The Nextlander Watchcast
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- Nov 10, 2026
About the podcast
The Nextlander crew branches out into media that doesn't require a controller to enjoy! Join Alex, Brad, and Vinny as they watch the movies, shows, and anime they've either missed out on up to this point in their lives, or just want to revisit again.
Episodes 200
198: 198: Freaked (1993)
A new month for the Watchcast is at hand, but we're not done with the creature features just yet! To kick off a very silly November movie slate, we've decided on the ol' Alex Winter double-dip in the form of …
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A new month for the Watchcast is at hand, but we're not done with the creature features just yet! To kick off a very silly November movie slate, we've decided on the ol' Alex Winter double-dip in the form of the 1993 horror comedy Freaked! Join us as Alex and Vinny reminisce fondly on discovering this bizarre artifact of the MTV-addled early-'90s, and enjoy Brad's reactions as he processes this mess for the very first time!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 198: Freaked (1993)
(00:00:28) - Intro.
(00:04:37) - Who is responsible for all this nonsense.
(00:09:33) - How do you go from a Butthole Surfers vanity project to a $12 million movie?
(00:14:55) - Where it all went wrong.
(00:21:44) - Break!
(00:22:04) - We're back, and hey! Brooke Shields is here!
(00:25:45) - Selling toxic sludge, and confronting The Troll.
(00:37:33) - Arriving in Santa Flan, and encountering Elijah.
(00:47:19) - Ricky becomes the beast, and then plays Hollywood Squares.
(01:03:30) - The first Freekz Show.
(01:09:37) - Thirteen milkmen?
(01:20:08) - EES is here to join in the fun.
(01:23:17) - The final confreektation.
(01:28:38) - One final twist.
(01:31:33) - Final thoughts.
(01:38:02) - The rest of this month's schedule.
(01:41:17) - Outro.197: 197: The Lost Boys (1987)
Our final movie for our October Watchcast slate is an '80s favorite of Alex and Vinny's, and somehow our man Bradley has yet to see it! Of course, we're talking about Joel Schumacher's campy vampire …
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Our final movie for our October Watchcast slate is an '80s favorite of Alex and Vinny's, and somehow our man Bradley has yet to see it! Of course, we're talking about Joel Schumacher's campy vampire coming-of-age adventure, The Lost Boys; a movie both extremely of its time, and utterly timeless in its depictions of dirtbag teen vampires and greased up muscular saxophonists.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 197: The Lost Boys (1987)
(00:01:00) - Intro.
(00:10:28) - How this movie got made, and what it was originally supposed to be.
(00:14:03) - Mixed cast chat, soundtrack talk, and remaining production notes.
(00:30:46) - Break!
(00:31:06) - We're back, and something terrifying is happening in Santa Carla.
(00:35:42) - Meeting the family.
(00:42:39) - Taking in everything Santa Carla has to offer: the beach, the music, the roving gangs of teen vampires.
(00:51:31) - Michael's sweet on Star. But David's sweet on Michael.
(01:01:00) - Michael's got a brand new attitude (and it sucks).
(01:10:34) - Guess who's coming to dinner.
(01:18:50) - Be vewy vewy quiet, we're huntin' for the head vampiwre.
(01:23:52) - Home Alone, but not alone...and with vampires.
(01:33:28) - Remember kids: always confirm your head vampire before attempting to stake them.
(01:42:01) - Final thoughts, and rankings.
(01:48:15) - Housekeeping for November (we're only announcing one movie so far).
(01:51:46) - Outro.196: 196: The Substance (2024)
Another week, another dark temptation for all you Watchcasters! This week's comes in the form of the Academy Award-nominated goop-fest, The Substance, a movie with lots to say (and show) about body image …
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Another week, another dark temptation for all you Watchcasters! This week's comes in the form of the Academy Award-nominated goop-fest, The Substance, a movie with lots to say (and show) about body image, self-hatred, and the necessity to always follow the provided instructions for anything you inject into yourself or your other self.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 196: The Substance (2024)
(00:00:20) - Intro.
(00:10:48) - On Coralie Fargeat, and what inspired the movie.
(00:16:04) - Cast chat.
(00:24:47) - Remaining production notes.
(00:34:05) - Break!
(00:34:29) - We're back. Egg.
(00:41:43) - Elizabeth is introduced to The Substance.
(00:57:11) - Birth of the Sue.
(01:08:48) - Elizabeth's not quite sure what to do with herself, and Sue is extremely sure what to do with herself.
(01:14:24) - May cause Hag Finger in some rare cases.
(01:21:36) - Things escalate significantly.
(01:27:53) - We have reached the creature stage of the make-up.
(01:34:13) - We are at creature threat level orange. Teeth and nails are falling out. Bad ideas are being considered.
(01:36:51) - We have reached full creature. I repeat, full creature has been reached.
(01:43:23) - We should all be so lucky to die with a smile on our face...as it melts into a puddle.
(01:44:48) - Final thoughts
(01:51:58) - Rankings, and housekeeping for next week's movie: The Lost Boys!
(01:55:39) - Outro.195: 195: Needful Things (1993)
Our Halloween slate continues, and this week's dark temptation is the somewhat resistible Stephen King adaptation, Needful Things! Join us as we cackle together at this looney tale of regular folk driven to …
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Our Halloween slate continues, and this week's dark temptation is the somewhat resistible Stephen King adaptation, Needful Things! Join us as we cackle together at this looney tale of regular folk driven to homicidal madness by the kindliest grandpa demon anyone's ever run afoul of.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 195: Needful Things (1993)
(00:00:20) - Intro.
(00:08:15) - Who is responsible (besides Stephen King) for this movie.
(00:12:48) - Launching into the film, and our introduction to Leland Gaunt (or his car, at least).
(00:20:17) - Meeting some of the townsfolk, and Leland makes his first appearance.
(00:27:55) - Leland makes his first offer.
(00:39:43) - Break!
(00:40:03) - We're back, and it's time to meet some more Castle Rock weirdos.
(00:46:17) - Really doesn't take much to get these people under your thrall.
(00:59:31) - Checking in at the local loser bar to meet homicidal Al Bundy.
(01:07:35) - Gaunt gets his hooks in Polly, and Brian is pulled deeper into Gaunt's employ.
(01:12:44) - Buster likes the ponies.
(01:17:22) - Poor Raider, and now it's time for people to kill each other.
(01:22:45) - Polly is handed a cure, and Brian can't take the pressure anymore.
