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The Basement Binge
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WELCOME! to The Basement Binge - 'movies made meaningful' A fun way to think about movies and how they can make us better individuals. And fun, lots and lots of fun!Binging your favorite (and least favorite) series and franchises, while also making time for the independent entries.Also every month a new "Monthly Update" to get insights into what is happening in the film world - release dates, trailers, box office, reviews, etc.
Episodes
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Tron: Ares
Tron: Ares | Episode 180 No other piece of media has been as impactful to me than Tron Legacy so to say I was both excited and nervous for this film is an understatement. --- A highly sophisticated Program called Ares is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission,...
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Captain America: Brave New World
Captain America: Brave New World | Worth the Watch? - Episode 179 One and a half years since I released the last episode of the Basement Binge, and my goodness is it great to be back talking about movies? Why Captain America: Brave New World? IDK because - let's talk about the movie --- After...
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One | Worth the Watch?
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One | Worth the Watch? - Episode 178 I love Mission Impossible and only saw them for the first time 2 years ago. Mission Impossible movies are remarkable for a reason. Tom Cruise, the Producer, with his new partner/director "McQ" have found a way to…
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (Spoiler-free review) | Worth the Watch?
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts | Worth the Watch? - Episode 177 Anyone who has listened to me talk about movies knows I love the transformers movies, so anytime a new one is released I get excited and nervous, because I don't want to be the only one who likes it. So can rise of the Beasts rise…
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | Animation Hall of Fav Volume 3 As much as I want this episode to be perfect because of what this movie means to me - it isn't. But I have to keep telling myself published > perfect. Listen to find out why. --- After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s...
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The Little Mermaid (2023) | Worth the Watch?
Disney's The Little Mermaid (2023) | Worth the Watch? - Episode 175 The Little Mermaid has been a Disney classic for decades, and in the age of live action remakes this was one that was inevitable. However, Halle Bailey's casting was sadly surrounded in controversy. But this movie has it all for...
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Fast X
Fast X | The Fast and Furious Saga Fast X! Finally was able to get around to seeing this wild idea of a film. Despite my dislike for F9 there is something about Fast X that was pulling me in. I am very grateful for my "Podcast Family" - Matt from 'Matt Goes to Movies' joining me. Available…
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Suzume
Suzume | Animation Hall of Fav Volume 3 Makoto Shinkai is a director whose work I have come to love. It is hard to explain the excitement a new release from him brings me. But I was nervous after my disappointment with Weathering With you I didn't want to be let down again. So I went in with...
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Spoiler Free Review) | Worth the Watch?
The Super Mario Bros. Movie | Worth the Watch? - Episode 172 Who knew that videos games would be the saving grace of kids' movies? The Mario Bros. were two brothers were something I never expected to see on the big screen - especially this well produced (by Illumination of all things). So, the...
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (Spoiler Free Review) | Worth the Watch?
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves | Worth the Watch? - Episode 171 This is without a doubt the biggest surprise of the year. A movie that I was not interested in at all, just going because it was new - to now become one of the things I am most excited about. I am not even a D&D player but...
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | Animation Hall of Fav Volume 3 Animation Hall of Fav cannot happen without interruptions. When this year's season was delayed, I thought that would be enough - but it wasn't so here is a second attempt to start it up again. Starting up Animation Hall…
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How to Train Your Dragon 2
How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Animation Hall of Fav Volume 3 Animation Hall of Fav cannot happen without interruptions. When this year's season was delayed, I thought that would be enough - but it wasn't so here is a second attempt to start it up again. Starting up Animation Hall of Fav with a...
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How to Train Your Dragon
How to Train Your Dragon | Animation Hall of Fav Volume 3 Animation Hall of Fav cannot happen without interruptions. When this year's season was delayed, I thought that would be enough - but it wasn't so here is a second attempt to start it up again. Starting up Animation Hall of Fav with a…
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The Mitchells vs The Machines
The Mitchells vs The Machines | Animation Hall of Fav Volume 3 I do not know if there is a movie I have been more excited to review than The Mitchells vs The Machines. Even through this long and stressful weekend I have been wanting to sit down and talk about the Mitchells. This was even more...
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Animation Hall of Fav 3 Now an Academy Award Winner!! I love stop motion, and I was expecting this to be the winner of Animation Hall of Fav, but now I'm not so sure. It is remarkable animation, a impressive and compelling adaptation of a classic story that tells…
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Creed III
Creed | Creed 3 - Episode 165 This has been my most anticipated film of the first part of the year. Creed blew me away and I couldn't wait to see what Michael B. Jordan would do with it as a first-time director. Additionally, Jonathan Majors has been taking over my mind as a new Hollywood...
