollar down your hole," before aimlessly wandering through the realms of Gnomeo & Juliet, recent Oscar nominations, the 2011 Summer Movie season, and the land of forgotten Couch feature segments. (We'll have their Ritalin prescription refilled by next week.)