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Welcome to the PGP Film Cast! It is a podcast completely dedicated to movies in the theater where we cover upcoming weekend releases, announced movies, focus on one future movie that has us excited, retro reviews and our (in)famous Top 10 lists!

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News

RIP James Gammon (1940-2010) Major League(Tom Berenger)- The Substitute(Margo Peace)-  Wild Things


Len Wiseman(Live Free or Die Hard) is directing a remake of Total Recall.

Mark Ruffalo will be the Hulk, and Jeremy Renner will play Hawkeye in “The Avengers.”  Joss Whedon will direct.

Brad Pitt will star in the zombie apocalypse movie “World War Z.”

Daniel Craig, Robin Wright, and Stellan Skaarsgard have been cast in “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.”

Kevin Bacon, James McAvoy, Alice Eve, Michael Fassbender, and Rosamund Pike have been cast in X-Men: First Class.

Movie Highlight – Machete  (September 3, 2010)

Directed by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis


Written by Robert Rodriguez and Alvaro Rodriguez

Starring Danny Trejo, Cheech Marin, Robert De Niro, Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Alba, Tim Roth, Michelle Rodriguez, Rose McGowan, Sacha Baron Cohen, Don Johnson, Steven Seagal

After being betrayed by the organization who hired him, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.

Versus!  Duck Soup VS Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

A new segment each show where we pit two movies against each other and then see which film comes out on top!


Jerry lost two friends this week.

Weekend Releases

August 13 – Eat Pray Love, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, The Expendables, Animal Kingdom, Tales from Earthsea, Lebanon, Peepli Live


August 20 – Nanny McPhee Returns, Piranha 3D, Lottery Ticket, Vampires Suck, The Switch, Mao's Last Dancer

Retro Review! – Being There (1984)

Released December 21, 1979


Domestic gross of $30,177,511

Directed by Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude)

Written by Jerzy Kosinski

Starring Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.

Check out our review, favorite lines, trivia and more about a retro movie each episode.

Worst 10 sequels!

Some mandatory choices like Spiderman 3, Indiana Jones 4, any of the new Star Wars along with some oddball choices like Teen Wolf Too, Star Trek V, Club Dread, and Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha' Hood!


Next Episode

Featured Movie is “The Social Network”


Versus is Major League VS A League of Their Own

Retro Review is “American Psycho”

Top 10 Thrillers! (list is due by 8/25/10)

Email in your lists, ideas for Retro Reviews!

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