This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas take a trip to Thailand, only to be given a mysterious map to a mythical beach, on an island unspoiled by tourists. They decide to take on this adventure, and arrive to the beach to find a group of international travellers and hippies living out their best Lord of the Flies scenario. It is the final week of 2 THOUGHTS 2 DEEP TOO : TOKYO DRIFT , and we have arrived at the apex ...
Oct 11, 2023•1 hr 41 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas get in a car wreck, and decide to off themselves. Not before leaving their minds to be cryogenically frozen and set to lucid dream mode for 150 years. It's WEEK 3 of 2 THOUGHTS 2 DEEP TOO : TOKYO DRIFT , and we are scratching our heads to Cameron Crowe's 2001 follow-up to Almost Famous , the very weird, maybe underrated, but perhaps justly forgotten, VANILLA SKY , starring Tom...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 56 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas are fresh out of prison and faced with a new dilemma – Jonathan can't quite remember what happened in jail, or pretty much any aspect of his life. With the help of Fil, he scours his memories for clues... We're bringing the old gimmick back – It's Week 1 of our returning mini-arc called 2 THOUGHTS 2 DEEP TOO : TOKYO DRIFT – where, like we did in 2021, we will be exploring four...
Sep 20, 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 are tasked with finishing out their prison sentence at the hardest place to ever do time... The Rock! It's the final episode of our BREAKING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW crime arc, and we end things with a good ol' fashioned jailbreak, with Don Siegel's 1979 prison thriller, ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ , starring Clint Eastwood. Based on the true story of the three men who in 1962 metho...
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 48 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas get transferred to Gateway Prison, where they witness the evil warden subjecting a fellow inmate to some hard time because he previously broke out of another prison under his watch, which resulted in him being forced to run this horrible prison... or something... It's the penultimate episode of the BREAKING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW arc, and we are looking at the forgotten Syl...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr 19 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas try breaking out of prison using a crop duster, just like Eddie Murphy attempted to do in LIFE (1999) . This week in the prison section of our BREAKING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW arc, we take it easy after the big mamma-jamma excursion into Shawshank Penitentiary, and have a look at one of our favourite underrated 90s movies starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence. The film i...
Aug 30, 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 attempt to break out of prison using a small rock hammer, after seeing Tim Robbins do it in THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION . We've entered the final portion of our BREAKING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW arc, the Prison Movie section! And we kick off the festivities with the film that is often debated to be the Greatest Movie of All-Time – Frank Darabont's 1994 prison drama adaption of S...
Aug 23, 2023•2 hr 20 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas hit the courthouse for the final time, to sit in on a divorce case where it turns out one of the scummy lawyers can't tell a lie because of a birthday wish his son made. It's the last week of Courtroom section of our BREAKING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW arc, and we are talking the 1997 Jim Carrey courtroom comedy, LIAR LIAR . With baseball and wrestling references, Cary Elwes ch...
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr 27 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas once again find themselves in Alabama, where they watch a rookie lawyer try to win his first case – which just so happens to be a murder case, where his defendants will be executed should he lose. No pressure... We're in Week 3 of the Courtroom section of our BREAKING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW arc, and we've made it to one of Fil's all-time favourites, the 1992 Joe Pesci court...
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr 42 min
On this special Bonus Episode of The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas reignite the rivalry, and once again ask the ultimate question, "Are you an Anderson Guy, or an Anderson Guy?" That's right! With a new Wes Anderson film now out, Anderson vs. Anderson is back, with the 11th feature from the visionary director – ASTEROID CITY . Once again, we've got an ensemble cast, with Jason Schwartzman leading the charge, alongside Wes ...
Jul 26, 2023•48 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas finally get put on trial for all their misdeeds to the art of podcasting over the last few years, and their fates are put in the hands of... 12 ANGRY MEN . Now that our crime wave is in the books, in our BREAKING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW arc, we are moving on to our second part of the season – the Courtroom. We've got four courtroom films in store, and we're kicking off with ...
Jul 19, 2023•1 hr 38 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas return to Los Angeles for another round of bank heists and get caught up in a dangerous game of cat and mouse, where a loose cannon cop will stop at nothing to catch his criminal; and a serial killer gets tossed into the mix to make things interesting. It's the final episode of our crime wave portion of our BREAKING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW arc, and we are diving into one of ...
Jul 12, 2023•2 hr 11 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas hit the beach in Southern California, where they try their hand at surfing and make friends with a surfer who is secretly undercover as a cop looking for a group of bank robbers that he suspects are fellow beach bums. It's our third week of BREAKING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW crime season, and we are finally talking about the film that inspired The Fast and the Furious , Kathry...
Jul 05, 2023•1 hr 55 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas try out the office job life, and must contend with annoying colleagues, terrible bosses, monotonous work and those damn TPS reports! It's Week 2 of BREAKING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW crime season, and this week we are taking it easy with the 1999 low-key workplace crime comedy, OFFICE SPACE , written and directed by Mike Judge, and starring Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston and...
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 29 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head to New York in the 70s to witness a stand-off between armed robbers and police, as a bank robbery has escalated into a hostage situation. It's a brand-new arc to see us through the summer – BREAKING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW – where we will be going through three stages of crime films, consisting of 1) Films about The Crime, 2) Films about The Trial, and 3)Films about The...
Jun 21, 2023•1 hr 38 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas are back in the cinema recording an episode together for the first time since before the pandemic. To mark the occasion, they are joined by long-time projectionist, Dan Walden. With the last few weeks spent having a look at cinema-based movies, where some projectionist or showman is making the magic happen for the audience by gimmick or magic ticket, we decided to talk to Dan ...
