"It always fits eventually." Here’s a gift for the whole family from The Film Board’s clan to yours - the thugs went out and saw our first official show-sanctioned animated film this week, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It’s a break from what we usually do on our monthly show and the movie itself is a bit of a break from what you might expect in animation as well as what comic book movies and movies with Marvel properties have become in the industry. This movie is very different.Listen to th...
Dec 18, 2018•1 hr•Season 7Ep. 5
"You never win with violence. You only win when you maintain your dignity." The Film Board spent the holiday weekend giving thanks and watching Green Book, a dramedy based on the true story of master pianist Dr. Don Shirley touring the American deep south in the 1960s. It’s back-to-back biopics for our guys with similar historical time focus as well. This movie highlights individual struggles to understand identity and build unity as America was on its way to take profoundly progressive steps fo...
Nov 27, 2018•54 min•Season 7Ep. 4
“We need to fail down here so we don’t fail up there.” Buckle up for an intense journey on this one with The Film Board as we examine the story of struggles and successes that adorn the space race and the USA’s historic effort to reach the Moon. First Man is a Neil Armstrong biopic delivered to us by Oscar Winning Director Damien Chazelle. Teaming up with Ryan Gosling here again as he did in La La Land, Chazelle is attacking a different kind of film than we’ve seen from him before.Steve Sarmento...
Oct 16, 2018•1 hr 9 min•Season 7Ep. 3
“The data suggests that it tracks its prey, exploits weakness. Seems to enjoy it, like a game.” The concept from Predator has been through a number of evolutions as a film and a franchise, so in this show we’ll dissect the DNA infusions brought to the bunch with the latest release. Written and Directed by Film Board favorite Shane Black, we’re excited to examine what’s new and different here as well as the appropriate level of homage to the classic-ly clever sci fi action horror hybrid.Listen to...
Sep 18, 2018•58 min•Season 7Ep. 2
“Looks like someone had a real piñata party.” What the heck is going on?! The Film Board was ROFL when the trailer for The Happytime Murders was released, so we decided to take a flyer and check to see if Melissa McCarthy and the Henson Gang could keep the raunchy laughs coming. We don’t usually tackle pure comedies at The Film Board so this conversation could be a pivotal point in our movie choices for the future.Join Andy Nelson, Tommy Metz III, and Justin 'JJ' Jaeger as we consider the freedo...
Aug 28, 2018•48 min•Season 7Ep. 1
“They’re alive. Just like me.” Volcanoes, clones, and lizards oh my! Let’s all get Jurassic with it this month as we venture back to join the forsaken children of Isla Nublar for a fifth time. The Film Board is going to erupt a bunch of spoilage on Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom in this episode, with intermittent narration from Jeff Goldblum. (not IRL, but surely he’ll pop up once or three times... it couldn’t fit into the franchise without it, right?)Last month we talked about the possibility o...
Jun 26, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Season 6Ep. 12
“I might be the only person who knows what you really are.” Ready for an Easter Egg hunt? Yes, it’s actually Memorial Day but Solo: A Star Wars Story hit theaters this weekend and it’s spelunking George Lucas’s treasures in the attic so The Film Board will spoil it all for you! This new Star Wars anthology film kicks off the summer season and we’re chiming in to separate the Fan Boys from the Fun Dip.Critics are wary of franchise fatigue, while the devoted are jumping at the chance to dive deepe...
May 29, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Season 6Ep. 11
“2000 years of revenge, vendetta, murder. Welcome to Beirut.” Last week the U.S. and its allies once again fired missiles on Syria in a response to recent chemical weapons attacks in the country. On Friday, April 13th, the film Beirut opened in theaters with a story that depicts Lebanon in the 70s and 80s running through some of the darkest times in the region’s history. Yet the world today remains saddled with war and confusion regarding how to achieve peace in the Middle East, so how does this...
Apr 17, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Season 6Ep. 10
"It’s the only place that feels like I mean anything." Have you heard Steven Spielberg is rumored to be directing another Indiana Jones movie? It’s technically been “announced,” and the amazement that many people feel about that report after the wonder of The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull seems kinda like the wary optimism that the world brought to this month’s film board subject: Spielberg’s Ready Player One. The book by Ernest Cline was hugely popular but polarizing for some and it was loaded w...
Apr 04, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Season 6Ep. 9
"What happens now determines what happens to the rest of the world." The Marvel Madness continues this month with Black Panther and it brings some spectacular new looks to some tried and true traditions. This movie boasts a whole lot of firsts on the big screen and it’s set to shatter box office records for February. Entertainment Weekly said that this is the “Marvel movie for people who don’t like Marvel movies” and that it “could change Marvel movies forever.” All the front end hype means that...
Feb 20, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Season 6Ep. 8
"You don’t want to break the law when you’re breaking the law." Happy New Year! We’re bringing you an early episode of The Film Board as a late Christmas gift this year. Molly's Game was pre-released on the holiday, but we gathered some thugs here as quickly as possible this week for its wide release. It’s based on the book by Colorado native Molly Bloom about her real-life adventures running clandestine high stakes poker games with rich high profile players in Los Angeles and New York.On this e...
