The Countdown

Episode 110: Top 10 Magic Movies

This week Wayne had a card up his sleeve but no rabbit in his hat as he got to pick the Countdown and somehow came up with this doozy which had both hosts scratching their head before recording, and taking pot shots at the other's list once the mics were turned on. There's too much craziness going on to give an accurate summary, so here's a few highlights: - Season 2 of Tag Lines officially kicks off - Wayne attempting to deny all fantasy movies as being magic - Paul trying to sing Devil Inside by INXS - Wonder Woman's armpits - Steven Seagal soiling himself - And Wayne calling out Mr Seagal to come "Taekwando my a$$"... #MoviePodSquadNetwork promos played this week are for the great More Gooder Than Podcast @MGTpodcast and our fantastic brother podcast in the US, the Epic Film Guys at http://epicfilmguys.podbean.com/ and on Twitter @EpicFilmGuys If you’d like to give Wayne and Paul some feedback or have your lists featured on a future episode, sound off on Twitter @thecountdownpc, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/thecountdownpc or fire off a good ol' fashioned email to thecountdownpodcast@gmail.com Also: Join the NEW Closed Facebook Group entitled The Countdown Podcast Listener Community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/117845618778882/?fref=nf where you interact more directly with Wayne and Paul (and let Wayne know what you think of his pick for #1 this week!) If you don't want to scan the episode looking for a particular film, check out Paul's lists at https://letterboxd.com/Kaisersoze/lists/ and Wayne's lists (when he can be assed updating them) at http://letterboxd.com/waynetangclan/lists/

Episode 109: Top 10 Last 10 / Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2

96 minutes. 20 mini-reviews. Two feuding cohosts! Unbelievably this week, some studio big wig decided to release one of the year's most massive sequels, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, early in Australia! So the boys got along to see it and offer their SPOILER FREE review of James Gunn's latest superhero effort between 9:00 and 22:30. Then the guys get into an overdue Top 10 Last 10 as they each review the last 10 films they've seen from worst to best - which include all the flicks they pledged to watch in return for iTunes reviews left for the show. So Wayne FINALLY reviews The Godfather Parts 2 and 3, while Paul checks out his first ever musical for the show, La La Land, as well as the indie charmer Sing Street from last year. Things are mostly nice enough until proceedings taken a sudden turn for the ridiculous with the top half of Wayne's list. And wait until you hear what he ranks #1 and #2 respectively. (Hint: Prepare to be outraged!) #PodernFamily promos played this week are for the great @TwoPeasOnAPod and our fantastic brother podcast in the US, the Epic Film Guys at http://epicfilmguys.podbean.com/ and on Twitter @EpicFilmGuys If you’d like to give Wayne and Paul some feedback or have your lists featured on a future episode, sound off on Twitter @thecountdownpc, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/thecountdownpc or fire off a good ol' fashioned email to thecountdownpodcast@gmail.com Also: Join the NEW Closed Facebook Group entitled The Countdown Podcast Listener Community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/117845618778882/?fref=nf where you interact more directly with Wayne and Paul (and let Wayne know what you think of his pick for #1 this week!) If you don't want to scan the episode looking for a particular film, check out Paul's lists at https://letterboxd.com/Kaisersoze/lists/ and Wayne's lists (when he can be assed updating them) at http://letterboxd.com/waynetangclan/lists/

Episode 108: Top 10 Unintentionally Funny Films / The Fate of the Furious

In this Episode, Wayne and Paul can barely contain themselves as they laugh, mock and (oddly) love on some of the most unintentionally funny films ever made. Which mid-90s action dud is the only film to hit both lists? How many Michael Bay films get mentioned? And whose list ends up being more offensive to film geeks of all ages? But the laughs don't stop there. The boys also get stuck right into the eighth film in the Fast & Furious series, The Fate of the Furious. This money-making juggernaut has clearly pleased the masses, but was it meant to be funny? (Certainly the guy sitting next to Wayne in his screening did not think so.) And who wears the #Negatron crown when final grades are revealed? Then Paul gets his Screeners on to review a couple of about to be released efforts: namely the locally produced Bad Girl (directed by Fin Edquist) and the extremely out there The Evil Within - a film fifteen years in the making that effectively killed its writer and director, Andrew Getty, before he could complete it. #PodernFamily promos played this week are for the always amusing Netflix 'N Swill @netflixnswill and our fantastic brother podcast in the US, the Epic Film Guys at http://epicfilmguys.podbean.com/ and on Twitter @EpicFilmGuys If you’d like to give Wayne and Paul some feedback or have your lists featured on a future episode, sound off on Twitter @thecountdownpc, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/thecountdownpc or fire off a good ol' fashioned email to thecountdownpodcast@gmail.com If you don't want to scan the episode looking for a particular film, check out Paul's list at https://letterboxd.com/kaisersoze/list/top-10-unintentional-comedies/ and Wayne's lists (when he can be assed updating them) at http://letterboxd.com/waynetangclan/lists/

Episode 107: Top 10 TV Episodes of All Time (w/ Joe from Quote Unquote Guilty)