(01:32:26) - We've concluded this man is a monster.
(01:35:30) - Let the mayhem commence.
(01:46:04) - "You wussy."
(01:51:02) - Evil endures, of course.
(01:54:02) - Final thoughts, and rankings.
(01:57:08) - Housekeeping for next week's movie: The Substance!
(01:59:46) - Outro.194: 194: Hellraiser (1987)
October is always one of the best months for the Watchcast, if we do say ourselves, and for this month of dark temptations we've got one of the goopiest movies of the '80s in Clive Barker's Hellraiser! Join us …
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October is always one of the best months for the Watchcast, if we do say ourselves, and for this month of dark temptations we've got one of the goopiest movies of the '80s in Clive Barker's Hellraiser! Join us as we meet Pinhead and the gang for the first time, compare the film against Barker's original novella, and ponder just how tempted we'd be to solve the Lament Configuration.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 194: Hellraiser (1987)
(00:00:17) - Intro.
(00:06:20) - On Clive Barker, Cenobite lore, and the origins of this film.
(00:19:25) - How this movie got made.
(00:31:15) - Some of Barker's inspirations for the story.
(00:33:30) - Break!
(00:33:57) - We're back, and it's time to tear Frank apart.
(00:43:26) - A little wallpaper, a few throw pillows, this house might just be livable.
(00:59:36) - Frank is reborn, after a fashion.
(01:11:53) - Time to murder some horny middle-aged men.
(01:20:44) - Frank continues to get more menacing, and Kirsty has concerns about Julia.
(01:30:30) - Kirsty has gone bye-bye, until the Cenobites wake her ass up.
(01:47:33) - Papa's got a brand new skin suit.
(01:58:16) - Jesus wept. Hell, anyone would looking at what we're looking at.
(02:04:10) - A lot of box touching to send the Cenobites packing.
(02:11:24) - Final thoughts (and bonus coverage of the Hellraiser NES game).
(02:26:55) - Housekeeping for next week's movie and the rest of October's slate.
(02:32:45) - Outro.193: 193: Star Trek: That Which Survives and The Lights of Zetar
Star Trek Summer: Extended Edition is officially on hiatus for a couple of months after this week's Watchcast, and for our final batch of episodes until December, we've got Lee Merriweather as a tormented …
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Star Trek Summer: Extended Edition is officially on hiatus for a couple of months after this week's Watchcast, and for our final batch of episodes until December, we've got Lee Merriweather as a tormented fembot in That Which Survives, followed by the rare Scotty romance episode The Lights of Zetar!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 193: Star Trek: That Which Survives and The Lights of Zetar
(00:00:18) - Intro.
(00:03:18) - Kicking things off with production stuff for That Which Survives.
(00:06:34) - Earthquakes and guest actors and ship problems, oh my!
(00:11:31) - The set-up for this stranded-on-a-planet episode.
(00:21:32) - This is the weirdest alien murderer we've come across yet.
(00:34:08) - Solving the engine problems, and the underground lair full of useful plot information.
(00:42:18) - Final thoughts on this episode.
(00:43:44) - Break!
(00:44:05) - We're back, and it's time for The Lights of Zetar.
(00:46:19) - The Lamb Chop connection, and other production notes.
(00:50:12) - Launching into the episode proper.
(01:01:01) - A whole planetoid of dead librarians.
(01:07:30) - Chased by a psychedelic storm, and Romaine's connection is deeper than anyone realizes.
(01:12:02) - Decompressing alien ghosts out of your brain.
(01:21:34) - Enjoy corpse cleanup duty, Lt. Romaine. And our final thoughts.
(01:27:02) - Housekeeping for October's lineup: Dark Temptations!
(01:32:52) - Outro.192: 192: Star Trek: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield and The Mark of Gideon
This week's Watchcast brings us to a famous (or infamous) episode from Star Trek's later run in the blunt-as-a-hammer racism parable Let That Be Your Last Battlefield. Also this week is The Mark of Gideon …
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This week's Watchcast brings us to a famous (or infamous) episode from Star Trek's later run in the blunt-as-a-hammer racism parable Let That Be Your Last Battlefield. Also this week is The Mark of Gideon, which is an episode of Star Trek, and that's about the most you can say for it.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 192: Star Trek: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield and The Mark of Gideon
(00:00:17) - Intro, which is actually just us launching us straight into Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.
(00:08:24) - Production notes for this episode.
(00:23:27) - Getting into the set-up for the plot.
(00:27:33) - An invisible ship, a Batman villain, and 50,000 years of running around the galaxy.
(00:36:41) - Another alien that can just kind of do whatever, and blowing up the ship.
(00:44:00) - Lokai spreads his message to the rank and file, and Bele continues to be an asshole.
(00:53:18) - There's a great, tragic ending in here somewhere if you squint hard enough.
(00:59:33) - Break!
(00:59:52) - We're back, and it's time to talk about The Mark of Gideon, such as it is.
(01:03:15) - Who's behind this one.
(01:10:37) - An abandoned Enterprise could be kind of a haunting idea, if it had been done any way but this.
(01:17:57) - Alex really needs to talk about this dumb virus plan ahead of schedule.
(01:26:15) - Bopping around the other parts of the plot.
(01:38:47) - Final thoughts, and housekeeping for next week's episodes.
(01:42:47) - Outro.191: 191: Star Trek: Elaan of Troyius and Whom Gods Destroy
We're over the halfway hump in Star Trek's third season, and the campy nonsense hits a fever pitch in this week's episodes. First up is the Taming of the Shrew riff Elaan of Troyius, and then we're onto the …
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We're over the halfway hump in Star Trek's third season, and the campy nonsense hits a fever pitch in this week's episodes. First up is the Taming of the Shrew riff Elaan of Troyius, and then we're onto the simultaneously overheated and under-baked Whom Gods Destroy!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 191: Star Trek: Elaan of Troyius and Whom Gods Destroy
(00:00:15) - Intro.
(00:02:32) - Kicking things off with Elaan of Troyius.
(00:09:12) - Production notes for the episode.
(00:16:34) - We're a little all over the place discussing this one, but we start really getting into the episode here.
(00:21:38) - Veering back to a few quick behind-the-scenes notes.
(00:23:12) - And now beginning the episode in earnest.
(00:28:42) - Making the crew miserable, and talking some special effects stuff.
(00:34:39) - Kirk and Elaan hash it out, sort of.
