Episode 263: Avengers Infinity War... Yup It's That Episode

Hello everyone and welcome to our Epic week in geek!  Why is it Epic you may ask?  Well it's our Avengers Infinity War review episode!  Holy crap guys, it's here and we're going to bring you our spoiler free review and then really dive in at the latter half of our podcast and go full spoiler mode!  If you haven't seen the movie yet then please avoid that as we both agree that going into this movie with minimal knowledge of what's going to happen really made the movie that much more enjoyable.  Now along with that we have a little more geek talk along with Venom costume reveal, more God of War (BOY!) talk, out streaming review of The Informant! and some free shit good shit for May.  We also answer last week's podquestion (shame! no answers) of what was your last traffic ticket.

This week's streaming suggestion of The Informant! was from our friend TK which was on HBOgo.  This strange... strange movie was loosely (we're not sure how loosely) based on true events.  It centers on the eclectic life of Matt Damon who is a VP during FBI informant but who also moonlights as a bi-polar embezzler.  Confused? So were we.  This movie wears many hats and does a good job of leaving you as confused as some of the character's lawyers in the movie.  While we definitely didn't enjoy this as much as Wolf of Wallstreet or The Big Short we had a few chuckles but were left mouthing "WTF" at the screen.  I think both of us would agree that this one is skippable though not terrible.  If you love watching Matt Damon play a seemingly innocent and lovable guy who's definitely up to mischief in a confounding story then this might be right up your alley. 

Next week we continue the fan streaming suggestion by watching Kristi' suggestion of The House on HBOgo.  Oh man, does she know how to torture poor Bat.  

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That is all for this week's Blogcast.  Be sure to tune back in. Same Hammer Time, same Bat Channel.

-Hammer

Episode 262: Super Troopers Part Deux

Hello everyone and welcome to our regularly scheduled week in geek!  This week we venture out to the theaters to bring you our spoiler free and spoiler filled review of Super Troopers 2.  As with last week we're sitting a little lack of nerdy news but we do have something awesome to talk about that released this week, God of War for PS4!  Oh yes, Kratos is back in a big bad way and both Bat and I are here to give you our first thoughts (don't worry we keep it vague and spoiler free).  We also discuss this week's fan suggestion streaming review of Open House on Netflix and answer this week's Podquest of what is your favorite Asian food.

This week's streaming suggestion of Open House on Netflix was from one of our listeners Kristi.  The movie follows the tale of a Mother and Son who are out of house and home and end up staying in the Aunt's house (remote mountain top mansion) that is on the market.  The horror movie set up actually feels bad (in a good way) with the setting being something that you can unfortunately imagine taking place in real life.  The movie does a good job of showing terrifying things to the viewer but leaving the characters blissfully unaware or unable to see what lurks just around the corner.  At first I thought it was going to be a simple jump scare-a-thorn but it quickly showed it's true colors as a wonderfully upsetting mind game where it gave you plenty of likely suspects but surprises you at the very end with the terrifying answer of not knowing who the killer is or what their motivation is besides wanting to torture poor unsuspecting open houses.  While we still would like for some tweaks and edits to the movie we both recommend this one and gave it a thumbs up.  Thanks Kristi for another good horror movie recommendation!

Next week we continue the fan streaming suggestion by watching TK's suggestion of The Informant! on HBOgo.  

You can suggest a streaming movie that you want us to watch and review on future episodes that are on Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime or HBOgo. 

Please send your suggestions to us using any of the means below.

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Below you will find this week's most recent podcast.  But fear not, you can click these links to listen to this and past week's podcast in iTunes or Sticher.  We also have the past 2-3 episodes available on SoundCloud.

You can send us your answers to this weeks question as well as any questions you'd like to submit to Facebook, Twitter or email us at Batandhammer@gmail.com.

That is all for this week's Blogcast.  Be sure to tune back in. Same Hammer Time, same Bat Channel.

-Hammer

Episode 261: Ready Player 1.5

Hello everyone and welcome to our "back from vacation" episode!  It's been 2 weeks and I've returned from Japan (not dead despite Bat's jinxing) and we're ready to hop right back into all the nerdy stuff!.... okay there actually might not be a whole lot of nerdy stuff to jump into but we do have our theatrical review of Ready Player One and we provide your standard spoiler free and spoiler filled reviews.  We dive a bit more into the differences between the book and the movie in the spoiler filled review so please feel free to listen in and join the conversation by telling us what you think.  I know I said we didn't have 'much' news to talk about but as per the usual we find something to discuss as well as I rant on a good 20 minutes about Japan-land.  If that's not your speed, totally understand, then you can skip from 13 minutes to approximately 33 minutes... I told you, I kind of ranted a bit. 

Anyways loved the vacation and was happy to share some of my adventures via Instagram but I'm super excited to get back into the swing of things!

As we didn't set a streaming review last episode we're going to continue through our fan streaming suggestion backlog by watching Kristi's suggestion of Open House on Netflix. So feel free to tune into Netflix along with us and hide behind the covers.

You can suggest a streaming movie that you want us to watch and review on future episodes that are on Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime or HBOgo. 

Please send your suggestions to us using any of the means below.

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Below you will find this week's most recent podcast.  But fear not, you can click these links to listen to this and past week's podcast in iTunes or Sticher.  We also have the past 2-3 episodes available on SoundCloud.

You can send us your answers to this weeks question as well as any questions you'd like to submit to Facebook, Twitter or email us at Batandhammer@gmail.com.

That is all for this week's Blogcast.  Be sure to tune back in a couple of weeks. Same Hammer Time, same Bat Channel.

-Hammer