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PODCAST

Direct to Audio: A Movie Discussions Podcast

Spencer Mattinson

A place to talk about movies! Weekly discussions about everything from your favorite movies, rankings, series breakdowns, film history, and more.

tv & film

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01:23:13

The Will Ferrell Movie Bracket

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2022/08/29

Ladies & Gentlemen, can I please have your attention. I have just been handed an urgent, and horrifying news story. I need ALL of you, to stop what you're doing and listen: NEW EPISODE ALERT! Morgan & Jamie join the pod to discuss one of the loudest and most unique comedians of the last 25 years: Will Ferrell! From a forensic accountant to a soccer coach, or a fake elf to a German playwright, he has played many different roles in many different films, but at the end of the day they're all one thing:

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00:50:58

Let's Play the Movie Connection Game... Again!

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2022/08/22

The Garage Sessions with Max & Spencer gave us one more episode, and what better way to wrap those up than with a movie game! Similar to 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon, Max & Spencer are tasked to connect 2 movies, based on the actors who are in them. Quick example: We will connect Top Gun: Maverick to The Muppet Christmas Carol - Jennifer Connelly is in Top Gun Maverick, she is also in Labyrinth with voice actor Frank Oz, who is Ms. Piggy in The Muppet Christmas Carol. Less connections means a

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01:18:05

Let's Discuss the Mamma Mia Movies!

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2022/08/15

(to the tune of Mamma Mia) "Here We Go Again! The-re-sa's back on the podcast!" She is back to join her rootin' tootin' partner, aka Host Spencer to discuss the classic Jukebox musical movie Mamma Mia, as well as it's prequel/ sequel film Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again; and this one is all over the place in the best way. They both discuss the plots, characters, casting, and of course, all the ABBA you can handle! They also choose their favorite songs from each, and have a LENGTHY discussion as to why

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00:30:01

Prey (2022) Review

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2022/08/08

If it bleeds we can kill it, and if it's a good movie we can discuss it on the pod! Prey, the newest addition to the Predator franchise, is quite frankly one of the best movies of the year already. Point blank, this re-quel delivers a lot of great action and moments, so much so that Spencer decided to do an episode about it! Listen as he discusses his thoughts in the brief spoiler free portion, then dives HEAVILY into all the greatness this movie has in order. An excellent horror sci fi film, and a

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01:28:45

Good Burger

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2022/07/26

I'm a dude, you're a dude, were all dudes, and we are here to discuss one of the most 90s nostalgic films that exists: Good Burger! 25 years later, 3 Dudes named Max, Josh, and Spencer get together to go over all the layers of this crazy film: Professor Sinbad's excellent role, how Keenan & Kel may have shaped a generation of comedy, and of course, the most 90s thing of them all... Abe Vigoda? This movie is a combo meal of crazy, and we are here to talk about it all. So, I guess the only thing

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00:29:43

Film Class: The History of Summer Blockbusters

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2022/07/18

No one ever wanted to attend summer school, but maybe this topic might make you reconsider that! Professor Spencer is back, and the topic of this lecture is very appropriate for the time of year: Summer Blockbusters! We discuss where the phrase came from, the origins of the Summer blockbuster, a history of classic movies that qualify for the term, the trends we see in these films as time goes on, and a top 10 list to wrap it up of the highest grossing summer blockbusters of all time (1 per year). No

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01:24:59

Jaws

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2022/07/11

It's summertime on the pod, and we are celebrating one of our most frequent and favorite guest's birthdays by reviewing the film that created the summer blockbuster: Jaws! Liz wanted to cover ANOTHER Spielberg classic on her birthday, and she chose wisely. The perfect summer terror flick, Jaws first swam to our local cinema in 1975, and changed movies forever. Launching the career of one of Hollywood's biggest directors, debuting one of the most terrifying movie antagonists ever, and creating a

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01:11:29

The Great Movie Scenario Draft: Football Team &...

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2022/06/28

You are on the clock! Steven & Mike are back, and they join Host Spencer for the third Great Movie Scenario Draft. This time, they draft 2 completely different scenarios from movie history: A football team made up of famous sports movie players (a QB, a RB, a WR, a defender, a coach, and a wildcard), and the Avengers Initiative (Loki is back for New York, draft 6 heroes to stop him... except one is taken over by the mind stone for the whole fight!). Are there some strange picks in this one? Yep

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01:45:00

The Best Animated Disney Movie Bracket

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2022/06/20

Season Five is so big it gets two big episodes to start off! Theresa is back alongside new guest Sloan to work with Host Spencer on deciding the Best Animated Disney Movie of all time! 64 movies in 4 regions: 1937-1977, 1981-2001, 2002-2022, and the Pixar Region. Each region is seeded from the number 1 seed to number 16 based on their average review score in that bracket, and some of the matchups bring heavy discussion. Luckily, we were given the task to do this, and if you disagree, take it up with

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01:41:56

The Best/ Most 80s Movie Bracket

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2022/06/13

Welcome to Season Five! As one of the movie characters from this bracket said: I'll be back, and boy did we mean it! Host Spencer, longtime friend of the Pod Max, and first time guest Shane are here to go back in time and do a bracket to determine what is the best/ most 80s movie of all time! 64 movies, plus an honorable mentions list longer than Beetlejuice's Waitlist number, are discussed: from the Brat Pack classics (Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles), the horror masterpieces no

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01:38:49

Let's Discuss the Paddington Movies!

