Take A Look Around: Recent Episodes
Take A Look Around
An ethnographic lens into the intersection of Nü Metal and Cinema hosted by Alisdair Bates and Sean Campion
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How now brown crow. For our final film covered on Take A Look Around we go back to where it all began with a dynamic vision from Brandon Lee and Alex Proyas. Plus we talk eating lithium batteries.
For our third last episode we are joined by Executive Producer Phoebe Paradise to talk McG's opus
Our most haunted episode finally makes it to the main feed after 5 attempts to record it
Al is bumped off in Scream 2 so Gus McGrath joins us to talk Columbine, Scooby Doo and Courtney Cox terf bangs
TALA digs in deep on the new Limp Bizkit album and the gold standard for great movies about terrible albums
Unlocked from our Patreon vault. Last month's Patreon pick for Halloween. Al and Seanie are taking a quick breather while Al finishes this semester at uni but we got a huge next few weeks of episodes planned.
TALA talks fast cars, Angry Beavers and Schrodinger's Ja Rule with a special guest intro by Australia's only comedian Angus Gordon
The DJ Lethal of Take A Look Around joins today's episode to talk Predators on their Gap Year, 'Todd Future' and Chappie.
TALA talks The Pelicano Brief, hauntological spaces, The P!nk Belt and the lowest rated movie we have ever covered
Christian Bale goes off his meds and murders a million people in this nu metal Year 10 English essay. Plus Andrew!
Ever wanted to hear the Underworld sequels presented to you like an episode of Bret Michael's Rock Of Love? No? Well we've got Nellie Pearson, Darcy O'Connor and the boys from INT. CUSTOM LEATHER to give you a backstage pass.
We interrupt your regular scheduled programming for a look at the nu metal news that was for the month of July 2021
SEASON FINALE: Al and Sean record a live episode after a screening of Queen Of The Damned in sunny Brisbane + Boonta Vista and Two Bit Movie Club's Ben joins us on the mic.
For the first time ever, Al and Sean record from the same room. Will this be a meeting of minds or 6 straight minutes on Top Of The Lake Season 2?
Rise Of The Funky Man
Queen Of The Damned Screening + Live Episode Tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/takealookaround
This here is a stupid movie. It is a symbol of my individuality and my beliefs in personal freedom.
Unlocked from the Patreon Vault. Last year, Seanie and Al tackled these absolute germs of the late 90s era of Adam Sandler for their mini series ENTER SANDMAN
The proto-nu metal film that launched an era and a career for Paul Thomas Anderson + Is Mortal Kombat (2021)......a great movie?
We had no idea what was going on because we hadn't seen Ten Ghosts or Eleven Ghosts: Ghost Protocol
Sean's apartment building catches fire during this episode and he refuses to leave because he is podcasting about Jeremy Renner
Al disappears on special assignment so Executive Producer Phoebe Paradise joins Seanie to discuss watching Godzilla vs Kong on Funky Monkey Friday and a 200 Million Dollar Puff Daddy movie starring....Moe from The Simpsons.
Unlocked from the Patreon feed while Seanie and Al prep next week's huge guest. Part 1 of Michael Sheen: The Story of Sheen/Michaels Entertainment focuses on the vanity film directed and starring Rock Of Love's Bret Michaels produced and co-starring Charlie Sheen. Part 2 streaming now over on the Patreon
Stop taking your meds. Start bathing in rat cum. Timur Bekmambetov gives us the last Nu Metal film before the world moved on.
The fellas have a whale of a time watching a movie about evil sharks starring... Michael Rappaport. Plus, a snippet from our interview with BLADE Director Stephen Norrington we will be putting online this week!!
Few filmmakers are brave enough to make a Matthew McConaughey movie which opens with a dragon jizzing on Harry Potter. Featuring Ben from Boonta Vista Podcast (@thomas_violence)
We get the guy who asks the questions and we ask him a bunch of questions about a movie that doesn't answer any questions.
Mr DVD himself joins us for the quintessential film of the DVD era. One of the most anticipated sequels of all time: The Matrix Reloaded
Season 2 kicks off with a bang. The shining pinnacle of the genre we all know and love. Find out what Batesy and Seanie did on their summer vacations and what horrible evils lurk in the circuits of the Durstbot. Slam in the back of our Dragula.