(00:38:29) - The Klingon plot is revealed, and Kirk is cursed with a moderate amount of infatuation.
(00:48:10) - A good old fashioned space sub battle.
(00:56:01) - Say goodbye to Elaan.
(01:02:51) - Break!
(01:03:44) - We're back, and it's time for Whom Gods Destroy.
(01:05:57) - Who did this.
(01:16:55) - Alright, let's get into it.
(01:28:58) - The inmates can't get to the ship, but we've still got like half an hour to kill.
(01:34:25) - On the pain chair, and the blowing up of Marta.
(01:39:25) - I'm seein' double! Two Kirks and two marginally similar stuntmen!
(01:42:56) - Sure, a lady blew up, but we cured mental illness? Right?
(01:45:52) - Final thoughts, and housekeeping for next week's episodes.
(01:51:02) - Outro.190: 190: Star Trek: Wink of an Eye and The Empath
We've officially hit the halfway point of Star Trek's final season, and while Wink of an Eye and The Empath aren't exactly series (or season) highlights, at least we get to watch some guest actors ham it up in …
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We've officially hit the halfway point of Star Trek's final season, and while Wink of an Eye and The Empath aren't exactly series (or season) highlights, at least we get to watch some guest actors ham it up in wildly differing ways.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 190: Star Trek: Wink of an Eye and The Empath
(00:00:08) - Intro.
(00:03:47) - Staring straight into the confusing void of Wink of an Eye.
(00:12:19) - Missing aliens, weird buzzing sounds, and red shirts yeeting out of existence.
(00:17:22) - Now the ship's acting up, and Kirk is eventually time roofied.
(00:27:19) - Kirk tries to resist, Compton dies, and the aliens' plan is really dumb.
(00:35:17) - Getting a message to Spock, sabotaging the transporter, and knocking boots with a time alien."
(00:41:16) - Spock gets the message, and decides he needs to drink the forbidden time water.
(00:49:15) - Rushing to the end.
(00:54:19) - Break!
(00:55:21) - We're back, and it's time to meet The Empath.
(00:58:22) - Those responsible for this episode.
(01:09:46) - Stop us if you've heard this one before: this seemingly deserted planet is anything but.
(01:15:20) - Filming in the void to save money, and we meet the titular empath and her captors
(01:23:42) - Maybe the most pointless escape scene in Star Trek history.
(01:27:59) - Gem nearly cracks saving Kirk, and now let's scramble over each other to heroically die.
(01:35:07) - The not-at-all-confusing nature of this experiment.
(01:41:14) - Once again, we're just giving up on an ending.
(01:44:01) - Final thoughts.
(01:47:48) - Upcoming scheduling notes, and the next episodes (which we'll get to after a week off).
(01:50:04) - Outro.189: 189: Star Trek: The Tholian Web and Plato's Stepchildren
This week's Watchcast brings us to one of the few bright spots in this final Star Trek season in The Tholian Web. Also this week is Plato's Stepchildren, a historically significant episode that is certainly …
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This week's Watchcast brings us to one of the few bright spots in this final Star Trek season in The Tholian Web. Also this week is Plato's Stepchildren, a historically significant episode that is certainly unpredictable, if nothing else.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 189: Star Trek: The Tholian Web and Plato's Stepchildren
(00:00:21) - Intro.
(00:01:44) - Starting things off with The Tholian Web.
(00:09:22) - The folks behind this episode, and various production notes.
(00:21:27) - Who doesn't love a Starship where everyone's dead?
(00:29:18) - Transporter chicanery, and Kirk's...dead...question mark?
(00:33:00) - Time for Chekov's weekly freakout, though he's not alone this time.
(00:35:21) - And here come the Tholians
(00:42:38) - Spock and Bones are at each other's throats, and man screams during funeral.
(00:51:46) - The ectoplasmic captain.
(00:57:22) - Not sure we fully grasp how any of this stuff at the end worked.
(01:00:56) - Somehow, Kirk returned.
(01:04:41) - Break!
(01:05:05) - We're back, and it's time for Plato's Stepchildren, such as they are.
(01:07:15) - Production background.
(01:20:49) - Get me off this Greek planet.
(01:32:00) - Humiliating improv exercises IN SPACE!
(01:36:34) - Breaking Spock.
(01:40:34) - THAT'S how they got the mind powers?!?
(01:44:46) - Let's get uncomfortable for a while.
(01:49:36) - A taste of your own mind control.
(01:56:51) - Final thoughts, and housekeeping for next week's episodes.
(01:59:11) - Outro.188: 188: Star Trek: Day of the Dove and For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
For this week's Star Trek journey we've got a pair of episodes absolutely chock full of cardboard swords and ridiculous alien misunderstandings in the Klingon-heavy donnybrook Day of the Dove, and the …
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For this week's Star Trek journey we've got a pair of episodes absolutely chock full of cardboard swords and ridiculous alien misunderstandings in the Klingon-heavy donnybrook Day of the Dove, and the generation ship disaster For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 188: Star Trek: Day of the Dove and For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
(00:00:21) - Intro.
(00:06:31) - Kicking things off with Day of the Dove.
(00:13:27) - Who made and starred in this episode.
(00:20:29) - The Klingons crash the away party, and we discuss the nature of this alien.
(00:31:25) - Chekov's sudden revenge boner, and a Klingon donnybrook breaks out.
(00:36:27) - Feeding the hate to feed on the hate.
(00:46:50) - Convincing the Klingons.
(00:50:00) - Transporting into engineering and wrapping this one up as quick as we can.
(00:58:28) - Break!
(00:58:46) - We're back, and it's time for an episode with a very long title.
(01:02:20) - Who made this, and who was in this.
(01:06:49) - Getting into the episode proper, and not believing Bones is actually going to die.
(01:12:30) - The people, and their phenomenally stupid outfits.
(01:20:15) - Bones gets to be the loverboy for once.
(01:27:48) - Giving everyone headaches and then solving a big adventure game puzzle.
(01:40:50) - Final thoughts.
(01:44:21) - Housekeeping for next week, and outro.187: 187: Star Trek: Is There in Truth No Beauty and Spectre of the Gun
After the extraordinarily low lows of last week's Star Trek episodes, this week's batch feels like a welcome respite. Up to bat this week is previously-seen guest star Diana Muldaur in the psychedelic ugly …
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After the extraordinarily low lows of last week's Star Trek episodes, this week's batch feels like a welcome respite. Up to bat this week is previously-seen guest star Diana Muldaur in the psychedelic ugly alien freakout Is There in Truth No Beauty, followed by the good ol' fashioned wild west romp Spectre of the Gun!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 187: Star Trek: Is There in Truth No Beauty and Spectre of the Gun
(00:00:39) - Intro.
