Emerald City Video is a podcast hosted by former employees of the Emerald City Video stores in Syracuse, NY.
Episodes
Thursday Dec 28, 2017
Friday Nov 17, 2017
Friday Nov 17, 2017
The Justice League movie is finally out, and Russ and Zach went there and came out of it with a non-spoiler review for all you fine people.
Overall, Russ loved the movie, while Zach was lukewarm on it. Both had some thoughts on a few shortcomings, and both had plenty of favorable comparisons to make. This is no Civil War or Suicide Squad.
If you want to hear more like this, check out our Patreon -- you can find it here, and among other things backers can get a quarterly, exclusive video podcast DELIVERED ON VHS.
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!
If you want to hear more like this, check out our Patreon -- you can find it here, and among other things backers can get a quarterly, exclusive video podcast DELIVERED ON VHS.
Friday Nov 03, 2017
Friday Nov 03, 2017
In a follow-up to our conversation on Classics*, which Russ and Zach recorded on the way to New York Comic Con at the beginning of October, comes a conversation that was recorded on the way home from the show.
After a conversation with Itsy Bitsy director Micah Gallo for his day job, Russ was left wondering how movies are distributed and marketed in a post-video environment. With only a small number of distributors accounting for the vast majority of what people watch nowadays, there are a lot of movies that go into the marketplace...but nobody notices. And very few ways to get word-of-mouth going.
If you want to hear more like this, check out our Patreon -- you can find it here, and among other things backers can get a quarterly, exclusive video podcast DELIVERED ON VHS.
Sunday Oct 29, 2017
Sunday Oct 29, 2017
Whether it’s Oscar bait or crowd-pleasers, every year or two there is a movie that everyone is briefly convinced will be a classic for the ages, held up on the Mount Rushmore of film alongside Citizen Kane and The Godfather.
And basically every time, those people are wrong.
Is it because the movie itself is not as good as we thought it was, because of changing tastes, or just the fact that people do not want to accept new additions to the canon?
In any case, this is what Zach and Russ talked about in the car on the way to NYCC. This audio is captured from the Facebook live feed, so apologies for background hiss.
If you want to hear more like this, check out our Patreon -- you can find it here, and among other things backers can get a quarterly, exclusive video podcast DELIVERED ON VHS.
Thursday Oct 26, 2017
Thursday Oct 26, 2017
On the one hand, a huge number of movies are made every year that show the bad guy getting brutalized, humiliated, or otherwise getting a much-deserved comeuppance.
On the other, there is an increasingly common and popular subgenre of movies that seems to illustrate that the only thing we like more than watching bad guys get punished, is watching rich, white bad guys get away with it.
Yep -- this is gonna be that kind of podcast.
If you want to hear more like it, check out our Patreon -- you can find it here, and among other things backers can get a quarterly, exclusive video podcast DELIVERED ON VHS.
Saturday Oct 14, 2017
Saturday Oct 14, 2017
Zach and Russ talk about Jackie Chan's latest movie, The Foreigner.
SPOILERS ON for this one. I will try and edit a non-spoiler version of this tonight.
You should also check out our new Patreon -- you can find it here, and among other things backers can get a quarterly, exclusive video podcast DELIVERED ON VHS.
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.
Monday Jul 10, 2017
Monday Jul 10, 2017
Russ and Zach head to the new release wall for the second time this weekend for their reactions to Baby Driver, director Edgar Wright’s latest action-comedy starring Ansel Elgort, who — no, Russ — is not Alden Ehrenreich. Geez.
For fun, this one was recorded in a moving car — so you’ll get some variable sound quality…as well as Russ asking Zach to pull over once or twice, just to add to the verisimilitude.
Next episode, barring a change in plans, should be Week 2 of the Summer of Riverdale!