With the "Golden Age" of television well and truly here, Wayne and Paul this week invite Joe from the Quote Unquote Guilty podcast to determine what are are the greatest single episodes of TV of all time. Pilot, finale, or straight up middle of the season-eps are all in play as the guys break down what makes a truly amazing piece of television that stays with the viewer for years (and sometimes decades) to come. There's also a bit of Check It Out involving the teaser trailers for The Last Jedi and the upcoming re-make of Stephen King's It. Please thank Joe for guest hosting by giving his great show a listen at https://soundcloud.com/quoteunquoteguilty or following the show on Twitter @QuoteGuilty #PodernFamily promos played this week are for the awesomely amusing So I Married a Movie Geek @MovieGeekCast and our fantastic brother podcast in the US, the Epic Film Guys at http://epicfilmguys.podbean.com/ and on Twitter @EpicFilmGuys If you’d like to give Wayne and Paul some feedback or have your lists featured on a future episode, sound off on Twitter @thecountdownpc, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/thecountdownpc or fire off a good ol' fashioned email to thecountdownpodcast@gmail.com If you don't want to scan the episode looking for a particular film, check out Paul's list at https://letterboxd.com/Kaisersoze/lists/and Wayne's lists (when he can be assed updating them) at http://letterboxd.com/waynetangclan/lists/

Episode 106: Top 10 Animated Films / The LEGO Batman Movie / Chips

Sharpen those graphite pencils, fire up your computers, and crack out the crayons as this week Paul and Wayne finally tackle one of the most requested Countdowns: the best animated films of all time! Such an occasion demands something special, so the boys asked The Expert aka Alejandro to return and lend his animation expertise to this week's show. All three also review the "newly" released LEGO Batman movie - "newly" for Australia, anyway, as Village Roadshow made the d1ck decision to leave it some seven weeks to release this film here, while the rest of the world saw it back in February. Does the Caped Crusader's efforts live up to all that was promised in The LEGO movie? Has Wayne seen enough animated films to make a list of 10? And how many of them will be Batman films? Find out the answers to all these questions and more - including whether Wayne rated the new Chips adaptation - as The Countdown continues ... #PodernFamily promos played this week are for the excellent More Gooder Than podcast @MGTpodcast and our fantastic brother podcast in the US, the Epic Film Guys at http://epicfilmguys.podbean.com/ and on Twitter @EpicFilmGuys If you’d like to give Wayne and Paul some feedback or have your lists featured on a future episode, sound off on Twitter @thecountdownpc, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/thecountdownpc or fire off a good ol' fashioned email to thecountdownpodcast@gmail.com If you don't want to scan the episode looking for a particular film, check out Paul's list at https://letterboxd.com/kaisersoze/list/top-10-animated-films/ and Wayne's lists (when he can be assed updating them) at http://letterboxd.com/waynetangclan/lists/

Episode 105: Top 10 USA Did it Better Films / Ghost in the Shell

It's always interesting when the hosts of a list-based podcast start to bag out their own lists before even revealing them. Such is the case in this week's Ep as Paul and Wayne acknowledge they may have bitten off more they could chew in finding ten films the US remade better than the original foreign version. And this is all off the back of reviewing the new version of Ghost in the Shell. Is Scarlett Johansson's casting as controversial as the internet would have everyone believe? Are the visuals (and not just Scar Jo's bodysuit) as impressive as the trailers would have most believe? And will anybody give two sh#ts by the end of the film? Tune in to find out, and rest assured that The Soundboard most definitely returns to continue tormenting Wayne ... #PodernFamily promos played this week are for the great Quote Unquote Guilty podcast @QuoteGuilty and our brother podcast in the US, the Epic Film Guys at http://epicfilmguys.podbean.com/ and on Twitter @EpicFilmGuys If you’d like to give Wayne and Paul some feedback or have your lists featured on a future episode, sound off on Twitter @thecountdownpc, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/thecountdownpc or fire off a good ol' fashioned email to thecountdownpodcast@gmail.com If you don't want to scan the episode looking for a particular film, check out Paul's list at https://letterboxd.com/kaisersoze/list/top-10-us-remakes-of-foreign-films/ and Wayne's lists (when he can be assed updating them) at http://letterboxd.com/waynetangclan/lists/

Episode 104: Top 10 End of the World Films / Power Rangers / Life

BIG news this week, as Paul and Wayne welcome a NEW member of The Countdown, and one they hope will be a mainstay on the show! More seriously, the guys each present a film for review this week. Wayne takes a look at Life and has some positive things to say about it (beyond insisting the Des'ree song make an appearance in the Ep), while Paul falls short - okay, just short - of going full #Negatron on Power Rangers. Then drawing on the one common theme between the two films, the boys countdown the best End of the World Films, and though there are a few shaky moments early as parameters are defined (and then discarded, as Jef from Cadaver Cast mocked during the week), it all ends fairly harmoniously and not at all nihilistically. #moviepodsquad promos played this week are for the great Super Movie Bros show @SuperMoviePod and our brother podcast in the US, the Epic Film Guys at http://epicfilmguys.podbean.com/ and on Twitter @EpicFilmGuys If you’d like to give Wayne and Paul some feedback or have your lists featured on a future episode, sound off on Twitter @thecountdownpc, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/thecountdownpc or fire off a good ol' fashioned email to thecountdownpodcast@gmail.com If you don't want to scan the episode looking for a particular film, check out Paul's list at https://letterboxd.com/kaisersoze/list/top-10-end-of-the-world-films/ and Wayne's lists (when he can be assed updating them) at http://letterboxd.com/waynetangclan/lists/

