Pressed & Bound

Episode 107: The Spice

Garret — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:26:12 +0000

PRESSED & BOUND

Episode 107: The Spice

155 MB | 13 minutes

Episode 107 of Pressed & Bound is online! Joe is nowhere to be found so we find a mysterious stranger on the street. His name, from what I understand, is Spicy, and I could do nothing to disagree with that name.

In this week’s episode we discuss:

Books:
The Corrections: A Novel

Films:
Takers

On DVD:
UHF

Right click and download the one hundred and seventh episode here:
MP4 155ish mb
MP3 16-something mb

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Bank Robbing and Exorcising [At the MPS: 08/27/10]

Garret — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:51:32 +0000

I just ran two miles in the blistering heat and I am pretty sure my brain has shrunk do to some lack of oxygen. Let’s see what we have in store for is this week.

Takers

Director: John Luessenhop
Starring: Chris Brown, Hayden Christenson, Matt Dillon

A hard-boiled detective (Dillon) gets in between a group of bank robbers and their plan to make away with a $20 million bounty.

The Last Exorcism

Director: Daniel Stamm
Starring: Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr

A troubled evangelical minister (Fabian) agrees to let his last exorcism be filmed by a documentary crew, where a possessed young (Bell) brings him face to face with the devil himself.

So a scary movie and an action flick? So long as it’s not Eat, Pray, Love I think I’ll be okay.

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Episode 106: Sylvester Stallone vs the World

Garret — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:27:22 +0000

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Episode 106: Sylvester Stallone vs the World

225 MB | 27 minutes

Episode 106 of Pressed & Bound is online! We skip talking about sissy books this week to instead discuss two opening films, Scott Pilgrim vs the World and The Expendables. Can this much awesome be contained in a thirty minute show? YOU WILL JUST HAVE TO FIND OUT.

In this week’s episode we discuss:
Films:
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
The Expendables

Right click and download the one hundred and sixth episode here:
MP4 250ish mb
MP3 30-something mb

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No Tales from Earthsea this week.

Garret — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:17:04 +0000

As much as it pains us to say so, no theater in Oklahoma City is showing Tales from Earthsea this weekend. In an effort to make sure that everyone has enough room to continue screening Step Up 3D, OKC theaters have decided films that are actually good need to wait. We will not be discussing this film on this week’s show.

HOWEVER, and this is not new news but still good news, the show this week will simply focus on The Expendables and Scott Pilgrim. That should be enough awesome for one week.

HTML5 video testaroo

Garret — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:00:58 +0000

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The video above is simply Episode 105, but we are testing out a beta version of Longtail’s HTML5 video player. The bandwagon has arrived, people, and we have jumped right on it.

I cannot guarantee that the video will play for you. Safari should be able to handle it; Firefox is still going nutso. It hasn’t been tested in Chrome yet because hitting CTRL+Space, opening an instance of Quicksilver, and hitting CH+Return IS JUST TOO MUCH FOR ME.

We’ll be playing with the code some and updating this post a little bit, but let us know if you can/cannot see anything. Break out the iPhones and iPads!

Update: Chrome seems to get it. iPhone Safari wants to load it, but then decides it’s a bad idea. Not sure why that is just yet. TO THE CODEMOBILE!

Update 2: The only browser right now that is having trouble with the video is Firefox, as it apparently doesn’t really support the straight up HTML5 “Video” tag. Lontail is supposed to fall back on flash when the player doesn’t work correctly, but so far that’s not happening. Taking out all reference to Longtail’s stuffs makes it so that it works in Safari (on i-devices too) and Chrome. I will need to research more of the Longtail code to see what the problem is. Oh, and if you’re using Internet Explorer it would be wise to simply throw your computer out of the window.

Update 3: I have half a mind to simply only use HTML5 video and have the old flash version pop up in a lightbox. Until this beta thinger gets OUT of beta and maybe works a little better. At the end of the day the Jilion HTML5 player looks really cool and once it’s released we may just use that. It’s sexy sexy.

Update 4: Testing a pop-out, lightbox-style flash player for browsers that don’t support HTML5 video.

Click here to see the flashiness!

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Episode 105: Garret is Heart Broken

385 MB | 34 minutes 20 seconds

We’re taking a break this week, but next week will be epic.

Garret — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:52:09 +0000

Hooray for producing your own web show that doesn’t make money or is required to have episodes due to sponsorship agreements! This week we are doing the chill and being complete bums. This has happened before, so this news probably doesn’t freak you out that much, but what you should know is that next week may prove to be completely awesome.

And why will next week be awesome? What can make such a mundane, hot, smelly week in August possibly the best thing ever? Three new movies that all have high hopes for awesomeness.

The first is based off of a series of comics by Brian Lee O’Malley that has gained quite a lot of attention by fans. Enough attention, you could say, to make a feature film. Hell, the first of the series has four whole stars, FOUR!

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Layabout musician Scott Pilgrim (Cera) falls for the new girl in town, Ramona Flowers (Winstead), but in order to win her heart, he must defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends.

I, personally, have no emotional attachment to the film or the series, as I have not read any of them. But everyone tells me that it’s going to be great, so I have no other discourse but to agree at this point. Michael Cera plays the lead role as Pilgrim; let’s hope that he doesn’t simply play Michael Cera as Michael Cera, but we’ll see. At the very least, we will receive a film created as a result of a fresh, newish comic series, and that’s always pretty cool.

