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#1 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs from Sony continues to hold the #1 spot with a weekend gross of $24.6 million (-18.8%) in 3119 theaters (no change). Total gross to date is $60 million. Budget was $100 million.
#2 Surrogates from Buena Vista debuts at #2 with an opening weekend gross of $15 million in [...]

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In the near future, a new invention has taken over the land, the concept of the “virtual self” where the user can remain at home and by cybernetically connecting to a robot body that can safely interact with the outside world. These “surrogates” act as an idealized avatar in the outside world with the [...]

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Welcome…. to Jurassic Park.
Nazi Dinosaurs?
We dare you not to have visions of velociraptors in Hugo Boss designed SS uniforms with shiny jackboots after listening to this episode. (Apologies to Chris for stealing this line from his email telling us he was done editing this episode.)

 

 BSP Episode 106: Jurassic Park: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (648)

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We discuss the Guy Ritchie flicks Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.
This one is rated Explicit, so be warned.

 

 BSP Episode 105: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels & Snatch: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (542)

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Yep, we chat up THE STORM CLOUD again.  Make sure you grab your copy before they are sold out.
In this episode, we discuss the 1999 Sci-Fi Comedy/Spoof Galaxy Quest.  Lots of laughs are had buy the hosts as we pick apart the flick and explain why we feel this is the way that spoofs of [...]

 

 BSP Episode 104: Galaxy Quest: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (617)

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#1 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs from Sony debuts at #1 with an opening weekend gross of $30.1 million in 3119 theaters. Budget was $100 million.
#2 The Informant! from Warner Brothers debuts at #2 with an opening weekend gross of $10.5 million in 2505 theaters. Budget was $22 million.
#3 Tyler Perry’s I Can Do [...]

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Remove the live concert footage and the nonessential (I hesitate to call them gratuitous) sex scenes, and 9 Songs ceases to be a movie and becomes a film short.  There’s not a lot of story here.  I can’t even call it a character study, because we barely learn anything about Matt and Lisa, the [...]

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In the early 90s, a transnational corporation ADM (Archer Daniels Midland) was investigated by the FBI into matters of price-fixing around the world (primarily around the use of the amino acid lysine in food production) and all of that came about through one very big whistle-blower by the name of Mark Whitacre, a very big [...]

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#1 Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself from Lionsgate Films debuts at #1 with an opening weekend gross of $23.4 million in 2255 theaters. Budget is unknown.
#2 9 from Focus debuts at #2 with an opening weekend gross of $10.7 million in 1661 theaters. Budget is unknown.
#3 Inglourious Basterds from Weinstein Co. [...]

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We talk about one of the biggest films of the year… No I didn’t bother to check if it actually was.
Special thanks to special guest Aron Head of Ideology of Madness and Funny Books with Aron and Paulie.
Let us know what you think and be sure to check out Aron’s other work… Including this amazing [...]

 

 BSP Episode 103: Star Trek: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (534)

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In this episode Tony and Darrell follow up the two previous conversations (one recorded/one not) about the second films in the Alien and Terminator series.
Before we start in with the movie talk though, we do mention our new anthology THE STORM CLOUD.
THE STORM CLOUD is a collection of sci-fi and fantasy short stories that feature, [...]

 

 BSP Episode 102: Alien 3 and Terminator 3: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (631)

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This was SUPPOSED to be episode 102.   Unfortunately SOMEBODY (me) forgot to press the record button before we had the most insightful and indepth conversation about Terminator 2 that has ever been had.
One or two lucky listeners caught it on Ustream.tv/channel/back-seat-producers.
The rest of you will just have to wonder about the lost episode and [...]

 

 BSP Episode 101: Aliens: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (616)

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At a United States science facility based in the Antarctic, U.S. Marshal, Carrie Stetko, who basically has a very routine job at the site, now all of a sudden has murder mystery at her hands, and must come to grips solving this murder right as a major arctic storm is about to enforce the evacuation [...]

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In a post-apocalyptic setting, the future for any sort of life rests in the hands of 9 little burlap bag-covered robotic creatures…
That’s all I’m going to say about a synopsis to the new animated movie 9 from director Shane Acker and producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (I expect most reading this know who Tim [...]

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This was originally planned as THE 100th episode.  That was before we realized just how incredible the 100 Episodes in 100 Minutes Special Episode was… so yeah, we do things differently around here.  This is the second episode 100.
There were a lot of us.
We drank and celebrated making it to episode 100.
We drank and cussed.
We [...]

 

 BSP Episode 100B: Spoilers, Drunkenness and Randomness: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (435)

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