On this Bonus Edition of The Pod Charles Cinecast, hosts Jonathan Foster & Fil Freitas enlist in the Royal Hong Kong Police to take down a drug syndicate, and end up getting thrown through over 300kg of glass, level a whole village, and destroy a shopping mall. It's high time we talk about Jackie Chan's legendary POLICE STORY . Released in 1985 by Golden Harvest, the film would start to put the wheels in motion to transport Jackie Chan's talents from Hong Kong to Hollywood. Full of death-def...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr 5 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas get invited to an exotic island theme park, where an eccentric billionaire has decided to play God, and clone Dinosaurs! With our boy Fil's big 30th coming up later this year, we're going to begin a new arc that will be with us off and on throughout the year of 2023, called FILAVERSARY. In this arc, we'll be exploring some of our favourite films from the year 1993. And, what b...
Mar 08, 2023•2 hr 18 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas enter into a Faustian pact with the Devil to sell our souls in exchange for seven wishes, resulting in a wacky Monkey's Paw situation where all of our wishes are sabotaged by the diabolical demon. It's the final week of our Brenaissance Mini-Arc – and we are taking a look at one of the types of films that Brendan Fraser would find himself settling into as the new millennium wo...
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 15 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas go searching for lost treasure inside a pyramid in Egypt, only to accidentally wake a mummy, and thus, unleash a curse on humanity... It's Week 3 of our Brenaissance Mini-Arc – where we are at the apex of Brendan Fraser's career, looking at one of his most iconic roles – Rick O'Connell – in Stephen Sommer's THE MUMMY (1999) . Co-starring Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Oded Fehr an...
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 36 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas try to get a show on the radio, but when the station manager denies them, they resort to taking the place hostage! We're in Week 2 of our Brenaissance Mini-Arc – this time looking back on the 1994 rock-comedy, AIRHEADS . Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, and Adam Sandler star as three wannabe rock stars, who take a radio station hostage with water pistols, in order to get their d...
Feb 15, 2023•1 hr 28 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas decide to dig a pool in the backyard and stumble across a two-million-year-old cave man from the first Ice Age. In hopes that this pre-historic find would bring them fame and fortune, the pair concoct a scheme to pass the Cro-Magnon man as a popcorn-slinging usher at The Prince Charles Cinema, and all sorts of 90s-style hi-jinks ensue... With the release of THE WHALE at The PC...
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 40 min
Today on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas venture to Gobblers Knob but awaken to find ourselves stuck in a time loop on GROUNDHOG DAY ! Catch all the love and lore we can give for this Bill Murray starring and Harold Ramis directed classic, which celebrates its 30th Anniversary this year! If you enjoy the podcast, leave a Rating and Review! It really helps us out! As always, you can follow the Podcast on http://twitter.com/Th...
Feb 02, 2023•2 hr 35 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas are back from their holiday break and decided to have a little catch-up on all the Best Films of 2022! We put out a call to our Patreon subscribers to have them rank their Top 10 films from last year, and in this Mamma Jamma of an episode have compiled all the rankings into a definitive Top 10 List of 2022 – according to us and our loyal listeners. Films covered are EVERYTHING...
Feb 01, 2023•2 hr 20 min
Jon and Fil are still on holiday break, so in their absence comes an episode released from the vaults of Patreon. It is one of the most vile and disturbing episodes we've ever done. It should have remained behind the paywall, but now this disgusting episode is here to fart, snot and puke its way into your ears and right through your brains... From out of the Garbage Pail and straight back into the garbage pail... It's THE GARBAGE PAIL KIDS MOVIE ! Jon & Fil bring you the podcast episode no o...
Jan 18, 2023•1 hr 45 min
On this Bonus Edition of The Pod Charles Cinecast, Jon & Fil tell Bruce Willis to stop trying to make Bruno happen, as they trudge through his 1991 partially musical comedy-caper HUDSON HAWK. The film boasts an impressive supporting cast with Andie MacDowell, Danny Aiello, Richard E. Grant, Sandra Bernhard and James Coburn; as they all are entangled in a yarn about Bruce Willis being a thief named Hudson Hawk, who times his jobs to the runtime of show tunes – except he only does it like once...
