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Following the Paramount Global Skydance merger cooling off where will these media conglomerates go to grow or will they cannibalize themselves? If Kamala Harris succeeds Joe Biden will Lina Khan's excellent reign of the FCC continue to hold corporations to account? Or will a more Monopoly friendly chair follow?

WARNING: The following program contains mature themes that may not be suitable for all audiences.

My Sister and I decided to go to the theatre to see the much-talked-about Blake Lively drama 'It Ends With Us' starring her and Justin Baldoni, directed by Justin and Produced by her, and for the most part, we found it to be compelling drama. Mostly.

Alien: Romulus and its franchise history

Movies Reviewed:

The Union

The Instigators

M (1951)

Jackpot!

Furiosa (again)

Twister

It Ends With Us was a monster hit at the box office despite being overtaken by Deadpool, was Deadpool a monster in overtaking the making of the film? What's at the heart of the drama in making It Ends With Us? Is the actor/ producer Blake Lively at fault? How about director/ star Justin Baldoni? How is the crossover promotion with Deadpool going? Has it gone too far or is it just what Hollywood needed? This all could be the same old Hollywood story going back to All the President's Men believe it or not. Listen to a screenwriter/ gossip girl's perspective.

Review of Marvel's highly anticipated film.

This was the biggest week in U.S. Political History and America saw Twisters. How are we doing?

- Trump's Assassination Attempt and Aftermath

- Joe Biden stepping down Kamala Harris stepping in

- J.D. Vance & The Republican National Convention

- Twisters Review & Box Office Performance

- Emmy Nominations

- Is it all connected?

- The Fermi Paradox

Lee Isaac Chung directs from a script from the Revenant screenwriter Mark l Smith, and a story from Top Gun Maverick Director Joseph Kosinski which disappointed my father and I when we watched the film in theaters opening day at the Landmark Cinema. The movie is distributed by universal pictures Canada and distributed internationally by Warner Brothers pictures, it is a co-production between the two major studios and executive produced by Steven Spielberg through his company Amblin Entertainment.

I delve into Season 3 of The Bear and what I think 7 episodes in while reckoning with having COVID for the first time. Box Office Review of June 28-30 weekend. Box Office for

Inside Out 2's Box Office Success Continues

Fake Online Personas and Political Punditry

Letterbox'd Reviews

The Devil's Advocate, Rolling Thunder, In the Land of Saints and Sinners and Knockaround Guys

Politics and Failed Politics of Modern Culture Wars and Critiques against Joe Biden and Donald Trump

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Inside Out 2 made a killing at the Box Office but will it change anything?

Thoughts on the Eli Roth-produced Chilean disaster exploitation film Aftershock

Nintendo finally reveals Metroid Prime 4 at an E3 adjacent video conference.

I break it down.

Will and Eric debate the best sitcom of all time Friends versus the office to find out which one is better.

Bad Boys Tops the Box Office Furiosa Theatre Experience Microsoft E3 Closure

Recount the historically low box office

Review The First Omen

Review Star Wars Prequels 1 and 2

We break down Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga at the Box Office along with Chris Pratt's film career. Talk about the 2004 film Sleepover co-starring Steve Carell, Brie Larson and of course Alexa Vega, and why I'm giving it four stars on Letterbox'd while I give one ⭐ to the Oscar winning Best Documentary Short The Last Repair Shop. Finally an update to my streaming setup with Fallout: New Vegas and my personal petty Twitter War with Dave Lee.

During The Box Office week of IF, Will ponders what modern reviews actually tell us about the movies we watch (nothing). Why The Strangers was the best film he saw this week Where the industry needs to get cheap What his streaming Setup is and the dilemma he faces.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Box Office Microsoft Studio Closures Most Anticipated Summer Treats (Top 10 Most Anticipated Summer Movies and Video Games)

Season 3 Episode 22 #29 The Fall Guy - Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Channing Tatum and the Ridiculousness of Hollywood Contracts.

