The Vertical Viewing Podcast

For April 16th, 2016, Red, Mike, and Scott meet at the Nostromo peace rock and discuss Seth Rogen's saturation period and his immediately forgotten mall cop comedy OBSERVE AND REPORT, the first official image of Scarlett Johansson in GHOST IN THE SHELL surfaces online amidst a whirlwind of whitewashing accusations, Mike puts his daily cartooning career on brief hold to let the elegant punishment & beautiful masochism of DARK SOULS III wash over him, Scott borrows Snake Plissken's silent-scoped Uzi and continues his John Carpenter retrospective extravaganza with ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, director Andy Serkis follows Justin Timberlake's advice and drops the "The" from JUNGLE BOOK: ORIGINS to just straight JUNGLE BOOK, the Marvel Universe folds in on itself with the first teaser trailer for DOCTOR STRANGE starring Benedict Cumberbatch, baffled looks are exchanged as James Cameron announces yet another AVATAR sequel - bringing the series to a total of five films, and much, much more before our featured review of THE JUNGLE BOOK from director Jon Favreau.

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MUSIC

• The AntiTheory - "Smart Bombs"

SHOW GUIDE

• 0:00:00 - What We've Been Viewing
• 0:40:25 - News
• 1:09:10 - Review: The Jungle Book (2016)

CLIPS

• Observe and Report (2009)
• Doctor Strange (2016) Teaser Trailer
• The Jungle Book (2016)

CREDITS

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For April 25th, 2016, Rob, MikeG, Garry and Scott meet in the Nostromo throne room and discuss the recent passing of music icon Prince and his 2013 single 'Breakfast Can Wait', Scott gets brain scanned into a Hollywood computer in the disappointing sci-fi drama THE CONGRESS featuring an animated version of Robin Wright, Aaron Taylor-Johnson absolutely saps the energy out of the otherwise quite decent GODZILLA reboot from 2014, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has officially signed on to the JUMANJI remake and we 'eagerly' await the casting of Kevin Hart, the Ancient One in DOCTOR STRANGE gets caught under the powerful spell of the ongoing Hollywood whitewashing controversy, Jason Bourne takes a page out of the Rocky Balboa naming school as the fantastic full trailer for JASON BOURNE hits the web, and much, much more before we dig in to a fresh dragon heart with our featured review of TALE OF TALES from writer/director Matteo Garrone.

MUSIC

• The AntiTheory - "Smart Bombs"

SHOW GUIDE

• 0:00:00 - What We've Been Viewing
• 0:33:30 - News
• 1:04:20 - Review: Tale of Tales (2015)
• 1:27:21 - *Spoiler Tag*

CLIPS

• The Congress (2013)
• Jason Bourne (2016) Teaser Trailer
• Tale of Tales (2015)

CREDITS

• We are on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
• You can interact with the show @VerticalViewing on Twitter
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For May 2nd, 2016, Red and Scott meet in the Nostromo Tower penthouse and discuss the instantly forgotten (and quite acceptable) crime thriller TRIPLE 9 starring virtually everyone in Hollywood, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's mediocre accent skills are on the line again in the new trailer for SNOWDEN from Oliver Stone, the John Carpenter retrospective continues to pump out deep cuts with the lovable campiness of BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, Red rejoices as Season 6 of GAME OF THRONES makes its triumphant return to absolutely dominate the airwaves for the next several weeks, Scott orders a new couch from Pallucci Furniture and gives a tumultuous and harrowing account of the third party delivery experience, Ben Kingsley & James McAvoy & John Boyega join the cast of a new WATERSHIP DOWN animated series for Netflix, and much, much more before our state of the art review of HIGH-RISE from director Ben Wheatley. Join us,there's almost no reason to leave.

MUSIC

• The AntiTheory - "Smart Bombs"
• Portishead - "SOS" (ABBA Cover)

SHOW GUIDE

• 0:00:00 - What We've Been Viewing
• 0:35:20 - News
• 1:04:55 - Review: High-Rise (2015)

CLIPS

• Triple 9 (2016)
• Snowden (2016)
• High-Rise (2015)

CREDITS

• We are on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
• You can interact with the show @VerticalViewing on Twitter
• Follow @jared_sargent and @ScottWillsonBC and @MichaelRLynd
• Send your thoughts & recommendations to [email protected]

For May 9th, 2016, Red, Mike, and Scott meet in the Nostromo airport lounge and discuss the fantastic 2h18m unbroken take of VICTORIA and how the rise of digital cinematography has led to a recent explosion of this technique, Screen Gems is moving forward with a SLENDER MAN film based on the grassroots internet urban legend, Mike finally sits down for a quick scroll through FANTASTIC 4 and can't even muster up some love for the laboratory escape sequence, the internet knows entirely too much about Kit Harington's haircut contract on GAME OF THRONES, we argue over the look of the new POWER RANGERS battle suits and manage to keep a surprising amount of hope in tact for this reboot, and much, much more before our featured review of CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR from directors Joel & Anthony Russo.

