For Your Consideration

Happy New Year, everybody!!! FYC is glad to be back from the holidays and bringing you a brand-new hour-long show spotlighting our favourite film picks for 2017! Join hosts Dustin and Mike as they discuss the movies that really caught their attention this past year and take a few moments to reflect back on 2017 for the podcast since we are also celebrating our second anniversary this month. Enjoy the show.

It's a short one for FYC this week as Dustin returns to discuss a truly terrible film that he has watched so that you don't have to. Christmas is the theme for this episode of ICYWC... and we have a seasonal stinker in the form of 2013's Krampus: The Christmas Devil. Check out the show to hear just how naughty this movie really is. Happy holidays!!

This week on FyC hosts Dustin and Mike take a deep dive on James Cameron's 1997 romantic disasterpiece, Titanic. Today marks the 20th anniversary of the American theatrical release of the film and we decided to commemorate the occasion by discussing the film on the podcast. Will we sink Titanic like an iceberg or deem it a masterpiece like so many prepubescent teens in the late '90s before us? You'll have to listen to the show to find out.

Continue FYC's epic journey through Middle-Earth as hosts Mike and Dustin welcome back guest commentator, Cat McDonald, to discuss the second in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Two Towers. Picking up from where they left off on the Fellowship episode, the roundtable takes a deep dive on Peter Jackson's sophomore Tolkien piece pointing out things they thought worked, things that didn't work, and things that kind of surprised them about the film and their reactions to it overall.

It's all about different perspectives on this week's episode of FYC as hosts Dustin and Mike tell their versions of how they reacted to Akira Kurosawa's 1950 classic whodunnit, Rashomon. Check out the conversation to find out whether the film will be deemed a masterpiece or a museum piece.

Dustin and Mike celebrate FYC's landmark 50th episode with yet another anniversary, this time with Steven Spielberg's first contact classic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The film, which turns 40 this month, was incredibly well received back in '77 and has been a film that the filmmaker has revisited and recut more than once! As is our tradition, we watched the original theatrical cut of the film which provoked some lively discussion at the roundtable and surprised both of us with how we ultimately judged it. Curious? Check out the episode to find out if Close Encounters is worthy of masterpiece status and to hear Dustin name drop M. Night Shyamalan, and not for the reasons you would expect.

FYC's Starship Troopers celebration comes to a satisfying conclusion with an episode covering the second animated, and final, entry into the franchise, Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars! Join Dustin and Mike as they take one last deep dive into the Troopers universe, bring their combined film analysis skills to bear on a movie most critics probably wouldn't expend the energy on (even though they should), and attempt to answer the question: what does Snapp know, and when did she know it?

Also, because we're doing our part, this week's episode also features a quick take on the Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles animated series from the 1999-2000 season.

Listening guarantees citizenship.

Starship Troopers' 20th anniversary continues on FYC with our analysis on the first of the two animated features, 2012's Starship Troopers: Invasion! This week, Mike and Dustin take a hard and considered look at the pros and cons of this continuation of the series in a new format. Does the switch to animation work to the franchise's benefit or detriment? Can an abundance of style make up for a lack of substance? And Carl Jenkins, can we trust him? All these questions and more will be answered on the show. Listening guarantees citizenship.

This is for all you new people! The Starship Troopers celebration continues in fine form on FYC with the third installment of the series, Starship Troopers: Marauder. Mike and Dustin analyse the first film of the second bug war, contrasting it with its predecessors, addressing the return of Colonel Rico to the franchise, and talking about the film's ambitions and the new directions it strives to go. Listening guarantees citizenship.

Alright you apes!! FYC's 20th anniversary celebration of Starship Troopers continues with the second film in the series, Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation!! Join the conversation as Dustin and Mike take a good, hard look at the most despised film in the Starship Troopers franchise and proceed to tell you why you, and everyone else, is wrong for thinking it. Listening guarantees citizenship.