The Movie Gang Podcast

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Episode 48: Manchester by the Sea Feb 07, 2017

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Main Review: Manchester by the sea

Synopsis - Lee Chandler is a brooding, irritable loner who works as a handyman for a Boston apartment block. One damp winter day he gets a call summoning him to his hometown, north of the city. His brother's heart has given out suddenly, and he's been named guardian to his 16-year-old nephew. As if losing his only sibling and doubts about raising a teenager weren't enough, his return to the past re-opens an unspeakable tragedy

Scores
Jack- 9 Trevor- 9 Ben - 9 Overall - 9

Episode 47: Fences Jan 31, 2017

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Oscar Nominations Corner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/89th_Academy_Awards

Main Review: Fences

Synopsis - Based on August Wilson's Tony Award-winning play, Fences follows Troi (LOL; Troy?) (Denzel Washington) an African American father who struggles through the 1950s as he works through racial issues, raising his two sons, his issues with infidelity, and his past with his own father.

Scores

Peter - 8.5/ Sarah - 8/ Ben - 7/ Overall - 7.8 → 8

Episode 46: XXX: The Return of Xander Cage Jan 23, 2017

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Trailer Corner

Logan- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH3OxVFvTeg

Power rangers- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kIe6UZHSXw

Main Review: XXX the return of xander cage

Synopsis - After coming out of self-imposed exile, daredevil operative Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) must race against time to recover a sinister weapon known as Pandora's Box, a device that controls every military satellite in the world. Recruiting a new group of thrill-seeking cohorts, Xander finds himself entangled in a deadly conspiracy that points to collusion at the highest levels of government.

Scores

Ben- 3.5/ Jack- 2/ Peter- 2/ Sarah- 4

Overall- 3

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Episode 45: Passengers Jan 18, 2017

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Main Review: Passengers

Synopsis - A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.

Scores

Jack- 4/ Bobbye - 5/ Sarah - 5
Overall - 5

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Episode 44: A Monster Calls Jan 10, 2017

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Trailer Corner

Alien: Covenant- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0VW6sg50Pk

Main Review: A Monster Calls

Synopsis - The monster does not come walking often. This time it comes to Connor, and it asks for the one thing Connor cannot bring himself to do. Tell the truth. This is a very touching story about a boy who feels very damaged, guilty and mostly angry. He struggles at school with bullies, and pity looks from everyone, and at home with his mother's sickness. Will Connor overcome his problems? Will everything be okay? Will Connor be able to speak the truth?

Scores

Jack- 7/ Ben- 9/ sean - 9.5/ Sarah - 8.5
Overall - 8.5

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Episode 43: New Year's Drinking Game!! Jan 01, 2017

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Welcome to the first annual Movie Gang Podcast New Year's Drinking Game!!!

Join the gang for an inebriated slog through their favorite and least favorite movies of 2016!

The rules are as follows:

Everyone has a list of their 5 favorite and least favorite films of the year and one film designated in each list as their absolute favorite and absolute least favorite.

Members of the gang will attempt to guess the contents of each other's lists and be awarded points or be punished/rewarded with drinks accordingly.

Members must also drink when they: belch, say “fuck u Sean”, reference another Tuscan Shed Media podcast, or use any form of the word “objective.”

On tonight's cast:

Jack Newman

Sarah Becker

Bobbye Pyke

Peter Dancy

Will Shrout

Andrew Rieger

Episode 42: White Christmas (Holiday Cast!) Dec 24, 2016

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Happy Holidays from The Movie Gang Podcast, for this holiday season we review a Bing Crosby Christmas classic-White Christmas.

Main Review: White Christmas

Synopsis - Having left the Army following W.W.II, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis team up to become a top song-and-dance act. Davis plays matchmaker and introduces Wallace to a pair of beautiful sisters (Betty and Judy) who also have a song-and-dance act. When Betty and Judy travel to a Vermont lodge to perform a Christmas show, Wallace and Davis follow, only to find their former commander, General Waverly, as the lodge owner. A series of romantic mix-ups ensue as the performers try to help the General.

Scores

Jack- n/a 10 Peter- 7.5 Will- 9 Sean - 7 Bobbye- 6 Sarah - 8 Overall - 7.5

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Episode 41: Rogue One (MGP Anniversary) Dec 20, 2016

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Happy Anniversary to the Movie Gang Podcast, This week celebrate like we started with a brand new Star Wars Movie. Come join Jack, Peter, Ben, Andrew, Jenna, Sarah, Sean, and Trevor as they attempt to navigate the nightmare of an 8 person Podcast. Spoiler they do a pretty awesome job.

Trailer Corner

Dunkirk- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5QBye6-ToM

Main Review: Rogue one

Synopsis - In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction. This key event in the Star Wars timeline brings together ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things, and in doing so, become part of something greater than themselves.

Scores

Ben - 6.5, Jack- 6.5, Trevor- 9, Jena- 5, Peter- 7.5, Andrew- 8.5, Sean - 6.5, Sarah - 6.5, Rogue One Overall - 7 Bet Winner - Jenna

Episode 40: Office Christmas Party Dec 13, 2016

Show notes

To get through a rough movie Ben, Sarah, and Bobbye through their own drunk christmas party complete with mic drops, long nerd rants, screaming galore, and so so much booze.

Trailer Corner

Spider-man: Homecoming - https://youtu.be/xrzXIaTt99U
War for the Planet of the Apes - https://youtu.be/UEP1Mk6Un98

Synopsis - When Zenotek CEO Carol Vanstone (Jennifer Aniston) tries to close the branch of her hard-partying brother Clay (T. J. Miller), he and his Chief Technical Officer must rally their co-workers and host an epic office Christmas party in an effort to impress a potential client and close a sale that will save their jobs.

Scores

Ben - 3 Sarah - 3 Bobbye - 2

Overall - 3

Bet winner- Peter

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Episode 39: Moonlight Dec 06, 2016

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This week Jack heads to the hill for some much needed romance as the cast from GS9 is lead in a review of the indy darling Moonlight.

Trailer Corner

Guardians Galaxy vol 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMTntxvok1M

Main Review: Moonlight

Synopsis - Told in three separate times in his life, we follow the story of Chiron, a black man in Miami, Florida as he struggles through the years with his identity, his sexuality, his place in society, his drug addicted mother, and his personality.

Scores

Ben - 9
Sarah - 9
Peter - 9
Overall - 9

Bet winner

Peter- Thursday

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