MUSIC

• The AntiTheory - "Smart Bombs"

SHOW GUIDE

• 0:00:00 - What We've Been Viewing
• 0:41:30 - News
• 1:10:25 - Review: Captain America: Civil War (2016)
• 1:33:15 - *Spoiler Tag*

CLIPS

• Keanu (2016)
• Power Rangers (1993) Season 1 Intro
• Captain America: Civil War (2016)

CREDITS

• We are on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
• You can interact with the show @VerticalViewing on Twitter
• Follow @jared_sargent and @ScottWillsonBC and @MichaelRLynd
• Send your thoughts & recommendations to [email protected]

For May 17th, 2016, Red, Adam, Mike, and Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss the excruciating Barkley Marathons and the concept of running a trail race that can finish without an actual winner, Canada and the U.S. get their border politics all tied up in a knot with gigantic battle robots in the fantastic graphic novel WE STAND ON GUARD by Brian K. Vaughan, Mike joins up with Nathan Drake for his latest white knuckle adventure in UNCHARTED 4: A THIEF'S END and tries to ignore some early pacing issues, with blood gushing from his mutilated hand, Red cowers in the corner of Jeremy Saulnier's harrowing and grisly thriller GREEN ROOM starring a terrifying Patrick Stewart, Adam checks the Craigslist prices for vintage SNES games has a rude awakening about how affordable his 'new' Super Nintendo hobby is going to be, and much, much more before our featured review of UNCLE BUCK from legendary writer/director John Hughes.

MUSIC

• The AntiTheory - "Smart Bombs"
• Tone Loc - "Wild Thing"

SHOW GUIDE

• 0:00:00 - What We've Been Viewing
• 0:27:35 - News
• 0:48:50 - Review: Uncle Buck (1989)

CLIPS

• Green Room (2015)
• Assassin's Creed (2016) Teaser Trailer
• Uncle Buck (1989)

CREDITS

• We are on Apple Podcasts and Spotify 
• You can interact with the show @VerticalViewing on Twitter 
• Follow @jared_sargent and @ScottWillsonBC and @MichaelRLynd 
• Send your thoughts & recommendations to [email protected]

For May 26th, 2016, Mike and Scott meet for a quick show in a quiet room tucked above the Nostromo Hollywood lounge and discuss various regional interpretations of the Victoria Day holiday weekend before we crack the case wide open in our featured review of THE NICE GUYS from the legendary buddy cop writer/director Shane Black.

MUSIC 

• The AntiTheory - "Smart Bombs" 
• Earth, Wind & Fire - "September" 

SHOW GUIDE 

• 0:07:15 - Review: The Nice Guys (2016) 
• 0:32:10 - *Spoiler Tag* 

CLIPS 

• The Nice Guys (2016)

CREDITS

• We are on Apple Podcasts and Spotify 
• You can interact with the show @VerticalViewing on Twitter 
• Follow @jared_sargent and @ScottWillsonBC and @MichaelRLynd 
• Send your thoughts & recommendations to [email protected]

For May 30th, 2016, MikeG, Red, Mike, and Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss the effectiveness of period language and depiction of witchcraft in THE VVITCH, Kevin Smith completely blows up our show with exciting news of his involvement in a BUCKAROO BANZAI anthology TV series (will we finally get to see "Against the World Crime League"?), the atrociously terrible gross-out comedy THE BROTHERS GRIMSBY is an absolute embarrassment for all actors involved, we (literally) open our hearts over the debut episode of Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg's PREACHER series on AMC, MikeG gives FEAR THE WALKING DEAD one last shot as the zombie craze rides waning ripples of its final wave of popularity, Scott bolts a GoPro camera to his head for the first-person adventure HARDCORE HENRY featuring a bakers dozen of fantastic performances from Sharlto Copley, and much, much more before we get to our featured review of X-MEN: APOCALYPSE from scumbag director Bryan Singer.

