Mad Men - 'A Day's Work' commentary

WHINECAST gets deeper than ever into our '69 experience (Ey-oh!) as 'Mad Men' continues its season 7 run with episode 2, 'A Day's Work' an episode that initially seems quite low key, but upon examination has some extremely major shifts for many of our key characters, leaving us salivating as to where Weiner and pals plan to take Sterling Cooper and friends over the coming months.

We've got tantrums and racism in the office, sex, sun and sullenness in LA and high emotions on the road as everyone's favourite Draper Duo play a game of trying to mirk each other good and proper.

Does this episode leave Don with a glimmer of hope for the future? Will Roger retreat further into a pit of hedonistic isolationism? Will Dawn become president? All of these questions and more will be answered (or possibly addressed) in this week's commentary/review!

'A Day's Work' Commentary

WARNING - We've tried our best to solve the audio issues that plagued last week's episode, but we always want to improve, so if you have any comments, feel free to tweet up a storm and find us via @billowl and @ChrisSykes108

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The Marvel Vs DC movie mash-up- 'Iron Man'

Goodness!

After almost a year of podcasting about the various antics of the caped crusader and that bloke of steel, we're finally ready to put some Marvel into this Marvel Vs DC Mash-up!

Yep, we're kicking off the next stage of the project by turning our eyes to the very first instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, when The Avengers was but a hopeful dream and we all had endured fewer Loki fangirls. But before we get there, we have the curious first entry, Jon Favreu's 'Iron man', a 2008 release that took a comparatively lesser known character like Tony Stark and brought him up to the very biggest of leagues, kicking off a series of films that continue to pummel us relentlessly.

So, sit down with a fine brandy, possibly a cigar, and get ready to fiddle about with things in your workshop until you've got yourself the makings of a leviathan cinematic franchise!

'Iron Man' Commentary

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Mad Men - 'Time Zones' commentary

Well hello!

Last week saw the return of 'Mad Men' to our TV screens, a show that we at WHINECAST hold with great, great affection. So, with the show finally beginning the first part of its final season, we thought what better way to celebrate than to record a weekly review/discussion/commentary for each episode as it airs, discussing our thoughts on the turbulent life and times of those at 'Sterling Cooper Draper Olsen Pryce is right and Friends'

So, listen in as we debate the show's focus on the final year of the sixties, the impending reign of Nixon, the personas that our various beloved characters erect for themselves and, of course, whether you truly can cure alcoholism by sitting in the cold!

We've taken the commentary approach this time round, but we've gone to pains to make it a podcast you can enjoy just as a discussion if you don't wish to watch along. However, if you're not a fan of the commentary format and feel our future 'Mad Men' centric podcasts should be flat out reviews then be sure to tweet us on @ChrisSykes108 and @billowl and let us know.

We hope you enjoy!

Mad Men- 'Time Zones' commentary

WARNING - As for our recent review of 'The Winter Soldier' we've experienced some audio issues this week with our recording, resulting in there being less clarity than usual. Rest assured, we're looking into new recording equipment and will endeavour to avoid this happening again.

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WHINECAST - 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ' review

Hey there, Spider-friends!

Can it really be two years since Andrew Garfield first flew through the air with the greatest of ease, quipping and thwipping with the best of 'em, in the process delivering a reboot of the cinematic Spidey franchise that thrilled and bored various audiences in equal measure? Well, it must be, 'cos they've gone made another one! Imagine!

But, can returning director Marc Webb turn, what was for many, the 'pleasantly enjoyable Spider-Man' into the truly 'AMAZO' Spider-Man? Well, we can say one thing, he's certainly not going to be hanged for lack of ambition: we got ourselves some romance, some comedy, some bromance, some comedy, and an arguable roster of villains in the mix (and God knows that didn't hurt 'Spider-Man 3'...) - in other words, we got ourselves a stew, Baby.

But is it the kind of stew that sets up a whole cinematic universe of movies for Sony to ruthlessly pummel cinemas in the same way Marvel has carpet bombed the public into submission? Or the kind of stew that leaves you retching and gagging, shivering on the toilet and wishing you were dead?

There's only one way to know for sure and that's to let WHINECAST tell you how to think and feel!

'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' Review

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WHINECAST - 'Metal Gear Solid V - Ground Zeroes' review

What's this, you say, WHINECAST reviewing a game? Yep, it's quire true. We're stepping outside of our comfort zone this week to discuss the release of the latest in a gaming franchise which has been a long time favourite of the WHINECAST boys, so we've decided to sit down and spill out our thoughts on the latest, controversial entry in the franchise.

What do we make of the 'prologue' style of the game, resulting in a much maligned short running time? How does the game fare when it moves into highlighting provocative topics like rape and extraordinary rendition? Does the most accessible, streamlined nature of the control system help or hinder the franchise?

