Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Movie Review - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3

This week on End Credits, we head into the beautiful and forever sky. No, we’re not dying, but we are going back to space with the latest edition of the Guardians of the Galaxy, who are now up to Volume 3. Along with that, we will talk about remakes, which despite what you heard are not always terrible. All this as we take one last ride before getting to 300 episodes!

Read more and listen to the episode at End Credits Radio.

Sunday, May 14, 2023

The politics of living


How do you deal with being too busy - Steph and Candice reflect on the last month’s busy-ness and how they coped.

Books

The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower by Stephen King

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Movies

Inside Out as a touchstone for mental wellness

Land of the Dead - Movie clip showing class divide in the movie (curse words included)

Renfield - Deleted dance scene as teased in the closing credits 

Cocaine Bear - Trailer  (curse words included)

TV Shows

Picard Season 3 - Candice hates it - sorry fans, Star Trek and Star Wars stories can be about more than the original main characters!

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

01:00 On finding time for ourselves

09:00 The Star Trek conversation and fan service

17:00 Politics in shows, movies, books and life

23:00 Land of the Dead and how movies and books bring up current issues

28:00 Renfield

40:00 Cocaine Bear

45:00 Lessons in Chemistry and how marketing books and movies goes wrong

 

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This month's episode of The Village Podcast

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Movie Review - Are You There God? It's Me Margaret.

This week on End Credits, we grow up. Not that this is an immature enterprise, but there are some serious big-time adult issues that we have to discuss about the entertainment business, and then the movie of the week is also about growing up. We’re reviewing Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. and we’re also going to talk about Hollywood’s present labour strife.

Read more and listen to the episode at End Credits Radio.