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Indiana Jones & The Temple ...

06.08.2023

We continue our look at the Indiana Jones film series with the second installment, the prequel Temple Of Doom. A meaner, screamier and more culturally insensitive movie that introduces audiences to Ke Huy Quan's Short Round and Kate Capshaw's Willie ...

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06.08.2023 Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom - Caravan Of Garbage We continue our look at the Indiana Jones film series with the second installment, the prequel Temple Of Doom. A meaner, screamier and more culturally insensitive movie that introduces audiences to Ke Huy Quan's Short Round and Kate Capshaw's Willie ...
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06.01.2023 Indiana Jones & The Raiders Of The Lost Ark - Caravan Of Garbage Harrison Ford began his journey as Indiana Jones in the Steven Speilberg directed George Lucas written hit Raiders of the Lost Ark. Acting as a thrownback to the adventure serials from decades earlier it introduced a nazi punching swashbuckling grave ...
05.29.2023 480 More MCU Delays & The Little Mermaid (with Claire Tonti) WOW PODCAST. This week we talk the passing of two legends, we get into more MCU delays including some complications around the filming of Deadpool 3, the future of the John Wick franchise, more The Terminator from James Cameron, a ...
05.25.2023 Transformers: The Movie - Caravan Of Garbage The Transformers: The Movie attempted to do the impossible. Take a children's cartoon about alienrobots changing into cars and planes and a gun and make a commercially viable mainstream movie where they kill most of the characters kids loved including ...
05.22.2023 479 Fast X Fast X is here! We're talking all the big action, big cameos and the biggest family you've ever seen. Plus all the hot topics with more shows being delayed, heaps of them leaving Disney Plus, Marvel's new release strategy, no ...
05.18.2023 Furious 7 - Caravan Of Garbage It's been a long day without you, my friend and I'll tell you all about it when I see you again. Which is to say that we've come to the end of of this part of our journey through the ...
05.15.2023 478 Longest Running Franchises Get ready for a borderline nonsensical discussion about some of the longest running TV and movie franchises! Star Wars! Star Trek! Bond! The Australian children's educational program Playschool! Plus we talk HUGE news for the Fast & Furious Saga on ...
05.11.2023 Fast & Furious 6 - Caravan Of Garbage We're in the era of Fast & Furious where the movies are good and people seem to like them in general. And bang in the middle of that is the movie Fast & Furious 6 which introduces for the first ...
05.08.2023 477 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Nine years after the original and many adventures Avengers and Christmas related the Guardians have returned to the MCU for potentially the last time! So we review that. But also talk news of Hollywoods latest writers strike, Fantastic Four MCU ...
05.04.2023 Fast 5 (Extended) - Caravan of Garbage Finally. We've reached the good one. A moment in time when the Fast & Furious franchise truly took off with an action packed, high stakes, rip roaring heist movie with returning actors Paul Walker and Vin Diesel plus the introduction ...
05.01.2023 476 CinemaCon 2023 & Superhero Showdown! Cinemacon 2023 brings us news of the biggest Batman movie of all time with The Flash, Transformers: Rise Of The Beats, Dune II, Kraven Man Of The Animals and much more! Plus we return to the Superhero showdown with an ...
04.27.2023 Fast & Furious 4 - Caravan Of Garbage The Fast & Furious 4 or what was simply titled Fast & Furious was an attempt to bring the franchise back to what made the original a success, two guys being mates. But not just any two guys, for the ...
04.24.2023 475 Evil Dead Rise & The Mandalorian Season 3 This week we take a look at the latest entry in The Evil Dead franchise along with a recap/review of The Mandalorian Season 3. Plus we get into news of two classics being reintroduced into the world as a series, ...
04.20.2023 Batman & Robin - Caravan Of Garbage Batman Forever set the wheels in motion for a brand new kind of Batman. Camp. With George Clooney taking over from Val Kilmer who took over from Michael Keaton this is where people truely fell out of love with the ...
04.17.2023 474 The Marvels Trailer, HBO Max Reboot & Aunty Donna are here! It's another big news week with HBO Max being renamed Max and official word on that Harry Potter reboot series, more Game Of Thrones prequels, Amazon's big push on Robocop, Stargate and Legally Blonde plus trailers for The Marvels, Continental, ...
04.13.2023 Batman Forever - Caravan Of Garbage Tim Burtons Batman Returns ended up being not the creative direction (box office return) that Warner Brothers wanted. So in response to that we got a pretty significant tone shift for the next entry, Batman Forever directed by Joel Schumacher ...
04.10.2023 473 The Super Mario Bros. Movie & Star Wars Celebration HUGE week for movie news. We get into The Super Mario Bros. movies which is destroying box office records plus Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023. There were got new trailers for Ashoka featuring Thrawn and Indiana Jones & The Dial ...
04.06.2023 The Wizard & Super Mario Bros. - Caravan Of Garbage Nintendo has a very strange relationship with the adaptation of it's propeties into film. Before the release of Super Mario Bros. in 1993 and even longer before The Super Marios Bros. Movie in 2023 the closest thing we got to ...
04.03.2023 472 Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves It's not every day that there's a new theatrically released Dungeons & Dragons movie. It's happened twice. So in additionto a review of that we talk Clayface in The Batman 2, Ant-Man 3 bombs pretty hard, more information on Tarantino ...
