Micah's Read of the Week, Vol. 65 w/ Special Guest Editor Logan Lewis
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A word from the Guest Editor
Hey Everyone, I’m Logan Lewis — noted friend of Micah, host of The Binge Boys Podcast and Plain and Simple, as well as a long-time subscriber of Micah’s Read of the Week. Micah graciously invited me to guest edit for him this week & next week because he got married on the 15th.
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Otherwise, let’s get to some content!
Logan Recommends: Hot Ones
It’s the show with hot questions and even hotter wings!
For decades, the talk show has been a cookie cutter kind of show for the most part. Every so often a host retires and a new one comes in and changes things for a couple years, but for the longest time we have had the same formula year after year.
That was until First We Feast brought Hot Ones to Youtube in 2015. The premise is simple: take the talk show style program & after each question, eat a progressively hotter chicken wing. Since it’s release, Sean Evans has brought us over 200 episodes interviewing some of the most iconic stars of today: Shaq, Billie Eilish, Gordon Ramsey, Kevin Hart, Paul Rudd, Justin Timberlake, Idris Elba, Lorde, Aubrey Plaza & much more.
You can find new episodes of Hot Ones premiering every Thursday, on YouTube.
This Week, on The Binge Boys Podcast
If you didn’t know, Matt Potter, Tanner Smith & myself host a TV & Film podcast that airs every Tuesday morning entitled The Binge Boys Podcast.
Each week we dive into the hottest headlines and then we give our two cents on the hottest releases. This week we talked:
2021 DC Fandome that gave us first looks at The Flash, The Batman, Black Adam, Shazam: Fury of the Gods, Aquaman: The Lost Kingdom & many more titles.
The newest installment in the Halloween franchise, Halloween Kills.
The highly praised new Netflix show that has become the streaming service’s most watched show ever, Squid Game.
The uniquely animated Star Wars anthology series, Star Wars: Visions.
And much more!
Where to find The Binge Boys:
Twitter - @bingeboyspod
Instagram - @bingeboyspodcast
Tik-Tok - @watchdogmedia
Logan Rants: Franchises That Won’t Die
If you didn’t figure out above that im a movie nut when I stated I’m 241 episodes deep on a TV & Film podcast, here’s another film piece that will maybe spark some conversation. Now, I’m not necessarily attacking the three movie franchises above, I am just going at the industry as a whole. However these are some prime examples of my opinion on this matter.
Indiana Jones may be not the strongest example here but there were 3 perfectly well-done movies but now we have The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull followed by Indy 5 due out next summer. Why?
Transformers may be the prime (haha) example of this, with arguably ONE good movie in the franchise, followed by 6 pretty bad entries. Sure, giant robots is a lot of fun, but when the rest of the series is trash, it makes the first one sometimes less enjoyable.
Halloween is the main purpose of this little soap box, mainly because the newest entry, Halloween Kills, is straight garbage. The story made very little sense, the writing was bad, Michael Myers was as gruesome as ever (which may be a win in some cases), and it didn’t push the franchise forward in any way. But yet, opening weekend it raked in $50.1 million dollars, record breaking for an R rated film during the pandemic, with a sequel on the way next year.
All of this said, you will still find my butt in the theaters day one when these respective sequels release, because I am part of the problem. Maybe I just invalidated my whole argument. oh well. Rant over.
Ranking The Best Spooky Movies to Watch on Halloween Night
Halloween is this coming Sunday and there is no better time of year to curl up on the couch with a bowl of popcorn or a bag of candy and watch a scary flick. However, there is an over-abundance of horror movies out there, but have no fear, I am about to give you my Top 5.
My list is not necessarily ranking the best overall movie, this is just ranking the movies that will get you the overall Halloween, spooky season experience.
Followed by the name on the list I have the year the movie was released, I have a ranking out of 5. 5 being terrifying & 1 being no blanket to cover your face required.
Paranormal Activity (2009) - 3.5/5
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) - 1/5
Halloween (1978) - 2.5/5
IT (2017) - 4/5
The Strangers (2008) - 5/5
Happy Halloween, Kids.
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