This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas take a trip to Wall Street in New York and witness two men bankrupt two old racist, rich bastards who made a $1 bet to see if they swapped these two guy's lives around if nature or nurture would prevail. At the end of the day, it was just so good to watch two rich guys become broke. The holidays are finally here, and with our Christmas season this year, we thought we'd give our listeners over at Patreon the opportunity to select the films we'd be talking about, in our new ar ..read more

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas head to Calgary, Alberta, Canada to pay respects to the legendary Hart wrestling family, and stumble upon a group of Jamaican's training to be Olympic Bobsleighers. We take another dip in 1993 – The Filaversary – with John Turteltaub's sports comedy, COOL RUNNINGS, starring John Candy, Leon, Doug E. Doug, Rawle D. Lewis and Malik Yoba. Loosely based on the real story of the Jamaican bobsleigh team, that qualified to compete in the 1988 Winter Olympics, we take a look back on ..read more

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas celebrate Thanksgiving with the spookiest family around, THE ADDAMS FAMILY! Join us, in this special Thanksgiving episode, where we not only dip into the Filaversary, with one of the best Thanksgiving films of all-time, ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES (1993), but because we've never talked about it, we cover 1991's THE ADDAMS FAMILY – both directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, and starring Raul Julia, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd and Christina Ricci. It's a 2-4-1 special, that is heaps o ..read more

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas hit the icy town of Wabasha, Minnesota, where two men have been fighting for decades over a girl. After years of trading insults, jabs, and pulling pranks on each other, they were left to be nothing by GRUMPY OLD MEN. With us nearly at American Thanksgiving, we've decided to dip back into the Filaversary, with a couple of Thanksgiving films from 1993. We kick things off with the sixth Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau team-up, with this romantic comedy about two guys who just ne ..read more

In this bonus edition of The Pod Charles Cinecast, we are back in the world of SHYAMALAMANIA, where we are charting the films of M. Night Shyamalan in special Patreon exclusive episodes over at patreon.com/thepccpodcast – We've unleashed episode to the main timeline, as we decided against doing The X-Files movie, but still wanted to give you some fun "I Want To Believe" spookiness! Join hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas, as they venture to the outskirts of Philly, into the farmlands of Bucks County, where a former priest who has lost his faith is tested by the surprise appearance of crop c ..read more

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas travel to the woods of Arizona, where they witness a lumberjack get abducted by a UFO. The boys are framed for murder when they attempt to report the incident to local police, but are cleared of the crime when the lumberjack returns five days later with a wild tale of intergalactic travels. It's week 3 of I WANT TO BELIEVE, our Spooky Ooky alien season, and we are talking about one of the most notorious Alien Abduction films, about one of the most infamous UFO Abduction case ..read more

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas are having a nice Thanksgiving dinner when all of a sudden they see a bright flash of light, and the power goes out. They go outside to investigate, and to their surprise, they witness three aliens outside a spaceship performing a cattle mutilation. When they try to get them to be on the podcast, the aliens shoot at them with laser beams, and chase down Jon and Fil inside their house, looking for a way to get in. Will Jon and Fil survive this close encounter? It's week 2 of ..read more

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas see a UFO and start having visions of a large hill with a flat top, leaving them to wonder what it all means. When they finally see the structure in the news on TV, they race to Devil's Tower in Wyoming to get answers! With the Spooky Ooky season upon us, we decided to shake up our usual October episodes of "Vampires, Witches, and Werewolves, Oh My", and look to the night skies for the new series – I WANT TO BELIEVE. Over the next few weeks, we'll be looking at a selection o ..read more

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas take a trip to Thailand, only to be given a mysterious map to a mythical beach, on an island unspoiled by tourists. They decide to take on this adventure, and arrive to the beach to find a group of international travellers and hippies living out their best Lord of the Flies scenario. It is the final week of 2 THOUGHTS 2 DEEP TOO : TOKYO DRIFT, and we have arrived at the apex of the arc, hitting all the themes of deep ass movies about people who think they are so smart becaus ..read more

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by The Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster and Fil Freitas get in a car wreck, and decide to off themselves. Not before leaving their minds to be cryogenically frozen and set to lucid dream mode for 150 years. It's WEEK 3 of 2 THOUGHTS 2 DEEP TOO : TOKYO DRIFT, and we are scratching our heads to Cameron Crowe's 2001 follow-up to Almost Famous, the very weird, maybe underrated, but perhaps justly forgotten, VANILLA SKY, starring Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, and Jason Lee. We weren't scratching our heads trying to figure o ..read more