03.30.2023 Pixels - Caravan Of Garbage With the release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2023 we've taken the time to go back and revist an absolute classic of th video game movie genre, Pixels from 2015. Despite having a stellar comedic cast, an excellent director ...
03.27.2023 471 John Wick: Chapter 4 John Wick is back to punch, kick, grapple and be hit by multiple cars in Chapter 4. But before that we talk the news of the week including Mission Impossible casting, the first look at Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn, ...
03.23.2023 Dungeons & Dragons (2000) - Caravan Of Garbage The first shot at a Dungeons & Dragons movie was not the 2023 entry Honor Amongst Thieves starring one Chris Pine. Unfortunately. There is in fact an earlier attempt from the year 2000 that takes aim at reinvention the fantasy ...
03.20.2023 470 Shazam! Fury of the Gods Shazam! Fury of the Gods has arrived and boy is it not doing well. Whether it be because it's on the tail end of the DCEU, the annoucement of the new DCU or some other Black Adam related reason we ...
03.16.2023 Batman Returns - Caravan Of Garbage Due to the overwhelming success of Batman 1989 Warner Brothers and DC moved hell and high water to lure back Tim Burton and Michael Keaton for it's 1992 sequel, Batman Returns. With the death of The Joker new villains were ...
03.13.2023 469 Scream VI & 65 Dinosaurs Movie Let's be real with each other. It's time to talk about two equally great movies, Scream 6 and the movie 65 dinosaurs. Plus we get into all the news including James Gunn potentially confirmed as the next Superman director, the ...
03.09.2023 Supergirl 1984 - Caravan Of Garbage We are fast approaching the second movie adaptation of Supergirl with Sasha Calle appearing in The Flash 2023. But before Sasha Calle and even Laura Vandervoort from Smallville and Melissa Benoist in the Arrowverse there was the 1984 movie. Set ...
03.06.2023 468 Creed III Like most weeks involving new cinematic releases it's a great time to watch a man punching another man. That's right Creed is back for Creed 3 and this time he's punching his mate! Not only that we get an undate ...
03.02.2023 The Flash (1990) - Caravan Of Garbage In the lead up to The Flash 2023 a movie that is probably coming out we're taking a look back at three propeties that tie directly (or indirectly) to the characters of The Flash, Supergirl and Batman. To kick things ...
02.27.2023 467 Cocaine Bear & More Lord Of The Rings Big week for Cocaine eating bears with the release of Cocaine Bear. We review that in addition to more Lord Of The Rings forever, Warner Brothers sues Paramount, things not looking great for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, bad ...
02.23.2023 Shrek Forever After - Caravan of Garbage Shrek Forever After acts as the final chapter in the Shrek Franchise. Except for Puss In boots 2011. Then Puss In Boots: The Last Wish. And a bunch of animated specials. ANYWAYS this time around Shrek decides to shatter all ...
02.19.2023 466 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania It's time to enter the Quantum Realm but not in real life because we going to review Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania! But before that we've got news on another Hellboy reboot, How To Train Your Dragon moves into live ...
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02.13.2023 465 Super Bowl 2023 Trailers! HUGE week for trailers with the arrival of Super Bowl LVII. We get a closer look at The Flash which is almost certainly going to come out, Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 3, Indiana Jones & The Dial Of Destiny, ...
02.09.2023 Shrek 2 - Caravan Of Garbage Shrek 2 takes everything that was successful about the first film in the franchise and attempted to expand out the characters, world and magical lore. With new characters like Puss In Boots, The Fairy Godmother, Prince Charming plus the Kingdom ...
02.06.2023 464 DCU Slate Reveal & Knock At The Cabin (with Michelle Brasier) HUGE episode this week. Special guest Michelle Brasier (Aunty Donna, Average Bear, stunt work) drops by to talk about Fast X plus M. Night Shyamalan's latest movie, Knock At The Cabin. But before that we get into the James Gunn ...
02.02.2023 Shrek - Caravan Of Garbage Welcome back to the very first Caravan Of Garbage of 2023! Due to big requests all the time we're finally going to be covering the Shrek franchise, starting of with the 2001 surprise hit. Introducing the characters of Shrek, Donkey, ...
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01.23.2023 462 Most Anticipated Movies & Shows 2023 ...aaaaaaannnnnnnnd we're back for 2023! In this extra super big episode we go through the most anticipated movies and TV shows of 2023 in addition to a big news round up. This includs the current state of Dungeons & Dragons, ...
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12.05.2022 458 Glass Onion + Guardians Vol 3 & Indiana Jones 5 Trailers You'd be hard pressed to find a more jam packed episode with this week revealling new trailers of Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 3, Indiana Jones & The Dial Of Destiny, Transformers Rise Of The Beasts and more! Plus we ...
12.01.2022 The Abyss - Caravan of Garbage We're on the road to Avatar 2: The Way Of Water! And on that road there there were three movies from James Cameron's filmography that made it happen, the first of which we'll be looking at is The Abyss from ...
11.28.2022 457 The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special Merry Christmas everyone! Because this week we're talking the Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special from James Gunn. Plus the return of Bob Iger, Avatar 2's box office challenge, Tarantino on the modern movie star and more. Thanks for listening! ...
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