Armchair Producers

Episode 93: 12 Years a Slave

This week we follow up Jordan Peele's Us with 12 Years A Slave. Other than that, it's been a very "meh" viewing session for us both. George wanted 2019's Little Monsters (Prime Video), and Illumination's The Grinch (Netflix). He also rewatched the Christmas classic, The Muppets Christmas Carol (Netflix). Meanwhile, Travis watched Brian Cranston in Your Honor (Stan), and the Paul Fieg movie, A Simple Favour. As we always do, we get side-tracked and talk randomly about the recently announc...

Episode 94: Widows

This week we talk about Steven McQueen's Widows. Starring Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, and Elizabeth Debicki. Next week we follow Michelle to her breakout movie, Girlfight (2000). Travis started watching the new CBS show, The Stand, and endured Sly Stallone's (2001) Driven on Stan. Meanwhile, George watched The King on Netflix, starring Timothée Chalamet, and rewatched the Syfy Channel's version of Dune (Prime Video).

Episode 92: Us

This week we discuss the sophomore effort of Jordan Peele... Us. George also watched a lot of Andy Samberg movies... namely Palm Springs, 7 Days in Hell, and Tour de Pharmacy..

Episode 91: BlackkKlansman

This week we are going to review the Spike Lee joint, BlackkKlansman. Coming off of last week's Inside Man, this is a very different experience. George gorged himself on pulp stories... namely the recent Lovecraft Country TV series, and the book it is based on. ELsewhere, Holiday Trav watched more of The Crown, and It: Chapter 2 Finally, George and Travis will be talking about Bruce Springsteen's latest album.

Episode 90: The Inside Man

Following on from last week's #chainmovie of Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country, we followed Christopher Plummer to this rather unusual Spike Lee joint. Meanwhile, Travis and George watched the latest offering from Christopher Nolan, care of #Tenet -- our return to traditional cinema in over eight months. George also played #Titanfall2, #Gears5, and some of Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order. He also listened to Puscifer's new album, and the new album from AC/DC.

Episode 89: Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country

This week Travis and George explore the unknown frontier of the future with the classic Col War inspired Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country. Next week Travis has chosen to follow Christopher Plummer to The Inside Man for our #chainmovie. Meanwhile, George watched the Next Generation Star Trek movies and they don't really stand the test of time. Travis experienced Puscifer and their online Live show, and watched #Netflix original movie, Trial of the Chicago Seven.

Episode 88: Big Trouble in Little China

This week we talk about Big Trouble in Little China. Then George's final chain movie -- before handing the reins over to Travis once more -- is revealed to be the Cold War Star Trek movie, The Undiscovered Country. Travis talks about the new Russell Crowe movie, Unhinged, the new Netflix series, The Queen's Gambit, and Seduced. Elsewhere, George discusses the unusual, old-fashioned stylings of Netflix's remake of Rebecca, and he revisits Battlestar Galactica.

Episode 87: The Thing

This week (a bit delayed) we talk about the cult classic, The Thing from John Carpenter. Next week we will be talking about Big Trouble In Little China. Travis watched Borat 2, and Unsolved Mysteries. George watched The Beast (AKA The Beast of War) and Blood of Zeus.

Episode 86: Coraline

This week we discuss the Henry Selick directed movie, Coraline. For next week, we follow Keith David to John Carpenter’s The Thing. Travis watched the first three episodes of Brave New World, and he soldiered on through more of Star Trek Discovery. Meanwhile George watched Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and That's My Boy. Also George posits the question, “What franchises from our childhood remain strong, and are still creating content?” #armchairproducers #netflix #moviepodcast #stan #bravenewworld ...

Episode 85: The Nightmare Before Christmas

We move on along our Chain Movie sessions with the cult classic, The NIghtmare Before Christmas. We will be reviewing Coraline next week. George watched Season One of Utopia on Amazon, The Travis and George consider the possibility of Adam Sandler doing a remake of the classic Peter Sellers movie, Being There.

Episode 83: Death Machine

This week we discuss the God-awful Death Machine, the new shows on Netflix of Ratched, and Dragon's Dogma

Episode 84: Child's Play

This week we watched the cult classic Child’s Play from 1988 with the phenomenal voice of Brad Dourif. George watched the Blumhouse 2020 version of The Invisible Man. Finally Travis watched The Comey Rule.

Episode 82: The Brothers Bloom

This week George’s final Chain Movie offering is the light comedy, con-movie, The Brothers Bloom. Elsewhere, George began watching the new Ryan Murphy/Sarah Paulson joint on Netflix, Ratchet. He also started Dragon’s Dogma on Netflix too.

