This week, we review Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu. We also discuss Movie Food Tie-Ins in Confessions of a Cinephile, Media Consumption, and more!

The Bloody Awesome Movie Podcast delivers a spoiler-free review of a film, usually a new release with some exceptions, every week. Then Matt Hudson (@wiwt_uk) from What I Watched Tonight and Jonathan Berk (@berkreviews) from Berkreviews.com will introduce a variety of movies or pop-culture-related topics in a series of segments.

Review of Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu

• Director, writer, and cast provided by Letterboxd.com
• IMDb.com Synopsis: The evil Empire has fallen, and Imperial warlords remain scattered throughout the galaxy. As the fledgling New Republic works to protect everything the Rebellion fought for, they have enlisted the help of legendary Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin and his young apprentice Grogu.
• RATINGS:
  • 62% RT critic 
  • 88% RT audience
  • 53 Metascore, 
  • 7.1 IMDb user score
  • 3.2 Letterboxd, 
• $100,000,000 (US); $63,000,000 (International)

Concessions of a Cinephile

In this segment, we switch to movie-motivated conversations of a large variety that could include headlines, trailers, top five lists, best of, competitions, etc…

Topic Movie Food Tie-ins

Article 1 – https://screencrush.com/movie-tie-in-food-history/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Article 2 – https://vocal.media/geeks/junk-food-film-27-of-the-best-movie-tie-ins-of-the-70s-80s-and-90s

90s/2000s classics

• Batman Forever McDonald’s mugs
• The Phantom Menace Pepsi cans/Taco Bell/KFC/Pizza Hut overload
• Shrek 2 green ketchup
• Ghostbusters Hi-C Ecto Cooler
• Jurassic Park Crunch bars and cereal
• Space Jam Happy Meals

Media Consumption

Movies, TV, Video Games, Music, Podcasts (not ours), etc that we use to pass the time

Matt’s consumption

• Fall, The Taking of Deborah Logan, The Mandalorian and Grogu (again), Passenger
• Playoff finals

Jon’s consumption

• A League of Their Own, Lifeguard (1976), Passenger, I Love Boosters, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
• Blue Prince
• Rays baseball

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