This week on the podcast Scott and Matt gush about their favorite podcasts. It’s an eclectic mix, between the two of us, and there’s something here for everybody. Top Recommended Podcasts Jocko Podcast Storywonk The Tim Ferriss Show Keepin it 1600 The Joe Rogan Experience My Brother, My Brother and Me Follow us! Support us
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This week on the podcast Scott, Adrian, and Gentry have returned from their adventures in Austin and are here to discuss Fantastic Fest 2016! Listen to the guys talk about the festival as a whole and then dive into their favorite films of the fest. This is all spoiler free so tune in to learn
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The book The Little Prince is beautiful in its understatement and in the lightness of its metaphors. A child reads the book without fully comprehending the references of the metaphors, but still comes away with the intended (and familiar) sense that the adult world is nonsensical and a bit tragic. The tone of the book
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Welcome to Phantom Zoned! To ensure that we here at The Daly Planet don’t lose our sharp film criticism edge and because we like to punish ourselves, each month host Adrian Torres forces Matt and Scott to watch some of the worst films cinema has to offer. We then get together and discuss, debate, and
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A new month, a new Kryptonian Collection! Every month a new challenger nominates a film and the venerated Council of El argue and vote to decide if it is worthy of being added to the collection of the best films our planet has to offer. This month, Scott takes on the role of challenger and
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This week on the show Scott and Matt once again take a look at a director of choice and discuss his movies, his style, and his contribution to filmmaking. This week it’s British Director Edgar Wright! Tune in to hear us talk about the brilliance of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End,
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This week on the Podcast, Scott takes on hosting duties solo as Matt is out of commission with some kind of zombie virus. Guests Adrian Torres and James Gentry come back to talk 2016 Summer movies. Listen to Scott talk about his favorite movies of the season and discuss why everyone called 2016 a really
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It’s episode 2 of Phantom Zoned hosted by our friend Adrian Torres. Each month Adrian brings some of the worst films cinema has to offer and we discuss debate and eventually vote on if the film is guilty of crimes against cinema. If found guilty the movie will be banished to the Phantom Zone forever.
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It’s time once again for another episode of the Kryptonian Collection! Every month a new challenger nominates a film and the venerated Council of El argue and vote to decide if it is worthy of being added to the collection of the best films our planet has to offer. This month, challenger Daniel Freeman nominates
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This week on the podcast Matt and Scott are joined by guest Adrian to discuss stop motion animation and the studio redefining the technique: LAIKA. The studio has a new movie coming out on August 19th: Kubo and the Two Strings, so to celebrate we go over their last three films: Coraline, ParaNorman, and The
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This week on the podcast, Scott and Matt are joined by special guest Daniel Freeman to discuss the DC Extended Universe. On the eve of Suicide Squad, we discuss the Ultimate Edition of Batman V Superman, the Wonder Woman and Justice League trailers that came out of ComicCon, and the newest DC animated film The
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We’re proud to announce a new regular podcasting series here at The Daly Planet… Phantom Zoned! Hosted by Adrian Torres, each month the podcast will bring together Adrian, Matt and Scott to discuss some of the worst movies ever conceived. Our team will walk through the selected movie and try to identify exactly why it’s
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On Episode 3 of The Kryptonian Collection, special guest Chad Acevedo puts forth Silence of the Lambs, the 1991 Thriller-Procedural film from Jonathan Demme for consideration into the collection. The Council of El, now made up of Scott, Matt and last month’s winner Adrian argue the merits of the film and if it deserves entrance
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After a week long, unplanned hiatus caused by some technical issues, the podcast is back! Also back is our long missing famed cohost Matt Freeman! This week Scott and Matt have caught the Pokemon Go fever, so they bring regular guest Michael Grubb on the podcast to talk about the new app that’s sweeping the
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This week on the podcast Scott is joined by fill in host James Gentry and guest Cyndee Daly to talk about the recently ended season 6 of HBO’s Game of Thrones. We’ve got some good things to say, we’ve got some bad things to say, and Scott and Cyndee start yelling at each other as
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Special guest Adrian Torres joins the podcast to nominate The Coen Brother’s RAISING ARIZONA into our exclusive list of the greatest movies ever: The Kryptonian Collection
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In order to obtain food from a Chipotle you are forced to stand behind the people who arrived at the Chipotle before you. All these people are in your way and are impeding your progress in obtaining food, but you are expected to act as though they are not there, even though they are visibly
