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Episode 33  This week on the podcast we discuss The Grudge with Sarah Michelle Gellar from 2004 and try and determine why this America re-make still took place in Japan. Former Clear Channel and Live Nation executive and Broadway Producer Duffy Anderson drops by to tell us a story about her boss making an ass of herself while accepting the Tony for best revival. We also speak to @BetteBentley who tries to talk me out of buying a haunted car. AND KAI PLAYS A ROUND OF SPORTS JEOPARDY GOOD TIMES crackleCast.com Follow us @crackleCast or on iTunes See the Grudge FREE on Crackle.com along with hundreds of other completely free streaming movies and TV shows. Yes commercials, but free and the fact that people can find a way to complain about it is just amazing to me. Entitlement is a stinky cologne, everyone.

Excerpt from Podcast ep32 Karate Kid  http://cracklecast.podbean.com/e/ep32-karate-kid-1984 My attempted interview with Bill Simmons, I don’t know if he was stonewalling, or making fun of me or having some kind of aneurism but he sure loves basketball.

On this week’s podcast we talk KARATE KID!!!!! So many fun things this week, we have news with @Briansantamaria powered by the free New York Times NOW app. An interview with the nephew of John Avildsen, the director of Karate Kid. But also at the end of the episode very proud to have on BILL SIMMONS while I think he’s having a stroke, and I attempt to talk about one of his favorite films, The Karate Kid. Thanks to Audible.com for my Free audio book!!!

Well, our all things Godzilla march continues with Godzilla 2000.  @yuribaranovsky comes in to talk about some big news stories like Netflix trying out commercials, and Showtime going stand alone. Then friend of the show Brandon Wallace calls in and tries to describe Godzilla 2000 having never seen a Godzilla movie. Also we have a commercial from Audible.com !

Peter Berg and Will smith take us on a half baked Vince Gilligan script of a ride in LA dealing with privilege, drinking handles of whiskey and being a black super hero. Guests, Bette Bentley @BetteBentley - Funny or Die, Brian Santa Maria @briansantamaria - Onion & UCB watch some clips with me and discuss Hancock. The lovely and Talented Robin Reed @rreed from Yahoo’s This Week in TV comes by and talks online media news. And the hilarious Ed Greer comes on to talk about the drawbacks of the powers of flying. @EdGreerDestroys  Follow us @crackleCast or find us on iTunes. Good Times

In this clip from Cracklecast Episode 29 we have a very special interview with Dead Rising: Watchtower director Zach Lipovsky. We talk old video game systems, Jesse Metcalfe’s pretty smile and then have a frank discussion about zombies serving as a surrogate for AIDS paranoia. Great guy. See Dead Rising: Watchtower: www.crackle.com/c/dead-rising-watchtower Hear the full Podcast Episode: http://cracklecast.podbean.com/e/ep29-dead-rising-watchtower DANCE the Dead Rising La Zamba https://vimeo.com/123071696 @Cracklecast

From the people who invented Jaegermeister in Nazi controlled Germany. Comes the unforgettable flavor of Jaeger-Spice. Try some, we insist.

This week I break down the Crackle Original Dead Rising: Watchtower with Director Zach Lipovsky. I give my must watch picks on Crackle for April, ask old friend Matt Klinman from The Onion, UCB, Funny or Die and Adult Swim a hypothetical about zombies and we have our first podcast sponsor Jaegermeister Cinnamon Spice! Big thanks to Zach Lipovsky, Heikki Gruner, Matt Klinman, Sergio Macian, Bosley, Dan Steiner, Coco, Anchor Steam and American Spirits.  See Dead Rising: Watchtower on Crackle for FREE, in perpetuity. at Crackle.com Find us on twitter @Crackle for all the latest iTunes and Facebook will also respond to searches for the same name.

Cracklecast Podcast EP28 Cracklecast Mini-episode, with updates, hypothetical question Skype phone guest Daniel Steiner, a discussion of how Verizon’s red unyielding 4G signal spreading across this country is not dissimilar from communism. Also asome spoilerific thoughts on: Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson, Karan Soni.  I can’t spoil how they nailed some really good dramatic scenes, but the one big plot point… don’t let me ruin it, If you haven’t seen it, really go watch it. Great film. Then come back and listen. See Safety Not Guaranteed on Crackle.com streaming free.  And follow us @Cracklecast www.cracklecast.com

Episode 27 Guest: Yuri Baranovsky comes on the podcast to discuss Crackle original: The Throwaways (2015). Produced by Jeremy Renner, starring Sam Huntington, James Kahn, Kevin Dillon and Katie McGrath. We explore Bulgaria through the eyes of a spunky team of can-do losers fighting against a would-be world dictator… from Bulgaria. Also we discuss email leaks and conspiracy theories. Check out The Throwaways on Crackle. http://www.crackle.com/c/the-throwaways @Cracklecast @Yuribaranovsky

