Armchair Producers

Episode 72: Hudson Hawk

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Episode 71: The King of Comedy

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Episode 70: Angel Heart

Episode 70: Angel Heart

This week’s pre-ramble is brought to you by George as he flusters his way through talking about near-miss blockbuster movies, such as National Treasure, Zootopia, John Carter, and The Prince of Persia.
This week Travis and George review The Philadelphia Experiment from 1984. While it has a mildly interesting concept of time travel displacement, it is a mess of a movie. But it does get them talking about more successful time travel moves, leading them to watch The Final Countdown from 1980 for next week’s show.
Travis also reviews Richard Jewell by Clint Eastwood, and The Crazies (2010 version).

Episode 69: Legend

Episode 69: Legend

This week’s pre-ramble is brought to you by George as he flusters his way through talking about near-miss blockbuster movies, such as National Treasure, Zootopia, John Carter, and The Prince of Persia.
This week Travis and George review The Philadelphia Experiment from 1984. While it has a mildly interesting concept of time travel displacement, it is a mess of a movie. But it does get them talking about more successful time travel moves, leading them to watch The Final Countdown from 1980 for next week’s show.
Travis also reviews Richard Jewell by Clint Eastwood, and The Crazies (2010 version).

Episode 68: Top Gun

Episode 68: Top Gun

This week’s pre-ramble is brought to you by George as he flusters his way through talking about near-miss blockbuster movies, such as National Treasure, Zootopia, John Carter, and The Prince of Persia.
This week Travis and George review The Philadelphia Experiment from 1984. While it has a mildly interesting concept of time travel displacement, it is a mess of a movie. But it does get them talking about more successful time travel moves, leading them to watch The Final Countdown from 1980 for next week’s show.
Travis also reviews Richard Jewell by Clint Eastwood, and The Crazies (2010 version).

Episode 67: The Final Countdown

Episode 67: The Final Countdown

This week we chain on from The Final Countdown to Top Gun. This leads up to consider the upcoming Tog Gun: Maverick, Space X, and Scientology.
George enjoys his time in the Swamp with Swamp Thing. While Travis talks about Zombie Army Trilogy on Xbox.
We then talk about the new Amazon Prime comedy show, Upload.

Lastly we talk about Overwatch and the forthcoming sequel, as well as the Labyrinth sequel that was recently announced.

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Episode 66: Philadelphia Experiment

Episode 66: Philadelphia Experiment

This week’s pre-ramble is brought to you by George as he flusters his way through talking about near-miss blockbuster movies, such as National Treasure, Zootopia, John Carter, and The Prince of Persia.
This week Travis and George review The Philadelphia Experiment from 1984. While it has a mildly interesting concept of time travel displacement, it is a mess of a movie. But it does get them talking about more successful time travel moves, leading them to watch The Final Countdown from 1980 for next week’s show.
Travis also reviews Richard Jewell by Clint Eastwood, and The Crazies (2010 version).

Episode 65: Streets of Fire

Episode 65: Streets of Fire

This week Travis and George watched the 1984 cult movie, Streets of Fire. There are some very clear connections to The Warriors that both fellas felt, specifically from the Xbox game of the same name.
Travis then talks about how much he likes The Mandalorian.

George went into the way-back machine and watched the Disney ‘classic’, The Rocketeer. Travis lays down the challenge for George to watch the latest Rick and Morty, as well as the new Netflix series, Midnight Gospel.
George then offers up yet another big-budget Disney flop for the ‘actually great awards’ known as Prince of Persia.

Lastly, the boys talk about the France DLC for World War Z, and Streets of Rage 4

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Episode 64: Commando Love

Episode 64: Commando Love

This week Travis and George discuss World War Z on XBox… in spite of George’s Online game curse.
We talk through our thoughts on the various incarnations of Watchmen.
George waxes lyrical about Westworld Season 3 and the possibility of a Season 4. He then talks about the turbulent issues of His Dark Materials Season 1 as well as some early thoughts on Doom Patrol Season 1.
This skews us into a mini-topic of the under-appreciated talent of Alan Tudyk.

Travis talks about The Beasty Boys Story care of Spike Jonz (George gets Spike Jonz and Spike Lee mixed up along the way) from Apple TV.
Travis finally understands the genius of Commando from Arnie.