(00:01:58) - Jumping right into Is There in Truth No Beauty, an impossible title to say correctly the first time.
(00:15:26) - Don't look at the ugly alien. You'll go crazy.
(00:17:57) - Pretty lady onboard, let's get weird about it.
(00:29:13) - Goddammit, Larry.
(00:37:49) - Show the pretty lady flowers while we step out with her ambassador.
(00:44:11) - Piloting Spock around like it's the ambassador's vacation body.
(00:47:57) - Spock goes crazy, and it barely matters.
(00:51:41) - Spock's good, Dr. Jones got her mindlink, and Larry's dead, so I guess this is a happy ending.
(00:56:37) - Break!
(00:57:04) - We're back, and it's time to talk about Spectre of the Gun (and some OK Corral history)!
(01:14:33) - A neon probe with a big booming snake head says to stay outta this space.
(01:18:47) - A half-remembered idea of Tombstone, Arizona, where everybody is pointing you toward doom.
(01:25:08) - A force field prevents escape, gas grenades are constructed, and Chekov "dies".
(01:32:06) - Spock sees through the Matrix.
(01:39:06) - Huh, you defeated our hastily assembled wild west trap. I guess you guys are cool.
(01:44:21) - Final thoughts, and housekeeping for next week's episodes.
(01:47:03) - Outro.186: 186: Star Trek: The Paradise Syndrome and And the Children Shall Lead
Star Trek Summer is officially back on the menu, folks! We're once again joined by our compatriot Brad Shoemaker to continue our journey through the original series' third season soldiers on. And this week that …
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Star Trek Summer is officially back on the menu, folks! We're once again joined by our compatriot Brad Shoemaker to continue our journey through the original series' third season soldiers on. And this week that journey meets one of its toughest challenges yet in the execrable episodes The Paradise Syndrome, and And the Children Shall Lead.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 186: Star Trek: The Paradise Syndrome and And the Children Shall Lead
(00:00:23) - Intro.
(00:06:12) - Launching straight into The Paradise Syndrome.
(00:12:33) - ANOTHER planet full of random humans?
(00:20:02) - Kirk gets zapped with the head empty beam.
(00:25:53) - You're a handsome devil, you're our god now.
(00:30:25) - Burning out your engines to move an asteroid like a centimeter.
(00:34:31) - Kirk's so happy.
(00:38:51) - Moonwalking back to the planet and discovering alien music.
(00:40:35) - It's god time.
(00:44:08) - Mind melding your way out of your bad life choices.
(00:51:23) - Break!
(00:51:46) - We're back, And the Children Shall Lead...us to this very bad episode.
(00:55:10) - The somewhat, uh, unconventional casting choices.
(01:03:36) - We're not dunking on this because it's a kid episode. It sucks well beyond the kid stuff.
(01:08:54) - Wasting a perfectly creepy intro set-up.
(01:18:07) - Them kids ain't right.
(01:30:43) - The final confrontation with the pirate ghost.
(01:37:27) - Final thoughts.
(01:39:49) - Next week's episodes, and outro.185: 185: The Night of the Hunter (1955) w/ Scott Benson
For this week's special guest Watchcast animator and game developer Scott Benson takes us on a tour of the creeper corners of Depression-era West Virginia in Charles Laughton's singularly strange thriller, The …
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For this week's special guest Watchcast animator and game developer Scott Benson takes us on a tour of the creeper corners of Depression-era West Virginia in Charles Laughton's singularly strange thriller, The Night of the Hunter!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 185: The Night of the Hunter (1955) w/ Scott Benson
(00:00:21) - Intro.
(00:12:39) - How we came to this movie initially.
(00:19:47) - Some history of the film.
(00:36:23) - Some talk about the cast.
(00:44:14) - The film's initial lackluster reception, and subsequent reappraisal.
(00:48:08) - Break!
(00:48:51) - We're back, and it's time to get into the film proper.
(01:00:51) - I'm Peter Graves, and this is a felony.
(01:25:46) - Meeting the other townsfolk, and the preacher comes a callin'.
(01:41:14) - A consequential picnic, and Willa makes some bad choices.
(01:46:03) - An all-timer of a bad honeymoon.
(01:52:53) - Good night, Willa.
(02:07:00) - The trouble with Harry.
(02:13:22) - A long, lazy trip down the river.
(02:23:44) - The introduction of Rachel Cooper.
(02:29:15) - Everything's going great until a teen girl gets a crush.
(02:46:53) - Harry's approach is less viable under these circumstances.
(02:52:29) - Do not mess with Whistler's mother.
(03:05:14) - The strange epilogue to it all.
(03:16:36) - Final thoughts.
(03:23:59) - We might return to Star Trek next week (check the Patreon this week for more info).
(03:26:38) - Outro.184: Ghost in the Shell (1995) w/ Austin Walker
For this week's Special Guest Watchcast we've got none other than Austin Walker joining the show to tell us all about a seminal work of cyberpunk anime (that just happens to coincide with a new revival hitting …
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For this week's Special Guest Watchcast we've got none other than Austin Walker joining the show to tell us all about a seminal work of cyberpunk anime (that just happens to coincide with a new revival hitting the airwaves very recently) in the 1995 adaptation of Ghost in the Shell!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 184: Ghost in the Shell (1995) w/ Austin Walker
(00:00:26) - Intro.
(00:03:32) - Talking about this week's movie, the manga and other adaptations, and how it feels to watch this in 2026.
(00:25:53) - Do we understand what happened in this movie? We think so!
(00:32:49) - Some talk about the animation techniques used, and then rampant cyberbrain chat.
(00:39:48) - Break!
(00:40:17) - We're back, and tackling some lingering questions before we launch into the plot.
(00:45:40) - Setting the stage.
(00:51:58) - Sorting the sections, and setting up the Puppet Master.
(01:06:07) - The Major's cop buddies.
(01:11:16) - The garbage men.
(01:23:35) - I wanna sink to the bottom with you.
(01:37:21) - The Puppet Master has demands.
(01:52:57) - Ishikawa.
(01:58:58) - The decoy, and the run-up to Old Town.
(02:08:21) - The Puppet Master's pitch.
(02:17:55) - Well, everyone's dead. Guess we'll just wrap this one up.
