Emerald City Video

New Release Wall: Captain Marvel & Captive State

Russ and Zach talk about Captain Marvel and Captive State, two movies where people fight against aliens.

You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows.

If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense.

Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

 

 

ECV #100

In this week’s episode, Emerald City Video turns 100. To celebrate 100 episodes of the podcast and acknowledge the 10th anniversary of Emerald City Video closing its doors, Russ is gathering a diverse group of customers, employees, and friends of the store to talk about their favorite memories of ECV and what the home video industry in general meant to them.

This week: Russ Burlingame (@russburlingame on Twitter), Zach Roberts (@zdroberts), Logan Bretschneider, and Carla Lauter(@beerbabe). We talk about the good old days and openly acknowledge that we are glancing over the bad stuff. But ah, well.

There is also a new format for the show — rather than just having “theme” episodes tossed haphazardly into the rotation, new episodes of ECV 100 (excepting this one) will run on Mondays. Tuesdays will be Countdown to Crisis, a look at The CW’s “Arrowverse” shows as that universe winds its way to Crisis on Infinite Earths. Wednesdays will be Spinner Rack episodes, talking about comic books and related media with a variety of voices. Thursdays will be looking at TV — with a focus at the beginning on Riverdale, as Russ is bringing episodes of Archie Digest: A Riverdale Podcast to ECV. And Fridays will be New Release Wallepisodes, where Russ and Zach (and/or whoever else can join in) do immediate postmortems on brand-new movies.

You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows.

If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense.

Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

 

Reign of the Supermen/Cold Pursuit

This was a long time coming, and you'll get some details on why inside.

But it's two new release wall episode, recorded a few weeks apart. First, Reign of the Supermen, an animated movie based on the hit comic book storyline of the same name.

Next? Cold Pursuit, otherwise known as Liam Neeson's grim and gritty "Mr. Plow" adaptation.

Johnny Dangerously/UHF

Nothing ages faster than comedy, so on the heels of our very New Release-heavy Yellow Brick Awards, Russ and Zach settle in to look at a couple of comedies they loved 20+ years ago, and to see whether they still hold up...and why.

You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows.

If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense.

Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

The First Annual Emerald City Video Yellow Brick Awards

Russ Burlingame and Zach Roberts name our Emerald City Video Yellow Brick Awards winners for 2018.

Winners are announced on the podcast and tagged via social media. If they want to receive the actual award, they can. The Yellow Brick in question is a VHS tape spray-painted gold and then labeled with their project and mailed out in a rental case.

Below, you can find a full list of nominees:

Best Picture
Black Panther
Sorry to Bother You
Upgrade
Widows
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Best Actor
Nicolas Cage, Mandy
Michael B. Jordan, Creed II
Christian Bale, Vice
Lakeith Stanfield, Sorry to Bother You
Best Actress
Tessa Thompson, Creed II
Viola Davis, Widows
Best Supporting Actor
Michael B. Jordan, Black Panther
Steven Yeun, Sorry to Bother You
Sylvester Stallone, Creed II
Dolph Lundgren, Creed II
Best Supporting Actress
Letitia Wright, Black Panther
Tessa Thompson, Sorry to Bother You
Erin Moriarty, Monster Party
Best Ensemble Cast
Black Panther
Annihilation
Widows
Mandy
Sorry to Bother You
Best Casting
Black Panther
Sorry to Bother You
Monster Party
Into the Spider-Verse
The Domestics
Widows
Mandy
Eighth Grade
Hotel Artemis
Best Score
Creed II
Into the Spider-Verse
Black Panther
Upgrade
Best Use of Popular Music
Spider-Verse
Black Panther
Best Cinematography
Creed II
Annihilation
Sorry to Bother You
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
The Domestics
Black Panther
Infinity War
Best VFX
Aquaman
Infinity War
Best Stunts
Upgrade
Monster Party
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Creed II
Best Director
Boots Riley
Ryan Coogler
Peter Ramsey, Robert Persichetti Jr., Rodney Rothman (Spider-Verse)
Best Screenplay
Into the Spider-Verse
Mandy
Sorry to Bother You
Best Franchise Film
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Black Panther
Aquaman
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Venom
Best Guilty Pleasure Film
Rampage
Upgrade
Monster Party
Jurassic Games
Best Movie Hero
Myles Truitt, Kin
Kate Bosworth, Domestics
Hailee Steinfeld, Bumblebee
Chadwick Boseman, Black Panther
Michael B. Jordan, Creed II
Blue, Jurassic World
Best Movie Villain
Julian McMahon, Party Monster
Michael B. Jordan, Black Panther
Abdul Yaheen, Aquaman
Katie Burgess, The Jurassic Games

You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows.