Joe Rogan The 10 Best 'Best Pictures' April 26-28 Box Office

How did British Author Alex Garland end up directing a 50 million dollar R rated independent Action film about America fighting for its own soul? How did an independent film studio that doesn't own John Wick or The Hunger Games or have a streaming service afford to make such a risky modern day film that turns America into a literal battleground state? Find out here. A read through of the FilmGamer.com/ article of the same name.

My Ranking of all The Academy Award winners for Best Picture from #24 down to the main number eleven. We love movies.

Weekend Box Office Update April 19-21st, 2024

Ranking Best Picture Winners #49-24

I go through my review of Fallout the TV series giving my thoughts as a gamer then as a film nerd I count down all 49 of the A24 Films that I have seen over the last decade in honor of Civil War releasing. The recent list has set Twitter and TikTok aflame. #1 Will surprise you.

Ripley Fallout Switching streaming services and why. CinemaCon. Joker 2 - Reel Rejects why I hate trailer reactions Cannibalization of culture The great television shows I haven't watched. Thank you to DeSousa's for ongoing encouragement. Sugar with Colin Farrell.

Hope Everybody had a Happy Easter Weekend!

Whether it is Film Streaming, Game Streaming or Television Streaming no matter how stable technology gets, the life surrounding the viewing experience remains unpredictable.

Here's Today's Rundown:

Amazon Prime Movies - Road House's success, failures and a Cultural Correction on Ricky Stanicky

Box Office for Easter Weekend Brings Us Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

Ready Player One's 6th Anniversary, new fan cam music video just dropped:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc85crIiTa0

Why DVD won the format war vs. Blu-ray and UHD

Affordable Space Adventures is a lost Arcade gem for the Nintendo Wii-U

Raising the Next Generation of Gamers

Computer Tech that is more future-proof than you think

Go with God and trust your gut. Give yourself credit.

Ghostbusters Frozen Empire Tops the Box Office My Letterbox'd and YouTube Pages Halo Season 2 Ends with a different set of problems Lego Marvel Superheroes is a Video Game Hidden Gem Reviews are Relative Giving Away Your Script in Hopes of Selling Adam Sandler is the highest paid actor in Hollywood Video Games need to scale down, here's how Movies I May or May Not Be Looking Forward To

Land of Bad brushed into theaters and then made a quick trip to video on Demand but this is a technologically shiny meat and potatoes military action movie with good cast and direction. James Cameron 4k movie transfers People are more interested in The Zone of Interest I guess than they were before. Why I still haven't switched to Generation 9 consoles with the PS5, Xbox Series and Nintendo Switch.

Review of the Oscars hosted for the 4th time by Jimmy Kimmel. The Jokes, Award winners Politics Presenters Overall show

Dune Part Two Review links Kung Fu Panda 4 debuts among other films PS5 Pro Fall Rumours How console companies use strategies to save money and all sorts of other things in this week's episode.

A thorough analysis of the weekend box office looking at the last weekend of February 2024, what films are performing and how well, commercially and economically especially in regards to how they are regarded by critics and audiences.

The Zone of Interest Review Borderlands Dune 2 Reviews Sony Disney Partnership 28 Days Later WB Variety Story: Tom Cruise, Joker 2, Leo DiCaprio, PTA, possible sale Nintendo Direct: Xbox Games on PlayStation Star Wars Battlefront Classic Remaster Virgin Mobile Phone Bill Dispute

Will n' Eric review the fascinating Best Picture nominee 'The Zone of Interest' from former music video director and now 2x Academy Award nominee Jonathan Glazer. Was this movie beguiling or boring and how can you rate it?

Also, what are the likely Best Picture winners and crucially who should win? Stay till the end.

We review the first four episodes of Amazon Prime Video's Mr. & Mrs. & Mrs. Smith TV series as well as examine Donald Glover's career and what he will do next.

First film in theatres for 2024 is Poor Things starring Emma Stone expanding just in time for Oscar season.

From Searchlight, Yorgos Lanthimos adapts the novel following up the success of his Oscar-winning film 'The Favourite' and reteaming with Emma Stone for another nomination.