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Creed II
Creed | Creed 2 - Episode 164 I have been looking forward to this "binge" for a long time. I loved the first Creed and Creed 3 has been one of my most anticipated films of the year. To say I was excited to finally see Creed 2 would be to understate it. But as I revisited the first film and was...
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Creed
Creed | Creed 1 - Episode 163 Rocky has meant a lot to me for a long time, but for some reason Creed went under my radar for too long. When I finally did see Creed I knew it was something remarkably special, I couldn't wait to review it on the podcast as I knew I would have some things to say…
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | MCU 31 - Episode 162 The Basement Binge is back with classic content, reviewing the MCU. The latest installment from Kevin Feige with Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Jonathan Majors, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Michael Douglas. I was not excited for this much, but I...
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish | Animation Hall of Fav 3 Every year I spend the beginning of the year celebrating the wonderful format of Animation by visiting some of my favorites. Puss in Boots the Last Wish is a movie I never expected to ever be in the "Hall of Fav" but the more I heard about it...
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Bumblebee
Bumbebee | Transformers Binge Starting the new year of 2023 by catching up on episodes from 2022 with finishing the Transformers Binge with Bumblebee --- On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small California beach town. On the cusp of turning 18 and trying to…
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Transformers: The Last Knight
Transformers: Age of Extinction | Transformers Binge I have crawled out of my whole to finally release this long-awaited episode recorded over 4 months ago - thank you for the patience - enjoy this episode. --- A deadly threat from Earth's history reappears and a hunt for a lost artifact takes...
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Spoiler-Free Review)
My most anticipated film of the year, so fitting it be the film to bring me back from the dead. Spoiler-free thoughts on Glass Onion to persuade you to go see it in theaters before this Knives Out Mystery is released on Netflix December 23. --- Famed Southern detective Benoit Blanc travels to...
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Black Adam (Spoiler Free)
I have just about fallen off the face of the Earth trying to keep up with homework. But I'm back at it! Black Adam Spoiler-Free review, and then back to Transformers and onto How to Train Your Dragon --- Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods-and...
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Transformers: Age of Extinction
Transformers: Age of Extinction | Transformers Binge Finally getting back to episodes continuing with Transformers, with great excitement from Matt for Age of Extinction. --- When humanity allies with a bounty hunter in pursuit of Optimus Prime, the Autobots turn to a mechanic and his family for...
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Transformers Binge Dark of the Moon, a ridiculous title that is also accurate, this film is darker and one that I remember the least. In this generally poor regarded film, were we able to find anything worthy praising, or are well all just rotten? --- The Autobots...
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Transformers Binge Transformers are back, and Revenge is coming. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, a movie that was without a doubt written during the writers' strike and then directed by the man child that is Michael Bay. All that junk aside, there is…
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Transformers
Transformers | Transformers Binge We continue our way with Transformers as we break into Michael Bay's live action Transformers. This is an absolutely wild blockbuster, and we had a ton of fun talking about it, the only question is, were we able to convince Rob of its greatness? --- An ancient...
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The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
The Transformers: The Movie (1986) | Transformers Binge The Transformers, and important part of my childhood and falling in love with movies in many ways. When I was in film school, I felt my appreciation for Transformers and Michael Bay's filmmaking was invalid, as it was lacking in "artistic...
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Where the Crawdads Sing (with my wife)
Where the Crawdads Sing, the adaptation of the wildly successful book. And it is a successful adaptation, enough so to get my wife - a big book fan - to love the movie enough to sit down and talk with me about it. --- A woman who raised herself in the marshes of the deep South becomes a suspect…
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Ms. Marvel Mini | Series Review
Ms. Marvel was a character I fell in love with from the first page of her first book. I've been looking forward to this series for a while, a new character with a different spirit than what we've seen in the MCU. While school took me away from a weekly review, I couldn't leave the series alone…
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Thor: Love and Thunder | Marvel Mini
Marvel Minis - something new for The Basement Binge. As Marvel is seeking to find itself and its purpose, The Basement Binge is finding how to talk about these new entries - starting with the humorous Thor Love and Thunder. --- Thor enlists the help of Valkyrie, Korg and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster...
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Ms. Marvel Mini | 1. Generation Why
Ms. Marvel was a character I fell in love with from the first page of her first book. I've been looking forward to this series for a while, a new character with a different spirit than what we've seen in the MCU. I'm excited to be covering this every week with a mini episode! --- Kamala Khan...
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Top Gun Maverick | Spoiler-Free + Spoiler Review
I have been waiting for Top Gun Maverick for years now! I can't wait to talk about it tomorrow, in the meantime, here are my quick thoughts on the original Top Gun. --- After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the…
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Top Gun | Mini Review
I have been waiting for Top Gun Maverick for years now! I can't wait to talk about it tomorrow, in the meantime, here are my quick thoughts on the original Top Gun. --- As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot...
