Video Game: The Movie Podcast
Rory and Jamie go on a harrowing journey to watch every video game movie and TV Show ever made! Includes franchise-specific movies (such as Super Mario Brothers), gaming related movies (Wreck-It Ralph) and TV series from 1982‘s Saturday Supercade to the present day!
Rory Joscelyne is a professional filmmaker from Cyberpunk Studios (Human Cargo, X-Band), whose history with gaming includes hosting Sega‘s Summer of Sonic events in London, restoring GamesMaster (a UK gaming show) and working with the Super Mario Bros Movie Archive (smbmovie.com).
Jamie Evans is a professional filmmaker from Impala Films (Candy Hart, Haunted), whose history with gaming includes a deep involvement in the Resident Evil community.
Episodes
Friday Apr 29, 2022
Doom (2005)
Friday Apr 29, 2022
Friday Apr 29, 2022
The Rock and Karl Urban both star in this take on the legendary FPS game that started it all. Called to an experimental Mars colony, a group of hardened Marines must take on the hoardes of hell armed with nothing but fists, machine guns and a BFG.
Also features other gaming alumni, such as Dexter Fletcher (GamesMaster) and an elaborate and unbroken FPS sequence. Doom may be corny, but might it also be a Gamer's dream film?
Friday Apr 22, 2022
Power Stone (1999)
Friday Apr 22, 2022
Friday Apr 22, 2022
Returning to something less gloomy, Power Stone is based on the incredible Dreamcast game by Capcom, focussing on Edward Falcon (or Fokker in Japan) as he searches for both the elusive Power Stone and his missing father, Pride Falcon.
Only a single 26-episode season was ever made, and passed most gamers by. Could this be a long lost gem of it's own?
Friday Apr 15, 2022
Halo Legends (2010)
Friday Apr 15, 2022
Friday Apr 15, 2022
A collection of several short films by different animation studios, all set within the Halo universe. The variety of art styles, story types and connections to the overall series keep the series fresh.
Originally released online, Halo Legends was popular enough with the Halo fanbase to see an official disc release. But is it good enough to recommend to audiences today?
Friday Apr 08, 2022
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)
Friday Apr 08, 2022
Friday Apr 08, 2022
Sonic is determined to make his mark as a hero in Green Hills, while Tom and Maddie go away on vacation, when Doctor Eggman returns from the mushroom planet in search of the Master Emerald. He plans to conquer the world and exact revenge against Sonic with the help of Knuckles the Echidna.
Sonic and his new friend, Miles "Tails" Prower, set out to find the emerald before it falls into the wrong hands. Will breast-feeding come up in a Sonic feature for a THIRD time?
Friday Apr 01, 2022
Videogame Earth Force (2008)
Friday Apr 01, 2022
Friday Apr 01, 2022
Released very briefly in 2008, winning awards in 2009 and then disappearing into the ether - this awful movie somehow received TWO blu-ray releases in Germany. Why Germany, why?
Master Chief, alongside a rag-tag team of Armchair Combat Professionals, is conscripted to help save William Fence (a billionaire)'s kidnapped wife. Having to take William Fence along as the Rookie, they must train him up in order for him to survive the challenge.
Friday Mar 25, 2022
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
Friday Mar 25, 2022
Friday Mar 25, 2022
As a child, Sonic is thrown across dimensions into our world to avoid becoming a victim of an attacking echidna tribe. On Earth he must befriend a local small-town Sheriff in order to fight the evil schemes of government scientist Doctor Robotnik.
Starring Jim Carrey (Ace Ventura) and James Marsden (X-Men), has Hollywood finally figured out the formula to great video game adaptations?
Saturday Mar 19, 2022
Resident Evil: Wesker’s Report (2001)
Saturday Mar 19, 2022
Saturday Mar 19, 2022
Jamie Evans goes it alone against Resident Evil canon, while Rory is down and out with the G Virus (or something). What did this 2001 movie bring to the series, what did the series stick to or lose? And why did Wesker let himself get impaled on a Tyrant's claw? It's all here in this special episode.
