Scarjo A Go-Go Episode 3: Manny and Lo, or "A Certain Gift"!

This week we discuss Scarlett Johansson's first starring role in the quirky black comedy Manny and Lo in which she and her older pregnant sister kidnap a clerk from baby store and zany HIJINKS ensue! This is the sturdy foundation on which all future roles are built upon. So saddle up, Scar-scientists, an important step on our Scarjourney awaits!

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These Final Hours Review

There’s something about the Western Australian sun that particularly lends itself to an apocalyptic feature film set in Perth. This is the setting we find ourselves in for Zak Hilditch and Liz Kearney’s story of the last 12 ours of life on Earth for a handful of characters.

As an asteroid heads towards the Earth and the temperatures sore we follow James (Nathan Phillips) as he struggles with his impending death and that of everything and everyone around him. Adamant that he will not feel anything when the end finally arrives; he leaves the woman he’s with to go to a friends party and get wasted. On the way he meets Rose (Angourie Rice), a little girl trying to find her father so that she can spend her final hours with him.

These Final Hours is currently playing at Luna Cinema’s. You can get tickets here. Some selected other cinema’s are also screening it for a limited time.

Check out www.thesefinalhours.com.au for more amazing content on the lead up to the events of the film that really build the world either before or after you see the movie. But for a little more of a spoiler free review, follow me under the cut.

FPcast! The Fruitless Pursuits Podcast for July 28th 2014: Golden 50th Episode!

This week we celebrate our golden 50th Episode! We review The Rock's Hercules, talk about the trailers including Horns and 50 Shades of Grey. Chat early SDCC news, reminisce on the beginning of Fruitless Pursuits, and wrap up by throwing in some celebrity interviews from our archives! Reserve your place at our sparsely populated party!

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Scarjo A Go-Go Episode 2: Just Cause, or "The Pinata of Innocence"!

This week the child Scarlett Johansson is put in mortal danger, dangled as bait in Sean Connery thriller Just Cause. It's a step forward in terms of screen time, but at what cost! Will innocence shatter? And what powers can be found in Sean Connery's sweat! We find out as we continue to recklessly watch and analyse every single Scarlett Johansson film in chronological order!

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The Book Was Better Episode 92: X-Men 3 The Last Stand (with guest host Jacinta!)

This week there's no cure for our mutant abilities, which mostly consist of being able to get through the entirety of Chris Claremont's epic novelization of X-Men 3: The Last Stand. Can the writer of the comics do better than the movie? Or was this one doomed from the start? Joining me is X-(wo)Man Jacinta of the FPcast! SNIKT SNIKT, bub!

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Scarjo A Go-Go Episode One: North, or "The Acorn"

Welcome to Scarjo A Go-Go, the podcast where we chronicle and dissect the films of Scarlett Johansson one-by-one in chronological order, learning everything there is to know about her career and her craft as she grows from tiny nugget to A-list actor. It is presented with respect, humour, and academic rigor. And we only ever refer to her by the reductive "Scarjo" in the title/theme song, because it rhymes!

This week we go all the way back to 1994's North, where a tiny acorn-like Scarlett makes her screen debut as some sort of tiny child! Why was she cast? What are her three greatest feats? What does all this mean for the future? Our Scarjourney begins right here! And thanks to the always wonderful Lizzy Unpronounceable for the theme song!

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FPcast! The Fruitless Pursuits Podcast for July 15th 2014! Sestosterone!

In the interest of reaching as many people as possible, this week's episode also includes our 20 minute chat with Greg Sestero, best known as Mark in the awful/wonderful cult classic The Room, and author of the riveting behind-the-scenes tell-all, The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made.

Plus we review the monkey madness of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and agent Courtney Coulson joins Luke for a chat about the first season of Penny Dreadful. This is what your ears have been craving for!

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The Book Was Better Episode 91: The Disaster Artist (with guest hosts Greg Sestero and Jacinta!)

Taking a break from the normal slog of awful novelizations, we thrill at a genuinely wonderfully written book, The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside "The Room", the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made. Author Greg Sestero, best known for playing that cheating bastard Mark in the cult film has written all about his experiences behind the scenes, as well as his bizarre relationship with writer/director/actor/maniac Tommy Wiseau. And - best of all - Greg Sestero himself joins Jacinta and I on this special episode for a 20 minute chat where we harangue him about his adventures! Put this one into your head as soon as you possibly can! More about the book HERE.

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FPcast! The Fruitless Pursuits Podcast for July 7th 2014! Takin' it to the Edge!

This week things get a little bizarre as we review Edge of Tomorrow, Dylan McDermott, vajazzling, trading cards, Battlestar and all sorts of other nonsense. BEST EPISODE EVER?! It has my vote!

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The Dresden Readthrough: Turn Coat

We continue our readthrough of Jim Butcher's uber-popular urban fantasy series The Dresden Files today with book eleven, Turn Coat. The continuing plan is to do a book a month on the first Tuesday of each month, and with 16 books on the publication schedule between now and when our readthrough is over, our reading list should be pretty full for the foreseeable future.

With book eleven, I feel like I'm sort of mired in the same midpoint I was with The Wheel of Time toward the middle, where not a ton is happening and it's getting frustrating. It's not to say it's outright bad like some of the middle Wheel of Time stuff, but I hesitate to call this book in particular good.