Thunder Grunt
315 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsThunder Grunt is a multi-show podcast about movies and friendship. It’s Art.
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THEY KNOW! 001 | THIS ISLAND EARTH?
April 11, 2018 13:34 - 1 hour - 68.7 MBTHEY KNOW! is a pseudo-educational podcast about pseudo-science and conspiracy theories. We delve into the mad world of "truths" to let YOU know what THEY know. THIS EPISODE: Truth agents BAH and MAP are here to tackle the things you've always wanted to know about conspiracies but were too terrified to ask! This episode, they look into the various shapes the Earth can take, and the kinds of people who believe in each one. Episode Rating: 6
WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 004 | JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
April 10, 2018 15:09 - 1 hour - 88.2 MBJake Kasdan's JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE is the sequel "no one asked for" even with The Rock, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen Gillan starring. Then audiences saw it and admitted they probably should have asked for it. In this episode of WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS Jamie Nash, Jimmy George and Bob Rose discuss the surprisingly enjoyable, adept comedy script that came from four writers, a long dormant franchise and a conceptual stroke of genius! FIRST THREE EPISODES OF W/B: GET OUT | STAR WARS...
BONUS DISC 087 | UNINVITED
April 04, 2018 15:07 - 1 hour - 79.4 MBMatt, Bob and returning guest of the show Brad Bukowsky had a hard time choosing this episode's movie, luckily the fruits of Amazon Prime were ripe and they clicked on UNINVITED! Let master-filmmaker Greydon Clark take you on a nautical, feline, terror-cruise with a genetically engineered cat-mouth demon, engines that may or may not work and enough fresh produce to stock a WHOLE FOODS for a month! BEWARE THE FCC! TRAILER! WATCH THE MOVIE ON AMAZON PRIME! RENT THE MOVIE ON YOUTUBE! BRAD'S...
WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 003 | FARGO
March 27, 2018 15:34 - 52 minutes - 71.9 MB21 years ago the Coen Brothers masterpiece FARGO swept the Oscars, including BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY. Since that statue is now legally allowed to drink Jamie Nash, Jimmy George and Bob Rose give this script a fresh look-see dontcha know! First 2 Episodes of W/B: GET OUT | STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Need help with your script? Contact Jimmy George: SCRIPT BUTCHER Need something to read? Jamie Nash wrote a book!: The 44 Rules of Amateur Sleuthing
BONUS DISC 086 | THE EXECUTIONER PART II
March 21, 2018 05:34 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBCAMP KILLER director Shawn Jones, stops by for a 7th outing with Bob and Matt, this time bringing a movie that is a sequel with no first half, THE EXECUTIONER PART II! Grab your executioner's hood and prepare to wear it way more often than the confusingly positioned protagonist of this very poor man's Rambo/Death Wish rip-off. Does the Executioner kill criminals but also pay protection money to the mob? Does anyone who made this movie know what actually happens at a strip club? Is Robert Mit...
WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 002 | STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI
March 13, 2018 04:16 - 1 hour - 99.7 MBWhat is left to say about Rian Johnson's script to Star Wars? Well, thanks to the internet, not much, but Jamie Nash, Jimmy George and Bob Rose are going to force choke the last word on The Last Jedi out of eachother in the second episode of WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS! First Episode of W/B: GET OUT Need help with your script? Contact Jimmy George: SCRIPT BUTCHER Need something to read? Jamie Nash wrote a book!: The 44 Rules of Amateur Sleuthing
BONUS DISC 085 | ABSOLUTE ZERO
March 07, 2018 16:55 - 1 hour - 92.1 MBBob, Matt and returning guest of the show, comedian Ian Salyers, sit down in a secure viewing room to observe the 2006 Jeff Fahey classic ABSOLUTE ZERO, a movie about Jeff Fahey, scientist, trying to get to a temperature-secured viewing room that observes another room that is capable of reaching absolute zero inside itself...before the Equator freezes. Yeah. Witness the drama as a snowmobile goes from screen right to screen left! Marvel at Jeff Fahey's ability to escape a violent and desolat...
WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 001 | GET OUT
February 27, 2018 16:27 - 1 hour - 86.8 MBINT. THE INTERNET. FADE IN. Welcome to the first episode of WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS, a screenwriting podcast featuring professionals Jamie Nash and Jimmy George...and another guy named Bob. These three, pastey white, gentlemen decide to dive into their first outing by discussing the script to Jordon Peele's Oscar nominated masterpiece GET OUT. Need help with your script? Contact Jimmy George: SCRIPT BUTCHER Need something to read? Jamie Nash wrote a book!: The 44 Rules of Amateur Sleuthing
BONUS DISC 084 | GOD’S NOT DEAD 2
February 21, 2018 05:58 - 1 hour - 72.9 MBBob, Matt and returning guest of the show, voice actor Rex Anderson, decide to bow down before SKY FATHER and pray for mercy during GOD'S NOT DEAD 2! Get ready for the flagship franchise of the Christian cinema machine known as PURE FLIX to tell the simple tale of a school teacher, Melissa Joan Hart, who says three short sentences in a classroom that cause the world TO LOOSE ITS MIND. Does this movie have at least three superfluous plot lines out of a total of close to seven plot lines? Does...
BONUS DISC 084 | GOD'S NOT DEAD 2
February 21, 2018 05:58 - 1 hour - 72.9 MBBob, Matt and returning guest of the show, voice actor Rex Anderson, decide to bow down before SKY FATHER and pray for mercy during GOD'S NOT DEAD 2! Get ready for the flagship franchise of the Christian cinema machine known as PURE FLIX to tell the simple tale of a school teacher, Melissa Joan Hart, who says three short sentences in a classroom that cause the world TO LOOSE ITS MIND. Does this movie have at least three superfluous plot lines out of a total of close to seven plot lines? Does...
BONUS DISC 083 | THE ELM-CHANTED FOREST
February 07, 2018 06:10 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBMatt, Bob and returning guest of the show, Bob's landlord Huey watch a magical VHS tape plucked from the very center of Huey's childhood: THE ELM-CHANTED FOREST! The first ever BONUS DISC with an animated film! This full length cartoon movie is the first animated feature to ever come out of Croatia and is considered, by Croatians, as the best Croatian film ever made! So all you Croatia fanatics listen up, because the message is clear: ART IS WEAPONIZED MAGIC! Does Huey reconnect with his los...
BONUS DISC 082 | TIPTOES
January 24, 2018 15:11 - 1 hour - 83.7 MBMatt, Bob and returning guest of the show Jimmy Giegerich walk on their knees through the swamp of ignorance, confusion, bad ideas and baffling choices that is TIPTOES! Listen in as they dissect this SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL screened dramatic character piece about a man without dwarfism, Matthew McConaughey, being ashamed of his biological relation to little people...including his brother, a man without dwarfism in real life, Gary Oldman, playing a man with dwarfism in a movie filled with tale...
BONUS DISC 081 | MAXIMUM FORCE
January 09, 2018 19:02 - 1 hour - 92.9 MBAmazon Prime continues to deliver the opportunity for Matt and Bob to feed their lust for PM ENTERTAINMENT, this time with returning guest Pat Storck, to watch 1992's MAXIMUM FORCE! Prep your training warehouse as they delve into a world with Flash Gordon, Rusty from EUROPEAN VACATION and the legendary John Saxon trying to take down a bad guy they've never met. Who's the bad guy? Richard Lynch of course, dipped in wax and mostly yelling at suits in a boardroom, can his dastardly plan to...do...
BONUS DISC 080 | PITCH PERFECT 3
December 27, 2017 17:09 - 1 hour - 87.1 MBThis is not going to go the way you think. Bob and Matt celebrate 80 aca-sodes of BONUS DISC by having a MERRY PITCHMAS with guest Kathy Carson for PITCH PERFECT 3! Listen in as these three scratch the pitch and review the ending to the trilogy SOMEONE wanted to even be a trilogy. Do Bob and Matt still fondly remember Pitch Perfect 1? Can the third entry eschew the fat shaming, sexism and rampant racism of Pitch Perfect 2? Can we all finally admit Rebel Wilson is way better and funnier than ...
OKSTUPID 003 | NOTHING TO DO WITH FRINGE (LIVE!)