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2022/05/23

As the tag on him states, "PLEASE LOOK AFTER THIS BEAR THANK YOU." So, this podcast did the honorable thing and watched both Paddington movies to make sure he was okay, and by goodness were these more than okay! Host Spencer's rootin' tootin' partner Theresa comes back on the pod, and they discuss the Paddington movies! (No joke, 2 of the best movies both have ever seen). Starting off with a brief review of why they loved the film, the pod dives into each movie and discusses all these movies have to

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01:36:30

Let's Discuss Our First Time: The Friday the 13th Series

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2022/05/13

Happy Friday the 13th everyone! Lock your cabin doors and light a nice fire, because it's time for a fireside discussion. Jamie & Morgan are back on the pod for a new style of podcast episode, where we discuss a classic movie or movie series with people who have just watched it for the first time! Host Spencer is one of the biggest Friday the 13th fans there is, and Jamie & Morgan have never seen a single one, so it was time for a discussion episode where we re-live what it was like to see

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00:34:24

Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness

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2022/05/09

Things just got out of hand. We have our newest addition to the MCU, and it definitely emphasizes the U part of that abbreviation. Doctor Strange is back, and this time he has some new friends, and foes, to go on one of the most insane and horrific tales the MCU has seen so far. Listen as Host Spencer discusses this new release, with his spoiler free 10 minute opening, and then dives deep into the Madness with 20 minutes of spoiler discussions. And yes, everything gets discussed: The good, the Bad,

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01:43:58

The Best Star Wars (Film) Character Bracket

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2022/05/04

Happy May the 4th! This podcast unashamedly celebrates this holiday, and for this year we decided to go big: A 64 character bracket filled up with all the people, creatures, droids, and random side characters you know and love from a galaxy far, far away. Host Spencer, alongside guests Steven and Liz, pull random matchups for each bracket to try to decide who is the best Star Wars character from all 11 movies in the Skywalker saga. We did not include the TV shows or the random other movies this

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01:18:23

The Great Movie Scenario Draft: Suicide Squad & Beat...

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2022/04/25

With the first and second pick for the 2022 Movie Scenario Draft, Host Spencer selects new guests Gavin and Courtney! All 3 of them have done their scouting, watched a lot of tape, and studied on how to make the 2 best teams for this year's first movie scenario draft. Each team will fantasy draft movie characters to fit the 2 given scenarios: Draft a 5 player basketball team with 1 coach to defeat the Mon-Stars in a classic Looney Tunes space showdown; and draft 5 Villains to form some sort of

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01:23:19

Major League

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2022/04/18

We wanted this for Opening Day, but we are juuuuuuust a bit outside of it. Everyone's favorite baseball underdogs are finally here, as we discuss the 1989 Sports Comedy classic Major Leauge! Host Spencer makes a call to the bullpen to get Mike back on the pod to discuss Wild Thing Vaughn, Cerrano, Willie Mays Hays, Jake Taylor, and the rest of this thrown together Cleveland Indians squad. Do we take a little too much time discussing actual baseball and doing below average Lou Brown quotes? Yeah

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00:38:05

Film Class: The Rise and Fall of Blockbuster Video

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2022/04/11

When we say "Be Kind, Please Rewind" after each episode, there is a distinct reason for that. Blockbuster video was the biggest thing in the movie business for 15-20 years. They cornered the market in movie rentals, and took home media by storm. Anyone who was anyone had a blockbuster rewards card, and it was the best day of the week when our parents took us to the video store to go grab the next big thing to watch. Movie nights at home were sweeping the nation. But what happened to make one of the

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00:23:19

Let's Rank the Sharknado Franchise!

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2022/04/01

In the past, we have ranked some of the biggest film franchises of all time: James Bond, Friday the 13th, Star Wars, etc. But it was all leading to this. The single biggest film franchise to ever grace the non- silver screen (since it went direct to TV), the Sharknado franchise! This 6 film mega series has some of the greatest performances and CGI the SyFy channel has ever seen, and host Spencer is going to walk you through these all time classics from worst to best based on their average review

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01:30:00

The 2021 Direct to Audio Movie Awards

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2022/03/28

Forget the Oscars. Who needs the BATFA? SAG Awards? More like SAD that they aren't getting a better award on their resume. THIS, is the award show that everyone is talking about! Welcome to the Direct to Audio Movie Awards! Hosted by Liz and Spencer, we break down 15 categories to award the best things we saw in film for 2021. The categories are: Best Picture & Best Animated Picture Best Performer in a Lead Role, Best Performer in a Supporting Role, & Best Voice Acting Performance Best Director Best

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01:31:14

Movie March Madness: The Worst Film Trope

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2022/03/21

Have you ever been watching a movie and groaned when you saw a large piece of French Bread hanging out of a grocery bag? Or rolled your eyes when the bad guys miss every shot when they are shooting at a hero? How about when you the police captain makes the good guy turn in his badge because he is off the case? Well, we are here to make you feel better, as we are deciding the worst trope in film history! New guests Morgan and Jamie join the pod to help go through this 32 seed bracket filled with the

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