Jan 11, 2023•1 hr 7 min
It's been a long time coming... After a couple of years since the original request, the music of the podcast is finally here! Set your ears to the smooth sounds of The Pod Charles Cinecast from 2019-2022. We're talking all the theme songs, dumb snack time jingles, silly covers, weird season intros, dumb segment sound bites, and weird background music. Sit back and let the music from our very dumb podcast wash over you.
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 20 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas spend the final episode of 2022 trying to figure out if Pandora is a place on Earth. When not adjusting for inflation, James Cameron's sci-fi epic AVATAR is the most successful movie of all-time. Selling nearly $3 billion worth of tickets, it is a film that was seen by just about everyone when it came out in 2009. The film boasted groundbreaking visual effects, with unseen CGI...
Dec 28, 2022•1 hr 50 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas are stuck in a game of "Simon Says" after attending the Nakatomi International Podcast Festival 2022 in New York City. It's days before Christmas, bombs are going off all over the city, and a voice from the past forces the boys into a series of degrading events, including nearly getting killed by a mob of angry podcasters, only one thing can potentially save them... Podcasting...
Dec 21, 2022•1 hr 47 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas accidentally knock the usual Santa off the PCC stage during rehearsals for our annual Muppet Christmas Carol shows. When they went to check on him, his body had vanished and the only thing left was his suit with a card that read, "If something should happen to me, put on my suit; the projectionist will know what to do." Thus, is the story of how Fil got roped into hosting the ...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 37 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas finally finish their long journey with George Lucas's Prequel Trilogy... Of course, that means it's STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH , and we're talking about how one of the greatest movie villains of all-time, Darth Vader, put the final touches on his origin story. Join us, as we talk the epic battle between Anakin and Obi Wan Kenobi – and then the rest of this ve...
Nov 23, 2022•2 hr 22 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas get sent back to the front, this time tagging alongside a tactical bomb defusing unit in the streets of Baghdad, and find themselves in a tight situation with their reckless squad leader. Now that the spooky season is over, we're back to finish off our WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? HOLLYWOOD MOVIES! arc, with Kathryn Bigelow's 2008 Iraqi war thriller, THE HURT LOCKER . Winner of t...
Nov 16, 2022•1 hr 40 min
On this Post-Halloween Spooky Bonus Edition of The Pod Charles Cinecast, hosts Jonathan Foster & Fil Freitas follow a cat to a countryside house, where an older lady lives. All seems well until the woman is revealed to be a ghost-witch or a witch-ghost and her old house intends to devour our fearless hosts... We, of course, are talking the 1977 Japanese fantasy haunted house horror flick HOUSE aka HAUSU , directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi. The story, very much Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs mee...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 7 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our host Jonathan Foster is joined by writer/director and PCC Staff Member Levi Eddie Aluede, as we discuss Levi's upcoming strand at the Prince Charles Cinema, the QUEER COMMUNAL CINEMA season, and their short film, THE SMELL OF CUT GRASS . In this sort of old school episode, we explore how Levi got into film, found the Prince Charles Cinema, their filmmaking career and how they came to programme this exciting season...
Nov 02, 2022•1 hr 4 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head to the small town of Woodboro where some masked maniac is on the loose terrorizing the local teens. On the way, we accidentally ran over someone, and covered up our tracks, but we were seen by a crazed fisherman. One year later, we realised it was all an elaborate prank meant to satirise horror movie tropes. It's our final week of Vampire, Witches and Werewolves, Oh My! I...
Oct 26, 2022•1 hr 42 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas travel to a small town in Nebraska to take in a local high school's basketball game, where one of the teenage players has been ballin' as a werewolf! It's Week Three of our Halloween mini-arc – VAMPIRES, WITCHES, AND WEREWOLVES, OH MY – and of course, we are talking about the timeless 1985 Michael J. Fox fantasy sports comedy, TEEN WOLF . It's one of these incredibly stupid fi...