Jun 14, 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 head to Key West, Florida during the Cuban Missile Crisis, where a show-boating B-movie Producer comes to town to cash in the fears of imminent nuclear disaster amongst the townsfolk with his latest sci-fi horror film, MANT . We've got one last date (for now) with the Filaversary, our 1993 arc, where we are having a look at Joe Dante's coming-of-age film, MATINEE , starring Jo...
Jun 07, 2023•1 hr 39 min
What do you know!? FRANCHI$ED is back (sort of)! Jonathan & Ariane return to the driver seat to get back to their roots with the franchise that started it all, The Fast Saga (are they still calling it that?). Of course, we are talking about the new instalment of the super spy car racing series, FAST X . After going to space in the last film, you might wonder how the series could top itself? Well, we venture to the depths of the ocean to pluck out not one, but two Aquamen, add in even more ne...
May 31, 2023•2 hr
In this bonus edition of The Pod Charles Cinecast, we see the next adventure in our two new side ventures – BRUCE WILLS US: A Pod Charles Cinecast Brucie Bonus, where we're going to be looking at some of our favourite films from Bruce Willis every once in a while on the main timeline, and SHYAMALAMANIA , where we will be charting the films of M. Night Shyamalan in special Patreon exclusives. Like last time, because the M. Night film we're looking at this month, again, stars Bruno himself, we're ...
May 29, 2023•1 hr 9 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head to New York City, where a kid gets his hands on a magical cinema ticket that allows him to jump into his favourite movies. Just when we thought the Filaversary arc was over, and we could move on to some films about cinemas in film, we got pulled back in with the 1993 meta-action comedy, LAST ACTION HERO , starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. So, we are getting meta with a new ...
May 24, 2023•1 hr 47 min
On this Bonus Edition of The Pod Charles Cinecast, hosts Jonathan Foster & Fil Freitas decided to make a movie about making a movie. It all gets meta, as we talk about Aaron Schimberg's 2019 surrealistic drama, CHAINED FOR LIFE . Starring Jess Weixler and Under The Skin's Adam Pearson, the film takes you down the rabbit hole, as it follows a beautiful actress who develops a relationship with her co-star who suffers from a rare facial deformity. Along the way, you will be treated to a menager...
May 17, 2023•1 hr 24 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head to San Francisco, where a marriage has broken down, and the father is so desperate to see his kids, that he resorts to going full drag as the geriatric nanny to spend time with them. What could go wrong? The final stop in the Filaversary arc (for now) takes us to the #2 top-earning film of 1993, with Chris Columbus' MRS. DOUBTFIRE , starring Robin Williams, Sally Field, t...
May 10, 2023•1 hr 45 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas stumble upon a game of cat and mouse, when a man who is wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife is being hunted down by a federal agent. The Filaversary arc takes us to the #3 top-earning film of 1993, with THE FUGITIVE , starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. With a tense story adapted from the 1960s television show of the same name, it has one of the best opening of ...
May 03, 2023•1 hr 40 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas take up an apprenticeship with a couple of Brooklyn plumbers, who have a penchant for taking shrooms and climbing in sewers. But things get a bit trippy when they get us all sucked into another dimension, where the inhabitants are the descendants of dinosaurs. With the brand-new movie in cinemas (which we talk about over on Patreon ), our Filaversary arc takes us down the sewe...
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 45 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head to Austin, Texas in 1976, where a group of teens are getting rowdy because "School's Out For Summer!" It's a special 4/20 edition of the Filaversary arc, as we talk Richard Linklater's seminal 1993 coming-of-age film, DAZED AND CONFUSED . It's the ultimate hangout movie featuring a whos-who of 90s stars from Jason London to Joey Lauren Adams to Rory Cochran, Mila Jovovitc...
Apr 19, 2023•1 hr 32 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas travel to 1870s New York, where we meet a wealthy dandy who is engaged to be married to a respectable woman, but finds himself falling for her unconventional cousin. We take the Filaversary arc on a journey through time to the gilded age with Martin Scorsese's 1993 adaptation of Edith Wharton's THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, starring Daniel DAY-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder...
Apr 12, 2023•1 hr 39 min
This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas watch as a little boy makes his geriatric neighbour's life miserable and thwarts a creepy robber, in classic comic strip come to life with the Home Alone finishing spray. Next up, in the Filaversary arc, is the 1993 family comedy DENNIS THE MENACE , starring Mason Gamble (you know, Jason Schwartzman's pal in Rushmore), Walter Matthau in the role he was meant to play and the on...
Apr 05, 2023•1 hr 30 min
In this bonus edition of The Pod Charles Cinecast, we are finally kicking off two new side ventures – BRUCE WILLS US: A Pod Charles Cinecast Brucie Bonus, where we're going to be looking at some of our favourite films from Bruce Willis once a month on the main timeline, and SHYAMALAMANIA , where we will be charting the films of M. Night Shyamalan in special Patreon exclusives. As an introductory, and because the M. Night film we're starting off with just happens to star Bruno himself, we're goin...
Mar 31, 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 head to the Bronx in the 1960s to hear a tale about a young man choosing between the grind of a working man or the living the high life as a slick gangster. Guess what we learned? The working man is a sucker, and Mickey Mantle ain't gonna pay your rent! Next up in the Filaversary arc, is the 1993 coming-of-age gangster movie, A BRONX TALE, written by Chazz Palminteri and the d...
Mar 29, 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 travel to Los Angeles in the year 2032, where society has been purged of violence. However, a criminal who was cryogenically frozen in 1996 has been revived, and is wrecking havoc on the city, and the only man that can stop him is... the DEMOLITION MAN ! Next up in the Filaversary arc, is the 1993 sci-fi action classic, starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bulloc...
Mar 22, 2023•1 hr 50 min
