Film Fallout Podcast #69 – The Bad Batch of Transformers

<p>There is more than meets the eye with this week&&num;8217&semi;s podcast&period; By that&comma; we mean there&&num;8217&semi;s a lot that we talk about&period; Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan review Ana Lily Amirpour&&num;8217&semi;s <em>The Bad Batch<&sol;em> starring Suki Waterhouse and a cannibal Jason Momoa&period; We talk about the weirdness of the film&comma; its style over substance approach&comma; and why sometimes just a cool aesthetic is not enough to sustain a film&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dylan also saw a lot over the week&comma; including the entire first season of <em>Glow<&sol;em>&comma; as well as <em>Nobody Speak&colon; Trials of the Free Press<&sol;em>&comma; and <em>Berlin Syndrome<&sol;em>&period; Meanwhile&comma; both Chris and Dylan watched <em>Shimmer Lake<&sol;em> and Chris spent most of his week watching all the <em>Transformers <&sol;em>movies including <em>Transformers&colon; The Last Knight<&sol;em>&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s a lot of stuff to talk about and still the podcast managed to be under 90 minutes&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There&&num;8217&semi;s also our usual Blu-ray releases of the week&comma; including our pick&comma; <em>Straw Dogs<&sol;em> on Criterion&period; The news starts off with a showstopper by talking about a sequel to <em>The Accountant <&sol;em>being a thing&comma; and we discuss the announcement of Ron Howard as the replacement for Lord and Miller on the Han Solo film&period; Really&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s a lot to talk about this week and we did our best to keep it nice and succinct because next week we&&num;8217&semi;re going to have plenty of new movies to dissect&period; We&&num;8217&semi;ll be reviewing <em>Baby Driver <&sol;em>for sure&comma; but expect discussion of <em>The Big Sick <&sol;em>as well as probably some <em>Beguiled <&sol;em>and <em>Okja <&sol;em>talk&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Give a listen to this week&&num;8217&semi;s 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;330532485&amp&semi;color&equals;ff5500&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" width&equals;"100&percnt;" height&equals;"166" 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 BagoGames&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’d like to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;filmfallout&sol;">&OpenCurlyQuote;like’ us on that<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;