Podcast Like It's ...

This week we go back to basics as Kenny and Phil go undercover and take on THE MOD SQUAD, the film reboot of the 70's TV Show starring Claire Danes, Omar Epps and Giovanni Ribisi.
They talk about the all the 60s and 70s TV Show revivals to come of the back of the success of Mission: Impossible, why this version of The Mod Squad just doesn't work in a modern context, and try to figure out Claire Danes' career.

Friend of the show Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones, Amazon's Lord of the Rings) returns this week to rock the cradle and talk about Tim Robbins' CRADLE WILL ROCK.
We get all into Robbins' fictionalized account of the production of The Cradle Will Rock, where the movie lies politically/its thoughts on communism, art and the labor movement in the early 20th Century, Tim Robbins as an auteur and performances based on real life figures like Orson Welles!

Put on your fancy suits and dresses, crack open a bottle of champagne and join us and AWARDS WATCH Founder Erik Anderson as we talk about the 1999 Golden Globes! 
We talk about the beginning of the American Beauty Oscar momentum, Toy Story 2 winning Musical or Comedy as animated feature, favorite speeches and talk about the ceremony as a whole and our favorite characters within it!

This week, writer and horror head Louis Peitzman (The New York Times, Vulture, Buzzfeed) joins us to talk about supernatural, horror movie, STIGMATA. 
We talk about Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne's interesting relationship to horror movies and his Razzie Nominated performance in this movie, the weird space of being a financial success but a critical failure and all the strange twists and turns STIGMATA takes.

Have you ever been the very best? Like no one ever was?
Well if you have then you have arrived at the correct episode of Podcast Like its 1999, as this week we welcome Mike Natale (Writer for Comic Book Resources and host of the upcoming You're Missing Out podcast) onto the podcast to talk about the ominously titled POKEMON: THE FIRST MOVIE. 
We get to talking about Pokemon as a multimedia phenomenon in the late 90s and how it just missed some of us age wise, card based box office boosts, how people feel about the movie/animated series in relation to the games and whether or not Pikachu crying brought tears to our eyes. 
Will Phil and Kenny leave the episode wanting to catch them all? Listen to find out.

We aren't quite done! 
This week as our final FELICITY FRIDAY, Phil interviews a couple of FELICITY's key creatives.
First off we have Executive Producer and TV Veteran John Reims about his role on Felicity, what makes Felicity different from all the other shows he's worked on in his career, and what it was like to work with the cast.
And then we bring back Director and Producer on Felicity, Lawrence Trilling to talk about what it was like to say goodbye to Felicity, his thoughts on the ending and what it was like to direct the show's finale. 
THANK YOU all so much for listening to Felicity Fridays, it's been a blast doing them. Hope you tell your friends and get excited for what's coming up of PODCAST LIKE IT'S 1999. We, like Felicity, might be looking towards the past pretty soon, stay tuned...

In the 90s we all loved lasers and we all loved Catherine Zeta Jones. Put them together and you have an all time memorable teaser trailer and ... an absolutely terrible movie??
This week we welcome back Jessica Ellis (Host of Distant Socials Podcast) to the podcast to talk about Entrapment, a movie as far as anyone is concerned is just Catherine Zeta Jones dodging lasers with sexy movements and also Sean Connery is in it.
We talk about the movie beyond the trailer, Sean Connery as a 60 year old movie star, Catherine Zeta Jones place as a movie star post-Zorro and just how much we did not care for Entrapment.

It's so hard to say goodbye, but sometimes we must put away Ben and Noel and wrap up talking about one of the best shows of all time.
This week we welcome back Vanity Fair Senior Writer and Podcaster Extraordinaire Joanna Robinson (Storm of Spoilers, Little Gold Men) to talk about the final episodes of Felicity.
We talk about Felicity's journey from mid season 2 (the end of its 1999 run) to its end in 2002, the craziness of the twist of the final 5 episodes (TIME TRAVEL!), where Joanna and Phil end up on Ben v Noel at the end of the show and those melancholy senior year/anxious about the world feelings.
P.S. This is not the final episode of FELICITY FRIDAYS. We will be doing one more bonus episode interviewing executive producer Josh Reims and Producer/Director Lawrence Trilling.

Ally McBeal, Big Little Lies, Boston Legal. We all know David E. Kelley is a TV Legend but did you know that in 1999 he wrote and produced a horror movie about a 30 foot killer crocodile starring Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda and features Betty White. 
Wait what?
We welcome writer Delondra Mesa (Step Up: High Water, Z Nation) to give us some of her Camp Sci-Fi expertise to talk about LAKE PLACID, and all of its twists, turns, laughs, groans and moans.

It is the middle ground between Ben and Noel, and it lies after the 1999 run of episodes but before the end. This is a special bonus episode. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone episode of FELICITY.
This week Meg Masters (Netflix Publicity) returns to FELICITY FRIDAYS to talk about Help for the Lovelorn, a special episode of Felicity season 2, as one of our bonus episodes cause we just can't quit this fantastic series. 
And as a bonus on a bonus we also have an interview with actor Robert Benedict who plays Richard Coad on Felicity. We talk about his time on the show, how he feels about that period of his career, how it was like to work with the cast and much more.