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We have packed this episode edge to edge with current event goodness! Given that two out of three of us are based in Indianapolis this show might be a little local this week with Memorial Day and the Indy 500 race. Mike had the opportunity to check out Jay & Silent Bob’s Super Groovy Cartoon Movie, we discussed how the new Xbox One will bring and end to television, Lucas and Spielberg gambling with billions, He-Man never laid She-Ra but possibly Smurfette, Thankskilling pulled from Netflix, Doctor Who’s season finale, Sunscreen on private parts drinking in the 500 snake pit, special friend a segment in Human Centipede, Monos the Hands of Felt, Superman, and much much more.
Last off, we encourage everyone to check out The Cultural Gutter’s new IndyGoGo campaign Gutter-A-Go-Go Raids Again. Their site is amazing and their writers deserve to be paid for their talents. Check it out, open you hearts (and pockets), and help support independent art and the critical examination thereof.
Keep your Percy Jacksons, your Eragons, and your Wardrobes. The Traumatic Cinematic Podcast is going over the Wall and into the head of modern comic book god Neil Gaiman as we discuss the 2007 adaption of his graphic novel Stardust. How did we (good comic book and fantasy nerds all) miss a film that looks this good, never mind this weird? How and features such a heavy-hitting cast (Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, Mark Strong, Ricky Gervais, Peter O’Toole, Robert! Fucking! De Niro!) not make boats of cash? Why was this not an instant fantasy classic in its own time, or ours? And should it be? Come with us as we explore the directorial debut of Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class helmer Matthew Vaughn and find out of this film bewitched us or turned us all into frogs.
As March-ial Arts month come to a close the trio picked a modern Wushu film based on a legendary Wushu master. Legend and lore has it Ip Man (or Yip Man) trained the kung-fu film legend Bruce Lee and the trio delves deep into this story to see if any truth is in these rumors. Donnie Yen leads the cast in this amazing tail of action, suppression, and uprising. Join the @TCPodCast crew in their discussion and review of this semi-biographical account of Yip Man and be amazed with the skills and fighting styles the crew brings to the table. Tune in to witness Mike Wickliff’s Midwestern Devastation Panda Paw Wing Chung style. Admire for the first time in 200 years Mr. DeMoss’s West Coast Negative Angst Whooping Crane Bitch Slap method. And before you leave you will see for the last time performed in public MuGumBo’s Flying Dragon Spinning a Yarn Eight Legged Spider Boxing style.
It has taken slightly over a year but the Traumatic Cinematic show has finally logged their 60th episode. In celebration, and to keep in line with March-ial Arts Month, the trio delved deep into Takashi Miike’s spaghetti western kung-fu extravaganza Sukiyaki Western Django. This is not the first nor the last Miike experience for the boys but it is the first gun slinging western. Tune in to see if Wickliff gushes all over yest another one of his own picks, listen to see if Mr. DeMoss finds something to hate about this film like all the rest, and see if Mugumbo understood any of the film’s Engrish.
This is our 2nd installment in our March-ial Arts month spectacular and we bring you Jet Li’s “last martial arts movie” Fearless. We invited a special guest on the show from the Movies, Cigars, and Beer podcast Keith Hughes and we give him the Traumatic Cinematic royal treatment. Tune in to find out if Mike drinks himself into a Sassafras blackout, find out if Keith gives up podcasting forever after being soiled by the trio, and if DeMoss hogs all the airtime.
To close out Black History month we at the TCPodcast studio decided since we’ve already tasted the modern throwback Blaxploitation film Black Dynamite we needed to also view one of the greatest and most copied films from the genre. Pam Grier plays the ever so sexy badass in this 1974 cult classic Foxy Brown and we get elbow deep in it. The trio invited 3 Black Geeks to join in and Chris Powell represents them and the East Coast verses MuGumBo’s Midwest style and DeMoss’s West Coast jingle. Tune in to find out where Wickliff was, see if DeMoss and Chris Powell start a coast to coast podcast war, and if Antonio Fargas is the Steve Buscemi of Blaxploitation films (spoiler alert: he totally is).
William Bruce West (@WilliamBWest) joins the crew as we celebrate Black History Month with the 2009 retro blaxploitation extravaganza, Black Dynamite.