Want to play a little game? Great! So do we. The new movie in the Saw franchise – Jigsaw – is out this week and we thought it would be fun to put a little monstrosity into our Halloween-themed Spotify playlist for this week. We’ve got songs from Michael Jackson, Talking Heads, Fiona Apple, David Bowie, and even Angela Lansbury. It’s going to be a frightful good time, so don’t waste another minute and get to listening!
Our leaderboards have updated with last week’s points and we’ve put out more stills for you to guess. Come on by and give ’em your best shot!
1. First person to guess the correct movie gets 5 points, the second person to guess correctly gets 4 points, and everyone after gets 3 points. There’s no penalty for wrong guesses.
2. Submit answers by messaging our Facebook Page or by emailing us at athpodcast@gmail.com. You can answer in the comments below, but it’s visible for all to see and you might give away the answers!
3. Points will be tallied on the leaderboard at the end of the week and can be found HERE!
4. The rules will be revised and perfected over time, and we will honor the player should any dispute arise.
Summer has given way to fall, and with it has come a change in weather (unless you live in LA, that is). We thought it would be a swell idea to make a Spotify playlist about the weather itself, giving you songs about thunder, blue skies, sandstorms, rainbows, lightning bolts, and a tragic song about a lighthouse. A lot of stuff here to enjoy so give it a listen and share with your friends!
Our leaderboards have updated with last week’s points and we’ve put out more movie stills for you to guess. Come on by and give these stills your best shot!
1. First person to guess the correct movie gets 5 points, the second person to guess correctly gets 4 points, and everyone after gets 3 points. There’s no penalty for wrong guesses.
2. Submit answers by messaging our Facebook Page or by emailing us at athpodcast@gmail.com. You can answer in the comments below, but it’s visible for all to see and you might give away the answers!
3. Points will be tallied on the leaderboard at the end of the week and can be found HERE!
4. The rules will be revised and perfected over time, and we will honor the player should any dispute arise.
To celebrate the return of Riverdale – which is an interesting interpretation of the old Archie Comics – we’re making a Spotify playlist of covers that we consider interesting takes on the original songs. How do these versions hold up? Give a listen and let us know what you think!
Our leaderboards have updated with last week’s points and we’ve put out more movie stills for you to guess. Come on by and test your movie knowledge!
1. First person to guess the correct movie gets 5 points, the second person to guess correctly gets 4 points, and everyone after gets 3 points. There’s no penalty for wrong guesses.
2. Submit answers by messaging our Facebook Page or by emailing us at athpodcast@gmail.com. You can answer in the comments below, but it’s visible for all to see and you might give away the answers!
3. Points will be tallied on the leaderboard at the end of the week and can be found HERE!
4. The rules will be revised and perfected over time, and we will honor the player should any dispute arise.
This week our Spotify playlist gets its inspiration from Blade Runner 2049, or rather the dystopias that inspired it (and us)! So sit back and get ready for sonic bleakness that can’t be beat. We’ve got tracks from Justice, Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Modest Mouse, Florence + The Machine, White Zombie, and more!
Special Congrats to Quint Jenkins for winning September’s Tip of My Brain. A new achievement banner has been generated in our leaderboards and we’ve reset the scores for the new month. So put your movie knowledge to the test and impress your friends with this fun and challenging game!
1. First person to guess the correct movie gets 5 points, the second person to guess correctly gets 4 points, and everyone after gets 3 points. There’s no penalty for wrong guesses.
2. Submit answers by messaging our Facebook Page or by emailing us at athpodcast@gmail.com. You can answer in the comments below, but it’s visible for all to see and you might give away the answers!
3. Points will be tallied on the leaderboard at the end of the week and can be found HERE!
4. The rules will be revised and perfected over time, and we will honor the player should any dispute arise.
This week our Spotify playlist gets its inspiration from the remake of Flatliners, starring Ellen Page. We’ve got death on the brain and we can’t wait to share our grim musical stylings with you!
Want to hear this read aloud? Check out the latest episode of The Front Row Movie Reviews: Full Disclosure
I LOVED Kingsman, it was a refreshing take on both spy and comic book movies in a world where we have way too many spy and comic book movies. But woof… that ending. We get it, anal sex is funny, but I really didn’t need to see some one’s actual ass hole to get the joke. So I’d my hopes were cautiously high the sequel.
And well… shit.
The parts of Golden Circle that work, work so well. Its funny, its shot well, and I really feel like they started to understand the comedy of the world they are living in. But what the fuck? All of that good stuff is ruined by an insane lack of Channing Tatum, a false promise of Halle Berry being a bad ass, AND A FUCKING CGI PENETRATING SHOT OF A WOMAN’S VAGINA AS A DUDE FINGER BANGS HER? REALLY? You ruined your whole movie by making us feel SO uncomfortable that it’s hard to ever get back into it. Whatever I may think of 90% of the movie, I can’t unsee this shot. It’s not funny or clever. It certainly doesn’t serve the plot of the movie (and I see a lot dudes defending it online… calm down dudes, you’re wrong) If for some reason it was essential to have Eggsy finger bang that girl, it could have been handled better than depicting a 15-year-old’s pervy wet dream. I hate to say that these things added together ruined the whole movie, but they kinda did.
That doesn’t even mention how poorly underused Julianne Moore’s excellent villain Poppy was. Why couldn’t she fight? Everyone else is fighting in formal wear, why not her. AND if she can’t fight why do people care who she is? Why is she in power??? She played a character I was excited to see in action. She had this sickening sweet attitude, like if cotton candy could be a person. It made her scary in a way I didn’t expect. So when the final show down started I was pumped… then she gets smacked, given a heroin overdose, and dies… That is a wet fart of a character exit. If this was the only problem I probably wouldn’t have had much to say… but this on top of everything else just left the taste of dirty dish water in my mouth (yes I know what that tastes like, college was weird).
All in all I’m just disappointed. I’m disappointed in a franchise I thought I wanted more of. I’m disappointed in a director I have so much respect for. And I’m disappointed that this shit is still in movies today.
When it works it works and it’s a blast, but the bad severely out weighs the good. If I had to score it… 4/10
Bryan is the Host and Producer of After the Hype. He loves talking. About everything. But mostly Batman, Star Wars and Green Lantern.
He also lives in Los Angeles and works in TV Post Production
