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This week, Andrew and Zac give spoilercast reviews for Alien Covenant and The Mummy 2017, and discuss HbomberGuy's scathing Youtube critique of BBC's Sherlock, the disappointing filmography of Alex "The Serial Co-Writer" Kurtzman, and our happy childhood memories of Burnout Takedown and Spider-Man 2 for PS2.

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This week, Andrew and Zac discuss every movie ever, including Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, Only God Forgives and Valhalla Rising, Christopher Nolan's Inception and Interstellar, Davd Lynch's Dune and Twin Peaks, Denis Villeneuve's Arrival and the upcoming Blade Runner, and Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men and Gravity.

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It was Ico. The Team Ico game Zac couldn't think of during the episode.

It was Ico. The game that the company is NAMED after. Idiot.

Anyway yeah so Andrew and Zac talk about the Ee Threes or whatever. This episode was uploaded late because Zac is a silly toilet baby.

Games discussed include:

The XBox One X, or "The XBonKs"

Player Unknown's Battlegrounds

State of Decay 2

The Darwin Project

Minecraft?

Dragonball Z Fighter..?

Black Desert

One of the Forzas

The Artful Escape

Sea of Thieves

Tacoma

Spider-Man PS4

Lucky's Tale

Cuphead

Anthem

Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds

Days Gone

Life is Strange: Before the Storm Pt. 1

Monster Hunter World

Shadow of the Colossus PS4 remaster

God of War PS4

Super Mario Odyssey

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Intro and outro music: Ice Flow Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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This week, Andrew and Zac discuss the goings on at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo. Or, at least, some of it. Apologies for the technical glitches; the static in Zac's mic passes after a time, and hopefully won't appear in next week's recording.

Conferences discussed this episode are: Microsoft, Ubisoft and Bethesda. Tune in next week for NIntendo, Sony and Devolver Digital.

 

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This week Zac and Andrew discuss a comedy legend's new career transformation, whatever Universal is doing with its IP, Clive Palmer's history of bad business decisions, and sprinkle some Hayden over that delicious slow-cooked Christensen.

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Intro and outro music: Ice Flow Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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This week Zac and Andrew discuss (and spoil) John Wick Chapter 2, Brendan Fraser's controversial discoveries regarding the socio-ethical outlooks of farm animals, the current direction of the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, and Hayden Christensen.

00:00 Brendan Fraser has funded the Equine Sentience Event

08:19 John Wick Chapter 2 Spoilercast

(09:57- An aside regarding Transformers 5: The Last Paycheck)

14:32 Spoilercast resumes

35:09 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 & 2 - impressions

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Zac and Andrew discuss the latest project for empathic entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Ron Paul, a recent Australian stage production based on Orwell's 1984, and Hayden Christensen.

00:00 Ron Paul is making television and, tragically, HCPH is involved

13:21 Andrew's review of George Orwell's 1984, the stage production

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Zac and Andrew get very classy with discussions of their slam poetry dreams, the performance art (and visual art) of Alex Jones, and get all properly Christensenned up in this Haydizzle.

Trigger warnings for suicide in our The Discovery and 13 Reasons Why discussions.

00:00 The benefits of Gatorake

1:52 Clive Palmer

10:00 Alex Jones

17:00 Clive Palmer cont'd

21:00 The Discovery, The One I Love

32:00 Slowdive's new self-titled album

37:25 Dear White People

46:00 13 Reasons Why, and other shows Zac dislikes on principle

SHIP IT ALL TO CHINA: youtube.com/watch?v=n6Kut_td_xU

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Follow Zac on Twitter: @TheZBSmith ; and Instagram: @zacbrandonsmithOpening/Closing:  Intro and Outro Music: Ice Flow by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Elevator Music: youtube.com/watch?v=jj0ChLVTpaA.Classical Music:     Satie: Gymnopedie No.1, performed by Andreas Pfaul     Chopin: Etude in Ab Major, Op.25 No.1, performed by Donald Betts     Debussy: Image I No. 1, performed by Bertrand Chauvineau     Chopin: Nocturne in Bb Minor, Op.9 No.1, performed by Jonathan Oshry     Ligeti: Etude No.5 "Arc En Ciel", performed by Jonathan Oshry     Chopin: Etude in C minor, Op.25 No.12, performed by Donald Betts

This week Andrew and Zac match wits with the ever-resourceful Richard Dean Anderson, and discuss novels both inspiring and uninspired and Hayden Christensen.

00:00 Zac & Andrew use alligators to fight the world's greatest inventor

12:59 An upcoming Hayden Christensen film and assorted ramblings

20:29 Charlotte Wood's The Natural Way of Things spoiler-free review

35:06 Catherine McKinnon's Storyland is f**kin' similar to Cloud Atlas

46:36 Borges' Collected Fictions and Ben Aaronovich's Foxglove Summer

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This week, Andrew and Zac discuss former presidential candidate Ron Paul's new videogame project, a few of the hottest new films and shows to strike our fancy (and some old ones too), and Christen Haydensen.

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00:00-12:28 Andrew presents a new endorsement opportunity for HCPH

12:29-20:35 Hayden Christensen news, and his abominable wolf child

20:36-22:47 Bill Condon's Beauty and the Beast spoiler free review

22:48-24:38 Babak Anvari's Under the Shadow (2016) third-act spoilercast

24:39-41:07 Karyn Kusama's The Invitation (2015) spoilercast

41:08-49:23 Reece Shearsmith & Steve Pemberton's Inside No. 9 (2017)

49:24-52:11 Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror "White Christmas" spoilercast

Intro and outro music: Ice Flow Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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