#651 - Deadpool 2016 and Tim Miller by AKAPAD Peter A DeLuca

In February 1991 Deadpool first appeared in comics but not until 2013 that the world got their first glimpse of what he might be like off the comic book page. The Ultimate Spider-Man animated series is a long-forgotten 5-year show that did some good work at quite a few little-known characters, DEADPOOL being the most significant of them all.

Deadpool haS taken over the world again with this weekends release of DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE but today AKAPAD The Film Buff reminds you the true origin and popularity of the character, as he appeared in Fox Kid's X-Men The Animated Series.

With July 4th still on his mind Peter A DeLuca The Film Buff muses about his top film trilogies and comes to a shocking revelation. The MCU Captain America character arc is one of the all-time greats.

It's a good thing he has a podcast to explain it all.

Finally, for the 4th of July, we have ID4 the Alien Invasion flick that everyone loves to hate, but can't admit how much they love this 1996 banger.

AKAPAD's The Film Buff Podcast #646 reveals a sophisticated way to watch a movie for the first time, Peter your host reveals this method as he experienced it with Ridley Scott's Napoleon.

In 1974 superstar Burt Reynolds and director Robert Aldrich brought the world one of the great Football comedies, however, this film can only be seen with a trigger warning for modern audiences. The sensitivity of The Longest Yard diminishes its discoverability despite this being an absolute banger of a film, one of which carried on for decades.

#644 - Promising Young Woman by AKAPAD Peter A DeLuca

Episode #643 of The AKAPAD Film Buff Podcast

Continues the thread of American Football films with an absolute gem. The Best of Times is the definition of a style of comedy we don't see much of today, the mid-life crisis while still coming-of-age comedy. The Best of Times not only revolves around football it's the entire plot if the single moment in a single game.

AKAPAD The Film Buff reps about the 2023 masterwork Saltburn in this episode of his Podcast.

Saltburn became a viral TikTok revolution first then a sensation when it first became available on stream, along the way unfair comparisons to The Talented Mr. Ripley came out of the crevices and a desire to know every motivation seen in this film. But what we have is a beautiful film that so few were able to proclaim. The director Emerald Fennell is among the new class.The class to pay attention to.