December 19, 2017 16:22 - 20 minutes - 37.4 MBYears ago THUNDERGRUNT's own Bob, digitally disguised as a lady, decided to mine comedy from the trash heap of online dating by trolling perverted, rude, dudes on OKCUPID, what came of it was OKSTUPID. Recorded LIVE at THE WINDUP SPACE in Baltimore here's NOTHING TO DO WITH FRINGE performed by voice actor Rex Anderson and comedian Tommy Sinbazo! Rex's Website! Tommy's Podcast: LAUGHFINDER!
BONUS DISC 079 | CYBERJACK
December 13, 2017 09:13 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBMatt, Bob and returning guest cinematographer Nick Baldwin wanted a movie about a cybernetic guy named Jack, what they got was CYBERJACK, a movie with no Jacks and a kind-of cybernetic guy (near the end)! Join these three men as they talk their way through this 1995 Michael Dudikoff/Brion James actioner that takes all the beloved parts of BLADE RUNNER, ROBOCOP, DIE HARD, TERMINATOR and chooses to use none of them properly. Remember, never have phone sex at work, it could kill a floating bus ...
OKSTUPID 002 | THE CHAOTIC PASTA (LIVE!)
December 12, 2017 15:17 - 8 minutes - 15.6 MBYears ago THUNDERGRUNT's own Bob, digitally disguised as a lady, decided to mine comedy from the trash heap of online dating by trolling perverted, rude, dudes on OKCUPID, what came of it was OKSTUPID. Recorded LIVE at THE WINDUP SPACE in Baltimore here's THE CHAOTIC PASTA performed by musician Lala Anderson and actor John Bennett!
OKSTUPID 001 | THE DOG & THE MASTER (LIVE!)
December 05, 2017 18:42 - 15 minutes - 27.5 MBYears ago THUNDERGRUNT's own Bob Rose, digitally disguised as a lady, decided to mine comedy from the trash heap of online dating by trolling every perverted, rude, dude on OKCUPID, what came of it was OKSTUPID. Recorded LIVE at THE WINDUP SPACE in Baltimore here's THE DOG & THE MASTER performed by Voice Actor Rex Anderson and Comedian Tommy Sinbazo!
BONUS DISC 078 | MALIBU EXPRESS
November 29, 2017 07:54 - 1 hour - 83.7 MBMatt, Bob and returning guest of the show, space expert Mike TV, spend a quality saturday night getting full-on depressed during MALIBU EXPRESS! Do you ever fantasize about a milquetoast Chuck Norris-light action hero, who apparently drank LOVE POTION #9 and narrates everything he does on screen after he does it? Your fantasy is a reality! Let master storyteller Andy Sidaris whisk you away to a meandering world where an adult walks through a free-standing, train-themed boat-door to get to th...
A MOUND OF THUNDER 015 | JUST ASS LEAK
November 28, 2017 07:02 - 1 hour - 97.8 MB***THIS REVIEW IS NOT SPOILER FREE!*** The MOUND boys, down a man, defeated, broken, sick and confused, get together to discuss Zack Whedon's JUSTICE LEAGUE! Sans Huey and the molten, hot passion that was their BATMAN V SUPERMAN episode, Rex, Bob and John limp to the finish line trying to figure out what happened. Do they figure it out? SPOILER: NO. Check out Rex's official Voice Over Website!
BONUS DISC 077 | MIDNIGHT WARRIOR
November 15, 2017 17:24 - 1 hour - 86.7 MBMatt, Bob and returning guest of the show, John Walker of MOVIE SCHMOVIE fame, sit down to watch another PM ENTERTAINMENT classic: MIDNIGHT WARRIOR! Have you seen the praise-worthy character study masterpiece NIGHTCRAWLER? Did you wish it was shot, directed, edited, acted and executed with close to zero craftsmanship? Did you wish it was filled with cynicism, sexism, hate for the audience and three egregiously boring music video interludes? Did you wish it was written by a demented, sadistic...
BONUS DISC 076 | A DANGEROUS PLACE
November 01, 2017 15:44 - 1 hour - 85 MB"What would THE KARATE KID be like with added murder, suicide, grand larceny and Dick Van Patten?" This week Bob, Matt and returning guest, Baltimore Author Dave K., find the answer to that very question: A DANGEROUS PLACE (1994)! Listen in as these three very sleepy men recall the plot to PM ENTERTAINMENT's Corey Feldman as an evil highschool-ninja starring vehicle. Transport yourself to a world where cops ask the victims if they have any clues, construction sites are over run by roving gan...