(02:24:55) - Sequel talk, and final thoughts.
(02:36:50) - Housekeeping for next week's movie: Night of the Hunter with Scott Benson!
(02:38:48) - Austin's plugs, and outro.183: Twilight (2008) w/ Abby Russell
The Watchcast rises from hiatus to sparkle for all of you once again, and while our friend Brad is out on leave, we've got a few guests lined up to take us through some of their favorite films. First up is Abby …
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The Watchcast rises from hiatus to sparkle for all of you once again, and while our friend Brad is out on leave, we've got a few guests lined up to take us through some of their favorite films. First up is Abby Russell with the movie she's been determined to make us watch for months now. the equally baffling and entertaining YA vampire romance, Twilight!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 183: Twilight (2008) w/ Abby Russell
(00:00:22) - Intro.
(00:04:12) - Why does Abby love Twilight ever so much?
(00:14:25) - On Stephenie Meyer and the folks who made this movie.
(00:25:21) - MAN was this a big franchise (and more about how teens responded to the material).
(00:34:39) - Break!
(00:35:01) - We're back, and it's time to talk about this damn movie.
(00:46:25) - This is quite the efficient intro, and then high school happens.
(00:53:09) - The Cullens make their entrance.
(01:10:42) - Edward saves Bella for the first time (of many).
(01:21:55) - Things meander a bit before the big vampire reveal.
(01:34:24) - A big, sparkly unveiling.
(01:43:47) - Meeting The Family.
(01:54:23) - Edward + Bella 4 Eva
(02:01:34) - Wanna play baseball?
(02:05:52) - Enter: the sleazy vampires.
(02:14:41) - By the time I get to Arizona.
(02:27:29) - Waking up in the hospital with the worst cover story ever concocted.
(02:29:21) - Casino prom? Casino prom!
(02:35:46) - Final thoughts.
(02:44:11) - Housekeeping for the next couple of weeks, and outro.182: Star Trek: Spock's Brain and The Enterprise Incident
One season is all that stands between us and our years-long goal of completing Star Trek: The Original Series. Yes, that season might be uniquely bad by series standards, but we are determined to push through …
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One season is all that stands between us and our years-long goal of completing Star Trek: The Original Series. Yes, that season might be uniquely bad by series standards, but we are determined to push through any deep hurting that may result in order to achieve our goal. First up, an all-timer dumb-dumb episode in Spock's Brain, and the surprisingly solid The Enterprise Incident.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 182: Star Trek: Spock's Brain and The Enterprise Incident
(00:00:17) - Intro.
(00:03:45) - Why season 3 is Like This.
(00:16:24) - Launching into this season of hell with Spock's Brain.
(00:22:40) - Who made this episode, and why is it in this state.
(00:27:52) - Pressing the "make everyone fall down" button so you can steal a brain.
(00:37:27) - The horrors of the caveman planet.
(00:41:37) - RoboSpock.
(00:51:27) - I...KNOW...EVERYTHIIIIIING!
(00:58:30) - They saved Spock's brain.
(01:03:05) - Break!
(01:03:32) - We're back, and it's onto The Enterprise Incident.
(01:15:16) - The creatives involved in this episode, and the real life naval event that inspired the
episode.
(01:23:00) - Veering into the Neutral Zone like a road rage incident.
(01:30:11) - What is the Romulans' interest in Spock?
(01:40:35) - It was all an elaborate, if confusing, ruse.
(01:42:23) - Can love bloom on the battlefield, specifically between a Vulcan and a Romulan?
(01:50:54) - Keystone Romulans, and Spock's filibuster.
(01:58:16) - Try every USB adapter you've got, Scotty!
(02:05:37) - Final thoughts.
(02:09:34) - Outro.181: Trekkies (1997)
We've got a one week break coming up before Star Trek Summer begins again in earnest, but before that happens we've got one more documentary to serve our Watchcasting listeners in Trekkies! Join us for some …
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We've got a one week break coming up before Star Trek Summer begins again in earnest, but before that happens we've got one more documentary to serve our Watchcasting listeners in Trekkies! Join us for some nerd archeology as we dig through this doc that's chock full of superfans of all flavors and stripes, and marvel with us at how quaint it all seems compared with our extremely fandom-oriented present.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 181: Trekkies (1997)
(00:00:14) - Intro.
(00:05:40) - Why we're doing Trekkies (because Star Trek Summer is on the horizon).
(00:08:10) - The fandom, and how this movie treats its nerds.
(00:16:41) - On Denise Crosby, and how this movie got made.
(00:20:32) - The cast reactions to all this stuff.
(00:31:30) - Break!
(00:31:54) - We're back, and we're beginning this journey with the Spiner-Femme.
(00:37:18) - Gabriel, the star of the movie, if we're being honest.
(00:52:32) - Barbara, the Whitewater juror.
(00:58:29) - Actual Star Trek (and affiliated) people.
(01:07:06) - The Slash Fiction crowd.
(01:12:03) - The Greensteins.
(01:17:18) - Starbase Dental.
(01:20:29) - Filking.
(01:22:54) - The wildly different radio shows.
(01:30:43) - An encounter at Radio Shack.
(01:34:53) - A few scattered bits.
(01:40:17) - Final thoughts.
(01:53:08) - Housekeeping for our upcoming Star Trek season 3 watch.
(01:55:59) - Outro.180: Apollo 11 (2019)
Nothing brings people together like a good old fashioned space mission, and for this week's Watchcast we've got a documentary about the goodest of old fashioned space missions, Apollo 11! Join us as we marvel …
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Nothing brings people together like a good old fashioned space mission, and for this week's Watchcast we've got a documentary about the goodest of old fashioned space missions, Apollo 11! Join us as we marvel not just at the unbelievable human achievement this story represents, but also the ludicrously high quality footage they managed to capture 50-plus years ago.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 180: Apollo 11 (2019)
(00:00:24) - Intro.
(00:02:50) - Brad tells us why he picked Apollo 11, and we muse on how wild it is that this footage exists.
(00:11:01) - On the achievement itself, and what it's meant to the world since.
(00:22:51) - Some context for the previous Apollo missions.
(00:32:20) - Once again talking about the ludicrous amount of high quality footage we have here.
(00:38:30) - On the filmmaker, and how this movie came to be.
(00:43:02) - Break!
(00:43:28) - We're back, and Brad has a familial anecdote.
(00:45:50) - Launch day.
