Ep. 62 | Is Avatar: The Last Airbender another Netflix FAILURE? | 2024 SAG Awards, Last Epoch & More!

Thank you to Jan Mangion for joining us on this episode of the Ad Lib Podcast. You can find Jan's podcast called 'The Pit Stop Lounge' right here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLwwlCM7vt83JzTAof1nme4-mzwsI2jyJ&si=j-Wt-jzxS2R1lDCi

This week on the Ad Lib Podcast we have our much awaited 'Dune: Part Two' review. Can Denis Villeneuve reach the heights of the first 'Dune'? Let's find out together! We also have reviews for 'Lisa Frankenstein' and Netflix's 'Spaceman' starring Adam Sandler and Paul Dano. 

We also have the trailer for 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' to react to as well as a new video game which will be releasing on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC named 'No Rest for the Wicked'! 

Finally we will be giving you our Oscars 2024 predictions, as we look at all the potential winners and losers! 

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This week on the Ad Lib Podcast, we have a number of new movies to review including 'Memory' starring Jessica Chastain and directed by Michel Franco, 'The Zone of Interest' directed by Jonathan Glazer and Malaysian horror film Tiger Stripes which had its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and is directed by Amanda Nell Eu. We will also be reviewing Netflix's live action adaptation of 'Avatar The Last Airbender'!

Apart from that we also have some trailers to react to, including one for 'Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree' which is the new DLC releasing on June 21st bringing a new area, weapons, skills and obviously bosses! We also have trailers for Roku's 'The Spiderwick Chronicles', a new Bill Skarsgård high octane action movie called 'Boy Kills World' as well as 'Borderlands' based on the acclaimed video games with an impressive cast including Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis and Jack Black!

We also have some important news to look at, as ‘Game of Thrones’ Bosses Confirm Film Trilogy Ending Got Blocked; AT&T Execs Asked Them to Shoot Vertically So Episodes Could Fit on Phones, and we also get more indications for this year's Oscars with the 2024 SAG Awards announced this weekend!

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This week on the Ad Lib Podcast, we have a number of new movies to review including 'The Animal Kingdom' a French-Belgian science fiction adventure film directed by Thomas Cailley, Australian sci-fi horror thriller film 'Monolith', directed by Matt Vesely, 'Io Capitano' which is directed by Matteo Garrone and was nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards and 'Bob Marley: One Love' directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green and starring Kingsley Ben-Adir as Marley. Finally, we will be reviewing Hulu's latest coming-of-age drama film 'Suncoast'.

Apart from that we also have some trailers to react to, including one for 'Damsel' starring Millie Bobby Brown. We also have a new 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire' Trailer to enjoy, with the MonsterVerse back in full stride! Robert Downey Jr seems to be having a lot of fun in the trailer for - Park Chan Wook's 'The Sympathizer' and it's nostalgia galore as we have a look at the first trailer for 'X-Men '97', with all the important characters like Cyclops, Wolverine and Jean Grey making an appearance, together with the enigmatic Magneto.

We also have some important news to look at, as Marvel’s ‘The Fantastic Four’ Lands Its Cast and the first ‘Dune: Part Two’ Reactions Call It “Spectacular,” “Masterful,” and Compare It to ‘Lord of The Rings’, whilst ‘Oppenheimer’ Scores Most Wins at 2024 BAFTAs!

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Check out our reactions to all the Super Bowl Trailers including #deadpool3 #twisters #wicked! 

We also have reviews for I.S.S., American Fiction, Robot Dreams, The End We Start From, All of Us Strangers, The Zone of Interest!

For Ep. 59 we will be reacting to the latest 'NEXT ON NETFLIX' trailer, showing upcoming movies and series for 2024 (including a Squid Game Season 2 update!). We also have a look at the new 'Back to Black' trailer as well as the first Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare trailer directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Henry Cavill. 

We also have some movie/series reviews for you today with 'The Promised Land' releasing in cinemas starring Mads Mikkelsen, Oscar Nominated 'The Zone of Interest' written and directed by Jonathan Glazer and also a review of the recently released series 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' on Prime Video starring Donald Glover and Maya Erskine .   

We also have some news, including the unfortunate loss of Carl Weathers, a look at George R. R. Martin's comments about “anti-fans” on social media, and Denis Villeneuve's comments about how he will only make three ‘Dune’ Films.

For Ep. 58 we've got loads of movie goodness to get into with 3 trailers to react to with Dev Patel's directorial debut 'Monkey Man', Sydney Sweeney starring in the first 'Immaculate' Trailer and another A24 feature starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus named 'Tuesday'.

We also have a bunch of movie reviews for you today with 'Mean Girls' finally releasing in Malta this week as well as our review of the first two episodes of 'Masters of the Air' which recently released on AppleTV+ starring Austin Butler, Callum Turner and Barry Keoghan.

Finally, we react to last week's Oscar Nominations and all the famous snubs, with a particular focus on 'Barbie'!

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For Ep. 57 we've got a very 'gaming-centric' episode for you, with worldwide phenomenon 'Palworld' to talk about, a game that has sold over 4 million copies in 3 days! We will then be discussing the recent controversial comments by Ubisoft execs on how gamers "no longer need to own games". We will also be reacting to the 'Indiana Jones and the Great Circle' trailer and giving our thoughts on the 1st Person vs. 3rd Person discussion. 

We also have a bunch of movie reviews for you today with 'Monster' directed by the legendary Hirokazu Koreeda, 'The Boys in the Boat' directed by George Clooney, 'The Kitchen' which recently released on Netflix and is the directorial debut for Daniel Kaluuya and obviously 'Poor Things', which released in cinemas this week! 

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For this week's podcast, the gang are excited to discuss the Most DISAPPOINTING as well as the WORST Movies of 2023! We will also be reacting to the winners and losers of the 2024 Golden Globes!

After that we will be reviewing 'Eileen' starring Thomasin McKenzie (Last Night in Soho) and Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables) and directed by William Oldroyd (Lady Macbeth), 'Society of the Snow' which is the retelling of the 1972 Uruguayan flight crash directed by Juan Antonio García Bayona (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) and 'Good Grief' directed by and starring Dan Levy!

Finally, we also have the latest trailer for 'Echo' which will be releasing on Tuesday 9th January!

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This week, together with special guest Cassandra Spiteri, we discus The Top 10 Movies of 2023. Will the likes of Barbie, Oppenheimer and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse make our list? Let's find out!

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For this week's podcast, the gang are excited to discuss and review 'Wonka' directed by Paul King and starring Timothée Chalamet, Olivia Colman, Hugh Grant and Rowan Atkinson. We also will be reviewing Netflix's 'Leave the World Behind' and we have a special secret review which has been in the makings for a VERY long time!

As always, we will be discussing the biggest news of the week, including an update on the box office results as well as having a look at the 20 Oscar Visual Effects Finalists (missing Oppenheimer) as well as a discussion on The Game Awards 2023 and the recently released Golden Globe nominations!

To conclude we also have quite a few trailers to react to, including the record breaking GTA 6 trailer, a trailer for Epic New Sci-Fi Thriller 'I.S.S.', a first look at Donald Glover & Maya Erskine's ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ and an impressive trailer for Austin Butler's 'Masters of the Air'!

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