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Raiders of the Lost Ark: Spoilers Podcast 006 (NTSC)

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 18:50:18 -0400

We are back!!

After a prolonged absence brought on by the 10 Plagues of the Spoilers. Bill and I have returned with another commentary: Raiders of the Lost Ark, the 1981 Spielberg blockbuster classic starring Harrison Ford and Karen Allen that started the Indiana Jones trilogy... or "quadrilogy" if they ever get Indy 4 going.

Joining us this time is the recently Slashdotted singer/songwriter Jonathan Coulton, famous for his cover of Baby Got Back and, recently, Code Monkey. We take an exploratory look at Raiders as a movie the three of us grew up with pointing out actors who have gone on to bigger careers, bloopers and errors and other bits of trivia.

After you're finished listening to our illuminating discourse, you'll want to visit the Spoilers Swag Shop where we have just added a Top Secret T-Shirt.

Serenity: Spoilers Podcast 005

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:05:37 -0500

We're back! We've got a brand new commentary waiting for you to sync up and enjoy--Joss Whedon's Serenity!

The Spoilers, as always, is hosted by Rick Yaeger and Bill Douthett but we had the privilege and the pleasure of having the hosts of The Signal, Les Howard and Kari Haley, join us and offer their unique perspective and experience to the show.

The Signal is a very popular fan created podcast that was originally started to spread awareness of the movie Serenity while it was still in production. The podcast became so successful, though, that they are preparing a second season of programming even though the film has come out, left the theaters and been released to DVD--the popularity of the Firefly 'Verse is a powerful thing.

For you fans of Firefly and Serenity, we hope you will give your copy of the Serenity DVD another viewing while listening to this commentary. But our greatest wish is that those who have never seen the TV series or the movie will be encouraged to to so and allow us to come along for the ride the second time you watch what us Browncoats affectionately call "The Big Damn Movie".

Note: Our new Serenity themed Spoilers shirt, mentioned in the commentary, is now on sale.
Also, an additional copy of our commentary that has being reprocessed to synchronize with the Region 2 DVD is now available.

Spoilers Weekly 2005.10.16

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:07:31 -0400

Holy bowling balls, Batman! As promised this week, we bring you Batman and Bowling Balls. The Batman part is pretty easy to figure out with all the ads on TV about the upcoming release of Batman Begins. But we have so much more BatContent and you still have to figure out where Bowling Balls fit into all this. So check out this edition of The Spoilers Weekly and the show notes below:

Also mentioned
and recommended

Batman: 2 Disc Special Edition

Batman Returns: 2 Disc Special Edition

Batman Forever: 2 Disc Special Edition

Batman & Robin: 2 Disc Special Edition

Batman: The Motion Picture Anthology

Batman Begins: 2 Disc Special Edition

Batman: The Complete 1943 Movie Serial Collection

The Big Lebowski: Special Edition

The Big Lebowski: Achiever's Edition

The Coen Brothers Collection

Click on the links above to be taken to the Amazon page to buy these titles.

If you aren't convinced that these TV compilations are worth buying, you can always give them a test drive them by signing up for a NetFlix account in the US or, for our Canadian listeners, sign up for a Zip account. (see the sidebar for details)

Spoilers Weekly 2005.10.09

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:30:47 -0400

Due to the utter lack of decent feature films being released on DVD this week, we have decided that for this episode of The Spoilers Weekly, we would check out a different genre of the DVD showcase--TV on DVD:

Also mentioned
and recommended

Arrested Development: Season 2

South Park: Season 6

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Season 2

Veronica Mars: Season 1

The Jeffersons: Season 4

Soap: Season 4

Click on the links above to be taken to the Amazon page to buy these titles.

Spoilers Weekly 2005.10.02

Sun, 02 Oct 2005 22:08:33 -0400

The Spoilers have to take this week off from DVD reporting, but we wanted
to make sure you got our list of recommendations we had planned to talk about.
We'll be back next Sunday with our weekly review of new DVDs, and of course
we're still working on new commentaries for you, including: The Planet of the
Apes (1969), Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and The Princess
Bride. If you have questions of fun facts on any of these flicks, drop us
a line at spoilermail@spoilermail.com.

In the mean time, follow the "read me" for this week's hot DVDs, and links
to Amazon to buy them (it doesn't cost any more, and it helps us pay the
bills!)

Spoilers Weekly 2005.09.25

Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:08:48 -0400

This week in our run-down of upcoming DVD releases known as The Spoilers Weekly, we have hand picked for you 6 DVDs that we think are worthy of your attention. Strangley, half of the titles this week are for animated features and two are television related:

Also mentioned
and recommended

Evil Dead 2: The Book of the Dead Limited Edition

Robots: Widescreen Edition

Family Guy presents Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Heartbreak Ridge

Seuss Celebration

Click on the links above to be taken to the Amazon page to buy these titles.

