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MoviePod is a podcast about reclaimed cinema. The films covered are ones that have had a noticeable shift in reception since their initial release. These include cult films that have a die-hard fandom that have rejected the critics. It also includes films have been claimed by communities and subcultures as representation. Hosted by Brian Wishart, a film buff in London, Ontario, Canada. Each week I will be joined by a guest. Bonus episodes under the MoviePod Dispatch umbrella will cover various topics such as film festivals and new releases. You can email questions to be read on the air to moviepodmailbag@gmail.com Do not cold contact me with AI generated interview requests.
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"Friends through eternity, loyalty, honesty We'll stay together through thick or thin" In what might be the funniest MoviePod episode yet, we are cracking into the wide world of Vinegar Syndrome releases and covering the orphan and kung fu-heavy tale of friendship known as Miami Connection. This Orlando (NOT Miami) made movie had a ridiculed local release in the 80s and wasn't revisited until the 21st century. Music from this movie was used in Far Cry: Blood Dragon and the sincere earnestness of the film has enchanted bad movie aficionados for years now. Y.K. Kim's film is an absolute blast that everyone should watch.
I spent 11 days at the 11th edition of London, Ontario's Forest City Film Festival! I saw a ton of great local and international films from new and upcoming film makers. I got the chance to hang out with old friends and new as the energy of the festival took a big leap this year. Tune in to listen to my thoughts on many independent films and some bigger international films that I did not see at TIFF. Movies discussed with their timestamps: Intro (00:00) The Stunt Driver (03:42) Thunder Queens (05:54) Her Last Supper (08:31) Torus (10:05) Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney (11:37) Death Has No Master (13:36) Seahorse (15:23) Dolphin Flip (17:11) Room (2015) (19:01) Ten Years On: The Yazidi Genocide (20:56) Fatherland (22:44) Rose (24:53) Fjord (26:45) Josephine (29:01) The Debut (30:48) Everytime (32:43) Atonement (34:26) Tender Loving Care (36:53) Iron Boy (38:33) Run Terry Run (39:47) Nina Roza (41:06) Peril at Pincer Point (42:45) Nuisance Bear (44:16) La Gradiva (45:46) The full movie of 10 Years On: The Yazidi Genocide can be found here . MoviePod Socials: Twitter Bluesky YouTube Support the show! Ko-Fi Music by BirdRespecter
Neither of Rob Zombie's Halloween movies received much critical fanfare. People found his approach to making Michael Myers a deeper character to be unnecessary and Zombie's typical filmmaking style was seen as off-putting. However, his sequel has gained a better reputation over time as people have have appreciated the increased violence and psychological tension. Maeve is back to discuss what I believe is by far Rob Zombie's best film. Join us for a good discussion on the film and tune in for the live reaction when I reveal that I think The Whale is a good movie. MoviePod Socials: Twitter Bluesky YouTube Support the show! Ko-Fi Music by BirdRespecter
The second follow-up to William Friedkin's horror masterpiece had high expectations but didn't quite become the critical bounce back as expected from the reviled Exorcist II: The Heretic. Overtime William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist III is now widely considered the best sequel in the franchise it features what is considered to be one of the greatest jump scares in horror history. I'm joined by Tim and Tommy from Haven't Scene It to talk about this fascinating and atmospheric film. That is, until the episode goes off the rails with extensive discussion on Fat Russell Crowe in The Pope's Exorcist. Our discussion on The Pope's Exorcist is continued on their podcast with another episode that goes hilairously off the rails as we just pitch superior Pope's Exorcist sequels. The Exorcist III was written and directed by William Peter Blatty. It stars George C. Scott, Ed Flanders, Jason Miller, Scott Wilson, Nicol Williamson and Brad Dourif. It also features cameos from Patrick Ewing, Fabio, and Samuel L. Jackson. You can follow Haven't Scene It on Twitter . You can also follow Tim's account and Tommy's account MoviePod Socials: Twitter Bluesky YouTube Support the show! Ko-Fi Music by BirdRespecter