Jan 09, 2018•1 hr•Season 6Ep. 7
"I need someone to show me my place in all this." We did it! We got to Star Wars #8 without our own Starkiller of a planet disintegrating - and what a fantastic reward we have in store for you when all of the usual suspect gang of thugs gather here to spoil the heck out of Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi. There’s so many people holding back the inner secrets of this story on social media so that you won’t get spoiled, but we fly a squadron of X-wings right in the face of that on The Film...
Dec 19, 2017•1 hr 33 min•Season 6Ep. 6
"Use the little grey cells of the mind - and you will know!" The literary adaptation sub-faction of The Film Board thugs gathers here to spoil the unraveling of Agatha Christie’s great mystery masterpiece, Murder on the Orient Express. It’s an immensely remarkable award-laden cast gathered by Kenneth Branagh for this remake, but do they adequately slay the source material? It could be a crime to pull this relic out to confound new audiences — did the mustache pull it off? Do the filmmakers get a...
Nov 14, 2017•1 hr 3 min•Season 6Ep. 5
"I did your job once. I was good at it." The Film Board gathers! This week on the show, we’re gearing up to hunt some rogue Nexus 8s and save all humanity with Denis Villeneuve's take on the Ridley Scott classic, Blade Runner 2049. How well does the new film respect the tone and style of the original? Does the film finally put to rest the mysteries of the first? Is Roger Deakins so good behind the camera?It’s no secret that we’re fans of Villeneuve’s work, but we come to Blade Runner 2049 with a...
Oct 10, 2017•1 hr 19 min•Season 6Ep. 4
The Film Board gathers! This week we’re choosing sides with the Kingsman and the Statesmen as we take on Poppy and the minions in Kingsman: The Golden Circle. Does Matthew Vaughn’s vaunted sequel deserve as much praise as Kingsman: The Secret Service? Do the Statesmen live up to our well-clad crusaders we know so well? Is Jeff Bridges just showing up to drink on set? We take on all these questions and...end up more split on this film than perhaps any other we’ve covered on this show! Join Andy N...
Sep 26, 2017•1 hr 15 min•Season 6Ep. 3
"Something made it through." Stephen King’s opus inspired the movie The Dark Tower and The Film Board gathers here to throw out a bunch of thoughts on it. There will be talk about the source material for this story and what needed to happen for it to come together on the big screen. How’s that old turn go again about the baby and the bathwater? We’ll try to pin that metaphor on the relevant elements as we break down The Dark Tower.Andy Nelson, Tommy Metz III, and Justin 'JJ' Jaeger are all in to...
Aug 08, 2017•1 hr•Season 6Ep. 2
"The whole universe is after us." The Film Board drops out of Exospace this month to experience the other-dimensional adventure of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Luc Besson brings this graphic novel adaptation to us in what the trailers described as a vision that was “a lifetime in the making” from source material that “inspired a generation.” We’re getting thuggy with it to identify which generation in what lifetime.Pete Wright, Steve Sarmento, and Justin 'JJ' Jaeger will discuss ...
Jul 25, 2017•1 hr 11 min•Season 6Ep. 1
"We recognize, examine, contain, destroy." THE FILM BOARD GATHERS! This month we all got wrapped up in the first film release for the “Dark Universe.” Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe give us an entry into a new world of gods and monsters in The Mummy. We will dispense our signature thuggery on evil incarnate and spoil the whole ball of bandages for you on this month’s show.Is this a fresh franchise exhuming classic horror characters from the 20s and 30s for an entertaining thrill ride or just to pr...
Jun 13, 2017•1 hr 15 min•Season 5Ep. 12
"One wrong note eventually ruins the entire symphony." The Film Board gathers! This month we’ve hit the Feel-a-Round Cineplex for Ridley Scott’s latest entry to the Alien Cinematic Universe: Alien: Covenant. The film tells the story of a colony ship on their way to brave new horizons, seeding a distant planet with new life when they have to go check out this one thing on that one other planet only to discover... yeah, you know the drill. How well does Scott get us back into the Alienscape and en...
May 23, 2017•1 hr 12 min•Season 5Ep. 11
"Knowing is good, but knowing everything is better." The Film Board gathers and we’re pulling everyone much much too close into The Circle. The book was released in 2013 from Dave Eggers and the movie adaptation opened this week in theaters. Our Thugs will completely spoil it for you in this show as we explore our respective crushes on Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, John Boyega, and so many others. We’re going to question everything in this movie, because depending on your preferred mode of listening, ...
