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The PMG Podcast
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Pretty Much Geek is a pop culture show curated just for you.
Join the PMG crew, a group of friends & artists, as they passionately analyze a variety of topics within film, television, gaming, comics and more.
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Episode 53: The Exorcist (1973) | Halloween Horror Month
Oct 28, 202201:30:24Tap to summarizeThis years final tribute is a film so vile and so disgusting it caused absolute chaos from the moment it released. Changing the course of cinematic horror, The Exorcist has been turning heads for decades and this Halloween we are here to talk about it.
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Episode 52: Frankenstein (1931) | Halloween Horror Month
Oct 21, 202200:57:11Tap to summarizeCobbled together with audio bits from fresh audio channels, tonights creation is alive and in your feed. The second feature in Universal's Monster catalogue, James Whale brought Mary Shelley's novel to life in a form that shocked audiences in 1931. Adding aspects of the German expressionist movement with a performance by Boris Karloff that immortalized the creature as a horror legend, tonight we are discussing Frankenstein.
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Episode 51: Thirteen Ghosts | Halloween Horror Month |
Oct 14, 202200:47:40Tap to summarizeHorror is an interesting genre that captures many stories in its web, as well as ghosts in a glass house. The campiest cult film we have done for Halloween Horror Month is here in the remake to the 1960 original. The film with enough energy, world building and Matthew Lillard to get us through the night. This is Thirteen Ghosts...or Thir13en Ghosts....or 13 Ghosts...its a movie with ghosts.
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Episode 50: Hellraiser | Halloween Horror Month |
Oct 7, 202201:02:12Tap to summarizeWe have such sights to show you. Before we begin that dreadful affair, join us as we return to our yearly tradition giving tribute to horror. This years first offering is Clive Barkers 1987 classic Hellraiser. A film about pain, pleasure, chaos and what the human soul is worth to gain it all. Disturbing to some, beautiful to others.
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Episode 49: Shrek | Summer Drive-In
Sep 16, 202201:14:51Tap to summarizeIn a land far, far away two unlikely heroes took upon a quest that didn't require the sharpest tools in the shed. It did however change our cultures landscape in the moment and to this day. A landmark in animation, film, nostalgia and meme culture. This is one of the most requested shows yet and we are happy to finish our Summer Drive-In on the highest note with Shrek.
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Episode 48: Speed (1994) | Summer Drive-In
Sep 2, 202200:50:24Tap to summarizeKeanu Reeves has to stop a terrorist from blowing up an LA public bus with a bomb that will detonate if the speed goes below 50mph. That's it, that's the movie. Join us tonight at our Summer Drive-In as we discuss the 90s action thriller Speed.
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Episode 47: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Summer Drive-In
Aug 23, 202201:09:16Tap to summarizeThe early 2000s were the breeding ground for modern geek culture with science fiction, fantasy, action and adventure in every direction. An expensive pirate epic based on a Disneyland ride was the last franchise that anyone expected to be included in that mix. Tonight for the second film in our summer program we are discussing Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
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Episode 46: Jurassic Park | Summer Drive-In
Aug 9, 202201:13:05Tap to summarizeWelcome to the audible version of the PMG Summer Drive-In. A series celebrating the movies that defined the summer blockbuster. A show 65 million years in the making. Filmmakers have been recreating dinosaurs since the dawn of the art form but nothing at the time or since has come close to Jurassic Park. Blending paleontology, animatronics and computer graphics Spielberg brought the titans of the lost world to life. Hold onto your butts and strap in for tonights drive-in premiere of this seminal classic.
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Episode 45: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
May 17, 202200:46:22Tap to summarizeEndless possibility and variance is what makes comic book protagonists so entertaining. None more so than Stephen Strange as the master of the mystic arts. A sequel 6 years in the making that's supposed to be filled with a cameo every minute...there is a lot riding on the good doctors shoulders. With Sam Raimi back in the directors chair after 15 years we have a film that is more bold and deliciously horrific than any Marvel film under the rats dynasty. A love letter to Strange's more horrific stories and Raimi's own Evil Dead....today we are discussing Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
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Episode 44: The Batman | Vignette of Vengeance
Mar 11, 202201:18:37Tap to summarizeWhen a masked killer begins leaving riddles and destruction in his wake, Bruce Wayne must unravel a mystery rooted to his own past and Gothams future. Matt Reeves visionary direction casts a nuanced and fresh shadow on the Dark Knight that calls back to nearly every powerful interpretation in his history. Already considered one of the best comic book films of all time, on todays episode we are discussing The Batman.
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