Finally, they talk about Taika Waititi taking on Star Wars, and George posits the idea of a Cinema App. Imagine it, you have a membership to a Cinema chain app that allows you to stream new releases directly home, or to be able to go to the cinema itself for the cinema experience.

Episode 63: The Life of Terminator, Commando, Zombies and Female Roles

Episode 63: The Life of Terminator, Commando, Zombies and Female Roles

This week, Travis and I — once again — pitch Porky’s in Space. Then Travis gives a review of Terminator Darak Fate; George wonders if there is room for a Life of Brian variation of The Terminator, and the possibility of The Lost Years of a Terminator for Love, Death, and Robots.
Talk of Terminator leads us into discussing female roles in cinema, and how they are still not being served properly.
Travis confesses that he has never seen Commando, so has chosen to watch it for next week’s show. He also gives a review of The Hunt with Hilary Swank.

The latter part of the show, George talks about Streaming in the Pandemic. Then he talks more about Westworld Season 3, Hannibal Season 3, and the Arkane Studios game, Dishonoured 2.

Lastly, Travis briefly talks about World War Z on Xbox Live.

Episode 62: Reviewing The Gentlemen and Tales from the Loop

Episode 62: Reviewing The Gentlemen and Tales from the Loop

On request from one of our live viewers, Travis and George watched The Gentlemen. The Gentlemen is the latest movie from Guy Richie, starring Matthew McConaughey, and Charlie Hunnam.
We also watched the new Amazon Prime show, Tales from the Loop.

On this week’s show, Travis and George review The Gentlemen, and some early thoughts on Tales From The Loop, and George started watching Season 3 of Westworld on Foxtel. Travis watched the James Mangold-directed Ford Vs Ferrari biopic care of the Play store. George watched Phantom of the Opera on YouTube. Travis watched Planet of the Humans on Youtube. George watched the (temporarily) final Fox X-Men Movie, X-Men: Dark Phoenix. Travis played some Cricket game on Xbox Game Pass… Ashes Cricket 2019…?

George’s favorite this week is Westworld Season 3. Check out the trailer with the link.

Next week we will be talking about the documentary NXIVM on Foxtel.

Episode 61: Lots of Foxtel and Anime Lab Content

Episode 61: Lots of Foxtel and Anime Lab Content

Travis watched the following shows…
Avenue 5 on FoxTel. It’s a new comedy series starring Hugh Laurie from Armando Iannucci.
Uncut Gems on Netflix. The most recent movie from Adam Sandler.
The Watchmen on FoxTel. The new Damon Lindelof show based on the legendary graphic novel from Alan Moore, Watchmen.

George watched the following shows…
Fairy Tail via Anime Lab. An anime series following a group of wizards who are part of a Wizard’s guide.
My Hero Academia via Anime Lab. 80% of the world’s population have superpowers (referred to as quirks), This is the story of a young boy who inherits the powers of the greatest hero, All Might.
Mob Psycho 100 via Anime Lab. From the creator of One-Punch Man. ‘Mob’ is an esper — someone with powerful psychic abilities. He is a sweet, shy young man determined to win the affections of his long-time love interest without resorting to his abilities.
Dr. Stone via Anime Lab. A teenage genius named Senku Ishigami revives to find himself in a world where all traces of human civilization have been eroded by time.

In the live-action space, George also watched…
The Night Manager on Amazon Prime Video. Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie star in possibly the best non-Bond spy story of the last twenty years.
Absentia on Amazon Prime Video. Stana Katic stars in a series that tells the story of FBI agent Emily Byrne who disappears without a trace while hunting one of Boston's most notorious serial killers, and she is declared dead in absentia.
Dune on Amazon Prime Video. This series chronicles the fall and rise of House Atreides as the galaxy’s Houses scheme, and murder their way to control of Spice - the most important commodity in existence.

Finally, George got around to playing the Donkey Kong-themed DLC for Mario + Rabbits: Kingdom Battle.

On request from one of our live viewers, Travis and George will be watching The Gentlemen for next week’s show. The Gentlemen is the latest movie from Guy Richie, starring Matthew McConaughey, and Charlie Hunnam.
We will also be watching the new Amazon Prime show, Tales from the Loop

Episode 60: All over the map!

Episode 60: All over the map!

This week, Travis and George have a good, old natter about VR. Particularly talking about Travis’ Oculus Quest, and the games/apps currently available. Is there a killer app for VR yet? Beat Sabre seems to be the uniform front contender for that crown. But we also wonder if VR is going to shine more in the social aspect of society rather than the gaming world.