Episode 81: Witness

Episode 80: Gallipoli

This week, Travis and George revisited Gallipoli after last weeks The Interview. George fawns over Parasite. Travis experiences the new Charlie Kaufman movie, I’m Thinking of Ending Things. Lastly, George talks about the new battle Royale game, Spellbreak.

Episode 79: The Interview (1998)

Episode 78: The Matrix

Episode 77: Point Break

Episode 76: Highlander 2

Episode 75: Starship Troopers

Episode 74: Sleepy Hollow

Episode 73: Withnail & I

Episode 72: Hudson Hawk

Episode 71: The King of Comedy

Episode 70: Angel Heart

Episode 69: Legend

Episode 68: Top Gun

Episode 67: The Final Countdown

This week we chain on from The Final Countdown to Top Gun. This leads up to consider the upcoming Tog Gun: Maverick, Space X, and Scientology. George enjoys his time in the Swamp with Swamp Thing. While Travis talks about Zombie Army Trilogy on Xbox. We then talk about the new Amazon Prime comedy show, Upload. Lastly we talk about Overwatch and the forthcoming sequel, as well as the Labyrinth sequel that was recently announced. Check out Armchair Producers on Facebook where we stream live ...

Episode 66: Philadelphia Experiment

This week’s pre-ramble is brought to you by George as he flusters his way through talking about near-miss blockbuster movies, such as National Treasure, Zootopia, John Carter, and The Prince of Persia. This week Travis and George review The Philadelphia Experiment from 1984. While it has a mildly interesting concept of time travel displacement, it is a mess of a movie. But it does get them talking about more successful time travel moves, leading them to watch The Final Countdown from 1980 fo...

Episode 65: Streets of Fire

This week Travis and George watched the 1984 cult movie, Streets of Fire. There are some very clear connections to The Warriors that both fellas felt, specifically from the Xbox game of the same name. Travis then talks about how much he likes The Mandalorian. George went into the way-back machine and watched the Disney ‘classic’, The Rocketeer. Travis lays down the challenge for George to watch the latest Rick and Morty, as well as the new Netflix series, Midnight Gospel. George then offers...

Episode 64: Commando Love

This week Travis and George discuss World War Z on XBox… in spite of George’s Online game curse. We talk through our thoughts on the various incarnations of Watchmen. George waxes lyrical about Westworld Season 3 and the possibility of a Season 4. He then talks about the turbulent issues of His Dark Materials Season 1 as well as some early thoughts on Doom Patrol Season 1. This skews us into a mini-topic of the under-appreciated talent of Alan Tudyk. Travis talks about The Beasty Boys Story...

Episode 63: The Life of Terminator, Commando, Zombies and Female Roles

This week, Travis and I — once again — pitch Porky’s in Space. Then Travis gives a review of Terminator Darak Fate; George wonders if there is room for a Life of Brian variation of The Terminator, and the possibility of The Lost Years of a Terminator for Love, Death, and Robots. Talk of Terminator leads us into discussing female roles in cinema, and how they are still not being served properly. Travis confesses that he has never seen Commando, so has chosen to watch it for next week’s show. ...

Episode 62: Reviewing The Gentlemen and Tales from the Loop

On request from one of our live viewers, Travis and George watched The Gentlemen. The Gentlemen is the latest movie from Guy Richie, starring Matthew McConaughey, and Charlie Hunnam. We also watched the new Amazon Prime show, Tales from the Loop. On this week’s show, Travis and George review The Gentlemen, and some early thoughts on Tales From The Loop, and George started watching Season 3 of Westworld on Foxtel. Travis watched the James Mangold-directed Ford Vs Ferrari biopic care of the P...

Episode 61: Lots of Foxtel and Anime Lab Content

Travis watched the following shows… Avenue 5 on FoxTel. It’s a new comedy series starring Hugh Laurie from Armando Iannucci. Uncut Gems on Netflix. The most recent movie from Adam Sandler. The Watchmen on FoxTel. The new Damon Lindelof show based on the legendary graphic novel from Alan Moore, Watchmen. George watched the following shows… Fairy Tail via Anime Lab. An anime series following a group of wizards who are part of a Wizard’s guide. My Hero Academia via Anime Lab. 80% of the world’...

Episode 60: All over the map!

This week, Travis and George have a good, old natter about VR. Particularly talking about Travis’ Oculus Quest, and the games/apps currently available. Is there a killer app for VR yet? Beat Sabre seems to be the uniform front contender for that crown. But we also wonder if VR is going to shine more in the social aspect of society rather than the gaming world. Next up Travis talks a little about Westworld — don’t worry, there are no spoilers for Season 3. We talk through our thoughts on th...