(00:59:27) - Once again, gotta give it up for the clarity of this footage.
(01:05:41) - Off to the (space) races.
(01:12:54) - Arrival at the Moon, and the descent.
(01:25:12) - Two hours on the Moon.
(01:30:03) - Rejoining with the ship, and heading home.
(01:35:35) - The boys come home.
(01:39:18) - What came after.
(01:53:27) - Final thoughts (we did a cool thing, once).
(01:58:01) - What's coming up on the Watchcast.
(02:04:08) - Outro.179: Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)
This week's Watchcast takes us on a trip down to Harlan County, U.S.A. as we tackle Barbara Kopple's gripping (and Academy Award winning) documentary about the 1973 miners' strike against Duke …
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This week's Watchcast takes us on a trip down to Harlan County, U.S.A. as we tackle Barbara Kopple's gripping (and Academy Award winning) documentary about the 1973 miners' strike against Duke Power.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 179: Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)
(00:00:57) - Intro.
(00:07:38) - Geography lessons with the Nextlander gang.
(00:12:53) - On Bloody Harlan, and some discussion of the movie's structure.
(00:20:41) - How this movie came to be.
(00:37:02) - Break!
(00:37:24) - We're back, and it's time to venture down to Kentucky.
(00:42:01) - Our first glimpses at the life of the strikers.
(00:51:34) - A personal retelling of Bloody Harlan, and the first encounter with the gun thugs.
(00:58:05) - The women of the community become more directly involved.
(01:05:24) - Open conflicts begin to errupt, and people are taken to jail.
(01:10:37) - Heading to New York.
(01:17:22) - The Farmington accident, and discussion of black lung.
(01:23:26) - The Boyle/Yablonski affair.
(01:32:02) - Tensions are boiling in Harlan.
(01:41:13) - The road blockade and the warrant for Basil Collins.
(01:46:58) - The killing of Lawrence Jones.
(01:51:18) - The fight is never over.
(02:01:24) - Final thoughts.
(02:07:00) - Housekeeping for next week's doc: Apollo 11!
(02:11:45) - Outro.178: Class Action Park (2020)
We're filling out May's Watchcast schedule with a trio of documentaries that have been on our respective lists for a while now, and first up is Vinny's pick, Class Action Park! Join us as we recount our own …
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We're filling out May's Watchcast schedule with a trio of documentaries that have been on our respective lists for a while now, and first up is Vinny's pick, Class Action Park! Join us as we recount our own memories of weirdo theme parks of yore, marvel at the brazen lawlessness of this whole operation, and wonder aloud if we aren't just living in Action Park all the time now.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 178: Class Action Park (2020)
(00:00:43) - Intro.
(00:04:00) - Class Action Park is Vinny's pick this month, and here's why.
(00:10:37) - How this podcast is going to go, generally, and our own personal experiences with local theme parks.
(00:20:57) - How the hell was this allowed to go on for so long?
(00:27:04) - Break!
(00:27:32) - We're back, and it's time to talk about who made this movie, and who some of the folks speaking in it are.
(00:32:11) - Kicking things off with who Gene Mulvihill was. and how he came to own this place.
(00:36:26) - The Action Park complex, and the rides that didn't work out.
(00:46:42) - Some of the rides that lasted the duration, and the Lord of the Flies situation going on here.
(00:56:02) - The deadliest kayak experience this side of the Colorado.
(00:57:31) - The wave pool deaths.
(01:05:49) - Motorworld, and George Larsson's death on the Alpine Slide.
(01:14:52) - How Gene Mulvihill dodged consequences.
(01:24:05) - What became of Action Park, and what, if anything, is there to be learned from all this?
(01:46:12) - Final thoughts.
(01:53:26) - Our film for next week: Harlan County, USA!
(01:56:18) - Outro.177: Burn After Reading (2008) with Austin Walker
We close out our slate of Coens comedies with their 2008 spy thriller farce, Burn After Reading! And joining the crew as we unravel this sordid tale of idiot spycraft is none other than our friend and yours …
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We close out our slate of Coens comedies with their 2008 spy thriller farce, Burn After Reading! And joining the crew as we unravel this sordid tale of idiot spycraft is none other than our friend and yours, Austin Walker!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 177: Burn After Reading (2008)
(00:00:16) - Intro.
(00:01:02) - Our guest this week is Austin Walker, and our movie is Burn After Reading!
(00:05:36) - On the movie's overall tone, it's cynicism, and how it treats its characters.
(00:21:14) - How this movie came into the world.
(00:29:03) - Break!
(00:29:24) - We're back, and it's time to handle the most important political issue of our time: HR violations at the CIA.
(00:36:38) - Katie, and the Pfarrers.
(00:44:52) - Osborne's explosive memoirs (and exploding marriage).
(00:51:32) - Linda arrives, and she wants some work done.
(01:00:49) - The discovery of top secret shit.
(01:07:22) - The master plan begins.
(01:15:56) - We gotta get these two crazy kids together.
(01:18:34) - The drop, and the Russians become involved.
(01:24:40) - No one ever expects the adult novelty chair, and the fall of Osborne Cox.
(01:31:36) - Things escalate, to say the least.
(01:36:07) - JK Simmons is here to say what we're all thinking.
(01:41:16) - Everyone and everything becomes unwound.
(01:57:55) - What did we learn?
(02:03:58) - Final thoughts.
(02:09:21) - Housekeeping for the remaining May movies.
(02:13:01) - Outro.176: Raising Arizona (1987)
The third film in our Coens Comedy Classics lineup is an all-time favorite of Alex's, and a genuine screwball hall-of-famer if you don't mind such bold proclamations. We are, of course, talking about Raising …
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The third film in our Coens Comedy Classics lineup is an all-time favorite of Alex's, and a genuine screwball hall-of-famer if you don't mind such bold proclamations. We are, of course, talking about Raising Arizona, a movie chock full of yuks that still has a genuine heart that cannot be denied.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 176: Raising Arizona (1987)
(00:00:22) - Intro.
(00:08:19) - Some initial impressions, and how Raising Arizona got made.
(00:21:09) - On the subject of Randall "Tex" Cobb.
(00:25:43) - A brief bit on Trey Wilson.
(00:27:05) - On the movie's success and reception (and also a lengthy Siskel and Ebert bit).
(00:33:11) - Break!
(00:33:31) - We're back, and it's time for Hi and Ed's whirlwind romance.
(00:43:32) - Taking your pick of the Arizona Quints.
