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The 80's essential film series continues with this seminal Anime movie that Raul, as a huge Anime fan, was well aware of while Dan had heard about it forever and knew the poster but had never seen. Both of us dug this and it was good fun discussing the wider world of Anime and how this wonderful film fits into that landscape. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Dan and Raul go back to the 80's again to cover an "essential" film of the decade, but WARNING we were not that into it!  We cover some of the technical aspects that made this movie groundbreaking as well as accolades it has collected, but overall as an older film that both guys didn't embrace as a child when nostalgia would have blossomed for the title, it was hard to like this fantasy flick now as an adult.  Nonetheless, DTW' journey thru the 80's continues as we try to figure out what makes the supposed "essential" movies so important.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtopod/message

Dan and Raul dive into the new Showtime series, and it's story related to multi-level marketing is very identifiable to almost any adult of the last 30 years. The discussion delves into our experiences related to this "pyramid scheme" industry, and how the series does a great job of presenting this story in a very appropriately dark and comedic light. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Dan and Raul cover the new show from Amazon, and boy is there a ton of violence and mayhem to delve into including a discussion on graphic novels, Garth Ennis, and what makes an indie comic as it all relates to this loud, intense, edgy new series. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Dan and Raul tackle the first episode of the newest Veronica Mars season that just premiered on Hulu (All of the first 3 seasons and the 8 new episodes of season 4 available now). While Dan had seen only the original pilot episode from season 1, Raul, the real Mars-head, has seen all of the first 3 seasons and the movie. Many necessary questions about what happened in the past on the show are asked and Raul has all the answers; listen ahead to see if we decide whether the full new season deserves a watch and discussion on a future episode! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Dan and Raul return to the 80's for another addition in our "Essential 80's" series, and discuss the un-officially official Spielberg film, Poltergeist. Before getting to that film chat we discuss TV shows that will premiere in the coming month of August that we potentially are interested in seeing. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Dan and Raul discuss the newest season of this great Netflix show, and its NOT purely a love-fest as we go deep on plot details and character choices that we had issues with. But its still a great show and immensely watchable! Give us more! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Dan and Raul discuss the newest Spidey film, and the first Marvel movie to come out after the gigantic End Game. Needless to say Peter is going thru some traumatic, grief-stricken times since the death of Iron Man and not sure if can live up to what he is suppose to become. With this being the first film of "phase 4" of the MCU we have much to discuss and breakdown, enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Dan and Raul blast to the past to discuss the first title in their new "Essential 80's" film series, and so it begins with this very cult action movie.  We all know the line, "There can be only ONE", but does this film deserve the cult status it has received?  Listen ahead to find out!   More 80's film discussions are coming, too! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtopod/message

Dan and Raul discuss the brand new Amazon original show, Good Omens! Even if you are more of a demon than an angel there is plenty of holy water to go around as we tackle this series of 6 episodes, which has one of the best casts in recent memory and visually continues to show us how great and cinematic TV can be! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Dan and Raul discuss two new pilots for shows that just came out. We decided even though Swamp Thing, the new 10 episode live-action show from DC (episodes available weekly on their own DC-Universe streaming platform) has been cancelled, we still wanted to discuss this show that was already getting very good early reviews. Also the new show on AMC, NOS4A2 has just come out and seemed right up our alley as well, so we wanted to share our thoughts on both of these new series. Listen ahead to see if we will find these series worth continuing to watch in the future! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

We covered Johnny Wick in the 2nd chapter and now we are back for more action-packed fun! Join Dan and Raul as they discuss the intricacies of the third part of this continuing action series. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

This week Dan and Raul run through the new TV shows premiering in June that they are interested in checking out, followed by a discussion of the first episodes of Hanna (Amazon) and Black Summer (Netflix).  Listen ahead to see if either of these shows is worth continuing to watch! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtopod/message

Dan and Raul are joined by first-time special guest Hannah! She has worked in the film industry as a script supervisor and a music supervisor. We had great fun delving into this interesting show filled with death, humor and a great soundtrack including that wonderful Harry Nilsson song we just can't get out of our heads! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Dan and Raul are joined by recurring special guest Jonnie to discuss one of the biggest blockbusters of all time, and has also become an instant classic especially within the realm of movies based on comic book characters. It's a rich, dense, coherent, well-crafted, emotional rollercoaster of a movie, and we delve into all of that and more. To our dear listeners, we love you 3,000! @DownToWatch --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Dan and Raul open by discussing some of the shows they are currently watching as well go over what show's are premiering in the upcoming month of may that they might consider taking a look at. Then they dive into a discussion on all episodes of the new Netflix, animated-short anthology series, Love, Death & Robots. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

**Challenge-Episode** Our first challenge is underway where Dan "challenged" Raul to watch the Ozark pilot on Netflix (he's not a huge fan of the white family-man antihero genre), and Raul "challenged" Dan to watch the pilot to The Expanse on Amazon (he's not a huge fan of Sci-Fi), see if we decided whether or not to continue to watch these series in the future! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Dan and Raul introduce their new segment where they "challenge" each other to watch a pilot episode from a show that each have seen and like but think that the other typically wouldn't watch, and each will report back on what they thought of that show and if they will continue to watch. Also the pilots for the new rebooted The Twilight Zone, and What We Do In the Shadows are discussed as well. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Dan and Raul discuss at length the intricacies of this complex cinematic wonder. Who was the real villain/hero and does it matter, and what's up with all the 11's & rabbits anyway?! ***Spoiler-Alert*** --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message

Dan and Raul discuss some current shows on TV as well as bumble and fumble guessing names of actors and character haphazardly at best! We introduce a new segment that we will do at the beginning of each month where we will announce TV shows that we are excited are coming out soon. A discussion follows on the pilot episode of the new Netflix show, Umbrella Academy; see if we end up deciding to do a full discussion episode on this TV show in the future! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/downtocast/message