Episode 103: The Best & Worst 0f 1992 (w/ The Epic Film Guys)

Nick and Justin aka The Epic Film Guys are back for their third Countdown to this week to assist in a retrospective of the best and worst of film in 1992. It's the year Paul and Wayne graduated high school, while Nick and Justin were barely old enough to understand what film was, and yet an absolute blast was had by all ripping the worst of the year to shreds while celebrating some of the all time greatest films ever made. And, in a Countdown first, Whitney Houston makes more than one appearance as her spirit moves Nick in ways, well, you'll just have to listen to appreciate ... So please thank our very special guests this week by rating, reviewing and subscribing to their show which you can find at http://epicfilmguys.podbean.com/ and on Twitter @EpicFilmGuys #PodernFamily promos played this week are for the very cool More Gooder Than podcast @MGTpodcast and the very funny (and blue) Masterdebaters @_masterdebaters If you’d like to give Wayne and Paul some feedback or have your lists featured on a future episode, sound off on Twitter @thecountdownpc, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/thecountdownpc or fire off a good ol' fashioned email to thecountdownpodcast@gmail.com If you don't want to scan the episode looking for a particular film, check out Paul's lists at https://letterboxd.com/Kaisersoze/lists/ and Wayne's lists (when he can be assed updating them) at http://letterboxd.com/waynetangclan/lists/

Episode 102: Top 10 Bill Paxton Films / Logan / Kong: Skull Island

This week the guys officially become the 203rd millionth podcast to review Logan - the final turn for Hugh Jackman as the much-loved Wolverine - and only the fifth to bother reviewing Kong: Skull island #Negatron But all that is just an appetiser to the main meal as Paul and Wayne commemorate the recent loss of show favourite actor, Bill Paxton, by dedicating a whole Countdown to him and his best films. Things remain relatively peaceful out of respect for the great man, until Wayne gets hot under the collar over what Paul has ranked his number one ... The boys need YOUR help in the Popular Vote category of the Cast Away Australian Podcast awards! So go to https://thecastawayawards.submittable.com/gallery/fb53f574-b3c9-43c8-8585-83bb919489f4/6969576/ and click on the thumbs up symbol (with a quick registration process) to give them a vote. #PodernFamily promos played this week are for the awesome Super Movie Brothers @SuperMoviePod, the amazing TwistedPhilly show @Twisted_Philly, and for the Epic Film Guys - our U.S. brothers - who continue to kick all kinds of ass @EpicFilmGuys and at their site http://epicfilmguys.podbean.com/ If you’d like to give Wayne and Paul some feedback or have your lists featured on a future episode, sound off on Twitter @thecountdownpc, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/thecountdownpc or fire off a good ol' fashioned email to thecountdownpodcast@gmail.com If you don't want to scan the episode looking for a particular film, check out Paul's lists at https://letterboxd.com/Kaisersoze/lists/ and Wayne's lists (when he can be assed updating them) at http://letterboxd.com/waynetangclan/lists/

Episode 101: Top 10 Sports Movies

This week, to avoid the comedown after Ep 100, the boys get busy counting down the very best sports films of all time! Can they bury the hatchet after all the shenanigans of the last Ep? Or will Wayne's lack of sports knowledge come back to haunt him as Paul flies the flag for harder core classic sports films? For that matter, will ANYone take Wayne's list seriously after he equates cheerleading to golf as a sport? There's also a new Check it Out and some big promises for Countdown related developments to come ... The boys need YOUR help in the Popular Vote category of the Cast Away Australian Podcast awards! So go to https://thecastawayawards.submittable.com/gallery/fb53f574-b3c9-43c8-8585-83bb919489f4/6969576/ and click on the thumbs up symbol (with a quick registration process) to give them a vote. #PodernFamily promos played this week are for the fantastic Media Nerds podcast @nerds_podcast, the great Two Peas on a Pod @TwoPeasOnAPod, and for the Epic Film Guys - our U.S. brothers - who continue to kick all kinds of ass @EpicFilmGuys and at their site http://epicfilmguys.podbean.com/ If you’d like to give Wayne and Paul some feedback or have your lists featured on a future episode, sound off on Twitter @thecountdownpc, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/thecountdownpc or fire off a good ol' fashioned email to thecountdownpodcast@gmail.com If you don't want to scan the episode looking for a particular film, check out Paul's lists at https://letterboxd.com/Kaisersoze/lists/ and Wayne's lists (when he can be assed updating them) at http://letterboxd.com/waynetangclan/lists/