(00:52:42) - Our new nuclear family, and the Snoats brothers come calling.
(01:01:47) - The demon biker first appears, and Nathan Jr. is discovered missing.
(01:07:57) - The true horror of the nuclear family is revealed.
(01:15:09) - One of the all-time great failed hold-ups in cinema.
(01:18:04) - The bank robbery is pitched, and Junior's origins are discovered by unsavory types.
(01:29:59) - Hi and Ed are nearly done, and the bank robbery pops off.
(01:33:10) - All forces converge on Nathan Jr.
(01:36:47) - Hi and Ed make things right, and a (potential) vision of the future.
(01:44:05) - Final thoughts, and various other Cage musings.
(01:53:42) - Our final Coens movie for this lineup: Burn After Reading!
(01:55:47) - Outro.175: The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Our journey through some of the wackier Coen Brothers capers continues this week as we take on The Hudsucker Proxy, a star-studded, over-the-top affair that is equal parts His Girl Friday and Roadrunner …
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Our journey through some of the wackier Coen Brothers capers continues this week as we take on The Hudsucker Proxy, a star-studded, over-the-top affair that is equal parts His Girl Friday and Roadrunner cartoon, and is every bit as ungainly as that description makes it sound.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 175: The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
(00:00:20) - Intro.
(00:01:28) - Our movie this week: The Hudsucker Proxy!
(00:10:49) - How this movie got made, and discussion of its ill box office fortunes.
(00:25:03) - Break!
(00:25:26) - We're back, and it's time to tell the tale of Norville Barnes.
(00:35:04) - Everything's going great at Hudsucker Industries, until it isn't.
(00:40:04) - Let's hatch a stock scam.
(00:44:22) - Mailroom mayhem, and the introduction of the Blue Letter.
(00:57:17) - A perfect patsy is born, but one ace reporter smells a bunko scam.
(01:05:20) - A fabricated meet-cute at the diner, and Amy becomes a Muncie gal.
(01:10:20) - Taking a letter, and the fancy dress ball.
(01:21:02) - The dawn of the extruded plastic dingus.
(01:28:29) - The stock scam is in shambles, and Norville is tripping on his own dingus.
(01:32:20) - Norville's dancing dreams, and the downfall.
(01:42:25) - Long way down (one more thing).
(01:54:14) - The epilogue, and our final thoughts.
(02:02:13) - Our film for next week is a killer one: Raising Arizona!
(02:03:48) - Outro.174: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
After an unexpectedly long odyssey that delayed the Watchcast's scheduled arrival, we're finally back to our movie watching ways, and launching into our month of Coen Brothers comedies, starting with the duo's …
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After an unexpectedly long odyssey that delayed the Watchcast's scheduled arrival, we're finally back to our movie watching ways, and launching into our month of Coen Brothers comedies, starting with the duo's southern-fried take on one of the great Homeric works in O Brother, Where Art Thou?!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 174: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
(00:01:04) - Intro
(00:02:53) - It took us longer than we expected to get back, but we're finally here. Now, on a totally unrelated subject, let's talk about The Odyssey.
(00:09:17) - The music, and some chatter about our main cast.
(00:16:46) - Some last production notes.
(00:23:32) - What was our familiarity with this one prior to this watch?
(00:27:01) - Break!
(00:30:01) - The blind seer's prophecy, and a night on the farm.
(00:40:41) - A genuine geographical oddity, and the dreamiest Baptism you ever did see.
(00:43:43) - Meeting Tommy at the Crossroads, and singin' into a can.
(00:54:19) - Money talk around the campfire, and the introduction of Babyface.
(01:04:55) - The sirens, a toad, and Big Dan.
(01:13:17) - Homer Stokes, the Wharvey gals, and the pater familias.
(01:21:59) - Reuniting with Pete, and rescuing Tommy from the klan.
(01:30:11) - Everything converges at the music hall.
(01:37:34) - Babyface's fate, and one last challenge to overcome.
(01:44:41) - The McGills reunited.
(01:46:10) - Final thoughts.
(01:49:45) - Next week's movie: The Hudsucker Proxy!
(01:51:57) - Outro.173: Stop Making Sense (1984)
It's our last Watchcast before we take a two week hiatus, so Alex wants to send us off on a high note, and to do so he has hand selected the 1984 Talking Heads concert extravaganza Stop Making Sense! Join us as …
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It's our last Watchcast before we take a two week hiatus, so Alex wants to send us off on a high note, and to do so he has hand selected the 1984 Talking Heads concert extravaganza Stop Making Sense! Join us as we experience together the myriad pleasures of great music, cardiovascular exercise, and enormous suits.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 173: Stop Making Sense (1984)
(00:00:45) - Intro.
(00:02:46) - Our personal histories with the Talking Heads, if we have them.
(00:10:36) - Brad has a couple of questions.
(00:14:38) - A little bit of history about the band.
(00:33:45) - How the film came to be.
(00:41:13) - The touring musicians who help make this show so dynamic.
(00:48:37) - Break!
(00:48:58) - We're back, and we're kicking things off with Psycho Killer.
(00:54:52) - Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.
(01:02:33) - Jerry Harrison Found a Job.
(01:04:49) - (Mostly) The full backing crew arrives for Slippery People.
(01:06:19) - A song from the extended edition, Cities.
(01:08:40) - Burning Down the House.
(01:12:32) - The incredible performance of Life During Wartime.
(01:17:54) - Making Flippy Floppy.
(01:20:06) - Swampin' it up.
(01:22:30) - What a Day That Was.
(01:24:21) - This Must Be the Place (Naive Podcasters)
(01:27:43) - This is not my beautiful Watchcast!
(01:30:07) - Big Business / I Zimbra
(01:32:40) - The Tom Tom Club takeover.
(01:35:08) - BIG SUIT (also featuring Girlfriend Is Better).
(01:39:30) - Take Me to the River.
(01:43:42) - Closing out with Crosseyed and Painless.
(01:46:57) - Final thoughts.
(01:56:35) - Housekeeping for next month.
(02:00:35) - Outro.172: Annihilation (2018)
Brad has made his pick for the month, and he's decided to take a trip down south to Alex Garland's Annihilation, where a funny kind of Shimmer has got everyone all confused and refracted and dead. Join us as we …
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Brad has made his pick for the month, and he's decided to take a trip down south to Alex Garland's Annihilation, where a funny kind of Shimmer has got everyone all confused and refracted and dead. Join us as we discuss at length the phantasmagoric scenes that await our scientific adventurers, the human drama that plagues them both in and out of the zone, and just how how messed up that bear really is.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 172: Annihilation (2018)
(00:00:26) - Intro.