BONUS DISC | CAMP KILLER: THE COMMENTARY
October 31, 2017 15:00 - 1 hour - 91.8 MBIt's a Halloween miracle because today BONUS DISC is releasing a "BONUS" feature! The full-length, synced commentary to CAMP KILLER! Matt and Bob sit down with friend of the show writer/director Shawn Jones and give a different type of live commentary, one that features a friend who barely worked on the movie, and another friend who didn't work on it at all! What is this movie you ask? Well CAMP KILLER, a Baltimore made low-budget genre love letter, can best be described as Friday the 13th V...
BONUS DISC 075 | TC 2000
October 23, 2017 17:02 - 1 hour - 69.5 MBFrom T.J. Scott, director of such television staples of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, GOTHAM, LONGMIRE, BATES MOTEL, XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS and HERCULES: THE LEGENDARY JOURNEYS, comes the close to incomprehensible Billy Blanks sci-fi actioner TC 2000! Bob and Matt sit down with returning guest of the show, supreme Baltimore creative mind, Tyler Merchant, to watch one of the defining rungs on the ladder that climbed to the top of the TAE BO empire! With such action legends as Jalal Merhi, Matthias Hu...
BONUS DISC 074 | EVOLVER
October 04, 2017 17:13 - 1 hour - 75 MBThe time has finally come for Matt and Bob, along with former guests of the show Rob Zeman and Sean Hillary, to watch, breakdown and analyze Ethan Embry's 1995 triumphant commentary on the dangers of artificial intelligence: EVOLVER! The director of Hillary Duff's A CINDERELLA STORY and a cast that includes the legendary Paul Dooley, Q from STAR TREK, and Ferris BUELLER's mom/the mom from SON-IN-LAW come together to take down the underground world of mid-90s VR gaming tournaments! Featuring ...
BONUS DISC 073 | PASS THRU
September 20, 2017 14:46 - 1 hour - 97.8 MBMatt and Bob welcome back returning guest, artist, cool dude, Pizza Party Printing's Jimmy Giegrich! They waffle through the latest, 100% legitimate feature film PASS THRU! What does the fourth Neil Breen movie have in store for them? Does it finally prove he is in fact Techno-Space-Robot-Alien-Jesus? Does Breen actually get hit in the head with a real rock? Will Neil Breen's purchase and nigh-psychotic use of a drone camera essentially ruin his entire future film career??? All the answers c...
BONUS DISC 072 | STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI
September 06, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour - 83.8 MBKidnapping, murder, gentrification, abortion, infanticide, sociopathic orphans, domestic violence, funerals and extended captivity. What do all these themes have in common? They can all be found in a fighting-video-game movie aimed at families but made for no one! This week Matt and Bob ask local socialite, scientist, dog-owner, Meg Mercieca, to choose a movie and she thankfully pointed to the UNLEASHED AND URATED DVD of STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI! Is Neal Mcdonough's Bison one of...
BONUS DISC 071 | CIRCUITRY MAN
August 23, 2017 14:57 - 1 hour - 74.5 MBReturning guest of the show, Baltimore music boy Curt Schmelz, joins the FOUR TIMERS CLUB as Bob and Matt plug him into the world of the 1990 techno-road-trip-horror-dystopian-action-sci-fi-thriller CIRCUITRY MAN! Did this movie inspire SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD? Who exactly is the "circuitry man"? Is it the guy on the box cover with all the plugs in his head or is it the unassuming possibly, maybe, almost, we think, robotic guy who looks like Bob Saget and Kenny G's lovechild? Does anyone...
BONUS DISC 070 | I AM HERE....NOW
August 10, 2017 15:36 - 1 hour - 99.6 MB70 episodes in, Bob and Matt celebrate a BONUS DISC milestone the same way they celebrate all milestones in life, they intake an artistic masterwork by a genius! Former guests of the show Huey Hesson and John Bennett descend from the heavens to have completely motionless sex with Bob and Matt as they watch Neil Breen's second directorial achievement I AM HERE....NOW! Does Breen once again solve the world's energy/polution/goverment corruption/economic/drug/hooker problems through art? Does h...
