http://www.popcornmafia.com Real Movies. Real Candid. Reel Geeks. Mon, 20 May 2013 9:56:42 -0400 mike@garrickmedia.com (Mike Byrne) grae@popcornmafia.com (Grae Drake) en http://www.popcornmafia.com/images/pmmainpic.jpg http://www.popcornmafia.com/ Real Movies. Real Candid. Reel Geeks. Sun, 05 Aug 2012 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=226 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=226 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=226 After four years of questionable behavior thinly veiled as movie discussion, Grae is going on hiatus. To close out the correct way, she invited as many people as would fit into the studio to just sit around, drink, and snack until something interesting happened. This is the first of three episodes filled with well-wishes, awkward stories, peals of laughter, unidentifiable speakers, and overall, love for cinema. Sun, 05 Aug 2012 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=227 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=227 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=227 After four years of questionable behavior thinly veiled as movie discussion, Grae is going on hiatus. To close out the correct way, she invited as many people as would fit into the studio to just sit around, drink, and snack until something interesting happened. This is the second of three episodes filled with well-wishes, awkward stories, peals of laughter, unidentifiable speakers, and overall, love for cinema. Sun, 05 Aug 2012 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=228 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=228 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=228 After four years of questionable behavior thinly veiled as movie discussion, Grae is going on hiatus. To close out the correct way, she invited as many people as would fit into the studio to just sit around, drink, and snack until something interesting happened. This is the third of three episodes filled with well-wishes, awkward stories, peals of laughter, unidentifiable speakers, and overall, love for cinema. Sun, 08 Jul 2012 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=225 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=225 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=225 So...this is the nastiest podcast the Mafia has seen in a long time. Not like mean, but like Miss Jackson if You're Nasty. Michael Monterastelli, actor and writer for CHUD sits uncomfortably close to Buz Danger Wallick, host of Same Sh*t Different Show to discuss everything ALIEN. As in, Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien Resurrection and Prometheus. If you wanted Alien vs. Predator to be included, you're going to get your ass handed to you. Sun, 01 Jul 2012 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=224 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=224 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=224 In order to even press record on this episode, there had to be a guitar present. Chris Price indulges us, hot on the heels of his solo album release Homesick available on iTunes. Peter Paras, critic for E! online, brings his pen as his instrument. Together, they soulfully caterwaul about ROCK OF AGES and EVITA. Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=223 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=223 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=223 "READING IS MAGICAL," LeVar Burton probably once said on his hit show Reading Rainbow. So this week, Grae stops talking movies for one darn second and talks books instead with the creators of TWO nerdtacular books that you have to buy post haste. Sun, 27 May 2012 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=222 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=222 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=222 This week, the focus is bloodsuckers, and the audiences who love them. Brian Prisco of Pajiba and Drew Droege of Freak Dance sit in and pick apart the delightful train wrecks Dark Shadows and Blood Rayne (which Grae was severely chastised for choosing by Prisco, once he figured out what it was). Sun, 20 May 2012 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=221 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=221 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=221 In order to discuss the number one film on the planet, THE AVENGERS, Grae had to call in the big guns. Film lovers, film critics, reporters, and general all-around hot guys Leo Quinones and Scott Mantz bring their manly movie minds into the studio to argue, reminisce, and raise the temperature. You get a full hour with these gentlemen, talking about what movies they spoiled for themselves as children and who's the worst interview they've ever had. The arguing is respectful but heated, just like Grae's libido. What, is that weird? Blame the superheroes. Sun, 13 May 2012 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=220 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=220 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=220 This week The Mafia celebrates buying books and eating junk food by discussing THINK LIKE A MAN and PHAT GIRLZ. Listen to hear CraveOnline Film Editor William Bibbiani and Grae arguing matters of gender, voice over actor Ron Cipres admitting what movie he really watched, and why women should never ever touch their man's action figures. Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=219 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=219 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=219 ESTROGEN ALERT! Actress and soon-to-be-director Julia Marchese is joined by west coast editor of Movieline Jen Yamato talk about WOMAN TODAY (a must-read series of vintage books) and some lady movies. Zac Efron gets thoroughly examined in The Lucky One as well as Me and Orson Welles. While listening to this aural pillow fight in undies, dig into your pockets and donate to Julia's documentary Out of Print on Kickstarter. Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=218 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=218 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=218 This week, the government be messin' with stuff. Steve Gelder, host of Independent Thinking, is joined by Peter Paras, E! Online critic, to discuss Cabin in the Woods and Capricorn One. There's lots of role play, conversations about TV, and yelling, as per usual. Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=217 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=217 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=217 GROSS OUT COMEDY WAS NOT A MOVEMENT This week Grae had time to go visit ANOTHER podcast but not do one of her own. Witney Seibold and William Bibbiani were kind enough to welcome Grae to their show so they could give her tea and uncomfortable questions about sexual positions. They discuss Ben Kingsley, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, The Three Stooges, Cabin in the Woods, and plenty of other junk. Also Bibs gets yelled at a lot. Sun, 08 Apr 2012 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=216 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=216 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=216 Since Grae has been out jetsetting with no new episode in sight, here's a treat from Friend of the Show Chris Gore. If you're not watching him on G4 or reading his book, you need to be listening to PodCRASH. In this episode, he remixes the Mafia episode he recorded with Grae and Alonso Duralde in November of 2011. Check it out, along with this week's Linoleum Knife episode Grae did with the fantastical Drew Droege. See you next week! Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=138 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=138 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=138 Guest co-host Steve Gelder arrives into the treehouse this week with little to no idea of what he will be forced to endure over the next hour and 18 minutes. Sassy redhead Megan Johnson shows up in a whirlwind of cute shoes and rapier wit, itching to talk about being naked in saran wrap and her Barbie obsession. Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=215 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=215 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=215 Join Kevin Carr, host of Fat Guys at the Movies, and Crash Barrera, host of Have you Cine? talk movie industry insider crap: what movies were awesome, how Kevin can get Gerard Butler to say anything, what movies were shockingly good, how Crash likes to lez out on her interviewees, and Grae's great escape from a boat. Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=214 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=214 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=214 Joey Coco Diaz and Rick Ramos bring twice the heat when discussing Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece. Sure, it's one of the most discussed films in cinema history--but you've never heard boob analyzing, tollbooth operator mourning, and DeNiro talk quite like this. Get a canteen full of water and enjoy your ride on the subway, mafiosi. Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=213 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=213 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=213 Rena Riffel, producer/director/writer and STAR of Showgirls 2: Penny's From Heaven comes back to the show for what Grae insists on referring to as a James Lipton-style interview, although instead of asking questions from the Proust Questionnaire, she asks about hair color, tattoos, exercise preference, and unicorns. Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=212 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=212 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=212 Hollywood Prom (which ABC insists on calling the Academy Awards) is fast approaching and there are only two people who's opinions count, and they're here with you for an entire hour. John and Joan Schwartz, the Two Jews on Film, discuss all the big categories this year. Also included in their discussion: John's obsession with women's visits to the proctologist, and everyone's obsession with John and Joan's dog Mango. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=211 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=211 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=211 Well, ten years later, and Tom Hanks and his fake Teen Jeopardy son is forcing us to talk about it. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close chronicles what it's like for a kid to be left without his father in the wake of September 11th. Did it deserve its Oscar Nominations, or does it deserve a punch in the spleen? Soren McCarthy and Steve Gelder bring their opinions, recollections, and Buffalo Bill dances to the forefront to discuss this hot topic. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=210 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=210 http://www.popcornmafia.com/assets.php?id=210 This week, demons must be exorcised. Rama (who is like Cher and Madonna, having no known last name) and Matt Cunningham bring their extensive knowledge of horror to a conversation about the Devil Inside and Atrocious. Listen to discover what Germans call Matt's Troma film, why Spain's tourism revenue is sure to be devastated, and which dinosaur Rama likes to use when he threatens others. Also included in this episode is the very special song A PRAYER FOR JULIAN SANDS by Homer Marrs! Genuflect, bitches!