Next up Travis talks a little about Westworld — don’t worry, there are no spoilers for Season 3.

We talk through our thoughts on the finale of Star Trek: Picard. They are many and they are not exactly happy.

George talks about experiencing two of the Xbox staple games, Gears of War and Halo on Xbox Game Pass. He also tried out Rage 2 with mixed results.

Lastly, Travis watched Superman: Red Son. A WB-animated DC heroes feature film based around the question: What if Superman had landed in Soviet Russia, and not Smallville USA?

Episode 59: The Picard-heavy Episode

Episode 59: The Picard-heavy Episode

This week Travis and I have a deep-dive conversation about Star Trek: Picard and why it’s not working for either of us. Travis then tells us that Batter Call Saul is one of the very best TV shows of all-time.
Meanwhile, on the opposite end of the spectrum, George has been indulging in Kaiju (and Kaiju-like) movies… most notably, Godzilla (2014), and Godzilla 2: King of Monsters.

In gaming news, Travis has spent a little time playing Doom Eternal which, to him at least, feels like its become more of a survival game. The game that hs really stolen Travis’ heart at the moment though is Broforce in all its 8-bit nostalgia glory!
Again, on the opposite end of the spectrum, George has been indulging in the calming delights of Animal Crossing on Nintendo Switch. He has also signed up to Xbox Game Pass and played some of Sniper Elite 4. Sadly they have made the game areas too bit and they are far less fun than the tight, narrow streets of Paris from the last game.

An Update Message For You All

An Update Message For You All

Hey folks!

Sorry for the delay in getting new content to you guys. What with laziness, Covid-19, and poor organization, I’ve let things slide. But thankfully, Travis and I have been working on a remote basis for ages and so we can continue the show... all we have to do is actually record it!

Also, I will be releasing a podcast version of Vaugn. I will be releasing episodic chapters.

So we have plenty of content coming your way!
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Episode 58: The Episode the Russian Bots have been waiting for!

Episode 58: The Episode the Russian Bots have been waiting for!

This week, George and Travis run through their loose Top 5 Michael Bay movies, they also discuss Birds of Prey.
Travis experienced The Morning Show and For All Mankind on Apple TV+, he and George trialed the oddly pitched comedy show, Mythic Quest.
George and Travis discuss The Orville.
George smashed through I Am No OK With This, and Altered Carbon season 2 on Netflix with varying degrees of entertainment.

Episode 57: The Netflix-heavy session

Episode 57: The Netflix-heavy session

Show notes:

  • Don’t F**k With Cats on the Internet

  • The Stranger

  • You - Season 2

  • Just Mercy

  • 6 Underground

  • Ni No Kuni - the animated feature film

  • Your Name
    —> Weathering With You

  • Dracula
    —> Leading into general Dracula conversation

  • BoJack Horseman

  • Steamworld Heist on Switch

  • Oscars 2020 predictions
    —> 1917 for the big win
    —> Rene Zellweger for Best Acrtress
    —> Joaquin Phoenix for Best Actor

  • Todd Philips to direct a Hulk Hogan biopic

Episode 56: Back in the Saddle... Again

Episode 56: Back in the Saddle... Again

Show notes:

  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker — we finally review it, & you can probably guess our thoughts.

  • Star Trek: Picard - Episode 1 and 2’ish — a very different type of Star Trek.

  • George went to Arcanacon 2020 in Melbourne and he bloody loved it!

  • Travis went to see Louis Theroux

  • Travis is looking forward to seeing Tool in a few weeks time.

  • Travis went to see Cats… not the god-awful movie, but a quality stage version.
    —> This diverted into a brief discussion about the forthcoming Little Shop of Horrors movie adaptation.

  • Travis gives some thoughts on Jo-Jo RAbbit and 1917.

  • George and Travis then rapid-fire through some thoughts on Chris Nolan’s next movie, Tenet, The Lighthouse, and George’s thoughts on Men In Black International.

Episode 54: All Over The Shop

Episode 54: All Over The Shop

We are quite all over the shop this week...

We discuss working in Australia in the gaming industry...

Gaming Unions and Ethically produced games...

The Mandalorian and Star Wars in general...

The Snyder Cut and The Batman...

Terminator Dark Fate...

Fan Obsessions...

Years and Years...

The Crown...

and Janes Bond.