Feb/100
#25 Negative Cutters – “Brooklyn’s Finest Zombies”
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This week we take on Monsters Inc., Brooklyn’s Finest, and The Crazies. Your host, John Beck, is joined by John Cash, Emily from RobinHoodRadio.com and Luan Lepi. Check out the trailers below and then listen to the podcast!
Classic Trailers
Monsters Inc.
Monsters generate their city’s power by scaring children, but they are terribly afraid themselves of being contaminated by children, so when one enters Monstropolis, top scarer Sulley finds his world turned up-side-down. Pixar’s Monsters Inc opened on November 2, 2001.
Coming Attractions
Brooklyn’s Finest
Three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location after enduring vastly different career paths. All three officers find themselves swept away by the violence and corruption of Brooklyn’s gritty 65th Precinct and its most treacherous criminals. Brooklyn’s Finest stars Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, and Wesley Snipes, Opening March 5, 2010.
Feature Presentation
The Crazies
After a mysterious toxin contaminates the their water supply, the inhabitants of a small Iowa town are suddenly plagued by insanity and then death. The Crazies infects theaters this friday, February 26, 2010.
Feb/100
#24 Negative Cutters – “Oscar needs a new liver”
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This week we look at the Academy Award Nominations, Repo Men, and Shutter Island. Your host, John Beck, is joined by John Cash, Emily from RobinHoodRadio.com and newcomer to the panel; Luan Lepi. Watch the trailers below and then listen to the podcast!
Coming Attractions
Repo Men
Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, Repo Men revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed. Staring Jude Law, Forrest Whitaker, and Liev Schreiber, Repo Men opens on March 19, 2010.
Feature Presentation
Shutter Island
This drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island opens this friday, February 19, 2010.
Feb/100
It’s Alive…. ALIVE!!!
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Tonight I brought home a new toy for the podcast. A Blue Yeti: “The Ultimate Professional USB Microphone.” It certainly lives up to it’s name as this is one monster of a microphone. Standing up straight in its stand it measures about 12″. The overall construction is very high quality until you get to the knobs…. which look like they were found in a cereal box. Setting that aside, what really matters is how does it sound?
Sound Test
The Yeti has 3 capsules inside it and 4 usable modes. Omnidirectional, Bidirectional, Stereo, and the single Cardoid. The latter is the mode of choice for podcasting. Now I have used the Blue Snowball in the past and I simply could not get rid of ridiculous room noise and echo and since I do not have a real studio this was a no go for podcasting. Up until now I have been using the USB mic that comes with my Rock Band set to surprisingly good results. Lets see how the Blue Yeti stacks up.
For this sound test I set the Yet to Cardoid mode and put the Gain control at the bottom of the spectrum. I wanted to get up close and personal with this monster. After jury rigging my pop filter onto the stand I recorded the test sample.
Post processing I quickly put it through the same thing i do for all other recordings previously, a combo of EQ, HiPass, LowPass, and out to Levelator to tweak the overall loudness. I am rather pleased with the result. A nice rich sound though I’ll never get rid of the slight reverb from my computer screen thats behind the mic… I’m not regretting my purchase.
What do you think?
Feb/100
#23 Negative Cutters – “Cupid took my breath away… and my voice”
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This week we’ve got a special Date Night segment where Patrick and John take a look at the trailer for Valentine’s Day. Due to a week long chest cold, John wasn’t able to put together a full episode. But we will be back next week with more trailer and in the mean time check out the trailer for Valentine’s Day!
Date Night w/ John & Patrick
Valentine’s Day
Intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles break-up and make-up based on the pressures and expectations of Valentine’s Day. With an All Star cast: Jessica Alba, Kathy Bates, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Julia Roberts, and way too many to mention. Vanentine’s Day releases this friday, February 12, 2010.
Feb/100
#22 Negative Cutters – “From The Wolfman With Love”
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This week we review trailers for Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Undead, The Wolfman, and From Paris With Love. Your host, John Beck, is joined by John Cash, Emily from RobinHoodRadio.com and very special guest Eileen Rivera from Bite Club Podcast, and Revision3.com. Check out the trailers below and then listen to the podcast!
Coming Attractions
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead
Julian Marsh is an out of work ladies’ man who lands a job directing a bizarre adaptation of Hamlet. After casting his best friend and his ex-girlfriend in the show, Julian finds himself in the middle of a two thousand year old conspiracy that explains the connection between Shakespeare, the Holy Grail and some seriously sexy vampires. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead releases on April 16, 2010.
The Wolfman
Upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man is bitten, and subsequently cursed by, a werewolf. The Wolfman is the latest telling of the classic story of the were-wolf and is set to release on February 12, 2010. It stars Benicio Del Toro, Emily Blunt, Anthony Hopkins, and Hugo Weaving.
Feature Presentation
From Paris With Love
In Paris, a young employee in the office of the US Ambassador hooks up with an American spy looking to stop a terrorist attack in the city. From Paris with Love stars John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and opens this weekend on February 5, 2010.