Next up is a film that every child that grew up in the 80′s, 90′s, and possibly early 00′s will find to be incredible in one way or the other. What do you get when you combine the talents of every overly-muscled action hero from these decades and throw them all into the same film? You get…

The Expendibles

The fearless Barney Ross (Stallone) leads a team of mercenaries on a mission to South America, where their objective — to overthrow a ruthless dictator — is more dangerous than the men realize.

Let’s just break down that cast: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Steve Austin, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, among others. Arnold Schwarzenegger makes at least one appearance in there too. It’s like someone stood up a bunch of action figures on their living room carpet as said: “Yes, this will do nicely.”

And finally, and what I can only assume will be the most visually striking film of the three (sorry Pilgrim), comes…

Tales from Earthsea

Ged, the rebellious son of a blacksmith, learns that his destiny is to become a great sorcerer ever known in Earthsea, a mystical world of hundreds of islands.

This film is directed by Hayao Miyazaki’s son, Goro Miyazaki but is still coming from Studio Ghibli. I don’t know what it is, but there’s always something amazing when we get to see a new Ghibli film in theaters in America. Unfortunately, like all of these films, it’s on a limited release and I do not know as of this writing if we will actually be able to see it. Luckily, there is one theater in our area that generally always sets aside a screen for Ghibli films so there is a pretty good chance they will this time as well. I’ve contacted the manager of the theater about it and am currently awaiting reply.

That about wraps it up. There will be no poll this week because we’re not shooting a show, and next week we have these three solid films to discuss, so there’s no reason to poll them up. I do hope that all of you are as excited as I am for these films BECAUSE YOU SHOULD BE.

Episode 105: Garret is Heart Broken

Garret — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:40:47 +0000

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Episode 105: Garret is Heart Broken

385 MB | 34 minutes 20 seconds

Episode 105 of Pressed & Bound is online! Garret pretty much is destroyed by a viewing of 500 Days of Summer, Joe discusses crazy clown spookiness in It, and Dinner for Shmucks just…it’s just so average.

In this week’s episode we discuss:
Book:
It

At the Moving Picture Show:
Dinner for Shmucks

On DVD:
(500) Days of Summer [Blu-ray] with Digital Copy

Right click and download the one hundred and fifth episode here:
MP4 340ish mb
MP3 30-something mb

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New Tron 2 Trailer?! (a.k.a. The Dude is back for more)

Garret — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:29:48 +0000

I probably am the only person who shares this view, and I have already been reprimanded by friends and colleagues for it, but the first Tron didn’t strike my fancy as it did others. I probably should have seen it when I was twelve like everyone else, then I might have had a soft spot for it as an adult, but as it is I kind of slept through it.

This is all not to say that this new, fancy Tron will be a bad film. Oh no, sir. It may very well be a good movie. The trailer above gives us a little more light into the main character’s daddy issues, while showing us that The Dude has a doppelganger in computerland. There will be hijinx, I can feel it. Let’s just hope that RAM returns (even though he kind of gets erased in the first film…twenty-eight years ago.) Hey, they could have rewritten the program, right?

At the MPS 07/30/10

Garret — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:00:37 +0000

Another week shows up with a few new films to watch. After last week’s surprise of adorableness that was Ramona and Beezus, can this week possibly keep up? At least Salt ended up being a worthless film, so I hear. I sure am glad we didn’t have to see that.

Dinner for Shmucks

Director: Jay Roach
Starring: Steve Carrell, Paul Rudd, Stephanie Szostak

Tim (Rudd) is a rising executive who “succeeds” in finding the perfect guest, IRS employee Barry (Carell), for his boss’s monthly event, a so-called “dinner for idiots,” which offers certain advantages to the exec who shows up with the biggest buffoon.

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

Director: Brad Peyton
Starring: Bette Midler, Chris O’Donnell, Jack McBrayer

The ongoing war between the canine and feline species is put on hold when they join forces to thwart a rogue cat spy with her own sinister plans for conquest.

Charlie St. Cloud

Director: Burr Steers
Starring: Zac Efron, Kim Basinger, Charlie Tahan

After his younger brother Sam passes away, Charlie St. Cloud (Efron) finds a way to deal with his grief by working as caretaker at the cemetery where Sam is buried. Charlie and Sam keep their bond with nightly conversations and playing catch, however, when a girl enters Charlie’s life, he struggles between remaining with Sam or pursuing real-world love.

This week has three films that I feel will have three separate lengths of recollection to the general populace: Dinner for Shmucks: a couple of months, Charlie St. Cloud: a couple of weeks, Cats & Dogs: a couple of hours. Why can’t everything be Ramona and Beezus?

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Episode 104: The Joke is On You

Garret — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:00:57 +0000

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Episode 104 of Pressed & Bound is online! You all voted for Ramona and Beezus, but guess what? It is a fun, wholesome film, so take that, haters!

In this week’s episode we discuss:
Book:
The Night Angel Trilogy

At the Moving Picture Show:
Ramona and Beezus

On DVD:
Hunger (Criterion Collection)

Right click and download the one hundred and fourth episode here:
MP4 300mb
MP3 30mb

Comments or questions? Email us at: pnbfans(at)gmail(dot)com