Willem Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo were there. Will the movie land with us or on Oscar voters lists? Listen to find out what we each rate it out of 10.

The POETs cast a look over to the future of A.I. with companion bots like Aitana López and what the future holds for machine learning large-language models such as Chat GPT, generative AI and copyrights.

Murph and Will meet to discuss Murph's movie idea that he's had cooking for ten years; Sea of Stars, an epic fantasy adventure akin to Lord of the Rings & His Dark Materials about the exploration of our connection to the sea of stars; specifically the Zodiac and how each of us carry our signs with us to write our destiny.

What's the deal with Game shows? What are your favourites, what are your memories? Is the Golden age of game shows over? How about the silver or platinum age? Let us know in the comments or on our Facebook and Social Media pages.

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First Date jitters, bad first dates, the POETs share their dating experiences, good and bad, mostly bad and we get an origin story for two of our members Maegan and Murph how the other met and what they really thought of each other while dating.

JWes Secord hosts with Murph, Will and the lovely Miss Maegan meeting in the basement of The POETs headquarters to talk about video game storytelling, immersion, and unique gameplay experiences.

The POETs is a YouTube channel with over 9000 subscribers that FilmGamer joined in June 2023 as an actor, camera man, writer, director, and sketch artist. They have worked on many documentary and narrative shorts together and bond over their love for video games.

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Mentioned in this episode: MatPat, Five Nights at Freddy, What Remains of Edith Finch developed by Giant Sparrow and published by Annapurna Interactive, Steam, Xbox Game Pass, fish factory, storytelling in video games, GMTK, Game Maker's Toolkit, Mark Brown, YouTube, The Cosmonaut Variety Hour, The Game Theorists, Watch and Complain, Gabes Basement, Wii-U, Gamecube, Super Smash Brothers for Wii-U, Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Super Smash Brothers Melee, Super Smash Bros. 3DS, Metroid, Metroid: Other M, Team Ninja, Mass Effect, Andromeda, John Riccitiello, EA, Unity Technologies, Reddit, N64, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, The Last of Us, Sunset Overdrive, Ratchet and Clank, Ratchet & Clank, Nintendo

Review of David Fincher's new film The Killer starring Michael Fassbender out on Netflix November 10th. Here's an early review courtesy of Kingston's The Screening Room movie palace, reviewed by Me & Eric.

@ 00:00 Preamble

@ 06:39 Q: Fairness of comparing two different films like Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon to David Fincher's The Killer, Oppenheimer and Barbie.

@ 19:34 After the film SPOILERS start

7.4/10 positive review that's right in the wheelhouse of David Fincher and all fans want from him.

Will n' Eric go to see Martin Scorsese's new epic 'Killers of the Flower Moon' at Landmark Cinemas 10 Kingston on opening night. Preview: first half Review starts @ 29:08

A Scholar and a Film Nerd each discuss their relationship to the ring of power, their thoughts on the new Amazon Prime Video series out September 2nd, And answer logistical questions about the history and lore of middle earth.

It's ostensibly about Vampires, but in another way it's about the reunification of Europe.

Orange County and The Portrait of a Lady on Fire are the first two movies in our TFG Grand Prix.

It's Nat Faxon vs. Chevy Chase in Orange County. And The Baby vs. The Row Men in Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

One of Nick's Favourite Characters. The This F'n guy in a movie. Usually a character actor spot often unnecessary sub-antagonist who is the Karen of all our lives.

We centrally discuss the influence of David Lynch as we pick apart and try to solve the mystery of Twin Peaks.

We discuss the last film I loved to have come out, whether it is feminist, does it really matter, and does it hold up? We also discuss given this week's  San Francisco yellow smog covering the various parallel's to Modern day America as we look back on everything this film touches and its influences.

Initially this episode was supposed to be about Steven Spielberg's The Lost World. Instead that bookends the episode while Nick shares his experience of being drugged at a bar and the personal fallout.

• Discussion of BASEBALL and the Kevin Costner baseball trilogy: Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, For Love of the Game
• Sports Corruption
• Sports movies
• The Filmmaking climate