If you aren't convinced that these movies are worth buying, you can always give them a test drive them by signing up for a NetFlix account in the US or, for our Canadian listeners, sign up for a Zip account. (see the sidebar for details)

WarGames: Spoilers Podcast 004

Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:09:22 -0400

This will be a true geek commentary. We're covering John Badham's 1983 film, WarGames, starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy. Your commentators as usual are Bill Douthett and myself, Rick Yaeger, but we will be channelling our "alternate identities" more on this commentary than we have previously. Bill is better known as Digital Bill from the podcast "the Wizards of Technology" and "The Update Wizard" and I have my own web site for Macintosh professionals at MacMerc.com.

The Spoilers will not be geeking unassisted this time around. We have enlisted the help of another technology expert and movie buff, Andy Ihnatko. Andy is best known for his technology column in The Chicago Sun-Times as well as Macworld Magazine's back-page opinion articles. If you doubt is movie commenting powers, consider that Roger Ebert credits him for writing "at least a third" of his Ebert's Little Movie Glossary (highly recommended little book) In short, whether it's technology or cinema, Andy knows his stuff and we are thrilled to have him as our guest on this commentary. (check out The Mac OS Tiger Book by Andy Ihnatko)

Also new for this podcast, we will not be providing notes on the website. We had intended to--we did the research. We even tried to pepper the commentary with it every so often, but once Andy got going it was hard to jump in to talk about some bit of trivia that was not nearly as interesting as what he was saying...or singing. We ended up just winging it and having a hell of a good time. Hope you do too.

Spoilers Weekly 2005.09.18

Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:09:59 -0400

Today we bring you the first episode of what will be a weekly run-down of a selection of cool and/or interesting DVDs about to release in the coming week -- The Spoilers Weekly. Rick Yaeger and Bill Douthett riff on 5 new soon-to-be releases and let you decide whether they're worth adding to your library.

Also mentioned
and recommended

This week's selection includes:

Battlestar Galactica: Season 1

Mallrats X: Tenth Anniversary Extended Edition

From the Earth to the Moon: The Signature Edition

Penn and Teller's Magical Mystery Tour

The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D

Click on the links above to be taken to the Amazon page to buy these titles.

Sin City: Spoilers Podcast 003

Sun, 28 Aug 2005 03:13:13 -0400

Just over two hours of commentary. Our latest podcast on the site. Days after the DVD hit the streets. Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's comic anthology film noir. Sin City they call it. I'm staring at the cover. It smells like movies ought to smell ...uhm ...uhr.*cough*

Okay, enough with the hard-boiled monologue for now. Yes, our latest commentary is for Sin City, the movie based on Frank Miller's graphic novel's "The Customer's Always Right," "That Yellow Bastard," "The Hard Goodbye," and "The Big Fat Kill." If you liked the flick, they're well worth the read ...although you'll soon realize, you've seen them faithfully recreated by Rodriguez here.

Sin City is rated R for sustained strong stylized violence, nudity and sexual content including dialogue. But notably, though Sin City has very adult themes and wonderfully strong dialog it doesn't have a lot of strong language...very little in the way of swearing. It fact they use the exclamation "yeesh" more often than any other.

Mallrats: Spoilers Podcast 002

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 16:48:15 -0400

This time out the Spoilers tackle Kevin Smith's Mallrats. We attempt to look deep into the film, relax our eyes and see the sailboat. This 1995 film marked Smith's induction into mainstream Hollywood... and upon its completion, his departure from it running and screaming. Mallrats features Ben Affleck, Jason Lee and Joey Lauren Adams--three actors who would follow Smith to his third film and his masterpiece, Chasing Amy.

So get yourself a bag of chocolate covered pretzels and a dixie cup of Coke (no ice) and listen in. And now the notes...

Takes place on a Friday, the day before the events of Kevin Smith's first movie, Clerks.
It was the debut film of Jason Lee, an actor who started out as a professional skateboarder.
Numerous references to Smith's previous film, Clerks, as well as prophetic nod to his future films Chasing Amy and Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back.
The DVD comes with an excellent commentary track by Kevin Smith, Ben Affleck, Jason Lee, Jason Mewes, Scott Mosier and Vincent Pereira that you should listen to if you haven't already. We'll try not to overlap too much.
This film was rated R by the MPAA for nudity, adult themes and numerous "bad swears"

Office Space: Spoilers Podcast 001

Mon, 08 Aug 2005 02:05:52 -0400

We kick off this experiment in podcasting with commentary for Mike Judge's cult classic, Office Space. Bill Douthett and Rick Yaeger will take you through this film pointing out interesting facts along the way.

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You'll get instructions on how to synchronize our commentary to your DVD (it's simple, really), at the beginning of the show.

Enjoy!