BONUS DISC 069 | EXTERMINATOR 2
July 26, 2017 15:19 - 1 hour - 107 MBMatt and Bob take their last step out of the AIR BUD coffin and feel the brilliant, blinding sludge of incredibly nihilistic 1980's VHS fascism poured across their naked bodies by the gods from CANNON FILMS! Welcome to the milestone, as Bonus Disc reaches the funniest of all numerical acheivements, episode 69! Returning guest John Bennett finally gets his wish after 7 months as they finish out the ACTION PACKED 4 MOVIE MARATHON DVD set from SHOUT FACTORY with EXTERMINATOR 2! Do street crimin...
BONUS DISC 068 | SUPER BUDDIES
July 12, 2017 14:54 - 2 hours - 112 MBLao Tzu said "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." THEY'VE ARRIVED. That's right, Matt and Bob, two lost men in their 30s, have reached the end. 7 months and 14 movies later they have consumed, reviewed and dissected an empire built on a basketball dog! What does it feel like to create over 16 hours of review material on the life's work of filmmaker, producer, visionary, dog-murderer Robert Vince? Well...LONG. Matt and Bob sit down with Baltimore comedian and c...
BONUS DISC 067 | SANTA PAWS 2: THE SANTA PUPS
June 28, 2017 00:30 - 1 hour - 78.6 MBFOR THE LOVE OF BUD WE ARE ALMOST DONE. Bob and Matt can finally see an opening in the abyss, the bright light of heaven that is knowing they are 1 episode away from finishing this confusing sports dog nightmare! They sit down with Baltimore Comedian Mark Joyner to watch the sequel to a prequel to the 8th sequel to AIR BUD, so SANTA BUDDIES 3...er...AIR BUD 13...uh...well...SANTA PAWS 2: THE SANTA PUPS! Is Santa running a communist conspiracy, holding a small town hostage with the facade of ...
BONUS DISC 066 | TREASURE BUDDIES
June 14, 2017 14:53 - 1 hour - 91.2 MB"There but for the grace of Bud, go I." Matt and Bob have come far, and finally upon reaching AIR BUD 12, aka TREASURE BUDDIES, they finally know definitive truth. Bud, the worlds most perfect living organism, and his family bloodline are responsible for the very course of human history! Local baltimore comedian Jesse Cumor goes on an adventure with the boys to discover all of the false idols along the way. Does this movie blow the doors off the Air Bud Cinematic Universe Timeline? Do two 70...
A MOUND OF THUNDER O14 | WONDER WOMAN PUNCHES A "D" OFF A "C"
June 02, 2017 12:52 - 1 hour - 89.3 MBSPOILER WARNING! There are spoilers, they aren't at the open, WE WARN YA! The entire MOUND crew is back and they just saw a human-only screening of Patty Jenkins WONDER WOMAN! Rex, Bob and John celebrate Huey's birthday by gathering around a mic to talk about something that isn't him. They welcome episode guest, Baltimore's favorite corn-dog historian, Sarah Danger, to help them not sound completely tone def when reviewing the largest female directed and starring comic book blockbuster in hi...
A MOUND OF THUNDER O14 | WONDER WOMAN PUNCHES A ”D” OFF A ”C”
June 02, 2017 12:52 - 1 hour - 89.3 MBSPOILER WARNING! There are spoilers, they aren't at the open, WE WARN YA! The entire MOUND crew is back and they just saw a human-only screening of Patty Jenkins WONDER WOMAN! Rex, Bob and John celebrate Huey's birthday by gathering around a mic to talk about something that isn't him. They welcome episode guest, Baltimore's favorite corn-dog historian, Sarah Danger, to help them not sound completely tone def when reviewing the largest female directed and starring comic book blockbuster in hi...
BONUS DISC 065 | SPOOKY BUDDIES
May 31, 2017 15:52 - 1 hour - 79.6 MBWhat is there to say when the high watermark of a film franchise is the one where the antagonist is killed by a puppy fart? Matt, Bob and Baltimore filmmaker, comedian and talking-animal movie enthusiast Max Levine have gathered enough puppy blood to endure SPOOKY BUDDIES!That's right AIR BUD 11! Once again starring Diedrich Bader as the voice of The Halloween Hound, his former Drew Carey co-star Ryan Stiles as the voice of an owl and Harland Williams in his second greatest lead performance ...