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On this week’s episode of the podcast, Scott and Matt break into a new genre of film and talk about one of their favorite Documentaries of all time: The Act of Killing. An award winning documentary focusing on the individuals responsible for the 1965-66 Indonesian Genocide. If you haven’t seen this film I urge you
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This week on the Podcast Scott and Matt are joined by frequent guest Michael Grubb to launch another recurring series: The World’s Finest. On this series, a topic or theme is selected and each podcast member selects a film that best exemplifies that theme. This week, in honor of the release of Warcraft, each of
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This week on the podcast, Scott and Matt get to together in the next installment of their deconstructing a director series, this time focusing on Neill Blomkamp. In 2009, his first film District 9 was a rousing success and he was heralded as the next big Science Fiction director. 7 years later, after two disappointing
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This week on the podcast we are very excited to announce a new regular monthly feature: The Kryptonian Collection, a curated list of the very best movies that the world has to offer. Once a month we will meet on the Podcast to nominate a now movie for entrance into the collection. We will argue
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This week Scott, Matt, and returning guest James Gentry get together to look a the summer slate of movies. Which will be good, which will be bad, and which will bomb? Find out our predictions on episode 34 of The Daly Planet Podcast! News: Michael B Jordan joins the cast of Black Panther Lars Von
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This week on the podcast, Scott and Matt are joined by resident superhero hater Daniel Freeman to discuss Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War. This is a spoiler filled conversation, so maybe see the movie first. News: Ben Affleck is now Executive Producer of Justice League Ridley Scott teaming up again with writer Drew Goddard (The
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This week on the Podcast we’re all about Marvel! In preparation for Captain America: Civil War and the beginning of Phase 3 Scott and Matt are joined by guests James Gentry and Daniel Freeman to talk about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, why it’s worked so well, and how it’s changed cinema. We also discuss some
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This week on the podcast, Scott and Matt are joined by guest Daniel Freeman to celebrate Alien day and discuss the two classic films Alien and Aliens. We talk about how much of an impact these films had on our childhood and why they still work so well today. At the end we decide definitively
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This review is part of our The Elon Musk Experience article series. Peter Thiel is the billionaire founder of PayPal and Palantir, and you would do well to take the title of his business book literally. It reads more like somebody’s detailed notes on their experiences as a startup founder and venture capitalist than a
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This week on the podcast Matt and Scott are joined by resident Game of Thrones expert James Gentry to discuss what we think is going to happen in season 6! Spoilers and speculation abound in this episode, so don’t all bent out of shape if you want something spoiled. As always, we also talk about
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This Sunday, Game of Thrones storms back with its sixth season and for the first time in the run of the show nobody knows what’s going to happen. Book readers and show watchers are on a even playing field and everyone is freaking out about it. While we here at The Daly Planet are in
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This week on the podcast, Scott and Matt get really in depth with one of their favorite directors of all time: Wes Anderson. We go through each one of Wes’ iconic filmography and say “I love this movie” at least 16 times. We also discuss the latest movie (read: comic book movie) news and talk
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This week on the podcast Matt and Scott and special guest Daniel get really, really, really nerdy. We reminisce about the original Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game EverQuest, discuss the modern landscape of video games and MMOs, and talk about none of us really have time to play games anymore. If you’ve ever played any
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This week on the podcast Scott and Matt are joined once again by special guest to discuss Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. There are spoilers for this movie which are clearly announced about halfway through this episode, so be warned! We also discuss current news items and give our recommendations for the week! Please
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This week on the podcast, Scott and Matt and special guest James Gentry talk all about Television. They discuss the current state of TV, the ever changing landscape, and their favorite shows right now and of all time. From NBC to Netflix, OJ to Superheroes, if you like TV, this podcast has it all. We
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This week, recurring guest Michael Grubb takes over the podcast and forces Scott to watch the anime series Death Note. 25 episodes ago, Scott expressed his extreme distaste of the genre of cinema, so naturally he agreed to spend 8 hours watching 26 episodes of it. Did Death Note change his mind about anime? Find
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This week on the podcast Scott brings his serious problems with the universally loved Forrest Gump and tries to convince Matt that he is right and the rest of the world is wrong. Before you get all angry at us, take some time to listen to the podcast and realize that Scott’s arguments aren’t about
