Logan Naugle

Logan Naugle

On The Subject: Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Who is JGL and what has his impact on cinema been?

This episode kicks off our new mini-series, the filmography of Joseph Gordon Levitt

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On The Subject: Is Tron Legacy Cinema?

We digitize into the grid and discover isotropic algorithms or maybe we just watched a film and discussed its nature and place in the world. Find out on this episode with the crew talking about Tron Legacy

TRON LEGACY

The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's corrupted creation and a unique ally who was born inside the digital world.

Director: Joseph Kosinski

Writers: Edward Kitsis (screenplay), Adam Horowitz (screenplay) | 6 more credits »

Stars: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde | See full cast & crew »

Cost $170 million

Box office: $400 million

Weekend box office December 10th

1. Tron Legacy

2. Yogi Bear

3. Voyage of the Dawn Treader

4. The Fighter

5. Tangled 

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On The Subject: Is Joker Cinema?

Is it sick and twisted or mildly boring and missing the point? We are taking about the 2019 Oscar winning film Joker.

In Gotham City, mentally troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society. He then embarks on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime. This path brings him face-to-face with his alter-ego: the Joker.

Director: Todd Phillips

Writers: Todd Phillips, Scott Silver | 3 more credits »

Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz | See full cast & crew »


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On The Subject: Is Batman: Under The Red Hood Cinema?

Time for the On the Subject crew to dawn our cowls and become the night. We are talking about the animated film adaptation of the Batman Comic; Under The Red hood.

Does the film strike true like a batarang or fall flat like a bad punchline. find out in this episode of our mini series: Cinema VS "Cinema."

Batman: Under the Red Hood

    ◦    Batman: Under the Red Hood is a 2010 American animated superhero adventure direct-to-video film produced by Warner Bros. Animation and released by Warner Home Video.[1] It is the eighth feature in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies series. The writer, Judd Winick, also wrote the "Under the Hood" run in the monthly Batman comic. The film received positive reviews, and is generally considered one of the best in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies line.

    ◦    The story is based on the 1988 Batman Comics story line "A Death in the Family," where readers voted via a 1-900 number to either save or kill off the second Robin, Jason Todd. Over 10,000 votes were cast and with only a 72-vote majority, the decision was made to kill him. Todd was later brought back in 2005 as part of the 2005 "Under the Hood" story line.

    ◦    Judd Winick, who wrote both the original comics story, was brought on to adapt the comic into this feature. He considered the movie the better version.

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On The Subject: Break between cinema

Kick back and relax. We put a pause on our cinema argument and decide to just catch up with each other. Feel free to just enjoy us catching up and escaping the current world situation.

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On The Subject: Is Scanners Cinema?

"This episode we delve deep, deep into the recesses of your mind. We can hear your thoughts so now we're giving you a chance to hear ours. What do you hear? What do you see? What do you feel? is Scanners Cinema? Or something else entirely?"

Scanners January 14th, 1981 Directed and Written by David Cronenberg. Starring Michael Ironside, Patrick McGoohan, Stephen Lack and Jennifer O'Neill.

Box Office 14.2 million

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Is Where the Wild Things Are Cinema?

A film about childhood for children? A classic kids book made into film but is is cinema?

Where the Wild Things Are

Yearning for escape and adventure, a young boy runs away from home and sails to an island filled with creatures that take him in as their king.

Director: Spike Jonze

Writers: Spike Jonze (screenplay), Dave Eggers (screenplay) | 1 more credit »

Stars: Max Records, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE  Released Oct 16th 2009

Budget: $100 Million 

Cumulative:  $100 Million

Opening Weekend: $32 Million

Opened #1  weeks

  • #2 Law abiding citizen

  • #3 Paranormal Activity

  • #4 Couples Retreat

  • #5 The Stepfather

  • #6 Cloudy with a chance of meatballs

  • #7 Zombieland

  • #8 Toystory (re-release)

  • #9 Surrogates

  • #10 The Invention of Lying

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On The Subject: Is Rounders Cinema?

The episode we shuffle up and deal you the movie Rouders. We are talking poker baby! Is Rounders cinema or just a movie grind. We discuss what works and hits on the river and the parts that don’t add up in the flop.

Rounders

A young, reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks, while balancing his relationship with his girlfriend and his commitments to law school.

Director: John Dahl

Writers: David Levien, Brian Koppelman

Stars: Matt Damon, Edward Norton, Gretchen Mol | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE Released September 11th 1998

Budget: $12 Million

Cumulative:  $22.9 Million

Opening Weekend: $8.4 Million

Opened  1

  • #2 There’s Something about Mary

    • 1st previous week

  • #3 Blade

  • #4  Saving Private Ryan

    • 2nd previous week

  • #5 Simon Birch

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On The Subject: Is The Perfect Getaway Cinema?

Zach and Logan are trapped on a podcast, with a movie that might be great or bad or something else?! Find out what OTS thinks of the thriller A Perfect Getaway. We decide if it's cinema.