For everyone that said that a Podcast about the intersection between Nu Metal and Hollywood was too niche, we heard you and we appreciated your feedback. Which is why we developed an ongoing weekly series about Unhinged (2020) starring Russell Crowe. Please ignore the countless amount of crimes we mention committing in this episode.
The final episode of our KISSmas Patreon special beamed directly to you the listener from us as a KISSmas prezzie. Featuring Mick Foxall of the Condition Mint podcast
Unlocked from the Patreon vault, Episode 2 of Whats My Age Again: Arrested Development In The Cinema Of Pop-Punk. A spine tingling assessment of the last film ever made during the Pre 9/11 End Of History.
Unlocked from the Patreon vault, The first episode of The Impression That I Get: The Music Of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Easily the dumbest idea we had for the Patreon but embraced wholeheartedly by our fantastic guest and executive producer Phoebe Paradise
Unlocked from the Patreon vault. The greatest battle in human history: The Dirt (2018) vs The Rock (1996) adjudicated by Reggae Sean Connery
Just a little heads up that we are on break from End of November to End Of January. We will be uploDING some of our favourite Patreon episodes plus some special treats along the way. See you next year for TALA Season 2!
Al gets day leave from prison for a very special ep. In the Season 1 Finale of Take A Look Around we do everything we can to not talk about Ghost Ship. Stay tuned for a very special appearance right at the very end.
The Patreon will keep rocking over the Summer break From November till January with new bonus episodes every Friday.
The Sandman's nu metal masterpiece gets a looky loo plus Pete Evans, Death In June, Shasta McNasty and South African Homer Simpson
Returning guest hearteyes (Maurice Santiago, @softbodyheartthrob @hearteyesrules)
Bonus episodes every week on the Patreon. Link in BIO
Head? uhhhhh yes please. With Jake Robertson (Alien Nosejob, Auesmutants, Frowning Clouds)
Film critic and comedian Alexei Toliopolous (Finding Drago, Total Reboot) tries to help the boys out of the Xander Zone buts gets himself wedged in good. Plus, a heartfelt final message from Reggae Sean Connery.
After a brief stopover in Kazakhstan, the boys becoming firmly entrenched in the Xander Zone.
Bonus Episodes every week on the Patreon: This week is Enter Sandman: The Many Faces of Adam Sandler Ep.1
Wax on wax off. The fellas are joined by Marcus Whale (Collarbones, Black Vanilla) to talk Paris Hilton's business savvy, Deftones (for too long) and the Virgin Michael Murray vs The Chad Michael Murray
Bonus episodes every week as always at the Patreon
Unlocked from the Patreon: For the final episode of The Impression That I Get: The Cinema of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, we take a look at the finest work and the zenith of the Apatow era of comedy. This would be the final instance of a feature film featuring The Mighty Mighty Bosstones but none of that means anything to our zoomer guest Zane Bates
Scathing social satire of modern masculinity, turgid conservative shitshow or source material for a Fred Durst video game? Returning guest Joseph Earp joins the fellas to take a look around
Our first guest with a Number One Hit Single, several top 10s and an Aria Award...yet. We wander blindly through the darkness with Killing Heidi's Ella Hooper and discuss Space Australians, Vin Diesel stealing Rahda Mitchell's career and get a backyard shinejob look at Music From And Inspired by Spider-Man 2.
Bonus episodes at Patreon
The boys branch out into NU MEDIA and take on a foundational text video game. Along for the wallride is professional drummer Chris Allison (Plini, Birdman Or The Unexpected Virtue Of A Tony Hawks Pro Skater Coverband, Al's housemate's brother) with some stories about the Birdman himself
Unlocked from the Patreon vaults. The concluding chapter of Who Are Uwe? our mini series on Uwe Boll gives us his anti-masterpiece Postal from 2007. Along for the ride is Girls Like It When savant, bartender and headphone autist, Christian @nopoweradeinusa
The wigs get bigger as Al and Seanie throw safety regulations to the wind. We talk Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) with Hannah Ballantyne (I Know My Truth Podcast) Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) with Jon Valenzuela (All The Small Games Podcast) and Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2012) with Joseph Earp (The Brad Pittcast)
The rights to Resident Evil fell off the back of a truck and Hollywood Big Wigs Seanie and Al take some high stakes meetings to make a billion dollar franchise. We talk Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) with Andrea Blake and Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) with Gus McGrath.
