Emerald City Video is a podcast hosted by former employees of the Emerald City Video stores in Syracuse, NY.
Episodes
Friday Apr 13, 2018
Friday Apr 13, 2018
Russ and Zach break down RAMPAGE!, which Zach calls "The movie America needs right now."
Friday Mar 30, 2018
Friday Mar 30, 2018
It's time to simultaneously head 30 years into the past and 30 years into the future, as Russ Burlingame and Zach Roberts talk Ready Player One, the latest Steven Spielberg blockbuster based on the best-selling novel by Ernest Cline.
Is it great? No. Is it good? Well...!
Sunday Mar 18, 2018
Sunday Mar 18, 2018
Russ Burlingame and Zach Roberts saw Tomb Raider together, and came out of it with different takeaways.
One of us thought it was a fine, fun, popcorn affair.
The other thought it was no fun at all, and a bit too self-serious in tone for the script.
Which of us felt each way might surprise you...!
Friday Feb 16, 2018
Friday Feb 16, 2018
We have often said that while Marvel makes the big bucks, it’s DC who has the boundless ambition to shoot for Great Films instead of just Good Movies. With Black Panther, Marvel makes its bid for a Great Film and succeeds spectacularly.
Sunday Feb 04, 2018
Sunday Feb 04, 2018
Russ Burlingame and Zach Roberts talk about I, Tonya -- a good movie that could have been great, featuring a number of stellar performances and a filmmaker who either did not KNOW what kind of movie he was making, or at least could not commit to it.
Tuesday Jan 16, 2018
Tuesday Jan 16, 2018
Russ and Zach look at Batman: Gotham By Gaslight, the animated feature film released to streaming platforms today.
The movie is one of the better DC animated features, with both of us really enjoying it when it was screened during this weekend's DC in DC event.
Apologies for substandard audio, and some distortion in the middle: as it's a new release wall episode, we recorded in the car...but whereas we are often parked, or driving through a neighborhood, this was going 65 miles an hour on 81 North coming back from Washington, D.C.
Thursday Dec 28, 2017
Friday Nov 03, 2017
Friday Nov 03, 2017
Zach Robers and Russ Burlingame take aim at Marvel's best-reviewed movie to date, Thor: Ragnarok.
Do we love it as much as everybody else, or was it more of a Captain America: Civil War situation? Find out within!
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Friday Sep 08, 2017
Friday Sep 08, 2017
Russ and Zach talk about It, director Andy Muschietti's moody and inspired reinvention of the Stephen King novel -- and talk a lot about how the property is being resurrected 27 years after the original TV miniseries.
Thursday Sep 07, 2017
Thursday Sep 07, 2017
Russ and Zach respond to Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk -- and the microphone gets...most of it.
For another look at the story of Dunkirk, check out the upcoming reprint of Sam Glanzman's Combat comics, the first of which will center on Dunkirk.