SHOW GUIDE 

• 0:00:00 - What We've Been Viewing 
• 0:45:35 - News 
• 1:10:50 - Review: X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
• 1:47:33 - *Spoiler Tag* 

CLIPS 

• Preacher (2016) 
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) 
• X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

CREDITS

• We are on Apple Podcasts and Spotify 
• You can interact with the show @VerticalViewing on Twitter 
• Follow @jared_sargent and @ScottWillsonBC and @MichaelRLynd 
• Send your thoughts & recommendations to [email protected]

For June 6th, 2016, Garry, Mike, and Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss the feasibility of turning soil into water in the surprisingly decent Mars mission adventure APPROACHING THE UNKNOWN starring Mark Strong and Luke Wilson, the always watchable cult favorite HOT ROD and the hilarious perils of having a shitfaced editor working in the cutting room, Scott is full on obsessed with the 2011 Sundance documentary RESURRECT DEAD and discovering the true secret of the Toynbee Tiles, Mike gets caught up in a very effective rewatch of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and we contemplate the landscape of war films for the foreseeable future, taking a page from GRAVITY, the stunning VR ready experience ADR1FT is just as jaw dropping and wondrous outside of an Oculus Rift, Disney grinds the internet to a concerned halt after announcing that more than 40% of STAR WARS: ROGUE ONE will undergo extensive reshoots this summer, and much, much more before our featured review of POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING from Lonely Island directors Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone.

MUSIC

• The AntiTheory - "Smart Bombs"

SHOW GUIDE

• 0:00:00 - What We've Been Viewing
• 0:36:15 - News
• 1:08:10 - Review: Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)

CLIPS

• Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011)
• Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
• Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)

CREDITS

• We are on Apple Podcasts, Google and Spotify
• You can interact with the show @VerticalViewing on Twitter
• Follow @jared_sargent and @ScottWillsonBC and @MichaelRLynd
• Send your thoughts & recommendations to [email protected]

For June 13th, 2016, Tim, Mike and Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss none other than FN-2187 aka John Boyega joining the cast of PACIFIC RIM 2, Tim wanders around Berlin aimlessly with some improvised criticisms of VICTORIA and its far-fetched ending, we are baffled at Commissioner Gordon's new rippling physique as JK Simmons hammers the weight room in preparation for JUSTICE LEAGUE Parts 1 & 2, the absolutely stunning background landscapes in Pixar's THE GOOD DINOSAUR ironically upstage the entire plot of the main characters, Gavin Hood's gripping thriller EYE IN THE SKY turns out to be a much more effective look at drone strike politics than GOOD KILL, and much, much more before we get to our featured review of WARCRAFT from writer/director Duncan Jones.

MUSIC

• The AntiTheory - "Smart Bombs"

SHOW GUIDE

• 0:00:00 - What We've Been Viewing
• 0:37:25 - News
• 1:01:15 - Review: Warcraft (2016)
• 1:27:03 - *Spoiler Tag*

CLIPS

• Sound of my Voice (2011)
• Eye in the Sky (2015)
• Warcraft (2016)

CREDITS

• We are on Apple Podcasts, Google and Spotify
• You can interact with the show @VerticalViewing on Twitter
• Follow @jared_sargent and @ScottWillsonBC and @MichaelRLynd
• Send your thoughts & recommendations to [email protected]

For June 20th, 2016, Mike and Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss the extremely tragic and sudden passing of Star Trek star Anton Yelchin at the young age of 27, the somewhat disturbing imagery in the E3 trailer for DEATH STRANDING from legendary game designer Hideo Kojima, Denzel Washington & Russel Crowe's absolutely absurd film VIRTUOSITY is the most 1995 sci-fi movie ever made, Mike lounges in the Venice Beach sunshine and polishes off the full series run of FLAKED starring Will Arnett, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles return for another "shell of a good time" with TMNT: OUT OF THE SHADOWS, and much, much more before our featured review of FINDING DORY from writer/director Andrew Stanton.

MUSIC

• The AntiTheory - "Smart Bombs"
• Low Roar - "I'll Keep Coming"

SHOW GUIDE

• 0:00:00 - What We've Been Viewing
• 0:39:45 - News
• 1:13:35 - Review: Finding Dory (2016)

CLIPS

• Virtuosity (1995)
• Finding Dory (2016)

CREDITS

• We are on Apple Podcasts, Google and Spotify
• You can interact with the show @VerticalViewing on Twitter
• Follow @jared_sargent and @ScottWillsonBC and @MichaelRLynd
• Send your thoughts & recommendations to [email protected]