Nu-Metal gets a franchise to call its very own. An uncanny mish-mash of leather, assault weapons, zombie viruses, lasers and kickboxing delivered to a Marilyn Manson and Slipknot score....as cheaply as possible. The Take A Looky Boys gaze through the rose coloured looking glass at the film that spawned 6 sequels.
Nu-Metal gets a franchise to call its very own. All the stars are here: clunky dialogue, Eastern Europe, Slipknot, leather and big guns.
From our Patreon series WHATS MY AGE AGAIN? ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT IN THE CINEMA OF POP PUNK. Sydney musician hearteyes joins us to speak truth to power on the film that ended one chapter of teen films only to unleash the destructive and reductive power of another.
Bonus episodes at Patreon
The four greatest minds of our generation pick the bones clean from the carcass of Arnie's latest comeback movie. If we aren't tooling around in a Monaro playing Limp Bizkit physically then we definitely are emotionally.
Bonus episodes at Patreon
The 3 greatest minds of their respective generations invite Seanie on to discuss Arnold Schwarzenegger's millennial apocalypse drama this Tuesday!
Kontravoid and Multiple Man bury the hatchet and come together to discuss this A lister tongue twister of a movie
Bonus episodes at Patreon
This episode's Spotify Playlist
Kontravoid on Bandcamp
That's right people we are doing two cradles back to back. Cradles are extremely nu metal. With special guest Cameron Findlay aka Kontravoid
Jet Li and DMX weave a tangled web of kung fu and quad bikes in 2003’s middleweight champion CRADLE 2 THE GRAVE
Bonus episodes, content and mini-series every Thursday for low low prices at https://www.patreon.com/takealookaroundpod
Next week 21/07/2020 Cradle 2 The Grave starring DMX, Jet Li and Scary Movie 3's Anthony Anderson
We make grown ass man, Drew Gardner from Totally Unicorn, play with dollies. This feels like a waste of his talents since he has a degree from the University Of Spineshank writing his dissertation on Chucky as a queer icon. Rude fucking doll!
Bonus episodes every Thursday at https://www.patreon.com/takealookaroundpod
Unlocked from behind the Patreon paywall. Comedian and raconteur Tom Walker joins us for the final episode of MAD MAD WICKED CLOWN LOVE to discuss Mr Mime, Twitch streaming and the Official Insane Clown Posse webstore. We cover American Juggalo and American Juggalo 2 by director Sean Dunne and about halfway....something amazing happens.
Two bonus episodes this week for Patreon subscribers since the Main Feed is a repeat. Find them at https://www.patreon.com/takealookaroundpod
A special memorial episode to a man who wrote the book that nu-metal cinema tore pages out of, Joel Schumacher. We are so overcome by grief that we forget to find out if there is any upcoming nu-metal movies (there isn't)
Bonus episodes every Thursday at https://www.patreon.com/takealookaroundpod
A special in memoriam episode to a man that wrote the book that the nü metal movie tore chunks out of, Joel Schumacher. Zoomers, your homework this weekend is to google what a phone booth was. Out next Tuesday.