A Perfect Getaway

Two pairs of lovers on a Hawaiian vacation discover that psychopaths are stalking and murdering tourists on the islands.

Director: David Twohy

Writer: David Twohy

Stars: Milla Jovovich, Steve Zahn, Timothy Olyphant | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE Released August 7th 2009

Budget: $14 Million

Cumulative:  $22.5 Million

Opening Weekend: $5.9 Million

Opened  7

  • #1 G.I. Joe Rise of the Cobra

  • #2  Julie and Julia

  • #3 G-Force

  • #4 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

  • #5 Funny People

  • #6 The Ugly Truth

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Is Star Trek 2009 Cinema?

We have had roughly 100 Spider Mans and 17 Batman(s) but there is one reboot requel that blends new and old together. On this episode we discuss Star Trek 2009 and how it tries to balance fan service and a new era of Trek for a new generation. Is it cinema?

Star Trek

The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.

Director: J.J. Abram

Writers: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman | 1 more credit »

Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE Released May 8th 2009

Budget: $150 Million

Cumulative:  $385 Million

Opening Weekend: $75 Million

Opened  1

  • #2 X-Men Origins Wolverine

  • #3 Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

  • #4 Obsessed

  • #5 17 Again

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On The Subject: Of Dresage

"Join us today as we have the pleasure of interviewing Keeley Bumford AKA Dresage. We get to hear about some of her inspirations, her style as well as what she's listening to lately plus a whole bunch more. Find her music across social media @Dresagemusic"

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On The Subject: Of Resident Evil 5 & 6

Alright listeners the OTS crew has reached The Final Chapter in our Resident Evil series, we got retribution for all craziness of these T-Virus films and its time wrap it up.

So how does this six film franchise end? Find out all of our thoughts in today's episode.

Resident Evil: Retribution.

Alice fights alongside a resistance movement to regain her freedom from an Umbrella Corporation testing facility.

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson

Writer: Paul W.S. Anderson

Stars: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Michelle Rodriguez | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE Released September 14th 2012

Budget: $65 Million

Cumulative:  $240 Million

Opening Weekend: $21 Million

Opened  1

  • #2 Finding Nemo 3D

  • #3 The Possesion

  • #4  Lawless

  • #5 The Expendables 2

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

Alice returns to where the nightmare began: The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson

Writer: Paul W.S. Anderson

Stars: Milla Jovovich, Iain Glen, Ali Larter | See full cast & crew 

BOX OFFICE Released January 29 2017

Budget: $40 Million

Cumulative:  $312 Million

Opening Weekend: $13 Million

Opened  4

  • #1 Split

  • #2 A Dog's Purpose

  • #3 Hidden Figure

  • #5 La La Land

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On The Subject: Of Resident Evil 3 & 4

On this episode we face extinction but all it gets us is afterlife. Luckily we have a special guest to help us in this T-Virus Zombie Apocalypse with the help of Heather from Sunshine and Power Cuts Podcast.

In other words let's discuss Resident Evil Films 3 and 4.

Resident Evil: Extinction

Survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp.

Director: Russell Mulcahy

Writer: Paul W.S. Anderson

Stars: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Oded Fehr | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE Released September 21 2007

Budget: $45 Million

Cumulative:  $147 Million

Opening Weekend: $23.6 Million

Opened  1

  • #2 Good Luck Chuck

  • #3 The Brave One

  • #4  3:10 to Yuma

  • #5 Eastern Promises

Resident Evil: Afterlife

While still out to destroy the evil Umbrella Corporation, Alice joins a group of survivors living in a prison surrounded by the infected who also want to relocate to the mysterious but supposedly unharmed safe haven known only as Arcadia.

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson

Writer: Paul W.S. Anderson

Stars: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Wentworth Miller | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE Released September 9 2010

Budget: $60 Million

Cumulative:  $300 Million

Opening Weekend: $26 Million

Opened  1

  • #2 Takers

  • #3 The American

  • #4 Machete

  • #5 Going the distance

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On The Subject: Of Resident Evil 1 & 2


The OTS crew investigates the T-virus and follows its 6 series journey. We talkin’ Resident Evil the film franchise that kept on going. This will be the first two films and how they take a spin on the zombie genre.

Resident Evil

A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson

Writer: Paul W.S. Anderson

Stars: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Ryan McCluskey | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE Released March 15 2002

Budget: $33 Million

Cumulative:  $102 Million

Opening Weekend: $17 Million

Opened  2

  • #1 Ice Age

  • #3 Showtime

    • Eddie Murphy and Robert Deniro buddy cop

  • #4 The Time Machine

  • #5 We were soldiers

    • Mel Gibson Vietnam

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Alice wakes up in Racoon city hospital after the city has been overrun by zombies. Alice must now make it out of the city before a mucilage bomb is dropped on the city.