BONUS DISC 064 | THE SEARCH FOR SANTA PAWS
May 17, 2017 15:43 - 1 hour - 86 MBThere are no words. There's no patience left. This week Bob and Matt force hilarious Baltimore comedian and member of the LaughFinder Podcast, Jim Meyer to endure the 10th film in the AIR BUD legacy, A FUCKING PREQUEL to SANTA BUDDIES...THE SEARCH FOR SANTA PAWS! Join these three men as they sled through this shit pole trying to figure out why santa is now that guy from Office Space? Can the all powerful christmas ice sickle create fully formed sentient life from ostensibly nothing? Does thi...
BONUS DISC 063 | SANTA BUDDIES
May 10, 2017 16:07 - 1 hour - 85.1 MBFriedrich Nietzsche said "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering." Matt and Bob welcome returning guest, Baltimore comedian and co-host of MOVIE SCHMOVIE, Ronald James to their world of pain, this time with the iron maiden that is SANTA BUDDIES! That's AIR BUD 9 for anyone that's still counting. Listen in as the guys discuss SEVERAL different individual scenes where people actively talk toward a dormant crystal. Is George Wendt falling asleep? Does director...
A MOUND OF THUNDER 013 | ALL FLAT MEATS ARE THE SAME!
April 24, 2017 15:52 - 1 hour - 76.2 MBLucky episode number 13 gets incredibly weird when Huey, John and Bob have to fend for their lives without Rex, and they don't do well. They review the absolutely baffling fun of THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS and dig into to reviewing newly release hollywood trailers and if reviewing trailers is even worthwhile at all. Huey is EXCITE, Bob shuts down because of the DCEU and John starts having a stroke because STAR WARS is apparently just SUBWAY. Stay after the end bumper for a half hour conversatio...
BONUS DISC 062 | SPACE BUDDIES
April 19, 2017 13:32 - 1 hour - 96.7 MBNothing Lao Tzu says matters anymore. Bob and Matt welcome Baltimore comedian Ian Salyers to experience the inevitable, the moment Air Bud's spawn breach the atmosphere and make their way into the heavens closer to God's love than ever before! SPACE BUDDIES once again brings about director Robert Vince's fetishistic obsession with constant introducing of Buddah, Rosebud, MudBud, Budderball and B-Dawg to new heights. Does Dauber from COACH own a Ferret that can talk to dogs? Do we as a people...
BONUS DISC 061 | SNOW BUDDIES
April 05, 2017 13:26 - 1 hour - 79.4 MBLao Tzu said "DON'T WATCH AIR BUD MOVIES." Well Bob and Matt are halfway there, up is down, left is down, right is down...it's all down. Who Cares. Listen to returning guest, comedian Bryan Preston, ride the sled as Bob and Matt pull him through SNOW BUDDES! That's right, AIR BUD 7, THE MOVIE THAT KILLED 5 PUPPIES. Was it worth it? Does the plot involve carpet bombing Alaska with ice cream? Does an entire town watch a bunch of dogs slowly drown for entertainment? The answers are NO, YES, YES...
A MOUND OF THUNDER 012 | POWER RANGERS: CASH FOR GOLDAR
March 24, 2017 12:55 - 58 minutes - 80.3 MBSHORT REVIEW: 4 Roger Ebert Thumbs sort of pointing down? The MOUND boys come together to review a movie they barely have any passion for based off source material they...barely have any passion for, POWER RANGERS! Rex, Huey, John and Bob ask the question for the ages, if no one had any pre-existing knowledge of Power Rangers, would this serious, sullen, Nolen-esque take on the show make any sense? The answer is...no. Bryan Cranston sleepwalks, Bill Hader gets a paycheck for 2 hours in a re...
BONUS DISC 060 | AIR BUDDIES
March 21, 2017 20:52 - 1 hour - 77.2 MBLao Tzu said "Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment." Matt, Bob and this week's returning guest, comedian Kathy Carson, do their best to respond to AIR BUD 6 aka AIR BUDDIES! Join these three as they watch the last film role of the legendary Don Knotts and the first of many adventures with B-Dawg, Rosebud, Budderball, Buddah and Mudbud. Hear the muted joy of experiencing TALKING animals for the first time in the AIR BUD CINEMATIC UNIVERSE! Learn about a voice cast assembled, ...
