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Robot-Kraken Ep 71 Now Available!

Your intrepid hosts this episode, Thom ‘Third Rail’ Chiaramonte and Blake ‘Begin Again’ Simmons, joined once again by ‘Narrative Mic’ Rowe, talk Red Sky Roundup news, and tackle the finale of Westworld Season 3, ‘Crisis Theory’!

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Segments and Notes:

Sucking the Monkey:

• Blake- Unsweetened Green Tea
• Mike- Negro Modelo
• Thom- Wild Little Thing Sour Ale

Red Sky Roundup:

• Marvel
  • Iron Man Comic Relaunch
  • Miles Morales for PS5
  • Troubling Use of Punisher Logo
  • Will X-Men Launch in Falcon & Winter Soldier?
• DC
  • Fan Dumb
  • Ongoing Snyder Cut Debacle: Sneak Peeks with Wonder Woman and Darkseid; HBO MAX launch disaster; HBO denies interest in SS Ayers Cut or any other project with JL as precedent; Cyborg is the heart of the movie?; DCEU films leaving HBO MAX the same month it launched…
  • Matt Reeves’ Batman a trilogy to include yet another Joker because of course.
  • Is Cheetah going to be bad Cats, bad animal prints and meth, or something else?
• Star Wars
  • Star Wars Celebration postponed 2 years
  • Deepfake improves Leia in Rogue One
• Various and Sundry:
  • Discussions about an Attack the Block sequel
  • Archive looks familiar
  • Take your pick: drive-ins or social distanced theaters
  • Ridley Scott wants more explainery in another Alien film
  • Witcher S02

Robot Review:

• Westworld Season 03 Finale: Ep 08: Crisis Theory

Rum-Fueled Recommendations:

• Blake- Penny Dreadful: City of Angels; Space Force; CLONE WARS
• Mike- Alienated; 20 SDX; Backtracks
• Thom- Solar Opposites; Alien Remake from Cardboard Movie Co.; Penny Dreadful S01, but not Artemis FOUL

Planned Plundering:

• Blake- Tenet, The Boys S02
• Mike- Ludicrats
• Thom- Perry Mason; Crossed Swords; Prospect; Good Lord Bird

Robot-Kraken Ep. 69 ‘Warbot Wednesday’ Now Available!

Robot-Kraken Podcast Episode 069: “Warbot Wednesday”

Your intrepid hosts this episode, Thom ‘Third Rail’ Chiaramonte and Blake ‘Begin Again’ Simmons,  joined this session by ‘Narrativ Mic’ Rowe, talk entertainment news, and the third of our four-part series on Westworld Season 03, featuring Episodes 04 – 07.

Stream the show in Apple Podcasts or your app of choice, or download directly here!

NOTE: Make sure you are set to download this podcast regularly. Apple iTunes users will discover the app tends to stall downloads if you either haven’t listened in awhile or we haven’t posted a show in a few weeks. Don’t have that FOMO… make yours RK!

Segments and Notes:

Sucking the Monkey:

• Blake- Habiki Japanese Whiskey
• Mike- Rose of some indeterminate sort
• Thom- “The Thick Mint” Ketel One Mint-Cucumber Infusion, Elderflower Tonic, Lime

Red Sky Roundup:

• The Theater Wars: Universal vs. AMC Theater; Tenet/Mulan

• Daredevil not in new Spidey film? Maybe? or Cox is, or isn’t?

• Tokyo Vice by Michael Mann

• Dr Strange 2 with the multiverse: other versions of characters

• Atomic Blonde 2 being developed for streaming

• Dexter Fletcher’s Saint Remake Because of course, why not.

• Mando Season 3 is already in development

• Marvel met with John Krasinski: Is it Reed Richards, and if not, who?

• Changes afoot to Dune

• WW84 images show us an underwhelming Cheetah

• Stellan Skarskard and Kyle Soller Join Rogue One prequel Cassian Andor. The ‘Almost a Herzog’ factor.

• Tenet Trailer Still targeting a theatrical release

• Penny Dreadful City of Angels: trailer looks neat but the costumes are perplexing.

Robot Reviews: 

Westworld S03 – Eps 05 – 07

• E05 – Genre
• E06 – Decoherence
• E07 – Passed Pawn

Rum-Fueled Recommendations:

• Blake- The Extraction
• Mike- Outsider, Black Science, Little Bird, Stray Bullets
• Thom- Mythic Quest, DEVS

Planned Plundering:

• Blake- n/a (he EMP’d himself at this point)
• Mike- Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Luther
• Thom- The Toys That Made Us, American Gods, Preacher S03

Robot-Kraken Ep 068 “Host Pearls and Cybergirls” now Available!

Robot-Kraken Podcast Episode 068: “Host Pearls and Cyber-Girls”

Your intrepid hosts this episode, Thom ‘Third Rail’ Chiaramonte and Blake ‘Begin Again’ Simmons,  talk entertainment news, and the second of our four-part series on Westworld Season 03, featuring Episodes 03 and 04.

Stream the show in Apple Podcasts or your app of choice, or download directly here!

NOTE: Make sure you are set to download this podcast regularly. Apple iTunes users will discover the app tends to stall downloads if you either haven’t listened in awhile or we haven’t posted a show in a few weeks. Don’t have that FOMO… make yours RK!

Segments and Notes:

Sucking the Monkey:

• Blake- Unruly Rose

• Thom- “The Cucumoegain”: Cucumber Ketel One and Ginger Ale

Red Sky Roundup:

• Expanse got a S05 already!

• Batman Roundup:
  • Jeffrey Wright as Gordon? YES.
  • Jonah Hill as whomever? EH! as long as its not Penguin.
  • The Long Halloween is the source material maybe?
  • Robin and Batgirl are in the script maybe?
  • Zoe Kravits as Catwoman!
  • Paul Dano as riddler?
  • Andy Serkis and Colin Farrell as whomever and whomever?
  • Batman and Batmobile seen, much better received than the motorcycle stunt photos Because the Batmobile is basically a Challenger. reminding us of the unused Batman Y1 Concept: a Lincoln Continental with two bus engines in it

• Hailey Atwell to be in both MI sequels: Highly Endorsed!

• Asimov Foundation on Apple: Lee Pace and Judd Harris  Join another almost unfilmable project.
• William Gibson’s Peripheral is greenlit fromt he producers of Westworld

• S04 Westworld announced this week, which changes the way we see the rest of this season…

Robot Reviews: 

Westworld S03 E03 and E04

• E03 – The Absence of Field

• E04- The Mother of Exiles

Rum-Fueled Recommendations:

• Blake- Devs, Legion S03, Ozark 

• Thom- Devs, Altered Carbon

Planned Plundering:

• Blake- Extraction

• Thom- American Gods, GotS 2045, Beasties Documentary