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The Pod Charles Cinecast

The Prince Charles Cinema

The official podcast of The Prince Charles Cinema in London! Consider this an audio guide to the programme of your favourite independent cinema, as told by the people who help run the place.

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01:49:57

That's the thing about Avatar

The Pod Charles Cinecast ·

2022/12/28

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas spend the final episode of 2022 trying to figure out if Pandora is a place on Earth. When not adjusting for inflation, James Cameron's sci-fi epic AVATAR is the most successful movie of all-time. Selling nearly $3 billion worth of tickets, it is a film that was seen by just about everyone when it came out in 2009. The film boasted groundbreaking visual effects, with unseen CGI

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01:46:47

Die Hard with a Vengeance is also a Christmas Movie

The Pod Charles Cinecast ·

2022/12/21

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas are stuck in a game of "Simon Says" after attending the Nakatomi International Podcast Festival 2022 in New York City. It's days before Christmas, bombs are going off all over the city, and a voice from the past forces the boys into a series of degrading events, including nearly getting killed by a mob of angry podcasters, only one thing can potentially save them..

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01:35:25

I wish I never watched The Santa Clause sequels

The Pod Charles Cinecast ·

2022/12/14

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas, after having so much fun with the 1994 classic last week, return to the North Pole to tackle THE SANTA CLAUSE sequels in this double film episode. The choice was regrettable...First up, we see Tim Allen back, after 8 years, as Scott Calvin aka Santa Claus, in 2002's THE SANTA CLAUSE 2. After the elves neglected to read the finer print on the Santa Clause card, SC is left with 27

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01:36:47

Tool Time with The Santa Clause

The Pod Charles Cinecast ·

2022/12/07

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas accidentally knock the usual Santa off the PCC stage during rehearsals for our annual Muppet Christmas Carol shows. When they went to check on him, his body had vanished and the only thing left was his suit with a card that read, "If something should happen to me, put on my suit; the projectionist will know what to do." Thus, is the story of how Fil got roped into hosting the

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38:29

Guys would rather go to therapy than talk about Gone...

The Pod Charles Cinecast ·

2022/11/30

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas finally talk to someone (their significant others) about all the issues they've been going through for the last couple of years. Join the boys, as they get to the bottom of Snack Time beefs, what happened in Episode 100, the blurring of fiction and reality on the podcast, why Jon won't talk about Gone in 60 Seconds, why Fil won't finish his movie (editor's note: don't worry, he

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02:21:45

Star Wars : Revenge of the Scruffy-looking Nerf Herders

The Pod Charles Cinecast ·

2022/11/23

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas finally finish their long journey with George Lucas's Prequel Trilogy...Of course, that means it's STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH, and we're talking about how one of the greatest movie villains of all-time, Darth Vader, put the final touches on his origin story. Join us, as we talk the epic battle between Anakin and Obi Wan Kenobi – and then the rest of this very

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01:39:42

Falcon and Hawkeye get sent to The Hurt Locker

The Pod Charles Cinecast ·

2022/11/16

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas get sent back to the front, this time tagging alongside a tactical bomb defusing unit in the streets of Baghdad, and find themselves in a tight situation with their reckless squad leader.Now that the spooky season is over, we're back to finish off our WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? HOLLYWOOD MOVIES! arc, with Kathryn Bigelow's 2008 Iraqi war thriller, THE HURT LOCKER. Winner of the

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01:07:27

This old House (Hausu)

The Pod Charles Cinecast ·

2022/11/09

On this Post-Halloween Spooky Bonus Edition of The Pod Charles Cinecast, hosts Jonathan Foster & Fil Freitas follow a cat to a countryside house, where an older lady lives. All seems well until the woman is revealed to be a ghost-witch or a witch-ghost and her old house intends to devour our fearless hosts...We, of course, are talking the 1977 Japanese fantasy haunted house horror flick HOUSE aka HAUSU, directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi. The story, very much Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs meets

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01:04:01

The Smell of Cut Grass

The Pod Charles Cinecast ·

2022/11/02

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our host Jonathan Foster is joined by writer/director and PCC Staff Member Levi Eddie Aluede, as we discuss Levi's upcoming strand at the Prince Charles Cinema, the QUEER COMMUNAL CINEMA season, and their short film, THE SMELL OF CUT GRASS.In this sort of old school episode, we explore how Levi got into film, found the Prince Charles Cinema, their filmmaking career and how they came to programme this exciting season of

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01:42:28

Scream if I Know What You Did Last Summer while...