BONUS DISC 059 | AIR BUD: SPIKES BACK
March 08, 2017 12:17 - 1 hour - 98.5 MBLao Tzu said: "The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness." Matt, Bob and returning guest, Baltimore comedian Bryan Preston, are most certainly being introduced to higher dimensions of consciousness when they watch AIR BUD: SPIKES BACK, a movie that involves the JEWEL OF ETERNITY. What is that? Who cares, nothing matters. All the answers can be found on the WIKIPEDIA page for the movie, which contains the following plot synopsis: In Disne...
BONUS DISC 058 | AIR BUD: SEVENTH INNING FETCH
February 22, 2017 18:07 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBLao Tzu said "He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough." Bob and Matt are starting to have enough. This week, with the help of Baltimore comedian Eric Glaeser, the boys drank a vile of the super sports gene serum and watched AIR BUD: SEVENTH INNING FETCH! What's left to say? Is it a baseball movie at all? How is it possible for a dog to bat? Why did the series go from being obsessed with semen to fecal matter? WHY IS BUD NOT MORE FAMOUS!? Scientists are evil and Bud is almo...
A MOUND OF THUNDER 011 | FIFTY SHADES PITCH BLACKER
February 10, 2017 14:00 - 1 hour - 87.4 MBSPOILER WARNING!!! FIFTY SHADES DARKER review! The fellas of MOUND take the opportunity to discuss INTERNALIZED MISOGYNY 2: DON'T GET WOKE even though they probably should keep their privileged traps shut about such dreck. Luckily Rex, Huey, Bob and John aren't alone on this slovenly BDSM cosplay adventure, because they are joined by Baltimore musician and LIFETIME movie expert Lala Anderson who gives the guys much needed perspective on WHY PEOPLE SEEM TO LIKE THESE. Sit back and enjoy Rex's...
BONUS DISC 057 | AIR BUD: WORLD PUP
February 08, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour - 78.3 MBLao Tzu said "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." Three episodes into #therewillbebud, Bob and Matt are finally starting to learn the truth about Bud himself, he is no mere dog, he is becoming more than he is, always. Joined by Baltimore comedian Umar Khan, Bob and Matt breakdown AIR BUD: WORLD PUP! A much easier task this week since Bob took notes! Is this the blandest movie so far in the series? Why is Fernfield inhabited by the world's most egregiously terrible parents?...
A MOUND OF THUNDER 010 | "YOUR MOM IS A SEXUAL BEING!"
January 31, 2017 18:14 - 1 hour - 72 MBThe guys of MOUND finally lean into their self-fulfilling prophecy of no one listening and decide to spend a whole episode discussing TRAILERS! Join the guys as they dabble in nihilism, fear the onslaught of war elephants and demand that everyone treat their mom to a movie! The trailer line up is as follows: KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD, FIFTY SHADES DARKER, KONG: SKULL ISLAND, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, POWER RANGERS, THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS and LOGAN! Check out Rex's Voice Over Website!
A MOUND OF THUNDER 010 | ”YOUR MOM IS A SEXUAL BEING!”
January 31, 2017 18:14 - 1 hour - 72 MBThe guys of MOUND finally lean into their self-fulfilling prophecy of no one listening and decide to spend a whole episode discussing TRAILERS! Join the guys as they dabble in nihilism, fear the onslaught of war elephants and demand that everyone treat their mom to a movie! The trailer line up is as follows: KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD, FIFTY SHADES DARKER, KONG: SKULL ISLAND, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, POWER RANGERS, THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS and LOGAN! Check out Rex's Voice Over Website!
BONUS DISC 056 | AIR BUD: GOLDEN RECEIVER
January 25, 2017 02:57 - 1 hour - 93.6 MBLao Tzu said "If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." and this week Matt and Bob are determined to remain unchanged in their direction to conquer all that is AIR BUD. Joined by comedian Mark Miller, they tackle the second installment of the ABCU, AIR BUD: GOLDEN RECEIVER! Listen in as these three weary men do their best to recount the relentless confusing narrative of the last theatrical Bud movie. Grab your pudding cup and enjoy a breakdown of a film filled to...