MoviePod's third and final TIFF 2026 episode is finally here! I'm joined by Dalton Pike to discuss the rest of the films that we saw this year including my personal favourite film of the festival, Possible Love, and some heavy hitters such as Minotaur, Ken Russell's The Devils, Danny Boyle's Ink, Look Back, All of a Sudden and the People's Choice Midnight Madness winner:Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney. The movies discussed are timestamped as follows Intro (00:00) Minotaur (06:51) Bucking Fastard (24:13) Black Sunflowers (32:13) Being Heumann (37:00) Josephine (48:04) Gentle Monster (54:48) Nobody's Violence (58:23) Ken Russell's The Devils (1:00:08) The Face of Horror (1:10:45) God Bless You, Mr. Kopu (1:16:09) The Diary of a Chambermaid (1:18:10) Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney (1:20:18) Misty Green (1:27:52) All of a Sudden (1:34:19) Bitter Christmas (1:41:11) Look Back (1:43:35) Whatcha Want (1:44:31) Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo (1:51:33) The Liberation (1:54:00) Possible Love (1:56:21) Ink (2:03:20) You can find Dalton on Letterboxd . On top of being a top tier cinema programmer at Hyland Cinema he hosts Sick Flicks and Outside the Frame. MoviePod Socials: Instagram Twitter Bluesky YouTube Support the show! Ko-Fi Please rate, review and subscribe! Send any feedback, questions or good movie-related stories to moviepodmailbag@gmail.com Music by BirdRespecter
By popular demand: MoviePod is talking Digger. Kevin and I ended up talking about Digger for an hour before another recording. Luckily I hit the record button so we just made it an episode. He's a defender and I'm a heavy detractor. Since this recording he has watched it again and is a bigger fan of Digger Rockwell in Alejandro González Iñárritu's polarizing film than even before. This is a discussion that is full of spoilers. We also discuss satire and the general online chatter about Digger. Kevin Tuck is an independent filmmaker. You can check him out on Instagram as well as his website. Torus premieres on October 20th at Wolf Performance Hall in London, ON as part of Forest City Film Festival. Tickets can be purchased here and the Torus Instagram account can be found here . MoviePod Socials: Instagram Twitter Bluesky YouTube Support the show! Ko-Fi Music by BirdRespecter
Friend of the show Kevin Tuck created a microbudget indie sci-fi film called Torus that will be having its world premiere at the 2026 Forest City Film Festival in London, Ontario later this month. I got a chance to ask him some questions about independent filmmaking and the ambition of making science fiction on a low budget. We also preview some other local independent films that are playing at FCFF that caught our eye. Kevin Tuck is an independent filmmaker. You can check him out on Instagram as well as his website. Torus premieres on October 20th at Wolf Performance Hall in London, ON as part of Forest City Film Festival. Tickets can be purchased here and the Torus Instagram account can be found here . MoviePod Socials: Instagram Twitter Bluesky YouTube Support the show! Ko-Fi Music by BirdRespecter
Andrew Joe Potter is back on the show to discuss even more festival releases in MoviePod's second of three episodes dedicated towards the Toronto International Film Festival. Movies discussed are listed here with timestamps: Intro (00:00) Bunker (03:34) La Bola Negra (10:49) Hombre al agua (23:10) Love is the monster (26:56) Musk (28:42) The Smell of Apples (35:41) Brace Your Heart (38:00) Elsinore (39:25) I Am Mario (46:10) Babies (48:13) Phoolan (53:25) Tehran, Under the Skin (56:07) Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother (57:59) The Daughters of Abraham (1:06:07) Anchors Aweigh (1:09:11) Vintage Violence (1:12:04) HALF (1:15:27) Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney (1:16:48) River (1:19:36) We Are All Strangers (1:22:37) Ah Girl (1:26:47) Fjord (1:27:55) Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (1:37:55) MoviePod Socials: Instagram Twitter Bluesky YouTube Support the show! Ko-Fi Please rate, review and subscribe! Send any feedback, questions or good movie-related stories to moviepodmailbag@gmail.com Music by BirdRespecter
I am joined by Matt Fresh from Stand N' Watch and GG Tribune to discuss our TIFF experience in the first of the three MoviePod episodes dedicated towards the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival. Click the timestamps to jump to specific movies we talk about: Intro (00:00) Zack Snyder's The Last Photograph (07:34) Rogue Trooper (15:56) Wild Horse Nine (20:53) Club Kid (24:33) I Play Rocky (29:15) Everybody Wants to Fuck Me (32:37) Wild Wild East (35:26) Conversation with the Sea (39:09) 13 in Gaza (40:02) Our Loves (41:53) All That She Wants (47:49) The Beloved (52:02) The City of the Living (57:01) Gail (01:01:45) Girl Group (01:07:51) Julián (01:11:43) Tangles (01:15:09) Mu Yi and the Handsome General (01:17:24) L'AUTRE (01:21:34) Salvation (01:23:54) Infinitely Dense (01:27:18) Smudge the Blades (01:29:16) Strong Son (01:33:14) Stuffed (01:34:27) The Violinist (01:37:08) Sunburn (01:38:31) Toy Gun Bandit (01:42:32) You can follow Matt on Bluesky . You can check out his podcast Stand N' Watch . You can also check out our comedy satire work on GG Tribune . MoviePod Socials: Instagram Twitter Bluesky YouTube Support the show! Ko-Fi Please rate, review and subscribe! Send any feedback, questions or good movie-related stories to moviepodmailbag@gmail.com Music by BirdRespecter