The Pod Charles Cinecast ·

2022/10/26

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head to the small town of Woodboro where some masked maniac is on the loose terrorizing the local teens. On the way, we accidentally ran over someone, and covered up our tracks, but we were seen by a crazed fisherman. One year later, we realised it was all an elaborate prank meant to satirise horror movie tropes.It's our final week of Vampire, Witches and Werewolves, Oh My! It's

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01:35:00

Look who's Teen Wolf

The Pod Charles Cinecast ·

2022/10/19

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas travel to a small town in Nebraska to take in a local high school's basketball game, where one of the teenage players has been ballin' as a werewolf!It's Week Three of our Halloween mini-arc – VAMPIRES, WITCHES, AND WEREWOLVES, OH MY – and of course, we are talking about the timeless 1985 Michael J. Fox fantasy sports comedy, TEEN WOLF. It's one of these incredibly stupid films,

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01:33:46

The Legend of The Blair Witch Project

The Pod Charles Cinecast ·

2022/10/12

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas take a hike in the woods and discover some old videotapes from some film students who went missing while shooting a documentary about a fabled witch.It's Week Two (Witch Week) of our Halloween mini-arc – VAMPIRES, WITCHES, AND WEREWOLVES, OH MY – and we are talking about the 1999 sleeper hit that invented modern film marketing, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. Earning over 4000 times its

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01:33:28

From Dusk Till Dawn of the Dead

The Pod Charles Cinecast ·

2022/10/05

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head to Mexico and find themselves locked up in a bar full of blood-sucking vampires!It's October! So that means it's the return of the Spooky Ookie season on the podcast, and we bring back our Halloween mini-arc – VAMPIRES, WITCHES, AND WEREWOLVES, OH MY! Over the next four weeks we'll present a different horror film, based on Vampires, Witches, Werewolves, and Oh, My (a spooky

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01:55:04

Forrest Gump and the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.

The Pod Charles Cinecast ·

2022/09/28

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas run to the finish line with our final Vietnam film in our WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?... HOLLYWOOD MOVIES arc!What better way to finish off the Vietnam War, than with one of the "best" films about the war, and just in general, of all time? Of course, we're talking about the 1994 Robert Zemeckis classic FORREST GUMP, starring Tom Hanks.You know the story, we see Tom Hanks, in a much

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01:38:06

Seven-six-two millimeter. Full Metal Jacket.

The Pod Charles Cinecast ·

2022/09/21

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas report for basic training in our next episode in our WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?... HOLLYWOOD MOVIES!It's our third tour in Vietnam, and we are talking another one of the heavy hitters with Stanley Kubrick's FULL METAL JACKET (1987). Who could have predicted that an anti-war film, or at the very least, a film showing the futile nature of war would be responsible for riling up a

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01:35:10

I'm out for Dead Presidents to represent me

The Pod Charles Cinecast ·

2022/09/14

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas hit rock bottom in our next episode in our WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?... HOLLYWOOD MOVIES!We find ourselves sticking around the Vietnam War, with one of the more underrated films about the subject, while also being one of the more underrated crime films of all-time, that focusses on one of the more underreported issues of the war – the treatment of Black soldiers both during and

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02:30:48

Apocalypse When?

The Pod Charles Cinecast ·

2022/09/07

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas travel into the Heart of Darkness.Our WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?... HOLLYWOOD MOVIES arc marches on, and we march with it straight into our next era of the arc. We've said goodbye to the simpler times when war seemed black and white, good versus evil, and patriotism was something you felt like you could get behind. Now, we move into the shades of grey, with one of the most divisive

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01:18:42

Life is Beautiful... until it isn't

The Pod Charles Cinecast ·

2022/08/31

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas discover the beauty of life, even during the darkest of times.We continue our WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?... HOLLYWOOD MOVIES arc – where we will be talking all things war movies and war adjacent movies – and we finally get to one of those war adjacent films with Roberto Benigni's LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (1997). Set during World War II, this fairy tale-like film tells the story of a

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01:39:13

Saving Ryan's Private

The Pod Charles Cinecast ·

2022/08/24

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas are back on the front and ready to storm the beaches of Normandy for some Camembert and andouillette d'Alençon.It's Week 2 of WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?... HOLLYWOOD MOVIES arc – where we will be talking all things war movies and war adjacent movies. We've done World War I and lo and behold, there was a second one of those monstrous events. We'll see not one, but two World War II

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01:16:18

Halfway to 300

The Pod Charles Cinecast ·

2022/08/17

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas take a break from the front of the War season to celebrate a very special occasion – our 150th Episode!What better way to celebrate the halfway point to Episode 300, than to talk about Zack Snyder's gritty and full of machismo 2006 adaptation of Frank Miller's 300! Half of it, anyway...See you in 150 episodes...If you enjoy the podcast, leave a Rating and Review! It really helps

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