(00:04:06) - Brad's pick is up this week, and he has chosen Annihilation!
(00:08:50) - Talking about the book, Alex Garland, and how he set about adapting this story.
(00:16:48) - On the production, and the trouble it ran into pre-release.
(00:27:02) - The flashback.
(00:38:23) - This is not my beautiful house. This is not my beautiful wife. How did I get here?
(00:42:35) - Break!
(00:42:54) - We're back, and it's time for our first look at the Shimmer.
(00:53:28) - Meeting the squad.
(00:59:34) - Time becomes immediately weird.
(01:03:11) - The mutations start to become apparent.
(01:15:33) - Video logs and environmental storytelling.
(01:24:24) - Another flashback in a flashback, and the bear makes its first appearance.
(01:33:44) - They find Cassie, then they find some tree people.
(01:42:50) - Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear absorbs your consciousness at the moment of grim death.
(01:52:28) - Josie becomes one with the field.
(01:56:59) - That lighthouse is messed up.
(02:07:51) - The titular line.
(02:13:13) - Dancing with...myself?
(02:26:20) - Are you you? Am I me?
(02:30:59) - Final thoughts.
(02:37:57) - Housekeeping for next week's movie: Stop Making Sense!
(02:41:21) - Outro.171: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
With our March schedule being on the shorter side, we've decided to once again each pick a movie we felt like watching, and first up is Vinny with Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Join our party as we …
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With our March schedule being on the shorter side, we've decided to once again each pick a movie we felt like watching, and first up is Vinny with Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Join our party as we adventure through this tongue-in-cheek spin on tabletop storytelling, tell our own tales of DnD adventures, and say the name Jarnathan every chance we get.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 171: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
(00:00:13) - Intro, and immediately launching into our personal experiences with tabletop gaming.
(00:13:41) - Initial thoughts about the movie.
(00:19:14) - How this movie (finally) got made.
(00:32:34) - The tonal tightrope this movie walks.
(00:38:53) - Meeting our Bard and Barbarian in a frozen prison.
(00:50:58) - Break!
(00:51:19) - We're back, the gang is out of prison, and it's time to head to Neverwinter.
(01:01:46) - Time to (re)form the party (and a sidebar about hidden effects shots).
(01:14:37) - Scoping out the red wizard's security.
(01:19:24) - The Helm of Solving This Specific Problem.
(01:25:24) - Waking the dead.
(01:29:12) - The most paladin paladin who ever paladin'd.
(01:37:08) - To the Underdark.
(01:49:19) - Attunement is a real pain in the ass.
(01:57:03) - Doing some magical heisting.
(02:04:22) - Surviving the games.
(02:13:33) - A real life party might've made off with the treasure, but that's not a good movie ending.
(02:23:23) - Saving Holga, and keeping the party together.
(02:27:56) - Final thoughts.
(02:34:51) - Housekeeping for the rest of this month's movies.
(02:40:27) - Outro.170: Sexy Beast (2000)
Alex's final pick for February is here, and for this week's Watchcast he's taking us to the Spanish coast to peek in on the idyllic life of retired thief Gal Dove in Jonathan Glazer's Sexy Beast, a movie that's …
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Alex's final pick for February is here, and for this week's Watchcast he's taking us to the Spanish coast to peek in on the idyllic life of retired thief Gal Dove in Jonathan Glazer's Sexy Beast, a movie that's got a whole lot of unusual style and flavor going on, even outside of Ben Kingsley's ferociously memorable central performance.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 170: Sexy Beast (2000)
(00:01:20) - Intro.
(00:03:05) - Our final February film for 2026: Sexy Beast!
(00:10:57) - How this movie got made.
(00:20:58) - Our extremely British cast.
(00:26:14) - Sweating, baking, boiling, things of that nature.
(00:35:02) - Break!
(00:35:26) - We're back, and so is Don Logan.
(00:44:10) - The plan.
(00:52:00) - Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes! Yes! Yes!
(01:06:38) - Don leaves, and then doesn't.
(01:14:04) - Onto the heist, but what of Don?
(01:24:54) - These are the true heirs to the Wet Bandits moniker.
(01:31:03) - Shooting off, are we?"
(01:36:52) - Gal survives to suntan another day.
(01:39:03) - Final thoughts.
(01:44:12) - Housekeeping for next month and next week's movie.
(01:45:48) - Outro.169: Fargo (1996)
It's Fargo week on the Watchcast, and Alex is just gosh darned excited as all get out to talk about his favorite Coens classic. Join us as he takes Brad and Vinny through the frozen wasteland of the Northern …
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It's Fargo week on the Watchcast, and Alex is just gosh darned excited as all get out to talk about his favorite Coens classic. Join us as he takes Brad and Vinny through the frozen wasteland of the Northern Midwest to discuss the supposedly (but not actually) "true events" of the film, the darkness that runs under the surface of Minnesota Nice, and the spectacular array of accents on display.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 169: Fargo (1996)
(00:00:15) - Intro.
(00:01:18) - What the boys knew about Fargo going in, and how Alex first saw it.
(00:10:03) - Some broader Coens talk.
(00:17:20) - Cast chat.
(00:30:18) - Launching down a snowy highway into the movie proper.
(00:46:52) - Wade and Jerry are not exactly aligned.
(00:51:07) - Break!
(00:51:27) - We're back, and it's time for a kidnapping.
(01:06:37) - The plan is in motion, but it's about to hit its first homicidal snag.
(01:11:48) - Marge is on the case.
(01:19:24) - This is Jerry's deal.
(01:25:32) - Marge meets some ladies.
(01:27:00) - The Yanagita Affair, and a few other assorted scenes.
(01:32:22) - Jerry's getting cut out of his own kidnapping, and Carl endures many indignities.
(01:44:11) - The drop goes bad.
(01:50:47) - Here are some guys talking, and Carl buries the money.
(01:59:32) - Jerry flees the interview, Jean is dispatched, and Carl gets Gaear'd.
(02:09:33) - Chipper Cop Finds Man in Wood Chipper.
(02:15:46) - Jerry's undignified end, and one last moment with Marge and Norm.
(02:23:27) - Final thoughts.
(02:27:31) - Housekeeping for our final film of the month: Sexy Beast!
(02:30:12) - Outro.
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