If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense.

Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

New Release Wall - Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse and Bumblebee

GUYS. Go see Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows.

If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense.

Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

 

 

New Release Wall: Creed II & Widows

It's time to talk about some new movies!

Well, new-ish. Russ and Zach have both been busy traveling for work, and it's time for them to catch up on some things. Both of them got together to see Creed II, and then right after that, Zach took some time with Widows. Check 'em out here!

You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows.

If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense.

Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

Employee Picks #5: Grosse Pointe Blank

In the latest episode of the Emerald City Video Podcast, Russ Burlingame and Zach D. Roberts take a look back at the 1997 black comedy Grosse Pointe Blank.

Not only is this an employee recommendation — one of both Russ’s and Zach’s favorite movies — but it is thematically appropriate, since this weekend, the Jamesville-DeWitt Class of 1998 had their 20-year reunion…

…which Russ was not able to make, since he has been traveling for work and basically oozing money out of every pore for weeks.

But he can get his ‘90s nostalgia on, by watching John Cusack get his ‘80s nostalgia on, while talking about Grosse Pointe Blank.

You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows.

If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense.

Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

Episode #24: Clear & Present Danger/Jack Ryan

In part three of our five-part look at the Jack Ryan movies and TV shows, Russ Burlingame and Zach Roberts take a look at Clear and Present Danger (1994) and the third and fourth episodes of Amazon's Jack Ryan TV series.

You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows.

If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense.

Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

Episode #22: Jack Ryan and the Hunt for Red October

This week’s episode is the first recorded on new hardware, the first recorded while part of the ACPN group (as opposed to recording an episode and then being invited while in production), and the first in a while to have the “classic” format of an old release and a new release.

For anybody who might be new to Emerald City Video and is currently reading these notes (likely at ACPN), here’s what our deal is:

Russ Burlingame (that’s me!) is a senior writer for ComicBook.com, but in another life, I managed Emerald City Video, a family-owned video store in Syracuse, NY. During that time, I worked with Visu.News's Zach Roberts briefly as well as a number of other people who have been featured on this show less regularly, including Logan Bretschneider, Dan Fecteau, Erica Ladd, Eva Furmanska, and Dave Nielsen.

The idea of this show is to have the kind of conversations people used to have at the video store: a little more casual, a little more in-depth, and a lot more organic than you get from the crappy algorithms of Netflix, Amazon, and the like.

For example: today, YouTube Movies suggested six movies I should buy, and — as acknowledged under each one with the caption “you purchased this,” each of their purchase suggestions was a movie I already owned. Additionally, they were all six Marvel movies. That seems like a huge missed opportunity to pitch me on…I don’t know, literally any other big blockbuster?

At any rate, Emerald City Video.

In the beginning, over two years ago, our format was that we would talk about one new or new-to-video movie that everyone was buzzing about, and another, older movie that was somehow thematically linked.

For instance, our first-ever episode was Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the underrated girl-power masterpiece Josie and the Pussycats.

Yes, masterpiece. Fight me.

The reason we chose this format goes back to our video store: at ECV, when it was in business, you could rent any movie at full-price and get an older/catalog movie for free. The most frequent combination, of course, was that somebody would get one of the hot new releases, come to the counter, and be reminded “you can grab an older movie for free if you want.” This was one of the most frequent ways that conversations would start, with the cutstomer saying “well, what might go with the thing I have in my hands?”

In today’s case, Zach and Russ are talking about Jack Ryan, the new Amazon series, and the very first live-action Jack Ryan adaptation from 1990, The Hunt for Red October, directed by Die Hard and Predator filmmaker John McTiernan.

There are four more Jack Ryan movies, and we will get to those (and a little more talk about the rest of Jack Ryan season one) over the next few episodes.

You can find us on Facebook at facebook.com/emeraldcityvideo or Twitter at twitter.com/ecv_podcast. If you want to support our show, we have ways you can do that, either at PayPal.me/emeraldcityvideo or at https://patron.podbean.com/emeraldcityvideo.

And for more from Russ, Zach, and the rest of the ECV crew, make sure to be back here by noon on the fifth day, and always remember to rewind your cassettes.