Film Fallout Podcast #54 – Kong Gets a Reassignment

<p>It&&num;8217&semi;s King Kong vs&period; Chris &amp&semi; Dylan as Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan take on the latest movie featuring the titular ape&colon; <em>Kong&colon; Skull Island<&sol;em>&period; Things get slightly heated but not really as we discuss the movie&&num;8217&semi;s tone&comma; how it stands as a monster movie&comma; and why using <em>Apocalypse Now <&sol;em>as a framework for a King Kong movie works and doesn&&num;8217&semi;t work&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Chris also saw the new film <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;en&period;wikipedia&period;org&sol;wiki&sol;The&lowbar;Assignment&lowbar;&lpar;2016&lowbar;film&rpar;">The Assignment<&sol;a> <&sol;em>&lpar;formerly titled <em>&lpar;Re&rpar;assignment<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; which has Michelle Rodriguez play a male assassin who is changed into a female against her will&period; So yeah&comma; plenty to say about that&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There are a bunch of Blu-ray releases this week too&comma; including our pick of the week&comma; Mondo&&num;8217&semi;s steelbook release of <em>Ghost in the Shell<&sol;em>&period; We also cover the reactions out of SXSW&comma; including movies like <em>Baby Driver<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Atomic Blonde <&sol;em>and <em>Song to Song<&sol;em>&period; So find out if we care about another Terrence Malick movie&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Next week&comma; we will return with a review of <em>The Devil&&num;8217&semi;s Candy<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Until then&comma; give a listen to the podcast below&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><iframe src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;w&period;soundcloud&period;com&sol;player&sol;&quest;url&equals;https&percnt;3A&sol;&sol;api&period;soundcloud&period;com&sol;tracks&sol;312534816&amp&semi;color&equals;&percnt;23ff5500&amp&semi;auto&lowbar;play&equals;false&amp&semi;hide&lowbar;related&equals;false&amp&semi;show&lowbar;comments&equals;true&amp&semi;show&lowbar;user&equals;true&amp&semi;show&lowbar;reposts&equals;false&amp&semi;show&lowbar;teaser&equals;true&amp&semi;visual&equals;true" width&equals;"100&percnt;" height&equals;"300" frameborder&equals;"no" scrolling&equals;"no"><&sol;iframe><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Film Fallout is a weekly podcast about film and television&period; Every week&comma; Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan discuss news happening in the industry&comma; blu-ray releases coming out this week&comma; what they’ve been watching&comma; and then a review of one movie&period; You can listen to it on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;soundcloud&period;com&sol;filmfallout">SoundCloud<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;itunes&period;apple&period;com&sol;ca&sol;podcast&sol;film-fallout&sol;id942040539&quest;mt&equals;2">iTunes<&sol;a>&comma; or on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;tag&sol;film-fallout">BagoGames<&sol;a>&period; Also <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;filmfallout&sol;">follow us on Instagram<&sol;a> for some behind-the-scenes magic&period; We are both on Twitter&comma; if you’d like to follow us there&period; Chris is <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;HammerkopCross">&commat;HammerkopCross<&sol;a>&comma; Dylan is <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;DreaminDylanS">&commat;DreaminDylanS<&sol;a>&comma; and you can follow the podcast <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;filmfalloutcast">&commat;Filmfalloutcast<&sol;a>&period; And finally&comma; there is a Facebook page for the podcast if you&&num;8217&semi;d like to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;filmfallout&sol;">&&num;8216&semi;like&&num;8217&semi; us on that<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;