There's a new Resident Evil movie by Zach Cregger coming out this week so MoviePod is returning to the Biohazard well. Maeve is back on the show to discuss Paul W. S. Anderson's best Resident Evil film, the fifth one, Retribution. This movie has a fascinating video game logic to it. The stylized action stands out and the movie is just a real riot of fun. If you have not seen the other movies in the franchise, this is still a film worth checking out. It's got Leon S. Kennedy, Barry Burton and Ada Wong! Resident Evil: Retribution stars Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Kevin Durand, Sienna Guillory, Shawn Roberts, Aryana Engineer, Colin Salmon, Johann Urb, Boris Kodjoe, and Li Bingbing. MoviePod Socials: Instagram Twitter Bluesky YouTube Support the show! Ko-Fi Please rate, review and subscribe! Send any feedback, questions or good movie-related stories to moviepodmailbag@gmail.com Music by BirdRespecter
Sometimes when fans complain enough they will redo the ending of your hit TV show! Except Neon Genesis Evangelion is no Stranger Things. The ending of EVA was abstract and had to be rushed to keep up with a demanding schedule. After the controversial finale, Hideaki Anno and Gainax decided to reinterpret and remake the finale for the series with a two-part theatrical event. The first being a recap film of the series for newcomers and fans that needed a refresher. The second being a more literal telling of the abstract events of the series: The End of Evangelion. The End of Evangelion was a success and overtime fans have come to reassess how it reinterpreted and recontextualized the original ending of the TV show. As a whole, Neon Genesis Evangelion is considered to be a landmark anime and and The End of Evangelion is considered to be one of the best animated films ever made. It even got a release on the Criterion Channel just this past weekend with the original English dub. I'm joined by Caltex to discuss one of my favourite works of media ever in this ambitious episode that's a twist on the format of MoviePod: a movie that caused the reclamation of the ending of a TV series. You can follow Caltex on Bluesky MoviePod Socials: Instagram Twitter Bluesky YouTube Support the show! Ko-Fi Please rate, review and subscribe! Send any feedback, questions or good movie-related stories to moviepodmailbag@gmail.com Music by BirdRespecter
Charles Laughton directed exactly one movie: The Night of the Hunter. Audiences and critics disliked it due to its shocking (for 1955) content. Laughton took the criticism to heart and never directed a movie again. People began to come around to the movie in the 70s as the New Hollywood era flourished. Audiences were not as shocked by the content shown and the films reputation has grown steadily since and it is now considered to be the defining film of Southern Gothic horror and one of the best films of all time. I am joined again by Audens to discuss this fantastic movie. You can follow him on Bluesky. The Night of the Hunter stars Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish. MoviePod Socials: Instagram Twitter Bluesky YouTube Support the show! Ko-Fi Please rate, review and subscribe! Send any feedback, questions or good movie-related stories to moviepodmailbag@gmail.com Music by BirdRespecter
It's the movie that depicted a conflict that literally brought down the Fourth French Republic. French critics hated it and it took five years for France to release Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers to release theatrically. Internationally, it was incredibly well regarded. American audiences that were against the Vietnam War gravitated towards it. Due to its grounded depiction of urban resilience and guerilla warfare groups such as the PLO and the Black Panthers had screenings of this film. Even the Pentagon had screenings of this film. This highly controversial film is regarded currently as a fair and balanced depiction of a sociopolitical quagmire in post-war France and Northern Africa. It is considered now to be one of the greatest films ever made. From the Worker's Lit podcast, Jacob returns and Jen Big Nasty makes her MoviePod debut. Join us for a fascinating discussion on the history of Algeria and colonialism and decolonialism You can follow Jacob and Worker's Lit on Bluesky You can follow Jen Big Nasty on Twitter. MoviePod Socials: Instagram Twitter Bluesky YouTube Support the show! Ko-Fi Music by BirdRespecter
This is one of the movies that made me decide to choose this format for the podcast. Polarizing when it came out, thanks to an inferior theatrical cut, it released in the same month as other sci-fi gems like Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, The Thing and E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial. As time went on and additional cuts of the film were released, people went back to the sci-fi noir Blade Runner with deeper appreciation. It is now considered one of the greatest films ever made and it has made a significant impact on other films, video games and television series. Join me and Kevin for a spirited discussion praising this film and dumping on our modern hellscape's version of artificial intelligence. We discuss the theatrical cut with the awful narration and happy ending as well as the director's cut and the definitive Final Cut of the film. Blade Runner was directed by Ridley Scott and stars Harrison Ford, Ruger Hauer, Sean Young and Edward James Olmos. Kevin Tuck is an independent filmmaker. You can check him out on Instagram as well as his website. MoviePod Socials: Instagram Twitter Bluesky YouTube Support the show! Ko-Fi Music by BirdRespecter