Director: Alexander Witt

Writer: Paul W.S. Anderson

Stars: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Eric Mabius | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE Released September 10th 2004

Budget: $45 Million

Cumulative:  $129 Million

Opening Weekend: $51 Million

Opened  1

  • #2  Cellular

    • Kidnapper Jason Statham

  • #3  Without a Paddle

  • #4 Hero

    • Flying Tiger Hidden Dragon spiritual sequel

  • #5 Princess Diaries 2:

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On The Subject: Is Inception Cinema?

"You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling" and get ready to 3 layers down in your mind. We are asking is Inception cinema in this episode.

Inception

A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O.

Director: Christopher Nolan

Writer: Christopher Nolan

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE Released July 16th 2010

Budget: $160 Million

Cumulative:  $830 Million

Opening Weekend: $62 Million

Opened  1

  • #2  Despicable Me

  • #3 The Sorcerer's Apprentice

  • #4 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

  • #5 Toy Story 3

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On The Subject: Is Kung Fu Hustle Cinema

Riffs and references fill this action comedy from 2004 , we the OTS crew decide if that makes it cinema. This episode is Kung Fu Hustle.

KUNG FU HUSTLE

In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious "Axe Gang" while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.

Director: Stephen Chow

Writers: Stephen Chow, Kan-Cheung Tsang (as Tsang Kan Cheong) | 2 more credits »

Stars: Stephen Chow, Wah Yuen, Qiu Yuen | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE Released Dec 20th 2004

Budget: $20 Million

Cumulative:  $104 Million

Opening Weekend: $17 Million

Opened  5 runs 23 weeks

  • #1 Interpreter

  • #2 Amityville Horror

  • #3 A lot Like Love

  • #4 Sahara

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On The Subject: Is Captain America Winter Solider Cinema?

Captain America: The Winter Solider

As Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he teams up with a fellow Avenger and S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin known as the Winter Soldier.

Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo

Writers: Christopher Markus (screenplay by), Stephen McFeely (screenplay by) | 2 more credits »

Stars: Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE Released April 4th 2014

Budget: $170 Million

Cumulative:  $259.7 Million

Opening Weekend: $95 Million

Opened  1 runs 23 weeks

  • #2 Noah

  • #3 Divergent

  • #4 God's not Dead

  • #5 Muppets Most Wanted

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

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On The Subject: Of Films for folding laundry

Let's face it chores are never fun, in fact we usually only do them to ignore other tasks or wait until we have completely run out of socks. It background movies baby!

This episode: Zach, Malcolm and Logan get together to discuss what they watch when it comes time to do some chores. Its Films for folding Laundry.

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On The Subject: Is The Iron Giant Cinema?

This episode features Logan’s pick in the series on cinema vs “cinema”… The Iron Giant.

Logan defends his position on his childhood favorite film and the OTS crew discuss the impact Iron Giant has had since its mild release to rise as a cult classic.

IRON GIANT

  • Created in 1993. Limited release Aug 3rd then wide release Aug 6th 1999.

  • WB ignores Iron Giant to favor its promotion on Wild Wild West. This means it had basically no exposure to hype to build from.

Set in cold war era 1957, the film is a superhero movie and does such a spectacular job in its mere 86 minute run time. Its a tight film that hits all the beats and goes deeper than its simple synopsis. Its a story adapted from Ted Hughes' The Iron Man. Originally the adaptation was going to be a musical with Pete Townsend of The Who at the helm.

A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy.

Director: Brad Bird

Writers: Tim McCanlies (screenplay by), Brad Bird (screen story by) | 1 more credit »

Stars: Eli Marienthal, Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Aniston | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE  Released August 6th 1999

Budget: $70 Million 

Cumulative:  $23.1 Million

Opening Weekend: $5.7 - 8.3 Million

Opened #9 22 weeks

  • #1 The Sixth Sense

  • #2 The Blair Witch Project

  • #3 Runaway Bride

  • #4 The Thomas Crown Affair

  • #5 Deep Blue Sea

  • #6 Mystery Men

  • #7 Inspector Gadget

  • #8 The Haunting

  • #10 American Pie

Issues a challenge

    • Does your nature define you?

    • Like so many other superhero comics and films, the consensus from mankind is that what is different should be feared.


  • QUOTES

    • You are who you choose to be

    • Its bad to kill but its not bad to die.

    • A soul is something inside all good things and Souls dont die.

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On The Subject: Is Collateral Cinema?

This episode starts like any other episode but podcasts always have collateral. Zach picks his film in our series Cinema vs "Cinema" and chose Collateral directed by Michael Mann.

We dissect the film and decide whether or not its cinema worthy, does it live up to the standards or left on the cutting room floor, find out!

Collateral

A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in Los Angeles.

Director: Michael Mann

Writer: Stuart Beattie

Stars: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE  Released Aug 2004

Budget: $65 Million

Cumulative:  $101 Million

Opening Weekend: $24.7 Million

Open

  • #1 The Village

  • #2 The Bourne Supremacy

  • #3 The Manchurian Candidate

  • # Little Black Book

  • #4 I,Robot

  • #5 Spider-Man 2

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