Kneel Before Pod – Jurassic Park – Spoilersaurus

Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park is one of the most enduring and iconic blockbusters ever released. The upcoming release of the newest entry to the franchise and the timing of the 25th anniversary of the film’s release it seemed like the perfect time for Kneel Before Pod to have a conversation about this landmark film. The…

Kneel Before Pod – The Last Last Jedicast

After a brief emotional Knee-Jerk reaction to the initial viewing of Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi and a more detailed reaction from Craig, Angus, Natalie and Izaak, Chris and Aaron decide that they have more to add before it arrives on DVD and Blu-Ray. Aaron can be found on this very site and Chris can…

Star Wars Episode VIII – The Last Jedi

The new Star Wars trilogy continues with Rian Johnson’s heavily anticipated Episode VIII: The Last Jedi. I was somewhat critical of The Force Awakens for its numerous callbacks to A New Hope in its narrative. In many ways it felt like a safe high budget remake in order to reinvigorate the franchise and appease newcomers…

The Founder

John Lee Hancock tells the story of the rise of iconic fast food franchise McDonalds from a single restaurant to multinational behemoth in The Founder. The film follows Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a salesman always on the lookout for the next big thing. When we meet him he is trying to sell a milkshake mixing…

On the Silver Screen – Wild

Jean-Marc Vallée’s Wild adapts the true story of Cheryl Strayed’s (Reese Witherspoon) 1000 mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail in an attempt to escape her life and find some sort of balance within herself. Redemptive story arcs are nothing new and are commonly handled in a really clumsy way so it would have been really…