We will be back to our normal broadcasts next week.
Friday Mar 11, 2022
Free Guy (2021)
Friday Mar 11, 2022
Friday Mar 11, 2022
Guy (Ryan Reynolds) is just a regular man working at a bank, happily strolling from crime scene to crime scene as if they were daily occurances. Just a regular NPC in a video game.
Then one day he sees a woman he immediately falls in love with, ends up with some player's glasses and the reality of his world is suddenly revealed. He goes from NPC to elite player in a matter of days - but will it be enough to save his game world from server-side deletion?
Friday Mar 04, 2022
Shenmue the Animation (2022)
Friday Mar 04, 2022
Friday Mar 04, 2022
After he witnesses his father’s murder at the family dojo, Ryo dedicates his life to finding the man responsible. A mission that takes him from the streets of Yokosuka (Japan) to the sprawling metropolis of Hong Kong and beyond. Ryo will learn that larger, mystical forces are at play as he trains to become the ultimate martial artist in his quest for revenge.
Friday Feb 25, 2022
The Cuphead Show (2022)
Friday Feb 25, 2022
Friday Feb 25, 2022
Cuphead and his brother, Mugman, scour Inkwell Isles for adventure. When Cuphead loses his soul to The Devil, the two must do everything they can to stop The Devil from claiming it. Full of wacky characters and classic 1920's animated hijinks.
Friday Feb 18, 2022
Uncharted (2022)
Friday Feb 18, 2022
Friday Feb 18, 2022
A young Nathan Drake and his partner Victor "Sully" Sullivan go up against a wealthy, ruthless fortune hunter and his mercenaries to claim a lost fortune in gold from the voyages of Magellan while also tracking clues that may lead to Drake's long-lost brother, Sam.
Friday Feb 11, 2022
DOA Dead or Alive (2006)
Friday Feb 11, 2022
Friday Feb 11, 2022
When action, drama and strong female roles collide we are met with... women in bikinis, jiggling? In keeping with the games, I suppose.
Rory and Jamie are forced (totally against their will, guys) to watch these amazingly beautiful women kick ass in revealing clothes. Will the nightmare never end? And will it result in a genuinely decent movie?
Friday Feb 04, 2022
The Super Mario Bros’ Super Show (1989)
Friday Feb 04, 2022
Friday Feb 04, 2022
C'mon it's time to go do the Mario! Jamie is introduced to the nightmarish world of a Mario-verse starring ex-wrestler Captain Lou Albano!
Over the course of several episodes we witness "Tomato-sauce sucking vampires", Cindy Lauper working with the FBI and Lou Albano almost fall over during the terrible ending dance. It's certainly an odd concoction of madcap havoc, but does it pay off for the show?
Friday Jan 28, 2022
Detective Pikachu (2019)
Friday Jan 28, 2022
Friday Jan 28, 2022
With Pokemon Legends: Arceus released on the Nintendo Switch today, we decided to celebrate by delving into one of Pokemon's latest movies, starring Ryan Reynolds!
Harry Goodman is missing. Now his son, Tim, and his former Pokemon partner, Detective Pikachu, must join forces to unravel the mystery. Chasing clue through Ryme City, they quickly find the world of Pokemon isn't as safe as it might first seem.
Friday Jan 21, 2022
Hackers (1995)
Friday Jan 21, 2022
Friday Jan 21, 2022
The 1990s saw internet hackers as the next rebel counter-culture, and the movie Hackers is the Hollywood adaptation of a movement that never was, starring Angelina Jolie.
Zero Cool is the legend who hacked Wall Street. When he goes to college, he meets Acid Burn (Jolie) and together they become wrapped up in a hacking conspiracy of diabolical industrial espionage. Can they Hack The Planet to save the world?