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The first thing we notice is the song, “Wicked Game” which sets an interesting tone, much more intimately emotional and less epic and bombastic than what we’ve been confronted with in previous seasons. We’re given a crane shot of Jon Snow lying “dead” in the yard of Castle Black. Far be from me to read
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This week on the podcast, Matt and Scott are joined once again by Cyndee to wrap up our discussion of Fates And Furies by Lauren Groff. I think we all ended up liking this book way more than we thought we would after our discussion last time. Come check out why! We also discuss the
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This week on the podcast, Matt and Scott are joined once again by special guest James Gentry to discuss the Academy Awards. It turns out only Scott has seen all these movies, so he gives his picks for the top 6 categories and the gang discusses the Oscars as a whole. We also each give
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This week on the podcast, Matt and Scott are joined by returning guest James Gentry to honor the resounding success of Deadpool by discussing the Marvel films not owned by Marvel Studios.This means we get to discuss all the X-Men films, the failure of Fantastic Four, the greatness that is Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, and the
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This week on the podcast team book club is back to discuss the first half of the novel Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff. Scott and Matt are joined by our resident novel expert, Cyndee and we dive deep into our opinions and thoughts on what has so far been a fascinating novel. Also, Scott
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On this week’s podcast Matt and Scott celebrate the release of The Coen Brother’s new comedy Hail, Caesar! by discussing some of the duo’s most iconic comedies. We talk the brilliance of Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and Burn After Reading. We also discuss some latest news items including The DC Universe Batman
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This week on the podcast, Scott and Matt, both recovering from an illness are joined by special guest Melissa Daly to discuss The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. We talk about the films, their problems, the impossibility of adapting the books, and the legacy the story has created. Come listen to a couple of guys
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This week on The Daly Planet Podcast, a double length two hour episode where we dive deep into the filmography of the second greatest living director, Quentin Tarantino. Scott and Matt are joined by special guest Michael Grubb to discuss the movies we love, those we didn’t like so much, and what’s next for the
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On this week’s episode of The Daly Planet Podcast, Scott is frustrated and confused by the critical and commercial success of Alejandro Innaritu’s last two films: Birdman and The Revenant. Join Scott and Matt as we dive deep into these movies try to figure out just what the hell they’re about and why people seem
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I decided to read The Art of the Deal for a variety of reasons. As of this week, “GOP Frontrunner” is being routinely prepended to every mention of Donald Trump in the media. This, despite the fact that Trump is the most divisive, unconventional Presidential candidate to run in my lifetime. The phenomenon of his
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We had a great time in 2015 writing reviews and essays of books, movies and TV shows. It excites and encourages us when we see that our work is being read and passed around. For a variety of reasons, some of our articles have turned out to be significantly more popular than others. Below we’ll recap for you which
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After a weeklong break to celebrate the holidays, the Podcast is back! Scott and (Supreme Leader) Matt saw The Force Awakens and wanted to talk about it, but this movie is so big we needed two special returning guests: James Gentry and Daniel Freeman. First, we wave goodbye to 2015 by each discussing our favorite
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Frozen is pretty great. Like all Disney films it rewards re-watches. Unlike most Disney films, the reason this one merits a re-watch is the twist – the revelation that the character Hans, until near the end of the film depicted as the main candidate for heroine Anna’s love interest, is a psycho. The first time
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This article is part of The Daly Planet Presents: The Twelve Days Of Christmas Movies, a daily series leading up to Christmas Eve 2015. To see all other entries click here. I expected to hate Jim Carrey’s The Grinch. My impression before viewing it was that it was merely another exploitation of beloved iconography for
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On this week’s episode of the podcast, it’s Christmas! James Gentry is coming to town to discuss his favorite Christmas movie with Matt and Scott. We grab some nog, sit around the fire, and deck the halls in order to find out if our three favorite Christmas movies are naughty or nice. More Christmas references!
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This article is part of The Daly Planet Presents: The Twelve Days Of Christmas Movies, a daily series leading up to Christmas Eve 2015. To see all other entries click here. Following the Daly Planet Twelve Days of Christmas theme of finding more value in Christmas movies as we grow older, there’s a lot going
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