These questions and many more like 'em are about to be sewn up tighter than Paz, so sit yourself down and play this podcast like a damn fiddle.

'Metal Gear Solid V- Ground Zeroes' Review

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WHINECAST - 'Captain America - The Winter Soldier' review

It's finally time for the Captain to return! Captain Morgan, you ask hopefully? I'm afraid not, this is the more sober, more violent variety, that chap with Tiger Blood running through his veins and a curiosity for the 21st century percolating in his brain!

It's a rare WHINECAST review this time as we're dealing with one of the infrequent occasions where we have seriously different views of the film in question. One of us loves it, the other hates it. Yes, it's time for an audio punch-up, so let's see who comes out bleeding!

'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' review

WARNING - For unknown reasons, the audio on this review isn't quite up to our usual standard, for which we profusely apologise. We hope it doesn't diminish your enjoyment too much and we'll be looking into that unpleasant mystery before we record again

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The Marvel Vs DC movie mash-up- 'Superman Returns'

After months under the wings of the Dark Knight, the mash-up finally falls back under the benevolent gaze of the Man of Steel - as this month we sit back and chew the fat on Bryan Singers 2006 semi-reboot of the cinematic Kyrptonian that we're all so fond of.

Greeted with positive reviews upon its release and generating healthy box office returns, 'Superman Returns' now takes the place as possible the greatest 'what if' of the entire Mash-up project. Following hotly on the heels of Christopher Nolan's Batman reboot in 2005, 'Superman Returns' looks not to the future as Nolan did, but to the past, attempting to emulate the style of the persistently lauded Superman film (s) of Richard Donner. 

But is this the right call? Can the film's many accomplishments overcome its failings? Where would the franchise have gone were it to have been granted a sequel?

All these questions and many, many more are answered in this month's podcast, so fly yourself up and out of the atmosphere, pop in your headphones and watch the earth silently rotate below you as we get to grips with one of the most interesting and controversial films ever to focus on a superhero!

Punch it!

'Superman Returns' Commentary

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The Marvel Vs DC movie mash-up- 'Batman Begins'

We're cooking with gasoline now! 

This month, the Mash-up is taking a eight year leap forward in time, from the twisted genius that was the disasterpiece 'Batman and Robin', to a wholly different take on the Dark Knight, one that will be hugely influential to the entire superhero genre from this point on, giving any further Marvel films extremely big shoes to fill and instigating a huge problem for DC when they're now forced to reimagine Batman under Zack Snyder - all in the shadow of an interpretation that many would argue is definitive.

But does WHINECAST agree? Join us as we journey down to the underground car park of Gotham where all the smackheads live - do we live to tell the tale? There's only one way to find out!

'Batman Begins' Commentary

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The Marvel Vs DC movie mash-up- 'Batman & Robin'

It’s the big one! The one we’ve waited for!

The hounds are baying at the door and the filthy peasant townspeople want their Batman back. Yes, we’ve had months making our way through the Mash-up, experienceing highs and lows, but we always knew this day would come, the day in which we’d be facing one of the most reviled films in cinema history. Less popular than ‘Birth of a Nation’ and certainly more morally compromised -it’s JOELY Schumacher’s second, and thankfully, final entry into the Bat-canon (or BATON as it’s known) - the frequently derided BATMAN & ROBIN!

But does the film truly deserve it’s reputation? Does it have any redeemable qualities? IS it the best onscreen depiction of The Bane? Does it allude to Batman raping Mr. Freeze, and should such an allusion be allowed within a children’s film?

These are all questions we’ll attempt to answer (along with what the hell we’re doing about the delay of BATMAN Vs SUPERMAN), so make yourself some tea, spoon the dog, pick at your belly button - ‘cos this will be a podcast to remember!

'Batman & Robin' Commentary

WARNING- This film may feature George Clooney treating Mr. Freeze to some ‘rough justice'

The Marvel Vs DC movie mash-up- 'Batman Forever' Commentary

Well, much like the inevitability of your own death, we all knew that this was coming. From the very start of the mash-up, we knew this day would descend upon us, somewhat like the Great Depression, the First World War or the Black Death.

Yes, it's January, so that can only mean one thing - it's time for us to get our rubber nipples good and oiled as we enter the neon-suffused world of JOELIE Schumacher. Old Timmy Burton has left for greener pastures and the franchise is getting itself a major facelift, with a new Batman, a new look and a marginally different tone.

Settle down, buckle up, and join us on a kaleidoscopic journey through the imagination of a mind that is to the The Dark Knight what Michael Gove is to an engaging education - punch it, Bishop!

'Batman Forever' Commentary