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
This was supposed to happen sooner, but that is just the story of my life with Homework right now. --- Doctor Strange teams up with a mysterious teenage girl from his dreams who can travel across multiverses, to battle multiple threats, including other-universe versions of himself, which threaten...
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2
This is an extremely delayed episode (school is crushing me), but either way I'm excited to talk about Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with Matt. --- When the manic Dr Robotnik returns to Earth with a new ally, Knuckles the Echidna, Sonic and his new friend Tails is all that stands in their way. --- Show...
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Sonic the Hedgehog
I guess purgatory was extended with me starting school... But finally releasing this episode on Sonic. I never thought that a movie based on Sonic the Hedgehog would be a thing, let alone this good. But here I stand corrected. Here is all that I love about Sonic the Hedgehog --- After discovering…
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Morbius - Spoiler-Free Review
Finally back from purgatory, and what a strange movie to come back with - Morbius I've been saying for a while now that this would make a fantastic January movie, and while it does fit that boot perfectly, it's probably a good thing this has distanced itself from Spider-Man. --- Biochemist…
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Animation Hall of Fave Volume 2 - Episode 7 Atlantis has been a favorite ever since I was a young child rewatching this over and over on DVD. THe love and passion for creating a unique adventure film spill over everything and the film is rewarding to come back to even all these years later. --- A...
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The Emperor's New Groove
Animation Hall of Fave Volume 2 - Episode 6 The Emperor's New Groove, is a movie that you already know, and for all the right reasons. Classic 2000s Disney full of humor, memorable characters, and great heart. Couldn't have an Animation Hall of Fav without including this favorite! --- Emperor…
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Lupin III: The First
Animation Hall of Fave Volume 2 - Episode 5 Lupin III, you either know who that is and why this is a fun film, or you have no idea. Kind of like the Japanese James Bond, since his inception by Monkey Punch in 1967 by Monkey Punch, Lupin III has had a world of adventures in all his animated...
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Belle (2021) | Spoiler Free + Spoiler Review
Animation Hall of Fave Volume 2 - Bonus Episode Belle has completely rocked my world. I almost missed the film not knowing about it at all. But once I walked out of the theater I knew this needed to be a part of 'Animation Hall of Fav.' Films like this only come around so often and I'm so glad I...
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Kung Fu Panda 3
Animation Hall of Fave Volume 2 - Episode 4 Kung Fu Panda 3 is the conclusion of a fantastic trilogy and I'm going to be missing Po. --- Continuing his "legendary adventures of awesomeness", Po must face two hugely epic, but different threats: one supernatural and the other a little closer to…
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Kung Fu Panda 2
Animation Hall of Fave Volume 2 - Episode 3 Kung Fu Panda 2! The first one blew me away and I couldn't wait to get to the next part of Po's adventure, especially with all the positive things I had heard about this film. I'll let you in on a secret, Kung Fu Panda 2 continues the legacy of the…
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Kung Fu Panda
Animation Hall of Fave Volume 2 - Episode 2 Kung Fu Panda, I was not expecting to have this much to say. But when a film is this visually stunning and thematically rich there is a lot worth mentioning. It's funny, has a great voice cast, is stuffed with saturated sunsets, and tells a heartfelt...
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Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem
Animation Hall of Fave 2 - episode 1 Interstella 5555:The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem - the first film of 2022 and the start of "Animation Hall of FAV #2" or Animation Season 2. I can not think of a better way to start this year. The animated House Musical for Daft Punk's second album…
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Spider-Man: No Way Home | Spider-Man Week #8
Spider-ManNo Way Home. Already becoming the cinematic event of the year! Can this really be the ultimate Spider-Man movie? (I think in a way - yes) --- Peter Parker is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a Super Hero. When he asks for help from...
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Spider-Man: Far From Home | Spider-Man Week #7
Spider-Man Far From Home. The least rewarding to rewatch??? --- Peter Parker and his friends go on a summer trip to Europe. However, they will hardly be able to rest - Peter will have to agree to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of creatures that cause natural disasters and destruction…
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Spider-Man: Homecoming | Spider-Man Week #6
Spider-Man Homecoming, finally the start of something new for Spider-Man with his entry into the MCU. This used to be my favorite, did Spider-Man week change that? --- Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his…
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WELCOME! to The Basement Binge - 'movies made meaningful' A fun way to think about movies and how they can make us better individuals. And fun, lots and lots of fun!Binging your favorite (and least favorite) series and franchises, while also making time for the independent entries.Also every month a new "Monthly Update" to get insights into what is happening in the film world - release dates, trailers, box office, reviews, etc.
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