There's a new Spider-Man in the theatre so it's the perfect excuse to revisit the fantastic, yet maligned, third Sam Raimi film in his trilogy. This film ended a series but people came around to it a bit more a decade later when Tom Holland became the new Spider-Man and people realized this movie was funny on purpose and that the melodrama is something that is missing from the MCU. Spider-Man 3 is directed by Sam Raimi. It stars Tobey McGuire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, Elizabeth Banks, Bryce Dallas Howard, James Cromwell, Rosemary Harris and J.K. Simmons Apologies for the audio popping. Going to sort that out by the next episode. You can follow Audens and egg_brained on Bluesky MoviePod Socials: Instagram Twitter Bluesky YouTube Support the show! Ko-Fi Please rate, review and subscribe! Send any feedback, questions or good movie-related stories to moviepodmailbag@gmail.com Music by BirdRespecter
This is a big one. Batman AND Superman in the same movie? What could go wrong? To many, nothing went wrong and the three hour extended cut of Zack Snyder's superhero team up movie is a a great film. However, those people are wrong. This is possibly my most hated movie ever. I will hand it to them that the longer version is a more coherent movie. Snyder fans to this day like the auteur vision of this film and with films such as Zack Snyder's Justice League getting a proper full release they will still be in the replies of every social media post demanding to Restore the Snyderverse. I am joined by Tim and Tommy from Haven't Scene It to discuss this film that we all did not have much fun with. You can follow Haven't Scene It on Twitter . You can also follow Tim's account and Tommy's account MoviePod Socials: Twitter Bluesky YouTube Support the show! Ko-Fi Music by BirdRespecter
With one of our greats, Sam Neill, passing away I brough back Dalton Pike to the show to talk about his favourite Jurassic Park film, Joe Johnston's Jurassic Park III. The movie had a mixed reception upon release. However, Spielberg's mixed reception of The Lost World has had people debate for many years on which Jurassic Park sequel is the superior film. This episode has Dalton explain his love for talking animal films to my absolute amusement. We also go deep on our love as children on dinosaurs and this franchise. Jurassic Park III stars Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Allesandro Novla, Trevor Mogran, Michael Jeter and Laura Dern. You can find Dalton on Letterboxd . On top of being a top tier cinema programmer at Hyland Cinema he hosts Sick Flicks and Outside the Frame. MoviePod Socials: Instagram Twitter Bluesky YouTube Support the show! Ko-Fi Please rate, review and subscribe! Send any feedback, questions or good movie-related stories to moviepodmailbag@gmail.com Music by BirdRespecter
In tribute of the late Sam Neill, I brought Maeve back onto the show to talk about Paul W.S. Anderson's sci-fi horror cult film Event Horizon. It was critically blasted upon release. Decades later, it has influenced a lot of sci-fi video games such as Dead Space and the iconic scene of Sam Neill using a piece of paper to illustrate how a wormhole works has been used in in movies like Interstellar. We also find a way to shit on the Miami Dolphins this episode. Event Horizon stars Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson and Jason Isaacs. MoviePod Socials: Instagram Twitter Bluesky YouTube Support the show! Ko-Fi Please rate, review and subscribe! Send any feedback, questions or good movie-related stories to moviepodmailbag@gmail.com Music by BirdRespecter
As a bonus film that doesn't really fit the format, I am joined again by Audens and egg_brained to discuss the disappointing film Minions: The Rise of Gru! Hopefully the new film in theatres now will rectify the mistakes of this film and feature a lot more slapstick minion violence. You can follow Audens and egg_brained on Bluesky MoviePod Socials: Instagram Twitter Bluesky YouTube Support the show! Ko-Fi Please rate, review and subscribe! Send any feedback, questions or good movie-related stories to moviepodmailbag@gmail.com Music by BirdRespecter
Welcome to Jackass! To celebrate Jackass: Best and Last the supposedly final installment of the slapstick comedy franchise, Dalton is back on the show to chat about a series that both mean a lot to the both of us. Jackass was considered low brow initially. However, the films reviewed better overtime as critics came to realize that the comradery and friendship of the cast are what make it special... on top of the gross out gags and hits the nuts. You can find Dalton on Letterboxd . On top of being a top tier cinema programmer at Hyland Cinema he hosts Sick Flicks and Outside the Frame. MoviePod Socials: Instagram Twitter Bluesky YouTube Support the show! Ko-Fi Please rate, review and subscribe! Send any feedback, questions or good movie-related stories to moviepodmailbag@gmail.com Music by BirdRespecter
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