May 02, 2017•1 hr 12 min•Season 5Ep. 10
"Don’t be what they make you to be." Back-to-back Film Board weeks! We couldn’t let this one go by - Marvel comics movies are continuing to find their graphic stride this month with Logan and our thugs need to get in the fight and mix it up about the value of a hard “R” comic representation in the cinematic universe. It’s not spoilery to talk about the completely appropriate rating this movie drew, but in addition to that, we will spoil the story and theorize what it means for the Marvel mutants...
Mar 07, 2017•1 hr 28 min•Season 5Ep. 9
“Here it is: My boy Chris has been missing for two days.” The Film Board gathers! This month, in a departure from the heady intensity of the Oscars line-up, our Gang of Thugs takes on a thriller written and directed by comedy all-star Jordan Peele. Get Out is thoroughly spoiled through our chat and we talk about its balance of satire and terror and the genre similarities of horror and comedy and how a filmmaker’s skills in one discipline can be transferable to the other.We’re continuing to try t...
Feb 28, 2017•1 hr 15 min•Season 5Ep. 8
"He’s on the move." DON'T LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE OF THE FILM BOARD until you see Split! At The Next Reel and The Film Board, we always mention how WE SPOIL MOVIES and this month we’ve taken on twistmaster M. Night Shyamalan's newest film with a conversation that is completely impossible without SPOILING this movie for you. That being said, go see it and then come and join us because there is lots and lots to talk about from this psychological thriller put together in the classic Shyamalan style....
Jan 24, 2017•1 hr 20 min•Season 5Ep. 7
"I'm one with the Force. The Force is with me." Look at this - The Film Board is back with a thuggish gathering of galactic implications. Last year doesn’t totally count as long ago nor far, far away for a new Star Wars movie, but the Disney franchise treatment this month goes all the way back into a sub-mid-prequel sort of thing with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. If you’re not sure where this movie belongs in the mix, we’ll spoil it for you along with the rest of the story and all of its clever...
Dec 20, 2016•1 hr 26 min•Season 5Ep. 6
"Forget everything that you think you know." The Film Board gathers! The Marvel Cinematic Universe has returned so we've brought together a merry band of thugs to spoil the next episode of the massive comic book soap opera for you - easter eggs and all. Origin story anyone? Join us as we talk about Doctor Strange, another special human that learns great and different powers to save the world/worlds in great and different ways.Singing for their supper on this one is our own special motley mix of ...
Nov 08, 2016•1 hr 16 min•Season 5Ep. 5
"You’re right – the numbers don’t add up." The Film Board is all out of breath! Our faithful thugs have been sprinting from house to car to theater to car to microphone to gather, AND SPOIL, FOR YOU - the new Tom Cruise production of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. The first installment of the Lee Child adaptation was striking and clever. We’ll talk through whether doing a #2 bugs us at all.Our house is a very very very full house with our five regulars returning to the show including Steve Sarment...
Oct 25, 2016•1 hr 21 min•Season 5Ep. 4
"Terrorism is just an excuse." The Film Board gathers undercover of darkness through compromised microphones and remotely accessed computer screens to discuss a dramatic reconstruction of the deconstruction of the general public’s privacy in Oliver Stone’s Snowden. Is it accurate? Does it matter? Did Edward get a SAG card? Listen in as our heavy hands deliver an open discussion with Steve Sarmento, Pete Wright, and Justin 'JJ' Jaeger as we all cover our laptop cameras and cross our fingers.Film ...
Sep 20, 2016•1 hr 9 min•Season 5Ep. 3
"That sounds illegal." The Film Board gathers, celebrating the Dog Days of summer with a slick new film from the team that created The Hangover’s Wolf Pack. This month the Thugs get feral and spoil War Dogs for you because it features some of our favorite young Hollywood talent in Miles Teller and Jonah Hill and it’s just plain fun to figure out the alpha in a movie that’s categorized as “Comedy, Drama, War.”Our voices above the fray will include Tommy Metz III, Andy Nelson, Pete Wright, Justin ...
Aug 23, 2016•1 hr 11 min•Season 5Ep. 2
"Use SQL to corrupt the databases." The Film Board gathers! This month, we’ve got thugs being thugs as the Bourne Quintology moves into its latest chapter. Our secret super soldiers surface to talk about Matt Damon’s return and the latest techniques in brainwashing, performance enhancing drugs and any other tricky tactics to transform Robert Ludlum’s legends to screen.All alliteration aside, we’re going to spoil this movie and the rest of the franchise. So catch up to Jason Bourne with Pete Wrig...
Aug 02, 2016•1 hr 18 min•Season 5Ep. 1
"Are you listening, Horsemen? You will get what's coming to you. In ways you can't expect." The Film Board gathers! This month, The Four Horsemen return to continue the magical crusade to right societal wrongs through misdirection and sleight of hand with Jon M. Chu’s Now You See Me 2. The Thugs tackle their own appetite for manipulation — Does this story deserve a sequel? Why would The Film Board approach it after widely panning the original? What happened to Isla Fisher and is she being played...
Jun 14, 2016•1 hr 24 min•Season 4Ep. 12