This week Cracklecast discusses Wind Chill from 2007 with return guest Brian Santa Maria (@briansantamaria) from The Onion and the UCB. Starring Emily Blunt and produced by George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh. Does it seem curious you’ve never heard of this movie? They did a good job of letting the tension build and suggest creepy things through the first half, but it just starts to unravel and chase its own tail. But I will say there were at least 2 moments when it scared the shit out of me, then I’d compliment it on having a good amount of unintentional comedy. Like Emily Blunt at a certain point being bored of the premise of being terrorized by ghosts. See it Free on Crackle: http://www.crackle.com/c/wind-chill Find us on Twitter @Cracklecast, Facebook or find us on iTunes: Cracklecast

This week John Hughes takes us on the ultimate adolescent boyhood fantasy. The lovely and talented Robin Reed stops by to talk Artificial Intelligence, False Outrage on Twitter and the virtues of Kelly Lebrock. Go watch Weird Science for FREE at Crackle.com http://www.crackle.com/c/weird-science Find us on Facebook, iTunes or @cracklecast Thanks  UK Dan Robin Reed  Minibosses

This week we discuss the magical pre-millenium world of virtual reality.  I love the 90s, I love Keanu, I love Cyber punk. This movie receives the first ever: MUST WATCH: So bad its good This movie is so stylized and the plot filled with red herrings its confusing and bizarre and when young Keanu is your best actor its just fantastic. Go watch it for FREE at Crackle.com @Cracklecast Thanks Yuri Thanks Suikoden and Konami Thanks Kodo Thanks UK Dan

This week Kai is joined by UCLA Poetry Instructor, professional dancer and podcast connoisseur Rachel Kann. John Singleton throws the reality of the inner city onto the Pacific Coast Highway as Tupac Shakur and Janet Jackson learn the meaning of love, life and who is trippin. Watch Poetic Justice on Crackle.com for FREE (or just google it, what do you want from me)Among hundreds of other movies. Subscribe to Cracklecast on iTunes, or find us on Twitter @CrackleCast

In this week’s Mega-Episode, Kai and producer writer guest Yuri Baranovsky discuss The Freshman (1990) With Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick where Kai is convinced this movie is either an extended dream sequence, a metaphor for death or an alternate universe where the God Father is a documentary and Komodo Dragons are endangered. Watch The Freshman on Crackle.com for FREEAmong hundreds of other movies. Subscribe to Cracklecast on iTunes, or find us on Twitter @CrackleCast

Kai and special guest Elli Nagai-Rothe discuss Bruce Willis’ softer side in caring for an autistic child that the government wants to murder. Lots of faces punched. Multiple Jurassic Park references. Alec Baldwin steals the show and one relationship that goes from meeting in a coffee shop to seeming 6 years married in 1 afternoon. They also examine the glaring evidence that this movie was written in late 1994. Watch Mercury Rising on Crackle.com for FREE

This week we discuss a movie about nice things happening to beautiful and rich people, on the backdrop of vacationer’s London with Tennis in full bloom. Special guest Amy Albert does a spot on impression of Scarlett Johansson at a shampoo commercial audition, and we play a game trying to guess what London thinks its own top landmarks are. Check out Amy’s new webseries: Assistance  See Wimbledon FREE on Crackle.com Find us on Twitter @Cracklecast Or subscribe to Cracklecast on iTunes.

This week we review the Gilliam classic: The Fisher King and chat about the dearly missed Robin Williams with special guest: JC Currais Watch The Fisher King on Crackle.com TOTALLY FREEwww.crackle.com/c/the-fisher-king Nick and Kai reminisce about all the 90s New York details this movie has, from Shock Jocks being a thing to yuppies and Video stores. The guys try and summarize the film in a sentence, and awesome guest JC Cuarrais is awed by the genuine innocence from William’s performance for which he earned a Best Actor nomination. Thanks to Sarah Matthews for the intro song.

Kai gets nostalgic for San Francisco in the 90s and Nick drops a really specific reference to the movie Philadelphia. SPECIAL GUEST:  Classically stage and UCB trained dreamboat former Onion Writer Brian Santa Maria, goes deep on the story structure of this Rolling Stones underscored 90s thriller. Thanks to Sarah Matthews for the theme song!

Kai and Nick discuss The Pursuit of Happyness with Will Smith, with awesome comedian Peyton Clarkson. See The Pursuit of Happyness on Crackle.com FOR FREE The movie had an important message but it can totally bum you out. Nick talks about Michael J Fox in the 80s and Kai cannot stop talking about the 1981 49ers, the era in which this movie took place. Thanks again to Sarah Matthews for the Intro, she rocks.