Did Hoobastank wreck your parents marriage? Do you watch superhero movies in Turkish? Does your superhuman hearing mean you can tell that the audio on this episode is a tad wonky but your Catholic New York City upbringing means you won't message us about it? Then comedian Lauren Bonner and the Take a Looky Boys have the film for you! ............................................................... An ethnographic lens into the intersection of Nü Metal and Cinema hosted by Alisdair Bates and Sean Campion. Released every Tuesday! Bonus episodes at https://www.patreon.com/takealookaroundpod
Out 23/06/2020 with comedian Lauren Bonner. Daredevil (2003) is streaming now in Australia on Amazon Prime or on the internet you can work it out ; )
Big Daddy Mars has pierced fingers. Jason Statham has male pattern baldness and we have Illy Bocean along for the weather balloon ride. ............................................................... An ethnographic lens into the intersection of Nü Metal and Cinema hosted by Alisdair Bates and Sean Campion. Released every Tuesday! Bonus episodes at https://www.patreon.com/takealookaroundpod
A movie that suggests that not only did the US government profit off the War On Drugs but that the Deep State is using that money to wage extra judicial warfare on suspected terrorists that was released a MONTH before 9/11? And it stars Hugh Jackman and John Travolta? Daddy likey ............................................................... An ethnographic lens into the intersection of Nü Metal and Cinema hosted by Alisdair Bates and Sean Campion. Released every Tuesday! Bonus episodes at https://www.patreon.com/takealookaroundpod
A Christian Slater LL Cool J film about the incompetence of the FBI? Special guest star Phoebe Paradise joins us to hunt the mind of this buried and forgotten nü metal flick. Plus a special giveaway? ............................................................... An ethnographic lens into the intersection of Nü Metal and Cinema hosted by Alisdair Bates and Sean Campion. Released every Tuesday! Bonus episodes at https://www.patreon.com/takealookaroundpod
The Suckhead Trilogy comes to a close with a fang not a whimper. Did Blade create ISIS? Find out this episode with the funniest man in Australia Aaron Chen
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An ethnographic lens into the intersection of Nü Metal and Cinema hosted by Alisdair Bates and Sean Campion.
Released every Tuesday! Bonus episodes at https://www.patreon.com/takealookaroundpod
Al and Seanie are working on a special project this week and want to take that opportunity to share with you Episode 1 from our Patreon exclusive mini-series Lost In The Durstverse. Want to know how the story ends for Fred? Subscribe to the Patreon for more episodes! ............................................................... An ethnographic lens into the intersection of Nü Metal and Cinema hosted by Alisdair Bates and Sean Campion. Released every Tuesday! Bonus episodes at https://www.patreon.com/takealookaroundpod
Open season on all suckheads continues for another week. Bros: After The Screaming Stops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzpuVzhBbu4 Subscribe to the new Patreon! Link in description ............................................................... An ethnographic lens into the intersection of Nü Metal and Cinema hosted by Alisdair Bates and Sean Campion. Released every Tuesday! Bonus episodes at https://www.patreon.com/takealookaroundpod
Some motherfuckers always trying to ice-skate uphill. One of those motherfuckers is Chapo Trap House's Australian correspondent Matt V. Brady. Subscribe to the new Patreon! Link in description
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An ethnographic lens into the intersection of Nü Metal and Cinema hosted by Alisdair Bates and Sean Campion.
Released every Tuesday! https://www.patreon.com/takealookaroundpod
Halle Berry tank her career challenge ............................................................... An ethnographic lens into the intersection of Nü Metal and Cinema hosted by Alisdair Bates and Sean Campion Released every Tuesday!
One Dracula is bad enough but 2000 Draculas! Oh brother! ............................................................... An ethnographic lens into the intersection of Nü Metal and Cinema hosted by Alisdair Bates and Sean Campion Released every Tuesday!
Freddy Vs Jason! Al Vs Sean! Nu Metal vs Cinema! Whoever wins we lose
Featuring our first guest: Musician Future/Crimes a.k.a Dieter Smith https://future-crimes.bandcamp.com/releases
An ethnographic lens into the intersection of nu metal and cinema hosted by Alisdair Bates and Sean Campion
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Blair Witch 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Go off Scorpion King
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An ethnographic lens into the intersection of Nü Metal and Cinema hosted by @bbaatteessyy and @zeroasalimit
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The One Where Sean and Al Review the One.
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An ethnographic lens into the intersection of Nü Metal and Cinema hosted by @bbaatteessyy and @zeroasalimit
Released every Tuesday!
We somehow go a whole episode without commenting on 'Sean' rhyming with 'Spawn.'
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An ethnographic lens into the intersection of Nü Metal and Cinema hosted by @bbaatteessyy and @zeroasalimit
Released every Tuesday!
This time we are tasked with the mission of 'watching this movie and then making fun of it and also talking about Napster.'
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Welcome to the very first episode of Take A Look Around!
This episode we dive into 2002's sorta-sequel to Interview With a Vampire - 'Queen of the Damned!'
Spoiler alert: this movie - it will spoil your day. ..........................................................................................................................................
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