Episode 59: The Picard-heavy Episode

This week Travis and I have a deep-dive conversation about Star Trek: Picard and why it’s not working for either of us. Travis then tells us that Batter Call Saul is one of the very best TV shows of all-time. Meanwhile, on the opposite end of the spectrum, George has been indulging in Kaiju (and Kaiju-like) movies… most notably, Godzilla (2014), and Godzilla 2: King of Monsters. In gaming news, Travis has spent a little time playing Doom Eternal which, to him at least, feels like its become...

An Update Message For You All

Hey folks! Sorry for the delay in getting new content to you guys. What with laziness, Covid-19, and poor organization, I’ve let things slide. But thankfully, Travis and I have been working on a remote basis for ages and so we can continue the show... all we have to do is actually record it! Also, I will be releasing a podcast version of Vaugn. I will be releasing episodic chapters. So we have plenty of content coming your way! #armchairproducers #vaugnnovel #quarantinecontent #melbour...

Episode 58: The Episode the Russian Bots have been waiting for!

This week, George and Travis run through their loose Top 5 Michael Bay movies, they also discuss Birds of Prey. Travis experienced The Morning Show and For All Mankind on Apple TV+, he and George trialed the oddly pitched comedy show, Mythic Quest. George and Travis discuss The Orville. George smashed through I Am No OK With This, and Altered Carbon season 2 on Netflix with varying degrees of entertainment.

Episode 5: New Travellers Approach

Episode 3: Just when you thought the audio couldn't get worse... it does

Episode 4: Through the Trees

Episode 2: RP-heavy episode

Episode 57: The Netflix-heavy session

Show notes: Don’t F**k With Cats on the Internet The Stranger You - Season 2 Just Mercy 6 Underground Ni No Kuni - the animated feature film Your Name —> Weathering With You Dracula —> Leading into general Dracula conversation BoJack Horseman Steamworld Heist on Switch Oscars 2020 predictions —> 1917 for the big win —> Rene Zellweger for Best Acrtress —> Joaquin Phoenix for Best Actor Todd Philips to direct a Hulk Hogan biopic

Episode 56: Back in the Saddle... Again

Show notes: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker — we finally review it, & you can probably guess our thoughts. Star Trek: Picard - Episode 1 and 2’ish — a very different type of Star Trek. George went to Arcanacon 2020 in Melbourne and he bloody loved it! Travis went to see Louis Theroux Travis is looking forward to seeing Tool in a few weeks time. Travis went to see Cats… not the god-awful movie, but a quality stage version. —> This diverted into a brief discussion about the forthcoming ...

Crazy, Dungeons and Dragons session...

I started recording this about halfway through the 3rd session. Sorry for the terrible audio quality, but the session was going in a manic, wonderful, disastrous way and I wanted to record it for posterity’s sake. Going forward the audio should be better and it will be the full session.

Episode 55: Pre-Star Wars Mania

Show Notes Borderlands 3; Rage quitting; Luigi’s Mansion; Dauntless Lemonheads Wrestlerock Pearl Jam Tribute Band Knives Out Adam Driver - The Report; Scott Burns Cats Reviews

Episode 54: All Over The Shop

We are quite all over the shop this week... We discuss working in Australia in the gaming industry... Gaming Unions and Ethically produced games... The Mandalorian and Star Wars in general... The Snyder Cut and The Batman... Terminator Dark Fate... Fan Obsessions... Years and Years... The Crown... and Janes Bond. Then we have a very brief, and off-the-cuff “movies of 2019” review and find ourselves rather unimpressed. Nothing particularly bad, but no real stand-out… Lots of big-bud...

Episode 53: The Return of Random

Starting off the show, we talk about AEW and Indie wrestling. Travis then discusses the new BBC show, Years and Years, as well as the new Rick and Morty. Then we tangent off to South Park and the potential staying power of Rick and Morty for years to come. Next up, we have a conversation about the new Netflix Stephen King movie, The Tall Grass, Doctor Sleep, and the documentary Room 237. We both come to the conclusion that — when it comes to Stephen King — we’ve been stung too many times to ...

Episode 52: Let's Talk About Joker

This week we return after Travis' US trip. We talk about Joker, Travis has finally played Breath of the Wild, George has been playing The Witcher 3, and they ramble as only they can.

Episode 51.5: The episode I thought I had deleted

Yay! Thanks to my terrible organisation, I was actually able to find the episode I thought I deleted!