Oct 19, 2022•1 hr 35 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas take a hike in the woods and discover some old videotapes from some film students who went missing while shooting a documentary about a fabled witch. It's Week Two (Witch Week) of our Halloween mini-arc – VAMPIRES, WITCHES, AND WEREWOLVES, OH MY – and we are talking about the 1999 sleeper hit that invented modern film marketing, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT . Earning over 4000 time...
Oct 12, 2022•1 hr 34 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head to Mexico and find themselves locked up in a bar full of blood-sucking vampires! It's October! So that means it's the return of the Spooky Ookie season on the podcast, and we bring back our Halloween mini-arc – VAMPIRES, WITCHES, AND WEREWOLVES, OH MY! Over the next four weeks we'll present a different horror film, based on Vampires, Witches, Werewolves, and Oh, My (a spo...
Oct 05, 2022•1 hr 33 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas run to the finish line with our final Vietnam film in our WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?... HOLLYWOOD MOVIES arc! What better way to finish off the Vietnam War, than with one of the "best" films about the war, and just in general, of all time? Of course, we're talking about the 1994 Robert Zemeckis classic FORREST GUMP , starring Tom Hanks. You know the story, we see Tom Hanks, in ...
Sep 28, 2022•1 hr 55 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas travel into the Heart of Darkness. Our WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?... HOLLYWOOD MOVIES arc marches on, and we march with it straight into our next era of the arc. We've said goodbye to the simpler times when war seemed black and white, good versus evil, and patriotism was something you felt like you could get behind. Now, we move into the shades of grey, with one of the most div...
Sep 07, 2022•2 hr 31 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas are back on the front and ready to storm the beaches of Normandy for some Camembert and andouillette d'Alençon. It's Week 2 of WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?... HOLLYWOOD MOVIES arc – where we will be talking all things war movies and war adjacent movies. We've done World War I and lo and behold, there was a second one of those monstrous events. We'll see not one, but two World War...
Aug 24, 2022•1 hr 39 min
Due to an emergency with Fil that prevented us from recording Episode 150, there will be no episode of The Pod Charles Cinecast this week. But, you won't be left empty-handed, as Jonathan has a special treat in store for you all... It's the pilot episode for YOUNG SHELDON-VERSE ! Don't miss this informative breakdown on what Jonathan thinks makes this The Big Bang Theory spin-off one of the best series around. Listen as Jonathan covers his experiences of dealing with the loss of his favourite te...
Aug 10, 2022•16 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas travel to New Zealand to deal with our daddy issues, in Taika Waititi's BOY . It's our second week of taking it easy and talking about our feel good movies, and Jon has picked this incredibly funny, sweet, and at times brutally sad 2010 coming-of-age film for his feel good flick. Nostalgic and warm, Boy is a film that centres around youthful optimism. Following the story of a ...
Jul 27, 2022•1 hr 19 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas continue on their journey with George Lucas's Prequel Trilogy... Of course, that means it's STAR WARS: EPISODE II - ATTACK OF THE CLONES and we're talking how George Lucas picked up the shattered pieces of his heart, after the fan backlash against The Phantom Menace . How did Lucas move forward, you ask? He doubled down on political jargon, gifted us a love story for the ages ...
Jul 13, 2022•2 hr 41 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas go searching for dead bodies. In our 3rd Week of the Nepotism aka Children of Men arc, we discuss the iconic coming-of-age tale STAND BY ME , directed by Rob Reiner, son of Carl Reiner. This 1986 film adapted from Stephen King's novella "The Body", starring Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, and the late-great River Phoenix (plus Kiefer Sutherland and John Cusack), i...
Jun 29, 2022•1 hr 40 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas talk about the increase in teenage pregnancy rates following 2007's JUNO . In Week 2 of Children of Men aka Children of Famous Men aka Nepotism, we discuss the coming-of-age tale directed by Jason Reitman – son of Ivan Reitman. Starring Elliot Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Alison Janney and J.K. Simmons, the film was built off the back of the success foun...
Jun 22, 2022•1 hr 12 min
